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- - * -? ?=?1 ?-?? ISS'JilD SEMI- WEEKLY. l. m. grist's sons, pubiiahm & ^milg Dercspapcr: Jior the promotion of the political, Social, Sgrirultur^I and (fommercial interests of the people. TER"^L^^.E iNcK?T8. " ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, 8. C~FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922. s_ NO. 78_^ VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED DP BY EJYQDIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Knew and j Some You Don't Knew?Condensed For Quick Reading. j "That thunder and electrical storm that accompanied a heavy rain last Monday night played freaks in our section, especially the lightning," remarked Sam L. Blair of the Blairsville section the other afternoon. "It struck the residence of Herbert Hudson In our section and did some little damage. An elm treo in the yard of J. T. Plexico was also torn up." Gressette Has Fine Record. "Yorkville High fobtball candidates are fortunate in securing the services of Tatum W. Gressette as coach," said this morning an alumnus of the University of Soexth Carolina who was. in college with Gressette. "The new coach Is the man whose field goal beat Clemson in tl)e fair week classic of 1920 at Columbia. In 1921 Gressette broke his leg in the first game and was out practically the entire season. Ho was rated as a star in both baseball and football at Carolina." Dengue Fever. Vrvi incr n. nrp.is disDatch to the ef feet that there are about 1,000 cases of dengue fever in the city of -Charleston at the present time, Views and Interviews this morning inquired of a well known physician what dengue fever is anyhow. "The common name for it," said the physician, "is 'break bone* fever. One who has it feels like every bone in his body is breaking. It is confined principally to the coast country and to swamp lands and according to some of the best authorities it is caused by the bite of a certain species of mosquito. *You might tell the folks up this way," said the physician, "that they need not be alarmed about it. While occasionally a case develops in a lattltud., as high as York county, at fha name, time such is very rarely the case." Needs of the Country. Man was talking of the needs of tho country this morning. Said he: "What this country needs is not a' new birth of freedom, but tho old-fashioned $2 lower berth. "What this country needs Isn't more liberty; but less people who take liberties with our liberty. "What this country needs is not a job for every man; but a real man for every job. "What 1 lis country needs Isn't to get more taxes from the people, but for the people to get more front the taxes. "What this country needs is not more miles of territory; but more miles to the gallon. n\truA* hi" nAiiwfinf nnnrlo i <a moro Y> iiai UllO LUUIiH J UVVVM# .w ."V. V tractors and less detractors. "What this country needs isn't more young men making speed, but more young men planting spuds. "What this country needs Is more paint on the old place and less paint on the young face. "What this country needs isn't a lower rato of interest on money; but a higher interest in work. "What this country need3 is to follow the footsteps of the fathers instead of the footsteps of the dancing master." Cruelties. The tender-hearted Dolly Dream Said. "Have a heart, I beg; Oh, mother, do not whip that cream, And please don't beat that CBS* ^ ?Cincinnati Enqu.rer. The gentle little Maggie Cried, "I shall have a shock If you perform that cruel deed And go and scald that crock. ?Fort Wayne Press. "Oh, mother, dear, withhold your hand," Cried gentle Sarah Glugg; "The sight is more than I can stand, Fray do not beat that rug!" ?Akron Times. "Come down from off that turning bar," Culled little Johnnie Spratt; "My tender conscience it will mar To see you skin the cat!" ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. From .up there on the wooden stage The speaker I would pull liecause it puts me in a rage To see him ' shoot the bull." ?Youngstown Telegram. Desist, please, gentle maiden. And cast your looks toward the sky; j For it fills me full of sadness To see the way you bat an eye. ?Charleston News and Courier. lie kind, oh cookie! Have mercy on the troop. Give it to us with tiller, Oh, pray don't strain the soup. Snake Stories. Speaking of snake stories," said a Yorkville man this morning, "here is one that is told me by Mr. Giles Ornuind of York No. 6, and I have no reason to doubt its truth. A few days ago a son of Mr. Weldon Neil who lives with Mr. Ormand killed a huge female moccasin snake. Going back to the body of the snake a short time later he saw that the snake had a little moccasin in her mouth. The body of the mother snake was cut open find sixty-six little snakes were found and destroyed. "Another snake story comes from the same section of the county. The sister of a prominent farmer had