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Batabliahed 1881.
TAKES STAND FOB BONUS.
Fort BU11 Legion Post Indorses
-V Bill for Ex-Service Men.
Eli Baileft post, No. 43. American
Legion, Tuesday night came
out flatfootedly for the bonus
bill of the American Legion which
was pigeonholed in the United
States senate a few days ago on
the recommendation of President
Harding and not oidy expressed
its disapproval of the opposition
of the South Carolina division of
of the Legion to the bill but went
further and criticised Congress
for shelving the bill and thereby
"levying a tax on patriotism and
placing a premium on cowardice."
At an enthusiastic meeting
Tuesday night at which 30 membersof
tlie post were present ?
resolution was unanimously adop
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IV VI .-M-lllliy ICMlll III UI1IIHM Jlivilble
language the attitude of the
ex-serviee men toward the bonus
bill. They are for it?there's no
mistaking that 1'aet. The resolution
was drawn by a committer
composed of ('apt. (ieorge W.
l'otts, Capt. F. M. Mark and
, .Jas. T. Young, Jr. A ropy of the
resolution and a bonus editorial
printed in The Times of July 21
will be sent by the post to The
American Legion Weekly with
the request tluit both he published
in that paper. It also was planned
last night by a member or
the resolutions committee to send
a copy of the resolution and the
editorial to ('ongressnian John J.
McKwain of the (Sreenville district
and likewise request him to
have both printed in The Congressional
Record. The resolution
is ns follows:
"Resolved. That Eli Railcs
post. No. 4J. American Legion, of
Fort Mill. S. is imt in ni'<?i?i-ii
with the action of the South Car
oliuu division of tlit* American
Legion which has several times
gone on record as opposing the
proposed compensation legislation
for ex-service men; that the
Kli Bailcs post, hv unanimous
|Qr'oto of its membership, earnestly
vindorses the American Legion
bill providing for adjusted compensation
for the ex-service men
of the World war.
"Resolved further. That Kli
Bailcs post is not in accord with
the narrow and short-sighted action
of the Congress of the United
States is shelving the hill for adjusted
compensation. thereby
levying a tax on patriotism and
placing a premium on cowardice,
and that we heartily indorse an
editorial which appeared on page
2 of the Fort Mill Times of duly
21. 1921. urging additional compensation
for ex-service men. a
copy of which is hereto attached
and made a part of this resolution.
"Resolved further, that a copy
of this resolution, including The
Times' editorial, he sent to The
American Legion Weekly, with
flip Viwiiuict 1 l?ol t? .??.L1 ...1. . 1
,..v . ? ?|||1 i l?? l II IM- |M|II| IMil'il,
One "Manager" for Election.
Turn I a.v five 1'ort citizens
went to tin- .store *?i" Young &
Wolfe and cast their ballots for
George \V. McKcn/.ie for ablerman
from Ward 4. Neither of the
three managers appointed by
town council to conduct the election
found it convenient to 2ict
ami the election was held by das.
Young, dr.. who said the ballot
box had been left at lite store of
Young & Wolfe, where he is a
salesman, and that he did not
think it right to have men leave
their work and come to vote only
to be disappointed by the nonattendance
of the managers. Yesterday
one of the men appointed
to act as manager of the election
said he was ready to serve and
came up town Tuesday morning
for llntl purpose, but that finding
neither of the other men who
had been selected to serve with
him in the neighborhood of the
bnllot box he concluded there
would be no election and went
home.
^ The annual reunion of ihe descendants
of the lale Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Kimlnvll was held last
Thursday at the home of l>. !.
Kimbrell, one mile south of town.
Thirty-five members of the family
were present for the reunion.
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WORLD 'S CAMBLING CENTER
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Fort Mill Soldier Tells of Visit
to Monte Carlo.
"Speaking of gambling,*' yea- j
tirduy said .lames T. Young, Jr.,
World war veteran of Fort Mid,
who was in France with a signal
corps outfit front Washington.
