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'>_.* * v . 2. x ? ^EitebMihad 1891. ~ " HOMICIDE NEAR FORT MILL. C. B. Klmbrell Fires Fatal Shot Iuto Body of Joha Skldmore. Considerable interest was aroused in Fort Mill Monday afteroou when a telephone message was received here stating that Charles B. Klmbrell had shot and killed at'his country store, JUD* Bviuon mc oiaic iiutj iu leu burg county, N. C-, from Fort Mill township, John Skid more, . who was employed as a road foreman by the Mecklenburg county highway commission in building the road to the York-Mecklenburg bridge over the Catawba river 12 miles northwest of Pert Mill. Charles S. Kimbrell is a son of W. E. Kimbrell of Fort MU11 and a brother of S. W. Kimbrell, who lives in the township about /five miles north of town. Both are well known and substantial citizens. Only one shot seems .to have been fired at Skldmore. This went through his heart, however, killing him instantly. There seems to have been no eyewitnesses to the homicide, but when neighbors of Kimbrell arrived at the store a few minutes after the shooting he was attempting, so they said, to place the body of Skidmore in the (.alter |s automobile, and remarked that Skldmore was badly hurt and should be takeb to a hospital at ouce. Skldmore was dead at the time. The men are said to have been good friends and thus far no explanation of the shooting has been tnade, us Kiiuoreil has refused to make a statement since he was taken into custody charged with the crime. Tuesday h) was committed without bond to the Mecklenburg county jail in Charlotte to await trial at the next term of the superior court for that county. At the preliminary hearing in Charlotte Tuesday morning four men, one of whom was a neero. were nut on the stand to tell what they knew of the homicide, but their testimony threw little light on it, aa none of them was 'close at hand when the shot which ended Skidmore's life was fired and none seemed to know much of the circumstances leading up to the shooting. Kimbrell wus thought to have been drinking at the time, bet the offleers who arrested him said he talked coherently. Skidmore's home was at Mount Holly, N. C., where his widow und 11 children live. Kimbrell also has a family and besides running the store . at which the homicide occurred is also a farmer. The store is located on his farm a short distance from 9 his home. Ran Down Near Uastonla. R. S. Torrence, well known citizen of the upper section of Fort Mill township, was run down Saturday afternoon on the public highway near Qastonia, N. <T, by a party ot negroes driving a Ford car and was seriously hurt about the face. -Mr. Torrence's condition was such that he was immediately taken to a hospital in Gastoula, where he still is a patient. He was unconscious for several hours, but yesterday his condition was reported considerably improved. Mr. Torrence Is the father of Mrs. E. S. Parks of Fort Mill and Is a Confederate veteran. The negroes in the car that struck Ht. Torrence did not stop to see how seriously he was hurt and up to yesterday no arrests had been made in connection with the case, out Gaston county officers have the number ot the car and expect to round up the aegroes within the next day or twoWorld's Biggest Cotton Plantation, The biggest cotton plantation in the world Is at Scott, Miss. It comprises 6,000 acres and represents an investment of 20 million dollars, with 300 whites and 10,000 negroes making up Its population. The mules and saddle horses alone on the place are valued at more than a quarter of a ",CV million dollars. Cotton Is the principal crop, but other crops also are Talsed. This year there are 600 acres in alfalfa, 900 acres In oats, 2,000 acres in pasture, 6,000 acres in corn. . X sawmill on the. place has a capacity of IS million feet a yqar. Educational ^belittles are provided for the children, both white and negro. Death of Young Boy. Cnrtis Bryant, 11 year old son of Mr. and Mrs- Robert Bryant of the n, ' lower mill village, fort Mill, died Saturday evening, October 7V following .jl a illness of -about two walks. The ' funeral was conducted at the home of *the parents, Sunday afternoon, October X hy the Rev. J. W. H. Dychea, |i .pastor of the Fort Mill Baptist church add interment followed In the city wegp^oeeaetery. