Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-28
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5;Seraps and Gaets.


:. The proposed home ownership
amendment to the Texas constitution
"a recommended by former Governor
Hobby was adopted last Tuesday by a
decisive vote in the house OF repre-
Sentatives. The amendment provides
that the legislature shall hereafter
have, power, to giyt. or lend credit OF
the state to the purchase and improve
nent of rural and urban homes This
measure: was sponsored by Governor
Hobby before he retired from Office.
1T was. defeated in an election two
years ago, but at the last. general
election was placed on the ballot and
recommended for submission to the
legislature.
-, - There is steadily growing interest
in the recanyass of the vote of the
state of Michigan in the race between
Henry Ford and Truman Newberry.
hystheesenate committee on privileges
andf elections. There. are 2,2S2 pre-
cinctsin the state and Up to last Tues
day the committee-had completed the
yrecanYass of LIS of, them, with the
,riesult that Ford had gained S,945 votes
itvef" the number that had been credit
I'D to him by the Michigan board OF
- slection,, commissioners. There is j
strong Probability that by the time the
canvass is completed it will be clearly
shown that Ford was deliberately
swihdled out Of the election.
AN attempt, according to an Asso-
ciatod' Press dispatch, was recently
made az Eberbach, Germany. to kid
nap Grover Cleveland BerSdoll Amer
lean draft evader, and companion
named Stecher. Five men in an auto
mobile, two Of whom were American
military intelligence officers and one
an American sergeant. made the at
tempt, according to the Ebcrhach Eel
.tung. Bergdoll was being driven TO
the Eberbach railway station to meet
wedding guests when the automobile
suddenly was surrounded and its oc-
rupants ordered to surrender. inc
party attempted to escape and one OF
the Americans fired. wounding friend
of BerGdoll's in the right hand Police
arrived and the party. fed but. the two
alleged intelligence officers were ar
rested later.
Investigation by the Federal trade
commission Of print paper supplies
and prices ito ascertain why the pres
eilt high prices continue when all other
,mices of manufactured articles have
suffered big Declines" is proposed in a
resolution introduced Wednesday by
Senator Harris. Democrat. Georgia.
Senator Harris was a member Of the
commission when 1t made its first
,rcwsprint investigation four years ago.
There is no real shortage Of print pa
rer.": said the senator. Newspaper
publishers state that while paper is be-
ing offered on the open market at q
lower price than that covered by con-
tracts with the big companies who us
.:,,ally control the situation and yet the
newspapers are forced to make con-
tracts for 1921 with the right of the pa
per company to fix it's own prices sub
iect to quarterly readjuStmentS."
One return on income of $500o,O00
was filed in the calendar year 1915, ac-
cording to completed statistics of in
sc,neS for that year issued Tuesday
night by the bureau Of Internal rcvc-
.plte. Two returns were filed OF IN
rornes from s4,OO0.O0D to S5.0oO,000;
fulir Of incomes from $4,000, 600 TO ST.
.nl4. 900; II from $2,000.000 to $4,000
tNn. and 33 from S1,OO0.000 to $780,
500. Corporations. exclusive Of per-
.Snnal service concerns. reporting dur
2n2 061 reported a total net income of
$>.2G1 ,5I1,249. which Yielded income
!aX=s of s65S.19S,4S3 and war profits
AND excess profits taxes of S2,505,5G5,-
$50. a total tax of $3.15S,76i.422. Part
n'rships reporting net incomes num-
!mred 91.132 with total net income
o. S939SS1 CTS. while there were 1897
i'"rsonal service corporations with Il
Total net income OF S5l,923.953.
Provision has been made in the an
nual army appropriation bill for an
army of only 100000 at the suggestion
IF President-elect Harding, Reprcsen-
iatiNe Anthony Of Kansas chairman of
The house appropriations subcommittee
6roFt "a Ia St
night in announcing that the bill was
ready to be reported to the house. The
proposed army of 100000 which conf
pares with the present army of about
$4,000 men, and with the army Of 1T5.-
900 men fixed in a resolution recently
adopted by the house and senate was
suggested by Mr.. Harding as Il proper
maximum, Chairman Anthony said. at
the recent conference which he held
with the president elect at Marion. Mr..
Harding, according to MI. Anthony cX-
pressed the belief that an army OF 15O.-
900 men together with the reserves.
National Guard and other available
forces Should provide sufficient mill
tary establishment for the nation in
time Of peace
- More than 100000 now members
were received into white Baptist
churches in the south by baptism alone
during 1920 it was reported 10 tho
conservation committee Of the Baptist
%5,000,000 campaign in semi-annual
session in Louisville. Ky. last Tues
fiay. while the cash collections on sub
scriptions to the forward movement Of
the denomination have reached the
I sum of s16.S51. .100GS. it was reported.
An effort to push the further collcc
/, ton of the. campaign subscriptions
:. throughout the south will be made
during the months Of March and April
!. it is said. Dr.. J. d. Love Of Rich
,fmond, Fa secretary oi the foreign
:. mission hoard. reported that South
ern Baptists lad contributed through
that board $i47.2Si.2O in cash during
the past month TO the relief of the
). needy families Of eastern Europe and
< China, while the Baptist. ,womcn Of III"
ssouth have contributed six carloads OF
: first class clothing. valued at 100000.
to the needy families of Hungary.
-Suwanec, Ga, January 2G: Three
unmaSked men robbed The Bank Of
Suwanee here late today Of cash rsti-
mated at $1,000 and fed in an autumu-
bile III which IN accompliCc waited. |
The men entered the bank shortly be-
fore the closing hour. and when only
one customer and +. j.. Dow%. cashier.
were present. One Of the men asked
:; for 4 blank note and wrote on that |