Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-16
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Scraps and fatts.

The ways and means committee
has decided to increase the amount of
exemption \allowed on incomes of So
900 and less to $4,000 for a husband
and wife and 5000 for each dependant
child.
- The unprecedented drought that
has parched England all summer and
dried up the watercOursess to such an
extent as to make drinking water 1or
man and beast problem, was broken
last week by heavy rains-that swept
over the whole island. The rains of
course were accompanied by heavy
winds. ,.,3d.yXti ..s,u. ,yh .
4@bbr. y &$3rFge% =; T. Fl Harding, aged 76,
fathesT6f RegFlstt Harding, was was mar ar
ried last Thursday to Miss Alice
Stevens, aged 50, and who had FOR
many years been his office attendant
ana stenoslipheE The marriage took
place in, Monroe, Michigan, the couple
returning Immediately to Marion. A
dispatch says, that DIR. Harding brought
his bride to her home in an automobile,
left her with la Goodnight Alice, III
see YOU in the ,morping!" after which
he went to Ma own Chehne four miles
away.
Charlotte Observer, Saturday: X
Chalmers Kirkpatrick, of SHARON
township, was bitten three times on
the hand by a snake when he reacheu
into a wardrobe in his home Thurs-
dav afternoon. The snake when ne
took out and killed was of the copper
head variety. Mr.. Kirkpatrick was
very: i'll for -ssys,al hours toHoWlng the
bite. He was taken to Pineville, five
miles away, where he was given medi-
cal attention by DR.. Hand. His con-
dition was much improved Friday and
he was said to be getting along nicely.
Mr.. KirkpatHick! had returned nome
from the picnic at Sharon, and was
reaching into the wardrobe for
garment when he. felt a sting on nus
hand and detected something moving
about in the wardrobe, discovering
few seconds later that the object was
a snake.
- Sea-faring bootleggerSs soon. will
have to take n course in admiralty law
E if they are to keep up with the latest
contention of 'repen1e.' otfcers-ths,
the three mile limit does not holo
where liquor smugglers are involved
This was the stand taken by United
States Attorney Hayward last Satur-
day, when the government filed three
. libels against the schooner Henry H.
Marshall and her, ! 400 cases. of whisky
after she had been ssized outside the
lncee-mile limit off Atlantic City, win
the British flag at her masthead. COL
onel Hayward invoked the 6marltine
act of 1899, settling a twelve mile limit
off shore as the boundary which ships
could not pass If engaged in fraudu-
lent pursuits If the court upholds his
contention that this act SupGrcedeS the
doctrine that a nation had the right TO
protect it's, shores only as far as an
cient cannon could shoOt-thrce miles
it is believed an important precedent
will be set in the warfare being CON
Quoted against rum-runnei@ rom
Maine to the Florida keys.
Paris on last Friday welcomed me
80 representatives Of the A2!e!lcai.
legion who went to france TO dtlenu
the dedication of the French monu-
mcnt TO the American eXpeditionarN
forces. with much 1.-The. same spirit as
that with (which 1hey received TIC
pofius when they returned from the
great war. There was genuine ring
of enthusiasm to the shouts OF greet
ing from thousands of persons Wh"
gathered outside the station WheIe th'
Americans arrived this afternoon rom
Cherb6urg. 1t WAS a rep,Htion "i ','
re-cr6iUp given thtm W4%IlpTJ "''u-
ed earlier in the day from the .it an
ship George Washington, at Sher-
bourg. More than 10000 persons later
surrounded the Arc De Triomphc |"
watch the American veterans pay ltl-
butte to their unknown Comr&dc. Al'NI
a reception at the intcr-aiIieu c!up
where Ambassador HCrriCk, j. j. JuSS-
Grand, the French ambassador :" tnv
United States, and many prominent
officials welcomed them. the LEGION
naires went to the Arc De TIiomHhe.
&C. O. Fox and Jesse Gabhins, who
with :. J. Kirby are charged with the
murder of Wm. G. Brazcll, the young
taxi driver lin Lexington county ON
Sunday of last week, were paced ]"
the Charleston Jail last SUNDAY. MI
bv is i'm the stat" pcni,CntiaIy. After
Kirby told OF the murder ne was
brought back to Lexington. 10 locilc
the body of Er"%,.l, while Fox ana
Gabbina we've, l,It IN Jail IN augusta.
.:Ont thc,peSs Shat mob was FORMING
, to attack thelAuguSta jail, the prison
. crs were run off 10 Savannah. Inc
threats ~ sBnnbiuF. persisted, ana
Sheriff Roof Of Lexington went l"
savannah. and took the prisoners l"
Charleston. The understanding yes
tyrday was that The men might he Ioi'
.,1t GAavlestaa until cQpL .cuANeheS III
Lexington; but SneriT R"oi may 'Ihn %
ii henr back enher 10 Lexington or me
nCnitcntiary before then. After fchcn-
ing the Savannah jail, Fox aHd CAB
bins signed iitsitcmcnts in which th"E
admitted then, guilt and claimed til"j
Kirby is as guilty as they are.
q - Repeal Of die ,eNcisc tax of one cent
ON every % cents Of value was drcided
lpou SATURDAYS by the ways and means
committee The committee also N"'cd
10 levy 4 fiat license tax OF $40 ON an
retailers of soft drinks and 10 lN III"
manufacturers 't7rv on cereal hcN"r-
ages at'12 cents gallon in plHc" "l
the present manufacturers tax "t 10
per cent. on the sale price. The com
mittee also voted to impose a manu-
'fact1irGrs' taX.Of per cent. on thr FOL
lowing articles, the wholesale price "i
which exceeds the amounts gwen.
Carpets and nrugs ,Op .ihl-.fpM"unl III
excess of SO. per SQuar" yard. lT.in'@
1rayeiing Iq y.H Hs''V B1 t15tii, cases, on ,nr
amount in excess of SD. PURSES,
'rockctbooks, Shopping bags and E1nd
bags. on the Muount in excess OF ST. F
Portable lighting fixtures, including
Iarnps Of all kinds and lamp shades. on
the amount i'm C>IrcSy of so. Umbrellas .
uara4ul.; and Sunshadcs on tn" amount
i'm excess of $50 and fans ON the
amount of 81 each.