Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-09-07
SHORT NEWS STORIES.
Items of Interest From Various
Sections of Country.

chief of police of Toronto, Can
ada. Corporal punishment, the
officer declares, is the best meth
of of punshing mischievous boys.
Chinsese wine said to worth
million dollars may be poured in
ITO sewers of San Francisco as the
result OF an action pending by
the California prohibition direc-
tor. The liquor has been classi-
fled as as liquor instead of medi-
cine.
Playing in the yard while it's
mother was hanging out the
clothes, the 15 months old child
OF Cecil Thomas of Augusta, Ga,
became entangled in apron strings
dangling from the line and stran-
, gled to death before it could be
released.
Fear that he would strike
young woman who stopped in
front OF his machine to pick up
her handkerchief caused the
death of VIM. A. Creme Of New
York city. Creme fell dead over
the steering wheel as he narrowly
missed the girl.
Found guilty of holding his lit
tie daughters hand over fire,
burning it almost to the bone,
VIM. Ii. Moore, blacksmith of
Rayonne. n. j., has been senten-
ced to spend one year in Jail. The
father burned the child s hand to
correct her for cutting pictures
out of books.
An order instructing postmas-
tcrs throughout the country to
stop delivery of mails at every
dwelling not having u slot in the
door or mail box in front of the
house has been issued by the post
office department. Four months
Is to be given citizens to provide.
the slot or receptacle.
twenty-five billion eggs were
land by American hens thus far
during 1922, says department
OF agriculture report. This is a
record which was made possible
by Americans killing and eating
, fewer chickens, leaving more
hens OH the farms.
I'D marry a fat man every
tlme-thcy re jolly and therefore
make good husbands" declared
Miss Adah Mac Williams, 10 year
Fold heiress of Syracuse, N. Y, in
announcing her engagement to
Walter Heirs, moving picture
heavyweight comedian.
New York has a new skyscrap-
er that is a leader in it's class. At
Park avenue and Sixty-fourth
street the only church skyscraper
built exclusively for religious
purposes has just been opened.
1t rises nine stories above the
ground. Inside there are four
auditoriums.
! While praying beside the grave
CT his mother in cemetery near
New York city, Robert Lake, %
years old, was robbed of his pock-
eft book and 81 in cash. As he
knelt beside the grave he was
struck on the head. When he re-
vived he found that his pockets
had been looted.
A race across the Atlantic
ocean, with speed crown as the
reward, lis expected to determine
the worth of oil as a fuel for
steamships. The race will be run
between Southampton, England,
land the United States some time
soon, according TO present plans.
Six vessels will take part, all but
one using oil as fuel.
The Ku Klux Kan at Paterson,
\. j., has made protest against
the announcement that the Ger
man language will be taught III
the city schools during the COM
ing term. The resumption of
teaching the language in the pub
tic schools is a plot of the Ger
imam nation to regain the place
she formerly held in the world.
says a letter to the board of edu-
cation signed by the khan.
] When he made mistake in
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