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1 EitablUhed 1891. SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM MAYN SOURCES More than $4,000,000,000 wan appropriated by the last Congress to pay the. expenses of the Federal government for the 12 months beginning July 1. This I* approximately four times the amount required annually before the war. Mrs. Garrett Bollinger, member of a prominent family of SpurtanUurg county, died while sitting in a church pew at Inman Sunday. She was firt years of age and had not 'been III previously. Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause of her ? death. By resolution, the Utah State democratic convention went on record Monday as favoring William fl. McAdoo, former secretnry of the treasury, as the Democratic .nominee at the San Francisco convention June 28, Flight unlnstrueted delegates and eight alternates were chosen. The reason given hy Fid ward W. ?. / Mishaw of Chicago for robbing 1"? churches in the past three months was that there was "more money in robbing churches than in working us an electrician." Church property valued at $112 was found in his possession when he was arrested in a Gorman Baptist church. Feminine America has thrown her hat into the ring! -From the Atlan i ?ic 10 me racinc, rrom Canada to Mexico, candidates and campaign managers are turning anxious eyes to the more than 25,000,000 wom?r> voters who will have a large part in determining the result of next November's presidential election. Twelve months will see the government bonded warehouses drulned of every drop of the approximately 60.000,000 gallons of whiskey on hand When national prohibition went into effept, unless there Is an Immediate check on the withdrawal both undei bogus and genuine certificates. according to Washington official*. The super-dreadnought Tennessee. . the largest fighting ship afloat, has been placed in commission at the hew York navy yard. The entire personnel of the ship, from Oapt. Ft. H. Leigh down, is composed of men recruited from the State of Tennessee. The ship was constr icted at a cost of $20,000,000, Is 625 feet long and has a displacement of 32.500 .tons. A smsll tornado Monday afternooi struck a two-story building at the .crossing of Laurens and Washington roads in the suburbs of Greenville and literally tore the structure to pieces. Miss Ammy Stone, an elderly woman residing on the second floor .nvais 4V-* ?* ? * me suno, who was in ner rooms nt th,e time, was dropped to the ground with debris, but was not scglcusly hurt. Because or the decreased uceugr planted, there is little prospect of a decline in the prices of foodstuffs for at least one year. In the opinion of E. O. Montgomery, head of tho foreign markets section of the department of agriculture. Prices will stay up despite the fact that exportation of foodstuffs has decreased approximately 50 per cent, during April, as compared with April lust year, Mr. Montgomery said. The deciease in the acreage planted is due to the shortage of labor on the farms. Organized labor of the United Btates was appealed to by Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor in Montreal Monday to give its support to the non-pnrtlsun poli'ical program of the federation and to urge upon Congress the adoption cf the League of Nations. Chir:ctcrising the failure of the United States to ratify the covenant as "pitiable," Mr. Gompers. speaking before the annual convention of the federation, said: "If the .luestion was submitted to the people without any other entangling problem-i. 1 am positive that the people of our country would nay /by an overwhelming xote that It desires the l.cpgue of Nations." Cyclooes In Tropics. The moat violent cyclones originate In tropical latitudes. In the Atlantic ocean to the north and eaat ? of West Indian Islands, and In the Pacific, In the China sea and In the neighborhood of the Philippine Islands. The reason they are so destructive Is because they are carried such great distances. The West Indi.dtan cyclones are attracted toward ' the Qulf stream by the great volume of heated air which always hangs ' v-o\er It and follows Its course, so the cyclones of the Pacific follow tho course of Kuro Btwo, the great oce- ' anlc current which passes around ' the Blast Indian archipelago, the shores of China and the Japanese Islands. Cyolones may be anywhere froip BO to &00 miles In diameter and may travel over a path of S.OOO miles la stent. ' ' ; \ * rhe f TYSON FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. Thirtieth I >1 vision General Seeking Democratic Nomination. A matter of considerable political interest in South Carolina is the announcement that Gen. L?. D. Tyson of hnoxville, Tenn., is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for vicepresident. General Tyson commanded the 59th brigade, 30th division, of whclh the 118th infantry (First South Carolina) was a unit, in the World war nd is therefore known in all parts of the State. Recently the Tennessee Democratic convention instructed its delegates to the San Francisco convention to support Gent ral Tyson for vice-president and he is now making an effort to secure the vote of the South Carolina delegtion. General Tyson