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant have rHE i THE RIO GRANDE. * _____ 1 "The Rio Qrande river, between Texas and Mexico, is normally so shallow' and Blugglsh that iminigra tion agents and customs ottleers are kept busy 'shooing' back Mexicans who enter the \Jnited States by the simple and informal procedure of wading in," says a bulletin of the National Geographic society. "It is hard," continues the bulletin, "for the Mexico-bound trnveler to realize under normal contUtijons Biat the ribbon of water j meandering through a broad bed of sand is the stream that in Spuuish means 'The Great K'iver,' but once a year at least and sometimes oftener, the Rio Grande fully lives up to its name. "The loam banks of the Rio Grande and its broad, fertile vqlley, covered with a heavy growth of the thorny mesquite?half shrub and half tree? was long considered a wilderness and given over to deer, wild hogs, armadillos and jack rabbits. Then came ranchmen to graze great herds of beef cattle among the feathery sea of green. Large areas somewhat removed from the river are still given over to cattle raising. "But near the stream, pumping stations and irrigation canals have come into existence in recent years, and euch spring and summer thousands of carloads of watermelons, canteloupes, onions, cabbage und other vegetables steam north from the region to help feed the more northern portions of the country. For this region near the warm Gulf of Mexico and barely outside the tropics, competes vdRh Floridu and the Imperial valley in California in producing early crops. "Still more recently another development has taken plq^e which promises to make the Rio Grnade a second San Joaquin valley, between u miollion and a half and two million citrus fruit trees have been planted and in the winter of 1921-22 the first carloads of oranges and grapefruit were shipped out. "Historically the Rio Grande has held a prominent place. It was on>of the chief landmarks iu-Uie fuiuou* expedition of the Spunish explorers who pushed into Texas and cn tu (New Mexico and Juiuoruia tour centuries ago. letter it became u tort of Southern Concord, for if the shot, .tired in Massachusetts in April. 177Sv. was 'heard round the world,' ,u shot fired ou the banks of the lower Uio Grande on another April morutug 71 years later by Gen. /.uchury Taylor'.' soldiers might be suid to nave been heard over area of halt a uuliiOi. square miies.j^ That area was added to the Uniteu States as a resu.t oi the shot, for it brought on the Mexi lean war which resulted in the uunexation of what is now Califcma. Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts o> New Mexico, Colorado and W yoniingJdi addition, this skirmish near the mouth of the Rio Grande led to ih> confirmation of the annexation <>.' Texas, which had brought au additional quarter of a million squat", miles under the American flug.1' The Value of Advertising. There is nothing in the world like advertising, says the Augusta Ctarvm Icle. Of course, a newspeper believes in advertising, some cynics will sneer, but we are prepared to prove it. Take the merchants of any city, for example, and you will limi that those who are making the greatest success are. those who combine quality of merchandise with intelligent, liberal advertising. There are lots of ways t6 advertise. The l^est way is by the medium of newspapers, then letters, billboard!*, show windows and an artistic display of goods inside the store. It is generaly conceded that the merchant who,doesn't advertise will not ?last long in business. Dry rot sets in and the end is only a question of time. A live merchant advertises in the newspapers first of all, then he uses some or all the other methods, and one method which is highly important la the trenlmAnt nf ?'? ?- vuowiiici D| oiim iuv : newspaper or other advertisement brines them into the store. A kind word spoken regarding thq courtesy shown by the employees of a store is a great asset in bringing others into that store. Utile forest Timber Left; While there is very little original i forest timber left in this aecikn, not quite all of it has disappeared. | On the plantation of J. C. Seville in the mpper section of Fort Mill township, near the North Caroltnu Hue, there la still standing several thou* and feet of first class pine timber in a ten acre tract, considerable number of the finest trees have died during the last year or two, bur the lumber in most of these has been salvaged. During the World war Mr, A \ - . y\ x. - ?' > x ' V . - . v,'. I > rORT ] FORT MILL, S. G, THUR i " ? NKW8 OF YOBK. *?UNTY. 1 Items of General Interest Found hi the YorkvMe