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ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 19'23. ' ^ NO. 81
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs o! More or
Less Interest.
PICKED UP BT ENQUIRER REPORTERS
8tories Concerning Folks and Things,
Soma of Which You Know and
Soma You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
Time to Get Lit Up.
Met a fellow on the street In Yorkville
Saturday morning and he stopped
to talk. He held o paper bag in his
hand.
"Got a pint of moonshine liquor in
that bag." he said, "and I am going to
get drunk."
"What do you want to get drunk
for?you appear to be sober enough
and look well enough now."
"v?n ho. in nil true I reckon: but
?-Fl VI.MV ? you
know every once in a while I just
feel like I have just got to get drunk
and the feeling and the craving has
been on me strong for several days.
And so I am beginning to surrender
this morning.
"Say," he concluded, as he stepped
into a place with the bag covering the
pint, "don't tell me I'm a fool. I
know it already."
Swat Him.
Oh, keep this bird .
Out of my reach!!!
He uses learn
When he means teach!
?Cincinnati Enquirer.
Come swat this bird,
This high-toned gent,
Who always says:
I would have went."
?Aaam creuue.
Tlty this dolt
Tricked by his mind,
He says, "I seen."
But he is blind.
?Gastonia Gazette.
Bury this bird
Under pure white snow,
"Who ends each sentence
With the words, "You know."
?L. M. G.
Tho Road Hog.
"Here," said an automobile driver
this morning is a description of a road
hog and I believe it will keep a lot
'road pigs' in this neck of the woods
from becoming 'hogs' if they were
given the opportunity to read it:
"What is a road hog? A road hog is
a driver of an automobile who uses
both sides and the middle of the public
highway in which to travel from
place to place. His manners arc bad
and his regard ror tne rignts 01 umas
is poor. He is hard to fatten and
would make a mighty poor quality of
pork, if he were sent out to the packing
housb? He lives and moves and
has his being the same as other hogs,
but he refuses to even grunt when you
drive into a ditch and give, him the
entire road. He is a dangerous ani*
mal for he is calculated to hurt someone
or kill his fool self. But what's j
the use of talking about road hogs?
Why not elevate our minds with more
desirable subjects such as hook-worm,
small pox, 'flu,' cabbage snakes and
boll weevils?"
Value of Weevil Poiaoning.
"To show you that calcium arsenate
poisoning of the boll weevil has been
worth while in York county where it
hn? intellieentlv annlied this year.
I want to cite the cases of Messrs. C.
D. Reid and W. Hall Spencer, good
farmers of Catawba township," said
John R. Blair, county farm demonstration
agent the other morning. "One
of these farmers applied calcium arsenate
on his crop four times during
the year and the otner made five appli- i
cations. Each of them is getting a bale
of cotton to the acre off the cotton
that was treated and it is hardly likely
that any section of the county has
been harder hit by the weevil this year
than the Catawba Junction section in
which Mr. Spencer lives. There are
other farmers living near him who will
not make nearly so much cotton."
Asked his guess relative to the |
amount of cotton that will be ginned in
York county this year, Mr. Blair said:
"I estimate that we will make around
25,000 bales in the county. I do not
believe that we will make as much as
27,000 bales; but of course the ginner's
report must tell the exact tale."
'Possum Hunting at Home.
UOUnly Auauur nruauus m.
and Prof. E. A. Montgomery who live
beside each other on East Madison
stieet, Yorkville, don't have to take to
the woods when they desire to go
'possum huntinR but catcli 'em right
in the Lovo back yard. The county
auditor was telling the other day
about Prof. Montgomery and himselF
catching a hip 'un. "I had been out
rather late," said Mr. Love, "and when
1 came home Prof. Montgomery was
there to tell me that something was
alarming my chickens. I pot a gun
and a light and went out into the
yard. I found two dead chickens, one
of them partially eaten and chancing
to look up toward the top of the
chicken house I saw a big 'possum
shininp his eyes in my direction.
"Well, we got him down and I found
piece of tin and placing it on the
ground put the 'possum on it and turned
a wash pot over it. My wife has
been saying all summer that her
chickens have been disappearing
rather mysteriously and now we know
where they have been going. We found
a regular nest of chicken feathers that
the 'possum had made from the
feathers of I don't know how many
chickens that he has killed."
