Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-09
] Scraps aud fasts.

sHe was one Oh tne uesl hHoMh She'
/ Heers in the south. In 1901 he drove
Ihis engine, No. Ill, which is sun an an
lservice, and made record OF !Zo
miles an hour, winning for the Al
,lantic Coast Line the contract for car
Living mail between Washington ana
jacksonville. In recent years he has
] been engineer on the Havana Special
Between Savannah and Jacksonville.
FL Lillian Russell, for many years
soueen of American comic opera ana
in private life Mrs. Alexander +.
Moore. wife of the editor of the Pitts. .
burg Leader, died at her home. IN
Pittsburg last Tuesday morning as
Ifhe result of injuries sustained during
ia storm on shipboard several weeks
logo., She had been sent abroad py
sSecretary of Labor Davis for the pur-
bose of making an extensive study Oh
Bros pective immigrants to the United
sStates and ii NASHVILLE returning home
ttfo make her initial report that she
twas thrown down on ship board. 1t
twas not thought at first that the in
lEhlries were serious but later she be-
came i'll, and although her physicians
did not consider the case at all grave,
I they were satisfied that the sea ac.
iscident was the trouble. Miss Russel
!kfad been married three times before
Fher husbands she divorced and the
gthird died.
Attorney General Daugherty an
rounced Tuesday the creation. OF
new division of accountingin investiga-
ton of the war frauds section, and
1.-the appointment of James Cameron
of New York as its head. At the
same time the acceptance of post as
jsspecial assistant TO the attorney gen.
Seral by Meir Stenbrink of New York,
in connection with aviation contracts,
swas' also announced. Meantime, the
special grand jury now hearing the
iS5umber case. involving contract
Ehlade by the war department. with the
d ssfrm of Phillips & stephens, continued
ISlts deliberations under the usual
lsshroud of secrecy. John Lewis PhilT
clips. Republican state chairman Tor
Is(ieorgia, is at present under $25,OOO
sbail in connection with thatlcase, not
=Mithstanding that nc indictment has
! Eyet been returned. Mr.. Cameron, ac-
eording to the departments an
is zone of the most
sSrominent investigators in the county
I'm the field Of general accounting.
lks- Nineteen arrests were made In
,rAianchester Tuesday as a result OF the
tsfrst, disturbance here since the tex
afile strike started on February IL.
D Several thousand strikers had gather
p ed on the streets near the Coolidge
mill of the Amoskeag Manufacturing
company, which was reopened Mon
day. Many stones were thrown bnt
no one was hurt. The crowd had been
jeering workers leaving the mills.
Some of their number forced their
way to sections Of q street which had
lgbeen closed by the police. Police Of
Ulcers Immediately arrested five or
these A crowd followed the officers
lsand their prisoners to the police sta
i'3ion and remained in that vicinity un-
,rfil driven off by police reserves. The
s9ther IA arrests, including several wo-
( men. were made near the station when
ifpolice orders to move along were dis,
ifTegarded. The police issued addition
,Eal orders forbidding lettering in the
( vicinity of the mills. The Manchester
iIstrike committee informed State La
sbor Commissioner Davis that it %as
she %s Wage so qSessY6h gBe sGbait}SSd t5 the
state board of conciliation and arbitra-
llfion The committee has refused to-
farbitrate the matter of working hours.
~ Henry Ford is prepared to begin
fwork on the development OF the
lkplants upon few hours notice, should
his offer to take over and operate the
project be accepted by congress, IL
was learned at Detroit Tuesday from
sources close to the manufactures.
Acceptance of his Offer it was said.
:. would be followed Immediately by the 1
:. dispatch Yof kilograms to various parts
Tof the country that would initiate the,
GDetroit manufacturers plan TO create
ian industrial center around Muscle
|.Shoals that would be the, browning
achievement of his career" Mr.. Ford
believes acceptance of his proposal
TandI IFfpition of his plans will prove
1.-the worth of water power and that
.:an enterprise like Muscle Shoals can
Tbe made to become an asset to the
!. public rather than q liability. The
Iproject. 1t was pointed out, will, un-
der Mr.. Fords plans, have paid for
fitself before the lease expires. w. b.
1AIay6,i chief engineer of the Ford COM
I.pany,. has returned to Detroit and
Mr.. Ford no longer is personally rep
resented at Washington in connec-
tion with the shoals project. No plans
fhave been made for further negota-
ytions with congress, it was stated be-
cause Mr.. Ford's reply to the counter
:proposal of the house military COM
.mittee was his final statement.
..
= The cotton crop was described by
the weather bureau Wednesday in its |
weekly weather and crop review as
Hate and in poor condition except in
sthe southern and western portions OF
,the belt. Summarizing it's reports on
cotton for the week ending Tuesday
The bureau said: Temperatures We're
mostly below normal in the cotton
belt, especially in the central and
western portions and rainfall was heavy
in niahy' localities, particularly in the
eastern and the most western sections. |
!yThe crop made fair TO very good prog
$ess I'm 'TeXas.SThe nights were some
what too cool in Arkansas, but very
good advance was reported in general !
from that state, although condition.
Varied greatly. The progress of the |
crop Has very. good in Tennessee and |
fairly good in the Carolinas, although |
Qeld work was delayed in the latter |
AREA by frequent rainfall. Fair prog
fess was reported also from the south |
ern diTisfpn bf Georgia, althQught the |
Week has been generally ltnfavorable |
In that state on account of excessive |
AOiuall: the fields. were boggy, the |
land washed: and farm work impos-
s4bls% Conditions :were sHnfavolRb ble
rtsu-tu Alabama, Mississippi and Ok