occasion to go into an outhouse a few days ago. Chancing to glance at the floor she saw an enormous pilot snake there. The lady promptly fainted after making an outcry. The snake was a gallant fellow, however, and made no attempt to bite her; but crawled out into the yard. One of the men folks was soon attracted by her cry and killed the snake. "Engineer McNair, who drives a Southern engine between Yorkville and Columbia, through the Wateree swamps near Camden and Kingville tells me that he has noted fewer snakes along the tracks in that good snaker country this fall than he has known in years. He thinks there is a reason for it. There are an unusually large number of hogs running at large in the swamps of the "Waterree this fall. And hogs are hard on snakes. It Is said that they are not affected by the bite of the most poisonous kind of snake and regard reptiles as a great delicacy. Hence the dearth of snakes in the Waterree swamps." SIKI Sketch of Senegalese Fighter Who Re cently Whipped Carpentier. The physical make-up of Battling Siki has been likened to that of the ' leopard. In action his great muscles play fascinatingly under a copper skin. His form is In striking contrast to the graceful Carpenuer, whose foot movement is that of the aesthetic dancer. Siki is typical of the brigades of picked Senegalese soldiers brought to the western front during the World War. Stalwart, possessed of great strength and endurance and an irresistible foe when excited, he crouches and bundles together his massive muscled shoulders much after the fashion of Jack Dempsey. His Broad Grin. A broad grin, exposing the perfect white teeth so typical of the negroid, lights up his face as he goes into fistic combat. At times this grin narrows until it becomes somewhat of a leer, perhaps intended to frighten an adversary. In all of his ring engagements in France Siki has been successful. But in none of them prior to his bout with Carpentier did he display any terrific punching power. He knocked out Harry Reeve, a former light-heavyweight champion of England, in the sixth round of a match in Marseilles and received the decision over Marcel Nillcs in fifteen rounds in Paris. After the latter bout Carpentier's manager, Francoic Descamps, who is credited as being a shrewd judge of fighting ability, asserted Siki was such a poor fighter he would not permit of Carpentier meeting him. Siki also outpointed Paul Journee, tho lumbering French heavyweight who visited the United States and helped to train Carpentier for his fight in which he met defeat at the hands of Jack Dempsey. Journee twice was defeated by heavyweights of the second class while in the United States. The success of the Senegalese possibly will start talk of a match between him*and Harry Wills, the American negro heavyweight, who is being groomed as a prospect for a championship bout with Dempsey. Comes From Africa. Siki is tho third "foreigner" to gain pugilistic famo during the present year. First came Luis Angel Firpo, an Argentinian giant. In New York and New Jersey he met only what is termed in sporting parlance "trial horses," hut his superiority in these bouts was so marked that leading fistic experts predicted for him a great future. They declared Firpo needed only careful tutoring in the inner points of the game of hit, stop and get-away to place him among the first and foremost. Then from the Philippines came a 11^,1 Villa TTo Hi Hi: in it ma i? vuu\u * ui?v?v ? tipped the scales at 110 pounds. Before many fortnights had passed, he had pounded his small self through a goodly part of the bantamweight class, and then captured the American flyweight title from Johnny Buff by a knockout. Senegal, Siki's home, is a French Colonial dependency in western equatorial Africa. The inhabitants of the country are mainly "Moors" and allied Berber races and Negroid. The latter, however, form the greater portion of the population. ? Secretary Denby lias ordered divisions, comprising 12 destroyers, to proceed "early as possible from Norfolk to Constantinople with extra supply of provisions" in response to a request from Rear Admiral Bristol, American j high commissioner at Constantinople, i that they be sent "fog the protection J [of American interests." In addition, j the supply ship Bridge will proceed as j I soon as possible to Constantinople. ( "The purpose of sending these ships is j to protect American interests," it was declared, "and further supplies should \ they be needed. The method of distribution and in Ken oral the use to be made of the supplies so furnished will be determined by Admiral Bristol." Xf It isn't only the blows a prizefighter can give, it's the blows he can take. FLOURISHING FILBERT Sketch of Village Known Far and Wide Because of Its Picnics. TAX* LEVY IS EXCEPTIONALLY LOW Boasts Only Deaf and Dumb Postmistress In the State?Has Flourishing Churches and School?Garage Draws Good Business From Scores of Passing Cars?Farmer* Finds Onion Crop More Profitable Than Cotton. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Filbert, September 28.?Filbert, famous York county tillage known throughout the Carolines because of the annual political picnic that se held here, has still anotner ciaim to attention. Perhaps the only deaf and. dumb postmistress in the state is Uncle Sam's representative at Filbert. She is Mrs. Ollic Smoak Lynn, and for the past ten years or more she has held the position of postmistress most acceptably. Mrs. Lynn is courteous and polite and she handles incoming1 and outgoing mails with quickness and dispatch. The rural mail carrier out of the.Filbert office is Mr. James A. Carroll, who has held the place for a dozen years or longer. "When the rural carrier has business with the postmistress he is not always under the necessity of making known his business In writing. His association with her in the postal work for a number of years has given him opportunity to learn quite a bit of the sign language used by deaf and dumb people and he is therefore able to communicate with her first rate. Has No Policeman. Although Filbert is an incorporated town and has its mayor and board of aldermen, the village has no regularly employed policeman. None is needed. Occasionally when somebody wants to cut up or create a disturbance, Mayor Sam Smith just deputizes one or more folks to take charge of the person or persons who might be cutting up. And the Filbert citizen who chances to be standing near when the order is given quickly obeys and the majesty of the law is upheld without cost to the municipality. The occasion does not arise very often, however. The "city fathers" are, Mayor Sam Smith and Wardens E. L. Wood, J. H. Clark, W. W. Lynn and S. M< White. There are about 125 souls living within the corporate limits of the village. Folks looking for some town in which to live where taxes are not high, might do well to consider Filbert. The only municipal tax is a street tax of $2, and if one's crop is bad why it might be that the "fathers" would go slow about insisting that the $2 street tax be paid with promptness and dispatch. * Has Two Churches* ?* v?4wa HniicAc of I j""iiDert iuih., im.?v inu worship. The First Presbyterian church of Filbert is located inside the town, just across the street from the handsome school house. The church building1 is a comparatively new structure. The congregation of thirty-five members is without a pastor just at the present time, due to the resignation of Rev. J. E. Berryhill, who has moved to Gaston county, N. C. King's Mountain Chapel Methodist church is just outside the corporate limits of the village of Filbert and many people who are living inside are members there. Rev. J. G. Huggin of Clover, is the pastor of this church. Filbert School. * Filbert children have the advantage of a ten grade school. The school house is a four-room structure surrounded by a wide lot well suited for all kipds o<" athletic sports, which the school authorities encourage. School teachers are Prof. J. Roy Grayson, principal, and Misses Mamie Louise Bratton, Gladys Riggers and Miss Elder; assistant teachers. School trustees are W. L. Pursley, John Q. Hall and J. C. Dickson. This fall a number of pupils of the | I'nion school district, near Filbert, i who are ready for the work of the | higher grades, will matriculate at Fll- j bert. The pupils will be carried to i Filbert school day by day in an auto- ! mobile truck. Filbert school runs eight months in the year. Much Cotton Ginned. Filbert has for. years been the center of a great cotton producing section. Annual ginnings at the one ginnery in Filbert for a ten-year average are 2,000 bales. The crop in this section was a little off last year or at least it was not brought to the gin here and the total number of bales ginned was about 1,500. It is doubtful if the total number of bales ginned this season will reach 1.000, due to the fact that the crop has been considerably curtailed by boll weevil activities coupled with the drouth. TI,nMI imlirntinns that in the fll * "v'x I ture Filbert farmers are not going to give as much attention to cotton cultivation as they have in the past. For instance this fall Dave Jackson, well known farmer living near here, has three-quarters of an acre in white onions. He estimates that the onion yield from the three-quarters of an acre will be no less than to bushels. He is selling these onions right along at $3 a bushel. The other day he sold fifteen bushels for $45 just as easy as anything. He has peanuts planted between the rows of onions and there's no telling how many bushels of peanuts be will produce. Hut the $45 in band for fifteen bushels of onions has already convinced him that it beats cotton all hollow. Boll weevils just can't stand ^onions. Going In for Hogs. Brian Hall, another well known farmer