won the distinguished service cross In the World war and is highly regarded by the men who served under him. He and Col. T. B. Spratt of Fort Mill were warm friends during the war and their friendship has since continued as was illustrated by the visit some months ago of General Tyson to Fort Mill ppon the invitation of Colonel Spratt to participate In the services incident to the presentation to W. L. Hall of the congressional medal awarded his son. Sergt. Thomas L?. Hall, who was killed in action in France as a member of the Fort Mill company. General Tyson has been prominent in Democratic politics In Tennessee for years. He came within half a dozen votes of being elected to the United Stntes senate some years ago when I.uke I-en was chosen by a coalition of recalcitrant Democrats and Republicans. He is a large cotton manufacturer and is vice-president of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association. U tlUlL*!* If ?Zf IlTltiV * ?. n.im r^i aiiiinnriUU nr?:%iv, Highly Enlooniod Farmer I'assni Away N?'?r Fort Mill. J. Harvey Klmhrell, well Known ur.d highly esteemed. farmer, died at his home two miles east of Fort Mill Sunday evening at a o'clock, after suffering Intensely for the last two months from a dropsical affection. Mr. ICimhrell was about 77 years old and rs a youth did his full duty as a Confederate soldier in a South Carolina regiment. He was an excellent citizen and was a member of the I '-api 1st church. Mr. Kimbrell was l orn in Fort Mill township and hud resided In the community all his lile. It wall said of hint after his death thut he was never heard to speak unkindly of r.ny one and that so far as was known he did not have an enemy. No one knew Mr. lCimhrell but to he his friend and the news of his death was received In the community with genuine regret. Mr. Kimbrell is survived by his widow, who was Miss Hettle Wilkinson. an<l two brothers. J. S. and W. D. Kimbrell. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon and the hurial was in the Fort Mill cemetery. ? HEADS TOBACCO STATES. North Carolina Rwrtvos High Prices for Particular Bright heat. North Carolina, because of the value of the tobacco crop produced and sold In the State during the last season, takes first place among the tobacco-growing States in the count-y. The high pricks paid for the particular bright leaf plant which North Carolina produces is largely responsible for the standing of the State in comparison with other tobacco-growing regions. There was also a big lnotease in the amount of tobacco produced. The increased use of cigarettes made from North Carolina's bright leal plant is responsible to a large orient for the high prices received >> growers in the Piedmont counties of that State. To Again Occupy Church. After worshiping for several weeks in the town hall, the Presbyterian congregation next Sunday will resum-s the use of its church, which for some time has been undergoing repairs incident to the Installation of a pipe i organ. The regulur Sunday school j and preaching services will be held j Sunday morning and that evening the pastor, the Itev. J. H. Black, wilt< again occupy his pulpit. Following the morning service e. congregational ! n.eeting wll be held at which two , deacons will be elected and the advisability of the church purchasing an individual communion service will be considered. The report of the committee which had charge of the erection of the new manse also will be considered at the congregational meeting. The pipe organ, with Miss I.ucy Fish as organist, will be used for the first time at the services Sun- 1 day. ". -S 'A' ' %.. -*' ."?K ' * w \* ORT 1 FOBT MILL, S. C~, THU1 CHANCES OF DEMORATS BELIEVED TO BE GOOD There Ir nothing for the Democrats to feel discouraged over In the nomination of Senator Harding by the Republicans, In the opinion of Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrlck of Fort Mill, who Ir a close observer of national politics. "I was just a little disappointed." sold Dr. Klrkpatrick, "that the promised row In the convention over the League of Nations did not materialbe, for If Johnson and Borah had bolted, as they threatened to do, and Johnson had then announced himself on independent candidate for the presidency, it would have helped our party wonderfully, for these men, and the other influential politicians who would have gone with them out of the Republican party, have an immense following In the Northwest and on the Pacific coast whose defection from the Republican ranks would have assured a number of States In those sections to the Democratic nominee, and. 1 think, would have made certain his'election. But however that may be. neither Johnson nor Borah is going to exert himself In behalf of the election of Harding. Unless Johnson was absolutely 1 trlncere In many of the pre-convention statement^ he made about the so-called 'old guard' Republicans and Is ready to eat his words, any support he can give Harding will be half-hearted at best. "One thing I think the Chicago convention proves Is that the Republicans are not awake to the fact that times have changed In the 'last few years. They do not seem to realise that there has been a wonderful upheaval In this