Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 10, 1922, Page Page Four, Image 4
JgRnaifc anfi |aris.
? The department of justice, headed
by Attorney General Daughcrty. has
ruled that American craft, whether belonging
to the shipping board or not,
nra prohibited from carrying intoxicatiry;
Jiquors. Also the department, holds
that foreign ships canr.ot lawfully
bfAig liquor into American territorial
waters. This applies to all American
territorial waters, including island
possessions except the Panama canal
2die, which is especially exempted in
the 'acts. The regulations to prevent
the bringing of whisky into American
natters by foreign ships have not yet
b&eh worked out. Chairman I^ascar J
oi tjie shipping: board insists that
DftUghertjN's ruling means the death
knell of American shipping. '
?? A drive to place hides and long
staple cotton on the dutiable list was
opened in Washington, Saturday, by
the Southern Tariff association, when
it adopted a resolution petitioning congress
to reopen tariff discussions and
levy duties on these articles for the
benefit of farmers. Resolutions urging
t^e -president to use the flexible tariff
pppvisions of the new tariff measure
"to make such adjustment^ in the
schedules as will equalize the cost of
production between this and foreign
countries" and to appoint representatives
of agriculture and allied indus- |
tries to the tariff commission were also
adopted. The association, meeting in
aT "victory congress s a rtsuu ui no
recent successful efforts In obtaining
with manufactured products, will
equal tariff legislation for raw material
""/roaden and continue" its work, it
h is been decided.
--Investigation of the cotton situation,
including cotton exchange operations,
by the senate agricultural
committee, under the resolution of
?fej^|itor Smith, South Carolina, will
bi'gin about the List of November,
Suitor Heflin, Alabama, stated Friday
after a conference with Senator
Smith. A conference of senators from
tjie 'cotton states, Senator Heflin said,
would be held to map out a program.
The Alabama senator said that this in
vestigation would develop wnat
methods "have been and are now being
employed to evade the law, munipu.
lafle^otton prices and control the market,"
'and would determine whether
cotton exchanges were helpful or hurtful
to the cotton industry and whether
regulative legislation should be enacted
Mr. Heflin said that the cotton
situation warranted better prices than
now are being paid.
? The National Grange, regarded as
cne of the strongest agrarian organizatidnb
in the country, will launch a
campaign against extravagance in state
governments at a national meeting
which will bo held in Wichita, Kan.,
beginning Nov. 14. Twenty thousand
ditkgqtt^iVfiU^bo.pr.escfit, Tbp (..range
representatives claim that while the
Federal expenditures are being1 cut
down slightly, the state expenditures
show no signs of dropping, but maintain
their upward trend. The Federal
taxation superimposed upon state,
local, school and town taxes, they
claim, make a burden which is much
heavier than is generally known. The
treble system of taxation, they claim,
makes the American people the most
heavily taxed people in the world.
Figures compiled by the organisation
show that the costs of Federal and
state governments since 1915 have increased
800 per cent., despite an alleged
decrease, mostljTin Federal government
expense of $1,300,000,000 since
1921.
? A sensation has been caused by a
letter from Andrew Bonar-Law, upholding
the British government's attitude
in the Near Eastern crisis which
is given conspicuous publicity in all
tno lajncion newspapers. xmr announcement
is widely held to be
equivalent to a direct threat to withdraw
the British troops from the
Kbine and completely terminate the
entente, unless France comes into line
with the British policy in the Near
East. Bonar-Law's position as potential
head of the potential conservative
government in the near future and his
intimate relations with several of the
present cabinet ministers are regarded
as giving his view special weight.
"We arc at the straits and Constantinople,"
said the letter, "not by our own
action alone, but by the will of the
allied powers which won the war, and
America is one of those powers. We
cannot alone act as the policeman of
the world. Our duty will be t j say
plainly to France that, if she is rot
prepared to support us, we shall he
unable to bear the burden alone, but
we shail have no alternative, except to
imitate the example of the United
States and restrict our attention to
safeguarding the more important in
terests of the empire." The general
opinion of the newspapers is that the
letter is timely and commendable.
? Friel Allen and Sida Edwards were
turned out of the Virginia penitentiary
lust Friday on conditional pardons.
