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^J SEMI- WEEKLY. l. m. grists sonstpubushers. & ^antilg Jtospaper: <?or the promotion of the political, Social, |igrirultui;ai and Commercial Interests of the people. T?R'H^^%^E?iviNcENwANCK ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C.% FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1922. NO. 80 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs ol lore or Less Interest. PICKED DP BY EAIQDIHEB REPOKTEBS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. Sheriff-elect J. G. "Wright of Cherokee county was a visitor to Sheriff Quinn's office in 7 orkville on Wednes ? v>\r Messrs. Q&y. 11? Wda accwjiiptiiitvv* ???.. T. E. and. J. L. Wright. "Just came over to got acquainted with the records that you keep in your office," explained the sheriff-elect of Cherokee. "And I wanted to get acquainted with the sheriffs in the counties surrounding Cherokee." Too Many Hunters. "Went down to R. E. Foster's house between Newport and Ebenezer Tuesday morning for the purpose of being in on a fox race," 3aid an old time fox ' hunter the other day, "And I didn't realize that there , were so many fox hunters in this country as there were present to Join in and hear the race. Must have been 200 people in that conlpany gathered around Mr. Foster's house. In the cor ipany were a hum ber of ladies from Yo^Xville who nau come down by automobile to hear the n^usic of the dogs. But we didn't have much of a race. We managed to strike a trail but that was all. It was too dry. There are foxes in that country between Newport and the river and south of Rock H.ll. Fox hunters of that section1 have from time to time turned lose a number of grays and there are a good many of them. The hunters are promised some fine sport for this fall and winter when weather conditions get right I might add. however, that the foxes always have a fine opportunity to get away so long as the party of hunters and spectators totals a crowd of around 200." Death of the Bonus Bill. "Speaking of the deatn 01 me soldier bonus bill," remarked an exsoldier this morning, "here is a bit of verse clipped from a Georgia newspaper which tells who did it and how it was brought about, I think:" Who killed Bill Bonus? "I," said High Finance "I kicked him in the pants. T killed Bill Bonus." Who saw him die? "I," said Mr. Wall Street. "His death was most complete, I saw him die." Who caught his blood? "I," said Mr. Profiteer, "Just happened to be near, I caught his blood." Who'll make his shroud? "I," said Dangerous Precedent, "I scared 'em hellbent, I'll make his shroud." WnO'll Cllg niS grave; "I," said Senator O Wot Luck, "I passed the buck, I'll dig his grave." Who'll be the Parson? "I," said Congressman Pull. "I threw the bull, I'll be the Parson." Who'll carry him to the grave? "1," said Senator Absentee, I "They can't pin this thing on me, I I'll carry him to the grave." Who'll be the chief mourner? "I," said National*Money Power "This to me's a happy hour, I'll be chief mourner." Who'll sing a psalm? "I," said Millionaire Gruff, "That sounds fair enough, I'll sing a psalm." Who'll toll the bell? "1," said High Tax Ghost, "I scared the people most, I'll toll the bell." Then all the birds named. Tried to outgroan us, When they heard the bell tolling, For poor Bill Bonus. The First Anniversary. "Well " remarked a young fellow yesterday, "celebrated my first wedding anniversary today." "Um, huh, and what do you think about yourself now?got rid of that notion that two can live as cheap as one for instance." "Well," said the young fellow, "I never did have any sur-h foolish idea as that; but I don't mind telling you that I am glad I am married and that I realize that I have only lived one year in my life and that year is the one that was up today. This year has tnught me that there is more worth while stuff in this life than thinking about one's self all the time and seeking to gratify one's personal nmiiitinns and desires. I have learned that there are ttvo parties to this game of marriage and that one is entitled to as much consideration as the other. I have learned that while there are a thousand things that I know more about than my wife and that there arise many situations that I am more competent to handle than she, on the other hand there are a thousand things that she knows more about than I and darned if I don't believe I have learned that her mature judgment is better than mine. I have learned that bread and molasses taste mighty good if you are eating that kind of food in order to save your money to buy something for her. I have learned something of the real pleasures of sacrifice I have learned that if a married man is a real married man he gets much more consideration at the hands of his fellows than he otherwise would. Ir short, I am firmly of the opinion that a man