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1 ? v"1 " \ . ' - . V . ? . V ' j' ' - V ^ The Fort Mill Tutes. . * EaUbliihed 1891. FORT~BULL, S. C., TStJB8DAY, OCTOBER 27, 1921. f KAN INTO THE LAW. Miller Bros. Shows Therefore Pt^s Up Fort Mill. Miller Bros, shows, traveling tent exhibition, which is touring the upper section of the State, did not give performances in Fort Mill as it* had planned for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. One of the proprietors of the shows was in Fort Mill Tuesday morning when he learned, he said, for the first time that he could not legally put on his exhibition in York county, due to the 11)20 act of tlw? I .wiriul u 1.1:.... IVI IMUVUU- mi uivalR, except on the grounds ??f the York County Fair association during fair week, or travelin*; tent shows of any kind in the county. Arrangements, according to the proprietor of the shows who was in Fort Mill, had already been made with the town authorities! to present the shows Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. * * "1 cannot understand." vest< rdav said a Fort Mill citizen, who was speaking of the Miller shows incident, "why the proprietors were not told to begin with that such a show as theirs could not he put on legally in York county and that the town of Fort Mill had no right to violate a State law by issuing tliein a li- 1 cense. It ought to he known once and for all time that the act of the Legislature is going to he respected in Fort Mill. Win ther the act is constitutional or not is beside the question. Let some o? those who are so cocksure that it is not, test its constitutionality before the supreme court. I'ntil ! that body declares the act uncan- ( stitutional or it is repealed it is | the law. the opinion of those who know nothing about what it takes to make an act constitutional to till' Cilll I I'll I" V lint w ! t li?t ii in I in tr Will Make Fine Report. The Rev. \V. R. Bauknight. j pastor of Si. .lolm's Methodist eliiireh. Fort Mill, expects to leave Tuesday for Lancaster to attend the annual meeting of the I'pper South Carolina conference, which will he in session the greater part of next week. The congregation of St. John's is hopeful that Bisli- ' op l.T. V: W. Darlington, who will preside at the Lancaster meeting of the conference, will reassign Mr. Bauknight to the Fort Mill charge for another year. In his report to the conference for the Fort Mill church. Mr Bauknight will he ahle to show tl at the church has met all its fiiuyicial obligations during the! year now drawing to a close, between $10,0(10 and $11,000 having been contributed by the congregation for elnirch purposes. He \t* 111 nluo Ko ul\li> In roiiMid tli'it there have hern 70 additions to the church membership during the year and that the congregation is just completing one of the hest equipped and most commodious church buildings within the bounds of conference. Kershaw Beaten at Football. The football team of the Fort Mill high school walked away with Kershaw high on the local grounds Friday afternoon, is to 0 Though one-sided, the game was interesting throughout. Minis, captain of the Fort .Mill team, secured all tin* touclnlows and played a good game, making several long runs. t)thers doing unusually good work for Fori Mill were: Link, Kimlirell, Parks, Mills and Patterson. Several times the Kershaw team braced tip and held the Fort Mill boys for downs within five yards-) of the Kershaw goal. K? rshaw made the ten yard distance hut onCe during the game and litis was on a well executed forward pass for a gain of 22 yerds. The gentlemanly eonduet of the Kershaw players was commended bv a number of the spectators. One of the most tragic of F.ng land's war memorials has just been unveiled in the village church of Holywell a simple tab. let of white stone let into the wall. It contains only the names of 12 villagers killed in the war. hut the tragedy is emphasized by the Statement that these 12 were the village's entire fighting strength. S GRADED SCHOOL NEWS. Korean Missionaries Make Interesting Talks to Pupils. The Uev. MY. and Mrs. I). L. Anderson. who are spending some i lime at their ohl home in Chester eountv after serving a number of years as missionaries in Korea, at- J tended he ehapel exereises of the school Tlllirscljiv ninriiiiur mwl i b^tli made interesting talks on the Koreans and their customs. All were urged to take advantage of lite religious and educational advantages open to them as Americans. Physical and dental examinations soon are to he made of the school children. A change litis been made in the school hours. The first bell now rings tit 7 :."