They were members of the famous
Allen clan, and participated in the
shooting up of the Hillsville, Yu.,
courthouse on March 14, 1912. Governor
E. Lee Trinklc says that the men
are reformed and worthy of a new
start in life. The shooting in the
courthouse at Hillsville followed the
conviction of Floyd Alien on a charge
of moonshining. The jury was still
in the box when Judge Miissie, after
passing sentence of one year's imprisonment,
ordered the sheriff to "take
the prisoner in charge." At this point
Allen leaped to his feet and shouted:
"No man shall ever take me to the
penitentiary!" The shooting followed.
Judge -Massie was among the first to
fall, find when the firing ceased the i
bodies of the commonwealth's attorney,
the sheriff and Juror Foster were j
found near where the nu-n had stood, j
Miss Ayers vrr?- found among the
sjieetntor.V scats so seriously wounded
that she died next day. The prisoner,
Floyd Allen, also was seriously wounded,
but he recovered only to expiate
his crime six months later. Siclna
Allen and Wesley Edwards, two other
members of the clan, serving 35 years
and 27 years' imprisonment, respectively,
for their part in the affair in
which the presiding judge, Thornton
i l>. Massie, Commonwealths Attorney
W. M. Foster, Sheriff L. F. Webb, Augustus
Fowler, a juror, and Miss Betty
Ayers, a spectator, were killed, and
Dexter Goad, court clerk and several
jurymen were wounded, were denied
elemcncy because "they have served
too short a time for their punishment."
The two other members of the clan
were electrocuted at the state prison J
for their part in the shooting.
7t he jHarferitb (Enauirw. i
" ' *
Entered at the Postofflce at York, as
Mall Matter of the Second Class.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1922.
It is very clear now that if the United
States had gone into the league of
nations the Turk would not have come
back into Europe. But as the matter
stands, it appears that Turkey is the
real winner of the World war, and she
* ** ~e IAOIahsv
nas won uctiiusc m ^ iuuw? ? ??
of England.
There is nothing the matter with
Representative Bradford's proposition
for free text books in the public
schools. The fact is the books ought
to bo furnished free, especially for the
primary grades. But if Mr. Bradford
is able to get his bill through, it is to
be hoped that he will not overlook the
I importance of requiring uniform adoption
in nil the schools. There is no
sense, as we see it, in specifying the
books that must be used in the rural
schools, and leaving the town schools
?especially the graded schools?liberty
to select as many different kinds of
books as they want.
. England and France.
France was more than once at the
J -a - r nn tKn cnnnp-A fllir
pom L UL I III U \> liife Up w?v.
ing the World war, and except for the
glim tenacity of the British she would
have done so.
From beginning to end Great Britain
never had a thought of surrender?
she never had a thought of anything
except victory .in, the end.
Although the .propaganda was that
America went into that war on account
of France?largely for sentimental
reasons?there is not much to
that. It was on account of Great Britain
and herself that America went into
that war.
Twist it and turn it as, we may, the
stability of European and American
civilization hinges on England more
than on any other country.
No sooner did America help France
out of her scrape by beating back the
Germans, than did France begin to
swell up in the head and assume an
attitude of having done the whole
thing by her lonesome. She seems to
have forgotten all about the desperate
straits to which she had been reduced,
and she seems not to have the slightest
suspicion of a fact that most of
the world confidently believes?that
she would hardly be a match for Germany
even now.
It is hardly conceivable that Eng]
land is going to bear with the present
| French attitude much longer, and the
i world need not be surprised to see
some startling changes in the existing
situation before a great while.
Efficiency of the Courts.
The case of Torn Harrison for the
murder of his wife in December, 1920,
comes up for a second trial in Green-*
ville this week.
At the first trial it was disclosed that
; Tom Harrison, a wealthy character of
; t lie underworld, had killed his wife beI
cause of a preference for her sister,
the killing being based on a pretext
I of misconduct with another man. Ar:
thur Young, who was also seriously
wounded by Harrison.
? l ? ?
il<II I 1MM1 Wcl2> mail,
slaughter, where he should have been
convicted of murder, and was sentenced
to the penitentiary; but by reai
son ef his wealth he was able to get
out on bond and resume his adulter|
ous life with ids sister-in-law.
