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n ? 1 m . : Established 1891. SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM MANY SOURCES Dugar Hill, a machinist at the Globe mills In Gaffney, wan electrocuted Saturday morning while he was using a machine (or cleaning the dust from a room In the mill. His death was instantaneous. He was 2 4 yeara old and had Just taken out an insurance policy for $2,000, which will be paid to his widow. Eugene V. Debs. Socialist candidate for president, who is serving a term in the Atlanta penitentiary, has put his foot down on the movement started by friends to obtain n pardon for him from President Wilson. Debs says he does not want a pnrdon so long as his comrades "are held criminals and convicts." Seven hundred nnd fifty school districts in South Curollna have voted original school levies this year or raised existing levies to provide additional school funds as the result of an act of the General Assembly this year. The revenue added to school receipts in this way throughout the State will exceed a million dollnrs. according to a statement Just given out by the education department in Columbia. The Democratic party's war chest Is open to contributions of any amount, George White, chnlrman of the national committee, announced in Washington a few (lavs ago. Party leaders, Mr. White said, "will examine the source rather than the amounts of all contributions. Pence, progress. prosperity, will tie the 3word sloRan of the Democratic campnlKners," Mr. White said, adding that with thiH slogan the party should he "Coxsure" . of victory. Uncle Sam is In the tight of his life ngnlnst John Barleycorn, says "Buck" Bryant, writing to the Charlotte Observer from Washington. Moonshinlng is on the Increase and crime Is rampant In consequence of the activity of the booxe mills. People coming to Washington from the South assert that liquor is more plentiful in North Carolina, South Carollnn, Oeorgln and other States In that section thnn It has been since the dry laws went into efTect. John J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Trust nnd Savings bank, Chicago, predicts lower prices and, along with the end of skyrocketing, a general improvement in business condl tionn. Food prices are coming down." he said, "nnd that is an encouraging feature, so far ns the public, the ultimate consumer. Is concerned. Onts that sold u week ngo for $1.15 a bushel have fallen to 75 conts a bushel. Corn is off 4 0 cents a bushtl. Wheat has dropped 25 cents a bushel and tlour has declined 75 cents a barrel." A. Lessen, proprietor of a small grocery store in New York city, Friday fuced a sentence of two years in the penitentiary In Atlanta, having been found guilty of vlolntlon of thft fiontlnn Af ?%? T ...v wi tuv <4c?rr ail piuviuInR against hoarding foodstuffs. Federal Judge Howe In Imposing sentenee aald he might hnve chosen the alternative of fining lessen $K.000, but he did not want to put the dollar mark on the Judgment. Rvldenfe was produeed In the trial to show that I^eaaen had hoarded more than 200,000 pounds of sugar. Barton county, Kanans, la the banner wheat county of that State this year with an estimated yield of 4,600,000 bushels, valued at nearly 12 million dollars. Tt has a population of 18,000, which means Its wheat output this year Is worth $640 per capita for every man, woman nnd child In the county, to say nothing of the corn nnd other products. It has had no labor shortage, nnd much of the threshing has been finished nnd the floating labor has been filtering away to Nebraska nnd other fields, following the ripening grain Snld to have been born 144 years ago, the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, on a spot which Is now government reservation and which he still cnlls home. Domingo Jacinto, chief of a tribe of Digger Indtnns In l.ngunn mountains. California, was one of the spectators at a recent Independence day celebration there. Accompanied by his daughter, a granddaughter and a great-grnndson, he evinced keen Interest In the program. He is said to be older than the pines and other trees which make I*aguna Mountain resorts a playground for the residents of Inmerlnl nnH counties, .California,. Although feeble be cnn walk, hear and talk without difficulty. At what point alcoholic content cider and fruit Juices may be regard ed as actually intoxicating