country since the United States entered the World war and that the old stock arguments which they formerly could take to the country with the hope of Indorse-' ment are now out of date. No party run win the presidency this yeur without l{s candidate making the race on a forward-looking platform. I do not so regard the Republican platform. .. bo me success or raiiuro of trie Democratic nominee depends much upon the sort of platform constructed for him at San Francisco. One thing that appears evident to me Is that some overtures should be made to organized iahor along the lines already Indicated by the friendly attitude of Wilson and McAdoo. The convention of the American Federation of Labor in session at Montreal last week Indorsed almost unanimously a resolution denouncing the ltepublican platform as unfair to lobor. Therein lies the hope of much for the Democrats. There are between four and Ave million members of the federation in America and there is every indication that they will vote together this year as-* they never have done before. If our'platform builders at San Francisco are wise they will take steps to insure the organized labor vote for the nominee. "Senator Harding is a product of the Northern plutocrats, whose chief spokesman is Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania. Penrose could not at tend the Chicago convention, but it v He a noticeable fact that the minute word came from him that he was entirely friendly to the nomination of Harding the delegates fell all over themselves scrambling to get on the Ohio senator's band wagon. I do not expect to see a repetition of this sort of thing ats San Francisco, hut I think there is the danger that Bryan may have too much to say about the platform and the nominee. If he is to bORs the convention, then our ohances of winning the election in November are not nearly so good as they otherwise would be. Bryan is a compromiser on everything but prohibition. The convention cannot afford to pay much attention to what he ' Bays. For Instance, he would write Into the platform a sort of milk and water Indorsement of the president's conduct of the war and the peace treaty he brought back from Versailles. There should he no dodging In the Democratic platform, in niy opinion; we owe it to the administration and to ourselves to Indorse unreservedly the efforts of the president for world peace, Including the T?engue of Nations, and If we rise to the occasion my opinion is that the nominee will he elected. My personal preference Is for McAdoo, hut If the convention considers it wise to put .forward Governor Cox I think he will prove a strong candidate." Dr. Kirkpatrick concluded. The Fort Mill hasebll team played two games with the Aragon team last week, winning the first game and losing the second. It is said the Fort Mill team will he reorganised this week and will for the remainder ' f the season be composed only of home players. % Mill ' B.SDAY, JUNE 17, 1920. TICKET OF REPUBLICANS HARDING AND COOLIDGE Warren Q. Harding, senator of the United States from Ohio, and Calvin C'oolldge. governor of Massachusetts, were nominated respectively for the presidency and vice-presidency Saturday night by the Republican convention. in session in Chicago. Harding's Kecord. Warren G. Harding has always been a resident of Ohio, which State he has represented as United States senator since 1914. In private business life he is publisher of the Marion (Ohio) Star. \ He was born on a farm, neur the village of Blooming Grove, Morrow county, Ohio, November 2, 1865. the eldest of eight children. His father, George T. Harding, was a country doctor whose forbears came from Scotland. Before going to Ohio, the Hurdlngs were residents of Pennsylvania. where some of them were massacred by Indians. Others fought in the Revolutionary war. The mother of Warren, Mrs. Phoebe Dickerson, was descended from an old' Dutch family, the Van Kirks. In his youth Warren Harding lived the life of a farmer boy attending the vllluge school until 14 years of age, when he entered Ohio Centrul college of Iberia, from which he was graduated. As editor of the college paper he first displayed a talent for Journalism. He was obliged to stop school now and then and earn the money with which to pursue his college course. At one time he cut corn, at another painted barns and at still another drove a team and helped to grade the roadbed of a new railway. At 17 he taught a district school and played a horn In the vllluge brass hand. At odd times he worked in the village printing office, in time becoming an expert typesetter and later a linotype operator. He is a practical pressman and a Job printer, and as a ' make up man" Is said to have few oouals. The luck piece he has ear~ried as a senator is the old printer's rule h? used when he was sticking t> pe. In 1884 *>r. Harding moved his family to Marlon. A short time afterward the father niirphuml for Warren Harding The Star, then a small paper. On the puper Warren Harding performed every function from devil to managing editor. Senator Harding la closely ldcntltled with many other large business enterprises In Marion and other parts of the State. He is director of u bank and several large