1). C., "the place to see real gain- '
bling, not the tin horn variety, ?s
at Monte t'arlo, the world's head- ,
quarters for gatius of chance, j
where fortunes are won ami lost
every day in the year in less time ;
than it takes to tell about it. The J
city t?f Monte Carlo is on the island
of Monaco, in the Mediterranean
sea. about 'JO miles from
Nice, France. Even during the j
v ar visitors, men and women j
alike, came to Monte Carlo from I
every quarter of tliv globe to try |
their luck. The Bank of Monte ;
Carlo, the great gambling institu- i
lion, is licensed under the laws of
t lir island and there is no danger 1
ot' iis promoters I?i iu?r run in as |
would happen in this country. 1
The hank is situated on a high
cliff, known as 'The Cliff of
Sighs.* overlooking the Mcditer- i
rancan. where it is said scores |
and scores of people who had lost ,
their all at the hank's seductive j
rallies ended their lives hv hurl- I
ing themselves from the cliff.
"IMiring the war it was a rule |
of the I tank of .Monte Carlo not |
to admit men in uniform, hut j
every now and then one man- |
aged to evade the vigilance of the
Ivnx-cyed spotters who are eon- I
stoutly on guard for those who j
might try to stick up the place j
oi make way with sonietliing that I
did not belong to tlieui. I'erhaps |
the proprietors of the hank had
ligured it out that the soldiers
did not have enough money to
make the effort of trying to separate
them from it worth while,
or perhaps they concluded the
men in uniform might lrv to
'start .something.* Kither guess
was perhaps a "ood one. .My observation
was that there were
tunny men in the army wonhl
liave weleomeiI an opporuinity to
organize a raid on an?l 'hreak tin*
auk at .Monte Carlo.'
"'Ilieie are many devices at
he IhinU of .Monte Carlo to promote
the interests of the house
against those o! the player, for
ntstanee. the ^rainI?Iiji*r rooms. I
Was lol?|. Were heated art ifieially
in summer and winter alike to
ii.lise the player to heeome coilS11
set I and lose his power of elear
thin kill};. The windows are never
raised during the hours the games
..re in progress and everybody is
encouraged to smoke incessantIv.
<>! course wine and other intoxicating
drinks are always to he
had. And for the least service
performed by one of the attendants
the player is expected to
give him a tip. Should the player
want a match to light a cigar or
a cigarette the only way to get it
is m ask an attendant for it. That
calls for a tip. The floors in the
gaining rooms are covered with
the thickest and heaviest kind id'
arpels and these make one's feet
1 burn, adding to his discomfort
and confused state of mind, lively
condition of course favors the
hank. Many men win fortunes
'.here, hut for every one who
leaves the hank with luck on his
side, there are a do/.eli to tell a
different story.
"The visitor can find almost
any kind of ,,ard game at Monte
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I - ...... ...- n I.-.IIII. Ml lll'l till. I >i I ?*
carat seems in In- the I'aivorili'
;r Imit nl' course faro and
oilier card games arc to lie found
ihriv. fortunes also change
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liaiids at .Monte Carlo every
I day in the year on craps. I was
told that in the many years the
Hank of Monte Carlo lias heen in
existence only one mail had heen
jdile to hrcak it even temporarily.
This was in 1!H4 and the
fortunate player forced the erou
pier to announce that the institution
was out of funds. How much
this man won I did not hear, hut
the hank was ready for business
as usual the following day. There
appears to be no sueli tiling as a
'system' to heat the hank. Thousands
have imagined that they
lu.d discovered a way to get. the
best of the institution only to
learn to their sorrow that they
| were mistukeii."
