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o ? OARNERED WITH SCISSORS News From Within and Without the County. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Some Items of Fact, Some of Comment and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and l^oing. Chester Reporter, Dec. 11: Last night at the Haldwin Mills as Evangelist Sam T. Creech was saying a few words of farewell preliminary to delivering his parting message of the two-weeks' revival, four members of the Ku Klux Klan appeared at the entrance of the tent, and silently filed .1 ntvn the left aisle until they reached the front when one of their number handed an envelope to Mr. Creech, the party in the meantime remaining absolutely silent. The evangelist opened the envelope and drew forth a check, for $75 and a one dollar hill, also a communication which he read to the congregation. The letter stated the principles of the Ku Klnx Klan, and closed by directing that twenty-five dollars be given to the Creech Orphanage at Spartanburg, and the remainder be divided equally between Messrs. Morris and Creech as partial remuneration for their labors, which the Klan endorses, and wanted to go on record publicly as approving. The evangelist referred to the principles fr?r which the Ku Klux stand, as laid down in the letter, and said that wliile he is not at an advertising medium for the organization be approved of the principles as thus stated, and appreciated the aid they were giving in carrying on the gospel, promoting education, and furthering other help'ul / causes, as stated in the communication. The Klansmcn . then silently withdrew, and the service proceeded along the ordinary lines A most delightful supper, splendid addresses, , and' the acquisition of a batch of new members were the chief features of Thursday evening's banquet of Chester Post, American Legion. The Auxiliary were in charge, and most creditably did they acquit themselves. The election of officers for the ensuing vac. - i-aanltod n?5 follows! Cant. \Y. C. "White, commander; Jas. H. Saye, of Rodman, vice commander; Maj. J. S. McKeown, of Cornwell, adjutant; T. C. O'Donnell, treasurer; Stanley Smith, service officer; Edw. M. White, historian; Gill Gregory, sergeant-atprms; Dr. H. M. Ross, relief officer; and Rev. J. P. Traywick, chaplain DcPass Brewington, a white lad aged about fourteen, died at the Pryor Hospital in this city Friday night from the effect of a gunshot wound in' the right leg just below the knee, inflicted by Sam Kirkland, colored. Kirkland and the boy were Mono at the time of the shooting. As the negro fled after firing the shot, and has made good his escape, it is evident that the shooting was not accidental. Young Brewington, his brother, William, and their Hither, Air. Pilby Brewington, were out hunting Friday afternoon, and from what facts are obtainable DcPass Brewington had killed a rabbit, but the game was claimed by the negro. JNUI1 IMI'KIilHU, illlU n lir.i ii? ./v, . forward to pick up the rabbit Kirk- j lard flrod on him. The load of shot struck just below the knee, inflicting a gaping wound, from which the blood poured profusely. Mr. Brewington and his other son were over the crest of a hill, but ran to the wounded boy's side when he called them, and as they came up Kirkland was in full flight with his gun in his hand. William : Brewington* ran to the schoolhouse I v/here an educational rally was in pro- i gross, and acquainted the crowd with what had happened, and the wounded boy was placed in an automobile and brought to the Pryor Hospital. He had lost so much blood, however, that all efforts to save his life were futile. ' Xot once at any time after he was shot did the lad wince or complain, but bore his sufferings with true Spartan-like fortitude. Mr. \V. J. Keller, a Confederate veteran, on whose place Mr. Brewington lives, and on which the tragedy occurred, said Saturday that ho had seen many soldiers die, but none with more bravery than was displayed by little Pel'ass