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vatv'ii r- ,i 'MflU t.i _ f craps ana Jad?. ? "iSUm lupportJ^^SuP^?! crnmQnt that pursues a policy or j peaces , economy and steady progress, neither revolutionary nor reactionary, and does it efficiently," Lloyd George told coalition of Liberal members . of parliament at a meeting in London, "Wednesday morning. In another part of hip Speech he made the declaration that "Great Britain must pay America all her debts," and urged the unity of action, between Great Britain and the United States. ? "Vftflp. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury addressing a political gath&dfg at Council. Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday afternoon attacked the rate ' xoiimoiio imrt?>r I ha 1 maKrug 1UI inniuuuu ... EschjGummins law which he said. is >' baeocLfin an arbitrary aggregate valuatioi^npf all. railroads and fixed rates high'ehough to earn 5 1-2 per cent, net on tl^at gross 'Valuation regardless of ' whether or riot the roads should have beea inbuilt.,..He . - declared the law shoukjbe repealed and amended and that {|R| only reasonable basis for ratemakiwj valuation was the value of the tran^Jrtation service performed and what toe traffic could bear. ? Cmton ginned prior to October 18 amounted to 6,692,034 running bales counflng 128,4S7 round bales as half bales and including 8,984 bales of Ame^&n-Egyptian and 2,153 bales of sea $fand, the census bureau announced "wwinesrtuv in its third ginning re ? 2ji?T? port|*f the season. Ginnings prior to October 18. last year amounted to 5,497,|$t running bales, counting 98,460 rouriMp>ales as half bales and includlng ^?520 tjsiles of American-Egyptian and$1^39 bales of sea island. To that dat^b 1920 ginnings were 5,754,582 running bales. Counting 140,099 round baledlfes half bales, and including 14,312j?lcs of American-Egyptian and 334s5ailes of sea island Ginnings prior to October 18 this year and last year by aj|?cs were:. Alabama, 608,732 and 427,023; Arizona 10,238 and 8,678; Arl*?nsas, 649,650 and 467,958; Califorfljk 4,722 and 3,922; Florida, 18.553 amfto.m; Georgia 568,917 and 636,830; Louisiana, 275,995 and- 194,983; Mississippi* 686,625 and 510,675; Missouri, 62,9fl^nd 40,462; North Carolina 448,019 ajid 443,257; Oklahoma 438,922 and 352,408; South Carolina 336,270 and 493,206; Tennessee, 203,558 and 155,997; Texas 2,637,395 and 1,738,658; Virginia 7,892 and 7,520. All other states, 3.C25 and *614. Revised statistics on winnings prior to September 25, were an nounqfd as 3,863,706 bales. The number of ginneries operated to that date was 12,908. < ? The North Carolina supreme court has'jist made its first ruling in the case 'Of the efforts of O. G. (Red) Tho^s, to stave off as far as possible the .time when he will have to bogin his elghtcen-year sentence for the murder of. Arthur J. Allen, at Concord, N. C., *9pe time back. Following the imi >s3fm <sen?n?-, 1|>"i?s?l>peafdS to th^suprerale <fburt'6n mrwus grounds; buf before going to the court on the merits of the case, he demurred n ftiA -iMftues as -certified by Judge J. | Bib^akTliic trial judge. Under North Carolina procedure the trial judge makes up a case as it is to be submitted to the supreme court. Without even requesting the judge to revise his statement Do conform to alleged objections, Thomas asked the supreme court to judge enter into a restatermnvf -*9f the case. The supreme court, in due time reached the matter, and of course declined. It took occasion^ say that to entertain questions of this kind could only make for delay; but of course did not say in so many words that delay was the only object of this particular appeal. This ques- j tiOTL Siannsorl. nf. however, the next , matter is argujpent of the case on its merits. This argument would have been reached by this time probably ex" cept for frittering away of'time by this unnecessary appeal; but as the matter now stands, the final ruling* of the court fs just ifcat much further off. ? Tbero. have been no more arrests in the Hall-Mills murder case at New Brute^lfV Ww'Jersey; but' an alleged* eyewitness lias been unearthed. This eyewitness is Mrs. James Gibson, an elderly wdijan who, Willi a Uvenfyyeaftold son, worked the 60-acre farm adjaning the Phillips farm on which the Acad bofties wery found. Mrs. Gibson'jr story is ihat for some t'me past soir^body had been stealing her green cori* from the field and she had been tryiig to catch them. On the night in question she bad been aroused out of her house by her dog scratching at the dooH Looking over the situation, she decked that the dog had scented tresspassers, and unable to sec anybody, she mounted her mule and commenced lookfng about, going in the direction of the Phillips farm.. Eutefing the laii^uiai nas u^u^vu ? au n- | sivcly in the story ami proceeding I sunyt distance, shc.