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? # Established 1891. + SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM MANY SOURCES When Mr*. William Yancy of Cardiff, Ala., ignored the objections of her .-.on*. Uoss and William, to her second marriage, the boys shot and hilled William Yaney, their stepfather. The shooting took place af-ler a short visit of Mrs. Yaney tc her former home. (governor Corn well of West Virginia has issued . ? statement, in which he i*y.s he will not call a special session pi the legislature vto enact special |H.I I I I i I 1 I I I f-t n "IIM JI IW ? U1V in November, tti <view of the fact lh:it the legislature failed to art on his suggestion to pivis such a law rt the last session. Five weeks of horse racing. beginning October lit and ending No\ember 27, will he a feature of the South Carolina elreuit fairs. The program starts at the Dillon county fair, having its second week at the State fair in Columbia, the third week fit the Spartanburg county fair, the fourth week at the Orangeburg county fair, and the fifth week at the l.ee conty fair at Itishopville. Mrs. Clara Jorgcnsnn. who had. been asleep at the Itaolne, Wis., county asylum for more than two years. retrained consciousness hy healing a child's voice. A slstor-lnInw of Mrs. Jorgenson visited the Institution, bringing with her her six year old son. It Is thought that the child awakened the memories in the woman's mind that restored her to a normal condition. l'lggs may be all right to ship whiskey in. but the baggage smashers mint handle such eases with care. At a station in West Virginla some of the eggs broke and a prohibition inspector fond three cases of doctored eggs. Kaoh egg had been cnrcflilly "blown" from the shell. After v hiskey had been poured in, the aperture had been scnled with cement. Till i:\l) or Till'- WORM). Picture of Wluil Will llii|i|M>n Wlien the Siiii <'eases to Slilne. When the sun pnes out?n eatastrn)ihe that It hound to ho?mankind will have lnnp apo disappcar "I. thinks Anntole France. The last Jnh:i1?ltnntf? of earth will he as destitute and I p no rant., as feehle and d til I - wit t ed as the tirst. They will have forgotten all the arts and all ttie sciences. They will huddle wretchedly In eaves alongside the planters that will then roll their transparent masses over the half obliterated ruins of the eities where men now think and love, suffer and lmpe. Ml the elms and lindens will hue been killed h.v the cold, and the Its wll' he left sole masters of the frozen earth. The 'ist desperate survivors of human! iit<l?desperate without realizh?!? why or wherefore?will know hot Map <>f us. nnthlnp of our pcnius, nothlnp of our love; yet will they he ear latest barn children and ldood *f our bin ad. A feehle flicker of the rent I Intellipenee of nobler days, still llni'crinp in their dulled brains. hold their empire ovor tho hoars thut have multiplied about their siihtcrr.inonii lurking places. Peoples anil rncos will Jinve dlsnpponro.l beneath the snow and Ice, \ villi the town, tho highways, tho pardons of tho old world. With pain \ rnd difficulty a fow Isolated families will keep alive. Women, children, ehl morf, crowded pell-mell in their f noisorm caves, will peep through fissures in tho rook and watch the *mo her sun mount tho sky ahove their heads: dull, yellow glenmr will f:11 across his disk.like flames playing nhntit a dying 'brand, while n dazzling snow of stars will shine on all the day long In the liiack heavens, through the ley air. Tlds Is what they will see: but In their heavy wit leanness they will not so much as know that they see anything. one day the last survivor, callous alike to hat" and love, will exhale to tho unfriendly sky the last human hrontth. And the globe will go rolllog on. hearing with it through the S'lont lirhls of space the ashes of humanity. the poems of Homer and the august remnants of tho Greek marbles, frozen to its iey surfaees. No thought will ever again rise toward the infinite from the bosom of this dead world. St'llOOl, IIKAI) IIRSK.XS, \V. II. Wnril (Joes Prom Port >1111 to Greer. At it special mcetTng of the lioartl cf trustees of the Fort Mill Kraded * s-hool Friday evening. W. II. Ward tcntlorotl his resignation as superintendent of the school, the resignation to take effect at once. Mr. Ward stated that he had received a much more attractive offer front tlreer and hntl therefore decided to ask to ne relieved of his connection with the Fort Mill school. The resignation was accepted. As yet the hoard "has not elected a successor to Mr. Ward, hut expects to do so before the fall session opens on September lib Mr. Ward ennie to Fort Mill as superintendent of the graded school two years irgo and has proved one of 1^/ the most active olllcisls the school lots ever had. Ho has devoted his whole time to the work and the >ehnol is generally considered to lie tn much better condition than witcn M tie came to it. In the primary Tuesday for magistrate of Indtnnlnnd township, upper S Lancaster county. 