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PEOPLE ABOLISH SENATE.
Queensland Australia/ Without
Upper Legislative Body.
Queensland, Australia, which
has entered the limelight by becoming-the
lirst "two chambered"
democracy" of the world to abolish
its upper house, is the subject
of the following bulletin from the
National Orographic society:
41 A lie t fie lii linivun lie iiwlniknli.
itiimi UIIU uv ^uii no
cltnt career long after the launching
of the United States, yet it
has set some example^ in the past
in the creation of political machinery,
such as the Australian
ballot and universal suffrage,
that America has followed. But
the commonwealth and its States
have tried other political experiments
which the great republic
of the West has so far merely
watched from afar. Perhaps the
4no senate plan' of Queensland
may be grouped, in so far the
United States is concerned, with
the Australian federal constitutional
referendum and proportional
representation.
44 Queensland ? and Australia,
too, for that matter?loses in apparent
size because of its great
distance from us. In reality it is
a huge State, completely dwarfing
Texus, our largest commonwealth.
Its coast line is more
tha 2,200 miles lontr and is euiiiv
r blent to that of the eastern United
Stales from northern Massachusetts
down the Atlantic ocean,
urouiut Florida and to Mobile.
"Since Queensland is located
in the southern hemisphere" its
hot regions are to the north, its
cooler regions to the south, its
g? northernmost projection, Cape
York peninsulu, may, then, be
compared roughly to Florida,
though Cape York is much closer
to the equator. To he as close to
the equator as Queensland, Florida
would have to be shoved some
1,200 miles farther south until
Key West touched the Isthmus of
ftinuiiu. It Australia cotdd bo
tqwed 10 our part of the world,
where we could compare it with
the regions we know, it would
have to be turned about so that
the warm regions would correspond.,
if it can be imagined that
this were done and Cape York
placed near the Canal Zone, so
\extensive is the State of Queensland
that it would eover most of
the vast expanse of the Gulf of
- Mexico.
"Queensland's area is G70.000
square miles. it is almost as
great as the combined areas of
all States east of the Mississippi
illtil I Hi n\ niVonu 1I ml I;o linn
of Pennsylvatiiu, extending from
Maine to Florida.
"Naturally, colonization in
.Queensland started along its
southern coast, its mildest region
climatically. Thanks to its mountains
which parallel the coast, the
climate of the State is not as hot
as its latitude would indicate The
far northern section, however, is
truly tropical ipid has uot been
developed to any great extent. In
the southern and middle sections
are thriving ports and cities. Brisbane,
the capital, is a city of
about 125,000 people. The State's
population of about 750.000 is almost
wholly of British origin.
"The development of the tropical
portions of Queensland has
been slower than that of similar
regions in oiher parts of the
world because of the determination
of the citizens of the State
and .of the entire commonwealth
to maintaiu a 'white Australia.'
The black and yellow races have
been excluded in receut years,
* some being deported. Not more
' than 20,000 of the black aborigiwv
nes remain in the State and they
are steadily decreasing in numbers.
44To help the development toward
a ^white Australia' the fed'
eral government grants a bounty
on sugar cane raised by white labor,
and a considerable sugar industry
has been built up in the
fertile coast valley of Queensland.
Over behind its mountains the
State has a great plains region
jagj like that of the United States.
There and on the lower hills are
raised the vast herds which make
Queensland the premier cattle
State of Australia and among
the leaders in sheep raising."
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GOES TO REWARD.
Life of James Martin Armstrong,
Confederate Veteran, Ends.
The life of another survivor of
the once mighty armies of the 1
Southern Confederacy ended !?un- i
day night when James Martin
Armstrong, well known and <
highly , esteemed citizen of Fort
Mill township, dfei at the home
of his son, Lee R. Armstrong. *
two miles south of town. Mr.
Armstrong had been in declining (
health for several months and his I
family had realized for some
time that the end was not far '
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uix. ne win uorn in rort Mill
township on-March 10, 1844, ami
was therefore in it is 70th year.
Mr. Armstrong was married in
1865 to Mrs. .Julia Patterson, who
died 30-odd years ago, but of
their marriage he is survived by
two sons, Lee K. Armstrong and
jSmn C. Armstrong, both of Fort
Mill township, and a number of
granddaughters. Mr. Armstrong
had been a member of the Meth '
odist church for inanv years and
also was a member of Catawba
lodge No. *50, A. F. Al., for the
last 40 years. The luneral services
were conducted at the home
of Lee R. Armstrong by his pastor,
the Rev. W. It. Rouknight,
Monday afternoon, after which
the body was taken in charge by
members of the Masonic lodge
and interred in the city .cemetery
with the funeral rites of the
oi dor.
