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BODIES or SOLDIERS
ON WAT TO FORT MILL
Remains of 8ergt. Tom Hall and
Sergt. Eli Bailee to Be Interred
at Old Home.
After lying for more than two
years in soldier graves in faraway
France, the bodies of two
Fort Mill boys who died as heroes
in the World war are now
on the way to this little South
Carolina city to be finally interred
in New Unity cemetery where the
presence of all that is mortal of
each will ever be an inspiring
source of patriotism and self-sacrifice
to their relatives and friends
and the generations who in years
to come may visit their last resting
place. Rack to the home of
their childhood and to the community
in which each grew into
manhood, the bodies of these two
as gallant young sons as South
Carolina ever gave to any cause
th$t "sword pleaded or trumpet
proclaimed" will ere long be at
rest in their native soil. ^
Sergt. Tom Hall and Sergt. Eli
Bailes went overseas in May, 1918,
as members of Company G, 118th
regiment, 30th division. Neither
over came back. Both made the
supreme sacrifice in the immortal
attack of the 30th division on the
Hindenburg line on October 8,
1918, when the stronghold the
Germans had boaRted could never
be breached gave way before the
irresistible force and courage of
the South Carolinians, North Carolinians
and TenneBseans.
In that attack Sergt Hall was
mortally wounded and died the
following day; but not before he
had added imperishable glory to
his name by winning the most
coveted decoration of the American
army, the congressional med
al of honor, afterwards presented
to his father, W. L. Hall of Fort
Mill. Sergt. Hall was 123 years
old at the time of his death.
Before leaving Fort Mill he was
a regular attendant upon the services
of the Presbyterian chr.rch.
He had been a member of the
Fort Mill National Guard company
for several years and was
^ with the company on the Mcx:"un
border in 1916. Wheh the United
States declared war on Germr.ny
in April, 1917, none was more
anxious to get in the thick of the
conflict than he. He wan a gallant
soldier ^nd popular both as
a young ~mr.n m the community
and amopg his army comrades.
No less ready to do his duty as
a soldier and face any danger in
which the fortunes of war placed
him was Sergt. Eli Bailes, also a
member of Company G. USth
regiment, 30th division. Sergt.
Bailes, like Sergt. Hall and other
Fort Mill boys, lost his life in the
attack of the 30th division on the
Hindenburg line. Few perhaps
of his many friends in Fort Mill
ever suspected that this q\u2t. unobtrusive
young man would prove
himself a soldier of the finest
type. But such he was. No other
man in tfce Fort Mill companywas
more popular with his com
rades than Sergt. Bailes. "for al>
recognized in him a aoldior always
ready to do his duty and
more, and withall a lovable youth
t whose death brought, a sense of
personal loss to us all," a day or
two ago said a former office^ of
the Fort Mill company in speaking
of Sergt. Bailes. Sergt. Bailes
was a son of J. H. Bailes of Fort
Mill. He was a member of the
Baptist church and was 22.
These are the two Fort Mill soldiers
whose bodies are expected
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arrive in rori jyiui iroin rranee
within the next two or three
days. Upon arrival in Fort
, Mill the bodies will be taken to
the armory of the Tom flail
Guards and there He in state for
several hours, following which
funeral exercises, with military
honors, will be conducted, first
in Confederate park and then at
the grave. The funeral will he
under the auspices of Fort Mill
post, American 'Legion. Interment
will be in the post's plot
in New Unity cemetery.
Efforts of the Legion x?pst to
ascertain the exact time of arrival
in Fort Mill of the bodies
proved unsuccessful, but a message
from the graves registration
service officer at Hoboken. N. J.,
dated a few days ago, said that
"the bodies will be there on Suturday-in
time for funer.il Sunday.
Do not make funeral arrangemenst
until further notice."
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GRETNA GREEN REVIVAL
FOR BORDER COUNTIES?
Failure of Medical Examination 1
Bill May Bring Couples Across
Line to Be Married.