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FORT MILL, 8..C-, THURS
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest Found 1
in the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rather than sell their butter
for 10 cents a pound, which is the 1
price being offered them by the '
dealers in the nearest market. 1
farmers of the Hopewell section ,
are using butter for lard, according
to leading farmers of the
Hopewell community. Considerable
improvements are ,
being made to the plant of the ,
Howling Green spinning mill, ,
which is under the management (
of C. N. Alexander of Clover. The ,
mill buildings have recent I v been
painted ami considerable rentod- j
cling bas been done. (
Prof. \V. S. Heid. superintendent
of the Clover graded school,
said Saturdat* that he was unable
to announce at this time when
the work of the next session
would be entered upon. It will i
probably be the last of October,
however, since it is believed that
the new school building will have
been completed by that time.
The management of the Clover
cotton oil mill has under way <
plans for the erection of a large
brick building in which will he
housed an up-to-date ice plant.
The building, which will be erected
near the present ice plant,
v ill be a structure about 40 by
tiO feet and the contract for its
election has been let to .Ml*. Sail)
Met'all. Tlie building will be sufficiently
large to accommodate a
20-ton plant.
Horace Johnson, special constable.
now knows why it requires
so many automobile tires to keep
his machine traveling. It is because
of the hard usage to which
I lie machine is put in traveling
lei.g distances ami over all sorts
ul roads ami by-paths in jiert'orinin?r
his ?lutv a s aprohihit inn
otlieer. Constable Johnson kept
a record ?Iurin?r July of tin* mileaj?a
that hi' covered during* that
month in tin- performance of his
ilntii's. Tin' total distance traveled
hy auto was ahout
miles. A now sot of tires is reI
quired for tin' machine about
every two months.
"I ri'iin'inhiT that follow S. .1.
Kirby very well." said, \V. T.
Ih'ailforil of the Beth-Shiloh
iiei^rh horhooil. ^'1 i;ot to know
him \v lion I was a jruard on the
?-luihiiior a!..nit ten years aj?o.
I lie was sent up for eruelty to
one of his children. According to
my rooolloot ion one of the neighbors
report oil to the police that
the oliihl hail hoen brutally whippod
ami loll in the yard with u
smoothing iron lied to it. Kirby
was sentenced to pay a fine or
go to the chaingang for JO days,
j While oil the chaingang lie seemI
imI to lake pleasure in telling how
! he had sold liquor and violated
I other laws."
Mr. II. K. I'Vrgiison. well known
| ? at' le de ler of Vorkville. w as
! I, M r.bsllltr 1 11 . ? I i I t t 1 ? ? liimiiiok'L! * I?.?
| ol 11? i* ?Iji v. linsiiiess is awiiv off
! .ilisi now ." said ho. '"and accord|
ni<r to ill I indications it will he
j lor sonic time. While it is a fact
that people do not eat as morn
steak and heef in the sninnnr as
they do in the winter th.it is 1101
alli *.re her the reason for the
tin a slump of the past few
months. When the World war
i < . r to an end the I'nited States
l;d on hand thousands and mil1
i? . s of pounds of heef hoiltrht
I o:n the ?reat packing houses to
furnish the soldiers. The govern
en lit since then h:is heen trotting
rid of this ?rreat store hv sollinir
i* to the general public. The
hlitcllers who sell fresh heef find
that they cannot compote with
mi* ?rovernineni prices aiul coiise<pu
litly tin- beef business is on
the ilown grade while hundreds
of butchers have gone out of business.
There will lie no change
in 'he situation until the ?roveminent
supply is consumed by the
public."
Mrs. Osmond Barber. Mrs. Kenneth
Nims. Mrs. L. M. Massev
and Miss Nora Hamilton were
called to donesville. Union conn
ty. Sunday to be at the bedside of
their father. Col. K. W. llamll1m.
who is in a critical condition
from a stroke of paralysis he susI
tamed a few days ago.
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IDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921.
RESTORING THE BUFFALO.
Sfforts of American Bison Soci- 1
ety Meeting With Success.
