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Straps and jfucts.
? Confronted with the tank of checking
up <Ai 25.000.000 income tax returns
since 3917, the United States
TKpasury department has hung out the
"Help Wanted" sign. Salaries ranging
fi^ni $1,800 to $3,000 a year were the
inducements offered. Examinations
will be held November 15, in various
cities. Since 5,000,000 now returns .are
added to the pile each year, the prospects
are that the jobs will he permanent,
according to internal revenue service
officials in charge of the work,
4- Eighty coal miner? lost their lives
because of a gas explosion in one of
tlw mines of the Reilly Coal Company,
n^ar Speagler, Pa., last Monday. The
djjuster occurred shortly after the men
-1 ntlnn TVl..ff?!
nati jjonc uuwii niiw int.- miiwv. *... . ..
was a tremendous flare of flame that
issued from.the top of the shaft and
sent death and destruction Into the
rcoesses of the mine. Most of the
miners made their way to fresh air,
and some thirty or more escaped with
their lives.
? Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma,
the only woman member of the G7th
congress, conceded her defeat for reelection
by W. W. Hastings, Democrat,
the man she displaced from congress
two years ago. Smiling wanly, but her
ejpts sparkling, she held high a campaign
placard. She laughed and said:
"I am ready to concede the truth of the
statement made so often in the cam
piign that Democrats controlled the
governor, the militia and election machinery?what
more could they want?"
? The Turkish Nationalists have
taken over the Constantinople government
and de prived the sultan ofullcivil
power. Heretofore the Allies have recognised
only the sultan's government;
but .when the Nationalists under the
lertd ot' Kemal Pasha, demonstrated
their dominating strength, the Allied
commission acquiesced. Rafet Pasha
has been made governor of Constanti- J
nople. The Nationalists made demand
on the Allies for the military evacuation
of Constantinople but this the Allied
commission, speaking with author- |
ity from Great Britain and France,
promptly refused. The indications are
that Kemal Pasha proposes to ignore
the armistice agreement reached at
the Mudunia conference. Among other
things the Turks have demanded
that warships shall' not pass the
Straits without their permission, and
thqn one at a time. This the Allies*
hjivo not agreed to. It is commonly"
understood that the Turkish
Nationalists are being bucked by the
Russians.
? Preparation of a bill establishing
national marriage and divorce regulations
for introduction in tiic next congress
was announced from Washington
Wednesday by the general federation I
of women's clubs, which has authorized
Mrs. Edward Franklin White, clepu..
t'j ilii i ,
ty attorney general 01 maiunu, 10 uian
the bill and a resolution amending "the
constitution of the United Slates if
such course is necessary to make possible
Hu" Federal marital law. Provisions
of the bill would make marrlrgc
> more difficult, the announcement
stated, and would allow divorce
on one of only five grounds, enumerated
as follows: Infidelity, incurable
insanity, abandonment for one year,
cruel and .inhuman treatment or conviction
of an infamous crime. Once
granted, such a divorce would be valid
in every state, but neither party to a
div'orcp yrould be permitted to remarry
until* one year after the interlocutory
decree was granted. The bill would
provide <plso that applications for marriage
licenses be posted two weeks
prior..to the ceremony.
? As chairman of the national Ik nioc
rat it senatorial campaign committee.
Senator David I. Walsh on Wednesday
gave out tiiis statement: "The election
returns from the country cannot be
construed otherwise than as a repudiation
of the Republican party. The
landslide in New York which returns
"Al" 'Smith to the governor's chair,
making him a strong presidential candidate,
and sends Dr. Copeland to the
United States senate, was not local in
character. Senator Gerry lias been triumphantly
re-elected in Rhode Island
and the overwhelming majorities of
1920 in Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and Connecticut have been reduced almost
to the vanishing point, 't is the
verdict of the voters upon the twenty
months of the Harding administration
with its record of protection of the
privilege interests and utter disregard
of the rights of small business and the
vast "consuming public. When the
country awakens to the iniquity of the
tariff and taxation legislation of the
Harding administration the rebuke of
today will be turned to an utter Republican
rout in the presidential campaign
of two years hence."
? Assisted by peaceful Eskimos, a
RritiSh rescue party is in an aero; lane
scouring the barren wastes of Lab'adoH-'in
a search for trace of the
"wih? fish fang" tribe, who, it is boliove^B
have abducted Miss Marguerite
Liadjpy, a London society favorite.