?() instead of 8 o'clock land the sedond bell rings at 8:20 instead of 8 :ItO. The children have ten minutes, from 8:20 to 8 :d() for assembling in their rooms. At 8:dl) all are ready for the rolleall. The change in the hours permits the school to let out earlier in the afternoon. The si hool authorities request all pa nill.^ Ml UIIMTNT lllf L'llilll^r in I I In* hours ;m<l sot* that tlu-ir t* h i I - I (Iron reach the school house oil j time. | An interestinjr game of football I was played in Fort Mill yester- 1 II ay afternoon between the second teams of the local graded school and Wintlirop Training school. The best the Fort Mill 1 hoys could do was to emerge | from the game with a 10 to Oj score against them. The first quartern' examitia- ' J ions w ill begin next week. Most of 'lie examinations will be held on Thursday and Friday. tfrom Boll Weevil Section. The editor of The Tillies Tues day was pleased to receive a visit ll'em the Hon. It. I). Carter of liamherg. former member of the State boils* of representatives .Mr. Carter is one ul the leading lawyers of his section of the Suite | ami is a brother id' .lesse F. Car- ( I V I j Wilt# t 41 lilt Wlllllll 41 lt"? voles ol In m>; Hoc*it'll am aissociaite justice ol tilt* St;i11? supreme eourl ait I lie laisl session of the (Ielierail Assembly. At the lit'J'J session of the (ielierail Assembly ' ite will aijrnin lie iioiiiiuaite?l for membership on the supreme bench, there halving been no eleetion ait the session this year to fill the vacancy caused h\ the tleatli lest .laiuuairy of Associate .lustice Hydride. .Mr. Carter saivs boll weevil eontlitious in his section of the State are sut-li thait the farmers ami others aire extremely discouraged over the outlook. As a sample of 1 the tlest met ion wrought by the cotton insect in Bamberg county, Mr. Carter cited his own experience in farininjr this year. He owns a*11< 1 operates a three horse ; farm near his town from which he will gather not in excess of three hailcs of cotton. I nder normal conditions the land would have produced 'J.~> bales. Doctors Want Their Pay. In one South Carolina town at least. the doctors arc tired of waiting indefinitely on a slow |>a:vili?r public to settle with tliein for professional services they have rendered. Recently ill** ! doctors of Oran?rei>ur,rr have been running in The Times and Democrat an advertisement under the lit ailing. "Your Doctor and His tin-nit st Problem." in which they s; v. among other things. "Your ?i or tor is n lininnn being. lie needs money. He's always ready and willing yet you make liim wait longer for his money than anyone else. His refusal tt> answer your e\ery beck and call may mean life or death. Yet when the danger is over von pay everyone else before von think of him. If ho refuses your call at night, you go into a rage, although lie has a perfect right to do it. You pay other bills because you have to. Tine, a great litany appreciate their doctor ami pay as thev go. They do it because they know it is right. A man who only pays because he has to is only one degree removed from a dead beat ? while a dead beat and a thief are on par." j X NEWS OF YORK COUNTY. | Current Items of Interest From the Yorkville Enquirer. Scores of cx-scrvicc men of j York. Chester uml Lancaster counties were in Uoek Hill last week to appear before the government cleanup squad which is passing upon compensation claims of soldiers. The squad began j work in Rock llill Monday morn- j f.,.r .....I I ... 1... 1 O 1- I ><ii mm Ullivumru OJIIUIIHIV. it | is stated that the examiners found large numbers of ex-soldiers in this seetion suffering from various causes and filed their claims with the government. Frank Roach post. American Region, of Rock Hill. Perry (Jill. I post commander, is anxious to have ex-soldiers from every section of York county in Rock Hill on November 11. Armistice day, as guests of the York County fair. Frank Roach post is cooperating with the fair association in try- ! ing to get every white 'ex-soldier ?d" York county to come to Rock Hill that day. A big dinner will he served free of charge to all 1 soldiers and a most attractive program is being arranged. Secretary Fewell of tin- fair association says that dinner will be prepared for no less than otH) exservice men. "Sweet potatoes seem to be .1 j drug 011 the Yorkville market." J said last Tuesday a former who I brought 2.