Brewington. .... Judge Z. V. Davidson, of Chester, is now Potentate of Hejaz Temple, the highest office within the gift of the Shriners of the upper part of the state. Judge Davidson is one of the state's ^ most enthusiastic snriners, ana win wear his new honors worthily The Chester High School pills' basketball team continued their victorious march towards the championship I'ridr-y afternoon by journeying to Rock Hill and defeating Winthrop Training School 35 to S. The Chester team has been playing on an outdoor court till tell, whereas the gone at Rock Hill Friday afternoon was played on an indoor court; but this fact did not militate in the least against Chester's play. Friday afternoon of .this week Chester plays at Clover, and on Tuesday, December Itith. Rock Hill High School comes here for a game. The Reporter will keep the public appraised Of the schedule, and it is hoped b have larger crowds out in the future for the games on the Chester court. ..Rev. Joel S. Snyder, of Faycttevillc, N. C.. who was pastor of the First Rapt Fa church of Clu ster pi ioi to assuming his present pastorate ten years ago, preached for his former congregation here yesterday, delivering, as lie always does, able and inspiring messages. Rev. Mr. Snyder said he and family will always have a warm place in their hearts for the people of Chest t of all denominations, and said that i. st week as he and Rev. Lee McH. White, another former pastor of the Chester flock, were engaged together for two days on eummiU-e v.ork. tii > . gjeed that they had nevei served more responsive folks than those in Chester Prof. J. W. Thomson, of AVinthrop College, and Miss Wil Lou Cray, state superintendent of adult schools, were here Saturday for the educational rally, but as t> e crowd gathered at the Court House was rather small, the meeting was adjourned to the College Street ' school building, and merged with the 1 meeting of the Chester County Study Center. The County Auditor's books show a drop in assessed valuation for taxes of $543,934 this year from last, in 1921 the total valuation was $9.- j 8S7.579, whereas for this year it drops j to $9.341,t!43. Some of this, however, we understand is nulla bonan and ! duplicate assessments, and does not represent such a serious decrease as ha? been suffered in many counties. The city council met Thursday evening. Messrs. Ceo; W. Chitty and Arthur Davis appeared before council and urged that the city's sewerage system bo extended to East Hinton and East Lacy streets. Council said j financial conditions make it impossi- j ble to comply with the request, unless | I funds can be secured from a bond is- I cue. Mr. It. It. Moffat urged that 1 ccuncil enforce the ordinance with re- | ferenco to the selling of fruit from 1 ca'-s, and that the ordinance not be j amended. ' Mention was made of the j fact that there are not sufficient I housing facilities for the street sprinlc- j | ler and other city vehicles, and as a i I result they have to lie left out in the rain: and a committee was appointed j to confer with the Chamber of Commerce about making: arrangements to | store some of this equipment at the J Fair Grounds. Gaffney Ledger, Dec. 12: William lb Gaines, of the Merchants and Planters National Rank, who has been seriously ill with the flu, was reported on Monday as being improved. His friends are hoping for his early recovery Joe Humphries, who was tried and j sentenced to the chain gang for a per- j icd of two years in the last term of j court in connection with a charge of j assault, gave himself up Saturday and was carried out. All of those sen teneed at this term of court arc now ; serving their time Everett Taylor, Gaffney boy, who has been playing ; football for Furinan, arrived in the city yesterday suffering slightly from : two broken ribs received in the same j game in which Harvey received his in- ! juries. Reports are to the effect that 1 e is not seriously injured and that he ! will be completely mended in a few j days A mortgage for five million ! *-A/iAn/1rw1 in thp nfflPP of ( uihua WHO i wui uvu *?