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r J . J * Utab&hed 1891. 11 SHORT NEWS STORIES . FROM MANY SOURCES Current Events Gathered Here end There and Boiled Down For Times Readers. At Tampa, Fla., Sunday, L. "H. MeQowan leaped from an automobile running 56 miles an hour to an airplane. It was the second time the feat had been accomplished. Ontario Monday voted for bone dry prohibition on a referendum to stop the importation and sale of intoxicating liquors in the w.. .. ?:? {I1UT HILT ur U IIUIJUI II^ UI1UU1LHilly placed at between 125,000 and 200,000. These figures were predicated upon an estimated total vote of about (>00.000. Republican leaders of the national house of representatives have determined that the army must be reduced to 150,000 men during the next few months on account of the heavy government expenditures. The army appropriation bill will provide for only 150,000 men when introduced in the house this week. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, noted prohibition worker, set out fifoiu New Y^rk Saturday on a campaign to dry up the whole world. He sailed for England that day and left behind this parting shot: "Drink while the drinkin' is good for, in three years, driukiug will / be a lost art in the United States. I expect to live to see the whole world bone dry." lie plans to visit many European countries before returning to this country. In the United States district court in Greensboro, N. C., Monday, Judge Boyd set aRide the verdiet rendered some weeks ago in the case of Mrs. Florence Varner against her husband, 11. B. Varner of Lexington, N. ('.. for reasonable subsistence. Baxter McRary,x negro. was named corespondent by Varner in his action ^against his wife and his name figured prominently in the trial of A^rs. Varner's suit for subsistence, in which the jury found for Varner. , The Florida house of representatives Monday adopted the senate resolution calling for an investigation of certain official acts of former Gov. Sidney J. Catts. A committee of five is to inquire into the rumors that the former governor received money to influence his appointment of certain State officers and in the granting of pardons and that, while governor he committed unlawful acts. The resolution provides that if the rumors are substantiated the former governor shall be prosecuted. A. Paris dispatch says thut the war machine of France is ready to swing into action at a moment's notice. That notice is expected to be given on May 1. or immediately thereafter, if Germany fails to meet the reparations demands. If Britain. Belgium and Italy refuse to go with her, France is prepared to invade the Ruhr valley single-handed, and ulwo to occupy part of Westphalia. Saturday a thorough-going program of military ami economic coercive I measures was approved by the French cabinet. Marshal Focli will be given a free hand the moment the word "act" is given, which will he tantamount to a new declaration of war on Germany. Games for Pineville. The season of the Mecklenburg County Baseball league is scheduled to open on Saturday. May 14 with Hunterville playing at Pineville, North Charlotte at .Mat, thews, Cornelius at Dixie ami l*H\V ( 'l*o??Lr i>t Afkovtnn Tli.i aOi - ? - - % ? ?? i i i iiv i i vrii 1 IIV wi er dates for the Pineville club are a? follows: May 21 at North Charlotte; May, 28. Matthews at home; June 4. at Atherton ; June 11, Paw Creek on home grounds; June 18, 'Cornelius on home grounds; June 25, at Dixie; July 2. Ht llunters^ ville; July 9. North Charlotte on home grounds; July 16. at Matthews; July 23. Atherton on home * grounds; July 30. at Paw Creek; August 6. at Cornelius; August 10, Dixie on home grounds;; August 13, Huntersville . on home grounds; August 17. at Jluntersville; August 20. Matthews on home grounds; August 24, ut Atherton; August 27. Paw Creek on home grounds; August 31, Cornelius on home grounds; September 23, at Dixie. 1* / ^J* Aft * t * ' * - ,'f*/ ' ' "-,U ^ .> " ' r,3k .1 * ' '-fi'xi- . 