1>. ?>. Pottu was S nominated over J. T. Collins by a niaS Jority of two votes. jH t ... v * > y\ :J 'Pf/'"* ' ' '' ' \ The \ SAW SUPER-CANNON'S WORK. James T. Youiu;. Jr., In Part* Dur? lnfc World War. Noticing: In The Times of Inst week the statement that the super-cannon with which the Germans shelled Paris during the World war wus made of plqces of worn-out guns. James T. Young, Jr., of Port Mill, who war stationed In the Prenrh capital for live months during the war as a member of a Washington c'ty company of the 51st englnee *, said that he did not know how the Germans managed to put *hc vlg gun together, but that he did know of his own personal knowledge that shells from It reached Pails. "One day while I was stationed in Puns." said Mr. Young a day or two ago. "I hoard one of the suitor-cannon shells cbnitng: there wus no mistaking their peculiar whining noise once one had heard It. I was crossing the Seine at the time on one of the many bridges that span the river In Paris. booking downstream I saw the shell fall on t houseboat and cut It as fairly In two as carpenters eouhl have done. Ordinarily the shells from this big gun did no great amount of damage, but in my opinion nothing that occurred during the war shook the morale i t the French people as it did. The best metivencss of the bombs from '.he Oerman Zeppelins that were dropped on Paris was much greater than that of t"he super-cannon shellt. I saw In that city all that was left of a llc-sto-y building after a Zeppelin bomb had exploded in It. Anticipating Zeppelin raids, tlie roof of the building bad been plastered with >evcral feet of concrete, but when the bomb fell on. tlie roof it went through the concrete as easily is one can puncture a piece of tissue paper and did not stop until it reached the floor of the third story. There it .... ..I ...I ?.t n>>.? . v.?... .1 ? (t the building were literally carried away. The most destructive explosion that occurred in Paris <1 uing the World war. however, wiped out ihe big hand Krenudc factory thero and besides claiming hundreds of lives wrecked a big suction o* the city. In every direction from the factory buildings for several blocks were complete! v ruined by the explosion, which occurred only a few days before the Germans began their last big drive on the Western front. Many believed that the explosion v as caused by German spies, but nr. or e connected with the factory lived to explain anything about the cause of it." cox sritK winnKit. South Cnrolluiaii In Duyton Writes of Presidential Campaign. Edward It. Houseal of Dayton. <>hio, well known to many South Carolina , newspaper men as a former member of The State staff, writing to his father, W. I*, llouseal of Columbia, the "Dutch weather prophet." comments on the outlook for the election of Cox as follows: "It Is amusing to read the various editorials in the Republican newspapers. There are two views: . 1) that Cox came out squarely for I lie "Wilson league;' CD that he i over stated where he stood hut dodged the issue. Any fair minded person, reading only these Republican newspapers, can surmise in a twinkling that the G. G. I', is tlght.ug for its life and is making the campaign as nasty as it can. ' 'he fact is, Jimmy Cox is not onlv goiri: to win this election, but by the b.ggost iniijorlty of electoral votes ever accorded a Democratic cand'date. "The day Cox was nominated onds at Wall street were three to one against him. Now no one will give two to one. Before election day fox will he a ten to eight favorite. Wall street admits that 'it makes li'tle difference* who is elected, which is another way of sayliiR that Cox is the better man. "I talked with traveling men Koine and coming to Detro't. to Buffalo. to ltochester and back to Dayton. They say that Ci?