* v..v w...Vv ? the Clerk of Court of Cherokee county Friday. The mortgage was made out in hook form and covered over one hundred pages. The parties of the contract were listed as the South Carolina Gas and Electric Company and the New York Trust Co. The New York company is the lender of the money?- V. rather amusing' incident came up in the office of the prohate judge last Friday when an ancient darkey, giving his name as Sam i .Johnson, applied for a marriage license and when the time came to fill it in had forgotten the name of the bride-to-be. Judge Kirky said that he had known the old fellow for a long i time and so he proceeded to fill out the ! 1'ijonse. The old man said that the girl had told him her name and that it sounded very much like Mamie Mlntz. At any rate having nothing better to | go on that- is the way the license was tilled out. When they turned up the n?'Xt morning it turned out that the bride's name was Addie Mackey and that she and the groom had known each other for a long time. The old fellow admitted that he was forgetful, but that he did think he could remember better than that. Cleveland (Shelby) Star, Dec. 12: A \ white jitney driver, Mike Michael was scheduled to appear Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock before Recorder Falls and I answer to a charge of transporting j whiskey. Morris Rompcy and Mac I I ftrtlAi.A,! vniithc nrlmit!pH i : that he carried them after a load of whiskey, so they were charged with retailing. Cleveland county's cotton crop is running far beyond the expectations of the most conservative estimates. There were 35,019 bales : ginntd in Cleveland from the crop of ( 1922 prior to December 1st as compared with 24,910 bales ginned prior to j the same date last year. These are j Ih official ginning figures gathered by | I Miles II. Ware special agent of the t government, it is the largest crop the ! i county has ever produced and stands the county third in the list among the ! cotton producing counties in North j [ Carolina. The crop of course is prac- ! j lieally gathered, but the next gin re- ' 1 i>ort will probably show several hundred bales more. The largest crop the county lias produced prior t > this time was about 31.770 bales. The construction company which has the contract to build the streets in Shelby be* - 1 1 ?.?.K.,lt cut' I gall yesieruay piucmg me us^ium nm - i i face on North Washington street. Af- I tor Kast Warren front the postoffice | t > the intersection with the Cleveland 'Springs road and Kast Graham from I Washington to DeKalb are completed, i work will lie suspended for th* winter. Yesterday was the birtnday of ! Colonel Isaac Shelby, hero of the battle of Kings Mountain for whom the town of Shelby was named. Colonel j Shelby was a noted soldier and governor of Kentucky. He was born near I agerstown, Maryland, December 11 tit 1750 and died July ISth 1S26. j ?Trout from Scotland have been planted in the lee cold waters of the I rivers around Mount Kenya, Hritish , Kast Africa, on the equator. The fish | have grown to endrinons size and thousands of trout ova are being placed in the hatcheries for planting in the many streams in that section j which lies east of l?ake Victoria NyInnza. GOVERNOR TIM HEALY (Continued From Page One.) His hnts, it may be said, were orusho almost each time he rose to make platfoim speech, fn 1XS3. the City < Alexandria, La., paid for a new ha out of the public funds and sent across the ocean to him. At a meeting in Oniugh In 1895 h publicly charged Dillon, who was o the platform with him with bavin agreed to.accept for his party ?200 year for each of four seats in parlia ment, relinquishing the seats to th English Liberal Party. The riot thn followed is memorable even in ire land. "It is a question," lie once said who opposing: the Boer war before the com mons, "whether it is not better to be dead Boer than a British subject." Referring: ih the house to a series c