More About That Bonus.
"Notice you had some dope in The
Yorkville Enquirer the other day about
how they killed Bill Bonus," commented
an American Legion man this
morning. "I have in verse attempted
to tell the boys when they are going
tp be paid that bonus. Here goes:
When the elephant takes the chicken's
place
And roosts up in the trees,
When the frog abandons the waterVinloa
And goes to scratching fleas.
When the canary bird develops fins
And takes the place of flsh,
That's when we will get our bonus
So wish buddy?wish!
When the navy does away with beans
And old slum-gullion too,
When corned William dies a noble
death
And goldfish are taboo!
When the army cuts out all fatigue
And reveillee no more,
That's when we'll get our bonus,
So old, buddy, don't get sore!
When politicians turn out straight
And cut out all their bunk,
When old man Volstead slips a cog
And springs a big drunk,
When Bryan takes B'rer Harding's
place
A president to be
That's when we'll get our bonus
Just try and wait and see."
STORING TMLIK Liuuun
Columbia Bootleggers Getting Ready
for Next Legislative Session.
Crafty masters of finance and legislation
in South Carolina are "on the
job," according- to reports from Columbia
bootleggers, who are authority
for the statement that whisky in
automobile loads is being brought to
the capital city from distant wholesale
distributing points in sister
states in preparation for the 1D23
session of the general assembly,
writes the Columbia correspondent of
the Charleston American.
For the benefit of the new members
of the legislature and tho senate, it
can be truthfully said that while
possibly there is actually no cash to
be obtained from their interest in certain
legislation that directly affects
tho money interests in the state; advice
to them that they might as well
i ? ? <v?of "cnwnM
Iiruvc lliv-ll Jutwiitv MVV..V ?
at homo when they pack their "hit anil
run" grips for the 40-day and 40night
session that will begin in January,
might well be heeded, unless
they prefer the product of the stills in
their own communities to Messrs.
Haig & Haig, Hunter's Rye, Gordon
Gin and White Horse Scotch.
Information gained from well informed
citizens and well known, liquor
vendors in Columbia is that for several
weeks large quantities of the prohibited
stuff has been coming into the
city, and is being stored in hemes, offices
and other hiding places.
How it is Done.
Ordinarily it can be said of Columbians
that they are good fellows, but j
when there is a piece of pet legislation
that they wish railroaded through
the house of representatives and the
state senate they are particularly interested
in quenching the thirst of
those who have in their hands the destiny
of certain measures that may
make or break the Interested Individuals
or corporations.
Liquor as a determining factor in
legislation in South Carolina is no
new thing. Even in the good old
dispensary days, when good whisky
could be bought for a song compared
with the present prices of monkey
rum, thi schemer with the cellar of
largest proportions could exert influence
enough to carry his point with a
majority of the leading lights among
ti e state's representatives in the lawmaking
body.
"Big Business" Ahead.
According to the rum runners, there
must he a larger amount of legislation
which will be detrimental to the
interests of the corporations and the
moneyed interests of the state this
session than in several years past. At
any rate, more liquor is being stored
away for the successful manipulation
of the general assembly.
Just who will rally to the cause of
that class of people known ordinarily
as the common people, is not evident.
It is a well known fact, however, that
the man who dares to champion the
cause of the masses of the people is
invariably in the minority at the sessions
of the general assembly, especially
after the Columbia "ring" has
greased the track with good liquor
and promised political reward to those
who would enact legislation for their
own personal gain.
All of which goes to prove that the
state's best politicans accomplish the
most for themselves when attempting
to pose as supporters of the so-called
law and order administration candidates,
when in reality they defy the
law and disobey it at will.
? The University of South Carolina
defeated the Presbyterian College of
Clinton in a game of football at Columbia
Saturday, by a score of 7 to 0.
The same day Clemson defeated XewI
berry college by f?7 to ft. Tim Citadel
defeated the Parris Island marines 11
to 6.
TOO MUCH POLITICS
Huggln Says Some Men Think More
of Blease Than of Chrisf
SAYS SAME APPLIES TO McLEOD
Large Congregation Hears Clover
Preacher Sunday Night?Necessary
to Borrow City Hall Chairs to Seat
the Congregation?Revival to be
Continued Through Wednesday
Night and Probably Longer.