M'.ss J.indsav, who is 21. went ?o ,al?
rndocto work with missionaries. She
went* over the objection of her mother
ami Either, the-latter a retired stock
Soke* of wealth. She occupied a hut
with smother girl and one day announced
her intention of going < own
to tltr sea to bathe. Her companion
warned her not to go alone, but Miss
Mndsty laughed and srid she would
he b:ik for lunch. She has never been
n Since. As no trace of her clothing
was to and. it was assumed that she
was tfhductcd by the "!lsh fangs," a
\ Id Xtibe of Kskimos. and carried into
toe interior. It is thought that
imjicrs of the fish fang tribe lay i"
j it for h? r and probably can-led her
' heir chief for a wife. Her brother,
ho ts an aide-de-camp to a high oflicer
In the Itritish army, shipped lo|
the eastern shores of Canada, and*.
procuring1 an aeroplane, has started to
searching for the "fish fangs." Other
Eskimps, enemies of the fierce tribe,
are joining in the search, which will
continue into the winter, even after
the snow blizzards start. The rescuers
have not abandoned hope.
(The \lorkviUc (tnquivrr.
Entered at the Postoffice at York, as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1922.
The. Associated Press carried the
news to the nation that South Carolina
went Democratic.
_
The president has called an extra '
session of congress to meet November
20. The Republicans will hold their
present big working majorities in the
house and senate only until March 4
next and it is necessary to push j
I legislation while the pushing is good, j
I This bungling in the printing of the
j York county Democratic tickets for
| general election is not unprecedented,
j Some years ago the sheriff and clerk
were left off the county ticket for York
I county, and at another time the county j
:n nM r.n thp tmllnf. I
*.*i ?IIuJur^Aiynci *> vi u |/w? - ? i
although the office is not even elective.
We have not heard any complaints j
from other counties; hut the probabil- |
ity is that the same bungling that occurred
in York county was more or
less common throughout the state.
As we see it, the only way the State
Democratic Executive committee can
hope to avoid such confusio as occurred
in the county tickets last
iTuesday is to leave the printing of
the tickets to the executive committees
of the various counties. The
local printers, being familiar with the
names of candidates and offices to be
filled in their respective counties, can
he more surely relied upon for accurate
service. The plan that has been
followed during the past several years
is simply absurd.
The dispatches indicate that the
Allies are going to be forced to es^
tablish martial law in Constantinople,
because of the insistence of the I
Turkish Nationalists (Kcmalists) that
military control be surrendered to
them. Steadily since the Mudania j
armistice conference, the Kemalists
have been increasing the strength of
their'forces in Constantinople and they
are now demanding in effect that the
I Allies get out. The understanding is
[ that the Allies do not propose to do
anything of the kind and the danger
[ of war seems to he looming up more
ominously than heretofore.
That is a most commendable piece
of enterprise on tin- part of Messrs.
J. 11. Carroll and T. C. Marshall, who
are endeavoring to divert the automobile
traffic between Florida and
the North by way of Yorkvlllc. They
have quite an undertaking, and they
will not only need, but deserve liberal
help, not only from YorkviJle, but from
all points along the North and South
road between (iastonia and Chester.
There is a great deal of ignorance on
the part of northern tourists on the
subject. Their maps and directions
tell them that it is a good road from
points in Florida up to Columbia; but
the road from Columbia up to < Iastonia
is evidently marked as a wild .inn- j
gio, wmi . as a inam-r 01 mci u is iiuuui
as good as any hundred miles over
the entire distance. This happened
during the early' part of the summer.
A young lady from the west had spent
the winter in Yorkville, while her parents
had wintered in St. Petersburg.
Florida. The parents were traveling
by automobile, and their plans contemplated
taking their daughter back
home with them; but because they had
been led to believe that the roads up
this way were impossible, the father
insisted that the daughter should join j
them in Columbia. Friends who bad
frequently? made automobile trips
from Yorkville to Columbia and back
in a day and who knew what they
were talking about, insisted tbal the
parents come this way. At h ngth
there was reluctant consent, and on
arrival in Yorkville the father frankly
idmitted that he had been wonderfully
surprised, lie made the trip with
considerably less mileage and over as
good road as be voi. have traveled
otherwise, in spite of the fact that
even as it was he had gone < onaiderably
out of his way over roads that
were, not as good as those by the more
direct route between Columbia and
Vfii'lfvillii T!u> flivPfl vmifo
I'olumbia and Yurkville .is by far the
best route to the north, and it is wi ll
worth the while of the people ;o go to
the trouble and ex pens' to make the
fact generally known. The time is
i corning. if indeed it is not already
' onie, alien the big arteries of automobile
travel will be as important as
the trunk lines of railroad.