In due course, and as a matter of
course, he was allowed a new trial on
one quirk or another, and now the
farce is to be prosecuted to a Until ae- ,
quittal, unless his money is exhausted
i in the meantime.
j The substance of the testimony for ;
' the defense in the first trial was that
I Harrison, during the course of a party ]
in his own home, came upon Young
attacking Mrs. Harrison and that Mrs.
Harrison was accidentally killed by
, one of a series of bullets that was be!
ing fired at Young, who was also seriously
wounded. Young denied that!
' lie had attacked Mrs. Harrison.
The information yesterday was that 1
Young had left the state and was in
j Asheville; but as to whether he had
i run away through indifference, bribery
i or patched up friendship, or whether
he would be back to testify along the
' same lines as at the first trial, was
open to conjecture.
It is a nasty affair?the whole bus- ,
iness, and whether there is a final conviction
or not, the proceedings have i
j not added to the confidence that the j
Ipy jjtbllc is'entitled to have in the
Administration of the laws.
Taxed as it is to maintain the courts,
the public has a right to look to those
courts for honest efficiency, and
whether such inefficiency comes
through dishonesty, stupidity or whatever
other cause, it seems that there
should be a readjustment.
Too Much Taxes.
One of tho darkest shadows perhaps
that is overhanging the present and
future of this country, is the steadily
growing tendency toward the exploitation
of tho productive power of the
people by means of taxation.
We had that issue in the last state
campaign, which opened with a common
appreciation of the ever growing
tendency toward more, more, more,
and wide apprehension as to when,
where and how it would stop. That
was really the only issue in that enm>>nt
?,v tho timn tlm campaign
was well under way shrewd propaganda
had produced a feeling of apprehension
that had completely overshadowed
the only considerations with which
they had real concern.
When it comes to the motives of the
respective candidates, for the sake of
argument, it is just as well to admit
that they were all the same. In the
case of each we will say that the lure
is power, prestige, honor and salary.
Of course none of the candidates will
admit anything like that, but the average
citizen may take his choice. .
What the average voter wants is
honest government economically administered.
And where the average
voter gives careful consideration to
the subject, ho does not want any more
government than is absolutely necessary.
He wants protection for life and
property, he wants school facilities in
keeping with his means, and he wants
?nrh road imnrovement as he is able
to pay for.
But what the average volcr wants
is one thing, and what he gets is another.
The South Carolina of toddy
has changed from the South Carolirri
of ten years back. In the South Carolina
of ten years ago the dominant
idea of government was that a public
office was a public trust, and the keynote
of that trust was not to require
the taxpayer to give up to the government
one single dollar more than was
necessary for the essential requirements
of that government. The predominant
rule was not the finding of
new ways to spend; but rather more
diligent care to save.
But now the dominant idea is how
to spend the people's money. We have
fallen into the hands of hordes of people
who have never had a speaking
acquaintance with honest production
by their own efforts; but wno una
plcasureable excitement in spending
the substance of the toiling masses.
We have reached a point where it is
no longer possible to get an appropriation
even for the most primary essential
of government unless there is included
in the rake off great slabs of
graft to be divided up among parasitic
hordes representing themselves as
equally important to the public welfare.
The long and short of it is that the
producing masses of South Carolina
are being oppressed to annihilation,
and although they see it, feel it and
know it, their situation is so desperate
as to be almost without even hope of
relief.
? Foreign and American vessels
sailing for the United States
after October I I, next, will be subject
In the terms of the nrohibition act re
j iating to bringing intoxicating liquors
! into American territorial waters, it
was announced at the treasury department
Sunday. Decision to defer
in the case of these craft tho enforcement
of Attorney General Dougherty's
ruling with respect to the prohibition
of the transportation of liquor cargoes
or stores was made by President
Harding. The executive, in a letter to
Secretary Mellon, said any earlier attempt
at enforcement in the absence
of due notice and ample regulation
"would be inconsistent with just dealing
and have a tendency to disrupt
needlessly the ways of commerce.