"I know men in York county who
think more of Cole Blease than they
do of the Lord Jesus Christ and I
know men in York county who think
more of Tom McLeod than they do of
Jesus," declared Rev. J. G. Huggin of
Clover, who is conducting a revival at
Trinity Methodist church, Yorkville, in
the course of his sermon Sunday
night. , The minister made the statement
in connection with his declaration-that
while men as well as women
should take a healthy interest in political
affairs of county, state and nation
and he did so himself, at the same
time such matters were secondary,
compared with the love of man for
God and His Church although there
were many in York county who were
more interested and enthused over
political matters than they were in
matters spiritual.
Overflow Congregation,
i It was an unusually large congregation
to which Rev. Mr. Huggin preached
Sunday night. There were no
services at any of the other churches
in tnwn and each denomination in
Yorkville was represented at the
Methodist meeting1 in large numbers.
Although the Sunday school rooms of
the ehurch were thrown open for the
congregation of the evening the rooms
were too small to take care of the
overflow and the ushers were kept
busy for a time carrying chairs from
the city hall across the street to accommodate
those who had come to
hear Mr. Huggin. A feature of the
service of the evening was the song
service, a strong choir having been
gotten together for the meeting and
the congregation joined in the songs of
praise right heartily.
An interesting part of that song
service was a duct by Misses Thomasson
and Grant.
Offering for Preacher.
It was announced that the offering
of the evening would go to defraying
the expenses of the meeting and as a
contribution to Kev. Mr. Iluggin to
partially pay him for the work that he
was doing:.
It was a red hot, straight from the
shoulder sermon that Rev. Mr. Huggin
preached and one that was heard with
pleasure and profit by his congregation.
He preached a little longer than
has been his wont at other services
during the meeting; but apparently
nobody was tired when he concluded
and nobody would have objected if he
had preached longer. He dealt with
J the common sin3 and common follies of
man in his discourse and repeatedly
drove home the fact that all worldly
matters and worldly institutions were
minor matters and that the thing that
concerned the people of the world most
although many of them did not seem
to realize it was the love of God and
the extension of the realms of the King
upon earth.
Tonight and Tomorrow.
It was announced that Rev. Huggin
will preach tonight at 7:30 and Wednesday
night at 7:30. Whether or not
the revival will be continued longer
than Wednesday night has not been
decided according to Rev. J. K. Walker,
pastor of the church.
God wants us to nave respect iui
ourselves. He wants us to have good
homes and good institutions for our
government, said Mr. Huggin. Ke is
not altogether displeased with our
political institutions and I wish that
we had still belter laws and still better
officers. But in the midst of our interest
in these things we should always
bear in mind the fact that we should j
havfe a greater interest in God and in I
His church. You can't be a good citizen
unless you are a good Christian
and you can't be a good Christian* unless
you are a good citizen. There are
many of us who can and do take big
interest in political meetings and who
whoop 'em up for this candidate and
i that candidate who wouldn't lead in j
I prayer when the preacher calls or Who
j would stand out prominently in reli-j
trio us affairs tor anyinms. na-iv
those of us who can whoop and shout
when the center fielder on the home
team knocks one over the fence and
lie who does this lias no right to
criticise when some one shouts the
name of Jesus Christ.
Many of us exercise too much
dignity when it comes to matters concerning
Clod and religion and I for
one am sick and disgusted with that
cloak of sham called "dignity." Those
kind of people who arc cold and who
hold aloof from the service of God in
every way possible may have their
names <>n the church register but they
are not Christians. They arc only
parasites.
Home.
Painting a picture of home which he
said was the greatest institution in the
world, next to God's church, Mr. Huggin
stepped aside to take a tling at
the bachelors. "I'm sorry for the
follow who is ton stingy to get married
and rear a family," he said. "He is a
parasite on society. It is the duty of
man to get married.
"Live with her in a house to yourself.
Two women in one house is one
woman too many. And when you get
, that home protect it and allow no man
to cross the threshold except over your
dead body. Be a man. "When you got
through with your Job go to that home
and stay there. Don't lay around the
drug store or other loafing place at
night but stay with her and help to
make her hannv."