\ will "sweep the country.' One epublican from Boston offcied to bet one to two that fox would carry Massachusetts, lie bet even money that ho would carry New York. New Jersey, Uhodo Island and Connecticut. It looks like i 'cinch.' " First "Molasses Special." What railroud men declare is fast time for a freight train was made by a molasses special from Key West. Kin., to Memphis, a distance of 1,429 miles, says the Memphis CommercialAppeal. Actual running time was live days. The train was loaded from it Cuban steamship and handled out of Key West by the Florida Blast Coast railroad. At Jacksonville it was given to the Atlantic Coast Dine and hauled tottvermnn. Ga.. where it was delivered to the Atlanta, Birmingham ft Atlantic and hauled to Atlanta. From Atlanta It wasaoih. u?c ? (|* From Atlanta to Memphis It was hauled by the Nashville. Chattanooga ft St. Louis railroad. It Is sutd this Is the tirst train of j molasses over handled from Cuba to , ' the Fnitod States. | The shipment amounts to about | I 300.000 gallons of hlack strati mo- j losses valued at $100.000. The freight! I charges on it are about $10,000, and | it will make 10,590 tons of mixed stock feed, or ahout 351 carloads. 1 The molasses will be used In the .different feed plants located in MemI phis. After the feed is mixed It will ( I lie shipped from Memphis to various j | dealers over the country. % 1 : . ' i For FORT MILI MUCH DAMAGE DONE [BY SEVERE RAINSTORM The heaviest rainfall this section huB seen since the destructive storm of July 16, 1916, fell last f-tiday morning between 2 and 10 o'clock. It is thought that the precipitation in the eight hours umounted to nearly live inches. The rain literally cumc down in torrents and the streets of the town and country rc ?ds were flooded, rendering travel extremely difficult for several hours. Many residences sprung leaks for the lirst time and the storm otherwise caused much discomfort. Thu ruinfu 11 t Vw, ? ?it wa^ a considerable sum and disarranged the train schedules for about 2( hours. The most serious datnnge for the railway was a washout one mile north of Fort Mill where the culvert was unable to accommodate the volume of water rolling down from the hillsides and a section of fill 40 feet long and 30 ^feet deep was wushed away at 10 o'clock Friday morning, within a few minutes after northbound passenger train No. 36 had passed over it. When the train reached Fort Mill fear was expressed that the track was about to give way above the culvert and the engineer was directed to cut his engine loose ftom the coaches and run it over the track. This he did and reported that the track would still bear the weight of the- entire train. The train then left for Charlotte, but at Plnevllle the engineer reported that the track was about to give way at the culvert. A short time afterward th? washout occurred. Tatto Friday afternoon a force of bands arrived on the scene and began to build a ternI orary trestle over the washout. Work was continued throughout the night and by 6 o'clock Satutd iv morning the tlrst train passed over it. At oher points near Fort Mill the track of the Southern was reported weakened by the heavy rainfall, but at none of these places was any matei in I damage done. The service of the Southern Power company, which supplies the electric power to operate both the Fort M'll cotton mills, was cut off all day Friday as a result of the storm and neither mill was able to operate its machinery that day. Considerable damn was d ' p till* St rootS of 1?Y?rt \fll1 hv thn hnnvv rainfall. On (""onfederate street a culvert was washed ont and a section of sidewalk paving about la feet long fell In. Fortunately the Catawhn river did not overflow its hanks and there was little damage to the corn in thi' river bottoms. Many creeks and branches in whose bottoms ~orn was growing did overflow their hanks, however, and In these plaees the crop suffered considerably. itrii.ns owx it.Miiito.M). Kansas Kcclusc Works Alone on I due for Thirteen Venn. Working steadily for 13 years Itudolph Myers. f>0 years old, of Jetmore. Kalis., has pushed his railway If miles across the plnins toward Harden City. 50 miles away, without any other labor than his own and that of a small grading outfit and four mules. Thirteen years ago Myers built a galvanized tin hut three miles west of Jctmoro and has since lived a hermit life, working each day on his railroad. Myers buys his right of way a mile at a time and improves it as he goes. Surveyor's lines have never