Tile buffalo, a meat and furnoducing
animal that, even as i
ate as the '50s, roamed the plains t
a eouutless thousands; could eulure
extremes of heat ami cold
ind hunger impossible to cattle; 1
iiulowed with an instinct and *
iluiity to extract food roots from y
mow-covered ledges and meet the '
seemingly unendurable blasts of 1
storm and sleet to a degree that \
aould slay the hardiest range i
L'attle by herds; an animal that |
>iice%claimed its habitat from the j
Alleghanies to the Rockies and ,
from I'anama to the vast reaches
i?f the Canadian Northwest terri- ,
lory, today exists almost solely
in a few national parks and pri- |
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Tlu* rut hlcssncss of buffalo
slaughter passes common under- ,
s-anding. As. the natural food. ,
shelter and clothing furnisher of ,
the Indian, the latter, hunting 1
with how ami arrow or spear,
killed only a sutlieient nutnher for |
for honest, personal needs. The
coming of the white man into the
plains almost caused the extinction
of the buffalo. From hunting
as a sport? that was carried
to such an extent of killing that
i> was merely butchery?buffalo
slaying became the occupation of
the pothunter, hide seeker and
renegade,
'I lius. today, news of the buffalo
lias chiefly to do with restoring
him. A late report of the
American Bison society shows
that Montana has MTU buffalo
and Colorado 212. Kansas and
Nebraska, the headquarters of
millions of range buffalo, even as
kite as the T?()s. possess just ;">?).
.\e\V 1 OI'K Mils 41.
At his range at Pawnee, Okla..
Ma.j. Cordon Li I ley. internationallv
known as "Pawnee Bill,"
lias established a 10.000-aere preserve
for buffalo and lias accomplished
one of the most eoinmcudable
aehieveinents of his plains
career. Through the success of
Itis raneh. many hotels in the
large eities have tasted of the
d< lieaeies of buffalo steak, consignments
going out from time to
time solely for the purpose of
proving the palatable qualities of
the meat and thus arousing interest
in the raising of buffalo for
food.
The total number of buffalo
given by the bison society for the
I nited States today is 3,393 head.
The lurgcst herd on the North
American continent is the Canadian
national herd at Wainwright,
Alberta. This herd roams
open range, virtually as free as
e\er were its ancestors, and numbers
4.335 bend. Alberta lias a
total of 4.543. Then there is tinwild
herd of Athabasca, estimated
at 500 head. In Canada as a
whole there is a total of 5,080
bead.
Kirby Known Here?
Numerous Fort Mill citizens
are confident that the S. 3. Kirby
held in the State penitentiary in
t.olnmhi;i m i<niiin>?i i.m tlw?
murder ot the young unto transIVi
driver. William Rra/.ell, in
i.e.xiugton county a few nights
ago, lived as a hoy on the farm
of Magistrate .). K. Haile in Fort
Mill lownship 17 years ago. At
that time there was a family of
tenants named Kirhy on Magisiiate
Hade's farm and in the
family were a number of hoys,
one of whom was Robert Kirhy.
w ho afterwards hcrume a locomoiive
engineer for the Southern
raiiway with a run between Columbia
and Charlotte. Robert
Kirbv died several years ago. S.
I. Kirhy is thought to have been
a brother of Robert Kirhy. On
January :H. 1!HG. S. J. Kirby was
eonvicted in the court at York
of cluhhing and robbing a man
on the outskirts of Rock Hill and
was sentenced to serve two years
in the State penitentiary. He was
paroled after a year's imprisonment.
Query of "Citizen" Answered.
The mayor of a South Carolina
town has as much authority to
appoint a member of town council
as a coroner has to appoint a
governor of the StHte or m I'nited I
States senator.?The Times.
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THIRD HORSEMAN RIDES.
Russia in Grip of Worst Disaster
of Centuries.