Due to the failure of the senate
to pass at the recent session of 1
the South Carolina Legislature .
the house bill reqxiiring a medi- 1
cal examination of men securing
marriage licenses in this State before
the marriage ceremony could
be performed, and the passage of
a similar bill by the North' Carolina
Legislature at its session last
month, South Carolina counties
bordering on North Carolina may
again become the Gretna Green
for North Carolina couples on .
marriage bent. <
In neither State can the mar- 1
riage ceremony now be performed 1
without a marriage license, but in 1
North Carolina both the man and '
woman must undergo an examination
by a reputable physician,
costing about $10. to secure a '
health certificate, to the effect
that neither is suffering from certain
communicable diseases, before
county authorities are allowed
to issue the marriage license.
The proposed law having failed
in South Carolina, it is now possible
to enter the marriage relation
in this State at smaller cost than
in North Carolina. The South
Carolina marriacre license law
does not require that either party
be a vresident of this State, and
it is not improbable therefore that
iranv couples, to save the fee incident
to the physical examination
required under the law of
North Carolina, will cross the line
into this State to be married, thus
reviving to some extent at least
conditions that obtained in South
Carolina border counties before
the marriage license law was enacted
in this State about ten
years ago, when North Carolina
coupfos. literally in droves, came
into South Carolina to be married.
Many of these counles were
mere children who could not secure
marriage licenses in North
Carolina because of their youth :
others were old and infirm, still
others were poverty stricken.
But neither youth nor senility, or
poverty, was a bar to marriage
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in ouuui v aronna in mose uays,
if the couple had the price to pay
for the ceremony and knew the
accommodating magistrate or notary
republic to whom to apply
to have the knot tied.
Finally this condition was remedied
by thq Legislature in 1911
passing the inarriage license law.
As a result the border counties of
the upper part of the State have
since been practically free of the
indiscriminate marrying of couples
from across the line in North
Carolina. But with North Carolina
now making the possession
of u health certificate of both the
man and woman a condition precendent
to the issuance of the
marriage license in that State, and
there being no such requirement
in South Carolina, it remains to
be seen whether conditions will
again become such as to demand
the attention of the Legislature.
Gold Hill Honor Roll.
#The honor roll for the Gold Hill
public school, Mises Ruth Shuler
and Ida Lee Parler, teachers, for
the month beginning February
21 and ending March 18, is as follows
:
Second Grade?Minnie Abernathy.
Fourth Grade?Joe Abernathy.
Edgar Crook. Agnes Osborne.
Fifth Grade?Raymond Patterson.
Sixth Grade?Van Blankonship.
Essie Cunnup, Ralph Patterson.
Lillian Warren.
Seventh Grade?Louise Warren.
Mattie Norwood.
Bear Wandering Around.
R. II. Gordon and his family,
who live two miles west of Monroe,
N. C.. saw a good sized hear
in a field near their home Tuesday
morning. The bear was headed
in the direction of South Carolna
and" was making good time.
Mr. Gordon and his family wore
in their yard and got a good view
of the hear. Mr. Gordon went to
a sawmill nearbv and told the
men there what he had seen and
they all started out on a hunt for
the bear, but as they had no dogs
the chase had to be abandoned.
The bear'8 tracks were plainly
,seen in plowed ground.
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WILL OBSERVE EASTER
IN 8PE01AL EXER0IBE8
8t. John's Methodist Sunday
School Plans for Big Attendance
Next Sunday.
The superintendent of St. John's'
Methodist Sunday school, A. O.
Jones, assisted by the pastor of
the church, the Rev. W. R. Bauknight,
and the president of the
men's Bible class, E. T. WhiteSell,
is arranging for what they look
forward to as being the biggest
jelebration, next Sunday, of Easter
Sunday yet undertaken by a
Fort Mill Sunday school. The exercises
will be held in the auditorium
of the Fort Mill high school
and will begin promptly at-10
n'l'lnflt ii ni A atntonuint icntioil
by the officers of St. John's Stmday
school and the pastor of the
church relative to the exercises
says:
"We invite you and your
friends to be with us next SrtUtlay,
assuring you that an hour of
pleasure will be yours if you accept
this invitation. If you are a
member of a Sunday school, go
to your own Sunday school. If
you are not a member of arty
Sunday school, we urge you to attend
our Sunday Rchool exercistea
next Sunday morning in the auditorium
of the Port Mill hi^h
school in celebration of Easter
Sunday. If you are unable to
walk or have no conveyance,
communicate with A. O. JoneS,
superintendent, and he will arrange
to get you there.