Is a question on which John F. Kramer, federal prohibition commissioner, has refused to pass. "Home brewed beer containing more thnn one-half of 1 per cent Is legally Intoxicating, whether It la physically Intoxicating or not." Mr. Kramer said, "but In the ^ case of elder and fruit Juices, made ^ In the home for use there, enforcement officers must prove that they are actually Intoxicating to be lllegal. The difficulty, of course, will be to prove that so conclusively as to convince a Jury, especially In a 'wet* community." Older and fruit Juices are the onfy exceptions named In the law. This. Mr. Kramer explained, was due to the desire to affect as little as possible conditions In the home and on the farm, "lleer." he said, "never was made at home." Monday was the 17th anniversary or the unveiling of the Catawba Indian monument In Confederate park, Fort Mill. "HE F NEWS OF YORK COUNTY. Items of General Interest Clipped From the Yorkvllle Enquirer Mrs. Emma Epps. 36, of Fort Mill township, who was committed to jail recently on a charge of attempting to poiBon her husband by putting parts green In his coffee, will be committed to the State Hospital for the Insane, It was learend yesterday. Officials said there was no doubt of the fact that the woman's mind Is weak. v J. Meek McGlll, prominent business man of Hickory Grove, said yesterday that Broad Rtver township had. raised us quota 01 me tunas necessary to secure the services of a federal cotton grader for York county. Broad Hlver township was assessed $250. That there Is need In Fort Mill for the constant services of a federal officer to look after violations of the Mann white slave act was the statement made by a prominent Fort Mill citizen to the reporter yesterday. The Fort Mill man went on to say that the white slave act was constantly violated In Fort Mill, many white girls being carried across the State line to and from Fort Mill and Charlotte for Immoral purposes. A Inrge section of country In the Neely's Creek section of Catawba township was swept by a terrific hallstorm last Sunday evening at about 6 o'clock. indicting damage on the growing crops to the extent of many thousands of dollars. The crops of the following, including between 300 and 500 acres of cotton and corn, were virtually wiped out: Will White, S. W. l?raffln. J. A. HhiUtnglaw, J. B. Stewart. ?. ?. Itockholt, I,. Boyd, Mt*. Mary Hoddey plantation. Mrs. W. M. Martin, ?. ? Fowler, W Mull 9nl?i^ar W T ?? T. M. Anderson. The crops of the following. though not suffering so seriously as those tlrst named, were considerably damaged: I. T. Walker, T. W. Boyd. J. H. Williams. J. M. Simpson. J. W. Simpson. Robert R. Oettys. J. G. Walker. D. T. Oottys G. A. Oettys, W. E. Walker. H. t>. Kennedy, Joe Hatterree, Bud Ferguson, Will Ratteree, T. E. Patten. There are 3,877 names on the Democratic club rolls of York county this year, compared with 4,086 names on the club rolls In 1918 and 4.706 In 1916, according to the revised rolls which were pussed upon by the Democratic executive committee during. a long sesion In the court house Monday morning. The . enrollment for' 1980 Is 209 names short of the enrollment of 1918 and 829 names short of the enrollment of 1916. The enrollment by? precincts, according to the returns of the executive com1918 Is as follows:: 1918 1920 Bethany . 125 116 Bethel 107 96 Blairsvllle 117 86 Bullock's Creek 58 46 Cntawba* 72 65 Ebenexer 72 62 Filbert 106 124 Fort Mill 302 359 Hopewell 4 8 27 Forest Hill 70 81 Hickory Grove... .. .. 170 133 1 McConnellsvllle 112 112 I-ensile .... ? ? 00 I Newport 51 52 Now Elon 128 102 Ogden 72 78 Rock Hill No. 1 .. ... 637 638 Rock Hill No. 2 .. .. 505 518 Sharon 118 107 Smyrna 70 72 Tlraah : 93 73 Yorkvtlle No. 1 257 250 Yorkvllle No. 2 320 347 Total 4.086 3,877 Coates Tavern In 1918. Following are the candidates who tiled their pledges and paid their assessments to the county chairman hefore the lists closed Monday at noon: State senate. John R. Hart; supervisor, Thos. W. Royd, R. F. Lee, Hugh O. Brown. Clem' F. Oordon: house of representatives, W. R. Bradford. F.. W. Pursley. R.1 M. Mitchell. Erwln Oarothors; clerk 'of the court, W. R. I a tinier, F. E. Clinton, T. E. McMackln; coroner. Paul Q. McOorkle; sheriff, Fred E. Qutnn, J. Cnl Steele; county com m last oners, Ladd J. Lumpk|n, John C., Klrkpatrick; magistrate. Bethel township. John M. Ford. J. D. Royd; magistrate. Fort Mill township, E. S. Parks, J. R. Halle; magistrate, , York township. J. C. Comer. Fred C.'