Vigilance In Elections.
There was a narrow escape from serious
complications in connection with
?ur county election last Tuesday, and
ight now is a good time to sound a
warning that unless the Democratic
arty officials exercise greater dili:<
nee in the future, they ore liable to ,
run upon unpleasant conseciueru es tli.at ;
vill make them take notice thereafter.
I'or one thin;', to be l igbt plain about I
it, there la. not enough familiarity with
the general election laws. This is not
to be said of the primary. Those who
have to do with elections know all
about that. But somehow they fall to
realize that the primary, hedged about
as it is by all kinds of safeguards, is
only for the purpose of making party
nominations, and that it is without
any legal relation to the actual election.
No matter who might have been
nominated in the primary, whoever
gets the most votes in the general
election gets the office.
A Democratic candidate may have
received five thousand votes in the primary;
but if he gets none in the general
election and an opponent gets one
legal vote, then the office must lawfully
go to that opponent.
There are no restrictions, under (he
laws of this state as to who shall be
a candidate in the general election, cx
cept that he or she must be a qualified
voter, and to bo eligible as a representative
or a senator he or she must
be not loss than 25 years of age. The
age limit for governor is 30 year::. But
even these ago limits have nothing to
do with the right to he a candidate.
That is*a matter for subsequent adjudication.
Under the law as It stands, each
candidate is supposed to furnish his
own tickets; but, tinder custom, this
duty is assumed by the Democratic
executive committee, which the candidate
has provided with funds for the
purpose, and therefore of course, the
candidate, nominated under the rules
of the Democratic party, is nof supposed
to give the matter any further concern.
It is specified in the law that the
names of stale and county offices bq
on the prune ticket, and that no other
ticket be counted. The tickets furnished
to York county by the state
Democratic executive committee containd
the names of the Democratic
candidates for state offices; but omitted
the.names of one of the candidates
for the house .and all three candidates
for the county offices to be filled at
this election?county superintendent of
education, county supervisor and probate
judge.
These incomplete tickets were distributed
all over the county, and except
for the accidental discovery of the
omission in Yorkville and several
other precincts, the election for these
officials would have gone by default,
necessitating their being filled by spec.al
elections to be held hereafter, and
probably only on the specific authority
of the legislature.
There could have arisen another contingency
that would have made the
matter still more awkward. If it had
so happened there had been in existence
hero another party organization,
and the leaders of it had gotten iijfor.nation
of these incomplete tickets as
early as last Saturday, it would have
been 110 difficult matter to'quietly procure
complete tickets with the names
I of their. ,0wo party candidate* for
county offices thereon, and elect the
same. It is possible that the thing
could have been so managed that it
could have been accomplished with
only a hundred or so votes.
Hut the lesson of the whole matter
Is that those having the thing in
charge must give closer attention to
their business, or else sooner or later
they might have serious occasion for
regret.
WHERE GEORGE WAS RIGHT
France Had Her Way, But Lost in The
Having.
The seizure of Constantinople by the
Kcmalist Turks and their reported invasion
of the neutral zones around the
straits constitute a dramatic vindication
of Lloyd George.
The essence of the Iiritish policy was
that in older to negotiate with Kemal
i n tolerably own terms for the freedom
of the straits and the protection
.,r ...;..?in? * 11:.... -
.strategic points which command the
road from Asia to Kurnpe. The essence
of French policy, with Italian approval,
was to let Kernel seize everything and
to negotiate with him afterward.
So the French and Italians withdrew, ;
deserting the I'.ritish in the face of the
oncoming Turks. The British, umjde
to hold all the positions alone, then
stood at Chan ;k, thus protecting the
I)nidandles. They could not hold the ,
road to Constantinople, and Kemal (
has therefore seized it. 1
The British force at Ghanak is the i
only leverage that the western world
can now exert on Kemal. If that i
should be lost, the French program,
Mr. Hughes's program and all other .
demands made by the western powers
will not he worth the paper they are i
written on. With Kemal in possession j
of every vital point the peace confer- (
enee at Bausannc would have to 1
choose between hypocricy and acting i
s a mere rubber stamp. It is no won- i
dor that this conference is postponed.
