Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-16
Scraps and faets.

- Offer OF q new issue ol "caohS
savings certificates for sale beginning
Decembers Is, in denominations " 30,
800 and 81 900, maturity values, 1t was
Tuesday by Mr.. Mellon. Tic
are to mature in five years
and bear interest at the rate OF abou'
Al per cent compounded semi -annu-
ally IL held until maturity or at the
rate of about 81 per cent. compound
cd semi-annually If redeemed before
maturity. 1.-The new Offering means,
MFR. Mellon, said, that postal savings
and treasury savings activities have
now been coordinated- into one peace
time savings program, under when the
postoffice department and the treasury
viii join to advance postal savings for
the deposit Of savings and treasury
sayiags certificates for investment.
Aabertus yoght,; discoverer rof phos-
phat1 in Florida, and prominent htne
building Of railroads in Mexico ana tne
Southwest, died at his home In JACK
sonvlle, Fla, Tuesday,. after aNlops
illneSs. Mr.. Voght, who was u years
old. And a native of Eutawvill6, 5. e,
discdyered the phosphate deposit at
DunSllon, in May, 1889, while sinking
a w6N, and later sold his small piece oi
property for 100000. After completing
his education at Furman University
Greenyille, S. c., and the Kentucky
Military Institute, which had been IN
terr1pted by the war between tne
states. during which he served in Inc
Confederate army, Mr.. Voght went 10
Mexico. where he became engaged m
surveying railroad routes. On his re.
turn, to this country he became chiet
OF the engineers corps of the southern
Pacific Railway and was in charge Oh
that department when the route To Los
Angeles from the east was selected
s-James jPoteet, OF Simpson county,
Keftucky. is a dollar a day farm hama,
vet. his income is S51 day. Lana thal
he maid ten dollars for several years
ago now is yielding oil that brings ms
daily income 10 what,it takes MN nIts
daNs, To earn on Il FARM But Potee'
KEEPS on working for dollar a DAY
board and lodging. He deposits !, InS
royAlty checks and lives on the doliar
he Arns. He is married and has two
children. z me|years ago Poteet was
working for H. l.. Davis on his Sinp-
son%county farm. Mr.. Davis had
sixty -four acre tract of poor, land that
he wanted 10 sell. , Poteet. gave nm
ten dollars for it and kept on working
forfMr. Davis. Recently oil i4prospec,
tors invaded Simpson county ana
leased all the property they could and
pot&et's land was included. Drilling
was begun in due time, and two wells
sooa were completed. A third well is
expkcted to be brought in within day
or &yo. NNhS due- eighth royalty from
these wells nets Poteet the $50 a day.
1t iB reported that he has never m
speSted either of the wells, although
his Aroperty adjoins that OF the man
for whom he now is working.
The House ways and means COM
nitfAe, ndNl that the tarih ana TAX re-
yisiHn are off its hands for the present
Mt Mast. Will take up the soldier bonus
uuektion Immediately after the Christ
mas recess. Chairman Fcrdnty an
nounced that the committees FIRST
Ordea. Of business for the new yeal
would be consideration of adjusted
compensation legislation. It's primary
concern he added, would be to deter
mine how funds with which 10 pay
bonus can be raised. The house MEM
bersnlp, according to present indica-
tions, will be divided in its views as 10
how bonus payments should be H.
nanced. The opinion appears TO DC
general, however, that such q Dill must
provide n means of raising the fuhds
it, intends to distributes tcaturc
whfcf-wass 16t,k ing offf eA'th o sSaa9uHSFu
compensation measure which received
the approval Of the house during inc
last sesstYyS hut which was placed III :
definitely hb committee in the senate.
Among Md proposals now being put
forward as a means of raising bonus
funds Is either a manufacturers tax OF
q general business sales tax. IT is also
contended BY some that if bonus is
voted, it should in some way be INK
cd up with settlement by foreign ma
tions Of the debt owed the United
states. House leaders said there was
q growing demand among members,
most of whom will run for reelection
next fall for disposal of the bonus
question at an early date. Mr.. Ford
ncy said he had informed American
Legion officials only recently that sub
stantial progress would be made within
80 days toward enactment or such d
measure, although he made II pam
that he could not state definitely wheh
the bill would become law.
= Energetic pursuit. and punishment
of the more than 100000 men VINO
evaded the draft during the World
war is urgently recommended, by MAJ
or General Harris, adjutant general oi
the army, in his report made puDllc
today by the secretary OF. War 20
bring those guilty to- trial, he recon-
mends that congress appropriate $780,
900 to pay rewards of $50 for each
draft deserter delivered 10 the mill
tary. authorities. ait is imperative -
he declares that the government eX;
hibit the greatest possible energy ~
bursting these men and ih punishins
all who are found guilty. If the gov
ernment permits these deserterS to eS-
cape the punishment provided for thelr
offense consequences ;of. the EraHest
import will certainly ensue. An
action of this sort would tend to set a
nremium on evasion of military SER
vice. with the inevitable result that
should another national emergency
arise and another selcctivc draft be
put in operation, the numbeE OF men
attempting To evade the performance
of military duty will mount TO Il hgure
so large. as to impern the nation
through interfering very seriously
with the rapid building-up OF an
emergency. army" General Harris
SAYS the, publication of the Stacker.
lists" by the newspapers proved
highly useful for the purpose OF
STRENGTHENING. out the records OF Il
number OF non-wilful deserters whose
names were included therein, despite
nil the eaiS and effort expended in an
attcmpt to include none but those OF
wilful descrters. He shows tl:at less @