Advice for Wives.
Handing out some advice to wives he
said: "If your husband can't provide
for you like you were accustomed to
before you married him, why just take
what he has and smile Qver it and be
happy. You said you would when you
married him. You knew what you
were doing. Make the best of it. And
if you find that he can't make a living
for you then starve with him-."
In conclusion Mr. Huggin reminded
his hearers that it was their duty to
attend church and to pay their church
dues. I speak to Methodists especially
he s.'id. A cold Methodist is an unthinkable
thing and it is time that
those of you who have been lukewarm
in your interest both in church attendance<
and through financial support
are getting in line. Church attendance
and contributions for religious
purposes should be regarded by
you as a privilege and not an obligation.
THE SINN FEN OATH.
Remarkable Document Comes Into the
Hands of Dillon Mason.
A Dillon Mason and former service
man who attended the state legion
meeting at Florence a few weeks ago.
secured through a fellow-member what
is said to bo a copy of the "Sinn Fen
Oath," taken from a member of that
organization during the riots of September,
1920, near Belfast, Ireland,
says the Dillon Herald. The copy
came to America through an American
citizen from Ulster, who has been
there since the late spring of 1920, and
who saw the bloody riot of July 12th
of that year. The original oath, it is
said, carried the stamp and seal of the
Irish republic. The oath follows:
"I swear by the Almighty God, by
all in heaven and upon earth, by the
Holy and Blessed Prayer Book of our
Church, by the Blessed Virgin Mary
and Mother of God, by her Tears and |
Wnillngs, by Saint Patrick, by an
Blessed and Adorable Host, by the
Blessed Itosary and Blessed Church In
all ages and by our Holy National
Mn.rtyre, to fight until we die, wading
in the fields of Red Gore of the Saxon
Tyrants, and Murderers of the Glorious
Cause of Nationality, and if spared,
to fight until there is not a single
vestige and a space for a footprint left
to tell that the Holy Soil of Ireland
was trodden on by the Saxon Tyrants
and the Murderers, and moreover, when
the English Protestant Robbers and
Beasts in Ireland shall be driven into
the sea, like the swine that Jesus
Christ caused to be drowned, we shall
embark for and take England, root
out every vestige of the accursed Blood
of the Heretics, Adulterers, and Murderers
of Henry VIII, and possess
ourselves of the treasures of the Beasts
that have so long kept our beloved
Isle of Saints, our Ireland in chains of
nonaage, ana a riven us irum um iivnial
shores to settle in foreign lands,
and shall wade in the blood of Orangemen
and Heretics who do not join us
and become one of ourselves. Scotland,
too, having given her aid and
succor to the Beasts, we shall leave in
her Red Gore and shall not give up
the conquest till we have our Holy
Father complete Ruler of the British
Isles as he was before the Reformation.
To all this singly and collectively,
I swear to fulfill as before mentioned
with my eyes blindfolded, not
knowing whom to me administered
this oath, so help me God."
Among the questions and answers
that follow we read:
Question. What do you think of the
times; will they be good?
Ancwer: I think they will.
Question. At what time?
Answer. "When we have a general
shower of Protestant and heretic blood.
And This Is Justice!?Down in Orangeburg
last week a jury convicted a
bank officer of holding up the institu
;>%.% 1.;,* mnnntf nAnfuoi'V tfi 1.1W
and to the financial interests of innocent
people. The judge sentenced him
to six months on the ehaingang, said
sentence to be suspended during good
behavior?that is. probably, till he gets
a whack at another bank, lie was
white, and the offense involved, was
for thousands, llefore the seats of the j
jurors were cold a second panel also
convicted a "coon" for stealing less
than a hundred and the same judge
promptly gave him a term of three
years on the gang. That is doing business
through the legally established
ehannels which is heralded as dispensing
equal justice to all and special
privileges to none. We have some
I good and painful reasons for believing
that, in proportion to numbers more
rascality, in banks, goes unwhipped of
justice than that of man-killing in our
bloody commonwealth. Why should
i big thieves, with a lust for money,
! hesitate to plunder a bank when they
| know that they are, and will be. immune
in our temples of JITSTICK.?
Calhoun Times.
TELEPHONE TALK
Patrons ot Clover Exchange Say They
Want Improved Equipment.
