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X. v,.v';\. - 1 ' ' ? * * ? Established 1891. ~ DEMOCRATS IN SESSION. County Convention at York Void of Factionalism. The factional feeling of other years that sometimes cropped out in Vnrlr tViimtv l)i'iii<u>riiti<> nnii ? ^ ? ? * > cut ions and resulted in this or that action being N taken which was displeasing alike to delegates and their friends and afterwards had its effect on the fortunes of candidates in the primary \yt\v entirely lacking at the county convention in \ork Monday morning. There was an air about the convention which led to the impression that all of the 120-odd delegates were bent upon the same mission?the expeditious transaction of the business which had brought them together and the desire to avoid doing or saying anything which .nnght give oflcnse. For the first time women were present as delegates to the convention and one of the number, Mrs. Alexander Long of Hock Hill, whose father was the late W. Hlackburn Wilson, Esq., was honored by being elected to preside over the convention, but Mrs. Long asked to be excused, sayimr that she was inexDerienced. Mrs. Long was afterwards elected a delegate to tlie State convention to be held in Columhiu on May 17, as was Mrs. Louis Friedhenu of dock Hill, who was unanimously chosen a delegutc-ailarge. Both Mrs. Long and Mrs. Friedheim are understood to have slated that they, will attend .the convention. Other than the adoption of a resolution indorsing the soldier bonus proposed by the American Legion for World war veterans, r-^^the rejection of a resolution, sent up iroiu Beaufort county, calling upon the iState convention to so modify the party rules that assessments may be laid by the county jjxdittuve committees on candidates for State anil federal offices, the establishment of five voting precincts in Hock Hilt to take ihe place of the two heretofore provided in that city and the creation of a ueV precinct at Dccrsheba school house, the con* volition restricted its activity largely to the transaction of routine business. in the absence of J. A. Marion, Esq., county chairman, Dr. .J. H. Baye called the convention to order. Dr. >Saye was then chosen temporary chairman, with James D. Grist of York as temporary secretary. Later Mr. Grist was elected permanent secretary. The committee 011 credentials, composed of one member from each club in the county, lost lit- j tie time in making up the rolls of the convention and, the report of the committee was adopted without modiiication. Meanwhile the Rev. F. W. Gregg, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Rock Hill, had responded to an invitation to welcome the women who were attending officially their -first county convention. In a pleasing short speech Dr. Gregg said the women could accotnplisn much, in purifying the pontics of the country and that 111 several of the larger cities they had already brought about better conditions by going to the polls and casting their ballots. Following the declination of \tm li(knfftnni*t>uiili>nvHr th(* I'nn vent ion, Or. Uregg was chosen by _ acclamation. .J. A. Marion * was then reelected county chair* man without opposition, after Jttob Saye Kiddle of Bethel township had nominated Senator J. S. brice, who immediately said he would not serve. Dave n. Moss of ^ y Kock Hill then secured recognition and nominated l)r. 1. J. Campbell of Clover for State executive committeeman. Dr. Campbell has heretofore served as a member; of the State committee. The convention elected nine pre chid delegates aa fellows to the &tate convention with an alternate for eaeh, the last named being the alternate: Bethel?A. H. Harnett, W. P. Ijg-W. S. Pereival, W. ?V - -' ' 4 rHE F . ENCAMPMENT IN JULY. Fort Mill Companies to Oo to 1 Camp J&eksoh. The annual encampment of the 118th regiment, S. G. N. G., of c which both the Fort Mill infan- i I try company (Company G) and < the Third battalion headquarters * company located here are units, 1 is to be held at Camp Jackson, 1 Columbia, beginning July 16. The ' encampment will last 15 days and * is expected to prove of great a value to the militiamen. Last year the encampment of the regiment c WAN ht>lfl ut Mnnnt PlfiiKiint 1 near Charleston. On account of I the continued raius and the wet, ? soggy condition of the target ranges and the drill grounds, the encampment at Mount Pleasant was not the success militia officers had hoped for and at its close the adjutant general's department wus quoted at saying the regiment