5 ;V.V B^.ni rhe f MM I ' BURIAL OF THREE SOLDIERS Bodies of World War Victims In- ] terred Last Sunday. The bodies of three soldiers who j lost their lives in France while fighting with the Fort Mill company, 118th regiment, 30th .divis- J ion, arrived Saturday from over seas and were interred Sunday. ' following exercises in their honor. ? Sunday afternoon several hun- ! dred people attended the exereis- 1 es at Confederate park for Pri- ' vate Clyde \V. Stevens of Fort Mill and Corpl. Fred T. Miller of Lundo, wliich began with a prayer by the Rev. .1. \V. 11. Dyches. YVilliutu Ardrey. himself and exservice man, then paid a tribute i to the memory of the young sold- : iers, after which the bodies were taken to New Unity cemetery and interred in the plot of the Fort Mill post, American Legion* under whose auspices the services i were held. It was estimated that as many as 200 citizens of the Lauilo section of Chester county wane to Fort Mill for the exercises. Corpl. Miller, whose home was in that community, was a popular young man and a faithful soldier, lie joined the Fori Mill company while it was stationed at Chester iloiug guard du ?i.:? fifavmiu ill linn nrv; I iuii. i i nun ? m* * * ? < also had an excellent record as a soldier and his many friends in Fort Mill welcomed the opportunity to honor Ids memory by attending the funeral. Sunday morning the body oi Corpl. Carey L. Faris. son of Air. and Mrs. 1. L. Faris of the upper section of Fort Mill township, wat interred at Flint llill church. The exercises at the church in honor of Corpl. Faris were under the auspices of Fort Mill post, American Legion, and a tribute was pi*ill to his memory by ('apt. Geo. l*otts. The pastor of the church, the Kev. .J. R. Smith, also took part in the exercises. Corpl. Faris was the first Fort Mill soldier to lose his life in. action overseas. Appreciation of his record as a soldier and the great sacrifice he made for his country was attested by the large number sr. Flint Hill church Sunday to honor his memory. VOTE ROAD BOHDS. j Mecklenburg Citizens Appove $2,. j 000,000 Issue. In tlu? election heUl in Mecklenburg county, N. C.. Tuesday, the proposed road bond issue of j $2,000,000 was carried by a ma-, jority of 2.701 votes in a total vote of 8.290. The eitv of Charlotte voted strongly for the bond issue, but in the county eigl^t 'of the 14 townships voted against the proposition, Pineville and Providence being among the dissenting townships. Steel Creek township, just across the line from Fort Mill. township, gave a majority of 44 for the bond issue. Magistrate Glenn Dead. Thomas B. Glenn, magistrate of Kbenezer township died Sunday at his home in Tirzah from the effect of injuries he received recently while working on an engine at the ginnery of which he was manager. Mis condition was j not considered serious until Sat- > urday, when* he grew rapidly ' worse. The funeral was held j Monday morning and the inter- i ment was in Kbenezer church- | yard. Mr. Glenn had served as inagis I trate of Kbenezer township for J many years and was one of the most popular officials in the county. Surviving are his wife and six children, his mother. Mrs. S. .T. I tit...... ..c i *1.*? ?i <ii<-iiii 111 i iirsirr, i? o oroiliei * I iinil two sisters. , ? Magistrate Marries Couples. Magistrate .1. It. Haile Sunday j afternoon performed his tirst mar- i riage eereinony since assuming, the duties of his ofHee two months ago. the parties being Miss Nan- i nie Helle ltailey and Gurnip 0, Freeman, hoth ot Fort Mill. Wednesday morning he received-a hurried call to come from The Times office to his store to officiate at the marriage of Miss Doeia Sweet of ltoek Hill and Giles Mason o^ Charlotte. N. who exl>? essed a desire to have the knot tied as expeditiously as possible, a? he was not sure the vouug lad.\'s relatives would not arrive to 1 interpose objection. 0 V. >.T> " _ ' ' QRTl FOET BOLL, S. 0, THUBSDJ ? i " ?* WORK OF YORK COURT. Many Cases of More or Less Interest Disposed of During Week. Special to The Times. York. April 20. ? Convening Monday morning with Judge J. S. Wilson of Manning presiding, 2onrt this week, with ooily a few xceptions has been a monotonous oiccessiou of trials for relatively minor offenses, cases of housebreaking preponderating. Despite the number of stills captured in York county, whiskey cases were fewer than usual at this term. Alexander Moore, Alius* Mote Moore, charged with the killing of .1 niln (ilcnti in Vnrt Mill town ship Inst February, was acquitted Wednesday afternoon, the jury deliberating only a few minutes. Moore was indicted for murder, h?it after the testimony had been concluded Solicitor Henry said he would not ask for conviction of murder but of manslaughter as j the result of misadventure or criminal ca r? 1 essness. Another Fort Mill case tried Wendnesday was that of Claude Gordon, charged with attempted criminal assault on an 11 year old girl, resulting in a directed verdict of not guilty. At the conclusion of the State's testimony Solicitor Ilenrv announced that he did not feel warranted in asking for conviction and asked the court to direct a verdict of acquittal. The testimony of the State's witnesses was rather vague and often contradictory. The two principals in tju? e^sve are residents