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1 Established 1891. SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM MANY SOURCES Japan is proposing to Iniild tun hat lie cruisers anil 22 other warships, beginning with tin- next fiscal year. The gross loss I i the gi vermncnt in its operation of the radroads during federal control was ITN.UOll. according to Swager Slnrley. railroad administration director id' tinance. Workmen excavating for a cellar under the house on the John t'. Hardin farm near (Ireenshoro, I ml., dun "P :i" earthenware jar which contained $l.:t2f? in no Id coins that ranired in de nomination from $n t?> $20 pieces. That tin- president pardon all persons , who, while in tin* military serviee dur- ( iiiK tlie World war. were convicted by | court mart ial of otl'enses not involving I moral turpitude is recommended in a joint resolution introduced hy Repre- ' sentative Schall, Uepuhlicau, of Mimic- 1 sot a. Recent investigation has revealed that agents of the Russian soviet j government have perfected a plan to | make the Hr'tish army a "hothed of: dissension." Stern measures losmash this organization have hem decided U|>on, according to a report from I.on , don, and wholesale deportations unexpected. The State of Montana has the hest all-round public school system in t he United States, according to the re suits of a comparative study of State school systems made public by the Russell Satfe foundatiim. The results i were computed from data submitted to i the federal government by the States themselves. A lartfe wildcat heintf shipped from Toledo, Tex., to Richmond. Va., broke out of his ca>(e as the train was howling j along ami quicKiy cnaseu me express messengers to rover. One of the express handlers possessed a revolver and homharded the savage animal for more than an hour before finally hilling it as it tried to reach hi in. Taking offense at an article in the | (ioulosh (Wash.) Knterprise in which it was stated that meat markets in that town should he rcipiired to put up j screens to protect the public from the tilth of the tlies that swarmed around j the places. Krnest Busch attacked the editor of The Knterprise with a stick and was shot down on the main street ' of the town. I'raninore, t'nl.. asserts itself the healthiest community in the State, basing its declaration upon the fact that the local cemetery has not had a Krnve dug since ISit'l. tin- date of the last funeral in ( ranmore. Since that time several residents of the community have died in other sections of tin- State, but it is a remarkable fact that not a single iieath has occurred in the community since lsild. Internal revenue agents have been instructed to herein a campaign to force the payment of admission taxes collected by theaters ami moving picture tmoses ItelMU-ts to the treasure de part im-iit were suit! to reveal that probably a,0(H) such anuist-int-ut places hail failt'tl to turn in tin- taxes collected front patrons. Prosecutions have been ordered wlu-ro wilful refusal to pay the tax was shown. Launched at Mouliiii-in. Ilritish liulia. in 1T1HI, tin- ohl convict ship. Success, now touring tin- world, is ti.-d up in Savannah, (in., for ivpnirs. The Sllt-i't-ss, said to lie 111* * oldest ship afloat, was tirst used as an arna-d merchantman, enquired in Oriental trallic, and had sovt-ral i-iii-ountfrs with pirati- ships. Shi- was converted into a prison shi|> in I SOL.', and refhristfiu-d by tin- convicts as the "Ocean I l?-ll. * * Chit-aoo ran niakt- no headway against tin- constantly increasing wave of criiiu- until tin- parole law is ivpt-uh-d. according to Slate s Attorney lloyne. Statistics show that criminals are bein>; poroletl taster than they can he convicted. Notorious desperadoes, old timers in crime, are convicted at ^reat cost to the taxpayers and they barely reach the penitentiary in time to re^isrter. when they are turned loose to be^in all over attain. according to Mr. lloyne. The American Federation of Labor is preparing to "picket" both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in an etlort to obtain platform planks declaring against the Kansas industrial court law and other proposi tions which arc objectionable t?