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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
CHARGED WITH MURDER.

John Withers, negro, is in Jail,
charged with the murder of George
Robins, negro, whom he is alleged to
have killed on the j. B. Sykes farm,
seven miles from Rock Hill, on Tues
day Of last week. The body of Robins
was exhumed this morning at the Or
der Of Coroner Paul G. McCorkle and
an inquest held.
Robins and another negro were play
ing checkers at house on the Sykes
farm last Tuesday, it is said, when
Withers came up carrying shot gun.
Robins had a shot gun on the floor be-
side him and when Withers pointed his
gun at Robins the latter made a mo-
ton to get his own weapon, whereupon
Withers fired and instantly killed Rob-
ms.
"Nigger talk" at the time was that
the killing was purely accidental and
no legal action was taken. Later the
father of Robins came to Yorkville and
told the coroner that he believed his
son had been killed following quar-
rel.
Coroner McCorkle, Deputy Sheriff
Tom Quinn, Constable Frank Allen and
Mr.. j. b. Sykes went to the scene again
yesterday and their investigation re-
suited in the coroner ordering the body
to be exhumed this morning, when the
inquest was held.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Considerable interest hinges around
the case of Reed Shaw, an Anderson
county convict, who is resisting in the
courts the revocation by Governor
Harvey of parole that was granted
him by Governor Cooper. Shaw was
convicted in Anderson Of manslaugh-
ter and sentenced. to six years. Gov
ernor Cooper turned him out on good
behavior. On information that he had
violated the conditions Of the parole,
Governor Harvey had him rearrested,
and he has sued out writ Of habeas
corpus before Judge. Prince, who gave
him his original sentence. The ques-
ton as it appears to us is about this:
If the governor has right to condi-
tion a parole on good behavior, should
he not also be the sole judge as to
whether the condition has been car
ried out? If it shall be held otherwise,
of course the parole system will have
to be abandoned.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
MERE-MENTION.

G. C. Long Of the Long Construction
company, was held TIP between Deca-
tur and Atlanta, Ga, by automobile
bandits last Saturday and robbed Of q
pay roll satchell containing $1,000.
The Lake County, ILL.,, circuit court has
issued an order restraining Wilbur
Glenn Volivia, dictator of Zion City,
from interfering with people smoking
cigarettes within the jurisdiction of
that corporation.........In a gliding con-
test at Itford Hill, in England, last
Saturday, D. r. Olley remained in the
air 45 minutes with passenger,
breaking the worlds record under
such conditions. ...-...L Lord Curzon is
to remain foreign secretary in the new
British cabinet, insuring practically no
change in the Lloyd George program
as to the Turkish peace conference....-...
DR.. Lyman j. Abbott, editor in chief OF
the Outlook, New York, died at his
home in New York last Sunday, aged
81 years. He was eminent as a law
yer, clergyman and author........~Fifteen
persons. most of them children, perish
ed in therburning of five story brick
tenant house in New York last Sun
day............J Joseph Lewis Cowles, known
as the father of the parcels post sys-
TEN, died in a Richmond, Va, SANTA
rum Sunday, aged 70 ycars...--..--..--.-. Of
fetal statements coming out of Florida
indicate that the reports of disastrous
floods in the Everglades country are
very much exaggerated and the in
ference is that these reports came
from people who bought Everglade
lands that have not yet been drained.
The interested authorities seem to be
doing what they can to get all the ad-
vertising possiblc........Thc American
destroyer flotilla which sailed from
Norfolk, October 2, to protect American
interests in the Near East arrived at
Constantinople last Sunday.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
bere ia division. ,alone political lines.

there is division. along political lines.
The Republicans stand for subsidy.
and the Dem9crats are opposed to'it.
The Republicans claim that their sole
purpose is to strengthen American for
eign commerce. The Democrats de-
clare that the subsidy law is intended
mainly to provide graft for American
ship builders and American ship own
ers. They allege as their objection
that the proposed legislation is dis
criminatory and unfair. So long as
shipping board vessels were being al
lowed to carry and serve liquors there
was little hope of the passage of a
ship subsidy measure. The Republic
cans generally are prohibitionists. At
least. Republican constituencies are
prohibition. These constituencies
would not stand for subsidies to ships
that were selling liquor. Now that the
ships cannot sell liquor, the case is
different. The Republican constitu-
encies will stand by their party, and
the ship subsidy bill will likely be
passed at the next session of congress.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