really doesn't begin to live until he is married and Friend Wife today expressed herself as being pretty much of the same opinion. And by the way, in all this twelve months we haven't had a quarrel. And I have never been able to work for my employer that length of time without three or four spats of more or less severity. But say, I am beginning to learn that what I don't know about women would fill a five foot shelf of books." WHITE SQUIRRELS Naturalists Are Interested In Greenwood County Freaks. A colony of snow white squirrels, breeding and thriving in this county, is attracting the attention and interest of naturalists from all parts of the United States, says a Greenwood dispatcn. The white squirrels, which are multiplying: and breeding true to type, are the only white squirrels breeding in a state of nature anywhere in the world, so far as naturalists know. The squirrels occurred first in a grove at the home of E. Loudon Brooks, in this county, about thirty years ago. Two or three of the white squirrels appeared suddenly and made their nests in the oaks in front of the < old colonial home. They were regarded as freaks and no one was aliowed to molest them. The squirrels multi- < niir.,1 an.] became so tame that now some build their, nests ia the attic <if the house. As many as ten were counted. on the lawn in front of the Brooks home at one time a few days ago. The white squirrels are spreading and have recently appeared in the groves of Mr. j Brooks' neighbors. i While albino rodents are fairly common, albino grey squirrels are very rare and when found are usually defective, according to E.- W. Nelson, chief of the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, to whose attention the colony here has recently been brought. While the squirrels on the Brooks place have pink eyes, characteristic of albinos, they are hardier than the ordinary grey squirrel and occur more frequent ly on the HrooKS place man mv summon squirrel. The white squirrels have no physical defects and breed true to form, white squirrels producing white squirrels. A few times grey squirrels have been found in the nests of the whites, but it is not known whether they were there by adoption or were the offspring of white parents. Students of eugenics say it is extremely rare to find "sports" or freak specimens, breeding true to their new form, year after year, without some flare backs to the original stock. This has led some to believe that the white squirrel:; on the Brooks place are a distinct breed rather than albinos. The only other specimen of white squirrel of the gray squirrel type, according to the Biological Survey, was one reported from the Soldiers' Home in Washington. Ernest Thompson Seton has reported two albino red squirrels from New York. Otherwise white squirrels are practically unknown except for the thriving colony in Greenwood county. W. H. Taylor, engineer-naturalist of Great Falls, S. C., with a world-wide experience, recently made a study of the Brooks squirrels and took up the discussion with the Biological Survey. E. W. Nelson, chief of the bureau, haB written: "We do not know of any recorl where the albino strain has continued in the state of nature in. squirrels for so long a period, or where so large a colony has been built up without selected breeding being carried on under the agency of man." Efforts to breed the white squirrels on the Brooks place in captivity have been unsuccessful, though attempted several times. "Albinos, if not protected, are especially likely to be killed by predatory animals and the breeding of such ani mals checked in tins way, uireciur Nelson says. The Brooks squirrels are particularly hardy, however, ancl seem to predominate on the Brooks place. The unusual type is attracting widespread attention and study from naturalists and students of eugenics. FILTHY FIUME. \ City Is Noted for Great Number of Divorces. This city counts a population of 50,000; 15,000 of them received decrees of divorce in the years 1920 and 1921, says a Fiume dispatch. Divorce seems to be the most flourishing of the local industries, and it is making the city famous. The reason is that the severance of the marital bond is easy here, and people desiring freedom flock to Fiume from neighboring states where divorce is not granted. Anyone can get a divorce in Fiume who has lived in the city long enough to acquire the rights of citizenship. Complications, however, occasionally arise. The case is still remembered of an Italian woman who acquired the citizenship of Fiume and divorced her husband, who remained an Italian subject. Shortly after her divorce she remarried and returned to Italy, where she was promptly imprisoned for bigamy, the Italian law considering her divorce null and void, her husband be ing an Italian, and, as such, not eni titled to divorce. i , ^ , ' ?Mrs. Hanna Kldrel of