"There are 1,338 white popte
living in and near Fort Mill over
eight years of age. About 500 of
this number attend Sunday school,
leaving 838 who do not attend
Sunday school. Wo want and
invite every one of this number
to be with us next Sunday, and
are expecting an attendance of
at least 500. We have ove*.t500
Easter eggs to give away that ;
dajr and are going to count the
attendance at our Sunday school
by giving every man, woman and
child present one of these eggs."
The following is the program
of the exercises of St. John's Sunday
school in celebration of Easter
Sunday:
10 A. M.?Assemblage of classes.
10:15 A. M.?Enrollment.
10:30 A. M.?Song. "When I
Survey the Wondrous Cross."
Prayer. 1
Song. "Beautiful Isles of Somewhere."
10:4;") A. M.?Baptism of children.
11 A. M.?"Prophecy," Miss
H^ttie Huntley.
Song, "Love Divine, All Love
Excelling." No. 355.
Scripture reading, by Miss Laura
Gross. *
Song, "O Sacred Head, Now
Wounded." No. 151.
"The Victory Mora," by Misses
ITnttie Parks and Inez Wolfe.
Song. "Christ the Lord Is Risen
Today." No. 156.
Recitation, "Mary at the Sepulcher,"
by Miss Annie Parks.
11 A. M.?Duet.
"The Resurrection," by the.
Rev. W. R. Rauknight.
Song, "In the Cross of Christ I
Glory," No. 143.
Reception of members into the
church.
12 M.?Benediction.
The Rev. Mr. Rauknight announces
that special Easter services
also are to be held at Pleas..nt
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morning at lo o'clock and at Philadelphia
Methodist church Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Ira O. Smythe at First Manassas.
The news item printed in The
Times last week quoting a former
Confederate soldier to the effect
that there were only three Confederate
veterans living in the
I?ort Mill community who took
part in the First Battle of Manassas.
fought nearly 60 years
ago. brought forth the statement
vesterday that Ira G. Smythe. another
Confederate veteran whose
home is in Fort Mill, also was an
active participant in the first hig
engagement between the Southern
ami Northern armies. Mr. Smythe
took part in the battle as a member
of Companv A, 19th Virginia
regiment. Ewell's brigade. Shortly
after the First Battle of Ma-j
uasas his regiment was assigned
to Jackson's corps and participated
in many of the major engagements
of the war.
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IDAY, MARCH 24, 1921.
PAGEANT WILL DEPICT
SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY
Three Ages of State to Be Given
bj Winthrop College Students
on May 6, Next.
The historical pageant to be
presented at Winthrop college on
May 6, 1921, will be a review of
South Carolina history from the
time of the settlement of the Palmetto
State down to the present
time.
The historical scenes in the pageant
will depict actual history
in the sense that they are to be
taken from contemporary records,
in many cases in the exact
words oi tfte source.
The history of the State will
be covered in three apes. "The
Age Making," "The Age of Discord"
and "The Age of Progress."
Eleven episodes with three
symbolic interlude^ make up these
three ages.
The first episode is the story
from Laudonniere's journal of
the meeting of the white men and
the Indians and introduces Jean
Bibault and an Indian king with
other Indiuns dressed in native
costumes. The second episode
shows a settler a few years before
the Revolution deciding to
send his oldest son to England for
an education, and breathes loyalty
to England. The third shows
this boy returning seven years later,
arrogant and overbearing, to
find his home people ready to |
break away from England. The
fourth scene shows the story dear
to childhood of Francis Marion,
dressed in his home-made uniform,
dining on roasted potatoes.
The 'second age opens with a
happy plantation scene late in the
'50s and involves an argument on
slavery and secession. The next
scene is the signing of the Ordinonce
of Secession and is reproduced
in detail. The parts of the
signerB are to be taken by descendants
of the signers who are now
students at Winthrop. This is to
be followed by a marching scene
where the Palmetto flag is carried
into war. Later comes a battle
scene with an old time Southern
belle and two wounded soldiers.
This age is concluded with a Mrring
Red Shirt scene featuring
both United States cavalrv and I
Rod Shirt-riders with an exact re.
production of the original bloody
shirt flag.