hern used in the work, but the grade la straight anil uniform. Civil engineer." who have seen the work say that the cuts ami tills are constructed according to approved mctthods for such work Myers does not resent Inspection, but will volunteer no Information, bt will voluntteer no information. Beginning a few miles west of Jetmore the road will sooon connect with the abandoned Niekle dateline which was built east from Harden City in the boom days. The track has been removed from this grade. There is no railroad between CJardr.e City and Jctmore, bu Myirs hn4 given no intimatino of what ho olans to do when the road is completed. NO HAY IN IHIIIdPI'INIOS. Humidity Makes It Impossible to Cure Grass In Isltiiuls. Grass cannot be cured in the Philippines. because of the great humidity. As a consequence It is cut fresh every day and hrouKht Into towns and cities for sale at a stipulated price per carRa. two bundles weighing about 1J5 pounds. It Is cut with a small homemade knife, and washed in running water before placed in the bundle. American horses cannot live on It but native horses eat It and grow fat. Guinea Rrass ami Bermuda are the commonest kinds of Rrasses grown for horse roughage in the Islands. For American horses and mules hayis imported into Manila from the Pacific coast States and brings about $75 a ton. t ?nts sells for about the same price. On account of excessive rains outs cannot be grown in the islands; rust affects it. Corn grows well; Filipino farmers can harvest three crops a year from a single piece of ground. To keep It. it is necessary to leave It In the husk; otherwise weevils destroy it. It is tied in bundles and hung on bamboo poles and husked and shelled as needed. Corn mills are now being established In the Vlsayan Islands, where the natives prefer corn meal to rice us a staple food. -T Ml ? S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTE FACES BIGAMY CHARGE. Jake Furr Surrender** to .Officers In Fort Mill. v,, Jake ("Honk") Furr, wanted tn Kershaw county on a warrant chartIng htm with bigamy. In now ii. prisoner In Camden awaiting frlal f'ot' the alleged offense. Furr came to Fort Mill Saturday night and from hero sent 'vold to Constable Allen of Kbcnezer township that he was willing to surrender, after having been at large for several weeks, follow ag his arrest at Hampton Roads, Va., and subsequent escape by Joinplng from a moving train whllo being brought to South Carolina. Furr's wife lives In Fort Mill. Saturday night he canle here to see her and after they had talked c-ver inc mntier ne decided the b>st thing ho could do wad .to give himself up i.kI stand trial. Early Sunday morning ho was taken to York Jail and troin there wan taken to Camden by Sheriff O. O. Walsh of Kershaw county. A reward of $100 hud been off. red for Purr's arrest. lTp to six weeks ago Furr had been for some time n motor trnnster driver in Koek Hill. Then he pot acquainted with a young woman from Kershaw county temporarily staying in Uook Hill and induced her to marry him, it is charged, upon the ic presentation that he was single and a man of wealth. The marriage llo? m e Is said to have been secured in Columbia and the ceremony performed In Kershaw county. Furr aid the young woman left a day or two after the marriage for Virginia and wore gone m!v a few days wr.cn she is said to have discovered that ho had a wife and child in Port Mill and that the wealth he told her he possessed existed only in his Imagination. Then she left htm and returned to her family In Korsha v I county. TWO YET TO EIjECT. Clerk and Nii|icrvlsor Candidate* Enter Second Primary. I.ess than H.000 York Democrats went to the polls Tuesday to express tneir choice of ottlelals for State and county for the next two years. In no county campaign in recent years has there been so little Interest manifested as in the enmnnitm which ureced ed the primary this year and the Ronornl indifference as to tho result of the primary Is reflected In the size of the vote?2,728. Complete returns from the dozen or more precincts throughout the county show ihe following results Quinn Is renominated for sheriff, I?atimer and McMackln go Into the second primary for clerk of the court. Hart Is nominated for the State senate as arc Bradford. Ca iothers. Mitchell and Pursley for the house of representatives without opposition. Brown and Clem ordon will run over for county supervisor. Kirkpatrick and I.umpktn .unopposed, arc renominated for county romii.l*s oners, ami MH'orkle is recommend. ??1 for coroner, also without oppostt'on. The York county vote for each of the unopposed conty and State candidates follows: County Ticket. Clerk of Churt?Clinton 278, I.atlnior 1.228. McMackln 1,205. ? Sheriff?Qulnn 1.896. Steele 8'tO. Countv Supervisor?Boyd 455.Brown 1.292. Cordon 553. l.ce 295. Stute Ticket. T.leutcnant (iovernor?Cohen 279. Mnuldin 1.584. Harvey 796. Adjutant Ceneral ? Marchant 836. Moore 1.64 9. Itallroad Coinnilssioner?