Baldwin, N. 1 Y., celebrated her 100th birthday over L the family ironing board. ? AFTER THE GANG Bullock's Lreek Township Delegation Before County Commissioners. TO PETITION HIGHWAY CONMISSION Road Bond Issue Proposal is Apparently Dead?Ask for Chain Gang After it Completes West Road? Would Mean Good Road Between Sharon and Lockhart?Large Number of Citizens Interested. *" * * 4. n noni\to BuIIocK s cret-K iumuo.hj, ?,? want the county chain gang to work the road from Sharon to Lockhart or rather to the Chester county line when the chain gang completes the West road which will probably be twelve months hence and probably longer. Furthermore, they want the SharonLockhart road known as the old "Pinckney road" recognized by the state highway department as a state highway since it is the ma'n road connecting York county with Union county. Having these ideas in mind, a large delegation of Bullock's Creek township people appeared before the county board of commissioners on Wednesday morning and told the commissioners about it. Their argument was that the Sharon-Lockhart road which leads by Bullock's Creek church and the village of Bullock's Creek is me principal road of that township. They wanted the commissioners to go on record as willing- to work this road, after the completion of the West road and they wanted the commissioners to use their influence with the stata highway commission to officially recognize this road as a state highway in order that after it is built by the chain gang it may be maintained by the stale highway department. No Federal Aid. While the county commissioners did not formally pledge themselves since it will be a long time until the West road is completed, they gave the delegation to understand that they were of the opinion that Bullock's Creek was entitled to much consideration. It was made plain to the delegation that the road in which they were interested would never receive Federal road aid unless the state highway department saw fit to take it into the state highway system connecting county seats. W. W. Miller, York county en- J gineer who is also connected with tne highway commission, informed the delegation that he would be glad to bring the desires of the delegation to the attention of the commission. He did not hold out much encouragement to them, however. He said that the state highway commission had already taken over 94 miles of roadways in York county and he left the impression that he thought the commission was not inclined to take over any more roads in the county of York until it had completed the road projects that it had under way in this county. The engineer went on to inform the Bullock's Creek delegation that they should circulate petitions among residents living along the road in question asking that the road should be taken over by the commission. He said that it would also be necessary for the people in the territory interested to give rights of way to the road in the event mat it ue ium-h yvci. Petitions Will be Circulated. Several members of the Bullock's Creek delegation gave assurance that the petitions would be circulated as soon as they could be drawn up and confidence was expressed that there would be no trouble about the securance of rights of ways. York county boundaries do not reach the Lockhart bridge over Broad river, but the county joins Chester at a point about two and one-half miles east of this bridge. It was stated that the Chester county chain gang is now working in the vicinity of Lockhart bridge and confidence was expressed that if the York county authorities would agree to work the Pinckney roatl through Bullock's Creek township there would be no trouble in getting the stretch from the York county line to Chester authorities to work the the bridge. Thus the community would have a good road from Sharon to Chester or Union. Bullock's Creek Bubble Bursts. While nothing officially was stated at the meeting of the delegation with the county commissioners about it, several members cf the Bullock's Creek I delegation told a reporter for The Yorkville* Enquirer that the proposed i $.10,000 road bond issue for Bullock's Creek township had been abandoned. 