^aw Outlined before j her the forms of two men and two \ women. Site fchid, not b'6 seoft'at the point where she sat on her mule because of trees and foliage. The four peojfte were standing mpdec. thp cjab appFe tree. There was a sound of voicjjK, especially of a p'rading woman. Presently a shot was fired by one of the men and the other man crumpled. Then there were four other shots and one of the women went down. After a brief interval the man who had done the ^jhooting kneeled and the woman who was living exclaimed, "Oh, Henry!" This is assumed to* deseribe what was said at the time of the cutting of Mrs. Mills's throat. The identity of the living man and woman has not been established by-Mrs. Gibson; but: the Impression seems to be that it ( must have been Mrs. Ilall and her brother. Heretofore the investigations in .Wit^ r.j^v.r all been under the jurisdiction of the t".y.\!i.u >:?-?. >. i . 1 - 1 (VjhuMV Vtfttftbrltfei^'but wltWfiWlW?pa?t1 jj?w- days Assistant Attorney General j Mo^t ha? tal^en, dhrtirg^. The Ktory of Gibson hafj beqn J^iiked <Ahqut for, two weeftk'of tfior<} btit the fnll details of it have become known only within % 'lithe past few days, and then through the inquisitiveness of the newspaper reporters, in spite of the efforts of the authorities to hold it back. It is stated in the paperf unofficially that Henry Stevens and'Mrs. Hall arc the persons accused by Mrs. Gihson. She ^orfeviUc inquirer. Entered at the Postofflce at York, as Mall Matter of the Second Class. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1922. >-k- r??-?:?rr There la quite a large crop of sweet potatoes throughout York county?a much larger crop than the county can consume?and the arrangements to save the crop through the winter are far from adequate. There are a. few potato houses scattered about; but not nearly enough of them. Potatoes are now retailing in the stores and on the streets at SI a bushel; but in view of the quantities that will soon be available, that price can hardly stand more | 'han a few days longer. Unless some thing is done to save the potatoes until the market can absorb them, therewill necessarily be much loss. That was an unusual move on the part of Governor Harvey when he instructed the whisky constables at the state fair to look after whisky drinkers as well as whisky sellers. There is no question of the soundness of the proposition laid, tlpwn by the governor that it takes both buyer and seller to complete the violation of the law against liquor selling, and morally, at least, the buyer is just as guilty as the seller. Of course there are those who think the governor had little to do when he instructed the constables to keep a sharp look out under the grand stands, behind the midway tents I and in the stock barns, for buyers and sellers. Nothing more natural. Those who violate, or have a will to vi date, the. law, never approve the actions of those whose business it is to enforce the law. There are millions who never approved these prohibition laws anyway, and how could, they be expected to approve the enforcement of these laws? Rut anyhow the governor has set a good example. Call him a stickler if they will; but he has set a pre-( cedent, and following that precedent, it is hoped that the officers of the law generally and the courts especially x\ ill Ejecoi ic same l&nd^C sticklers.^ To be sure prohibition won't prohibit; trnt the law will prohibit all right if it is in the hands of the right kind of- a ?rn\lpninr Governpr Cameron Morrison of North Carolina, has Sprung a great idea on the people of his progressive state, looking 'to the establishment of a state controlled steamship line to trade between ports of North Carolina and other ports on the Atlantic, and he says he is going to put the idea into effect or get a good licking in the trial. Bully for Governor Morrison. We would like to see him win and we would like to see South Carolina help him do it. There are those who will be denouncing the North Carolina governor as a Non-Partisan Leaguer, or even as a Bolshevist; but what does that matter? The cjitire American coastwise trade is now monopolized by a group of shipping trusts, which have become as rich and powerful as sovereign states and they are not going to allow any such scheme to be put over if they can prevent it. Those who think thev are unable to nviU-e fnuu in that direction, simply don't know. Here is Charleston, for instance, with one of the best harbors on the South Atlantic, an important city of South Carolina and a port through which should be flowing the greater part of the commerce of the whole southeastern quarter of the Union; but of which the shipping trusts and the railroads have made only a kind of ocean flag