> union labor. It is declared that these coinmil tees will watch very carefully the writings of platforms and incidentally will make known hostility and friendships to certain candidates. The union men, it is declared, intend to be much more persistent in their demands than in previous conventions as a part of labor's general policy of entering politics with a bang. nik f NORTH CAROLINA HOLDS PRIMARY TOR GOVERNOR ' Out- of tl)<' most interesting cam- ' paigns that North Carolina has passed * through in recent years for the Democratic nomination for the governorship may culminate Saturday in the primary election. There are three candidates for the nomination. Cameron Morrison j of Charlotte. O. Max (Jardner of Shelby I and Robert N. I'a ge of Itiscoe. Kach has traveled thousands of miles over the State speaking to the voters, t Jardner is now lieutenant governor, Cage is a former congressman and Morrison is I a lawyer who has not heretofore sought j puldic otliee. Mecklenburg. Morrison's home county, just across the State line from York j county, is expected to give the Char- I lotto man a big vote, but friends of I'age and (Jardner who have recently been in Fort Mill stated that at best the Charlotte candidate v\ould not get a majority of the Mecklenburg vote, though they Were willing to concede him a plurality there. Morrison's friends, however, are counting heavily on the | support he is said to be receiving from the Simmons machine and are certain lie will be in the second primary. (Jardner is the youngest of the three ' candidates, being only .'to years of age, ' but he has lived long enough to make a big success farming and practicing law. Last year on his farm near Shelby he raised lot) bales of cetton on lf>0 acres. Mr. (Jardner has not been without his troubles in the campaign, however, for the labor unions have been after him. .Mr. rages campaign extended over most of the State ami he is said to have made a good impression everywhere he spoke. For several years Mr. Page represented his district in Congress, hot voluntarily retired at the expiration of the term In* was serving when war * was declared on Cermany, stating that he could not agree with all the policies j of the president and that he would not stay in Congress and vote against his I consciema or what the people consid- i ered the interest of the country. i If neither of the three candidates re- i reives a majority in the primary Satur day the two candidates with the high- f est vote will enter the second primary, to lie held a few days hence. The hest informed politicians in North Carolina ! are said to have agreed that a second ' 'primary will he necessary and that the ' race will then he between Morrison and 1 Page, with the chances in favor of Page j | winning the nomination. | i (ioNcrnor to Name Indian Commission. ' 1 Word comes from Columbia that I ' Coventor Cooper has decided to ap- j ' I point .1. S. Hri?e of York, NV. H. Hope ol liock lini and Koss S. Stew- j art ol Lancaster as the personnel of the i ' commission authorized by a joint rcso- I 1 lulion passed at the session of the (ieneral Assembly last winter to in vesicate tin- claim of the Catawba j ' | Indians against the State and report | | its findings to the (ieneral Assembly 1 i next January, with the view of the | ' State reaching a settlement with the i Indians. For years the (ieneral As| soluble has made an annual appropria- 1 | tion of $7,add for the Indians. The reservation of the Catawba Indians is nine miles southeast of Fort Mill and consists of <">">( acres of as poor land as there is in York county. I : Friends of the Indians say that if the i1 j State is to continue as the ward of the [ 1 Indians better provision should be j 1 ' made for their upkeep. In recent years . ' many of the Indians, finding it im-J possible to earn a living on the reser- I vat ion. have moved away, some Ruing to I Jock Hill to work in the cotton mills, others moving to Columbia and still others finding employment as { laborers on nearby farms. Ollkcrs Seize liouor Kll'orts ??t" lliiract1 Johnson, State constable, ami a number of other of- , tieers to overtake ami arrest a party of men suspected of having liquor in , an autoinoliile Saturday afternoon in , Kort Mill township were not rewarded with success, hut six gallons of liquor which the men are helieved to have left in the underbrush near the old stockade, less than a mile from town, was seized ami taken to York by Mr. Johnson. It was thought that the I liquor was transferred to another automobile by the men and then taken to the place where it was found. I.ate Saturday afternoon 1'olice Officer WugstutV made another seizure of liquor, this time in the eor|R?rate limits of the town, when he found 2J gallons secreted in a honeysuckle vine in the rear of a home near the graded school building. The liquor was in fruit jais. No one has been arrested in connection with the case, tail Mr. Wagstatf is confident lie knows the name of the man who owned the liquor. . gV;' ' t" >' - - ;'v ORT1 FORT MILii, S. C., THU] ii "" I S A ATTORNEY GENERAL MITCHELL I CRATIC NOM1NAT1C JUNIOR ORDER GROWS RAPIDLY IN FORT MILL Friends of good citizenship will he leased at the rapid growth of the Junor Order. United American Mechanics, 11 Fort Mill. The local council of this atriotic