1 Thn hnll weevil and so-called hard I times has killed the movement it was said and Bullock's Creek citizens have decided to drop back on the old plan of trying to get the chain gang to build them a road. "Then again," remarked one member of the delegation, "lots of our people like the people almost everywhere else just naturally don't like to pay taxes any how and the idea of voting more taxes even if it would have meant better roads was (just too big to grasp." It was stated, further that some of the strongest advocates of the proposed bond issuf had grown weak kneed and the plan has just died a-borning. So the delegation went home Wednesday afternoon with the promise of a petition for circulation among the citizens asking the highway commission to take over their road when they have a road and a possibility of getting the chain gang?some time. The Delegation. The Bullock's Creek delegation included: S. A. Mitchell, B. L. Jenkins, J. J. Jones, Kelly Inman, Ernest Dowdie, E. M. Bankhead, C. R. Bankhead. J. S. riexico, J. R. Mickle, B. E. Trammell, J. W. Fcemster, L. L. Dowdle, Richard Sadler, M. L. Hood, W. Lowry Love, N. A. Galloway, W. C. Hood, Wash Good, J. T. Plexico, Etf Maloney, Clyde Good, John Sherer. ROCK HILL WOMAN HELD. Alleged to Have Run Away With a Piano Tuner. Ollic B. Moser, who claims he is a piano tuner, and a young woman who claims to he his wife are being held in the city jail in connection with the investigation of the attempt of yeggmon to blow open the safe in the store of H. D. Waters on Howard street, Sunday night, says the Spartanburg Journal of Tuesday. Moser was arrested yesterday by Officer Fred Burrell while walking on the railroad tracks In tho northern section of the city. Moser was carrying an old suit case when taken into custody. This suitcase, when exam ined by the police, was found to contain a large number of tools of the kind usually used by piano tuners, it is said. The young woman was locked up yesterday afternoon after she had been questioned at length by detectives. Both Out of Funds. Moser end the young woman, the police say, have been stopping at a boarding house on Magnolia street for several days. When arrested, neither had any money, according to the officers who searched them, and they had few personal effects. The young woman was unaware that Moser had been arrested until a detec It'ft of Vint* l\nni?/1Ino? Vaiioa vaa. kl \ \J UlilVU U.W livt wvui UI115 J vwterday about noon and told her of Moser's detention at the city jail. She immediately asked to be permitted to see Moser, the detective said, and was escorted to the police station. Conflicting Stories. According: to the police, Moser and the young woman told conflicting stories concerning the date and place of their marriage, and also disagreed as to the towns in which they have lived during the past few months. Moser claimed to have worked at Holloway's music store at Monroe, N. C., and to have married the young woman some time ago. The young woman told the police that Moser and she had been living in Asheville for some time, coming from that town to Spartanburg, detectives said. While communicating today over long distance telephone with authorities in other towns where Moser and the young woman have stopped, Chief of Police Hill learned, he said, that the young woman with Moser disappeared from her home at Rock Hill some time ago, and that a detective agency has been searching for her at the request of her mother, who is said to be an employe of a Rock Hill cotton mill The local police have communicated with authorities in other towns where Moser and the young woman are said to have stopped, and replies are expected later today from these inquiries. Moser is a well built man, about 28 years old, and weighs about 180 pounds. He has a swarthy complexion and one of the fingers on his right hand is crippled, apparently by having been cut. The young woman, whose maiden name is said by tho police to have been Sealey, is about 18 years old and of medium height. FLAPPERS BEGIN FLAPPING. Head of Flock Says It Is Foolish to Change Short Skirts to Long Ones. "Off with the long skirts and on with the short," was the battle cry of Miss Alma Newberry, supreme and mighty head of the Macon, On,, flock i of flappers, when she announced recently that her followers were fighting the fall styles to the last ditch. "Any time a Frenchman or any one else thinks he can wrap us up in long, tight, uncomfortable skirts, he has got one more guess coming," Miss Newberry asserted. They say that we flappers are frivolous and foolish, and things like that; but if it is not foolish to change from something tnat is healthy, comfortable, snappy and quite individual, to something that looks like a weeping willow in a snowstorm, and has no more individuality than a pair of navy I beans in a bowl of soup, all because some guinea named I'oiret, who lives in a village on the other side of the water, says so, I'm a Chinese prince." Miss Newberry says she craves comfort. She likes freedom, both of the personal and physical kind. She has an idea that clothing is made to keep people warm in winter and to protect them from the burning sun in the summer. The appearance they give is incidental. "Everyone to her own taste Is our motto," she continued, "and if some of their fair ladies have lower limbs that do not show to advantage in short skirts, they are at perfect liberty to cover them up." INTEREST INCREASING Rev. Huggin Says Almighty is Doing All He Can for Sin-Cursed World. CONGREGATIONS GROWING LARGER