Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-11-18
LITTLE NEWS STORIES.
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Short Items OF Current Interest From
8 Various Sources.
To get rid OF undesirable residents
OF Sparta. N. Y. small village near
sCarboro. owned by wealthy New
Workers.. Frank A. Vanderlip has
bought the whole town. Until lately
lawless foreigners lived in ramshakle
buildings in Sparta and there were
some places that bore an Ill repute.
South Carolina is this year maxi
Ing the largest corn crop in its histo-
ry w. w. Long, director Of the ex-
tension department OF Clemson col
lcge Tuesday announced in tele-
gram to the bankers OF the State.
He added. however. that the acreage
sown in small grain this fall urges
the bankers to use their influence
with the, farmers to increase seeding
or these crops.
The manners and customs Of mod
ern society are deteriorating because
Of the too great freedom between
young persons, says DR.. Charles w.
Elliot. former president of Harvard
university. Look at the way wo-
men dress as seen on Boston streets.
They wear clothing In a way our
mothers would have put down as in
decent. 1t Is my observation that
the manners Of the common average
individual are better than the man.
ners OF those more esteemed in the
social circles"
Wearing only a smile and a night
gown. Gustaves Blaer. 20O-opund s.
Year old boy was taken to the chill
drens society from his home in New
York. 1t was said the boys mother
had hidden his clothing so that he
might not be taken from her Doc
tors OF the children's society said the
boys stoutness was caused by dis
ease OF the veins OF the brain which
had been increased by his failure to
take any exercise. Neighbors had
complained that the boy was not get
ting proper care. Later he was re-
turned to his mother.
Cuts in the wholesale prices of
mems fall and winter suits ranging
from 33 Ia to 40 per cent were an
nounced Monday by 10 Rochester, N.
y. clothing manufacturers who are
members of the National Association
Of Manufacturing Clothiers. Spring
lines OF the same manufacturers
opened Monday at prices 30 per. cent
lower than last years prices. The
price cuts took effect Immediately
NO statement was made by any Of the
members in explanation of the price
decline, but factories are known to
have on hand large stocks OF urfsold
and returned winter suits. Ovcrcoat
stocks are said not to he so large.
DR.. III. r. Cox, inventor of the dfy
battery. the ground wireless and. 9th
CT contrivances in use throughout the
world recently demonstrated in New
York an invention to preserve indefi-
nitely fruits and vegetables without
hn nc to- ~.
diets that his invention will he appli-
cnh,n on both very large and a very
srall scale: that 1t will make Dossi-
hle long distance TRANSPORTATION of
fruits and Vegetables without rcfrig-
Grafton. and will he manufa ctured so
chennlv that the apparatus can he
'rSfalled In ev"ry home. DR.. Cox es-
ttrontos TINT his invention will make
nO"S'he sn~'rp of q million dollars
v"ar THROUGH the conservation OF
r""its md ro"otoh'os witch now go
~ w"stn IN th~ Trnitod States
Writing to the Charlotte Ohcerver
from WASHINGTON. Buck" bryant
saws tho Republicans will begin at
once to chop off Democratic heads.
They have grand nlon for reducing
expenses by eliminating government
employees. For a year or longer
they will cnt down and after that
start In and build un with "dcserv-
Ing Republicans" Even in the COM
Ing short session NJ Congress they
r~Dect to take Legislative stops to
eliminate more than 40 600 govern
'nfrt enploVe g I'm W. shiroto, now
crNp'oved undar the civil service.
thereby saving in annual expenses
from 100 70 2on million dollars. This
10 exclusive of the civil sor''"o en-
r,nveos clsowhc~o than Washington.
whose number also will he reduced.
hnt nv Legislation other than that
controlling tho situation in Washing
ton.