station. It Is a fact known of all fairly well-informed business men that freight rates, especially coastwise freight rates, are much higher than they should he, and the probability is that right now South Carolina is paying enough for the ocean freight that she receives from New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, etc., to build, equip and operate steamers to carry her own gqods and nothing else. As matters fjtand but little if any of the stocks of the present shipping trusts are owned in this state, end the establishment of a state owned shipping line to take v arc of South Carolina business would work but little if any hardship' on our' itizens. Capable and efficient management of such an undertaking would tend eventually to make Charleston .....v. .-.ihj ii^? ji natural rigiu to he, the greatest seaport on the South Atlantic. British Political Party Names. Perhaps there has never been more j intimate popular interest in America ' in British polities than at the present time, more especially since the fall of j the recent coalition government in i connection with the struggle of I?Ioyil i Clcorge and It is opponents to got eon- j 1rol; but with nil that there is much . confusion and misunderstanding as to j allignmonts, which can bo helped with a.li,ttlc explanation. fleneraily rpeaking. (treat Britain is . ? 'Tlj ' t divided into throe fjcnat parties, on<^designating itself as Conservative,' another |tte ^Liberal, and .the third, is known "trfiChd jJibpr party. . Eafch of the great parties consists of two or three mflrc or less important wings. The Conservative or Tory party is characterized by the guiding principle of upholding the prerogatives of the king and the established church of England, while the Liberal party generally tends toward the rights of the individual, maintaining for him as much latitude as possible. The Unionists include a very large element of the liberal party which habitually acts with the Conservatives and gets its name from that tendency. The Laborites, though figuring ns a recognized party for several generalions, has developed into formidable proportions only during the past ten or twtelve years, and Standing as they do for government control of private industry, arc giving both the other parties and the country generally very [considerable concern. The recent coalition originally included the Liberals, Cbnservatives and Laborites. The Laborites withdrew first just about the close of the war nnjd were arrayed against the government in the great industrial battles that followed; but the coalition was able to survive and function, until the recent withdrawal of the Unionist crowd. The Liberals now have a slight majority of parliament, and can mainIn in thnmsnl vn?a na Innir n o thov rnn hold that majority; but whether they can take that majority into the next house of commons will be settled by the election of November 15. If, in the coming campaign, Mr. Lloyd George and his friends shall be ablp to overcome the present small Liberal majority, the Bonar Law government will have to fall, and it will be necessary for the king to delegate some one else the task of organizing a government that can stand.' Both of the old parties arc mortally afraid of tho labor party. There seems to be little reason to fear that the Labor party will elect a majority of the members of the house of commons; but admittedly it is easily possible for the Laborites to secure seats enongn 10 give mem a dangerous uaiance of power. Lloyd George does not definitely belong to any of the parties named; but as a free lance he has usually worked alftng more or less radical lines and it is assumed that he will so continue. And it is a very common anticipation that whether he shall immediately succeed to his old place or not, the chances are that lie soon will again bo at the head of the government. National Preparedness. In an address before the Army Ordnance association in New York the other day, Secretary of War Weeks declared: "I have no patience with the groups of silly pacifists in this country, who :a#o seeking universal peacoi through Undermining with their insidious propganda the ability of their own country to protect itself. What do these people see in the signs of the times to drive themselves into believing that we can disarm while others arm? In what way has human nature changed since 1914?" We would esteem it a great pleasure if we were able to take sharp issue with Mr. Weeks on this question; but we cannot do it for the reason that wo believe that he is more than half right. We have had war with us since Adam was driven out of the garden of Eden. Jesus Christ tells us that there will always be wars and rumors of wars, and there is no sense in anybody trying to convince themselves that there will be