France lias been very proud of her i
diplomatic victory over Great Britain
in Turkey. The day is probably not 1
tar off. however, when Frenchmen will \
say to I'oinearc, "Another such victory
and we are lost." For France made
Ketnal. and Kemal's doings are charge- 1
able to France.?New York World. i
? Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat,
defeated for re-election by K. 11.
Howell, Itepubliean, in Nebraska Tues
. ^ >Hru .1 oi<ici. iti< i11 ? nuii'suay in
which he declared his defeat duo to ,
"deep l?ul powerful undercurrents of J
political thought and resentment growing1
out of the war. No hotter fight
ould have been made and it was niach
with zeal and enthusiasm. From the
tint the tight was hopeless, although 1
wo eouhl ii"t in advanee realize it as 1
we do now because we could not measure
the deep hill powerful undercut-- '
ids of political thought and resentment
growing out of th- war,' he declared.
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LOCAL, .AFFAIR8,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A. M. Grist, AV. M.?Regular communication
next Tuesday night.
John M. Crawford, Trustee?Notice of
sale 111 tho matter of C. E. Porcher,
bankrupt.
Carroll Eros.?Red Rust Proof wheat.
Sliieder Drug Company?Toilet articles.
I). M. Parrott, Clover?Specials for
Saturday.
First National Rank of Clover?Never
was a better year than this to sow
wheat and oats.
First National Rank of Sharon?The
right course.
Rank of Clover?Here's the proof.
Vorkvllle C'anip No. 38, W. O. W.?Tho
ladies are cordially invited.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Notions, school
s'Uimlics and hosiery.
Southern Ca.'h Store, G. C. Pccse,
manager, Bock Hill?Aluminum tea
kt:ttl?s.
York Candy Kitchen?Peter Culgin
proprietor?Live anil let live.
J. .0. Wilborn?For sale.
W. VV. Barron?Radio telephony.
Harry E. Neil, Treasurer of York
County?Tax bosks to open Novembe
2f?.
Star Theatre. J. (J. Wray, Manager?
Earl Williams today in a "Master
Stroke." He sure to sec Buffalo Bill
on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Chesterfield Cigarettes?Now 8 cents
for 10.
J. F. Faulkner, Town Treasurer?Town
taxes now duo.
It is a remarkably low price at
which The Yorkville Enquirer is being
offered for 1923. It is hut 25 cents
more than the pre-war price and then
the paper was only little more than
half as large as it is now. Not only
that, the postage rate has been doubled
since then and we are paying twice
as much for materials of all kinds and
for labor. In fact the cost of publication
is three times as great as it was
in 1914. We have made this price not
in the expectation that it would yield
more income; but rather more in the
hope that it will dishtly, increase our
circulation. We want the paper to go
into a larger number of hands, in the
belief that the more readers it has the
more worth while it will he. Frankly
we are not sure that we can afford the
reduction. On that point we ore merely
experimenting. Of course wc are
reasonably certain of our financial
ability to carry out our proposition
through next year, that whether the
subscription receipts pay their fair
share of the expenses or not; but if
it shall turn out that we cannot furnish
the paper ia clubs at $2, why
next year we win ruise m? inuc,
that's all. In the meantime, we are
asking all our friends everywhere to
please do all they can to increase the
circulation of The Yorkville Enquirer
as much as possible.
THE BIG TREES.
In addition to these already mentioned
the following big trees have
been reported:
White oak on \V. F. Boyd's place in
Fort Mill township.
White oak at the Joe L. Hughes
place, on York Xo.'^/aix miles northeast
of Yorkville. f
Keel oak on W. I,, llill's1. Yoiingblood
place, eight miles southeast* of Sharon.
Poplar on L. A. McUill lands, 5 1-2
miles west of Clover.
COLLECTION OF TAXES
The books of the county treasurer
for the collection of state and county
taxes will not be opened this year until
Monday, November 20.
The time prescribed by law is October
15; but because of the delays occasioned
by the work of the state tax
commission, the auditor was unable to
complete Hs book by that date.
The work of putting on the levies is
not. yet complete; but it is being hurried
as rapidly as possible, and Treasurer
Ned proposes to commence collecting
tax s on Xo\ ember 20 whether
he is entirely ready or not.