*? bushels into town to ; sell and who couldn't do it. "I tried every store in town this morning and every one of them ? ..I .1 1:1 : i- - . - <1111-4111,1 nil ppi ICO 1WII1 poia1 If York county farmers arc going in for the culture of sweet potatoes on o big scale some arrangements are going to have to he made for the sale of them. No doubt there are many cities with- j in va radius of 100 miles of here I that would he glad to have all we York county farmers have if 1 they also know about it." Also, if | this farmers should have potatoes j for sjile next February. In* will , have no trouble finding buyers. Several thousand more fruit trees wil) flourish on York county I f<u ins next year as the result of j a campaign for the planting of j more fruit trees which Miss .In- i mi it n Neely, York county wo-I, man's home demonstration agent, i: has jnjst completed in conjunction with the chamber of commerce of Hock Hill. During the campaign, which closed last Thursday. orders were taken from farmers for 8.800 strawberry plants, 2.22(1 peach trees, 1">0 pear trees, 7 plum trees. 7.70 up pie trees. 78 pecan trees, 92 clter- , ry trees. 2 quince trees, 18 figs, 2-1 grape vines ami loo berry plants. These trees and plants will he distributed about Decern- I, her 1 to Yorkville, Clover, Shu- ] ron. Fort Mill and Hock Hill. \ That the textile industry is ( looking up by reason of the fact < that tin* itcmund for cotton goods is growing and at a profitable 11 price, is indicated by the fact that ' a number of the largest cotton i mills in York county have re- | j ceiitlv increased the wages ol their textile employees. Three of i the largest mills in Kock Hill in- i creased wuprs from i:? to *20 per I j rent last week ami the Cannon i Ma tin fart urinp rompany of York- , j villr increased wapes of its emplovers It) per cent, effective with ji the hrpiuninp of operations Men- ] lay morninp. Tin* Arcade ami Arapnti cotton mills of Koek Mill I: increased the wapes of their employees 10 per cent last week and ? the I>1 lie Itiieklr cotton mills of I lock 11 ill raised wapes 21) per cent last week. It was learned ! Monday that other textile plants | in York comity have a voluntary | wapc iiicrc. se under considcra- t t ion. < 134 Years Old. ' ' Wrinkled Meat, Indian, known | to tourists as plain John Smith of i Cass Lake. Minn., recently eele- 1 lira ted his 134th birthday, and i some think he may even be older I than that, as the skin on his face > is almost ossified. The aped In- I dian is a veteran of nine tnarri- I apes and six battles with the I Sioux. He has the war bonnets t of six Sioux chiefs, whom he savs t he killed in buttle. |( farmers in bad shape. Senator Hitchcock Qives Sample of Republican Prosperity. Speaking in the Senate of the United States last Saturday on the bill "to reduce and equalize taxation," Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska read the following extracts froiu a letter he said he had just received from a Nebraska farmer as a sample of the promised nrosneritv tli?? R??r?:ih. A r ^ ~ r^" lican party has brought to the farming interests of the country since it assumed complete control of the government on the 4th of last March: "Permit me, as a plain, ordinary, hard working Nebraska farmer who has been practically made a bankrupt along with thousands and thousands of other poor tie ?ils of farmers who have been exploited by economic reformers and uplifters both in and out of Congress until we are flat broke?permit me to say: "At central and eastern Nebraska points we are offered lb , .v 1 U A- A* - - X iu jo ior new corn. uecemher corn in Chicago is 4ti j cents, which means that it takes | two bushels of corn to pay the freight and commission of one bushel, and then we can buy three tons of soft coal for $15. After we pay the shelter, we can get a ton of very ordinary coal tor three tons of good she .led corn delivered at the elevator, and if we should be so reckless us to want hard coal we can get it for per ton. After paying three cents per bushel to the shelling machine, we can buy a ton of hard coal for from 150 to 200 bushels of shelled corn, uceording to the locality. "I have seen good butcher cows, shipped from this town. 00 miles from Omaha, bring the shipper as little as $1 per hundred." One of the causes to which Senator Hitchcock attributed the : present suffering of the country , was "because the railroad rates have been put so high as to ab- 1 solutely prohibit tbe shipment of j goods to market in the Western States." The Scarcity of Eggs. Country eggs arc now almost us hard to oOiain at the grocery ; stores in Fort Mill as is frequent- j ly the case iu the dead of winter and the few dozens that