of the town of Fort MiMFloyd Hunter and F?wl find pre. Rock Hill youths of 1# and 17 years, respectively, pleaded guilty Wednesday to t)?e charge of housebreaking ami drew sentences of six mouths mudi- Tb^y were caught burglarising tlpe store of the ./oflUHOu-Hlaukeiiship Grocery company. Hock if ill, .1. YV. Fisher of Fort Mill was convicted of ussault and batteFy Tuesday afternoon hut the pussii.g of sentence on hint was tie- , ferred. * A. I). Burgess of ltock Hill was convicted of assault of a high autl aggravated nature autl carrying concealed weapons and sentenced to serve three months or pay a tine of $7f>. The fine was paid. Burgess, a Rock Hill textile worker. had n row with a neighbor resulting from a quarrel between their chiidi m und according to the State's witnesses held his pistol on his neighbor while applying to him various and sundry uncomplimentary .epithets. No shots were fired and no blows Were struckSamuel Miller, negro, who shot ami dangerously wounded Walt |.r Kuvilan t " -1 J -< ? .. . ..w.nrn. II jrpilf UIJ.I HO|| Qt ?J. 1* Barnes. merchant of the Mc<'? nncllsvillc section, when caught in the night in the hitter's store, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and batery with intent to kill and was sentenced to sprvp three years, lie drew an addition: al sentence of six months for eiin tering a ph a of gnilty to the ch-irgc of housebreaking and larceny. Andrew Dunlap. Fort Mill negro. pleaded guilty to two indictments for housebreaking and larceny. drawing a sentence of 18 months for one offense and two years for the other. In striking contrast to the other ju Iges who have presided here ri ently. Judge Wilson, In passing sentence on persons convicted In re this week, has left no part of i' suspended during good behavior. All drawing a sentence must serve their time unconditionally. After choosinir I'nritv Preshv. terian church. Chester, hs the in xt place of meeting, and clect-i irg officers fpr the ensuing year, tlie Hcthcl Presbyterial auxiliary closed a sueepssful two days' sesr sion here this afternoon. Officers elected were: President, Mrs. I, H. II ayes. Kershaw; vice president. Mrs. K. J5. Oilllespie, YorKi secretary, Mrs. PretJ R. Culvern, Kershaw. The meeting was attended by 7:1 official delegates and registered guests. J. H. Hwinnie. R. M- Anderson, J. li. Poag and Joe M- Taylor are among those seekiug appoint* ment as magistrate of Ebenezer township to succeed the late T. B. Olenn. The legislative delegation has recommended no one yet. vtnx LY, APRIL 21, 1921. ? SEEKING SIGNATURES. I ?? Road Bond Petitions Now Being Circulated. Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of the committee appointed several days ago to solicit signatures of freehold voterR of Fort Mill township to petitions requesting the board of county commissioners to order an election to determine whether the township would agreee to vote bonds for road improvements. the amount of the issue the committeemen decided to ask the qualified freeholders to ?JU|((?w\ the voters generally to pass noon was set at jK7f? (SMt Th?* :swr i\ "Wf" * ^ v t " "*X committee also decidpd that it was not within its province to incorporate anything in tlie petitions relative to the order in which the roads should he improved as had been suggested, taking the position that the taw specifically says the expenditure of money arising from the sale of township bonds is left to the discretion of thp commission appointed for that purpose. The committee proppses to complete the canvass for signatures to the petitions by Monday afternoon if possible. The act providing for township bond issues for road improvement specifies that one-third the freehold voters of the township must petition the hoard of county commissioners to order the election. There are About 875 freehold voters in Fort Mill township and it will therefore require the signs-, tures of 125 of these before the county commissioners can order the question to an election. It is thought that with the proceeds ot the *75.(KM] bond issue, the $80.000 the county has agreed to give the township and the $10,000 federal aid recommended by the State highway commission, practically an ttiH important highways of the ti wnship can he put in first class condition. KM, T. w/otJLP DEAD. Pleasant Valley Woman Succumbs to Long Illness. Mrs. Blocker Bailes Culp, wife of Thomas \V. Culp of Pleasant Valley, Lancaster county, died at a sanatorium in Asheville Saturd iy evening, following an illness of several months and the body was brought to Fort Mill Monday morning for funeral services and interment that afternoon ut Pleasant Hill Baptist church, the services lupng conducted by the Rev. W. R. Boukniglit and the Rev. J. W. II. Dyehes. Mrs. Culp was a (laughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. .1. P. Bailes and was 43 years old. She had spent her entire life in the Pleasant Valley community, where she had many friends who were distressed to hear of her death. Mrs. Culp had been ill for several years and some months ago went to Asheville in the hope that the mountain climate would help her regain her health. She is survived by hep husband, three brothers. J. .1, Bailes of Fort Mill. Sennmr W. ft Mail... >...! 