This delay in enforcement does not
apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor
on vessels sailing under the American
flag," the president said. Immediate
cessation of such sale was ordered by
Mr. Harding after the attorney gen!
eral's ruling had been presented to
him. Masters of shipping board ves?
sols were ordered by Chairman Hasher
to remove and surrender to treasury
officials all intoxicating liquors aboard
such ships. The order became effective
immediately as the ships eni
tor their home ports and will bo made
j effective on those at sea and in foreign
! ports upon their arrival in tho United
I Slates. "If any officer or member of
the crow, either on passenger or car|
go ships," the order said, "is found
thereafter possessing liquor on his
ship, he shall immediately be removed
permanently from the service and his
violation of the law reported to the
proper district attorney." A formal
notice was sent to foreign steamship
lines and to lines operating privately
owned American craft. Meantime, Internal
Revenue Commissioner Blair is
hr.ving formulated the necessary regulations.
Although not yet officially
advised of Mr. Dougherty's opinion,
the foreign diplomats have notified
their homo governments with the Intention
of supplying officially information
as soon as it could ho obtained
from the state department.
? Sam Ruekalew, former captain and
recreation officer at the United States
public health service hospital at Camp
Sevier, was found guilty in Federal
court in Greenville Saturday of forgery.
He was charged with forging
cheeks belonging to disabled soldiers
I who weror patients at the hospital.
. AFFAIRS, |
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. E. Ferguson?Yoa will find what
you want here.
Kirkpatrick-Bclk Co.?Big saving in
men's and boys' wear.
Peoples Bank and Trust Company?
Ben Franklin said a great many
wise things in his day.
Sam M. & S. E. Grist, District Agents
?The supreme test.
York Hardware Company?Good rains.
York Furniture Company?Get ready
now.
Johnson Cameron and others?Notice
to trespassers.
S. S. Glenn, W. M.?Special communication
of Alpine Lodge.
W. W. Miller, County EngineerNotice
to paint contractors.
rc A. Hall. Mayor?Special election.
J. L. Houston, l'robatc Judgo?'Notice
of application for letters of administration
on the estate of William L.
McCleave, deceased.
Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager?
Elsie Ferguson today in "Footlights."
First National Bank of Sharon?Success.
Logan Lumber Yard?Real estate
prices arc now advancing.
There is no more water in the Catawba
than it needs; but it is evident
to all observers that except for that
great dam at Bridgewatcr, there would
be a great deal less than there is.
DELINQUENT Tf KES
"When tho time for the payment of
taxes without the usual penalties expired
last June, there was an unpaid"
balance of ?64,142.78, and since then
there has been collected the sum of
?43,748.64, leaving to go into the
hands of the sheriff last week, in the
form of executions, ?20,934.14.
These executions were apportioned
among the townships as follows:
Bethel $ 324 46
' Bethcsda 2,185 63
Broad River ? 3,433 51
Bullock's Creek 316 45
Catawba - 20.9S0 92
Ebenezer 7,541 79
Fort Mill J? 5,260 27
King's Mountain 1,055 05
York 2,350 56
NEGRO SHOOTS WIFE
Jim Shealy, negro, thought the
hammer on his breech loader was
down when he pointed 'the gun at his
wife, Mary Shealy and hex daughter
at their home on the Carroll place on
York No. 4, Sunday morning. It
wasn't and Mary received a lot of shot
in the arm while her daughter was
shot in the face. Neither is regarded
as being seriously hurt.
Jim had been called out to shoot a
hawk that was after the chickens. He
chased the hawk and shot at it and
missed. Upon his return to the house
his wife, began teasing him about
missing: the hawk.
"Bet I could hit you," said Jim and
raising the gun he fired at the mother
and child, sprinkling them.
The wife told the^samc story and
Jim was not arrested on a charge of
criminal carelessness,
?i
THE MARRIAGE RECORD
Marriage licenses have been issued
by the judge of probate to the following:
Oct. 2?Allon Watson and Lillian
Mills, Itock Hill, (colored).
Oct. 3?George M. French, Ansonia,
Conn., and Nellie B. Hart, Yorkvillo.
Oct. 5?Orcal Massey and Ida Beckham,
Bock Hill, (colored).
Oct. 6?Clarence Brookshire, Greenville,
and Cora Vaughn, Bock Hill.