The ccncr.ii levy this year is 20 1-2
mills*, made, up as follows: State purposes,
7 1-2 mills; county purposes, C>
mills; constitutional school, 3 mills;
roads, 2 mills; courthouse bfmds, 1-2
mill; York-Mecklenburg bridge, 1-2
mill; Bullock's Creek Bridge, 1 mill.
To the 20 1-2 mills general levy is
to be added the various special school
and school bond levies.
LARGEST TREE
The Yorkvillc Enquirer desires to
locate the largest forest tree in York
countv and to that end is willing to
contribute a year's subscription to
[lie paper to the individual sending in
the information.
The contest is open to all who desire
to enter and will close on Saturday
November IS, no further entries being
considered after that date.
The following information will be
required of competing trees: 1st.
sj ecics, whether oak, poplar, hickory,
to. 2d, circumference, estimated
height, and location, with reference to
direction and approximate distance
from nearest incorporated town.
Only standing live trees are to be
Eligible.
In case the largest tree is reported
by two or more contestants, the award
is to go to the contestant reporting
lirst.
The measurement of the winning
tree must be proved by the affidavit
L>f the contestant; but the affidavit
ivill not be necessary until after the
selection of the winner.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? II is estimate*? 1 y one local buyer
lhat at least 1,000 bales of cotton
been sold i!:is week by farmers
living within a radius of ten miles of
Vor kville.
A colored woman shopper was
.eized with a spell of some kind while
in the store of the McConnell Dry !
JoihIs Company last Saturday. She
ell through a show (rase; but some- |
iow or other esenpt-d injury.
? The chai mains continues to make
I headway in buildin.cr the West i
oad into Yorkvill-j b> way of West'
Liberty street. One squad from the
chaingiwig is still engaged in topsoiling
a section of the Yorkville-Rock
Hill road between Tirzah and New- '
port.
? The Church Home Orphanage of
Yorkville, has bought .10 acres of land
including a home and barn from D.
D. Thomas, who lives near the orphanage.
The orphanage originally
intended to buy the entire Thomas
farm; but later decided to buy only
a portion of the place.
? King's Mountain High outplayed
Yorkville High in each quarter of a
football game hero Tuesday afternoon
and deserved the big end of a 27 to
G score. The locals were unable to
score until the last period when they
completed three forward jkisscs in
suCcesMion, an end run and a center
plunge carried the ball over for six
points. Woodward, McCinnis, Matthews,
.Anderson and C. Saunders were
the stars for King's Mountain while
"Little Hob" IirJce, diminutive quarterback
of the locals seemed to be carrying
the big part of the load for Yorkville,
H. R. Mackorell refereed the
contest and there was no squabbling.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Real estato transfers have been indexed
in the office of the county auditor
as follows:
Catawba?\V. Frank and Minnie E.
Moore to J. 11. Moore, 10 acres, $700.
Catawba?Moggie C. Tl.'unilton to
Mrs. Kate Hutchinson, 1 lot, $3,200.
C. E. Strait to llyers and London, 1
lot, $5.
W. H. Griffin to J. M. Chapman. 2
lots, $125.
L. Don Matthews to G. It. Matthews,
Jr.. 1 lot, $23.
Jenkins and London to W. L. Jenkins,
4 lots, $5.
S. J. Cornwell to W. J. and R. A.
Cornwall, 96 acres, $700.
Hattio I. White, et al., to the Peoples'
Trust Co., 1 lot, $100.
Peoples' Trust Co., Trustee to Mrs.
Cole G. Gregg, 1 lot, $5.
Catawba Real Estate Co., to Powell
and Tucker, 1 lot, $5.
King's Mountain?J. F. Pursley to J.
L. Wilson, 50 acres, $4,250.
Est. D. A. Matthews to I. J. Campbell,
1 lot, $300.
Est. D. A. Matthews to I. J. Campbell,
et al., 1 lot, $1,500.
York?Jos. G. Dickson, et al, to
Mint Cola Rottling Co.. 1 lot, $550.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C., to Henry W.
Smith, 1 lot, $160.
Dan Lowry to Mima Alexander, 1
lot, $1.
M. L. Harrison et til., to Robert H.
Harrison, 1 lot. $1.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Marion Jackson is quite ill at
her home in Yorkville.
Messrs. Paul X. Moore and Edward
Spencer of Yorkville, were visitors in
,?AAb
Miss Carrie Love of Sharon, is recovering
rapidly from an attack of
typhoid fever.