living near Filbert, has been "fooling" with cotton for years. He has come to the place where he is convinced there is nothing in it and another year ho proposes to raise hogs and velvet beans and corn to feed them on. Mr. Hall proposes to try to raiso 200 hogs next year and if he has anything liko the success with them tha.t he hopes for, cotton will not enter into his calculations much more. Filbert Has Garage. Oh, yes, Filbert has a garage. The village is on the main, highway between Yorkville and Gastonia and scores of automobiles pass in the course of a day. Occasionally they break down when in the vicinity of Filbert and White Jackson, who runs the garage, gets plenty of work to do. The village haa two general stores which enjoy a thriving trade. PSYCHIC TRANSMISSION Word Alleged to Have Been Spoken by Baby Starts Discussion. New York World, Monday. New York doctors, while inclined to doubt the truth of the story in The World yesterday of a baby in Mason City, Iowa, who three times cried "Mother" disinctly five minutes after it was born, admitted that anything was possible in tho way of psychic transmission. The mother declared the cry to be a repetition of the last word she uttered before going tipder the anaesthetic, which was "mother." Dr. J. E. Marek, attending physician at the hospital where the child of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Zoutes was born, stands sponsor for the story. The patient's sister and three nurses, also in the room at the time, swore the voice rang out high and clear from the basket where the child lay. "It was the one word, "mother," with the accent on the second syllable more perfectly enunciated than I can speak it, because a child's voice can be sustained in a way that an adult's cannot," said Dr. Marek. "It was not only clear, but loud enough to be heard half the length of the hospital?a pleading ratner man a waning can. No physician could be found in this city yesterday who knew of a similar case. They suggested that if the occurrence could be verified it would mean that we kre on the threshold of marvelous psychic discoveries, possibly of establishing thought transference as an accepted thing. Seeks Natural Causes. Dr. John D. Quackenbos of No. 823 West End Avenue, member of the London Society for Physical Research, had several explanations to offer. "My first inclination would be to hunt for natural causes of the phenomenon of the voice issuing from the child," he said. "It is possible that the mothei while partially under tho influence of the anaesthetic developed ventriloquistic powers. It may have been her voice projected into tho baby's basket. Or it might have been an inarticulate cry strongly resembling the word 'mother.' "I have never heard of a case like this," he went on. "I do not hesitate o??if tViot S?i ltit'f li 4 i u n tM*n^OO_ iv oaj mat, in uu in wk i v 10 ?, jm ujwtion to the child of maternal love and close solicitude. From a scientific standpoint it is hard to see how the speech machinery could bo in perfect enough condition fivo minute.s after birth to make articulation possible." Parallel Cases Lacking. Inquiry among the largest maternity hospitals failed to disclose a parallel case. The resident obstetrician of Bellcvue went so far as to say that certain of tho 110 children a month born there give cries resembling the word "ma-ma" or "mother." "We have never seen a child with the organs of speech fully developed at birth," he said. "I should be inclined to ask if the hospital where the occurrence took place were a religious, institution. Possibly the remark reported made by one of the nurses that 'the voice sounded like the voice of an angel* might be found to be the key to the mystery." "Dr. Oilfillen of the Lying-in Hospital, Second Avenue and 17th Street, said: "Nothing like that has ever occurred here. Everything is possible, but fewer things are probable. Only a neurologist could toll you authoritatively whether ideas can be transferred from brain to brain. Just their imagination?cry may have sounded, like mother, I should say," he finished. Dr. Wallace B. House, a professor of nervous diseases, of No. 135 West 78th Street, head of the 'neurology department at the Homoeopathic Medical Hospital, was questioned. "I should be inclined to call it an accident," he said. "I have never come across cases where mental conditions ! seemed to be transferred, from one! brain to another. Inheritance is an I open question anyhow. A weakened! constitution can be inherited, but that j is practically all we know. Dr. Pannell of the Sloane Women's Hospital was emphatic in his denial of1 the possibility of such an occurrence. "Never in my knowledge have I heard anything like that," he said. | "Some of us noticed the story in The World this morning, but gave it no credence. I doubt even if the eflVct of the anaesthetic could make the mother a ventriloquist." WORK PROGRESSING Bowling Green Spinning Mills Scene of Much Activity. NEWS NOTES IN AND ABOUT CLOVER Wounded Partridges Still Living and Thriving?Gins Keeping up With Record of Last Year?Young People Have Enjoyable Party?Head of Hawthorn Mill in Town?Berryhill Goes to New Home. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Clover, September 29?Work of installing 5,000 new spindles in the Bowling Green Spinning Mills at Bowling Green, three miles north of here will n,;tkln thn r>f>vt thirtv UU UU11I|/1CICU ?? iittiit fiv .? -- wdays it was announced today. Contractors are making: good progress in the building of an addition to the mill 200x60 feet and also ten new houses for operatives. The Southern Power Company promises to have the new mill equipped to run by electricity not later than October 15 an i a new water system for the mill and the village is now being worked out. The water is to be supplied by a well 94 feet deep which is to give a flow of thirty gallons a minute. It is proposed to employ around 100 operatives in the reconstructed spinning mill. Robert Dellinger of Statesville, N. C., who has iccently been employed as superintendent of the mill, takes up his duties within a few days. The Bowling Green Mill will manufacture yarns for hosiery and underwear. C. N". Alexander of Clover is general manager. -r_ i I own VTIUIVWI, A heavy electrical storm that accompanied a hard rain here Monday night knocked the electric lighting system out of commission and caused a big transformer at the Hawthorn mill to "blow out." The town was in darkness Monday night and the use of power was curtailed Tuesday while the damage was being repaired. Logs for Furniture. At least a part of 10,000 feet of poplar logs being shipped out of this community to Lenoir, N. C., for furniture manufacture will be received back here in manufactured form one of these days. The logs are being cut and shipped by Frank Jackson and Arthur Barnett, well known farmers of the Bethel section. Thousands of feet of poplar logs have been cut in this section in the past few years and shipped to North Carolina furniture - J' 4- T? nnil mills accurmiiK ?-o ?"*<-!?"?? ? the supply of this timber is becoming rather scarce and hard to get out of the gullcys where most of it is found and cut. Partridges Survive. Four partridges Which dettys McCarter, well known farmer living near Clover "winged" while out hunting during the bird season last year, have survived imprisonment of months and are thriving in an enclosure in the yard at Mr. McCarter's home. At different times during the hunting season last year Mr. McCarter "winged" seven partridges and carried them home. Three have died; but the others are doing nicely. While the femalo birds laid eggs during tho spring and summer they were not successful in hatching broods and therefore there has been no increase in the partridge population in the McCarter back yard. ? - -- i . .. The tun Brown pannages which givcevcry indication that they have not for a moment forgotten the call of the wild which they arc unable to obey .because of the wire enclosure, have been an object of interest to the friends and neighbors oft the captor. Rev. and Mrs. Berryhill Leave. Rev. J. E. Berryhill, for nearly four years pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Clover left Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Berryhill for their new homo with the Union congregation in Gaston county, N. C. Party for Young Folks. Clover teachers and several visitors in town were honor guests at a get- | to-gether meeting of young people of : Clover held at Flat Rock, a favorite ! picnic spot near town on Tuesday j evening. There were a large number I of young people out for the party and the occasion was one which was thoroughly enjoyed by all the participants. Tempting refreshments were served during the evening. McConnell in Town. Thomas McConnell of Northampton, Mass., president of the Hampton Company and largely interested in the Hawthorn and Hampshire Mills of Clover was in town this week conferring with local officials relative to the textile industries here in which he is I 1 IVVI COICU, May Gin Half Crop. Information is that the Uvo Clover ginneries may gin half as muci. cotton here this fall and winter as they did last year. Ordinarily ginnii.gs at Clover run around 3,500 bales and it is rather doubtful if half that figure is reached this time. So far, howewver, daily ginnings have been keeping pretty well up with the same dates last year. Hut it appears that the crop is being picked much more rapidly and ginned much faster than is ordinarily the rase. Faddell Feels Better. While the heart of Waddell Faddell (Joe Moses) Syrian merchant of Clover, like that of other people of Clover is sad when he thinks of the massacres of Christians by the Turks in Smyrna and other sections at this time yet Faddell rests much easier than lie did about