Enquirer. _ Sneak thieves in the vicinity of Ciover are no sespecters u. persons, but would just as soon steal ?.roni an Oiitcer ot me law as anybody else Loist Saturday .Constable H. L- Johnsou leil h.a raincoai in Ins automobile winle ne went into a store. Wheu lu came back it was gone. The governor has declined to order the closing of the schools of the : State on October 24 tor the benefit of the State fair, lie says there is no such power vested in him. it is to be presumed, however, that that Columbia bunch will hafe this little : oversight corrected as soon as possible. v Dr. iv. L. Wylie, for some time past chairman of the board of trustees of the Clover schools, has resigned his trusteeship. His successor has not yet been appointed. Dr. Wylie is a member of the board of public works and it was u case of being unable to i hold two public otnce3, which is contrary to the law of the StateWith a large number of ministers and elders in attendance and a goodly congregation or Sharon townspeople attending the opening meeting, me fall session of iicthcl presbytery of the Presbyterian church was opened in Woodlawn church ut Sharon Tuesday morning. The presbyterial ccurt was opened with a sermon by Rev. Hournoy Sbepperson, D. D., pastor of Puritv Proshvleriiin / hnrnh of Chester. R. B. Caldwell of C heater i3 the retiring moderator. Hugh G. Brown, county supervisor, said Monday that while he was unable to say Just when construction work on the two bridges to be built over Bullock's creek, one ou the V.est road uud the other 011 me Sharon Hickory Grove road, would begin. ( that the material for the bridges is now being gathered. Timber to bo used in each bridge 1b being treated , with a creosote preparation by u : harlotte lumber concern which has ' the contract to furnish the timber, according to Mr. brownjUrs. \V. P. ypuugblood of Sharon lias' fliVdistinction of being tho first woman in York county and possibly the first in the Slate to curry the ! mail on a rural delivery route- Despite the fact that last Friday was the 13th as well as Friday, Mrs. YoungL-lood started out on her temporaryjob aft a carrier of Uncle Sam's mail and she got along Just fine, giving the patrons, of Sharon No. 2 the same courteous, service that her husband bus beeq giving for 20 years or mor%-. The congregation- oX the First Baptist uLurch of Clover has decided to build a new churclt to, cost in. tho neighborhood of |l.r>,000. At a recent, meeting of the congregation the pSun.' for the building of the new churchwas explained and the congregation^ went on record as favoring s/tcfii a* project. Members of the chuj?h? aic* cording to the pastor, Itan KL 'A'. Hemrick, have been vgry," Uberai id their subscriptions tq the chnre.b hulldinjr fund nnd ?^ VAIV UUiilOl o^a |IU1U| is that practktuly the. effl^re. sun ? needed is in, sight. The efcorcii will be of brick veneer construction arid, will be equipped with a Sunday achat >I department to ha^re not less than li~> class rooms. - ^ York county's ' educational system'. I is an institution that Is costing near' ly a half millioni dollars to finance; according to figures gleaned from the annual report* of County Superintendent of Edueatton John E. Carroll tor the .school yesir ending July 1, 1922,. which report', has just been forwarded to John E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education. The report shows that salaries of teachers and' other school expenses in the schools of the county Tor the period n-imed totaled $4SY,ld3.J9. The value* ,of white school buildings and grounds. Ji York county is given at $546,075 und the equipment is valued at $48,- { 675.! Figures relative to school en-, roMment as given in .'the report are ircCt'csting. The total number of pu pils who were in school the past year wna 16.5LI. There were just 21 more colored pupils than. there were white, the colored pupils totaling 7.766 and the whites 7,74u. 1 This is a distinct, gain In the number of white dudIIs in the schools and shows that the ~ne-j grots are decreasing' in school at-, ter uance,-aiuce it has been only lliroo ye irs ago that the number of negroes e. rolled was l.oOO moio than the wlfites. Joat what e^fec*. - the coinp lsory school attendance law a have, had in bringing about this increase t In enrollment of white pupils cannot 1 br ascertained, but the county super-' ' li endeat believes that the work of the coutpnlsdry attendance officers fi 1 U :gc!y responsible tor the Increase 1 In whites. Wvp new- school buildings 1 wen* erected during 'the year, accord- 1 ?vmo h>? nh?li Ji *wwyw BBS m nss * L i g"' N * Mill' 5PAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922. AXCIEXT CITY OF SMYRNA. I Scene of Turks' Latest Wholesale Slaughter of Christians. I The city of Smyrna, in which the i latest wholesale massacre of Christians by the Turks has taken place, has a history running back into th<? centuries before- the coming of Christy For moro tlmn 9C ?1 ? *' - ? ? - ? ?