woul^l not again be I ordered to that place for its annual encampment. Conditions at Camp Juckson are considered all that could be desired for the encampment. There the regiment will use barracks und other buildings put up for the National army during the World war and will have access to the splendid rifle ranges und drill grounds at the cump. There also are other features at Camp Jackson which make it attractive as the place for the encampment of the regiment. The ,Fort Mill infantry company, known locully as the Tom flail (iiturds, is commanded by MCapt. Frederick Nuns, Jr., and / is considered one of ihe most j thoroughgoing units of the 118th j regiment. The company was or- r gani/.ed two years ago and now t tins a membership of about 100; ( Both officers and men display t much interest in the organization f and the weekly drills are \?ell at- j tended* ?Maak^is ItQUr.^ tenant of the company, Robert F. A Crier, Jr., second lieutenaut,and c Hobert Bennett first sergeant. ^ The Fort Mill section of the Third battalfou headquarters \ company, of which W. 11. Nims, ? first lieutenant, is commanding f officer, although a young organi- ! zation, "having been mustered into I the service less than six months I ago, has in its ruuks u number of J ex-service men who will know c just what is expected of them t when they go into the encamp- c mcnt at Camp Jackson. The i company is divided into two sec- ? tions, hulf located in Fort Mill c and half in Rock Hill, and has a i membership of 40 men. ] _ j Catawba?Krwin Carothers, V. 1 B. MeFadtlen. ! Ebenezer?Mrs.Alexander Long, 1 J. E. Wamsley. c 1?Wt \l ill VV W A L. Parks. King's Mountain?J. C. Ford, t T.NP. Clinton. : York?.lames D. Orist, H. E. Neil. : j After adopting the soldier bo- c nns resolution, rejecting the one c proposing un additional assessment 011 candidates for State and * federal offices, and providing for e new voting precincts, the convention adjourned sine die. Following the county convention, the county executive com- j mittee organized by the election j of Dr. J. H. Saye as secretary, j The members of the committee ^ for the various clubs in the county arc as follows: Bethany, B. R. v Smith; Bethel, R. S. Riddle; \ Blairsville, H. J. Sherer, Bullock's c Creek, J. C. Kirkpatrick; Cataw- j ba, S. W. Ferguson; Clover, J. E. j Bcamguard; Ebenezer, J. F. "Wil- t liams; Filbert, J. Q. Hall; Forest , llill, S. S. Glenn; Fort Mill>S. H. j Epps; Tirzah, J. M. Campbell; ? Hickory Grove, W. F. McGill; , Hopewell, W. I. Howell; Leaalie, j D. P. Lesslie; McConnellsville, 8. H. Love; Newport, J. A. Mc- 1 Fadden; New Zion, A. E. Burns; | Ogden, W. H. Dunlap; Reek Hill, j No. 1, Krwin Carothefs; Rock f Hill, No. 2, W. M. Dunlap; Rock Hill, No. $, V. Brown McFadden; Rock Hill, No. VW. B. Wikn; i Aragon-Bluehiiekle, F. B. Col- i ton; Sharon, J, H. Sa^e; 8myr- 1 na, C. G. Castles; York, No. t, i W. B. Keller; York, No. 2, J. t Frank Faulkner. I r v - . . . : . -- - .v i V-; * **? '*?. ? v ORT ] V V 1 ; T* TOBT ILL. ?. 0, THE MZWB or TOBK COUWTY. I Items of General Interest Found in the Yorkrille Enquirer. Celery can be raised in York :ounty as well as anywhere in the KT~:*1 1L. U:?L! 1 I t ui iu. iiciuin lur jniciugmi cri* i ?ry nor the Florida celery has a hing on the York county celery. 5ut 90 per cent of the celery that a consumed in York county is nought in from elsewhere. Why lo we not raise our own celery md have it fresh and good! "Most people are not aware >f it but about the only wild joats to be found in the upper >art of the State, at least, are on >re of the islands in the Catawba iver at Great Falls," this mornng said a gentleman to the ?e)orter. Several hundred goats f the barnyard kind were placed >n this island by a man a number )f years ago. Since that time hey have been left to themselves vith the result that they have belome quite wild." "Believe me," said a candidate 'or treasurer of York county the >thor day, "the farmers of this founty are not interested in poliics, either county or State, just iow. In fact, they are interested u nothing but the weather and ire wondering when they are gong to be able to get to work. I've h?en pretty nearly all over the sounty since I announced my candidacy and I have run across nighty few people who appeared c be interested in a discussion >f politics." After deliberating about 20 ninutes the jury trying the case >f John A. Neely of Anderson, id in in ist rat or of the estate of the ate Miss Ella J. Neely, against he Carolina and North-Western