Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-12
MERE MENTION.

Lieutenant Belvin w. Maynard has
been ordered to report Monday TO
Major General Menoher, director OF
military aeronautics, to explain TIE
statement attributed to him by the
Anti Saloon League of America with
reference to the use of alcoholic liquor
| by army air service pilots......An en-
barge on shipments Of freight from all
South Atlantic and gulf ports except
freight to Cuba handled by the Florl-
da East Coast railway was announced
in Atlanta Wednesday nightt by tic
regional coal committee....----".Sec =
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels
was in the Ninth Congressional dis
trict of North Carolina this week MAX
| ing speeches in the interests of Clyde
r. Hoey, Democratic nominee for con-
gress to succeed Judge Yates Webbi.....
G. G. Toipel, young white man is un-
der arrest in Winston Salem. \. &.
charged with padding the, payrolls C..
the Reynolds Tobacco Co., and is al
propriating S1,500 of the company's
fund in that way.......-..-.ThomaS Price
alias "Old Tom Dowd," was convicted
in superior court at Raleigh, n. c. this
week of robbing the postoffice at
West Durham, n. c., in 1914 and Sc
curing $4,000 in stamps and money
Price has already served thirty-three
years in other prisons for robberies.
........Speaker Fred H. Gillette of the
national house of representatives is
given 500, 900 in the will of his father
in-law William E. Rice Of Worcester,
Mass, which was filed for probate this
week -....... William NJ. Wood, presi-
dent Of the American Woolen company
on Wednesday served notice on retail
business men Of Lawrence, Mass, thai
unless prices of commodities essential
to living were marked down sharply
and within a short time, he would set
up n retail store organization on 6
large scale to supply employees of the
company with groceries, provisions,
fuel and other living necessities.
Emily Il. Powell 30, said to be .
daughter of Horace G. Lippincott
famous publisher shot her daughter
Jacoueline, aged 10 as the child lay
asleep in her home in Denver, Col,
yesterday. Mrs. Powell then shot her
self. She will probably die......-....Two
bandits were killed and a third ser
iCusly wounded at Orwell, O., wher
the sheriff and five of his deputies sur
pIised them entering bank.........Cap-
tain Ross Smith, British, aviator, has
completed the first flight from Londo!
to Australia, according to message
received from the aviator Wednesday
He reports that he landed at Port Dar-
win, in the northern territory of South
Australia..........Fire in a granary a.
Malmoe. Sweden. Sunday caused $780,
600 damage...-......FO FOrty-four states have
officially notified the state department
Of their ratification of the prohibition
constitutional amendment Virginia
heads the list, having reported Janu-
larry II, 1918 with Kentucky following
two days later.-...---.Hope OF enacting
railroad legislation by January II, the
date on which President Wilson has
ANNOUNCED the roads would be turned
back to private control, virtually was
abandoned Thursday by senate leaders.
Abandonment of Camp Gordon,
near Atlanta, AS permanent army
camp with the direction that 1t be dis
mantled and salvaged was ordered
tentatively by the national house by
vote of u to 81 while considering yes
terday a bill making $9,6OO,OOO avail
able for expenditures to develop almost
damage running high in the hundreds
of thousands was done yesterday by
the worst flood in the history OF
Macon, Ga.--.-....--.-....M Members or the
United Mine Workers of America are
urged to return to work with the least
possible delay in order that the public
needs for coal may be promptly met
in a circular prepared by the inter-
national officials of the organization
Yesterday afternoon and Which was
sent to the local unions throughout the
coal regions today.