There is a growing sentiment among
the church people of the country that
it is the duty of the United States
government to intervene between the
Greeks and Turks in behalf of the
Christian nations that are being over
run, oppressed and slaughtered. Some
of the church authorities so so far rs
10 say, that if the United States gov
ernment shirks its clear duty in this
matter, it will lay itself liable TO pun
ishment. And they do not hesitate to
say that it is the duty of the United
States to see to it that Armenian and
Greek Christians of Asia Minor have
u right to government under con-
ditions that will make them free from
Turkish oppression.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

The Russian government has served
notice on the Allied powers-Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan-that
it will not be bound by any agreement
into which they may enter for the.set-
tlement of the Near Eastern question
unless Russia is party to the con-
ference. Russia, takes the position
that she is as much at interest as any
of the rest of them, and has a little
more interest than some of them, and
while she is perfectly willing to go into
the conference with the others she is
not willing to abide by what the otn-
ers do unless they at least give her
the courteous recognition that is her
due.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Some of them say Lloyd George is
an "opportunist," and maybe he is.
By opportunist is meant a man who
has good luck in guessing which way
the cat is going to jump and jumping
first Such a man is not supposed to
be guided so much by deep and de-
liberate calculation as he is by the
trend of events. To prove what they
say, Georges critics tell how at one
time he declared that Germany should
"pay to the last farthing," how at
another time he said that he was going
to try to hang the kaiser and how at
still another time, he promised that
the Turks would be driven out of Eu-
rope. These promises, we are told
were made mainly as sops to the
sentiment that felt that way about it,
and We're afterward ignored for rea-
sons Of eXpediency. The poor fellow
is not given credit for any ability at
all. We have been looking at it diff
ferently. AS we understood it, when
the bureau that had charge of NUM-
tions at the beginning of the war fell
down, they asked George to do it, and
he provided the munitions. In fact he
managed the business so well that
they decided he would be a good man
for premier, and as things continued
to go good, they kept him on the job.
Different powerful influences that had
been jealous of him all the while tried
to side track him first one way and
then another; but somehow he seemed
always to meet them coming. That
he did it quite "opportunely" it will
have to be admitted, for if he had
been less opportune about it he would
have fallen by the wayside. But when
it came to that last great crisis, in
volving the heading off Of u lot of
greedy politicians, the task was too
much. Whether his ascendancy came
through the wisdom and understand
ing of Daniel, or the opportunism of
Il Wall street stock jobber, this fore
most statesman of the world could not
be expected to achieve that,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Not meaning to say that we are
without sympathy for the war scourg-
ed people of central Europe, we do say
that none of them are undergoing any
greater hardships than were under
gone by the people of South Carolina
for at least ten and maybe fifteen
years after the Civil war. Most of the
leading people Of this state lost prac-
tically everything they had in the way
of. property, and thousands and thou
sands, of them were reduced to the
most abject poverty and want. They
we're without money and without cred
it, and worse than that they were
ground down by an ignorant, corrupt
and vicious government the like OF
which does not exist in Europe. No
specific reparation charge was levied
upon us; but during the next thirty
years the South pail until in the
aggregate those payments must have
amounted to considerably more than
the Germans are ever going to be re-
quired to pay. For a full generation
after the Civil war, a large majority
Of our people lived on corn bread and
molasses, as the cheapest available
food, grown men and women were
barefooted most of the time and some
of them all the time and their cloth
ing were rags and tatters. There was
not much complaint over the horrible
conditions, either. The people bore
their hardships with a courage and
fortitude the like of which has seldom
if ever been seen, and they worked per-
sistently, intelligently and doggedly
until they came out of the woods. 1t is
a rough time some Of these central Eu
ropeans are having; but the people OF
the South have been all along there.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
Is0G.A1s AFFAIRS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