no more war. And national preparedness is important?everlastingly important: but if Mr. Weeks thinks that preparedness consists altogether in armies, guns, airplanes, poison gas, etc., he is as silly as the pacifists to which he so contemptuously refers. It was a proud part that America played in the World war; hut foolish indeed are Americans who would thump themselves on the breast anil say what a great people are we. Far better that they get down on their knees and thank the God of Battles for the favor he saw lit to show us. Remember what Achior the Ammonite, said to Holofernes, the Assyrian | captain, when asked about the resistance he would probably encounter in Ids projected campaign against Israel? Holofernes, at the head of 120,000 | archers and 12,000 horsemen, had overthrown all the surrounding nations as so much chaff, cut down their sacred groves and destroyed their temples, and having learned that the Israelites were preparing for resistance, asked the conquered Ammonitish captain for such military information as might be useful in expediting the completion of the work to which he had been assigned by his master, Nabuchodonosor, then the mightiest king en earth. In reply. Achior reviewed the history of the Israelites from the time Abraham came out of Chaldea down to date, and wound up in effect like this: "And whilst they sinned not before their God they prospered, because the God that liateth iniquity was with them. Hut when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles and were sore, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs, and the temple of their .God was cast to the ground and their cities were taken by their enemies, Hut now they are returned to their God, and are come up from the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their saneturary is, and are seated in the hill country: for it was desolate. Now, therefore, my lord and governor, if there be any error in this people, and they sin against their God, let us consider that this shall be lb. ir ruin, and j let us go up, and we shall overcome them. Hut if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, b st their Lord defend thorn, and their find be for them, and we become a reproach before the world." The record goes on to say bow all !thqsfr that stood by the tent'moliiding fhn disiinguishAit ctiptftlns of1, the'recently .conquered natSmn, and "the chief officers of Holofernes, hooted at Achior and wanted to ^ilni, ^nd Holofdrne.?i himself was ^o. indignant at him for trying to stuff him with such boogie-man stuff, that he was tempted to yield; but, being a good sport, he met the situation like this; "I am going to send you over to these people in advance so that you can be with them, then I am going to come along and not leave one of them alive; so if you escape you are welcome to it." Accordingly Achior was escorted out by Assyrian soldiers and left bound hand and foot at the foot of the hill on which stood the city of Bethulia. It Is worth anybody's while to read the balance of the story in the Book of Judith; but space requites that we aKim 11 over wun ine siisieuieiit mm. Holoferne3 was beheaded with his own falchion in the hands of a Jewish woman, and his mighty army was put to rout by the men of Israel, with such terrible slaughter that only a few thousand of them ever got back to their king, Nabuchodonosor. It is not to be "understood thrit the Scriptures teach that preparedness is unnecessary, nor is that the teaching of this story, for at the time of the invasion by Jlolofernes, every hilltop throughout Israel Mjns fortified and defended by armed men, and provisioned for indefinite siege. But it is clearly the teaching of all the Scriptures, and the experience of all mankind, since the rolling up of the last scroll that went to make the sacred book, that no nation is ever punished except for its ArrAlnut C*r.;1 3 i fi 14 Ka out a^aiuni uuu, cinu. 11 it uu wiuiuui sin, all the armaments of tjie world cannot prevail against it. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ? Governor Harvey has ordered the superintendent of the penitentiary to give him reports until further notice of each prisoner punished and of the menus served at each meal. ? Joseph W. Tolbcrt, Republican national committeeman for South Carolina, has filed his bond and received his commission as United States marshal for the Western District of South Carolina. ? The appeals of F. M. Jeffords and Ira Harrison, two young Columbians, sentenced: to the electric chair for the murder of J. C. Arnette, filling station proprietor, who was killed at his place of business one night last spring, were argued before the supreme court Monday afternoon. Attorney Southard, of Spartanburg, represented Jeffords and B. B. Evans, of Columbia, represented