manufacturing plants and is a trustee of the Trinity Daptint church. Mr. Harding has twice represented the 13th senatorial district of Ohio In the State legislature and served one term as lieutenant governor. At the 1914 election Hurding was elected United States senator. Senator Harding -married Miss Florence King in 1891. Ticket' Blouses Democrats. Writing from Chicago In the Charlotte Observer of Monday. "Buck" Bryant, who attended the Kepubllcan national convention last week, says: v'The Hhow Is , over and the delegates are on the way to their respective States. Democratic leaders are pleased with the results. They consider the platform and the ticket weak. "The adopotion of the meaninglesn platform and the nomination of Harding took all of the life out of the Republican convention, but the old guard leaders are satisfied with the results. Had the plan to give 8enator Denroot the second place been carried out Penrose. Hmoot, McCormlck and company would have been happy. The naming of Coolldge as a running mate to Harding Is considered a great mistake. Coolidge is popular but is of the same type of man as Harding. "Hundreds of delegates are sore over the results of their convention, leading partisans of the Borah and -Johnson groups believe that It will be hard. If not Impossible, to pull Harding and Coolldge through. They realize that the task is a difficult one. The pill Is bitter. * "The only people really pleased with the results of the Republicans are the reactionaries who think that the country Is tired of 'progressives' and President Wilson, and wish to return to the peaceful calm and big business security of the old days. 'Senator Harding's nomination war. & culmination of plans deep laid months ago hut which had been abandoned because of the WoodJohnson primary contest which absorbed the Interest of the people." I.abor Opposes Republican*. Organized labor has thrown down the raunlet to the Republican party ffWffjgjpOwBBEr ^ " ? \ 'V : y ''* ^ ... ' ' . ' \ r-.'T y " Time? COIi. SPRINGS DOUBLES (ilFr. I'ornMT Fort MUl Citixen Contributes to Presbyterian fCmlowmciit.' dowment. Fort Mill friends of Col. I^eroy Springs of Lancaster, who owns both the cotton mills and large farming interests here, will read with interest that he has contributed $50,000 to the $1,000,000 endowment campaign being conducted by the Presbyterian synod of South Carolina. This is the . largest individual contribution to date except that of J. M. Graham of Greenville, who gave the original (tOO.OOO to the fund. Mr. Graham Is also known In Fort Mill by reason of the fact that his son. J. Graham, married Miss Ma he' Klrkputrick. daughter of Or. and Mrs. T. S. Kirkpatrick. Colonel Springs recently gave $25. 000 to the fund and a few days ago r. ado it $50,000 l?y giving the additional $25,000. The million dollar endowment Is for four institutions under the South Carolina synod. One-half of tin < ney goes to Presbyterian College of South Carolina: one-fourth to Chi Cora college and the remainder b divided equally between Cotumbis Theological seminary and Thornwel! orphanage. Numbers of smaller contributions arc beng received and there Is evert indication that the campaign will b? a success. I.AltGK MOVEMENT OK FRKIGHT. Southern 0|*>ratliig Many Trains lie* tween Columbia uiid Charlotte. An unusual amount of freight is being handled at present by the Southern railway over the tracks be tween Columbia and Charlotte, from one to three trains passing through Fort Mill every hour of the dav and i.'rht. A railroad man speaking ye*-! t? rday of the largo volume of traffic | said that it was douhtful whether ho nu ny trains h^id lieen operated over these tracks at any time since the read was first opened from Columb'a to Charlotte on July i, 18f.2, ?J8 years ago. A considerable part of the traffic is produce front the lower sec. tion of the State which is being curried to Northern markets. The movement of produce is now at its height and will begin to dwindle appreciably within the next week or ten days. The maximum number of trains lieietofore operated over this road, the old Ohurlottc, Columbia and Augusta, was during the World war, when much rolling stock was necessary to move soldiers from place to place and to transport army sup. piles and munitions of war from one section to another, but the number of trains engaged in that service in 1917 and 1918 did not equal the number now required to move the volume of freight consigned to the road.