1 V I ol Lancaster county, and one sisj t< r, Mrs. Robert Bryant of Wil| mington, N. C. Dead Man E. M. Hughes? T. J. Hughes of ^owell, N. 0\, came to Fort Mill last Friday in an effort to identify the- man who was killed on the traek of the {Southern railway Saturday night, April 1). by passenger train No. 2H, two miles north of town, and left here Saturday positive iu the belief that the man was his brother. K M. Hughes of Marion, N. (\ Mr. Hughes said K. M- Hughes luul brought a load of apples from Marion to Pineyille, N- C\, atul that after selling the apples had seut his train back to Marion and, he supposed, had then undertaken to walk the railroad traek from Pineville to Fort Mill. H? whs not certain the dead roan had j not been robbed, as no money was j found in bin clothing, and that ' perhaps be bad been murdered j and the body placed on the rail- | road tracU to be Htruek by the i passenger train in an effort to 1 cover up the crime. So positive , was Mr. Hughes that the uniden- i tied man whose body was buried in New Unity cemetery Monday, i April 11, was that of his brother that he did not think it worth i while to? have it disinterred for i identification. m-fm'mmk isfc <4 ' 'i s * ' * ->< K-Time* NAMES ON PENSION ROLL. Fort Mill Veterans and Widows to Receive State Aid. The total amount of money to be divided among the 122 Confederate veterans and the. 282 widows of veterans living in York county when thfe pension roll was ?\1?A ?\n ^ * ' p.v(ioiai u u'w weens ago is $iu,920. acording to a statement sent to The Times by H. P. Jackson, pension clerk ,?n the comptroller general's oftiee, Columbia. Of the number of veterans ami widows to participate in the pension fund the following live in Port Mill townsh: J. M. Armstrong. Win. II. Arm ? strong, John ?). Ashe. S. 1*. Blankenship. Win. P. Boyd, Robert Bnrns, J. 11. Colthrap, James P, Kpps. H- H. Kpps. J, S. Kiinbrell. B. Jlenry Massey. A- H. Merritt. Bowman Merritt, R. A. P. Merritt. J. C. Haville. K. Shannon. Ira O. Smythe, James Spratt, Pallas Stephens, R. S. Torrenee. Widows of veterans: Mrs. Cyntl.ia Abrrnatlmy. Mrs. Imeretla Alderson. Mrs. Marv Massey Audrey, Mrs. Rllen Ratios. Mrs. Matilda Bayne, Mni. R. J. Bennett, Mrs. M- M? Bennett. Mrs. Ivmra II. Drakeford, Mrs, Oetavla Pelts Mrs. Alice lroiie Harris. Mrs. Eliza .Johnson. Mrs. Ellen A. .lours, Mrs. But tin Kimbrell. Mrs. Mary B.-McCloUand. Mw. Harriet Banks Mark. Mrs. H. H. Mills, Mrs. Alice Mull, Mrs. Susan Patterson. Mrs. Rebecca E. Shaw, Mrs. 1). \v Smith. DEATH ERD8 ILLNESS. * A. Baxter Bailes Passes Away at Charlotte Hospital, Following an illness of several weeks, A. Baxter Bailes, well known citizen ami Confederate veteran of the Pineville section of Mecklenburg county, whosexhomo was a few miles north of Fort Mill, died at a Charlotte hospital Monday morning, aged 70 years. Mr. Bailes was horn on May 2. 1842. a son of Billy Bailes and Mrfc. Polly Blue Bailes of York county. At 18 years of age he volunteered for service in the Confederate army and was severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Bailes spent nearly all his life on his farm near Pineville and was noted for his generosity and kiinHteartedness,. lie was first married to" Miss Nancy RuSsell. \<fio died many years ago. and of J this marriage is survived hv the. following, children*- W. O. Bailes. 