alroad returned a verdict for the lcfendant railroad late Friday evening. The plaintiff sought lamages in the sum of $50,000 'or the death of his sister reaultng from the collision of an autonobtte in* which she was riding vith Miss Mary Williams and ithers with a passenger train on he morning of March 17, 1921. Mrs. Catherine Smith, last surging niece of Clen. George Armtrong Custer, famous Indian 'ighter who with 1,100 United Itates soldiers met death at the lands of 9,000 Sioux Indiana on kittle Big Horn river, Montana, fune 25, 1876, died at the home >f her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Moron of Charlotte street, Yorkville, >arly Monday morning, followng along period of ill health, die \v?8 buried in Rose Hill cem tery Tuesday morning, followng funeral services conducted by itev. D. L. Hill, pastor of the r,P?t Tlonilot - * ~%T 1 ?fBj/uuv cnurcu OI IOFKlle. Mrs. Smith was 66 years of tge and was born in Winchester, renn. Her mother was a sister >f Gen. Coster. v Fort Mill Pensioners. The annual appropriation of he State for Confederate penlions for veterans and the wid>ws of veterans living- in the tart Mill community has been reteived by the First National JEmnk ?f Fort Mill and is now redely for >ayment in two classes, A and B, he fonpee- class receiving $T0 >ach and the latter $48.16: Class A?J. M. Armstrong, W. 1 Armstrong, W. F. Boyd, Robert Burns,* J. H. - Oolthrap', J. P. Spps, A. H. Merritt, Bowman derritt, Mrs. Cynthia Abernathy, drs. Matilda M. Bayne, Mrs. Re>ccca H. Mills, Mrs. D. L. Smith. Class B?S. H. Epps, J. S. Kimwell, C. C. Mellwaine, B. Henry lifassey, B. A. P. Merritt, J. C. laville, K. Shannon, Jas. Spratt, ra G. Smythe, Dallas Stephens, iobert S. Torrence, Mrs. Luereia Alderson, Mrs. Mary Ardrey, lire. Ellen Bailee, E. J? Bennett, um. m. n. DRiureu, nun. litUfl I. Drakeford, Mm. Octavia Felte; A re. Sarah E. Hancock, Mrs. Al? ce Irene Harris, Mrs. Eliza Johnoih, Mrs. Bettie Kimbrell, Mrs. Iiry B. McClelland, Mrs. Harriet la nits-Mack, Mrs. M. A. Miller, im. Alice MaU, Mrs. Susan Paterson,: Mrs. Rebecca E. Shaw. a ? ? Dr. and Mrs. .John M. Hatchnoon and their children and Dr. md Mrs. A. b Ott Aspect to core Pert Mih Monday for a risit of ten days to points of inerest in Floik They will make he trip in Dr. Hutchinson V ear: / . V'-* s a .4 vJ --I 1 i .1 ^ " m? .& mi ' A'x. 'kN f. V* '** & ''^r, * > ^ Kj ?>, ?*< ... ' * .> Mill unsay MA* I; OOOD POTATO BUUHBW. f^fk'Alwcifctfcui iiontuy MikM iBoomifiiig Report. An encouraging report of the firat year's operations of the Fork Potato Growers' association* organized' by farmers of lower Fort Mill township last spring, -has just beta made by L. M. Massey, DitnSat Ak?f *v ?v?% ?^ *k<\ nvvt t l.qi J. A lie purpose OX lUO association is to grow, cure and market, sweet potatoes, and the report fchows that wtyile the business was undertaken on a modes scale it has nevertheless been a success and an additional storage house, larger than the original one, is now being built to take care of the 1922 crop. Practically all of the sales of the associatidn last year were made in Fort Mill and Rock Hill. Nine hundred bushels were marketed to dealers in the two towns, besides 200 bushels which were sold to seedsmen. Winthrop college also whs a good customer of the association. The uverage price obtained for the potatoes was $1.50 per bushel. The joriginul storage house of the association has a capacity of 2,500 bushels. In this house last year Were cured 1,800 crates 01 potatoes, each with a capacity of 1 1-4 bushels. This year there will be a marked increase in the acreage the members of the association. put to potatoes and to cure the additional product a second storage house, with u capacity of 3,000 bushels, is now being erected, with still another house to accommodate 2,500 bushels in contemplation. It is the intention of the Fork association to join the State Potato Growers' association as soon as the volume of its product is large enough to enable it to make carload shipments. The Porto Rico variety is grown exclusively by the association, and consumers testify*^- tbe~superiority of the "cured" potato over that which is "banked." C. S. Armstrong is president of the Fork association and to him the secretary gives much credit for the success of the enterprise. Mr. Armstrong says he is satisfied that potatoes are a more profitable. crop than cotton under boll weevil conditions, even should the staple sell at 20 cents. Freight Wreck at Ogden. One of the worst wrecks in