THINK THEY SHOULD PAY NO MORE
Real Estate Deal Last Week Involved
Six Lots In the Business District?
Vital Statistics for King's Mountain
and Bethel Show Increased Population?Good
News for Bird Hunters?
Other News Notes of the Metropolis
of King's Mountain Township.
(By a Start Correspondent.)
Clover, October 10.?There's talk of
a row brewing: between the local telephone
company and the subscribers to
the system over the question of equip/"Mni-nr
iviirnns of the tele
phone company being of the opinion
that they should have the benefit of
better equipment. They are tired of
turning the crank or "doing the hand
organ stunt," as some of them put it,
when they have to call central to get
a connection. They feel that because
of the number of telephones in Clover
and the price they pay for sendee they
are entitled to the installation of a
drop battery system like that in use in
Yorkville and in other towns not much
larger than Clover. There are about
275 telephones in sendee in the town
of Clover and the belief Is prevalent
here that the telephone company here
has more rural subscribers than at
any other town around. The telephone
company charges $2 a month for resident
telephone sendee. The charge
at Yorkvillo for residence phones is
only $1.75 a month and the county seat
exchange has only about fifty more
telephones in use than has this town,
it is claimed.
Clover people who are agitating1 the
matter of improved service, say that
during the World war they not only
agreed to an increase in telephone
charges here, but insisted that the
telephone company raise the rates after
the company had stated that they
v/ero operating at a loss. The only
free stations that are allowed here are
Ycrkville and Gastonia. One must
pay toll to telephone Sharon, Hickory
Grove, Rock Hill or Fort Mill.
Clover is a growing town, they argue.
Time is money. It takes considerable
time sometimes to turn the
telephone crank and get the connection
wanted through central, despite
the fact that the "centrals" are as
prompt.and efficient as they can be
under the circumstances. Because of
the high rate hero the improved service
should be given without additional
charge, according to those who are
after it. There has already been
some correspondence with the telephone
officials about the matter and
what is to come of it all of course remains
to be seen.
Lots Are Sold.
A real estate deal of considerable local
interest, ar.d one which it is believed
will result in the construction
of several additional store buildings
for Clover, was consummated last Friday
when six lots of the Matthews
property on Main and Bethel streets,
were sold through the Clover Trust
company. One of the lots was purchased
by the Campbell-Matthews Co.,
another bv Dr. I. J. Campbell, a third
by W. J. Good and three others by W.
R. Stroup. The purchase price of the
six was ?5,025.
Vital Statistics.
The birth rate far outstripped the
death rate in Kind's Mountain township
for the month of September, according
to the report of Edmund Ford,
registrar of vital statistics for the
township. There were 18 births and
only 4 deaths in the township during
the month. In Bethel township according
to the report of Registrar Ford,
there were 4 births and 2 deaths during
the month.
Plenty of Partridges.
. I Tamp Harnett, of Bethel township,
one of the best bird shots in all this
section, comes with the word that the
partridge crop in Bethel township is
mighty good for this fall and that the
hunters are promised more sport than
they had last year, provided of course,
the land owners of Bethel township
don't take a notion to "post" their
land against partridge hunting. Mr.
Barnett attributes the increase in the
partridge population to the fact that
this has been an unusually good year
for breeding. It has been a very dry
year compared with last. The spring
was unusually dry and hundreds of
th.lt WPfC dtOWnod
out last year were allowed to survive
this year because of the drought.
Peanuts Panning Out Fine.
Preliminary reports from a number
of Clover farmers who have experimented
with peanuts this year for the
first time, are good. It. is estimated
that farmers in the immediate vicinity
have 100 acres or more ii peanuts this
year as an experiment, and while all
of them have not dug the nuts, several
of them have and are well pleased.
Jeff Davis of Clover No. 4, who had
two acres in peanuts this year, estimates
his yield at 50 bushels to the
acre. Right now they are worth $1 a
bushel and Mr. Davis is of opinion
that his two acres in peanuts are
worth considerably more to him than
the same aereage devoted to eotton
would have been.
Rev. McLean Preached.
There was a largo congregation
present at the First Presbyterian
church last fhinday to hear Rev. A. A.
McLean, who occupied the pulpit. Rev.