Mrs. Fred E. Quinn of Yorkville is
in the Fennell Infirmary, Hock Hill,
for treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Caldwell of
Oafifney, recently visited the family of
Dr. AV. C. Whitesides in A'orkville.
Messrs. \V. S. Iteid and V. Q. Haml>fij?ht
of ('lover were visitors in
Yorkville yesterday.
S. C. Carter of Lowryville was
among the visitors in Yorkville yestcrda
y.
Dr. and Mrs. Alex Crawford of Outhriesville,
were in A'orkville yesterday.
A. C. Sutton of Fort Mill, was among
the visitors here'yesterday.
Robert AY. nriee, who has been in
the I'. S.* navy for the past two years,
is visiting his parents, Mr. and Airs.
J. M. Brice on A'ork No. 4.
Mr. S. Ar. Aycock of Sharon No. 2,
was called to Texas last Monday by
a telegram announcing the critical illness
of his brother, Edward.
Rev. .T. K. Walker and Prof. E. A.
Montgomery of Yorkville, were among
those who attended the Methodist con
fnrenee, in Gaffney this weok.
Mrs. Jas. D. Grist and little son
James Davidson. Jr., returned to their
home in Yorkville, this morning after
a visit to'the family of Dr. L. IT. DuCose
at Great Falls, S. C.
Mrs. John K. Logan and Miss Sarah
Logan have returned from Clemson
College where they went to visit
Rudolph Logan, who was injured in
an automobile wreck near Pendleton,
recently. Mr. T.ogan is recuperating
rapidly from his injuries.
Mrs. \V. II. Wylie, Miss Rachel Wylie
and Mr. Charles Crawford of Yorkville,
| wore members of an automobile party
| who drove to Griffin, Ga., this week.
Mesdames J. L. McGill, W. B. McGill
and Grady Adams of the Bethany section,
were among the visitors in Yorkville,
yesterday.
Hon. J. K. llenry, solicitor of the
Sixth Judicial circuit which includes
York county, was run down by an automobile
on the public square in Chester
late Tuesday afternoon and bis left
leg was broken just below the knee.
The automobile that struck him was
driven by I. ti. Connor and the fender
is said to have struck the solicitor,
throwing him to the asphalt street, and
1 ;-s he fell he was ran over by the
wheels of the automobile, which was
being used as a taxi. The affair was
accidental, it is said. Solicitor Henry
was going across the street diagonally
and two automobiles are said to have
been approaching when the accident
nnnilfrsirl 1 *r.Yirtl'f u fliiu mninini' tY<ill>
Solicitor Henry's bod side wore to tlie
effect that while lie is suffering much
pain, still ho is getting along sis well
as could bo expected.
LOCAL LACONICS
Making Annual Settlement.
Messrs. W- l'\ Xasli and E. E. .Tones,
i ropi sciitative.s of the comptroller go'i
oral, arc hero this week making the <
necessary audit in connection with thc> 1
animal settlement with the county ou- i
ditor and county treasurer. *
Commissioners Hold Session.
Payment of claims totaling several
thousand dollars was the principal
business to come before the monthly
meeting of the York county board of
commissioners which meeting was held
nt their office in the courthouse last
Wednesday.
First Cooperative Sale.
A lot of three hundred hales, bought
last Wednesday by Paul K. Moore, of
Yorkville for the Cannon people constituted
the first cotton sale by the
South Carolina Cooperative Marketing
association. The exact price paid was
not made public; hut it was something
over 26 cents rioiivcren at tnc mms.
Officers Get Big Still.
Three men were arrested when prohibition
officers working in Broad Kiver
township yesterday afternoon seized
a big distillery made of galvanized
iron, about three miles south of Hickory
Grove. About 400 gallons of beer
were found at the-place and poured on
the ground. The raiding party included
Magistrate R. L. A. Smith, M. M.
MeKnight and Policeman Dick Lanier.
Boy Went Crazy.
J. R. Byers, negro boy of Bullock's
Creek township, was lodged in jail in
Yorkville yesterday because of insanity.
The boy is said to have been rfcting
strangely for several days and had
annoyed a' number of families in the
community in which he lived. He will
probably be sent to the state hospital
for the insane this week.
Fred Spears Robbed.