-McCasklll 450. Moss 247. Shealey 1.209. Smith 0 6 5. United States Senate?Irhv 180, Pollock 335. Smith 1.601 Warren 5M. The candidates for State tree "nrer, attorney ijeneial and comptroller general had no opposition. SENATE HACF. IX IIOVBT. Smith May Have Won Contest Without N'oi'sslty of Second I'rlmary. l.ate returns from Tuesday's Bern< erotic primary failed to determine whether Senator E. D. Sml'h and CcorRo Warren will enter a second primiirv for thn nnmlnallAn f<??* sr nnso. Senator Smith was only 619 votes stiorl of a majority over his three opponent.', hut It was considered doubtful whether the several thousand votes yet to he reported would give tiim the necessary majority to render a second primary unnecessary. The total vote of 98,4'?5 count ed was distributed as follows; Irhy 7.699. Pollock 12.850. Smith 48.90::. Warren 28.982. Wilson O. Harvey of Oi arlcston and Oscar K. Mnuldln of Greenville will enter 'he second primary for lieutenant governor as will Frr.nk V. Shealy of I^xlngton and I>. I.. Smith of Colleton for railroad conimlss' ? *er._ W. W. Moore has defeated A. II. Marchant for adjutnnt general. Iiivltcd to Iteiiiiioii. Sir Auckland Oeddes. Ilritish ambassador to the United States, ha* horn invited to attend the second annual reunion of the :ioth division, which is to he held In Ashevllle, N. C? September 28-29. and there Is said to he reason to expect that he will he present and .nake a talk, members of the Ashevllle committee In charge of the reunion plans have announced. Sir Auckland has been asked to speak on the relation of the 20th division and Its work to the F.ritlsh army with whom the American hoys were "connected during their memorable campaign In Flanders. % ^ \ LL Tl MBER 2, 1920. ; FEDERATION OF LABOR COMMITTEE FOR COX Organised labor's non-partisan political campaign committee, comparing the public records of the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, declared in a report made public Monday that Governor Cox had "shown himself possessed of a fuller understanding of the needs of the working people." The report, signed by Samuel Goinpers. president; Matthew Woll, vice president, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of I-abor, Is the first ever made on presidential candidates by a federation committee. Taking up the senatorial record of Senator Harding, the committee declared that on IS measures* dealing with luhor his score stood: Favorable 7. unfavorable 10, paired unfavorably 1. The Republican nominee's vote on labor irsues duriiiK his term In the State senate of Ohio, as reported by the committee, stood: Favorable 6, unfavorable 0. In thin connection the report an Id: "Senator Harding's record In \Vushington affords a better opportunity for analysis of his legislative ,views than does his record In the Ohio senate, by reason of the fact that his term of service extended for a longer period of time, during which he was called upon to consider n wider variety of measures." Reviewing overnor Cox's record the report said that while governor of Ohio lie had "acted upon r>9 measures of interest to labor without acting on a single one adverselv to labor. As a member of the 62nd Congress the governor wns recorded as voting "favorable" to labor on two measures, tlie only ones listed. After reviewing and quoting at length from the utterances of the cundtdutcs on labor issues in their speeches of acceptance, the committee summarized its findings in this language: "There can be but one conclusion lias;.! unon a careful and impartial survey of the actions and declarations of the candidates. Governor Cox has shewn hlm?elf possessed of a fuller understanding of the needs of the working people a readier response to their necdr and to their proposals and a broader statesmanship in his public discussions of the problems of the industrial world. "In addition to his superior tin dprslnndtng, Governor Cox Is the candidate on u