a year ago when his own wife and children were in Europe and at the mercy of the hyenas of Islam. Through tho agency of Mr. M. L. Smith and other friends, the Syrian merchant was able to bring his family from the old country to Clover after a long effort. His children are in the Clover schooband his wife has learned sufficent English to converse with the natives and the re-united family is happy and contented. "I feel for my people over there," said Faddell the other day; "but I thank God that my own wife and children are with me in this great country where they are no longer subject to the terrible experi ences that they have known in tnc past." Personal Mention. Andy Jackson, well known baseball player and athlete of Clover recently underwent an operation at a Charlotte hospital. His friends will be glad to . learn that ho is getting along nicely. Miss Ommie Maxwell of Clover was recently operated on for appendicitis In a Cfastonla hospital. She is doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Smith of Newport News, Va., recently visited the family of Mr. John M. Smith and other relatives in Clover. Mr. Smith is a native of Yorkville who has been a resident of the Virginia city for a number of years. BELIEVE IT OR NOT But Here is a Right Interesting Snake Story. I have been a regular reader of Woods and Waters for some time and often see something real interesting, writes "W. O. a. " or Kiageiana, a. ^., iu wc editor of Woods and Waters column in the Charleston News and Courier. I notice H. A. Bf's doubts about the power of snakes to fascinate or charm their victims, so I will relate what I saw on Wednesday, the 13th, instant: I had been out to one of my corn fields some distance from the house and carried my gun along, as the field is entirely surrounded by swamp and hummock land, and something had destroyed a quantity of corn. I saw nothing to shoot, however, and started back home, when I walked up to a large rattler lying out straight, but with his head to a tree, which I noticed was a hickory. The snake seemed to be looking up the tree. I kicked some trash on it, but it paid no attention to it at all. Then I discovered some particles of hickory nut falling and immediately remembered the stories I had so often heard of a snako charming a squirrel, so T stenned back about twelve or flf teen feet and sat down with my back to a small tree, where I could look both at the snako and up the tree ho was watching. In a few moments a nut dropped and I saw a squirrel run out on a limb to get another. He got it and stnrted back to the tree, but stopped about half-way and looked down. I could not at first tell but what it may have seen me, but, on looking down at the snake, I saw it slowly coding as if getting ready for business and it begun to ring its rattles very slowly and very low. I looked back at the squirrel and saw it crossways on the limb looking down. It would turn back and forth as if very restless. It dropped the nut it had Just picked and slowly went back to the tree and began to come down, but it stopped at every limb and looked at the snake. I soon found it was paying no attention to me. as I used my hat to brush ; mosquitoes and it appeared not to sec it at all. After it passed the limbs of tho tree in its descent it would crawl very slowly for a few inche-: and halt a moment. I remembered I had been told that if one were to shoot a snake at such time the squirrel would fall dead, but I wanted to see the finish. So I sat there and watched. In a few minutes the squirrel camo to within about three feet of the ground, when suddenly the snake struck and caught it by the head. The squirrel never moved, not even 1 a foot or its tail. The snake hold it a 1 moment and looked around as if defying any one or any thing to interfere. Then it proceeded to lick the squirrel a little bit. but not nearly ao much as one would imagine before he slowly swallowed it. Then I shot the snake and hooked a sharp stick in its head or neck, as the head was shot off, and I dragged it back toward home until I came to some hands working in the 1 hay field, when I cut the snake open ' and took out the squirrel for all to see. Now here is another strange thing: Just a few hours later one of the negroes killed another rattler near the one I had killed and dragged there. They say it followed the trail. Did it really do so? I do not know. And did the snake charm the squirrel? It looked so, at least, yet I never believed it before. I am in my fifty-sixth year. I never saw such a thing before and never expect to again. ? It turns out that it was not a trawler after all that sank the British ! torpedo boat Speedy with a loss of ten I lives in the Sea of Marmora a few nights ago. The sinking was done by the Turkish ship ICarabiga, which was proceeding full speed across the sea with Turkish troops and munitions for Thrace. The destroyer was cut almost, half in two and sank within, three minutes. The British seized the steamer immediately after the accident. TO BUILD NEW CHURCH # I Sharon A. R. P.'s Have Plans for New House of Worship. HOLINESS MEMBERS ALSO TO BUILD Cotton Crop of Community May be Half of La6t Year's Crop?Blairsville and Hoodtown People Stiff Talk of Consolidation?Other Newi Notes of Thriving Village in Western York County. (By a Staff Correspondent.) 