Mr. Armstrong had spent all of
his loiiir life. extiODt the three
years he was in the Confederate
army, in Fort Mill township. He
was an honored, upright ciiixeii,
whose exemplary nte won tor
him in* full measure the friendship
and esteem of his neighbor^
and acquaintances. in recent
years Mr. Armstrong had not
been a frequent visitor to Fort
Mill, but on the occasions when
he.did CPlUfil to town..he aJways
found friends ready to welcome 1
him and to express the hope that
his health was good and that he
had left many years of life. The
large uttendanee at the funeral
and the numerous beautiful floral
offerings attested the respect
and esteem of the people of the
community for him.
Yesterday in speaking of Mr.
Armstrong's record as a Confederate
soldier one of his comrades
said that 110 truer or more devoted
youth stepped forward at
the call of his native -State to
face death 011 the battlefields of
Virginia and other States than '
Mr. Armstrong. As a boy 1?
years old he enlisted in the Sixth
South Carolina regiment. He was
soon trunsferred to Virginia and
there participated in a number of
the major engagements of the
war. At Seven fines, the Seven
Days' Fight Around Richmond,
Thorougfare Gap. South Mountain,
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg,
Lookout Mountain,, the Wilderness.
Spottsylvania Courthouse,
Cold Harbor, Petersburg,
New Market, . and in numerous
othei battles he did his full duty
S3 a soldier and was with' the immortal
Lee at. Appomattox on
April 9, 1865.
Belair School Closes.
The closing exercises of the*
Belair public school, of which L.
11. Therrell is principal, will be
held Friday, beginning at 10 a.
m. A number of plays are to be
presented by the pupils, follow
ing tiie opening song and a welcoming
speech by Woodrow Wilson.
The school is now housed
in a splendid new building, erected
since the beginning of the
present session, at a cost of several
thousand dollars. During the
session Mr. Therrell has had two
assistants and the enrollment has
been the larest in the history of
the school.
Foil Front Tree.
Will Sibley, negro, was seri'
ously hurt Tuesday afternoon by
, falling dO feet to the ground!
| from a tree from which he was :
attempting to remove a swarm of
| bees for a white man named Tay-1
lor at his home near the negro J
1 graded school. Sibley was ren- j
dered unconscious by the 'fall
and for a while it was feared that
I he had been fatally hurt. Yeeterjday
his condition was improved.
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NEWS OF TOtf oovntr.
Items of General,Interest Found
in the TorkriUe Enquirer.
There were 12Slbales of cotton
sold on the local market last week
according to R. E. McCiufe, publie
weigher. Mr. McClure weighed
22 bales of cotton Monday.
The Lockmore cotton mill began
work Monday morning on a
fall time basis of operations. It is
understood that the mill has orders
to insure at least three
months' work for operatives.
Travelers in the country are
Btruck with the large number of
lllltonchpH flf>roa tliov aaa i* ;.l
mainly on account of the continued
rains. But it has been a long
time since there has been such a
backward showing in this county
as late as May 9.
Considerable improvement is
noticed in the streets and sidewalks
of Clover recently, the
town council having spent a considerable
sum ui street improvement.
The town council also has
appropriated an amount to be
used in cleaning up rubbish in
the town, the work of cleaning
up to be in eharge of the Clover
School Improvement association.
Seed peanuts ordered some time
ago by V. Q. llambright, secretary
of the Clover Peanut Growers
association, have arrived and
have been placed in the hands ,of
members of the association. There
will be at least 100 acres planted
in peanuts in the Clover section
this spring and it is the intention
of the members of the association
to give the peanut a thorough
trial.
"I've got a little farm of some
40-nfid mires hint outside of Rock
Hill that I think I'll devote to
truck this year," remarked D. L.