"The Age of Progress" opens
with a college scene showing, the
reconciliation after war, the advance
in education, and the passing
of a company of soldiers en
route to France. This age ends
with the most dramatic scene of
all?a wounded soldier, discouraged
with business, crops, politics
and religion, caught up by a
vision of the new age and by the
spirit of the State.
READY FOR ROAD WORK.
Fort Mill Township Commission
Plans for Upkeep of Highways.
Meeting Saturday afternoon for
the first time, the Fort Mill township
road commission, composed
of J. .T. Railes, W. M. White and
-T E. Enns. formallv took nvi-r
the duties heretofore performed
by the township supervisor when
Mr. Bailes was elected chairman
of the commission and Mr. White
clerk. Following the organization
of the commission, E. H. Phillips
was elected superintendent of
road maintenance, at a salary of
$100 per month. He is to give
his entire time to the work.
The commission went over plans
for the maintenance of the roads.
To be able to put its plans into
effect the commission decided to
purchase within the next few
weeks a larger road scrape than
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me une now owneu uy uie iowuship.
Meanwhile B. F. Patterson,
superintendent of the Carhartt
farms, has agreed to allow the
commission to use a large scrape
belonging to Mr. Carhartt and it
will be put into service at once.
At the meeting the statement was
made that better work could be
done on the roads with a larger
tractor than the commission has,
but with only about $3,000 available
for road improvement, the
commission decided it could not
now afford to buy a larger
tractor.
The first work of any magnitude
to be done By the commission
was begun Tuesday afternoon
on the road through the Gold Hill
section to the State line.
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CREDITABLE SHOWING \
FOR TOM HALL GUARDS
Inspecting Officers Pleased With
Progress of the Fort Mill National
Guard Company.
Seventy-five of the 92 members
f f the Tom Hull Guards, Fort Mill
company of the National Guard
cf the United States, were prcs
ent Tuesday Evening for the first
annual inspection of the company,
made by Maj. Bj F. Ristine,
inspector-instructor of the North
Carolina National Guard, and
Maj. F. W. Glenn of the quartermaster
corps, National Guard of
South Carolina.
Tuesday afternoon the property
of the federal government in
the hands of the company was
checked up and found to be in
first class condition, as was the
book work of the company. At
" 8 o'clock Tuesday evening the
company was assembled in its nr'inory
and thoroughly inspected
by both Maj. Ristine and Maj.
Glenn. Both officers expressed
gratificatoin at the progress the
company has made since it was
organised last fall and complimented
Capt. Frederick Nims and
Lieut. A. C. Lytle upon the sol.1
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uirn; njjt'urancf 01 tne men ami
the good condition of their equipment.
The company was put
through the manual of arms before
leaving the armory for a
parade in Main street, which lasted
only a few minutes, however,
on account of rain.
Following the street parade, the
company returned to the armory
where a competitive drill for a
cash prize of $10 was held hv exservice
men in the company. The
prize was won by William Ardrey.
A similar drill by the new
men in the company was won by
Cook Earlfr Railes.
Ten of the 92 membersvof the
company who were not present
for inspection Tuesday night were
accounted for, their absence being
due to the fact that they are
away from home attending school.
Four other members could not be
present on account of illness. The
officers of the company are authorized
to take into the company
ten more men. making the maximum
peace strength allowed for
National Guard companies. Young
men interested in joining the
company are invited to leave their
applications with Lieut. Lytic.
PROGRAM FOR EASTER.
Fort Mill Baptist Church to Hold
Special Services Sunday.
The following is the program of
the Easter services to he held at
the Fort Mill Baptist church next
Sunday, beginning at 10 a. m.:
Song, "I Would Be Like Jesus,"
Sunday school.
Prayer, Dr. J. W. II. Dyches.
Assembly of classes.
Report of secretary and announcements.
Recitation, "Make Somebody
IIeppy," Helen Ferguson.
Song. "Life and Light He
Brings." primary department.
Recitation, "Two Fuzzy Bunnies,"
Clement Potts, t
"Three Mottoes," three girls.
Recitation, "Darkness and
Light," Owen Patterson.
Song, "He Is Risen," Junior
choir.