.Black; magistrate. Bullock's Creek township. J. L. Duncan; magistrate, Broad R'ver township. R. L. A. Smith; magistrate, Cntawha township. J. F. Wlnkate: magistrate. Bethendn " * Crawford; magistrate, Ebonexer township, T. R. Glenn; magistrate. King's Mountain township, A. J. Qulnn. St. 14ml* Negro to Congress? ; St. I-outs la faced with the possibility of nominating a negro for congress from its 12th district and the nomination, many believe, means election. There are two negro candidates and two white men. Congressman L C. Oyer, present incumbent. who tr. seeking renomlnatlon, is In Japan with a congressional committee. investigating Japanese trade conditions. Dyer Is opposed by Dr. W. B. Clarke, a white man, and Geo. I*. Vaughan. negro lawyer, and W. A. Vanahle. negro edncator. Vaughan has been making a particularly active campaign and reports are that he has mustered strong support. It Is estimated that HO per cent of the voters of the 12th district are negroes. Dyer never had had any trouble with the negro vote untl a year ago. when he sought election to the State committee. Negroes demanded that the place be given to one of their race. ORT 1 fort mix, s. c? thui CITIZENS WILL URGE RIVER ROAD REPAIRS Considerable Interest Is being taken throughout York county In the visit to Kock Hill Friday night of the State Highway commission to consider at a public meeting the Improvement of roads in this section which the commission will be urged to take over as a part of the State system of highways. The county officials of all the counties In the 5th congressional district are expected to confer with the commission in Rock HIM Friday evening. The State board soon will take over the concrete and macadam road )>ftwcen Winthrop college and the river bridge and will thereafter assume the responsibility of maintaining the road. An asphalt surface will be put over the portion of the roau on wnicn mere now is macadam. The county commissioners will he asked at the meeting in Rock Hill tomorrow night to put the road between Rock Hill and York In such condition that the State highway commission will feel justified In also taking it over for State maintenance. The statement was made yesterday that a delegation of Fort Mill citizens will attend the conference of the State highway commission in Rock Hill tomorrow evening to try to Influence the commission to take over the stretch of a mile and a half of rond between Fort Mill and the river, which connects with the centent-macadum road between Wlnthrop college and the river that the commission already has agreed to maintain. It was pointed out by one of the Fort Mill citizens interested in the proposition that unless the road between Wlnthop college and the river was to be used mainly as a pleasure driveway there was quite as much reason why Rock Hill khnillH pnnnnrnt a with Vnvt Vflll In necking to have the roud Improved on the Fort Mill aide of the river aa there was why that city should have wanted the other end of the road taken over by the highway commission. MAKING BIG MONEY? Fort Mill Man Said to Bo Selling Much Iiiquor. Go away from, home to learn the news of your home community. A day or two ago a Fort Mill man was in York and while there was / regaled with the following bit.af Informationby a ctttxen of that town: "What has become of Mr. 8o-andSo of Fort Mill?" asked the York man. "Ib he still doing business at the same old stand? Fort Mill Is a tine community and I should like to live over there, but I sometimes wonder if a considerable number of your law-abiding people do not sleep the entire 24 hours of the day. The Mr. So-and-So to whom I refer has been reported as doing a land office business selling liquor recently and I am told has deposited several thousand dollars in the bank. There Isn't anything surprising about the report that this man is sellinir Honor thomrb for he la an old hand at the business; but there la oecaaion for surprise In the fact that so many Fort Mill cltl7.ons think he la a high-toned man. Will the officers get him? I should not be surprised If they do. Just wait and see." concluded the York man. s> ? Uvea With Broken Keek Physicians have discovered in I^ee Henslee, 17 years old, of Pine Bluff, Ark.,one of the most