order. Fort Mill council No. J.'IT, organized ahout a year ago with 40 members, has recently had accessions to its membership until it now has 1 IN members, counting those to be initiated this week. The Junior Order is not a labor organization, as might be concluded from its name. It is a fraternal and l?atriotic organization and draws its membership from men in good health itiid of good moral character between the ages of IS and .">() years. The Junior order stands for the American Ha*?, the home lite of the country, its public ichool system, its democracy, its church, its Bible and all of its free institutions, Out opposes the coming into this country of diseased, ignorant, vicious and lawless foreigners and has done much iii influencing the restricted immigration laws of the country. The Junior Order is ilcmocratic and as such draws its membership from men in all walks of life. It is a significant fact that no drunkard can become a member of the order, and it is also sig- i nilicant that SI American congressmen lire members of the order. The Junior Order is not "junior" with reference to its age, for it is f>7 years old; but it is "junior" with respect to growth and activity. The oiler has more than JtMI.OOO members in the United States, its only field of operations It is comparatively young in South t'arolina. but has more than'J,INK) in. ?n in I In* Sitiihi : i v if I is irrnwitiir rapidly, Its Rain in South Carolina last yeurwasinore than2,(HMi m?'nibt*fs. The I order lias social and fraternal features, also a sick benefit and insurance tor its members. Kach council legislates for itu-lf in conformity with the laws of the State and national councils. The State council of South Carolina, made up of t lit' State council officers and representatives from all the local councils, consists of about 2U0 members and will hold its next meeting in Union on the second Tuesday in August. Dr. J. W. II. Dyches, councilor of the Fort Mill council, is chaplain of the State council, which ollice lie has held for tInlast four years. A. 1,. Parks is tinrepresentative of the Fort Mill council to the Stat?- coun-il. Believing in the Mag, tin- Bible and the public school, the Junior Order delights in placing a copy of the Bible in the school room and an American Mug upon the Mag pole of every public school wherever the opportunity offers. Interest hi Census figures. Crowds Rather daily at the census bureau in Washington to receive the latest census figures, and then conies the rush of newspaper men, congressmen and civic organization representatives to be the tirst to wire the count 4"home." "W , v v?^ - v -- -- * - v- 1 v? r * Mill EISDAY, JUNE 3, 1920. ? h f:- <:' A> < ->i-v Mill 1ALMER, CANDIDATE FOR DEMO)N FOR PRESIDENT. BISHOP DARLINGTON WILL PRESIDE AT CONFERENCE Announcement has just been made that Bishop IJ. V. W. Darlington will pi eside over the sessions of the Rock Hill district conference to l?e held at St. John's Methodist church. Fort Mill, beginning at o'clock Wednesday evening, June 9, and continuing through Friday, June 11. Bishop Darlington's visit to Fort Mill is looked forward to with much interest and pleasure by the members of St. John's church. Ha is one of the best loved bishops of the Southern Methodist church and is a man of deep piety and scholarly attainments. During his stay in Fort Mill Bishop Darlington will be entertained in the lionu? of the Kev. W. K. Bauknight, pastor of St. John's. Bishop Darlington's home is in West Virginia. He is now serving his third year as bishop of the conferences of South Carolina and North Carolina. Besides Bishop Darlington, other distinguished churchmen who will attend the conference are Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, president of Wotford college; Dr. John t). Willson, president of Lander college; Dr. Rugh, president of Columbia college; the RcV. T. C. Odell, superintendent of Kpworth orphanage; Dr. W. C. Kirkland, editor of The | Southern Christian Advocate, and the Rev. J. K. T. Major, presiding elder of the Rock Hill district. The opening sermon of the conference wdl he preached by the Rev. | M. T. Wharton of Hickory drove. | About 11H delegates are expected to attend the conference and they will be entertained in the Methodist homes of the town. All of the pastors of the Rock Hill district ami one other delegate from each church will compose the membership of the conference, the work of which will consist largely of reports of spiritual and financial conditions throughout the district. Sunnay school and missionary work and the examination of young men applying for license I tn iirearli 'I'll.. m ..C ...... ference is the Rev. R. I.. Holroyd of of Rock Mill. Now telephone Switchboard. S. I.. Meucham, proprietor of the Kurt