Oct. 7?Willie Loyd and Narcic
Clark, Yorkvillo.
Oct. 7?Kelly L. Wright and Vergie
Smith, Yorkvillo.
Oct. 7?Blair Clanton and Ada Armstrong,
High Shoals, N. C.
Oct. 7?Will Anderson and Fannie
Pong, York township, (colored).
Oct. 7?William E. Leonard and
Rosie Lee McKee, Clover.
GASTON COUNTY FAIR
The gates of the Big Gaston County
Fair Grounds were opened this morning
to receive the crowds that have
since been surging ?iro?igh them to
sec the vast array of exhibits that
have been gathered fpr the occasion.
It is a remarkable. showing of the
greatest of the kind that has ever been
seen in this section. For those who
are interested in such things there are
| splendid specimens of fine cattle,
hogs and chickens. The farm products
exhibits are numerous and excellent
and the department of fine
arts manufactures arc well calculated
to astonish.
Because the fair had just been
moved into its new quarters last year
the management was inclined to offer
iiuiu |Ul nut IIUWII.K
tilings up to a standard satisfactory to
itself. Hut no apologies are being offored
this year, for the bis show is
able to stand on its merits.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
It. T. Castles of Smyrna, was among
| the visitors in Yorkville yesterday.
Mr. S. S. Glenn of York No. S, was
.among the visitors in Ydrkvillc yestcr- :
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Thornwell Crawford
of McConnellsville, leave tomorrow for j
a trip to Niagara Falls, New York and
other points in the East.
"Withers Adiekes, who is working at
Mountain Island, N. C\, visited tiie family
of his mother, Mrs. Helen Adiekes,
in Yorkville, recently.
Mrs. S. C. Ilollifield and children,
j who have been visiting the family ??>f
Mrs. Ilollifield's father, Mr. John A.
Itycrs. at Sharon, have returned to !
their home at Bamberg.
Rev. A. K. "Whitesides of Pleasant
Hill, passed through Yorkville today on
his way to Catawba presbytery which
I meets at Tirzah.
,
Col. W. W. Lewis of Yorkville, is of,
opinion that he could qualify as a proof
readej* in view of tiie much experience
' that lie has liud us a member of the
South Carolina Codo commission. The i
Code of Laws of the state is published
every ten years and this is publication
year, the state printers having promised
to deliver it about December 1.
There will be four volumes of it, including
about 4,000 pages, and it has
been a part of the duty of Col. Lewis
to read the proof, hence his qualifications.
CATAWBA PRESBYTERY
With an opening sermon preached
j by Rev. S. J. Hood of Lancaster, the
retiring moderator, the fall meeting of
Catawba presbytery of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church convened
in Tirzah church, of which Rev.
R. D. Byrd is pastor, this morning.
There were quite a largo number of
ministers and elders in attendance
upon the opening session and others
came during the day.
It was expected that the work of the
presbytery would carry the body into
session through tomorrow, although it
is not unlikely that the work will be
completed today. Rev. It. A. Lummus
of Richburg, Chester county, is
moderator of the body.
An educational sermon to be preached
by Rev. W. P. Grier, pastor of
Clover, Bethany and Crowder's Creek
churches will be a feature of the
meeting.
Elder Itoss Love is representing the
A. II. P. church of Yorkville at the
meeting' of presbytery.
ALONG THE WAY
Colored man carrying his young son
along asked permission to show the
boy the court room in the courthouse
yesterday. "Ah wants fo' to show him
the prisoner's dock an' where de jury
sits an de jedge an' all de odcr
menses in de hope dat when he grow
big he won't want to go dere," he explained.
Spreading of the top soil on the
West road between the chain, gang
camp and the R. E. Hartness place
was started this week between showers
of rain, it was stated this morning.
The work of spreading the top soil has
been held up for weeks because or
lack of rain, it was explained.
Barbers are beginning * j notice a j
decrease in the number of bobbed hair [
cuts, it was stated this morning. Many
pretty girls?not all littie girls cither,
who have been coming to the barber
shops to have their hair cut are coming (
no more. According to the barbers, it
is all because some French "bloke"
has decided that bobbed hair Is not to
be fashionable any more and because
long skirts are coming into style again.