Harrison. Solicitor Spigncr, of Co lurnbia argued the case for the state. The court took the argument under advisement and an opinion will be rendered later. The appeals were based on certain executions to rulings of the court, includiqg<the court's refusal to grant a severance in the trial. it ? Greenville, October 25: With an attendance of over 2,000 today the fifth Southern Textile exposition came to an end tonighf at *#0 o'clock, the total attendance during ftie show being estimated at approximately 25,000. Exhibitors and visitors have united in declaring that the exposition has been the best ever held "here, and the work of preparing for the next exposition to be held in the fall of 1924, is alI fnn/lir itihIiu- W9V A 1 r?>5> ff V thl'OO blocks of space of 26 spaces each, and in addition 175 other spaces, had been sold for the 1924 exposition, according to a statement made this afternoon- by W. G. Sirrine. president of the Textile Hall corporation. In his statement, Mr. Sirrine declared that the show had been an unqualified success and that it would be necessary to build an addition to the textile hall in order to take care of the next show. ? Columbia, October 25: Election of officers and adoptiojp of resolutions commending the pilots of the greater state fair for the.success of the rejuvenated enterprise were the outstanding point's in'the annual meeting of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical society here tonight.Robert M. Cooper, of Wisacky, was unanimously re-elected president, as were members of the executive committee from the seven congressional districts, as follows: First?W. M. Krampton, of Charleston; second?R. f Pnnnlnirhnm nP A11 < ndnlp third ? J. (5. Campbell, of Ware Shoals; fourth ?O. 1*. -Mills, of Green\ille; fifth?L. I. Guoin, of Lugoff; sixth?J. L. Mcintosh, of Dovrrvill'e, and seventh?P. O. Ellison, of Columbia. David O. Ellisor., of Columbia, was unanimously rc-eleciod treasurer, and former Conpressman A. F. T/Ovcr, of Columbia, president of the First Carolina bind bank, was elected vice president to .succeed John D. W. Watts, of Laurens. An amendment by C. D. Langley, of Columbia, to change the constitution by eliminating past presidents of the society as ex-offlcio members of the executive committee, and increas- j inp that body by the, election of threo members from the state at large, was | defeated. A resolution by W. A. Clark, of Columbia, expressing the j thanks of the society for the marked < improvements noted at the fair j prounds, was unanimously adopted, i President Cooper stated that approxi- ( matcly $30,000 had been collected from mu iiit iiiiM i >1111v urivu t?i \> iiii ii f.i.'/uu w;.s from a direct appropriation from the state. Buildings to the amount of $36,000 had been erected and post , dehts of between $7,000 and $8,000 I from the proceeds of the campaign had been paid. The executive committee, he staled, was going slow and not : putting in improvements until it had in sight the money to pay for them. A resolution of thanks to the women of the state for their co-operation was introduced by Judge M. S. W'haley, and ! adopted. Seven hundred new life member* were elected. 1 laOC AL. AI^FAIRS, I 4 i ' g NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 D. L. Hill, Pastor First Baptist church . ?Comq let us talje it oarer. J. M." Stroup?A blife-rirflxHTi line. McOonnoll Dry Goods Co.?It is quite satisfying. MoGill Brother's?Ginning Thursday, Friday and Saturday only. Chrysanthemum Show?Bratton's hall, Thursday, November 2. X. A. Hemrick, Pastor?Homecoming at the Baptist Church of Clover.Sunday. Miss Ada BeCMlI, Principal?Halloween Party at Bullock's Creek, Oct. 31. City Pharmacy, Clover?True weight. Cash and Carry?Do you want to save? Star Theatre, J. Q. Wray, Manager? Earl Williams today in "Captain Swift," and other good plays to follow. H. B. McCleave, Administrator?Notice to debtors and creditors of the es*"*" "rv t. AfpfMeavp defeased. J. L. Houston, Probate Judge?Notice of application of Ernest H. Burgess for letters of administration on the estate of John D. BUrgess, deceased. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey?Cheaper than coal, as quick as gas. Clover I>rug Store?Norm's Candy. Peterman Jackson," mentioned in The Yorkville Enquirer .of last Tuesday, according to information that has since been received, is*a former citizen of Bullock's Creek township and was once manager of what has since been known as the S. L. Davidson place. He left York county in the late sixties and went to Mississippi. He is an uncle of Mr. J. J. McSwain, of the Cannon mill, Yorkville. All the York county farmers who have old corn left over, say that it is badly eaten up by the weevil. Indeed, it seems to be a matter of difficulty to get sufficient sound corn for the family table. The common testimony is that the weevil was there when the corn wqs gathered a year ago, and it has multiplied at a ruinous rate. Inquiries of different farmers develop the information that this year's crop, now being- harvested,- is also infested with weevil. No on seems to know of any effective remedy for the pest WITHIN THE TOWN ' ? So far there are only two announced candidates for Alderman in Ward 3, Messrs. J. M. Ferguson and Carl H. Hart. Tho election is to be held next Tuesday. ? Yorkville High plays Winnsboro a game of football on the graded school field this afternoon. It is hoped that there will be a good crowd of fans out for the contest. The game is to be called at 3:30. Two of the local players, Ernest Carroll and Frank Caldwell, are pretty badly crippled; but the team is determined to give Winnsboro the best they have. DIDN'T GET THT.M "Three men in Anderson car coming down the road with South Mountain liquor," was the message that Deputy Sheriff Quinn got from the Gastonia police last Wednesday. The message went on to say that if prompt effort was made, the .men in the car could be headed off. Deputy Quinn, Magistrate Black and.. Officer Faulkner went out in a Ford to meet the car; but the Anderson being the faster got by them and went toward Rock Hill. The officers telephoned ahead to the Rock Hill police and followed through the country; but the liquor car made its escape. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Real estate transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Catawba?X. E. Hood to Catawba Real Estate Co., 1 lot, $900. W. R. Smythe to J. B. Johnson, 1 lot, $i and other considerations. Samuel Friedhcim to Mrs. Louis Friedheim, 1 lot, $5 and other considerations. Ebenezer?N. B. Williams to Sidney McCammon, 20 acres, $700. John R. Williams to E. H. Garrison, Jr.. 1 lot, $350. * Sumter L. Dunlap to Dimitrlos P. Dionisopulos, 1 lot, $950. York?Rcba Cain Clinton to W. C. Whitesides, 1 lot, $4,500. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION The rates of subscription to The Yorkville Enquire e as follows: One year $2.50. Six Months $1.35. Three months C5 cents. No subscription entered for less than three months. .Annual rlllb confpst will lm hr>lr1 tViiu year as usual, and will open on or before November 15, beginning with the appearance of the advertisement that will give full particulars. No names can be entered on clubs at club rates in advance of the opening of (lie club contest, and parties desiring to enter their names before the opening of the contest, must expect to do so on the basis of the regular rates quoted above. This arrangement is absolutely necessary to preserve the integrity of the system under which the circulation department of The Yorkvillc Enquirer is conducted. A ROI IT DCODI C . Mrs. J. \V. Anderson of Columbia, is : visiting the family of her father, Mr, S. j H. Love at McConnellsville. Misses lna and Uuth Ashe and Alda ! I,ee Mendenhall, who are teaching the | Mount Holly school, recently visited ; relatives at McConnellsville. Misses Mildred Mendenhall and Martha McCleave, students at Winthrop college, recently visited relatives at j McConnellsville. Horses trained and driven by Itlake I Mexico, son of M. E. I'lexieo of York- i ville, won a number of prizes at the j state fair in Columbia this week. ! TMexico has been following the racing'1 game fi>r several years now and has been meeting with much success. He intends to enter his horses at it number of fi^rs throughout tho south. Mrs. S. R Mendenhall'has returned to her home at McConnellsvllle from Gastonia, where she attended the marriage of her sister, Miss Sue Robinson, to Mr. Price Llneberger. Greenville Piedmont: J. W. Kirkpatrick of tho Belk-Kirkpatrick Co., president of the South Carolina Retail Merchants' Association was taken suddenly ill on the train while returning from New York, and was forced to leave the train at Greensboro, N. C., and was carried in an ambulance to a hosiptal there. The following were among the' peo pie of Yerkvlllc and vicinity who attended the state fair in Columbia this weeic, most of them going: down for the football game yesterday: 4 .Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Wray, Sheriff and Mrs. F. Quinn, J. E. Stroup, Dr. J. D. McDowell, W. G. Finley, J. A. Marion, L. G. Baber, J. E. Stroup, Jr., J. H. McMackin, H. R. Mackorell, W. G. White, C. 9. Gordon, R. M. Bratton, Frank Simrill, Mrs. W. B. Wylie, Miss Rachel Wylie, Charle? Crawford, S.' L. Courtney, S. E. Lowry, C. M. Inman, H. B. James, Brooks Inman, Miss ' Jessie Baber, Mrs. F. M. Simrill, Miss Annie Bludworth, John R. Hart, R. H. Glenn, Arleigh Faulkner, J. B. Grant. ALONG THE WAY Fox hunters living in Ebenezer and Catawba townships enjoy a fox race nitrht ni* tu*n If io cmirl thaf n j "Iftiiv wi uiv. AV io ouiu a number of foxes were let loose in those townships some time ago and every night or two numerous devotees of the sport are having a great time of it in hearing the "music" of the dogs. Despite the fact that the crop Is short, York county colored farmers have more cash money this year than they have had in the past two years, according to merchants and others in a position to know. This is largely due to the fact that the colored farmers especially have lived very economically while making the crop and have money ahead. The largest real estate mortgage recorded in York county in years, was received this week by Clerk of Court T. E. McMackin for record. The "trust mortgage" was given by Hamilton Carhartt Company of Rock Hill, which has other establishments in all parts of the country, and the amount was $2,000, 000. Description of real estate and otner property given in the mortgage ran through sixty-five typewritten pages, and Miss Helen Thomasson, typist in the office of the county clerk, was kept busy for several days in putting it on the public records. Joy. was written on the faces of friends of Clemson College hereabouts and gloom on the faces of the partisans of the University of South Carolina Thursday afternoon when news of Clemson's 3 to u victory over the Game Cocks at the state fair was received. Both football teams have many friends and partisans throughout this section and the understanding is that numerous small bets were placed on the outcome of the contest. There was special interest in Yorkville in the Ciemson team in view ot the fact that Floyd (Bull) Wray who plays an end posi- ( tion on the' varsity is a resident of Yorkville. The body of George Robins, negro of Catawba township who was killed last Tuesday a week ago by Jim Withers, ivn a ^Yhiimr>H nil Tii^tjrfnv nf this wppk and an inquest held by Coroner Paul G. McCorkle. The verdict of the jury of inquest was that Robins came to his death at the hands of Withers. There is sorrie mystery surrounding the shooting of Robins. It seems that he and another negro were playing checkers on the farm of J. B. Sykes when Withers came up with a shotgun under his arm. Robins had a gun lying on the floor beside him. There wore no words between the negroes ahd there had been no previous quarrel, according {o the testimony of witnesses. Suddenly Withers's gun went off and Robins was dead. The tragedy was dismissed for the-time being as an accident. But as the result of "nigger talk" the father of Robins came to the coroner and requested an investigation. The result is that Withers is in jail. Information is that York county negroes have canned very few black berries during the summer, recently come to a close. His majesty, the boll weevil, is responsible for it, according to reports coming from the cook. There is a belief among some of the more superstitious of the negroes, that boll weevils are poison?deadly poison. They say that many weevils are found on the blackberry bushes and evirn on the berries. A cooked boll weevil, they say, is just as poisonous as a weevil that is not cooked. Determined to take ' no chances on meeting death by poison many of them have refused to can any blackberries this year. But the fallacy is not confined to the negroes alone. Report has it that one well educated white woman in the western section of the county at least believes the story. She has in (he past put up scores and scores of; cans of blackberries for the use of her | family and some for sale. "The | weevils might Ret on the berries, she : is quoted as saying, "and I do not pro pose to be responsible above if not J here for the death of people through j eating poison boll weevils." And she j , hasn't preserved a single can or jar of berriejj. i L TO SCHOOL BY TRUCK , Just for the novelty of the thing, | Superintendent of Education John K. , Carroll and a reporter for The York ville Enquirer woftt to Bethanay yeBterday morning where they met Superintendent Rodney Love of Bethany school and rode with him on his tifteen mile route, collecting children of the Dixie neighborhood who are now carried to school at Bethany in a big truck purchased for the purposo since the Dixie and Bethany school districts have been consolidated. It was a novel trip all right, and one that was much ' enjoyed by Mr. Carroll after he had rubbed his eyes and sueicneu nunseu smce ne is unaccustomed to getting up regularly at the rather early hour * of 5:30. Leaving Yorkville a few minutes after 6 o'clock the two men who were enthusiastic enough to ride 10 miles to get to take another ride in a school truck, reached the home of Mr. W. B. McGill, where Mr. Love boards, about 7 o'clock. Mr, McGill insisted on the couple coming in for breakfast