are offered for sale are quoted at a , lllll'H ii Pimnil "ill > !' ? vuuu "V vrum il ; which is prohibitive for many ,1 t'uinilies. But even at that price 1 I here is practically no profit for I he grocery man in handling thein 1 for he usually pays 50 cents in trade for the eggs. "The scarcity of eggs in Fort Mill," yesterday said a local gro- 1 iery man, "is due largely to the j feet that the country round about ] is thoroughly combed for thein j every week by hucksters and I t others who take them to the near- ] b\ cities for sale, frequently at n i profit of not less than 20 cents a dozen for themselves. The gro- i eery men of Fort Mill could have ! an abundant supply of cold stor- ! age eggs always on hand, but i eggs that have been preserved cn j ice quickly deteriorate whthi they ] arc taken out of the refrigerators i mid when they reach us they arc i invariably of an inferior quality, i frequently being so stale e.a to ] render them unfit for use. Tnc ? |m ople of Fort Mill know this and 1 most families here therefore re- ( fuse to buy cold storage eggs." i Baby's Deatll' Due to Poisoning. The two months' old son of j Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Cohen died ] Sunday night as a result of car- \ liolic acid poisoning, the drug ; liaving been administered by mis- \ take, it was thought, by the < hild's nurse, who, however de- j nied having given it to the child. 1 The unfortunate occurrence hap- [ ;?ened early Thursday forenoon J while the parents of the child | were away from home. As soon t is they were informed that the ] t>aby was ill, physicians were t summoned and everything i ossi- 2 Die done to save its life. The | ittle hotly was taken to Cclum- j lia Friday for interment af*er a j oroner's jtiry had found that > here was no no criminal intent ( ?n the part of the nurse. t , THE PHILIPPINES. Facts Worth Knowing About Country's Far East Islands. "The Philippines, 7,000 iuiles from the Pacific coast of North America, furnish the greatest stake ami the most difficult ter-i riinriul 41? 1 * * -> v in i |fiuuit'ill Ol (I1C UI11I04J States in the Pacific," says a bulletin of the National (Jeorgraphic society. "This is no tiny island territory like some that fly the Stars and Sripes in "inid-Paeifie," continues thj bulletin, "but a country of nearly 115.000 square miles?a greater area than that of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland combined j or among the islands, greater than the three large southern islands of Japan upon which the life of that nation centered while it grew to imperial stature. "This far-away territory of the United States is inhabited by 0 million people of many races and different religions, less than u quarter the present population 01 the three most important Japanese islands. But the tropical Philippines, with their ample rainfall and luxuriant vegetation, are eapable, in spite of their mountainous character, of supporting a much larger population than tlicv )i:iv?? nt iiri>uu?? "Magellan, who sailed almost around the world, and whose name has been given to the famous strait to the south of South .America, discovered the Philippines, sailing among them from across the Pacific in 1521. lie was killed shortly afterward in a skirmish with the natives. Magellan, though a Portuguese, was operating for Spain, but the Spunish were slow in asserting their sovereignty. They eaptured the native city of Munilu in 1570 and founded the Spanish city the Hollowing year. The Dutch attempted time and again to capture the archipelago; Chinese and Japanese pirates made raids 011 the island cities, and in the 16th centurv^fc .Japanese slutguu actually demanded that the* Spanish 1 governor of the islands acknowledge the sovereignty of'.Japan. The British captured Manila in 1762 and held it until the following year, but thgjr control did not extend outside the city. In addition the Spanish had to cope . with the piratical "Moros?Molu.minedan Malays?of the southern islands, who were continually raiding the more developed lands to the north. Finally insurrections broke out. and it was in the mulst of one of these that the 1'iiited States took control. "Since pacifying the islands, the United States has given the Filipinos steadily increasing po- J litical control of their atfairs. { Education has been the center of the American policy in the is j lands. A very small percentage ' d1' the natives were literate in 1 1898; numerous languages ami dialects were in use and only a j small percentage understood j Spanish. It was determined to | make Knglish the common