Former college foot ball players and
others of foot ball experience have
been invited by Coach Gressette of the
Yorkville school team to come out
each afternoon and furnish practice I
for the school eleven for tho game j
against Chester High in Yorkville
next Friday.
WEST ROAD CONTRACT
John L. Carroll, road contractor,
has been awarded a contract by the
State Highway commission to build a
stretch of the 'West road from the
Mullock's Creek bridge to the town of |
Sharon, it was announced today. The [
distance Is about two and one-half I
miles. The amount of the bid was
not made public and it was stated
j that the contract was let privately.
Some time ago a bid on this project
made by Stewart & Jones, contractors
of ltoek Hill was refused on the
ground that it was too high.
Contractor Carroll, who has been
doing much highway construction
work throughout the state in the past
several years, is expected to begin
work on the West road project within
a very short time. His road forces are
now finishing up some road work in
the lower part o. state, it is stated. I
The three con. .issioners for the I
West road appointed by the York I
county legislative delegation were not
consulted by the state highway commission
with reference to letting the
contract and the announcement was as ,
much news to them as any one else. I
However, they understand thoroughly j
the proposition that they are only j
"figure herfds" anyway, since tlie high
way connssion nas coiniiinr tnu.6>.
of the new road now in construction.
Contractor Carroll is a native of
Yorkvillc, a son of the late Thad T.. ;
Carroll and a brother of J. I*. Carroll, i
of this place. His brother, Roy Car- ]
roll, formerly of Yorkville is employed !
with him in his road construction
work.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? Alex Fewcll is building a new
1 residence on East Jeffersop street on
i the site of his residence which was !
destroyed i?y tire several months ago.
? Considerable improvements are boing
made in the Ixtckinore Cotton
Mill Village. The mill houses are bc}
ing repainted and otherwise improved.
It is understood that the mill is
operating full t.'me, both day and
night. ^
? Easiness as usual was brisk last
Saturday morning with the ladies who
.......I,,.,t tlm s?ir>l. mni-L-pt nr 'Vnimli'v
More" in the front porch of the old
Uo.se Hotel liuilding on South Congress
street. Receipts from sales
totaled about $10 and <i"ite a variety
of country produce were offered us
usual.
? While few if any of the musical
and dramatic comedies are coming to ^
Yorkville this fall and winter for cxhibitions,
one of the biggest minstrel :
shows <in the road is scheduled to
appear here in November, according to
a young fellow who keeps up with the J '
shows. This minstrel company is l
traveling this year in automobile 1
trucks, a. rather new departure in the 1
theatrical wiyld and it is believed that
Ihe coming attraction tis going to
prove pleasing and popular.
? Poultry fanciers of Yorkvllle report
that "sore head" is proving fatal
to many of their choice fall fryers as
well as mature fowls. The disease
appears to be more or less common
with chickens throughout the town
and despite the fact that they have
used lard, shoe polish, axle grease and
almost every other suggested remedy,
the remedies do little toward checking
the disease. One Yorkvillc lady said
this morning that she had lost fourteen
fryers from "sore head' within the
past two weeks.
? Nine quarter-baked boys amused
themselves Sunday night by chasing
each other and other people along
the street with a dead snake which
one of them had tied by a string. The
boys were so rude as to throw the
snake at the feet of several young
women who were on their way to
church. "If you boys can't stop this
I can stop it," remarked the night
policeman to one of the boys when
Ul~ -*4^-4 ...... t U/.1M C*..n
Ilia il l H 111 KMX ? ItllllTU. LV IIIU11 HUHday
evening behavior. The young
fellows beat a hasty retreat to a section
of town where church services
were not in progress.
? Seventy years r.gOi according to
his claim, Cieorge M"Utor? well known
old colored man of forkvillo helped
to build the chimneys to what is commonly
called the "Dixon house" on
King's Mountain street which house
was built in 1852 by the late Josh
Dixon. The house which was almost
destroyed by fire several weeks ago
while occupied by the family of O. C,
Taylor, is now being completely torn
down and old George has been assisting
in tearing down the chimneys that
he helped erect seventy years ago.