platform which luhor has declared 'marks a measure of progress not fouiul in the Republican platform.' "Not only In the specific uttcranctH relating directly to questions held paramount hy lahor is the comparison favorable to Oovernor Cox. Mis progressive and constructive viewpoint holds throughout his declarations on public questions, though he slips at times Into that .ambiguity which unfortunately has marked to a greater of less degree the platforms of both parties and the utterances of both candidates." HOW FORT Ml 1,1. VOTI'.I). Small Number or Citizens Register Preference for l'uhllc Officials. In Fort Mill as elsewhere throughout York county little Interest was shown In the Uenideratlc primary for State and eounty ottieials Tuesday and the vote here was .{smaller than it has been In the primary for years. < >f the 35!? citizens whose names were on the club rolls only 24S troubled to go to the polls and vote. The Australian ballot, used in the primary for the tlrst time, prtived a puzzle to a number of voters and some of t 1 nun faiU.I ? .. ..... !, rectly. Sttill others deposited their county tickets in the State hox, and v'ce versa. All of which resulted in *he Fort Mill vote counting for less than it really was. The vote in Fort Mill for the county ticket was: For Congress. Steven-' son. 2.11: solicitor. Henry 233; State *? nate. Hart 235; House of representatives. Bradford. Carothers. Mitchell and Pursley each 187; clerk of court, Clinton 28. I.atlmer 164, McMackiu 18; sheriff. Qulnn 14 0, Steele 84; county supervisor, Boyd 38, Brown 34. (lordon 73. I.ee 85; county commissioner. Klrkpatrick V60, Bumpkin 160; coroner. McCorkie 234. In the race for magistrate of Fort Mill township K. S. Parks, iuciimhcnt, war. heaten by J. It. Halle, the vote being Parks 118. Halle 121. In the election for United States senator and State otllcers the vote of Fort Mill was as follows: For United States senator Irby 17. Pollock 16. Smith 14 3. Warren 2.r?; governor. Cooper 210; lleutenun* governor. Cohen 14, Harvey 110, Mauhlin 74; .secretary of state. Pove 211; attorney general. Wolfe 210; comptroller general. Pnncan 211; State treasurer. Carter '120: State superintendent of education. Swearlngen 220; adjutant general, Murchunt 112. Moore 100; comntls) loner of ngrlcnlture. Harris 220; railroad commissioner, MeCasUll Oft, Moss IB, Shealy 64, Smith f*l. World's Oldest City, Pamascns, situated southwer.t of Mt. Ararat, is said to he the oldest cltv In the world. Today It hns u population of about 100.000. which ntnkes It a ! center of commercial Importance and of considerable Influence. It Is celebrated for the cloth made there, for Its steel blades, its plunts and Its turpentine trees. Twenty-seven centuries have parsed into history since Home was founded. Damascus was an ancient city when the Itoman empire was merely beginning Its childhood. ! . i MES. MOWN OP YORK COUNTY. Items of Cencrai Interest Cli|)|MNl fViim tin* York vi He Knqulrcr The secretary of Htate has granted the Wymojo yarn mills of Hock Hill authority to Increuse their capital stock from $150,000 to $4 50,000. Authority has been grunted the l^ockmore mills of Yorkvllle to increase their capital from $100,000 to $250,-' 000. A copper distillery of about 50 < Kullons capacity was captured by prohibition otllcers in the l'nmah section about one-half mile northwest* of A. M. McQill's store Sa' urdnvnight. The distillery had beer, "run out" when the officers came and nel-1 ther liquor nor operators were taken.' l>r. J. It. Johnson of Hock Hill, president of the York County Oottoiv association, has received information t .at A. It. Smith has been appointed cotton grader for York county by the extension department of Clemso?v college. Mr. Smith wns to report September 1. Information from Hethcl township I< that the partridge crop In that township for this fall and winter la 'ery encouraging. Mr. T. H. Kiddle, well known cltlzeh and bird hunter of Bethel township who was in York ille Saturday, said that there are many young partridges in the townsi lp and It was exported the hunting would he good. Charged with handling ginger, keeping the same for sale, Frank King, a white man, was arrested to Bock Hill Saturday. A quantity of extract of ginger was taken by tho otr.cers. King gave bond, l.on Small, a white man. was arrested hv otllcers rt the Oarhartt mill village in Book itill Saturday, charged with having liquor in his possession. About