language and.to open the necessary public schools to reach the great | mass of children. Itv 1917 morel than 4.000 primary schools were 1 iti operation in charge of lit,1177 Filipino and 417 American teaeh;rs. About half the estimated total of the children of the islands, 300,000. were enrolled in that 'ear. By 1920 tlie enrollment had ' 'cached 791,020. "The trade of the Philippines ( las increased tremendously since , 1899. In that year the combined ] otal of exports and imports was 32 million dollars; in 1917 the ( total was 101 million. Nearly J ivery man in the world who uses ( one navs tribute to the IMiilin Mnes, for 'Manila hemp' is one , >f the best rope materials known. It is harvested from a Species of >anana tree. Nearly 47 million lollars worth of it was shipped in L917. Coconut products?'meat' md oil?come second. Much of America's butter substitute is nade from Philippine coconut oil. \s a producer of sugar, the 1'hilppines cannot yet be compared vith the famous 'sugar isles.' 'uba and Java, but its produeion entitles the group to be clam) y*?W A VI IVttTi UNIT NOW IN SERVICE. \ Headquarters Company of Third Battalion Mustered In. Organization of the headquarters Company ot the Third battalion. First regiment, S. t'. N. O., was completed Monday evening and the 44 men who are to compose the company were mustered into the federal service by Col. K R. Day, acting for both the fednrol *%*-! ? a v.u. uihi oiuif governments, at the uriuory of the Frank Koach Guards in Koek Hill. The eotupany eontiuaiuler is Arthur C. Lytic, first lieutenant, of Fort Mill, who recently was transferred to battalion headquarters from the local National Guard company. The company hearquarters will be in Fort Mill and it is expected that the company equipment. to be shipped from Atlanta. will arrive within the next month. Among the men who have enlisted for service in the headquarters company are several World war veterans. Conspicuous among the number is Willie II. Niins of Fort Mill, battalion sergeant major, who for gallantry in action overseas was awarded the American distinguished service cross and the llntish military medal, the latter prestened to him personally some mouths ago by the Prince of Wales in Washington. Mr. Nims is a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Governor Cooper. The names of the other Fort Mill members of the company. with their rank, follows: First Sergeant?Douglas Ninis. Sergeant. Chief Observer ami Scout?Thomas II. Hoik. Mess ami Supply Sergeant Thomas A. Ferguson. Corporal?William 1). liodgers. Privates, hirst Class lloy O. Pass, Thomas B. Black, Mason Morrow, William A. Parks. Privates?.John A. Broom. .loltn lj. Crowder, Olin L. 1 )eas. Thomas F. Harris. William F. Ilamuioud. William II Kimhrell. Mack K. Langley, David W. Metiuin, Clyde II. Merritt, 1 ley ward D. Potts. Fred M. Wiiulle! MONEY FOR COUNTY. Delegaion Authorizes Commissioners to Borrow Funds. Steps to relieve the pressing shortage of funds in several departments of the York county government were taken Saturday by the county legislative delegation. The delegation authorized the hoard of commissioners to borrow the necessary money, promising that the act would be i -...i? 11 - ( m-ii ur aiiinorny given ior the transfer of balances in 1 ? partinents where all tlie appropriations have not heen expended to those whieh have run out of funds. The shortage of funds eoneerus several departments of the governinent. anions these being the county home and jail. Tin re is also insufficient money with whieh to pay jurors and witnesses ami a shortage in the fund for roads and bridges. The situation is the result of an net pussed at the last session of the General Assembly prohibiting the transfer of unexpended balances in the departments of the government in whieh there is a surplus to those in which there is a deficit, a custom whieh bad obtained for years. The act was passed in the interest of economy, but it was impossible to estimate the exact amounts necessary for the different departments. (Ml with Hawaii. I'orto liiro ami Formosa amon^ tin- world sweet eliers. "Commercially. Manila, on a ,'oinmodions hay with a ?rood harbor, lias an excellent strategic position. It is a sort of oriental ienter. less than a thousand miles Froiuiinportant Chinese ports and Irss than 1.5(H) iiiih-s from southern Japan. Nouth<*rn Korea, Singapore and tin- ports of tin* Dutch Ki:st Indies. It is estimated that within a radius of J.5(H) miles >f Manila live three-quarters of a Pillion inhabitants more than a third of the total population of Che earth."