? Stories to the effect that there is
an unusual amount of liquor in evidence
on the streets here of late arc
without foundation, according1 to Chiel
of Police Ed Steele. It is ginger and
extract that is most popular or rather
that is most used by the booze-hounds
according to the chief. The .greater
percentage of the "drunks" who ar*
brought into police court have beer
imbibing ginger or some sort of extract
or patent medicine and not corr
liquor or any other kind of liquor
Most of the parties who drink liquor
according to the policeman, don't fal!
into the hands of the cops and thcii
tipsy conduct is not so noticeable. H
is the extract-ginger jab fellows whe
put gray hairs in the heads of the
cops.
PUNTt AND PASSES
Yorkville High lost the first football
game of the season to Fort Mil
High in Fort Mill last Friday after
noon 5S to 0. It was just simply a
matter of being1 outclassed and that is
all there was to it and the locals attempted
no alibi. While it was generally
expected that Fort Mill would
win, due to the fact that their team
is much heavier and more experienced
than the locals, still it had beer
hoped that Yorkvill? could hold 'em tc
a closer score; but it didn't pan out
that way. The boys across the Catawba
made rings around them at will
Worth Youngblood was practically the
whole Yorkville team in the first regular
mixup of the season and if the
other ten men had been on the job tc
anything like the extent he was there
might have been a different story tc
write. Captain O. E. Grist of the
locals was badly kicked in the face ir
the battle and several other member.'
of the team came home bearing
humps and bruises. The eleven is nol
disheartened and neither is Coacli
Gresselte; but will spend this week ir
hard practice for next Friday's game
in Yorkville when they go up against
the husky Chester crowd.
"While Fort Mill was licking Yorkville
last Friday Coach Logan's hustling
Rock Hill High eleven was
trouncing Kershaw to the tune of 31
to 0 anil Chester High was taking the
Porter Military Academy crowd of
Charleston \in tow to the tune of 25
to 0. Winthrop Training School was
defeated by Lancaster High. Winnsboro
High was scheduled to play
Chester High in Chester last Friday
'?ut the Winnsboro bunch took "cold
feet" or something and announced
they wouldn't meet the date. The
talk is that Winnsboro will be ruled
out of the Association for the balance
of tlu* season because of her failure
to fill the engagement.
A number of football fans went to
Fort Mill with the Yorkville team
Friday afternoon and with pain and
anguish witnessed the overwhelming
defeat of the locals. Rain fell after
the game was well under way and it
was determined that Yorkville was no
match for Fort Mill and there was a
lot of fans wlio wished the rain had
come before the game started. It is
hoped that there will be a big turn
out next Friday afternoon for the
same with Chester.
"Well Al, the old world's serious
came to a rather untimely end last
Sunday when the New York 'Giants
took the 5 end of a 5 to 3 score and
was official!) pronounced the greatest
baseball players in the world while the
New York Yanks they played against
was unofficially cussed by us fellows
who was betting on 'em .as the biggest
bunch of bone-head, cripple-limbed,
yellow-streaked, brainless boobs in
baseball. The game Friday ended in
a tie, each of the teams gettin* three
runs after ten innings and if the umpires
hadn't called off the game on
account of darkness when the sun was
a till shining down here in Yorkville
why the Yanks might have won. They
started off Saturday afternoon with
the Yanks getting two scores in the
first inning and the Giants no scores.
In spite of that a fellow right here in
i'orkvillo bet another, fellow fifty
cents worth of cigars against $} worth
of smokes that them Giants would
win anyhow and dad blamed if they v
didn't, because the Giants made 4
runs in one frame while the Yanks
! was making three runs in 9 frames.
The dope in the daily papers Sunday
1 morning had it that the Giants would
wind it up that day and they did. You
know Al, up east they go to baseball '
games instead of the Methodist church
to hear Rev. Huggin on Sunday and
about all the pray-in* there was In N.
Y. Sunday was for either the Yanks
or the Giants to win that old ball
game. Maybe all the fellows that was
betting: seegars on the Yanks was not
prayin' as hard as was those who had
their mazuma on our opponents bocause
the Giants won 5 to 3. But you
know AI, baseball is like women and
politics and the cotton crop, you never
can toll how it is going to turn out.