1). Vic. Bailes ami Sam Bailes,.ull i residents of this* section. Following the death of his first wife, Mr. Bailes was married to Miss Dixie Blankensfiip, who, with the following children, survives: Mrs, W. 8. McClelland of Charlotte, Miss Ida Bailes. teacher in the public schools of Oast on ia, A. U. Bailes. Jr., Mason Bailes. Lillian Bailes. Klmie Bailes, Leonard Bailes and Boyce Bailes, The funeral services were held 1 at the home Tuesday morning and the interment was at Flint Hill < Baptist church. Play Binjs Around Visitors. i The curves of Andral Ferguson ? proved too elusive for the Oreat Falls hatters Saturday afternoon l am) the hoys from the riverside j town went.back home with an 11 to 0 score to think over. I |? to the fifth inning neithe team had scored and it then looked as I if the game would be elose all the * wav. but in the fifth the Fort Mill boyH got next to the visitors' pitcher him! from then on hud lit* ' tie trouble in mussing things np for tiiin him! his mutes. Wilbur Ferguson caught his usual good i game for Fort Mill aiul the other members of the team contributed ! their part to making the contest a { one-sided affair. (Ireat Falls changed pitchers in the seventh inning, but things continued to break the wrong way for them. ! Fire Destroys Barn. D. Victor Hailes, whose farm is i a few miles north of Fort Mill just beyond the State line, sustained a loss of several thousand dollars last Wednesday morning i when his barn, three horses, two mules ami a large quantity of i feedstuff and practically all his j farming implements were destroy- < ed by tire. There was no insur- i ante on the building or contents, i / W& ' ). $1.60 Per Year. MONEY POWER SCORED BY SENATOR LAFOLLETTE Wisconsin Member of Congress Says Interests Have Taken Control of Government. Speaking in Washington eitv Saturday night at a mooting the Pponlu's I 4 ? -- _ ?r>.. .. ><v.^muii Hi* service, Senator Robert M. lmfolletic of Wisconsin declared that tin* great issue before the American pople today is the control of their own government. "A mighty power has been budded in this country in recent years, ho strong, yet so insidious and far reaching in its influence." Senator Lufollcttc said, "that men are gravely inquiring win tiler its iron grip on government and business can ever he broken. "Again and again il has proved strong enough to nominate the Candida Irs for both political parties. It has dominated the organization of legislative bodies. State and national, and of the commit tees which frame legislation. Its infhu nee has been felt in cabinets or in the policies el' minimis!ra lions and has been ctvarly seen in the appointments of prosecuting attorneys ami judges. This great power which has taken from the people control of their own government is the product of monopoly and organized greed." Declaring that never before had the national capital attracted So menacing an army of lobbyists seeking from the representatives of Hlie people unjust eoueessious to special interests. Senator Lafollette named the 19 great coin patties or financial powers which maintain extensive orgaui/al inns in Washington." Senator lmfollette charged that "the first weapon of these organizations is "personal influence." ai.d added: "The high salaried agents of the packers, coal associations and other great trusts ami monopolies cultivate the acquaintance of the individual member of Congress. Tltey shower him with compliments. They give him flattering publicitv in their trade journals. They flood his ofiice with data and statist ics plausibly setting forth llieir side ol every public question." Adoption hy Congress of a H? ?I percentage return. "which forced tin* in l erst at commerce com mission to increase the annual transportation Idil of the nation l>v hundreds of millions of dollars,"* Senator Lafollettc said was a striking example of the normoiis power which can h * marsludled hy a single interest." ^ Death of Young Woman. Miss <>1 lit* hell. 17 year old daughter of Mrs. hessic hell, who lives in the village of mill No. li. Fort Mill Manufacturing company. died <it her home Sat unlay afternoon at I:.'{() o'clock, following an illness of several months, which hegan with a severe attack of influenza she suffered more 11.nit a your ajjo. Miss Hell was a member of a Methodist church i:i Lam-aster ami tin* interment was in that town Sunday afteriiooii. Announcement of iter hath caused general regret in the village and to lier friends in town. She is survived by her mother ii.d a sister. Mrs. Callie Smitli. Gold Hill Honor Roll. The honor roll for the (Sold Hill |Mihlic school. Miss Until Shuler tad Miss Ida Lee Purler, teachers, for tin- month beginning March IS and ending April L~> is as follows : First Grade Xnimnie Oshorne. Second Grade Minnie Abernathv Theli.o. Mi'Ki'imv Fourth (initio?-.lot* Ahernathy. Sji in in if Hoyd. .lames Hoy. I. ('has." 1 i.lump. Osborne. Fifth (initio?Raymond 1'atter<011. Sixth (initio?Luoy Crook. Mssie 4'uiiiuip. Miirtlrio Colt harp, Lillian Warrni. Sovontli (initio Mae I'oytl. Louiso Warren. Williama Reappointed. Tuesday (iovornor Cooper reappointed (). K. Williams of Hook Milf agent for the Catawba Intliiiik. Mr. Williams litis been State ujront for the Catawhas for several years and his service as sueb is said to have given general satisfaction. ^