11 A. M.?
Song. "Christ Arose," No. 333.
Duct. "He Has Risen for Me."
Misses Martha Dyches and Vernie
Epps.
Scripture reading.
Prayer.
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Song, "Hallelujah," choir.
, Sermon, "What Is the Power
of the Resurrection?"
Song, "Christ the Lord Is Risen
Today,*' hymn No. 29.
Benediction.
Ford Car Wrecked.
A Ford coupe, bearing North
Carolina license number 94-670,
was badly smashed Sunday afternoon
when it turned over while
rounding a curve near the home
of W. H. Crook in the Gold Hill
section of Fort Mill township.
Two young men, one of whom
gave the name of .Tames A. Henderson
and said he was from
Wadesboro. N. C., were in the car
at the time, but neither was seriously
hurt. The accident was
attributed to a broken radius rod.
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BEDS THREATEN DEATH
FOR SPANISH MONARCH
Say They Will Eventually Sucnaa<4
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Alptaonso.
"Sooner or later we will pet you,
if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.
You pre under sentence of
death, and the executioners await
only the opportunity to carry out
their orders."
These are the cheerful messages
received, by King Alphonso of
Spain, by letter, by telegraph and
iu mysterious messages. Alphonso
knows it is the truth. Since the
morning of his wedding day. since
the young king and his Knglish
bride narrowly escaped death
from the flower-covered bomb
which wrecked the royal carnage
of state and killed the horses attached
to it. he?has realized that
sooner or later he would die by
an assassin's bullet or bomb or
knife.
When King Alphonso leaves his
I palace he rides in a steel-lined nu.
tomobile that is proof against bullets
and bomb fragments. lie is
accompanied by picked riflemen
drawn from a special national
force and members of tbo same
force in thousands line the roadway
along which he passes. When
be takes a railway journey ho
rides in a heavily armored ear.
Another train goes ahead to discover
bombs and clear the way.
A friend of Alphonso lately revealed
the fact that when the
Spanish monarch ventures in public
he wears a coat of fine si eel
chain mail under his shirt that is
proof against knife thrusts and
possibly against bullets, favor
since he came to the throne attempts
on bis life that have come
within an inch of succeeding have
been happening. Today, as a result
of the world war and the
great distress in Spain, the revolutionists
there are stronger th:m
over.
GRADED SCHOOL NOTES.
Students Soon to Hold Preliminaries
for Catawba Contests.
The Fort Mill school being si
member of the Catawba Oratorical
,nnd Athletic Association',
contests will he held soon to select
a representative for- the oratorical
contest and one for the
girls* elocution contest of the association,
which is composed of
York, Rock Hill, Chester, Lancaster.
Winnsboro. Kershaw, Fort
. Mill, Great. Falls high schools ami
Wiitthrop Training school. The
oratorical and elocution contests
will be held in Rock Hill Friday
night, April 15, and the track
meet will be held at the fair
grounds in Rock Hill, also. Saturday,
April Hi. The boys of this
school are practicing for the track
events every afternoon and practice
on the selections for tlu? nth
or contests will begin this week.
The third quarter of the school
year ends with examinations today
and Friday. Those pupils
who have been absent a number
of days this quarter on account
of measles or for other reasons
will be allowed to take their examinatioi*
with the other pupils
and the grades they made while
at school will be counted to make
up their averages.
Interesting exercises were conducted
Friday morning by the
school in honor of South Carolina
day. The program was arranged
by Miss Kdna Tindal. principal
of the high school, and consisted
principally of patriotic songs and
recitations by pupils of the high
school. An address by Ilruce II.
Stribling. superintendent of the
school, on the life and accomplishments
of John r. fallout),
was heard with much interest. /
Weevils Leave Winter Home.
Welch Wilbur, whose farm is
two miles north of Newberry, .
brought a number of boll weovds
to town Wednesday to show to
persons who are "not expecting
many weevils this year," says ti e
Newberry Observer. A colored
man on the place in tearing dovn
- ome eordwood discoverc-.l nests
of them on ami under the pine
hark, where they had b -en spending
the winter and waiting for
rhe cotton to make its appearance.
They swarmd out iike
bees from a hive when the wood
was disturbed. And they are genuine
weevils too; no mistake
about that.