P. S. I,can't smoke no seegars this
week because all my seegar money is
in the possession of the fellow that
bet on the Giants. The only way I
know how to get even now is to guess
exactly right on Mr. Jim Page's cotton
crop contest; but I know I wouldn't
guess that on account of being so unlucky.
You know Al, if it was to rain
diamonds I believe I would be in jail."
LOCAL LACONICS.
Output cf the Gins.
The output of the York county gins
up to September 25, 1922 was 5,716
bales against 6,552 bales up to the
same date In 1921.
1 Painting Olivet School.
Trustees of Olivet school have re- ,
contly repainted the school house and
. made other improvements that give it
a most attractive appearance. Trustees
of the district are Messrs. S. V.
Aycock and Sam Hafner.
, Whopper Blacksnake.
r Ed Brandon and Orin Louthlan,
I brought into Yorkvillo Sunday nfter
noon a blacksnake that they had kill,
ed during the morning on York No. 5
ancl which was almost a3 large as
such snakes ever seem to grow in this
i locality. It was seven feet and seven
. inches in length.
Chester Magistrate Resigns.
Information was received in York- ,
' villo yesterday to the effect that
1 Magistrate H. H. Shannon of Chester,
has agreed to hand in his resignation
1 to the governor to take effect on Nov'
ember 1. The resignation,- it is alleged,
has been brought about as the result
of the magistrate's immoral conduct.
News For Fox Hunters.
Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 3: There will
1 be a fox chase Tuesday night, starting
at nine o'clock from the rock crusher
near Mr. Jim Falls' residence in the
Crowder's Creek neighborhood. All
who are interested in the sport are *
invited to join in the chase. Mr.
Lamar Iiankin is to furnish the fox, a
pretty half gray and half red animal.
Colored Boy Breaks Leg.
A young colored boy, the sor of a
tenant named George Bryant who lives
on the Courtney place three miles
north of Yorkville, was up a tree after
a 'possum Saturday afternoon. He
lost his hold and fell to the ground,
breaking his leg at the hip, the bone,
protruding through the flesh.
Rock Hill Gas Row.
Judge James E. Puerifoy at Winnsboro
tomorrow expects to hear arguments
of Rock Hill attorneys who \
seek to make permanent a temporary
' injunction restraining the Rock Hill
t Gas Company from exceeding the
i franchise specifications in charging
i for gas. Attorneys for the gas com'
pany will present the case of the com- ,
pany. The city council of Rock Hill
claims that the gas company has re
cently violated tneir pledges oy cnarg
ing more for gas than they had
promised to charge when granted a
! recent franchise.
I
? Clifford Hayes, a young man of
19, has been committed to the Sum,
mersct county New Jersey jail on the
charge of having murdered Rev.
Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor Rcinhart Mills on the night of
September 14. It is quite a complicated
affair involving elements of
doubt. The arrest was made on the
strength of a story told by Raymond
Schneider, 22, who says that Hayes did
the killing in the belief that he was
shooting at 15-year-old Pear Bahmer
i and her step-father Nicholas Bahmer.
The two young men, according to
Schneider, saw Pearl and her stepj
father going in the direction of tho
1 Phillips farm. Schneider, although
married, is in love with Pearl. Tho
two followed. Hayes produced a 32
; calibre pistol and said he would fix
them. Coming on two people under an
' a nolo tree Haves commenced firintr
and killed them both. That was
Schneider's story. Hayes says the
story Is a He. He admits that he and
Schneider saw Pearl and Nicholas
I IJahmer walking along in the direction
of the Phillips farm and followed. Arriving
at the farm they heard shots
j and screams and saw an automobile
moving away rapidly. Under the tree
they found the bodies of the minister
and Mrs. Mills. Schneider says that is
a lie. Pearl Bahmcr says that she
walked out with her step-father to give
him air and try to sober him up, ho
being drunk. She tried to turn back
and lie forced her to go on. They
heard shooting and screaming and saw
an automobile. Schneider could not
i explain why Mrs. Mills's throat had
been cut from ear to ear, or how tho
two bodies had been laid out for burial.
Tho story lacks a good deal of being
satisfactory; but at the same time it
is believed that the statements of these
i people can give more light. It was
Schneider and Hayes who first discovered
the bodies of tho murdered
minister and his choir leader.