\ PRESIDENT IS PI.EASED. Acknowledge* Telegram From South Carolina Fall tor-. J. P. Tumulty, secretary to Prosldent Wilson, has made the following acknowledgment of the resolution hy William Hanks adopted In Hock Hill by the South Carolna Press assoelation, assuring the president of the loyalty of the South Carolina editors | to the Wilson policies: "The president is deeply touched hy your message of yesterday, and he asks me to thank you and all concerned very warmly for your generous action. He Is greatly cheered h; your friendly solicitude and your good will." end now will appeal to the democrats for recognition of its platform demands. This decision came when the American Federation of I arbor, in annual convention in Montreal, unanimously condemned the Republican platform adopted In Chicago as a document I tit IIUHl ill I in urtcuPf ui tin- runii.' n i of labor," and one that "proposed an | ii dustrial enslavement and an abrogation of rights as previous as life itself." Declaring that the Republican Tarty had "turned its back upon Jailor." the convention instructed Samuel Oompers and Matthew Woll, president and vice-president of the federation, to submit in "identical f?im" to the Democratic party contention at San Francisco the proposals of labor which were presented by them to the Republicans in t~*hifago. In a lengthy report, bitterly a# sailing and condemning the various planks of the Republican platform, T'resldent Oompers and Mr. Woll brought the matter before the delegates. The labor leaders* ind'.cunent of the party was greeted with enthusiastic cheers and applause, while hisses and "hoos" Interrupted the reading of the Republican planks. ?. * ' S1.25 Per Year UNITED STATES WANTS SLACKERS FROM MEX CO | The return to this country of I'nlt| ed States draft slackers, who lied to I Mexico in 1U17-18 to escape service against Germany, has been requested of the Mexican authorities by tho I ulted State government. It is es uniuted that several thotisan.l of these slackers are still in Mexico. A number of the men who dodged the draft in the I'nwd States by itceit?K across the Mexican border are now prominent in anti-American activities in Mexico. Hue of them, i.inn 10. A. tiale, formerly of New > Vork city, is the leader of the bolshevist element in that count r>. it? Is publishing a bolshevist organ in Mexico City. Cleiicrut rdiiegon lui received the suggestion of the l rated States in a friendly spirit, bin n.is T.ot comniitted himself, lie bat t?eeit assured by the authorities of the L'lilted States that the return ot the draft dodgers who sought refuge lit Mexico will win the friendship 01 Americans, particularly members of the American Kegiou. lit It Y SKN VIi: CAMtlPMi:, I-111 reus >lan Kilters Itacc for Scat Now Held by K. I>. Sinitli. W. C. lrby. son of the late 1'niied Slates Senator J. I.. M. lrby, a few days ago announced himself a candidate for the United Stales and will enter the campaign when it opens at Sumter June Mr. lrby represented I.uurens county in the legislature for ten years and four years ago he was a candidate for governor. In making his announcement for the senate race. Mr. Irliy gave out a statement in whieh lie Indicates some of the things he will advocate in Ins campaign speeches, latter lie will issue a platform of principles. < ?ne of the chief things Mr. lrby will advocate will be the establishment of government bonded warehouses, not oidy for cotton but for perishable pioducts, meat, poultry, potatoes, etc. fl'he adoption of a system of such cold storuge warehouses will be in the Interest of the farmer, who is frequently placed at a disadvantage In disposing of his hogs, potatoes or other home grown products, for the reason that there is nr. marketing system and he must eel! his produce when the local tnai ket may be high or low. The surplus of the fanners crops needs protection, ail il can be giv en hi in in this wnv, Mr. Irhy thinks. WAK TO lUvVI II OX \ Ilil.A. Now Mexican * Bovcrnmeol hci hins Intention" or "('leaning llouso." War to the death lias lioen dcelaroj against Punclio Villa, tlie outlaw lender, and his followers hy the new Mexican government. "We are going to clean house in Mexico and we are going to get Villa, dead or alive, it" it takes the last dollar in the tr?-arary and the last soldier in tin; Mexican army," declared (ion. I' lOlias Calles, acting minister of war. "Banditry must he eliminated in Mexico and the republic made safe for foreigners and outside capital, We are opening a campaign of extermination against Villa and his followers. An effort was made to negotiate with Villa and obtain the surrender of himself and men. hut it has failed." continued (leneral l'alios. To stimulate tin- campaign against the famous rehol chief, all federal soldiers have heen notified that the gov eminent will pay a reward of $100,000 for Villa, dead or alive Villa was asked to go to Sonora and await the outcome of the presidential elections, which will he held Scotem ter 5. lit* refused and demanded to be placed in su promo eoniinan.l of 1 lie rebel force* in the Slate of Oliihuuhuu. but this proposal was rejtcted. Three troop trains, hearing more than 2,f>00 soldiers, have left Mexico City for Chihuahua to join the federal forces already on Villa's trail. General ('alios said the pip.in was to form a "steel ring" about the central part of tho State, where Villa is hiding, and to close in gradually. A few minutes after setting a d>naniite trap for burglars, who had entered his store three times, Alexander Thompson, a merchant of Ghent, K>\, accidentaily set oT llie explosive and was seriously injured. To catch the burglars Thompson trained up an electric attachment v ith n stick of dynamite. After insorting the percussion cap lie accidentally touched the cord that made the electrical circuit. More than #0,000 troops that have ome from all parts of England are on duty in Iieland, according to unofficial estimates. . fc