J. T. Mcknight, for Trustees-Patrons
of New Zion school.
E. L. Avery, Pres.-Colored Teachers
Association.
The Star Theatre, ]. Q. Wray, Manager
Ethel Clayton appears today in
Beyond"
Sam NJ. & S. Z. Grist, District Agents
There can be but one best.
York Supply Co.-Let US sell you.
w. f. Jackson-Flour is advancing.
ommittee-Halloween party at Beth
any school house.
Loan and Savings Bank-With capital,
surplus and undivided profits of near
,ly 100000.
Kirkpatrick -Belk Company-Let us
save you n few dollars.
Walker r. Latimer, President Board OF
Health-Notice of the election Of q
health officer, etc,
Chester Fair-October 81 to Novem-
Der 8.
Seeds, bulbs, plants, fertilizers.
York Lodge, No. 146, 1. o. o. F.-Reg-
: ular meeting Wednesday night.
Shieder Drug Co.'s ready to fill your
prescriptions. ..,.f
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

companied the boy to Rock Hill to see
about it and there the boy broke down
in his story about living in Rock Hill.
However, he did have relatives in Rock
Hill and they told the chief that the
Juvenile delinquent was the son of
Luke Parks who lives in Fort Mill.
When the father paid the costs in the
case the son was released. The owner
of the automobile came to Yorkville
Saturday and recovered his car after
paying a pretty heavy bill for repairs.
1t is understood that the father is
anxious to have the boy placed in the
reformatory for white youths at
Florence. Claiming him to bed post
even has no wholesome effect on him.,
since that measure was tried in an
effort to prevent his running away to
the county fair.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Senator Dial is still preaching his
propaganda for the reform of the cot
ton exchanges which arc organized and
operated to control the price of cotton
regardless of supply and demand. Pre-
viOus to 1914, there were practically
no restrictions as to the kind of cotton
that could be delivered on contract,
except possibly lintcrs. The buyer,
the spinner by construction, had to
take whatever the seller offered,
whether it was spnnable or not. The
invariable result was the payment of
computed differences instead of the de-
livery of the cotton. In 1914 the law
was changed so as TO allow the seller
to deliver any one or all Of ten grades,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Fred Hicks of Yorkville, spent Sat
urday and Sunday with relatives in
Gaffney.
w. G. White and C. E. Spencer are
among the Yorkville people attending
the state fair in Columbia this week.
Mrs. ]. c. Blair of Sharon No. l, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. a. NJ. Grist,
in Yorkville.
Miss Wilma HartneSs of Shelby is
visiting her sister, Mrs. D. D. Thomas
in Yorkville.
j. r. Lindsay, Jr., of Greenwood,
recently visited his parents in York
vile.
Mrs. L. G.. Grist of Greenville, is Wis
iting relatives and friends in Yorkville,
the guest of Mrs. Annie E. Thomas
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Jenkins, Of
Jackson, n. c., and Mrs. j. NJ Sharpe,
of Statesville, n, c., recently visited
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

The Daugherty ruling on the liquor
question is regarded by the politicians
as having strong bearing on the
ship subsidy question. There is q
large and respectable element of COM
mercial America which believes that it
is impossible to establish an American
merchant marine in competition with
foreigners on a substantial basis with
out a liberal government subsidy.
For one thing most foreign marine
services are directly or Indirectly as
sisted by government subsidies. For
another thing American merchant ma
rine laws make the operation of the
American merchant marine more eX-
pcnsive than the operation Of foreign
merchant marine services. For one
thing the standard of American wages
is higher and for another thing the re-
quirements as to taking care of the
personnel rs TO food, clothing, health,
etc., are higher Americans are not
allowed to use pauper labor on Ameri-
can ships. All Americans, of all par
ties. admit the desirability of main
tanning an American merchant ma
rine; but when it comes to subsidy
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
THE MARRIAGE RECORD.