Many People of All Denominations Attending Revival Services at Trinity Methodist Church?Preacher Declares Too Many Women Are Indulging In Profanity and Declares Person Who Takes God's Name In Vain Is Not Fit to Move In Decent Society. "I believe God is doing all he can do to save this world and if I am lost it is not because God has not tried to do for me," declared Rev. J. G. Huggin, Tuesday evening in the course of his sermon at the revival now in progress at Trinity Methocist church in Yorkville. The preacher sought to stress the fact that while the Almighty was willing and anxious to save, unless the individual was willing to allow the Holy Spirit to enter into his being, there could be no eternal solvation for him. The congregations in attendance upon the second day of the revival Tuesday morning and Tuesday evening were larger than those the opening night Monday, and during the week there has been increased attendance noted at practically each service, numbers of people from the surrounding country as well as those of the town from all denominations and no denomination at all, being members of the congregations. Invited to Br:ng Babies. In direct contrast to the policy of the average evangelist who appears to be worried by the cry and prattle of babies, Rev. Huggin told the mothers Tuesday evening to bring their babies right along with them to services. "I have been used to babies all my life," he said, "and they don't worry me. If you wish to attend these services don't put on any high falutin' airs and leave the babies at home." There were several mothers with babies in the congregation Tuesday evening and about the time the misister had concluded his invitation to the babies, one little fellow began crying quite lustily. His mother thought it best to take him outside to complete his crying spell, despite the invitation of Mr. Huggin to let him have it out in the congregation. It was a "Holy Ghost" sermon, as Rev. Huggin described it, that he preached from John 16:8, telling of the spirit of God working in the sinner as well as the Christian. In the sermon that we might address especially to Christians. lie said, there is always a message to sinners. While I believe God is doing all he can do to save this world, if I am lost it is not because God had not tried to do for me; but because I have steadfastly refused to allow his saving grace to enter my heart. And he will come in if you will let him. When there comes to you that. sober reflection of what you should do and what you should be you have but to wait on God and he will come into your heart. Tha spirit of God not only brings knowledge but the spirit will show each and every one of us that we can be saved and will widen the range of mental vision. Contempt for Mild Christians. One has to be whole hearted and all the way so to speak for God or else he is not a Christian, Rev. Mr. Huggin went on to say. The sinner has a contempt for that professing Christian who doesn't give some evidence of the spirit of righteousness that he claims to have in his heart. Some people live under the impression that Christianity and a Christian life is a laborious effort, but it is not so. "Women Cussers." Dwelling for a little while on the sin of profanity which seemed to be increasing, the minister said that the fellow who takes the name of God in vain is not fit to be in decent society "it used to be," he said, "that the 'he's' did all the cussing', but in this /In v nn/l f Smo If u ?\?\ao ro fKnf fV?<i 'u!?a'u' are doing it too." He told of his regret and surprise at learning some time ago that a number of girls in a girls' college of several hundred students with which he was unite famii'ar had acquired the vulgar and sinful habit of using profanity and how hehad observed that the women in a number of circles into which he had more or less of an insight were users of bad language. The Tobacco Habit. The tobacco habit came in for pretty severe condemnation at the mouth of Rev. Hoggin Tuesday evening. "If you smoke cigars or little cigarettes or ehe\' tobacco," he said, "I Jl give you a prescription that will euro you If \cu want to be cured. Just get you 5 cents worth of snuflf. ToM your wife to fill her mouth with it and then look at her a little while. You'll quit." The One Great Sin. The sin of profanity is not the great sin, continued Mr. Huggin. The sin of slander is not the great sin. Neither is the sin of avarice, the sin of murder nor any one of the special vices of this wicked world the great sin. They are nau. r,acn particular sin contributes greatly to the misery of the world. The ono great sin, the unpardonable sin, is failure to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and to accept him as our Sa|vlor and our Redeemer. The failure to allow the Holy Ghost, which is God and Jesus Christ, to come into our sincursed lives