Fred Spears who runs a store near
the fair grounds on the western outskirts
of Rock Hill reported to the
police of that town that he was held
up in his store Saturday night and
robbed of $30. According to Spear's
story a bftndit who was masked so as
to conceal his identity entered the
door shortly before closing time and
demanded that what money was on
hand be turned over to him.
Jail Population Light.
With the November term of the
court of general sessions less than
two weeks away, the population of the
York county jail just now is very
small, according to Deputy Sheriff Tom
Quinp. There are nine prisoners in
jail, all colored. Five of these are to
be tried for various alleged crimes at
tlie iNovomDer term. xnree are unueu
States prisoners and one is serving a
sentence in jail following conviction
in the city court in Rock ,HilI.
The General Election.
There was but little interest in the
general election throughout York
county last Tuesday until after the
discovery of tho incompleteness of the
county ticket as furnished to the
voters and then there was more or less
excitement at some of the precincts.
The total vote at the Yorkville precinct
was 88 for state offices. 83 for
county of rices and 78 for. congress.
The total vote, over the county was
very light; but the exact figures cannot
be stated for the reason that no
effort was made to collect the returns.
Stocking Cherokee Ponds.
(iaffney Ledger, Wednesday; About
twelve dozen fish, of tho Bream variety,
were received this morning from
the United States government hatchcry
by Messrs. J. W. Watters, E.
Wright Jolly, J. I'. Blanton and W. L.
Self, with which they will stock up
their private ponds and waters. The
Bream fish is a finely shaped one . nd
is excellent eating, also he furnishes
lino fishing sport as he is of the carp
family. The above named gentlemen
announced that there would be strictly
no fishing yet awhile, for the little
fellows, finger length, will have to
grow.
Medicos Hold Meeting.
Several York county physicians
were in Lancaster Wednesday in attendance
upon the semi-annual meeting
of the Fifth District Medical Society,
hold in that town. The society
?mbfnces the counties of Chester,
Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and
York and the officers are: Dr. It. O.
Hamilton of Winnsboro, president:
Dr. S. L. Allen of Lancaster, vice
president; and Dr. George A. Henr.ies
of Chester, secretary. At the meeting
Wednesday papers were road by Dr.
\V. S. Itankln of Raleigh, N. C.; Dr.
James A. Hayne, Columbia; Dr. W. P.
Cornell. Columbia; Dr. T. C. Bost of
Charlotte and Dr. C. A. Mobley of
Orangeburg. Dr. M. B. Neil of Clover
was on the programme to read a paper
but was unable to be present at the
nceting.
RESULTS OF THE ELECTION
Voters of Nation Replace Many Republicans
With Demccrats.
There was a great political landslide 1
Tuesday throughout the nation as the 1
result of which many Republicans in- 1
eluding prominent leaders, were re- '
placed by Democrats. It is certain
that the overwhelming Republican majority
in tlie house has been very much
reduced, and it is possible that it has :
been wiped out; but whether wiped '
out or not the Democrats have won a '
dominating position in the delibera- '
tions of that body. Opinions as to the (
cause of the upheave!'are as various '
t:? the sources from which they come. 1
Some attribute the upheaval to penoral
dissatisfaction with the Harding 1
administration, alleged unredeemed 1
[dodges, etc. Some say that the tin- '
reasonably high tariff schedules have i '
caused the dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction
with the prohibition situation I'
is assigned as a reason by others, and |
still others claim that failure of the 1
president to approve the bonus bill '
liad its weight. Along with all these j *
xplanations is included the activities''
af the office seekers who failed to
land under the Harding administration
and the redoubled efforts of other
office seekers previously turned out to
tret back. All those things qf course
played their respective parts.
The control of the house of representatives
remained in doubt until an
early hour yesterday morning when
the returns showed that the He publicans
had finally won 225 seats the
Democrats 207, the Socialists 1, Independents
J, and Former-Laborltes 1.
Nine districts were still unreported,
with the chances favoring the Democrats
in several of them.
Although there was no serious threat
of loss of control of the senate by the
Republicans, the Democrats made a
net gain of sexen in that body. Nine
Republican senators were defeated and
two Democrats lost their seats. The
defeated Democrats are Hitchcock, of
Nebraska' and Pomerlne of Ohio. The
indications are that the Republicans
will have 11 majority.
There tfill be no women in the next
congress. Mrs. Alice Robertson, of
ni/lnborvm loot Dcai no/1 \f.-o
vyniauwiiia iwoi n*.* n'.ai auu iui a,
Winnifred Mason Huck, who was a
candidate for the unexpired term of
her father, the late Wm. L. Mason, of
Illinois, failed of re-election..