Moss of Rock Hill the other
morning. "I have' recently set .
out an acre in sweet potato
plants. I have in mind putting ,
about an acre or so in cabbage
und I prGpflBB for grow swrtc othertruck
crops. Bock Hill is a good
market for truck and I believe ;
that it will pay much better than
cotton." ^
York county high schools received
State aid in the sum of1^
$9,064 for the school year just
coming to a close. The State department
of education last Saturday
paid out $290,000 to the I
178 State aided high schools in <
the 46 counties. The law pro- *
vides for the lowest salary among '
the high school teaching eorps up
to $100 a month for the first
year's service, $105 for the second
year's service, ;$110 for the
third year's service,; provided the
same teacher is employed for
three consecutive years. Schools <
employing a third 'high school i
teacher may be allowed $250 additional
and schools employing
four high school teaeherg may be
allowed $500 additional.
York couuty will get no rcdue- i
tion in assessed valuation of farm
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letter relative to the matter that
Auditor Brocdus M. Love has
just received from ~W." O. Query,
chairman of the State tax commission.
J. T. Crawford, McConncllsville,
chairman of the county
board of equalization, wrote the
chairman of the State tax commission
on April 7 that owing to
"the general depressed condition
of the county at this time we feel
that we wpuld be entitled to a
reduction and earnestly request
that you grant sam&" Chairman
Query has writteif the auditor:
"The commission has finished its
work in equalizing assessed values
of farm lands for the various
Counties for 1922. The average
value per acre for your county,
without buildings, is -$7.95."
v Citizens of Gold Hill school
district, in Fort Mill township,
are circulating a petition calling
for an election to vote on the
proposition to withdraw an extra
8 mill levy for the school which
was placed upon the property of
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stout two yeara ago. It ia said
enough signature* have been secured
to the petition to insure 4to
election. The" total levy for
school purposes in-the Gold Hill
district ii now 15 milk, which
supports a two-teacher school.
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Even if you dt owe a grudge
it is better not to pay it
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Unli Tiki Extra inning Game :
Mm Lancaster.
Fort Mill's first ball game of
thi season, in Lancaster Saturday <
a?fernoon, ran into 11 innings be- i
we a hit for the circuit by Archie,
scoring two men ahead of
hill, sewed up the contest for the
boys wearing the uniform mark
e<L4,F. M.," 4 to 1. Neither team i
distinguished -itself by hard hit- <
tidjg, Lancaster getting six safe
ones against Fort Mill's three. <
Fort Mill's first score came in
tht 5th inning, followed by one i
fot Lancaster in the 7th. The 1
game then ran on to the 11th, <
without either team being able <
meanwhile to make the trip to <
the home plate. The Fort Mill 1
boiirs then woke ud. Stevens cot
a single and was followed by
lingers, who hit one to the Lancaster
pitcher, who failed to held
thfc ball, allowing Rogers to land
on- first and shoving Stevens
along to second. Archie, next up,
prbved the handy man of the occation
by lining out a homer,
scaring ahead of him both the
other Fort Mill runners.
The Fort Mill players in the
gatne were: Ferguson, W., e.;
Jcties, 2b^. Ferguson, A., p.;
Nitns, If.; Stevens, cf.; Rogers,
3bl; Hunter, rf.; Archie, lb.;
Srilith, S8.
Fort Mill's next game will be
in Rock Hill Saturday afternoon
with the Arcade mill team. There
is considerable rivalry between
tht two teams and both are expected
to play hard to win. The
lineup of the Fort Mill team will
be practically the same as that
wl^ich defeated Lancaster Saturday
afternoon. There are no hired
pllyers on the Fort Mill team,
nor will there be any during the
season, according to the state*
mfciit of the committee in charge
of the club's finances.
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Announcement of the nurruge ]
ot Mies Hat tie Hunley and Joe \
M. Belk in Spartanburg Tuesday |
was a pleasant surprise received j
in Fort Mill yesterday by their 1
friends. Mr. Belk and Miss HunRw
"were married, at .5 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon by the He v.
Mr. Dibble, Methodist pastor of J
Spartanburg, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. \V. O. llunley, relatives
of Mrs. Belk, in whose home she
was a guest at the time. Mr. aiul
Mrs. Belk catne to Fort Mill yesterday
morning, but returned on
the noon train to Spartanburg.
Mrs. Belk is an attractive young
woman who is popular with a
wide circle of friends in Fort Mill
uud elsewhere. For several years
she was connected with the Fort
Mill Lumber company and has
been active in the work of St.
John's Methodist church, being a
teacher in the Sunday school ancf
a member of the various women's
societies. Mrs. Belk's old home
is in Chesterfield county and she
is a member of the large and
well-to-do Hunley family of that
county. Mr. Belk is a son of Mrs.