-??? ?v VVUVU1I03 kllV Citjp capital of what is now the province of Aidin in Asia Minor, has at intervals been the cockpit of the world, asBelgium has been that of Europe* since Julius Caesar's legions first eucamped not far from p-hat is now, known as Liege. . Smyrna is located on the west coast:' of Asia Minor, at the head of the gulC of the same name. It has always been.' the most important shipping point in. Asia Minor for the trade of the Mediterranean. The Greeks have long. coveted it and they seized it some months ago. Now *he ^Turks have inurched back, wreaking a bloody vengeance as they came- Smyrna was a flourishing Greek city as fur back as 750 years before Christ. Prior to that time the bay was used by the Phoenicians und was a commercial center- ^ It had a long und picburesque but | troubled history in the centuries that i came after the days of Alexander the 1 Great. One of the latuer's generals, after Alexander's death, made it the capital of the empire he tried to ere- , ate. The city flourished under different rulers und wras considered one of the chief ports of the world during the greater part of the world rule of the Roman empire. In 178 A. D. it was destroyed by are earthquake, but was soon rebuilt^ The Turks burned it 700 years, or so ago, 'but it u^ain rebuilt and soon recovered i?? trade. | uust before the World war Smyrna, Was a city of about 400,000 population. Turks% Jews and 'Armenians made up three-fourths of. its population in almost equal numbers. In those days there was co'mplete religious toier I uticm and fhe different sects got alcog together very well. From the gull the qf.ty was unusu.illy attractive,. but when the tourist got off his siblp and explored the streets he was struck b y the flltliiness of the streets a*?d thv lack of sanitation. On the hikls qver the city there were In those dp,VK lnmnv } -uu nHfnl no 1 or?tJd hnlllPR ot' thf j wealthier classes. Of Jhese the hr.indsomest were owned by Jews, and > som< of these Jewish merchants of ^ myrna. In the good old daya l*1fary' 1914, carried on commerce on a XW at scale and lived in houtes that aid have excited the admiration rl ig Solomon, But the Turks have <?f ?troyed all these beautiful homes ? id their former owners, such as ? scaped the recent massacres, have l^aeen scattered to the four winds of the earth. * To l'aint County River Bridge. Tuesday in Rock Hill Hugh G. Brown, county supervisor, awarded to C. U Williams of Rock Hill the jcontract for repainting .the county jbridge over CatawSa river between ,Fprt Mill and Rock Hill at a coBt of $1,300. The bridge is to be thoroughly cleaned and two coats Ml paint are to be given it, the contract calling 'for the completion of the work not later than December 1. Thero were several bidders for the job, but the bid of Williams was considered the i most advantageous for the county. ' He is to furnish the paint and the laV or necessary to do' the work accordfa g to specifications. At the last se<sii n of the General; Assembly 12.000 Wok * set aside for use of the super? visA r's office in having county bridges reps nted and already a number of tua y smaller bridges have been painted it om the fund. V 8?Bday School Program. The* fallowing program will be observed \ by the. Sunday school of the Post nllll Baptist church Sunday moruibfi. October 22: ^ 1. last rumental music. .W . 2. Spe4 ial song by children.**^ 3. SoogJ by school. 4. Storl, "Jesus ia ljolftfe Me/' by Mfss\ Lalai Park^ % ? & 6. {Violin, an4" JPi*flo '<?bet, Kenyan YcAir. g and* Mies Esther Ideacham. 6. Vwinrt\'ng>the Game/' by John McLav tehliml jVjg> 7. S (pecial by; Misses* Beatrice Parke. > Marital- Parks and Beulah I'pps. \ . ffTr' :-Zsr t? ri 1 1 *3* ?