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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.
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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.
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?. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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