six British defeats in South Africa, h said with a sarcasm that drove hi British colleagues to fury. "Heretofor the Boers have had only two fea.? days in their calendar?now they hav six more." One of his earliest adventures in th house was to take a leading part in free-for-all fist fight on the floor, pre cipitated when Joe Chamberlain, the the Tory leader, referred to Gladston as a "Herod." Xoses were punche freely, eyes were blackened, Heal himself got a bruised cheek, but sur vived to carry on the debate and sub sequently sent to The World, at its re quest, an account of the fracas, whic filled a column of type and was masterpiece of graphic and pungen writing. "I have no desire to head a party," h once said. "My temper is too shortami I have not the talents of Intrigu IICV C09<1I ,? . Hut though lie lias been called "tli Great Vituperntor," "the Professions Irreconcilable" and "the Ishmael c Irish Politics," he has been loved as in tensely as he has been hated. For hi flashing wit and absolute fenrlessnos even the English, whom he floutet loved him. He was cartooned in Punc almost as soon as he took his seat 1 the house, a mere boy?and fame ca go no further in England. "Argument alone is useless in deal ing with the British government." h once said. "The English are notorious ly deaf, unless stirred up by cojicus slon." "If all the Irish members of th house, instead of being in jail, were i hell," he added more bitterly, "th English would only laugh." He referred to his opponents at on RED RUST PROOF Aj WHEAT?Bushel HAVE VERY little Wheat left, h call on us before it is sold out. BUGGIES FULL STOCK of Steel and Rubbe Tired BUGGIES that we will sell o easy terms. FLOUR OF THE BEST QUALITY. If you tr one sack you will come back. WILKERSON'S HOME MAOE MOLASSESIT IS very fine grade. Come to see us for G&lvanized Roof ing. STUDEBAKER WAGONS. DON'T MAKE A MISTAKE About your Plows. Tim OLIVER i the recognized BEST. CARROLL BROS. Fertilizer EVERYTHING POINTS to Fertiliz er being HIGHER next spring. W have some Nitrate of Soda, Cottoi Seed Meal, Kuinit and Acid Phosphat contracted for. If you feel like buyini NOW, you might save some monej and on the other hand you might los ?So you can take your choice. FEED YOUR CHICKENS HOLLY BROOK CHICKEN FEED? And Pratt's Egg Producer if yoi want them to lay. KEEP US IN MIND? If you need anything in the Lumbe line. We have everything to build o repair a house. GUN SHELLS AT LOW PRICE. YdRK SUPPLY CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPLI CATION FOR DISCHARGE. In the District Court of the Unito States?For the Western District c South Carolina. IN THE MATTER OF ' J. M. McOill A: C. R. Mi Gill, Copartner under the Firm Name of J. M. & C R. McGill, Hickory Grove, S. C Bankrupt. No. B-285 In Bankruptcy. To th. Creditors of the Above Namci Bankrupt: TAKK notice that on November 14th 1922, the above named hauler up filed their petition in said Court pray ins that they may be decreed by th Court to have a full discharge from al debts provable against their estate, ex o pt such debts as are excepted by lav from such discharge, and a hearini was thereupon ordered and will be hai upon said petition on December 11 I'.i22. before said Court, at Greenville ii said District, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, at which time and place a] known creditors and other persons ii interest may appear and show cause, i any they have, why the prayer of sail petition shou.d not be granted. D. C. DURHAM, Clerk. Dated at Greenville, 13. C? Nov. 14, 1922. 92 f 5t FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. 'M'OTICE is hereby given that on Jan uary 8, 1923, at 10 o'clock a. m., will make my Final Return to the Pro bate Court of York county as adminis trator of the estate of Mrs. LUCRETIJ MOSS, deceased, and that I will tliei and there apply for my discharge f'ron all'further liability in connection vvltl said administration. JAMES A. BARRETT, Administrator. Dec. S, 1922. 