Mill telephone exchange, has just finished the installation of a new switch board which promises much in the way of improved service for subscribers. The new switch board is I provided with a number of features ' lurking in the old switch tioard which j it supplanted and will accommodate j :tno lines. Features of the switch i board are the night alarm, rode alarm, double supervision of ull cord circuits and repeating calls on every circuit, i It was installed with a minimum of I inconvenience to subscribers, only two lines being disconnected during the time j the work was in progress. Full day I and night service is now maintained by the exchange, w hich has alsiut :UMi subscribers. IVnsion money for Confederate vetel ans is now being disbursed. i p' Time; WOOD NOW IN FRONT OF OTHER CANDIDATES With .June 8, the date for the Republican national convention at Chicago, rapidly approaching, and practically all of the delegates* elected, the situation shows that no candidate has enough votes pledged to give him any decided advantage. Campaign managers for the three men in the lead. Wood, Johnson and Lowden, each predict success for their respective candidates, with a decisive vote on the thin! or fourth ballot. General Wood, on the face of returns to date, will show the most strength 011 the first ballot. In addition, he carried the preferential primary in Vermont, but that State's eight delegates have not yet been chosen by the State's convention. Wood's nearest competitor in the delegations already pledget! is Senator Hiram Johnson of California. Governor Frank (). i.owden of Illinois is third, while Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio has 39 votes from his home State. There are, however, contests pending in 12 States and the District of Columbia, involving 104 delegates. The credentials committee has been busy iu Chicago this week threshing out these contests. Campaign managers at Chicago agree that there will he no nomination on the first ballot. The complimentary vote for the large list of "favorite sons" may, in fact, they say, he so large that it will destroy the usual significance of the first hullol as an indication of the strength of the various candidates. Ho) Scouts Live Organization. The Fort Mill troop. Hoy Scouts of America, has made gratifying progress since it was organized in the town hall on March 11. Although there was a successful troop of Hoy Scouts in Fort Mill a few years ago and there still were here several members of the old organization, it was deemed best to form a new organization. Col. T. H. Spratt, George Fish and C. S. Link were selected as the troop committee. They have since rendered invaluable service to the organization, one of their duties being to recommend a scoutmaster. Bruce H. Stribling was indorsed for the place and he has since been commissioned by national headquarters. During the first week of his service as scoutmaster, Mr. Stribling enrolled .'?? boys, but before these boys could be made full-fledged scouts it was neces sary for them to pass the "tenderfoot" tests, which include familiarity with lit i.wtMr., ? " -""J. iv-niin/ailiwii, l"|? n for the flag and the ability to tie nine different kinds of knots and know tlieir uses. Twenty-five boys have passed these tests and others are working to perfect themselves. The troop committee and scoutmaster are planning for a ten-day camping trip for the scouts during the month of August, but the details are yet to he worked out. Wants Road Repaired "I venture the assertion that the condition of the old State road about which The Times printed an article a few weeks ago and in which it was stated that tin* road was greatly in need of repairs has nothing on the Kurt Mill-Rock Hill highway," observed u Fort Mill citizen yesterday. "The public is entitled to more consideration than is shown by the authorities in the neglect of this road. What becomes of the automobile license fund and the other funds created by law for the improvement of the public highj ways'.' I should think the neottle mn/hi to he given a little light on the subject. The road between Fort Mill and tKV Catawba river bridge could be put in good condition with the expenditure of a relatively small amount of money, but for some reason the work is not done. I am told that a few weeks ago a citizen of this place offered to repair the road without charging tincounty a cent of profit for the work, j but the authorities after promising to 'see about it' never did anything." To Recount Michigan Vote Under an agreement reached by counsel in the Ford-Newberry election conI test before the senate elections com, mittee, all ballots now in existence will be recounted and testimony will be ta| ken as to the circumstances surround| ing the election in precincts where the ballots have not been obtained. I Should the determination of the committee be that Senator Newberry has I not a majority of the votes cast, ac' cording to Newberry's counsel lie will resign at once. Should Newberry's recent conviction for spending Uh> much money in the election stand, he added, "my client would have no grounds to j stand upon in opposing expulsion." 