Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-24
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of December 80 as American Educa-
ton week. The president especially rec
commended that parents enlist them
selves in a closer understanding be-
tween the school and the home, with
the purpose of mutual helpfulness."
Fifty thousand dollars for q single
strawberry plant was paid Tuesday
by Frank F. Beatty, president of the
Z. E. kellogg company, fruit growers,
ut Three Rivers, Michigan. The plant
is TO be known as the Rock HilP' in
honor of its breeder, Harlow Rockhlll,
of Conrad, Iowa. The plant bears in
ecTly summer and begins again in the
late summer, bearing continually until
frost comes. 1--WE are paying the price
not from the idea of making Il profit,
but as San incentive to growers and
nreeders&of plants to develop new va
rieties, 'Ssaid Mr.. Beatty.
= Thesdcmand for letter boxes has
become 80 great as a result of the re-
cent postoffice department mo box no
mail" edict, that manufacturers arc
unable 70 fill orders, the department
said Tuesday in announcing that for
this reason postmasters had been au-
thorizedin their discretion to postpone
the effective date of the order from
January / to not later than March l.
The postponement is not to be con-
strued, the department added, as
,.aiver of the requirement for mail re-
ptacles or door slots, or as any re-
xation. of determination to enforce
he new regulation.
- Cotton ginned prior to November
Il, amounted to S,S69S57 running bales
counting 151,57S round bales as half
bales and including 17,715 bales OF
American Egyptian and 4,7S7 bales OF
sea island, the census bureau announc-
ed Tuesday. Last year to November
IA, ginnings aggregated 7274,2O1 bales
including 1859 round bales counted
as half bales; 16,1O5 bales of Amor-
can-Egyptiau and 1855 bales of sea is
land. Ginnings prior to November II
this year by states follow: Alabama,
1921; Arizona, 2217S; Arkansas,
923,197; California, 14,O6i; Florida,
25.547: Georgia., t6S1173; Louisiana,
S2S,6l9; Mississippi, 92O,769; Missouri
l12,O72; North Carolina, 6SS,562; Ok
lahoma, 59O,455; South Carolina, 464,-
121; Tennessee. 33O,7$S; Texas, 1851
OO9; Virginia, 1886. All other states,
$3.50.
- The officials of the sultan's palace
at Constantinop!e few days ago re-
ceived a radio message from Moham-
med VI, who has fed to Malta inquir-
ing after his wives, ali of whom he left
behind. The following reply to his in
uuiry was forwarded: "All are well and
hap4azy"-- ,Lhe- -pEnSt anYIDu$ Of File sGl-
tari's' harei Sis'a young Circassian
beauty, daughter of the palace gar
dener. to whom Mohammed VI was
recently married. Her installation IN
the imperial household aroused cOnSid-
erable rivalry among the othNr mem-
bers of the harem, for she immediate
" became a favorite and her master
Iavished expensive gifts upon her. She
has noW,returned to her parents, who
are in modest circumstances. Turk
ish NEWSPAPERS assert that the sultan
took with him $5OO,OOO in currency,
solid gold antique dinner set valued at
$3.50 600, and several hundred thou
s1nd dollars worth of jewels, as well
IS aMeld marshars uniform.
- The final estimate of cotton pro-
duction in Egypt in 1922 is placed at
$50 900 bales of AIS pounds net, ac-
rording to a cablegram received by
H., department Of agriculture from
IN, International Institute Of Agricul-
ture at Rome. The corresponding Of
fic.al estimate for 1921 was $4,000
bales, but receipts indicate that the
crsp rrob7hjv exec, ded 100000 bales.
The .raa Chi. gaur / estimated at l.
5.Iy.. rrrae Hs#i..' 1,3S9,OOO acres
last ,.... ~. n,ro weather during
O,tany, in love. lifornia has i'm
Prov. .};tse crop prospects in that state
md the former estimate of about 95,-
900 bales ray be reached, says the
DEPARTMENT. In the Laguna district
ne crop is practically picked, but cs-
.inates OF production are conflicting,
ranginA from $4,000 to $4,000 bales. On
the basis of these estimates, 10000
bales is. regarded as q reasonable rough
estimate for the two districts, which
produce practically the whole Mexican
crop. E92India the condition Of tn"
crop durAg September is reported as
having Been generally good. Weather
conditions were generally favorable,
heavy rains having benefited the crop
IN most localities In Bengal districts,
however. Fain caused serious damage
% the cotwn crop in the east Of Chi
ma and the Yangtze river valley. No
reccnt information for Peru is availa-
BILE, but at tie end of August normal
crop was reported
1t is a stgangc turn Of the political
wheel. says Il London dispatch, Which
within four years of the World war
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