Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-04-07
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES
Current Events Gathered Here
and There and Boiled Down
For Times Readers.

old, of Newport News. Va. fell
IN u well near his home and was
drowned.
Federal prohibition agents who
arrested the Rev. William Ander-
son, a negro preacher of Mckin-
ley Heights, Ohio. say they found
two stills in the cellar of his
home.
Lacking but three years of the
century mark, William j. Crane
OF China. Me-, is teething for the
thlrd time. sA full set of healthy
white teeth are gradually work
lrg their way through the gums.
The British government. shock
eel By the 1921 models of bathing
suits for women, has decided upon
government control of women's
bathing costumes and has ap-
pointed bathing costume con
troller.
Women employed in State de-
partmcntS now housed in the tenn
porary capitol in Charleston. W.
va, must lay aside cigarettes.
me state auditor says the women
and girl employees have been
smoking as freely while at work
as the men.
After selling feather bed for
$40 to buy food for her husband
and ii children, II Buffalo. n. V.
woman broke into the home of
the purchaser at night and stole
1t back. The judge permitted
her to retain the bed on condi-
tlon that she repay the $40.
| immediate steps are to be taken
for the relief of disabled veterans
of the World war. This decision
was reached at the White House
when President Harding went
over the whole situation with Col.
+. w. Galbraith, national COM
mandcr of the American Legion.
A new worlds record for a
parachute leap was made when
Lieut.. Arthur G. Hamilton drop
ped $4,000 feet. more than four
and three .fifths miles. from AN ac-
r"planc at Chanute field. Cham
palgn. III. He slept during the
hour and 26 minutes required to
make the ascent, but kept much
awake during the drop.
No more cracked dishes are to
he allowed in restaurants i'm Tex
aS under the provisions of a law
approved by Governor Ncff. The
law also provides that all rcStau-
rant and hotel dishes must be
Stcrllizcd after use and prohibits
the employment Of persons with
INFECTIOUS or contagious diseases
IL dairics, restaurants, hotels or
meat markets.
If it is humanity or physically
possible, Grover {. BcrgdOH. mil
llonalrc draft dodgcr of Philadcl-
pha. who escaped military priS-
on III the United States and is
Now at large in Germany. will be
'rought back 10 this country TO
serve out the five year sentence
imposed upon him by Il military
rourtmartlal. Secretary of War
Weeks summed up the attitude of
the government when. in response
10 questions. he tcrScly stated:
we arc going to get Bcrgdoll. "
James S. Eslingcr, "a years old,
who has been asleep for nearly
three years, awoke the other day
in the county hospital at Fort
Smith. Ark, yawncd, and then
went back to sleep, according to
the nurse attending him. Eslin-
ger entered the hospital in 1914,
sufferer from pcllagra. In Au-
gust, 1918, he fell into the sleep
which has just been broken for
the first time. He has been fed
through tube since his lengthy
sleep began and has not lost in
weight.
Dorothy Miller, 16 years old. of
Trenton, N. j.. who offered to
marry IN two years any white
man who met her requirements
as to refinement and education
and who would give her 81 900
to permit her mother to have n
vitally needed operation perform
ed, has been informed that a
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