Alfred E. Smith, Democrat, was
elected governor of New York by
about 400 000 n\ajority over Nathan L.
Miller, Republican, and Dr. -Royal S.
Copeland, Democrat, was elected United
States : Befiator over Senator William
M. Caltlcr, Republican, incumbent.
The Republican up state plurality
outside of New York was wiped
out lor the first time in a generation.
Meyer Lobdon1, socialist, member of
the house was defeated by a Democrat
and the Republicans lost thirteen congressmen
to the Democrats in the
state.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
had a pretty close call, his'majority
over Gaston being at first reported at
less than 2,000 but afterward turning
out to be 8,425.
Senator Townsend, Republican, of
Michigan lost to Former Governor
Woolbrldge N. Ferris, the first Democratic
senator to be elected from that
state for seventy years.
-Senator James A. Reed, noted antagonist
"of former President Wilson
on the League of Nations proposition,
was re-elected from Missouri, in spite
of active efforts on the part of Wilson
to secure his defeat
Mr. Volstead, of Minnesota, author
of the famous prohibition enforcement
law was defeated by an Independent
minister candidate who claimed to be
still dryer than Volstead. Victor L.
Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin was
elected to tho house by a large majority.
He has been elected twice before,
and twice expelled becatlse of his
convictiion under the espionage act.
Tho supreme court however has re4
_ Ul.
?ci ncu me cuaria uciuw in ma uwe
nnd this time he will be allowed to
tako his seat. ~ I
A. H. Donahey, Democrat, has been
elected governor of Ohio over Carml
A. Thompson, Republican, by about
six or seven thousand majority. The
Republicans elected 20 congressmen
in the state and the Democrats 6, with
one in doubt.
MERE-MENTION
The state of Illinois on Tuesday
voted a $55,000,000 bonus to Illinois
soldiers of the world war^ ....Albert
E. Smith, Democratic candidate for
governor of New York, carried New
York city last Tuesday by the largest
majority that has ever been given to
any candidate for any office
Oeorge W. Revis, Republican leader in
Sylvia county, N. C., was shot and
killed last Tuesday by Walter Fisher
as the outcome of a political controversey
Albert J. Reveridge, Republican,
was defeated for the United
States Senate Tuesday by Samuel M.
Ralston, Democrat Cordell Hull
of Tennessee, Democratic National
chairman, who lost his seat in con
fstroo iv?u /tina ?iKu w;u? re-?iectea
Tuesday? Dr. Stelnmetz, the electrical
wizard, running (or state engineer
of New York on the FarmerLabor-Socialist
ticket, received 207,138
votes. Lndu, Democrat, was elected.
Steinmetz's vote was remarkable in
that it came from all parties The
name of the man who beat Mr. Volstead
in Minnesota is Rev. O. Kvale,
pronounced "Kwal-Ley." He is a Lutheran
preacher and a Scandinavian.
? 1 h
? The observance of the sacrament
of the Lord's Supper, conducted by
Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond,
the presiding officer, marked the opening
of the eighth annual session of the
Upper South Carolina conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church, South,
in Buford Street Methodist church at
Gaffney Wednesday morning. Following
the calling of the roll of the members
of the conference, Rev. B. Rhett
Turnipseed of Spartanburg, was reelected
secretary, and A. L. Gunter
and L. E. Wiggins, assistant secretaries.
W. B. Garrett was elected statistical
secretary and It. F. Morris, R.
L. Holroyd, F. C. Beach, J. F. Luppo,
W. L. Mullikin, H. O. Chambers and
I'. L. Bouknight, assistant statistical
secretaries. The conference was wel- .
mined to Gaffney by the mayor of the
:ity and by local pastors of other denominations.
Bishop W. F. McMurray
jf St. Louis, Mo., addressed the conference
in the interest of the centenary
rund of S33.000.000. nlcdsred bv thn
Methodist Episcopal church, South, in
1919, and SO per cent of which fund is
-.ow due. The amount pledged by this
conference was more than $1,000,000,
1170,000 being yet due. Dr. J. L Ruslell.
of the general board of missions,
ilso addressed the conference in the
nterest of the centenary. The str.ndng
committees and quadrennial boards
>f the conference were nominated by
he presiding elders and were conflrm d
by the conference.