and hearts is the sin that the Almighty will not and cannot overlook. The opportunity to get right with God is present now and it is up to us if we would have eternal life to surrender ourselves uncompromisingly to the Holy Spirit before it is too late. UNDER BURNING OIL. Princeton Professor and Family Swim From Ship. The story of the explosion and sinking ot' the steamship Villafranca, plying the Parana river, between Paraguay and Argentina, South America, in which nearly 100 persons were killed, was told yesterday by Prof. Edwin Kemmerer of Princeton University. He returned here with his wife and two children aboard the steamship Santa Teresa of the Grace line. The explosion of the river boat, which was carrying more than 5,000 gallons of gasoline, happened early in the morning of June 4, and was one of the worst marine disasters ever known in South American waters. The fact that Prof. Kemmerer, who is in his forties, and his wife and two children, Iiuth, 12 and Donald, 16, all are excellent swimmers and were able to cover 300 feet to the shore and swim underneath the water at times to avoid the blazing oil on the surface saved their lives. Scores of women and children and many men aboard were burn ed or drowned when the river boat sank a few minutes after two explosions had occurred. The blast covered the ship and surrounding- waters with blazing gasoline. Of the entire list of first cabin passengers, Mrs. Kemmerer and Ruth were the only women saved. Prof. Kemmerer said that the manner in which the men aboard fought to get away and abandoned their women folk was appalling. There was panic and confusion everywhere. When several men reached the shore In a single lifeboat they refused to put it out again to rescue the women and children who were floating about in the river in the darkness. At 2 o'clock in the morning the passengers were thrown from their berths by a terrific explosion, followed by a roar. The Kemmerers, scantily clad, ran to the deck and saw the flaming oil rushing along the deck and spouting from the port holes below. The water's surface about the ship for a score of yards was blazing with floating patches of the ignited gasoline. "\ve stood at the rail for a momen)Prof. Kemmerer said, "and watched the panic all about us, when we noticed that the ship was taking a heavy list to starboard. My wife handed me n suit case which contained some valuables and papers, but we had no time for caring for anything else save getting away safely. "I told the children to get ready to dive from the rail. We all went over the side together. As we went und?r the water on the dive the second explosion came. Only the fact that we were under water saved us, as blazing oil was hurled in all directions. When we came to the surface all swam toward the shore, but we were carried out of our course by the heavy tide. Here and there fear-crazed men and women were struggling to save themselves and many were trying to beat out the flames which clung to them, scorching some to death. "\Vhi>n wf? mmA n wM?m'nn? t-Ino ~ v.....p ? "? of flames we all dove and swam under tho surface for some distance." Prof. Kemmerer, who is head of the department of economics at Princeton, went on a leave to study banking conditions last February.?New York Herald. Rural Church Advertising.?A signboard carrying at the same time a message of invitation and a brief, but effective sermon, stands on a popular highway some six or seven miles out j from this city, stating in plain, bold type:% "One-half Mile to Bethlehem J Church. Everybody Welcome.". ^Lany a motorist, doubtless, coursing up and down this roadbed in the glorious Indian summer sunshine these Sundays catches a glimpse of this signboard and if he or she pauses long enough to get its message, he or she may act accordingly. Not necessarily of course, vorship at Bethlehem, although it is one of the best country churches in the county and one of the oldest, having been established 122 years ago, the autoist will be brought face to face with a situation that was easily dismissed when he started out from home for the day. But whether or ndt the traveler act:: on the suggestion, deep down in his heart and conscience, if he has read the sign j aright is a.feeling of respect for the j printed words. Also a high regard for a community where the leading highway bears this unique sign, along with others praising the qualities and virtues of soft drinks, medicines and wares and merchandise. Advertising pays, and advertising the things that are worth while here and hereafter is effective to the thoughtful mind when it is properly and decently done. There is nothing flamboyant, "yellow" or sensational about this church sign; just a neat, tall frame work, supported on posts, with the lettering standing out clearly in white against a dark blue background.?Spartanburg Herald. DOG