Marriage licenses have been issued
by the Judge of probate to the follow
ing:
Oct. 1S-Andrew Adams and Ola
Fewell, colored, Bethel township
Oct. 19-Albert Locket and Ella
Twitty colored, Kings Mountain, n. c.
Oct. 19-Raymond Alexander, Clover,
and Lucille Ford, Bowling Green.
Oct. 21-J. Robert Parnell and Grace
Laws, Rock Hill.
Oct. 21-McKinnie Jones and Marga-
ret Dillingham;, Yorkville.
Oct. 21-Clarence NJ. Brooks and At
tie Lee Chandler, Rock Hill:
Oct. Thurman Preslar, Fort Mill,
and Lorena Pruette, Huntersville, N. c.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
Tuesday, October "a, 1922

the family of Mr.. w. w. Jenkins, in
Yorkville. .,
Mr.. Robert McClain of Yorkville is
critically i'll at his home in the Lock-
more Mill village He is suffering
from pneumonia and other complica-
tions and little hope is entertained for
his recovery.
The Yorkville Enquirer is in receipt
of letter from Peterson jackson of
Hot Springs. Arkansas, asking for a
sample copy OF the paper. He says he
is native of York county, served four
years in Company K, Seventeenth
South Carolina Volunteers, Capt. E. A.
Crawford, and is now in the seth year
Of his age.
Lancaster News, October 90: Writ
ing to friends in Lancaster, Mrs. w. S.
Johns. Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
says that she is fast, regaining health,
has a fine, appetite and hopes to be
home in very short time...Mr. and
Mrs. w. H. Draffin, Mrs. Mollie Draf-
fin, and Mrs. R. c. Crockett of River
Gside, mosored to Rock Hill Wednesday,
to see Rev. w. S. Patterson, who last
week underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitI: at he Fenneli Intirmary. Mr..
Patterson is gradually improving and
hopes to be able to come home in few
days.
Miss Essie Orr of Chester and Miss
Lily McManus of Lancaster, the for
mer possessing a wonderful contralto
voice; the latter a soprano voice and
both said to be among the foremost
singers ever trained at Winthrop COL
lege at Rock Hill, have just had their
tonsils removed In Charlotte. These
| operations have caused considerable
discussion in Chester, especially that
OF Miss Orr, the discussion being that
1t Is hoped her voice will in no way
be impaired by the operation for she
is said to possess q voice that music
critics have hailed as equalling Schu-
mann-Heink in sweetness and rich
ness. For some time she had been de-
lighting large crowds In Chester sing
ing from time to time in Purity Pres
byterian church choir. 1t is her plan
after she finishes at Winthrop to take
an advance voice course in New York.
Dever Little, of Great Falls who is
well known in Yorkville didn't fancy
taking an aeroplane ride from London
to Paris when he had the opportunity
recently; but went by train and boat
while his travelling companion R. s.
Mebane, Jr., took the air trip. The
following dispatch from Great Falls to
the Chester Reporter will be Of in
terest in this section: Messrs. Deyer
Little and Robert S. Mebane, Jr., who
are touring Europe, have engaged
passage on the Bessengaria on Novem-
Der 18th, and will reach New York
about November 18th, and after spend
ing few days there will return home.
Up to the present they have reported
very pleasant trip with nothing to
mar their pleasure. Mr. Mebane made
the trip from London to Paris In an
aeroplane. which has a regular daily
schedule between the two cities. This
passenger plane has a schedule of $50
miles an hour. AS this trip apparent
ly took more nerve than Mr. Little had,
he used train service while Mr.. Me-
bane used aeroplane for the trip.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

The York county friends of f. w.
Pursley, of which The Yorkville En-
quirer is one, will be pleased to see
him elected by the legislature to the
position of superintendent of the PEN
itentiary. Mr.. Pursley is competent,
honest, conscientious and efficient. If
he should be chosen to the position for
which he is a candidate, the people of
the state may rest assured that the
management of the penitentiary will
be in good hands. -.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
Something over 5000 bales of cot.