recent years in York county occurred Wednesday morning at Ogden, six miles south of Rock Hill, when an engine and 28 freight | cars turned over and were piled in a tangled mass, killing the negro fireman and seriously injuring a negro brakeman. The freight train was northbound and was making about 30 miles an hour. Engineer Fickling said he felt the engine rock and applied the brakes. The locomotive steadied and then plunged from the track. The care .composing the train piled one on the er commodities promiscuously, er commodities promiscucsuly. Four tank cars of gasoline were in the train and the impact broke the tanks loose from the trucks. Holes were torn in the tanks and ? ? iuc K?nuuue ran iroin tnein in numerous streams. Fortunately the wreckage did not catch fire. Pasaeoger trains Nos. 27 and 32 transferred passengers at the wreck Wednesday afternoon. The track was cleared this morning and both northbound and southbound passenger trains passed on time. Tan Cant Gasoline? The Monroe Enquirer tells of the recent visit to that city of E. W. Stevens of New York, who is the ^entor of "trioxylene." Stevens predicts, according to the Monroe paper, that within a year will sell for 10 bents * | gallon' as a result of his invention. According to his statement a plant in Louisville is now turning out 40,000 gallons pf "trioxt * " - yieue ; a amy mad that it costs only 3 centii a gallon to produce it and that It ic as good as gasoline* for Motor cars and will he. sold; as gasoline. "All the oil refiners will eventually, and Very, soon, in fact, he patting oat the new OMfter fuel," Stevens paid. ESP*/ - . v >:>v w. * Si'J ^ -?j?i Time TURK8 REGAIN THRACE. Scourge of Tff&nkind Again Given Foothold in Europe. -^Return'to-Turkey of a portion of eastern Thrace, as forecast in recent dispatches, to be added to Constantinople, at present the only European territory remaining to Turkey, recalls how Thrace has been constantly the shuttlecock to that city's battledore. whether itc n?in,. t>?? , - ? <._ uiiuit nvic 1-*J " zantium, Constantinople or Stamboul," says a bulletin by the National Geographic society. "Thrace has expanded and contracted down the ages as a desert pool does in rainy and dry seasons. To the ancient Greeks it was a huge area?'the home of the 'North Wind*?comprising all of the eastern half of the Turkey of pre-Balkan wa. days and practically the whole of Bulgaria as well. To the Romans of the west 11 was only tin portion south of the Balkans, an i to the Byzantines it was once as extensive as Greece and later a small, intimate region stretching westward from the capital. "The Turks may well take heart at regaining control of eastern Thrace, for the replacing of this region under their control cannot fail to recall the happenings of nearly GOO years ago. The tirst Turks to live on the European side of the straits were brought over by one of the decadent rulers ol^the Eastern empire before BJ5U as mercenary soldiers to fight against his Bulgarian and Serbian enemies in i hrace. Those Asiatics, through their military operations, became thoroughly laminar with 1 harcc und e\eu Macedonia. in order that he might have his hired soldiers close at hand, Emperor .John VI committed the filial folly of bringing their families over ..] * ? Li. l ' ** 1 una esiuuusmug a miiuary colony in Thrace. They never returned to Asia. "Eastern Thrace?the same re.gion which it is now pro nosed 10 return to Turkey?wus the 'inch' which in the next few hundred years Turks built into the 'ell' of their great European empire, at one time extending over the whole Balkan peninsuiu and almost to the gates of Vienna. Queeerly enough, however, the Turkish empire in Europe grew to embrace all Thrace and Bulgaria before it absored Constantinople. For more than a centupv the Byzantine empire was little more than the city of Constantinople, but it hung on with its imperial luxury chiefly because of its prestige while the Turkish mushroom grew about it. During this period Adriauople in Thrace was the Turkish capital. Finally the impetuous Mohammed 11 became sultan und determined to put an end to the fiction of the Byzantine empire. He captured Constantinople in 1453. "Thrace as the term has been j interpreted since the World war, I is like a deformed pear with two tapering stem ends. The central bulge lies north of the roots of the Uallipoli peninsula. The eastcm narrow end lies between tiie black sea and the Sea of Marmora; the western end is s^ueez^d between the Aegean .seu and the