> VI I - 1 |?ycr.i;~-. ". k. k 9. C1.U pecfod. <, I \ "V V Time Big Sum for S. S- XcMnch. According to word received in Fort Hill a few days ago, S. S- McNincli. former owner of the Charlotte brick works, located at Grattan, "two miles south of Fort Mill, has recently been paid $20,400 by the American Trust company of Charlotte in settlement and shook him off, punctured and deflated, dried up and dead. He put about a dozen weevils in the bottle Monday evening. Tuesday morning they all lay "withered and strewn'' on the battlefield at the bottom of I the bottle. Kock Hill Overpowers Locals. The Rock Hill high school football team came over to Fort Mill last Friday afternoon and smothered the local high school boys so effectively that when the game was over Rock Hill had scored 52 points and had not been generous enough to allow the boys who a few days before had forced Charlotte University school and York high to take a dose from the same spoon to score ever so litThe story of the game from the Fort Mill point of few can be told in few words. The locals were up ugainst a superior team?superior in weight, superior in coaching and superior in general knowledge of the game. But at that .there wasn't anything humiliating, in the defeat for the locals. They had expected as much. Rock HiR haff a greater number of students from which to select its foot ball material and funds with which to employ a competent couch. The locals took their backset in good humor, hoping to do better next time, and more than one of them expressed the wish that Rock Hill may be able this year to take the measure of the Chester team, a thing the locals themselves fear they will not he able to do. dfti Around High Freight Kates, There is at least one way of getting around the high freight rates established by the interstate commerce commission for short interstate shipments, as was demonstrated in Port . Mill a few days ago. A contractor who had been at work in the lower f auction of South Carolina decided tc ; $ atrip his outfit, consisting principally |ad livestock, to a point in North CarloUna. Intend of consigning the sbipgnrnt to the place of destinaton, he | M?t the outfit to Fort Mill and here i unloaded his mules and oxen and >dro*ft them through the country tc (FiOfiiUs* K C, u distance of seven dalles. where they were reshlpped tc the pitas he wished them to go. Ml is aatd that the plan saved the cootpuptorseveral dollars. " ... A. r v * i *- \*. v. ' >? i >?v r;^ * , s.. \ $1.00 Per Tear. FLORIDA DRIFTING APART. \ ' i State X.tf Eventually Be Divided If Agitation Continues. There are two distinct Florldas, North Florida and South Florida, quite evenly divided as to territory, and population, but widely divided by interest, occupation, soil conditions. industry and ideas of uroiies still referred to by old time residents, was a blessing, though heavily disguised. .Men sought other sections where frost and cold could not come und they found it or thought they found it in the extreme southern end of the State. With the gradual . recovery from the freeze there came a most wonderful development of the entire southern section of the State und with it a new birth to the section that had been so badly used by the frost. After the year lbUO the people of the North discovered that there were great possibilities in .the soil of South Florida und from thut time to this there has been a steadily increasing streum of immigrants who have settled on the rich lands of the southern portion of the State. They 0 have built up magnificent towns and cities, they have covered the section ?.' with hard-surfaced roads, they have ucquired /groves und gurdens and ranches; in brief, they have created an empire. If general consent should ultl- m i mutely be given to the division of the State at ubout the line suggested, . , North Florida would retain 35 couu <...ilk .. nnnnUltnii ..kn.lt f. T. f > _ I nco wiiii a |iu|iuiaiiuu ui uuuui i/yu,i 000, while South Florida would have > a State composed, as at present, ot 26 counties with a population approximating 400,000. Both States would have about the same areu utter such ^ a division as is suggested. The present assessed valuation of North Florida is somewhat in excess i of the valuation of the other part of the State, but the difference is rap; idly being made up by the growth of , . South Florida. In north Florida ' there are nine* daily newspapers with > a combined circulation of 75,000. In ' South Florida there are 20 daily newspapers, with a circulation of nearly 100,000. In North Florida t there are 80 publications of all kinds, i while in South Florida there are 90. i At -a meeting Monday evening of i the town council of Fort Mill .J. L? i Ktser was elected a police officer to t work In