9S f 4t time as "a squadron of half illiterate hit followers, led by two or throe pea- hit | cocks." ve - Ho was always cool. Once, while qu d | half the house was howling at him: sei a j "Ah," he observed quietly, "there br I seems to ho some disturbance in the a ,t' menagerie!" St 15ut a speech for which he is es- eit peclally remembered was that he do- be ie Hvered one October day twenty years to ,, ago. Parliament had just opened with p an Irish member shaking his fist under U, a the nose of Balfour, the prime minister e j ^ 1 G ;! wouldt if the j ? wishes i . i 1NAUGU1 f M Will Find 1 jl we tha: ; I Y* ? 3 ii. e. neil J E h.e.neii rl 2?I \ ^ Go 8 DON'T LOSE SIGHT J ? ER TODAY ON Sjf Furnitrc Store \ Christmas Prose ? y "I Stf . .. . j Are Numbers of Sets ( jjjf. Bought Right an i Of Christmas Specials *1 ^ Yourself. We'll * ?x ] $a Becl Room, Living R< I ? ' R { To Protect Your Own ?? Visit to the Store U Mountain Stre< ;i | M. s I I. nself. Amid a tumult of shouts and ises the Irish members wore prented Jrom bringing lip the Irish lestion, the premier moving: that the wsion bo devoted to "government isiness" alone, among which he listed discussion of the Uganda Railroad in ?uth Africa. In the midst of wild exement Tim Healy got the floor and gan speaking in the gentlest of nes: "I rise," he said, "as a native of ganda " That was as much us the howl of Sx3^6 **&. >???. *^K &&>. *&& *?& . J ' f reelings oi THE YORKYILLE CO AKE THIS OPPORJPUN] IDS OP CUSTOMERS AN SEASON. THE YORKVILLE CO FOR EACH AND KYEHY V PROSPEROUS NEW Y RATION OF THE GO Phis Firm In Better Positic GIN YOUR COTTON SUPPLY YOU WITH SUPPLY YOU WITH C GRIND YOUR WHEAT YOU. orkville C( OFFI j, President and Treasurer DIR E C J. A; J. F. McELWEE Trnr> T7" X USXIX, >ing! Goi OP THE PACT THAT D] LY TEX DAYS REMAIN "oil Will Kind Many Article lit. INCLUDED IN )f Beautiful Furniture, Se] d They Are Priced Right. ( TO GET A RE, ?hat We Have It Is Necess i Be More Than Pleased to DURING THE CHR] oom and Dining Room Suit EMEMBER, YOU SHOi Interest, and Your Christi: i of M. L. FORD & SONS / St. L. FORI YOURS FOR A Ml CLOVER, . laughter that arose from both sides .permitted him to say for several minutes. When he was able to go on he spoke at length?ostensibly upon his beloved Uganda but in reality upon j tlie forbidden subject of Irish politics, I with sardonic irony such as has seldom | been heard in that assembly before or since. .Suro, isn't Tim the grand little lad! He was close to being a Sinn Foinor j in the last few, more tragic years of j Ireland's history. When the young i Republican army ran up its flag in 4 4 F the Seaso (TON OIL COMPANY TY TO EXTEND TOT D FRIENDS THE GREET ITTON OIL COMPANY ' ONE A MERRY CITRISTA EAR. IGD YEAR 'TWENTY> n Than Ever to [ MEAL AND HULLS? JOAL AND ICE, and AND CORN. >tton Oil C CERS:' J. A. TATE, Vice Pres. and T 0 R S : TATE A.Y.CA1 FROST TORREXCfe - - - s. c. nor? Cnir 1JL6' V/JLA. ECEMBEK IS FAST GOING UNTIL CHRISTMAS. At That Arc Both Useful a OUR STOCK .ectecl Especially for Christm Come and See Them. kL GOOD IDEA iry For You to Come to Our I Show You. CSTMAS SEASON ;es Are Offered You At Almoi JLD SHOP EARLY iias Shopping Tour Is Not C it Clover ? The Big Furnitt ^ O, CA\ J (X OU1^ ilRRY CHRISTMAS - - S. C. Dublin in Easter week, 1916, Tim hotly defended them in the house and laid the blame upon England. How he will treat their younger brothers today renin Ins to he seen. One fancies Tim, white haired with his sixty-eight years, to be something like a Michael Collin9, witty, wise and fearless grown to maturity. Tnose who wish well for the Free State's voyage as it begins may see tn him a' new incarnation of the blithe, brave spirit that was set free when Michael Collins died. * > i I >n I rs nux- 4 J IXGS' OF IAS AND % THREE I O. "I / Secrctar. h RTRIGHT JrlL *> . ig! | r AND THAT AFT- Ia this Old Established B nd Appropriate for || las. They Were All S lig Store and See for m st Wholesale Prices. jj? Jomplete Without a 55 ire Store on King's > I ' | ir? ? '. \ ssmjjpK