5. $1.25 Per Year FORT MILL TEAM LOSES AND WINS AT BASEBALL 'I'lu' Fort Mill liaseliall team met defeat, S to <>. at tlie hands of the last Cole Company team of Charlotte Friday afternoon on the locals' grounds. It was an exciting and heart-wrenching concesi ior tin* Fort Mill fans, lot it was anybody's game until the last man was out. Fort Mill apparently had the stronger team, but a series of atroeioiis errors, due principally toovci confidence, and lack of pep, brought the home boys the short end of the score. Yarborough pitched better ball for the home team than t'arwell did for the Cole aggrelation, but the superior fielding of the visitors counted in the undoing of Fort Mill. Manager i'uin was on the job throughout tin game and Kay, a substitute catcher, also tried to inject some life into the home team, but their joint eH'orts fell sb.it of the end sought. "Whacker" Smith was in the game as usual and Ktmhiell also bit well. A large crowd saw tingame. The cotton mills shut down and many id the stores closed to permit tlie employees to witness the contest. Fort Mill "came back" in the game with Aragoii mills Saturday afternoon and in the ninth inning squeezed out a 4 to .'{ victory, thanks to the timely bit by Ferguson. '1 hose teams will play again in Kock Hill Saturday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon the Standard Oil team of Charlotte came to Fort Mid and trimmed the home club ;> to This afternoon Fort Mill is playing Chadwick-lloskins mills on the home grounds. Soldiers lavor Bonus Legislation The proposed withdrawal of the South Carolina branch of the American I.egion from the national organization because of alleged dissatisfaction over the attitude of the national organization for bonus legislation by Congress will receive no support from the Fort Mill |>ost. in the opinion of Arthur t". Lytle, adjutant. At a meeting ??t the Fort Mill post a few weeks ago the proposed bonus legislation was dis cussed and the |K>st went on record unanimously in favor of it. "It is a strange thing," remarked Mr. Lytle yesterday, "that all the congressmen from South Carolina voted against the bonus hill while the North Carolina congressman voted for it. The soldiers of tin* two States performed like service in the World war and why there should have been this difference of opinion by the representatives of the sister States as to what the men are entitled to is a little strange. It is beside the question to talk of capitalizing patriotism in connection with bonus legislation. We went to the front and tried to do our duty, with our lives constantly in danger and suffering many hardships, for all of which we received poor financial compensation. Clerks in the departments at Washington sat on easy much as we got. They were in no danger of harm from the enemy. In my opinion an overwhelming number of tin* South Carolina veterans favor I lie passage of bonus legislation." Demonstration Course at NNiiithmp. The annual Stale home ilemons 11 at ion short course will be held al Winthmp college .June 4 to June II. There will be about f>00 women and girls in attendance, coming from every section of the State, from the largest cities to the smallest rural districts. These women and girls have scholarships because of the quality of work accomplished during this year in various home demonstration clubs, which in ciuue cooking, sewing, jm?u11 r> ami tomato clubs for tin-girls, bread and home demonstration clubs for the Women. Some of the la-st touchers and demonstrators in the country hu\e been secured to lecture at this short course. \ isits Old Home in llalv .1. (!. Sassi, well known monument dealer and |s>pular York citizen, who is known to many people in the eastern section of the county, will leave soon on a trip to his old home in Italy which he left about .'to years ago. Mr. Sassi plans to surprise relatives and friends in his native town and for this reason has not notified them of his coming. He will be accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Sassi. The village is in the rugged mountain country on the Swiss frontier, being separated from that country by a river. Since corning to York a number of years ago Mr. Sassi has become a successful business man ami a public spirited citizen who has been identified with every movement having for its object the welfare of the community.