4 00 /lAntvrnmtlAn snuron, tsupi. ?d,? i nu tvugic^nviVM of Sharon Associate Reformed Presby* terian church has decided to build a new church out and out rather than attempt to remodel the present structure. Some time ago it was decided to adopt a plan of improving the present house of worship. Rut contractors have made it plain that a new building can be built for about tho same amount of money that it would take to remodel and the congregation has decided that it would be much more satisfactory to build anew. Canvassers have been appointed i visit tho 250 or more members of the congregation for subscriptions to the building fund. These canvassers are already at Work and are meeting with a success that is encouraging. The new church, it is estimated, will cost about $10,500. Possibly Half a Crop. Jas. D. Hambright, cashier of the Planters Bank of Sharon, estimates that this section will make about onehalf as much cotton as was produced! last year. If the output Is more than that Mr. Hambright will be surprised and if it is less he will not be surprised. In discussing the crop outlook with the correspondent the other day Mr. Hambright showed an estimate of the crops of cotton that six leading farmers of Bullock's Creek township will make. The estimate was 58 bales for the six whereas the same six made several times as much last year. While he takes into consideration the fact that the acreage devoted to cotton by these six farmers has been materially reduced this year as compared with last, at the same time tho big decrease is duo largely to th* activities of the boll weevil and to the drouth. No farmer in Bullock's. Creek or Broad Itlver townships has as good a crop of cotton this fall as he did last year and there are few who will get more than a half crop on an acreage equal to last year. The Sharon ginneries ordinarily gin from 3,400 to 3,600 bales of cotton each season. The^ will do well to gin 1,600 of the crop now being- gathered, according to Mr* Hambright. "Holy Rollers" Building Church. The Disciples of the Church of God commonly called the "Hioliness" and "Holy Hollers" who number several score in this community are now engaged in building a house of worship near the old "Squire Leech" place between Sharon and Hickory Grove. The church Is to be a frame building and should be completed within a very1 - , short time. At present the "Holy Rollers" aro holding services at tfie homes of various disciples and in the homes of members of other denominations and no denominations at all who might agree to lend their residences for the purpose. Street tmeetings are also held In Sharon and Hick- . ory Grove from time to time. Tho "Holy Hollers" in this community number several score. In tho first primary election on August 29, several of them who were enrolled refused to vole when told that the? would have to swear to support tho nominees of the Democratic party* They told tho managers that it was contrary to the tenets of their religion to swear. In the second primary, it is reported that some of them were allowed tp vote when they spoke their willingness to "affirm" that they would support the nominees. According to a; story going the rounds here another voter sought to challenge tho vote of one member of the "Holiness" faith, for the simple reason that the ' Roller'' did not swear before voting. And according to the same story the voter sought to challenge tho vote not because of tho "swearing" negligence but because the "Roller" did notice fit to vote for the same candidate that the other man voted for. Snakes in the Peas. Snake stories are beginning to come out of the pea fields in the vicinity. While hands were engaged in cutting peas on tho farm of Rufus Duncan near Blairsville school on Monday, a big pilot snake, was seen to siido out of some peas and right under tho feet of the mules drawing the mowing machine. The snake evidently did not crave mule meat for he made no attempt to bite. A short timo later ho was killed. Numbers of farmers tell of killing: snakes in the pea field3 and of unusually big- snakes that were seen but which got away. Talk of Consolidation. There is still talk in Bullock's Creek township of consolidation of the Blairsvillo and Hoodtown schools. Blairsville has plans for improving her school building and Hoodtown haS plans for an entirely new building. Tho two schools are only a compartively short distance apart. There are those who think that one big school com H (Continued on Cage Six). j