remarkable cases in surgical history. The boy's neck was broken in a fall from a house. In July, 1919, and It was not until a few days ago that an X-ray examination disclosed the fact. He apparently recovered from the fall In a few days and since then had been as physically active as othef boys, running. swimming and Indulging In ntVlAV* annrla InnltiMinof Kiaahl n rr h or bps to ride. Recently he complained of pain* in hid back. Finding no cuuse, physlclans decided to tdVe'an X-ray pTfotopraph. The negative revealed that the third, fourth and fifth vertebrae had ben fractured and dislocated, an injury which physicians said usually causes death at once. Hui'geortli warned the toby that a fall or sutT#en jar might result fatally. They are . contemplatig cutting a piece Of tyone from his shin bone and grafting it upon the third and fifth vertebrae If the fractured hones do not knit together properly under treatment bcinb given. Use Km kors as FcrtHtser. Sdckers are the reaOort for the wonderful potato crop ardufid Dryden, Orftarlo, this year. Sufckers by the million Infest Ijatce Wabigoon, near Dryden, a farming center. These flsh, weighing tlfror gnd three pounds. And not good to c^t, go up the creck3 to spawn. fevery little stream emptying into the lake swarms with them in May. The farmers don't waste time catching them with a hook and line or even with seine. They use a pitchfork or a shovel. It's no trick at all to wade out Into the shallows and shovel out a couple of wagon loads of suckers In an hou'\ Farmers, at potato planting time, bury a sucker in each hill of potafoes. The tish are rich In phosphate, the basic element of all good fertillsera Potato crops are phenomenal. One man In the district raised 1.014 bushels to the acre last year. A number of others did almost as well. In most parts of the world 500 hushels to the acre la considered a bumper crop. These worthless sucker* are making the formers In the lake Wabigoon district rich. i? * i imS ?it4 Mill t _ L8DAY, AUGUST 6, 1920. MAIN BALLOT BATTLE TO BE STAGED IN OHIO A Kuen or prophecy as to which of Onlo's sons seeking a residence In the white House Is the really chosen one of the people of this State Is the merest piffle at this stage, says a staff correspondent of the Kansas City .Star writing to his paper from Columbus, Ohio. If the truth be told Ohio, before the conventions. didn't visualise either Harding or Cox as exactly 9f White House stature. Of course, both candidates had their groups of enthusiastic admirers who saw them, but the 8tate as a whole looked upon her two prominent sons about in the same fashion as the remainder of the country has reacted to their nomination. Bbth parties are making tremendous efforts to carry the State. Tne Impression Is prevalent throughout the country that as Ohio decides so the remainder of the country will go ?that the political barometer here It: the best Index as to the state of political weather In the remainder of the nation. Realising this and that the political eyes of the country are Axed upon the "Mother of Presidents," State and national leaders of both parties are centering efforts on the State entirely out of proportion to the actual weight of Ohio's electoral votes. They are doing it for psychological effect on the rest of the country. If the Harding forces, for Instance, can show such a drift before election in Ohio that It is fairly certain the Republican nominee will carry U?e State, they believe It will take the punch out of the Cox campaign elsewhere. for Cox was nominated on the theory he would be a cinch In Ohio, likewise, the Cox supporters have n "hunch" that If they can produce such a trend toward the governor that fa nnnaront on/I stlolra ass* I* will have a tremendous force In Influencing other Statets, by showing that Ohio, which knows both candidates first hand, picks Cox. To an extent both parties are right ?the Ohio fight will he by all otitis the most significant battle. Yet Harding, it would seem on analysis, might lose Ohio and yet win, while with Cox loslnfi Ohio would he fatal. The Democrats are highly organised here, better, probably, than in any other State, and that might be of sufficient weight to tip the scales here, while the .Republic#!)