McLean was for a number of years
pastor of the Clover church and when
he come3 back home he Is always
greeted by a congregation of many
relatives and friends. He is now pastor
of the Presbyterian church at Lenoir,
N. C.
Interest In Contest.
Jas. A. Page, cashier of the Bank of
Clover, said the other day that already
considerable interest is being manifested
in the contest being conducted
by his bank, which is offering a prize to
the person guessing nearest the number
of bales of cotton that will be
ginned in York county by December 1.
Mr. Page said that already a number
of guesses had been received and that
there were a number of people who
were waiting to get a little information
from a ginner's report or two before
submitting guesses.
GAMBLERS LOSE
Those Who Bought German Marks Are
Out Millions.
Gambling in German marks has cost
Americans from a billion to two billion
dollars, writes Edward M. Thiery.
People are still buying marks and
other foreign paper "money," but the
big flood of'speculation suddenly stop-,
ped a few weeks ago.
Bankers report that buying was going
on in large amounts in spite of
their warnings that purchase of German
marks was a speculation and not
an investment. It is believed that even
the wildest speculators have now
reached the conclusion that the bubble
has burst, wiping out dreams of immense
profits.
"Estimates of the amount of American
money spent for marks can be
made better in Germany than in this
country," said Dr. B. M. Anderson, Jr.,
economist of the Chase National lianK.
"I have seen estimates ranging from
$1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000. Personally
I wouldn't know how to guess.
National Loss is Large, But so Diffused
No Credit Problem is Created.
"Speculation in German marks has
been a big national loss, but it is so
diffused that no credit problem has
been created. I know of no institution
or individual suffering- a serious loss.
"The most serious thing about it is
the demoralization of Germany which
the crash in marks indicates. Demoralization
in Germany is most serious of
course for her closer neighbors?
France, Great Britain, Holland, Belglum
and the Scandinavian countries
?but it is very serious for the United
States also. Germany has been one of
our best customers and a prosperous
uermany is needed to balance the
world's economic life."
Dr. Anderson pointed out that while
Germany as a whole has suffered very
greatly in the financial demoralization,
a good many individual German specu
lators have piled up immense pronts.
Foreseeing: the decline in the mark,
they borrowed marks on a great scale
and used them to buy foreign currencies?dollars,
sterling, etc.,?or to buy
goods, common stock or corporations,
and other things whose value would
not decline with the mark.
After the fall' of the mark these
speculators could sell a small part of
their purchases for enough marks to
pay back their debts, retaining the
greater part of the real values they
had purchased. Hugo Stinnes is sup1
posed to have built up much of his
great fortune by this method.
Other countries have plunged in German
marks. Spain is said to have put
1,000,000,000 pesetas into marks by the
end of 1020.
As recently as last week an Italian
put $140 into German marks at the
rate of 7 cents a hundred, receiving
200,000 marks (which before the war
were worth $50,000.) At the New York
bank where he bought them he was
warned that he might lose his $140.
"Ah!" he exclaimed, grinning, "but
1 may make a million!"
Bell Boy, Elevator Man and Doorman
Owners of Millions in Marks.
A small New York hotel has a bell
boy, an elevator operator and a door- J
man who own several million Polish
marks, a million uerman mares, unu
several hundred thousand French
francs and Italian lire.
Meanwhile reports from Germany
say that women there are protecting
their savings by putting doubtful paper
money into silk stockings?something
they can sell later!
How widespread American speculation
in German marks has become is
indicated by a letter received by a New
York bank from a small banker in
Texas asking whether marks were a
"good investment." He was told they
were a "long shot gamble."
Bankers, believe, granting the imi
possibility of a recovery in German
marks, that they will either go so low
that they will cease to be used as a
means' of barter, or else there will be
official repudiation.
In either case American speculators
will have one or two billion dollar's
j worth of "wallpaper" on their hands.
T T* !>/-? ! <1 rr/% o tfot'nli no* cilnc.
man, has announced himself a candidate
for congress in the Seventh district,
against Fulmer, Democrat. He
says he has no organization behind
him and is just running for the purpose
of having some fun with the boys.
? Union Shriners are making an effort
to have the Shrine hospital for
crippled children which is to bo lotatod
in some South Carolina city, located j
in that town. ,r
BOLL WEEVIL KILLER
Charleston Lady Produces a Powder
That Does the Business.