and at least one of the two prevaricated prettily about having had breakfast a long time before. With the Bethany teacher at the wheel, the truck started on its' seven and one-half mile journey collecting school children at about 7:30, the route leading straight down the King's Mountain road to a point where a turn was made into the Dixie neighborhood. Several school children who ride to school on the truck were waiting on the door steps of their residences to be picked up on the return trip, no ? passengers being taken until the terminal is reached at the home of Mr. George Whltesides. An exception is made in the case of Elmer Templeton, son of J. L. Templeton for the reason that the Templeton home is a little vrq,y off the route. So young Elmer is the fli^st pupil to mount the truck in the morning. There is horn on the truck. Love says it is Just a "sort of a horn"? a Chevrolet, but really it is not needed. School children with ^millng faces were waiting to be picked up at every residence where . stops were made. There were seventeen when the home of R. N. Plaxco was reached. The truck w,as pretty full then and Superintendent Carroll began looking toward the top of the vehicle evidently contemplating the possibility of his finding a scat on the top of the bus when two young ladies there came out to ride. That was the last stop,^ the driver going on into Bethany with nineteen regular passengers and two "dead heads." arriving' a* me scnooi nouse around 8:30, the driver opens the single door of the sch<k>l bus and his human freight unloads, all done in a most orderly and well regulated manner. The ninety-odd other children who attend Bethany school begin pouring in from all directions. School does not take up wof-k until 9 o'clock and there are a few minutes for play. Then comes 9 o'clock and the bell and work for the day'begins. At 3 o'clock school adjourns for the day and the pupils living afar are carried back to Dixie. There js only one fault to find with the truck and that fault lies in the fact that it is too small. Nineteen boys and girls take up a lot of room and now that the harvest is about over there will be others from the neighborhood who will be going to school at Bethany and who of course must ride. There is_no problem about seating room just now but Mr. Love sees it just ahead. The truck is a one-ton Republic chasis with a specially de| signed school body built by a Charlotte concern. It is snug and warm inside. There is only one door which, opens and shuts by a lever control at the direction of the driver. There are no big steps or rods on which children might pl^ty and- get hurt and in fact it is about as' well arranged and is as convenient a*.' a bus used for the purpose could be. Good speed can be made in it and it is driven dlong at a rate about equql to the average Ford and bounces and bumps so familiar to drivers of Hi's pride are lacking. It cost the school district about $1,700. The road route over which the school truck makes two daily trips for a distance of about 30 miles is good road and while it may. be a little bad this winter, there is little or no probability that it will be unable to go in any kind of weather. People who do not care much about keeping up roads for the convenience of the general public will do a lot for tho convenience and comfort of their own children and it is a safe bet that the roads will be kept lit. j It is rather hard on Superintendent Love of Bethany school who must haul the children to school and then teach them. If he lived in the Dixie section I ' instead of at Bethany he would find it necessary to make only one trip daily instead of two. But he doesn't mind that and of course he is compensated for his double duty. Operation of the school bus in Bethany district is opening the eyes of people in that section of York county to somo wonderful possibilities relative to better educational facilities. Other communities at a distance not any farther away than the old Dixie school house which now stands deserted, that have only a one teacher or two teacher school are beginning to thinV 'tf won la ho n finn tViirr. fn? their respective communities to have a truck to carry children to the larger Bethany school. And there are those who have visions of a fine consolidated school standing in the beautiful Bethany grove?a school building the ecu ml of any in the state and offering a standard high school coiyse of eleven grades to hundreds of children living ten miles around. It is coming just as certain as anything. Of course (here are those who oppose the idea because it means more taxes or because they have a sentimental attachment for the little school of their own ?ommirn1ty or because they can con-< Li-ol that little school. In the schools (Continued on Fage Eight). _ j