conjunction with Oscar Ham- . mead. The monthly salary of the . of the verdict, which several months ago was rendered by a Mecklenburg county Jury in his favor following the hearing of the suit he brought against the trust company, alleging that it had disposed of the brick plant and certain form lands adjacent thereto in violation of an agreement he had with the company. The case was hard fought in the superior court and several weeks were consumed in hearing it. An appeal was taken to the North Carolina supreme court, but the verdict of the lower court vas upheld. ^ Numerous Fort Mill people were called to Charlotte to testify in the case, some for and others against McNinch. The trust company had a mortgage on the brick works and farm land which it foreclosed several years ago, McNlnch alleging that the foreclosure violated the terms of an understanding he had with the company as to the sale of the property and that as a result of ts action he suffered heavy damages. Follow ing the foreclosure prpceedings the brick plant was dismantled and the machinery sold. A considerable Onrt of the land was bought by Dr. J. L. Spratt of Fort Mill, who resold it to Hamilton Carhartt. According to stories which have come to Fort Mill from time to time, McNlnch now intends to enter suit for tlie recovery of the land. Bug Kills Boll Weevil. A bug that kills the boll weevil has been found- He has been found In Marlboro county and caught in the act, says the Bennettsville Advocate. He was found by Mrs. Floyd Prevatt, near Lester, last Saturday on a quilt in her yard, with his bill thrust into a boll weevil. He was holding the impaled weevil up in the air, sucking the life out of it. Mrs. Prevatt put the bug in a bott'e with several boll weevils and the bug immediately attacked them by sticking his bill into their backs and sucking them to death. Several weevils were killed in a few hoursMonday, Mr. Prevatt carried the bug to Theodore L. Burton, one of the .county's most prominent and successful farmers. Mr. Breeden was skeptical about the bug killing weevils, but watched for a few minutes and saw the bug thrust his bill into a weevil. He kept It there about ten minntna anH than lialH fha vvaavll nn siveness. says u writer in the Dearborn Independent. A line drawn across the State at about latitude 29 degrees north,' at the narrowest part of the peninsulu, approximately divides the two sections. To the north of this line lies old Florida,* with all its ancient traditions. To the south is that portion of the State, the new Florida, bursting with energy, enterprising und progressive and with a great vision of the splendid empire it is rapidly creating. Agitation for State division of Floridu has been more or less sporadic for u number of years, but it has only been within the last two or I three years that there lias been any I serious consideration of the subject. I The urge has occasionally come from the State of Alabama itself, for that State would very much like to have a section that would give it a few more towns and cities and gulf coast. The legislature of Alubama is said at one time to have made an appropriation to purchase the coveted territory from Florida, but nothing has ever come of the movement. South Florida was practically an unknown land previous Jia the beginnings of the development undertaken by Henry LI. Plant ami Henry M. Flagler, the one creating a railroad system that reached down into the Southern section of the State to iampa and further on, and the other building down the east coast of the State to mi ami and finally to Key West. When it Is said that Florida' r was an unknown section of the country before the great empire builders began their work, it is not meant thai State history had not been made, but Florida began to be widely known when railroads pushed tlioir enterprising way Into South Florida. Then it was that the tide of tourt3ts set in, first in driblets ami then in the mightly flood that now marks ' every Florida winter. Northern capital was chary of entering Florida I lie railroads showed iiie 'way, und then Northern men with money, attracted by the possibilities of profit in citrous fruit culture, begun to flock into that section. Progress was slow; the fateful years of 1894-115 seemed to end it forever in disastrous freezes thut wiped out the entire citrous fruit industry und ruined thousands who had put their ail of years, money and life, into their ventures. Hut the "great freeze.'" as it is