WILL OFFERCHEMICALTO GOVERNMENT
Mrs. Margaret E. Kriete Conducts Sue*
cessful Experiments in Miniature
Back Yard Cotton Field?Has Been
Working cn it for a Long While.
Will the boll weevil be conquered?
Can it be conquered? There are hundreds
of thousands of farmers, bankers,
mill owners, scientists and others
who have tried to overcome the boll
weevil and thus end its disastrous depredations
over the South. They have
been looking for some one who can answer
the two questions above with an
emphatic "yes," but so far the results
are declared to be far from satisfac
tory.
However out of the darkness of an
apparently hopeless situation there
comes a ray of hope. A Charleston
lady, Mrs. Margaret E. Krlete, an
aged and well-known resident, has
discovered a powder that so far has
defied the attacks of the boll weevil,
says the Charleston American.
Miniature Cotton Field.
Mrs. Kriete resided at No. 80 Society
street, and her yard is a miniature
cotton field. The bolls are full
and perfect. Mrs. Kriete conducted
her experiments in an extensive manner
during the past summer, and while,
as stated above, her efforts have met
with unexpected success, she wishes to
conduct further experiments, which
she hopes to do next summer.
Mrs. Kriete's interest in the boll
weevil is all the more remarkable
when it is considered that she has
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dweller (in Charleston) all her life.
However, it was but natural that her
sympathetic nature would respond to
the evident suffering of her fellowSoutherners?the
farmers of thd South.
Two Years' Experiment.
Mrs. Kricte's experiments began two
yeahs ago with a book on the subject
of the boll weevil given to her by an
employe of the Geer Drug Company.
From this Mrs. Krleto learned how
the weevil affected the boll and also
some of its pecularities.
The first experimenting was done
with some weevils furnished by a
friend near Charleston. These weevils
were kept in a Jar and after various
efforts of Mrs. Kriete sho concocted
a powder to kill the weevil. Later on '
some of the weevils were placed on
her cotton grown in her yard.
How it is Used.
The bolls were sprayed with this
powder and this process was Repeated
a couple of times and the weevils were
killed. Mrs. Kriete's powder will not
blow from the bolls, neither wilj therain
wash it off. And while it is not
perfected to the extent she desires, it
has been successful.
It will cost practically nothing to
produce the powder and it will not
have to be*sprayed more than a couple
of times when it is perfected, Mrs.
Kriete states.
Thus far there have been no expectations
of marketing the product,
and at the peak of its success it will
be put into the hapds of the govern?...>
fnr- fnrfhor exneriment and, pro
duction.
Mrs. Kriete failed to finish her experiments
this season on account of
a fall that she received while working
on her plants, in which she injured her
shoulder and was forced to give up for
the present. But her injuries are fast
improving and the winter season will
be spent by her in studying the effects
the boll weevil has on cotton. t
It is predicted that it will be only
a matter of time until the success
hoped for is attained.
BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHT
Interest in North Carolina Mystery is
Rising Again.
Once more the Brown mountain
J light is perplexing scientists. George
, Otis Smith, scientor of the geological
l survey, recently told a Washington
correspondent that he is having a map
made to show all the Jonas ridge country,
and the light or lights. He i3
determined to clear up this North
Carolina mystery if he can.
Recently an expert on his own
account, went to the state and mado
a careful study of the alleged moving
light. He sided with the government
in ronflusion that a loco
motive on the Southern railway carried
' one of the lights.
"When our map is completed." said
Mr. Smith, "it will bo easier to convince
visitors to western North Carolina
just how the light is produced."
The finding of the National Geographic
society which is considered by
some the last word in such things,
worries tho experts of the federal
government.
"Scientists were at first prone to
cavil at the stories which came out
of the mountains with the tourists
thinking perhaps that locomotive head
lights or wily mountaineers were playing
pranks on active imaginations"
the society expert said, "but now
ptlivsicists and meteorologists of note
believe that there occurs around the
mountain crest a brush discharge of
lightning, or the Stelmo's fire."
The "doctors" disagree on the Brown
mountain light, and the geological
survey is going to continue its efforts
|to clear the atmosphere. ^