onehalf gallon of moonshine wan taken front Small, according to the raiding tluers. The man gave bard in the sum of $100. Homes of B. K. Baker. W. o. iluyncs, K. 1). Blair, B. L. Cox and \V. M. Bishop in the Aragon mil! village, near Bock Hill, which wero flooded by the water as the result of a cloudburst in that section last Friday, have been cleaned of mud and their occupants returned. Informa-' lion is that bottom corn in tho east-' era section of York county was badly' damaged by floods and it is believed that thousands of bushels will decay.' Ylawba river was nine feet above normal at the Southern Power company's dant Saturday morning. The upper Bock Hill road by Tirzah ur.<l Newport and the lower Bock Hill' road by way of \V. F. Jackson's store are badly washed by the heavy rainj Candidates for county and town-' ship offices on yesterday tiled htate-! nicnts of expenses incurred in tho recent Democratic cumpalgn in ac J enrdnnoe with law as follows- House of representation, It. M. Mitchell $41,* 5. K. W. Pursloy $58.35, Krwln C:i-' lathers $43. \V. It. Bradford $46;i Mnte senate, John It. Hurt $84.50;' clerk of eourt. \V. It. l.atimor $132.SO, T. K. Me M akin $106.3D. R E. Clinton $ 102.90 ; supervisor, T. W.: I'oy.l $102.50, IIiiKh (5. Brown C. R Cordon $85.76, It. R l.co $84 - 27; sheriff, Fred K. Qulnn $102.50, J. ?'al Steele $97.10; county eommls^nnrr, J. (\ Klrkpatrlck $22.11, I.,. J. l.umpkln $21.35; Magistrate, King's1 Mountain township, A. J. Quinn $17.".0; inngistrate. Bethesda, IJ. A. Crawford $10; magistrate. Fort Mill. J. It. Hullo $18.60; magistrate. Broad Itiv-t or. It. L. A. Smith $11.33; magistrate. Hot hoi, John M. Ford, $13.50. Yankee Progs In Paris. Two thousand former Amorlcun sol-' dlers are adrift in Paris. Most of them are Jobless, while a few work Just enough to keep them In food and clothes. The majority gain their llv-l ing l>y questionable means, following the races, touting ilance halls and worse places, while u large number are living in degradation In the Aprhe quarters of Paris' as thieves, ac-i |.|>?ll.lln<>B r\f foim.a --'.-I'" I ? other criminal pursuits. (Hllcprn of liic Paris post, American Legion, declare that nothlriK less than a regiment of military police can clean this situation up. The French police appear to he powerless before the bu-< perior vigor and Initiative of the for* mer American soldiers. The Paris post of the legion, numbering about itoo, can do nothing against them and tiie alt nation grows worse from day to day. These men, left-overs, are part of the tragedy of the war?the lotus eat. ing sediment of the American army. Some of them stayed when the army came home. Others returned, but drifteil buck to Paris. I hiring the war most of the American soldiers Kot ft taste of life In the French capItHl, the uniform being an Introductlon to almost any circle. The highest paid urmy in Europe, the Americans had practically everything their ownway. Now things have changed and the former heroes have sunk to the lowest depths of degradation. Men are constantly drifting hack to Paris, where they still tind some looseness and the same license, but the life they knew before has passed and they soon drop into the darkfiess of a life of crime until the prison doors open for them. The 52nd annual siss'on of tho! York Baptist assoc.atlon will be held' with thj First Baptist chinch of York. September 15 and 15. The meeting' promises to be an interesting one. The program of the meeting will appear In The Time* next week The officers of the association are: James P. Boyd, moderator: the llcv II If. V'angh, clerk; E. It. Johnston, treasurer. The IteV. i>r. J. W. II. Bychcs Is chairman of the exemtlvo committee. i . _ $1.75 Per Tear M '?mm EXPECTS YORK COUNTY , 1? TO PAY HALF FOR BRIDGE The following article relatlvo .to the proposed York - Mecklenburg \\ bridge across the Catawba river up- (;^ peared in the Charlotte News of last p','. Saturday: "Building of a steel and concrete bridKC between Mecklenburg and > York counties, which has been held up because York county officials be- ' Moved their part of the cost would be excessive, Is now made possible by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly. "Under the new act Mecklenburg Is authorized, through the county oo?i mtssioners, to enter into a contract with the Soth Carolina county to build the bridge near Wright's ferry, each conty to pay SO per cent, of the "The approach