Hunger, the third of the four
lread horsemen that have been
rumpling upon the nations for
hose seven years, rides today un heeked
through Russia. and a
voriii hardened to stories of starvation
is quickened to now fears
jv reports of hungry millions
uarching east ami west from the
valley of the Volga to lamls where
here is food, says The Literary
>igcst. It is to stop the catastro>hie
snowslideora new "migraii-ii
of peoples and to save civilisation
from utter destruetion."
that Herbert Hoover and tin*
American Keform adiainistratiou
liave begun feeding the Russian
children. so one editor remarks,
ireideiitallv. say many others,
tin giving of relief will tend to
weaken the power of the soviet
government, whieh they hold in
10 small part responsible for the
L'atastrophe. While the "horriIde
stories spread by the foreign
press" are said by an otficial
Moscow wireless to he largely exiggerated."
the same dispatch
admits that "the calamity is
grave." The official Ivestia
(newspaper i of Moscow likewise
admits that Russia "has ahsu
Intelv no harvest this year. I'easints
arc rcducted to despair. They
in mowing unripe Ooru and fleciii^
paific-st riken before ileal h
ii il starvation. .Many are living
nf cholera ami typhus."
Not since the grcut plagues
scourged the Kgypt of the I'liaraohs
has any nation sufl'ereu
such horrors as are report e?l
from Russia, according to a Iterliu
dispatch to the New VorU
I'ribune. # All the wells ami
st t earns in the Volga region have
dried up; whole villages are in
flight, and "the vast steppes of
Russia will he strewn with the
bodies of men. women and children
unless the world comes to
their aid." Kuropc. continues the
writer, "may witness a titanic invasion
by Russian hordes such as
has not occurred since the advance
of the Mongols across the
Russian steppes."
A New York Herald dispatch
floiil Reval tells how these people
already are proceeding in the
track of the barbarian invasions
of Kuropc in the sixth century,
'eating all the crops as they go,
and like locusts spreading fauiii
very where." Other dispatches
tell of scores being crushed to
death in their efforts to hoard
railroad trains, of people stagger -j
nig after departing trams crying,
"in the name <d tiod. give us
hread. for we are d\ uig. The
most uuia/.ilig scenes iliai Kurope
lias witnessed for a thousand
years "are to he seen in the
wholesale migration id men. women
and children, who earrx with
11.ciu dogs and such domestic animals
as they can take." One
Moscow newspaper is authority
lor the statement that ti million
ot these hungry, ragged peasants
.ire marching on the capital, t hat
do vanguard reached one city
and. maddened by hilliel'. oVet'w
helmed the Ued uriiix garrison,
looted all the stores alul warehouses.
seized every morsel ot
food, and even killed and devoured
the horses belong to the city s
fire ilapartincut.
The Poles are nat iirnllv alarm
ft!. One well illlormeii <i11< 1 nt^li
iv <-?i11?.*?!i? ?i I'oio told iIn* ("hieajjo
iii I >i 1111 * eorrespomleni in War
Mia W I llill " t'oluilll IS ill llllirtall
(lunger of another Kiismuii niva
mom (in invasion I?v ii mass ol
starving hinnaiiity wliirli will
sweep over I h lion lor liken park
o? hungry wolvos invading a
loiioly village in winter." and the
odilor of a I'olish ilaily in Now
York oily is not uiiiiat nrally
movoil Iiv i In* reports of "oxIn
listo<I. hungry massos. wandering
in ilospair Inward an unknown
ilostiiuitioii. niiirkintheir
patli I iv tlio oorpsos of llioir i*li iltlroii.
of their woinon ami old poo
plo." I'orliaps, ho ventures, "another
migration of peoples begins
ii. this 20th oontury similar to
that whieh 1,500 years ago overturned
the Human empire of the
Caesars."
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$1.50 Per Year.
LEGION POST MEETS.
Ex-Service Men Act on Several
Matters of Importance.
Eli Buili?s post. No. 43. American
Legion, of Fort Mill held a
special meeting Tuesday night, ai
which a number of matters of importance
to the ex-service tueu
were acted upon.
The following delegates were
elected to represent the post at
fill* lili *??!? **? -v A *
.....Iji ill 1IH- niilli' division
of the Legion to bo held in NowImitv
oil Soptoinbor 7 ami 6: T.