*, better organ^ Ised in New York and tfew JerteyT might reverse the Ohio decision. On the other hand, if the Cox style of campaign, aimed primarily at the industrial liberal vote, doesn't go over in his home State, where he Is best known, it would be difficult indeed to conceive of It sweeping the other Industrial States. Ordinarily, the forecast of how a State will or can go can be drawn with more or less truthfulness out of the history of the past. But the psychological factors of this campaign are entirely new. so that Ohio's past line-ups are little more than straws to give the normal political mind of the State. Both candidates have made some good races and some poor races In the State. Supporters of both can get comfort out of statistics and figures. The Cox campaign has the ad. vantage of ret>resentlng the "ins." the governor having the powerful unified and very effective State machine he has built up through his terms In the State house as an initial asset. It has the advantage of conmlete bar ninny In the Democratic ranks, with Cox complete boss of the State machine and the nominations for governor and United States senator going to men friendly to htm without opposition. On the Republican aide, and that Is one factor that makes any slse-up of the State Impractical at this time. Is'the Intense fight on in the O. O. P. ranks for the gubernatorial and senetorial places on the ticket Ohio Republicans sensed early this was a Q. O P. year anr t"oy jumped Ir. with a vengeance for the nominations and they won't get out until Knocked out by the voters. Until the bitter State piimary struraie Is over. It e?rmt be told how Harding will be left, benefited or Injured by the outcome. Rut offsetting that Is the equally distinct fact that Ohio has strongly reflected, or certainly did until Cox was nominated, the same undercurrent of "anything to clean out the Ttemocrats" that has been felt In other States. This factor worrMb the Cox supporters privately just as that well oiled, harmonious Cox machine is the bugbear of the Republicans. APPROVES BR11KJE WORK. Repairs to RaMot Structure (Please , .Pleasant Valley Citizen. Editor Fort Mill Times! Permit me a little space In The Times to add my approvnl to the article written by "W. R. B." In last week's Issue of your paper. We, the people of the Pleasant Valley section rejoice with those that rejoice In that Bailes' bridge has been repaired and is now In good condition. In our rejoicing let's not forget to commend Osmond Barber for the valuable service he has rendered the public in the erection of a hnndralltng to the approach of the bridge on the York county side. We feel that we are under many obligations to Mr. Barber and W. B. Hoke. Possibly there were death* there that could have been avoided and suffering eliminated had these Improvements been made years ago. The world Is crying today for thoughtful and acttlve men. It I* time for Lancaster county to look around. W. C. M. Time; THE SOUTH LEADS Section Has More Spindles Than New England Time was when experts would tell you that line cotton yarns could not be manufactured In the South, because In the first place labor of the right type could not be had, and In the second place, because of unfavorable climatic conditions, says the Charlotte Observer. In those days the bulk of the cotton crop was shipped North, spun into yarns and manufactured into goods, and shipped back Soouth and sold at the retail stores. The South, which was producing all of the raw material, instead of profiting by the fact, was paying a double freight Mil. and putting the profits in another section. It was paying the freight on the cotton north, then paying the freight of the goods back south, and allowing the profits or inanufaetute to remain in the Nortn. Then some bolder spirits be^tai tt try that which the chemists said could not be done. They began to manufacture fine yarns with Soutne?n labor and in Southern climate The results have been successful from the very start, and today thore arc more spindles making coarse and fine yarns in the South than there are In fhe North. Everything is made, from th" coarsest yarns to the finest counts, and in very recent years n number of manufacturers are finishing the goods South, rather than shipping them North to be ilmshed. It fact thenare several highly successful mercerising and finishing plants in this State, and there will be many more. There Is also a tendency among the Southern manufacturers to sell their ol|rn output direct