OWNERS WIN Clover Council Allows Canines to go Out With Muzzles on. ; VE3Y UNIQUE COLLECTION SCHEME Negro Comes Across With Cash Whin He Sees Picture of Coffin and Rid Ink?Corporate Limits of Town Extended to Take In Hampshire Mill? Now Evident That Cotton Crop Not Going to Be So Short After All. (By a Start Correspondent.) Clover, October 6.?The dogr owners have brought pressure to bear upon the "city fathers" sufficient to amend the recently passed ordinance to the effect that all dogs in the town of Clover must be kept confined for a period of ninety days. This week the council amended the ordinance so that all dogs must be kept muzzled for a period ol" ninety days. That is, they may run at large with a muzzle op them. Tlifc ordinance as originally passed, came about because it was alleged that there had recently been several mad dogs running at large In the community and since there was no way of telling what dogs had been bitten, why the best Way out of a bad situation was to require the dog owners to keep their canines at home. Then came the howl. The hungers and other dog lovers thought it a rotten shame that they should be forced to keep their dogs in for that length of time, especially with the 'possum season Just at hand. The ladles who lovo to carry their little pet dogs instead of children with them when they go iu itwu |nriie? una umer iniugu, thought it just perfectly cruel and Immediately there arose such a clatter that the "fathers" soon saw they were going to have to take some other steps towards remedying a bad matter. There was no doubt, it is said, that mad dogs had been running at large. One alleged rabid dog was killed and his head sent to the state laboratory in Columbia for examination. They said it had hydrophobia. But then, nobody in these parts ever knew the state laboratory to say anything else when a dog head was sent there for examination. But now the doggies must wear protectors. Stores that sell muzzles have been doing a good business the last day or two and it is rather a funny sight to see all kinds of dogs, includ ingr chicken-stealing:, night-howling, flea-bitten dogs walking around with the things on. But most owners feel that a victory for personal liberty of doggies has been won, although it is not a complete victory until the nuzi zles come off. Unique Collecting Scheme. If Clyde Ford of Clover, were not making good in the furniture game, he vould doubtless be a whale In the direction, of a collecting agency and in this connection there is an interesting tale. Some ten years ago a negro by the name of George Campbell resided in these parts. George's wife died and he went to the Ford undertaking and embalming establishment to purchase a. <;uiun in wnicn 10 enclose ner remains. George wanted a little better' col fin for his wife than could be purchased for the cash that he had in hand and the firm very kindly charged him with $17 balance on account. The wife being duly buried, George appeared to forget the little balance on the coffin, despite the fact that constant reminders were sent him. In time he disappeared from the Clover community altogether and it was accepted as a fact that he had gone to Winston-Salem, X. C., where a lot of bad York county negroes and only a few good ones go. I^cently, however, Mr. Clyde Ford learned that George was now residing in Chester and he promptly sent him a statement for $17, the balance on the coffin long past due. George paid no attention to it. Ford then fixed up another statement, writing it in red ink. Having an illustrated coffin catalogue at hand, he selected a cut of a fine black casket and pasted it at the top of the statement. It was just a few days afterward that Mr. Ford received from George a postofrtce money order for $10, with a little note to the effect: "Dear Mistuh CIy<*e: Heah am paht ob dat money whut ah owes yo' all. Ah aims to send de balance in er few days an' fo' de Lawd's sake doan yo' all send mah no mo' ob dem air red an' black coffen bills." Rev. McLean to Preach. It is announced that Rev. A. A. Mc Lean, formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Clover, and for several years past pastor of a church at Lenoir, N. C., is to occupy the pulpit of the church here next Sunday. A special musical program in connection with the service has been arranged. A resident of this section for many years, Rev. McLean was one of the most popular pastors Clover church ever had and it is anticipated that large congregations will be present to hear him preach next Sunday. To Extend Corporate Limits. The town council has agreed to extend the southeastern corporate limit.? of the town of Clover so as to take in the Hampshire Spinning Mill and mill village now in course of construction. It was planned originally to extend the corporate limits of the town one-quar ? (Continued on Page Eight.) , A