I*. Spratt. (ioo. \V. l'otts. Brice
I). Culp. h'rederick Nims, Jr.;
altornatos. James T. Young, Jr.,
Hohert Bennett. llorbort Harris.
\Y. B. Moaobaiu. Jr.
By unanimous voto of tin* post
a resolution was adopted indorsin?r
an editorial wliiob appeared
in tbe I'ort Mill Times of July *Jl
fa\oring tbe legislation proposed
by tbe Anierieau Legion for ad
justed compensation for the o;
service men ami condemning tin
action of the South Carolina di
vision of the Legion and the ''on
gross of the 1'nitod States for re
fusing to pass the proposed legislat
ion.
Twelve new members were ad
to I ho roster of ilio post at
the meet injr. It was derided to
hold a picnic oil hYiday. Xi'CUM
'2b. for the Allierirail Lotion
members, the h'ort Mill military
company ami all other exservice
( :? 11 in the community. The families
of the ex-service men ami
militiamen also will ho expo.-ted
to attend the piruie. which will
he at Spruit 's spring;, a short dis
lance from town. After dinner
there will he an exhibition drili
by the military company, foot
races. jumping; contestsaud other
at lilet ic events, followed by a hall
jjiime between the recently orj;aui/ed
teams of the militiamen and
the ex-service men. That night
there will he wrest I in;; and hoxii??r
umtches in the armory of the
Tom llall (luards.
Hurt in Automobile Accident.
?I. Sam White, employed by the
Southern railway to operate tin*,
pump for the company's water
tank in h'ort Mill, was seriously
Itii 1*1 Monday eycuiut; while iv
turning; to l''ot't Mill from Itoek
Ilill when tin* iiutoiuoliili' in
1 11it*It In- was riding left tin* road
I and plunged down t lit' iU) foot
*1111>?i11kint-i11 <it tin- wi'St olid ot
tl'c 1'ounty rivi'i' bridge and ran
into a I fi'i*. llf liad two ribs brobroken
and is tlioii<rlit to In- m
j.iri'd internally. Tin' driver of
llit- automobile. (> 11 i?* llood. says
ilif sieerinj; ?;eur t>(it out of order
and that In* ooiild not keep
tlif oar in tin* road. Three ot
Mr. White's childrrii were in tin*
eat at tin* t i nit* hut all passed
; through the aeeideiil. as did Ollie
llood. without heinjr injured.
Not "Joke," Publicity Scheme.
v> rising a few days nj;o to a
Irit'iul ot his in l-'ort Mill. t'ol.
' \\ . \\ . Hall, editor ol 'I lie State,
'who reeeiitlv inaile a motor trip
Iroui < olumhia to ('hurlnllef had
' the following to say about the
| York eount\ roads:
"The road through York eountv
was oood and 1 eaniiot see why
'l-'orl Mill township thinks about
v i. i ... i it ...
joining ,MI| III \ .11(11111.1. IIIIW
I fVrl', I suppose llial w iis ;i joke.
; I lie York county rouils were hei
iter than that between I'incville
I am I 1 ha Hot le."
Preparation is beinj? inaiie by
! lie uieiiihers of the (iohl 11111
I ('< 1111 111111 y club lor I lie aiinu.il
pienic nt i lie club, winch will be
I 1
I held next l-'riday at tin* home ol
I Mrs. Kred Wilson. .Mrs. Karl
Karis is | > i*?*s it I ?*i 11 of tin* <* 1112>.
Anion*; tin* visitors expected is
Miss .luaiiita Neely, home demoiistration
it for York coiinty.
An invitation to attend
| tin* picnic is ? xt?*n?1 that sec
lion ot' tin* |>111?Ii<* willing to add
I to tin- success of tin* occasion by
hrin?rin?: well-filled baskets.
M iss Uutli .Meaebaiii. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Meaebaiu,
Tuesday morning; was operated
upon at a Koek Hill hospital tor
appendicitis. Miss Mcachain's
eondition was reported satisfactory
by the hospital physicians
and she is expected to be able to
return to her home in a few days.