Bulgarian border, wnic.i dips far southward there. The Treat/ of 'Sevres, which attempted to dispose of the Turkish empire, gave Greece all of Thrace except a little section across the eastern stem, including Constantinople and its immediate environs. Greeec was thus to own the whole European coast of the Sea of Marmora and a coast line of 50 miles on the Black sea. 41 Under the proposed change the European frontier of Turkey would run not across the narrow peninsula near Constantinople, but some 75 miles farther west. J - ^-1 J ? juov cnsiwaiu ui. I lie tiffp cmtral ^hulge of Thrace. Turkey would thus regain a European territory of some 3,000 square miles, more than half the European coast of the Sea of Marmora, and the entire Eropean Black Sea coast south of the Bulgarian border. But the alteration of the treaty would not restore the straits to Turkey. These waters, as important perhaps as -V * * * *<Vi Vv'~ " ,x s " * - * ' f . -?c T '* - - " *)-mL'r ' f'.'jf. X V;, * ? ^ f .? s. ? $1.60 Per Year. ??? ?^ STATE GOES OVER. Cooperative Cotton Association - Assured for South Carolina. Over 400.000 bales of cotton were signed to the cotton cooperative mnrki'timr <w.n ??? - wikiidv i iij iua v 1 ami the organization of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative association is now assured. Announcement to this effect was made at the headquarters of the association in Columbia Monday night. A total of 408.000 bales had been signed by Saturday night, April 29, and reports from over the State indicated that between 10.000 and 15.000 bales were signed Monday, so that approximately 425.000 bales have been signed in all. but it will be several days before the tabulation is completed. Announcement that the quota of bales for the State had been secured was gratifying to the large number of workers and farmers interested in the campaign. There also was much interest in the campaign in other States and many telegrams were received at the headquarters of the association from North Carolina, Georgia. Texas, Alubama, and other States in the cotton belt which have already either organized for the cooperative marketing of the staple or arc in the process of organization. The latest reports obtainable indicate that there were about 17.000 bales of cotton signed up in York county in the cooperative campaign which closed Monday. The quota for the county was about 1,200 bales less than the 17.OIK). In Fort Mill township something like 1.000 bales, or one-third the normal crop, was pledged to the cooperative marketing association. Now Fort Mill Citizen. Fort Mill gained a valued citizen Tuesday when (.'apt. Elliott White* Springs moved from Lancaster into the old White mansion. the home of his maternal ancestors for the greater part of the last century. Iiaving. heen built by his greatgrandfather. the late Col. Win. E. White, in 1832. The building presents a decidedly different appearance today to what it did some months ago. however, when workmen began converting it into one of the most modern home# to he found in this section. When it was occupied by ('apt. Springs for the first time this week he found both the interior and exterior of the building practically complete, although there is yet considerable work to be done 011 the grounds and the swimming pool, a short distance away. The im- ' piovements recently made to the home by Capt. Springs represent an expenditure of several thousand dollars. Moore Held in Asheville? A man thought to be Frank Moore, who escaped from the county chaingung two years ago ^ whilp Kprvinir >? ten vear sell tonce for * complicity in killing Policeman T. R. Penninger of Sharon, has just been arrested in . Asheville, N. (\, and is being held pending identification. Sheriff Quinn is in communication with the Asheville authorities and will send a deputy there to identify the suspect if further facts appear to warrant. High School Honor Roll. The honor roll of the Fort Mill . high school for the month of April is as follows: Sixth Grade?Mary Garrison, Pinley Lee, Garland Dyches, John Bennett. Seventh Grade?Faulkner Parks Ninth Grade?Mamie Lee Phillips. Tenth Grade?Stephen Parks, Allan Parks. Karle Steele. Better to be square, young .man, than a rounder. any in the world, would remain under international control; the | Gullipoli .peninsula, commanding the Dardanelles, would continue to be occupied by international .forces, and international garrisons would be placed along ? the new and longer frontier between Turkey and Grecoe." #