Elizabeth Belk and the late T. B.
Belk. He is one of Fort Mill's
popular young men. At present
he is locatkl in Spartanburg, i
where he is taking a government ^
course in vocational training for 1
disabled World war veterans. He
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"?9 iik iur offrvitT uvti st'as witii
the Fort Mill company of the
118th regiment, 30th division, and <
was severely wounded in the attack
on the Hindenburg line.
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Would Interest Children.
A short talk in behalf of the .
memorial to be erected in Fort
Mill to the boys from this eom- ;
mnnity who lost their lives in the ]
World war is to be made to the I
children of the graded school tomorrow
morning by Arthur C. Ly(t?
mavnr a# h'nrf Mill Vfr IjV. ' 1
tic is anxious to interest the children
in the memorial and will <
ask each of them to make a contribution
to the fund, however <
small. It is the purpose of the
memorial committee to begin collection
on June 1 of the subscriptions
which have been pledged
for the fund*
Miss Raymell Smith and Cur- j
tis Halms, both of Charlotte, N. i
C.% ware married Saturday even- <
ing b$ Magistrate J. R. Haile at <
Iris home on Hall street. .
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MANY DELEGATES HERE.
Methodist Sunday School Worken
Attend Fort Mill Meeting.
One hundred and thirty-three
delegates Iroui various Sunday
schools in the Rock Hill district of
the Methodist church, including
Fairfield, Chester, -Lancaster and
York counties, spent Tuesday in
Fort Mill in attendance upon an
adjourned meeting of the Sunday
school convention of the district.
The first day's meeting of the
convention was held at King's
Mountain chapel, near Filbert,
several weeks ago, but the facilities
of that church proved inadequate,
it was stated, to accommodate
the convention and the decision
was reached to conclude
the meeting at St. John's church.
Fort Mill.
'1 he presiding officer of the convention
was the president, the
Rev. U. C. Leonard, presiding elder
of the Rock llill district, and
a number of inspiring addresses
by ministers and laymen 011 Sunday
school work were listened to
with much interest. A feature of
the convention was the address
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vj una. tialllin, icpicsrilllllg I lie
State Sunday school board of
the Methodist church. Reports
from the various Sunday school
listricts embraced in the convention
showed that the last year
liad been the best in the history
Dl' the convention, both in the increased
number of pupils in Sunday
school and the amount contributed
for Sunday school pur
poses. Selection of the next place
of meeting will be decided upon
later by a committee. The secretary
of the convention is .J. E.
Barrett of Clover.
Dinner was served the delegates
in the men's Bible class
rooms of the church by the ladies
>f the congregation following the
fiuprning session, which began at
10 o'clock. The afternoon session
?pened at 2 o'clock and the work
was* Concluded at 5 o'clock.
Many of the delegates expressed
the opinion that Sr. John's is the 1
t>*st equipped Methodist church 1
in the upper section of the State
for Sunday school work.
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Bolshevik Slaughter.
The bloody "terror" of the
h'rcnch revolution caused the legal '
execution of 17,000 persons und
the death by other means of periaps
two or three times as many 1
nore. What of the Russian ter- 1
ror? The Paris (Juulois publishes ,
figures concernim* it flint wmilil
?eem incredible if it were not said
hut they ure tukeu from the re- (
ports of the extraordinary commission
printed in the Soviet ?
newspapers. Since October, 1917,
there have been executed, says
The Gaulois, 28 bishops of the
Li reek church and 1,215 priests,
1,775 professors and schoolteachers,
8,800 physicians, 54,(i50 army
officers, 260,000 soldiers, 10,50u
police officers and 48,500 privates
in the constabulary force, 12,950
land owners, 355,250 other members
of the "intelligentsia" and
?: the middle class, 193,350 workingmeii,
815,100 peasants. If the
itatistjes arc trustworthy, the
Bolsheviki have killed more men
in Russia than were killed in the
French army during the World
war.
Mrs. M. J. Poag Dead.
R. D. Nunn, former Fort MilJ
citizen who moved a few months
ago to the Pinsville section of
Mecklenburg county, was bereaved
Saturday by the death,
that day, of his mother, Mrs. M.
