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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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