rather than to handle through Northern agencies, and numbers of groups of mills in the South are today selling their own goods. All of this wonderful chungc means Immenxe saving to the South and It means also thut millions of dollars which formerly went North are being kept in the South, to aid In Southern development. All of these thoughts are brought about by the government census report issued this week, which shows the marked lead the South has today In the consumption of cotton and In the increase of Itts spinning Industry. During the month of June the South consumed 56.4 per cent of the cotton of the country and of the spindleagc Increase In the United States of 563,396. practically all. or 539,748, were in Southern mills. .The tables have Indeed turned, anff VYie"South Botonger grows cotton to ship elsewhere for manufacture, but each year the tendency to manufacture raw materials at home gains. SCOUTS ON ENCAMPMENT. Members of Fort Mill Troop Spending Ten Days at Battleground. Eighteen members of the local troop of Boy Scouts, under the leadership of the scoutmaster. R. II. Strthllng. left Fort Mill at noon Tuesday for a ten-day encampment at King's Mountain battleground. In the northwestern section of the county. Kong's Mountain battleground is about 35 miles from Fort Mill through the country and as the trip was too long for the scouts to make In one duy they planned to spend Tuesday night nt Tlrxah and he there for the big cotton association picnic Wednesday, resuming in the afternoon yesterday the hike to the battleground. The scouts' camping paraphernalia Included everything necessary to make their stay afield pleasant and comfortable. The following scouts compose the party on the camping trip: B. W. Bradford. Jr.. John McKee Hpratt, Elliott Harris. Thomas Harris, Joe Broadnax, Dan Broadnax, J. B. Mills. Mike I.Ink, Henry Dink, Clyde McInfyre. Evans Wolfe, James Ferguson, 11. C. Ferguson. Jr., Eugene mi'Miinrn, r;arie sioelo, i-ee t arotnWORKING IX)R W A K EIIOUSK CommlshliiiMT Rivers Tells of Effort to l>evek>|) System. Writing to the editor of The Time* in reply to a recent letter commending his efforts to develop the State warehouse system, J Ollfto Itlvers, warehouse commissioner, si. ya: "I appreciate your kind words and 1 assure you that I am turning over the cards with the face up to develop the State wurehousc system It Is capable of great good to all the people of the State and from the eigne I see and the enthusiasm which the folks are showing you will see more cotton stored this year than ever has been since its institution. We are working night and day on its p^pbtems and I ain glad to be able to-gay to you that we are solving them %nd putting the system on ioun(| principles and scientific operation." Dr. M. C\ Heath Dead. Word was received In Fort Mill a few days ago of the death In Richmond. Ky.. Tuesday of last week of Dr. M. C. Heath, former well known cltiiM of the upper section of I?ancaster county. Dr. Heath was a brothel of the late fl. D. Heath and O. P. Heath and Was a grand-uncle of J. M. and W. 8. Belk of Fort Mill. Dr. Heath was an aide on Colonel Monasters' staff In the War Between the States, having run away to enlist at the age of 14. He was a graduate of the University of South Carolina and practiced at Bellevuc hospital. New York city, prior to taking up his practice in Richmond. He leuves two children. Dr. Heath was 76 yearn of age and the last of a family | of 16 children. s. ^ n 11.26 Per Yea THREE OLD MEMBERS BACK IN LEGISLATURE York county will be represented In the General Assembly at the 1921 and 1922 wsslons, including the new member of the senate, who Is to sit from 1921 through 1924, by three members of the present delegation, John K. Hurt of York, W. It. Bradford of Fort Mill and Kmmet W. Pursley of Klng*B Mountain township. It. M. Mitchell of Bullock's Creek township und Krwin Curothers of Itock lllll will be the other house members from York county. Mr. Mitchell represented the county in the house of representatives in 1917 and 1918. He did not offer for reelection two years ago. Mr. Carothers has not heretofore had any legislative experience. Monday at noon the time expired in whleh candidates could enter the race for the Democratic nomination li? the primary the last Tuesduy in this month and for the first time in years only a sufficient number of candidates