J. 1'oag, at her home in ilock
Hill. Mrs. Poag was in the 79th
year of her age. Before her inur- ;
riage to Mr. Nunn's father, the
lute W. G. Nunn, she was a Miss
Bro\\'n. Following the death of
Mr. Nitiin, she was married to
9am'1 Poag. Mrs. Poag was a devoted
member of the Methodist ?
church. She is survived by the
following children: R. D. Nunn
of Pineville, N. C.f Miss Minn e
Nunn of Columbia, Miss Emma
Poag of Rock Hill, Mr;*. D. A.
Morris of Catawba. The iuterment
was in Rock Hill.
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Mrs. J. B. Mack returned to
her home in Fort Mill a few day*
ago after spending a fortnight in
Columbia a? a guest in the homes
of W. Banks Dora and William
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SESSION ENDS SOON.
Fort Mill Gradad School to Gloat
Two Weeks Hence.
The 1921-22 session of the Fort
Mill graded school will close during
the week beginning Muy 21
with public exercises to last two
evenings. The exact date of the
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viumug ui me senooi, however, is
uncertain, owing to a decision yet
to be reached as to the number
of days to be made up on account
of time lost during the session.
During the first evening of the
closing exercises an operetta, "A
Day in Flowerdoui," will be
given by the primary and elementary
grades. The same evening
pupils of the sixth and seventh
grades will give a short
play, there will be a number of
songs and certificates will be
awarded the graduates of the
high school. An open meeting of
the Wilsonian Literary society,*
composed of pupils of the ninth
and tenth grades, will be a feature
of the second evening's exercises.
There also is on the progiam
for that evening a debate,
several readings and recitations
and songs by the high school glee
club.
A music recital for the closing
exercises is being arranged by
Miss Vivian Ellis, who will be assisted
by pupils of the school and /
music talent from the town. /
White Carnation Only.
Hriee 1). t'ulp. commander of
Eli Hades post, American Legion,
I.as issued the following proclamation
to the ex-service men of
the community relative to the
official flower to be worn in observance
of Mother's day, Sunday.
May 14:
"Ah commander of Kli Hailes post.
No. 4 3, American L.egln, uml president
of tlie American Degton club, I
hereby ask that every ex-service man,
and especially every member of'
the American Degion, commemorate
Mother's day by wearing u white carnation,
the only Mother's day emblem.
The reason i usk tnat you
wear a white curnutlon is given below,
from u letter written by the
president of the Mother's Day International
association-:
" 'The colored flower propaganda
Is simply that of some tradesman
trying to work off their goods on the
unsuspecting public.
" 'The white carnation is now the
only Mother's duy emblem, and It is
only as a design of this symbol.
" 'Flowers are not used in any
way for Mother's duy, and the waste
of money spent for them Is much regretted
and opposed by us.
" The Mother's duy budge is the
only authorised badge ftfr Mother's
duy. This white curnutlon badge always
has the name of the Mother's
Day International association on the
Inside. No other badge hus any significance
in connection with this
celebraton or the Mother's day movement."
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Mother's Day Program.
The following program will bo
observed in celebration of Mother's
day at the Fort Mill Baptist
church Sunday mmorning at 10
o'clock and a cordial invitation is
extended the public to be present:
Hong, "Love Lifted Me."
Prayer.
Assembly period for classes.
Special program for Mother's duy:
Song, "O Love that Will Not Let
Me Go," by Sunday school.
Recitation, "A Hoy's Mother," by
Owen Puttersoh.
Violin solo, Kenyon Young.
Recitation, "Mother," Muria Culp.
Kssay, Mother," Miss Murian
Parks.
Duet, "Mother's Love," by Misses
Marian and Beatrice Parks.
Special music by quartette.
Talk by I)r. Dyches.
Song "I Would Re Like Jesus."
Benediction.
HONOR HOITH'S KObblKKK.
The services of the Confederate
soldiers of the Fort Mill com^
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imuiity were gratefully recalled
and tribute paid to them for their
sacrifices and heroism in memorial
exercises held yesterday afternoon
in the auditorium of the
graded school building under the
auspices of the Daughters of the
Confederacy. A number of short
addresses were made by local
speakers and songs of the old
South were sung by the. school
children and others, after which
the graves of the three score
Confederate soldiers buried in the
city cemetery were decorated as
were those of the.seVen Port Mill
boys who lost their lives in the
World war.
It remains to be seen whether
Congress Will pass the bonus or
pass the buck.
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