to the bridge on the York side is long. and. under the old , s plan. York would pay for this approach and also half the steel structure and spans up to the renter of Catawba river. The new act will let York out with payment of one-half the total cost of both the bridge spans and the two approaches. It Is believed that this will assure con- s >T*m struction of the bridge within a year by the two counties." At the 1 '.t 1 ! session of the General f Assembly of South Carolina an act was passed authorizing the board of . commissioners of York county to , unite with similar otllccrs In behalf of Mecklenburg county "in the erection and construction of a bridge across Catawba river at n point between Wright's ferry and Boyd's furry. within ihe said ooanty of York, to ho determined by the county hoard of commissioners of York county, together with York county engineer and similar authorities on the part of Mecklenburg onunty, N. C : Provided. That the enst of the same to York county shall not exceed the sum of $20,000." It was further provided. In section R of tlie act. "that the cost of construction and maintenance of the said bridge shall lie shared ne follows: Two-thirds thereof by Meeklenburg county. N c . and one-third jt' by York county. S C." I Nothing was done toward the erection of the bridge last year, as the cost of structural sfccl and other , building material had risen so much that the amount the two counties had agreed to spend In Imllfiing the bridge wm soon to ho imidoijuetn. , At the 1920 session of tho South ('nrolina ftonoral Assembly. tho York drl'ogatloni therefore. nctinR utmn tho rtcnmniondnilon of tho county supervisor no<1 county engineer, Increased York'? a nnroprlnt'nn for tho bridge from $20,000 to $37,000. by way of ntnonduiont to tlio orlglnnl >ct. No nmondinont was made to tho original net. however, providing thnt York should nay for more than ot^o.third tho cost of ?oonstruction and maintenance of the bridge. This revision of tho original net therefore stands. ? ' ?no of tho York member" of the Oenoral Assembly et'tor reading the charlotte News article stated that tbo article was misleading in that It left the Impression that the York nu-< thoritles were Yesponslble for the , bridge not having already l>een built and that the erection of the bridge was practically assured bv the act of *he North Carolina fleneral Assembly permitting tho Mecklenburg authorities to pay half the cost nf the construction of the bridge "The bridge proposition won Wt=" , ken up with the Vork delegation two years ago bv the Mecklenburg Mipervlsnr In Columbia. Ills proposition was that Inasmuch as the bridge would be of greater benefit to Mecklenburg than to York Mecklenburg would pay two-thirds tho cost of construction and thereafter two-thirds the cost of maintenance. This proposition was written Into the law and is sMIl there It remains to be seen whether the York members of tho f Jenoral Assembly at tho 1921 session will agree to further amend the original act. to tho ^ <*? levtent that York will meet Mock- y lonhurg's nmcndod prcnorttlon for the construction of the hrldg#." Nafetv of the Airplane. Tlic airplane is the fastest machine man has ever Imilt Put fast a* it in, has not yet caught up with its reputation for danger. That reputation was aeoulreil when the plane wan In Its infancy, when man was Just beginning to master the air, and in the mind of the average man It hns not yet herb downed. The Hritinh air nilnlufrv coliooted stntisticH on all commercial Hying in that count rv for the last seven months of l!?1!>. The results nmnnd t ven nilots and engineers. w ho long had regarded the risk In flying as rrirllelhlc. '"'he figures covered XI,flights l>\ tart machines of a total tinto In the air of ? H hnsrit, during which time fiat.otto miles were traveled. in all this Hying, in good weather and had one passenger was killed In everv 16.Ill pass> ever 's.iir^ In the nlr. To put/It differently a single passenger might exneel to Hv ahoii* 1 lxo.one mllea?17 times around the world?before becoming the victim of n fatal era-h. That sounds nb-urd to the liirrt'Tinn, vet the Itrltlsh govvnn-ept stain's 1 aek of the liguros. t'oinlng nearer home ligure* com imi'ii i>v trv pnstomro department shnw to tho end of last vnr 405.000 nMlos down with tho Ins* of three pilots. Thc'c pilots, of ootirRo, ran ninnv rl?j<". for they carried the mall through rain, snow and fog that blinded tlfem.