have qualified to fill the five seats to which York county Is entitled in the General Assembly. In York Monday morning the statement was made that Robert Save Riddle, young farmer who lives In the Clay Hill section of the county, would enter the race for the house of representatives. but he failed to do so and after the time In which he might have become a candidate had expired, u close friend of his said that he could not afford to be away from h6me during the months of January and Februury. when the Generul Assembly Is in session, and for that reason had decided not to offer for the house. For the next four years York county will be represented in the State senate by John It. Hart of York, who Is expected to rank among the leaders of that body. Mr. Hart is an able lawyer. He is n son of the late MaJ. James F. Hart, distinguished Confederate officer who lost u leg In the service while commanding Hart's Imttery. Two years ago, after serving a number of terms as mayor of York, Mr. Hart entered county politics as a candidate for the house of representatives and was nominated by a handsome majority, lead inic the list of six candidates. Mr. Hart was assigned to membership on tht Judiciary committee of the house and participated in most of the de Imtes on the more important hills inIwiIiimI at the mhUmu of the Qeneral Aasembly. He succeeds Senator J. K. Beamifunrd, who declined to offer for reelection, after serving eight years In the senate and 12 years in the house of representatives. In point of aervlce. W. R. Bradford, editor of the Fort Mill Times, will be the oldest member of the York delegation in the Oeneral Assembly for the next two years. Mr. Bradford was elected first in 1911 and will have finished his fourth term ns a member of the house of representatives with the explrntlon of the 1922 session. At the first session of the house in which he sut Mr. Bradford was assigned to membership on the ways and means committee, ranking 17th in a membership of 28. During his second term he had risen from 17th place to llfth place on the committee and at the beginning of the 1919 session was the ranking member of the committee, of which he was appointed chairman by Speaker Oothran. Along with Senator Chrlstensen cf Beaufort county. ^3 Mr. Bradford is said to hold more Important committee and commission assignments than any man who has sat In the Ocnernl Assembly In recent yearn. Besides being chairman of the ways and moans committee, Mr. Bradford in a member of the sinking fund commission, the joint committee on printing. the budget commission, the canal commission, the general contingent fund committee und was chairman of the special good roads committee, composed of seven house mem born and four senators, which prepared the highway hill that became a law a few months ago. Kmmet W. Pursloy. farmer of King's Mountain township, will begin his third term next January as n member of the house from York county. Mr. Pursley is rated as one of the substantial members of the house, who unlike many other members, takes his duties a* a representative seriously. He seldom misses a session of the house ami votes disinterestedly on every matter brought before tlie body. lie is u member of the following important committee*: Agriculture, legislative library. office* and officer*, education, ruilroad*; road*, bridge* and ferric*; Htate houMC and ground*. C)f these committee*, that on agriculture Is esteemed the most important. Mr. I'ursley is Recond in rank on this committee and if for any reason the present chairman should not he reappointetd, he will be in line for the chairmanship. It. M Mitchell is not without legisla live experience having served one term, 1917-18, a* a member of tne house of representatives from York county Mr. Mitchell is an Intelligent young man of excellent Judgment who was highly c*teemed by his fellowmembers during the lime he formerly erved In ihc house, lie Is a former and his home Is In the Rlalrsvllle section. Krwln f'arothers of Rock Hill, member of the well known York county family of that name, will ho the youngest member of the next York delegation. He is a son of the late Dr. Tom t'nrothrs, and was graduated 'nst June from the law department of the University of South Carolina. A number of Fort Mill people were among the hundreds who yesterday attended the big cotton association picnic at Tinrah. i