= Something over 5000 bales of cot
ton are now in the Spartanburg coun-
ty warehouses at Camp Wadsworth,
according to w. J. White, superintend-
ent. approximately half the amount
stored is cotton turned over to the
South Carolina Cooperative Cotton
Marketing association from the coun-
ties of Spartanburg, Union, I.aurens,
Cherokee, Chester and York. For the
past week an average of over 200 bales
has been received per day and the
number continues to grow daily. The
warehouses at Camp Wadsworth have
storage capacity of between 10000 and
10000 bales, according to the way it is
compressed. The warehouses are To-
Gated on spur tracks,f from the South
ern railroad and the =. & n. railway.
and are accessible for all roads lead
ing to Spartanburg. -g. ,...
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
.Rng,ana Ras,paSlhg her, debts and that.

the pound which befo. the war was
worth $4S6, and which fell to 1920 is
now beginning to?look the dollar in
the face at s4.4O. That England's
credit is now better than it ever was
and that soon she will resume her old
place as the financial leader Of the
world. He told how the government
old feud with Ireland had been peace
fully settled and how the firm policy
of the government had upheld and re-
established British prestige in the Near
East. And also he called attention TO
the fact that Great Britain is on the
best of, terms with America. HIS
speech met with the. sincere and en-
thusiastic approval Of his vast audi
ence in all it's details, He promised to
tell from day to day what the gov
ernment has been doing, how and why.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

at is for the people of this country
exclaimed Lloyd George in his Leeds
speech, ito decide whether the party
comes first or the nation first. stand
for the people,"
Great for Lloyd George. So say we
all-for England. Yes all South Caro-
linians applaud that sentiment in
Lloyd George. But let Lloyd George or
any other man try standing for the
people in South Carolina before party
and see what he will get.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

and this made bdtS little difference.
Senator Dial wants to change the law
so the contract will specify, the kind
of cotton to be delivered. That will
establish an exact basis of supply and
demand, and prevent the cheapening
of cotton that does exist through the
weight of cotton that does not exist.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Next Friday afternoon Kershaw
plays Fort Mill in Kershaw, Yorkville
plays Winnsboro here; Chester plays
Winthrop Training school in Chester
and Rock Hill plays Lancaster in
Rock Hill.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Had the imitation of 1919 continued
until now there would be no business
except by barter. AS the matter
stands the country is only just now
recovering from the ruin that was
wrought by imitation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Premier Poincare has announced
that Russia will be invited to partici-
pate in the conference that will settle
the future of the Straits. That is a
wise decision on the part of Premier
and whether they like it or
not it will be wise thing for all the
nations to recognize Russia.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Now for a hard surface road be-
tween Yorkville and Rock Hill. There
is no other prospective public under
taking that promises more for the
welfare of the whole county. Let's
have 1t.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
Real Estate Changes.

Fifty three acres of land, the prop
erty of Mrs. L. A. Jones, and situated
near Union church, has been sold to A.
G. Good for $4,000. Forty acres known
as the Mrs. Minnie E. Moore place.
near Philadelphia station, has been sold
to R. w. Moore of Hendersonville, N.
c., for $500. Both deals were made
through the real estate agency Of ]. c.
Wilborn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
ALONG THE WAY

Nine young men Of Yorkville con-
template renting the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. j. Mackorell, who are soon to
move to Hickory, N. Cy and to con-
duct a boarding house of their own
on a cooperative basis or share and
share alike in the expenses Of main
tanning the household. These young
men are now boarding in private
homes and are making the change be-
cause they believe it will be more
convenient for them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

If England puts Lloyd George back
in power at the head Of q majority
party Of his own then England will
become a great England indeed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
LOCAL LACONICS
Lutheran Church for Rock Hill.

Members of the Lutheran denomi-
nation who live in Rock Hill are
planning to build a church In that
town, it is stated.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
PUNTS AND PASSES

Chester won over Fort Mill High at
Chester last Friday afternoon, AZ to O..
Winnsboro and Kershaw tied, 6-6 at
Winnsboro the same afternoon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
Fire Did Small Damage.

Slight damage was done by a fire
which broke out in a small house in
which the lighting plant was station
ed on the premises Of ]. NJ. Brice Of
York No..4, Sunday night. The origin
of the fire is unknown. Neighbors
gathered quickly and helped extingu-
isil the blaze.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24

Frank Caldwell, a member of the
Yorkville High football eleven is
walking on crutches as the result of
an injury to his knee received in a
football game at Lancaster last Friday.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-24
The alurkrille eaqtsirsr.
Entered at the Postoffce at York, as
Mail Matter of the Second Class.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1922.

Corn and grain, milk and butter
spell real worth.