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TO ato FARMERS.
Southern and Western. Senators
Unite for Legislation.
A Washington dispatch says |
that Southern and Western senators
interested primarily in ag- \
rieulture perfected an organisation
at a formal session Tuesday
night. They will stand together
in the interest of the farmer, ir
respective ui uif irequenv uiuu ions
of party politics.
The conference determined to
make it a matter of law rather
than discretion on the part of
governors of the federal reserve
board that the farmer should have
the right of discounting his paper
for 12 months, the entire planting
season, rather than six months, as
the lnw provides, and the maximum
rate of interest to be charged
by federal reserve banks should
b,> .set by law.
A subcommittee was appointed,
with Senator Smith of South Carolina
as chairman to prepare an
amendment to the federal reserve
a. a ?_ aL S
aci einuouytng ine roregoing.
The conference also agreed to
make a study of the railroad situation
and take immediate steps
for the alleviation of the burden
caused by exorbitant freight rates.
It was the understanding of the
conferees that in all matters the?
senate could be controlled by
the Southern and Western members.
As to the rate of interest to be
charged by the federal reserve
banks, the conferees did not
ugree.
Many Loan Applications.
With the federal land banks
again functioning, the Fort Mill
National Farm Loan association,
organised in May, 1917, has resumed
operations, and applications
for loans aggregating about
$55,000 have recently been received
and passed upon by the board
cC directors. A government appraiser
is expected to reach Fort'
Mill in a few days to appraise the
lands on which mortgages are to
be given to secure loans. The as->
sociation has about $60,000 outstanding
loans, with all interest
and amortisation payments due
paid in full.
Shipping Many Oars.
The Anderson Motor company |
announces that shipments were
made the past month of more than
100 cars and that orders are in
hand for about 200 cars to be shipped
this month, says the Rock Hill
Evening Herald. The company
HVnAnt* A I
cA|<rvia iu iiicnr cunt out during
the month. This is a rate of
manufacture which, if maintained,
will bring the business of the Anderson
company back to normal,
or about the point of production
which had been reached when the
business depression hit the country
last year.
To Bo Married This Evening.
Miss Bleeker Moore of Fort
Mill and Foy Sadler of Rock Hill <
are to be married this evening at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Kimbrell in Fort Mill. The officiating
minister ia to be the Rev.
W. R. Bauknight, of whose church
Miss Moore is a member.
Dr. J. W. H. Dyches. pastor of
the Fort Mill Baptist church, and
, the Rev. J. R. Smith, pastor of
Flint Hill church, left Wednesday
morning for Chattanooga, Tenn.,
ic auena tne bbtli annual session
of the Southern Baptist convention,
which meets in that city today,
Dr. Dyches and Mr. Smith
g?t under "orders" of their respective
churches, with all expenses
incident to the trip paid. The
Rev. G. 0. Epps is another attendant
upon the convention from
this section.
The Fort Mill Lumber company
Wednesday was awarded the contract
for the erection of a $7,500
residence for Capt. B. J. White in
Rook Hill. It ia understood that
'work is to be begun on the residence
in a few weeks.
Insurance Commissioner MoMahan
has sent out to the towns entitled
to the same a rebate of 1
per cent on the premiums paid to
fire insurance companies in South
QioMi York county towns get
HONOR BOOTH'S DEAD. .
Confederate Memorial Exercises
Held in Fort Mill.
There *cas a general observance
of Confederate Memorial day in
Fort Mill Tuesday afternoon,
when all the business houses on
Main street were closed for the
exercises held in( the graded
school auditorium, at which W.
Banks Dove, secretary of state
for South Carolina, was the principal
speaker. Mr. Dove's address
was inspiring. He told interestingly
of the causes which
led up to the conflict between the
Slates and urged the boys and
girls present to bear in raind always
the principles for which the
South took up arms.
Following the address of Mr.
Dove.sthe Rev. J. W. H. Dyches,
Th. D., pastor of the Fort Mill
Baptist church, paid a fine trib i<n
t/. J
???\i w uic iici urn ui lilt? uv/n hiul
passing ou to the World war he
also paid a like tribute to th<
heroes of 1917-18.
There were a number of songs
and recitations, the former by
the high school glee club und the
latter by Misses Anna Wolfe.
Virginia Barber, Inez Wolfe and
Martha Dyches. Following the
exercises in the uuditorium. a procission
was formed, led by the
Fort Mill troop of Boy Scouts
ai.d the Fort Mill camp of Confederate
veterans, which' moved
to New Unity cemetery, where
the graves of the Confederate
dead and those of a number of
Fort Mill bnvs who lost their lives
in the World war were decorated
An escort from the Tom Hall
Cluards was present at he ceremonies.
which were concluded
with the firing of a salute and
the sounding of taps.
The memorial exercises were
under the auspices of the Fort
Mill Memorial association and the
Florence Thoruwell chapter. UDC.
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Observes Days Jointly.
Mother's day and Decision day
were observed together in the Fort
Mill Baptist Sunday school last
Sunday. Each pupil and visitor
was met at the door by a committee
consisting of Miss Marie Mauney.
Miss LjJlie Bailes and Miss
Edith Parks and was given a
flower, white or red carnation or
rose, white if the mother was
dead, red if living. After the roll
of classes had been called. Dr.
Dyches. the pastor, made an ?p.
propriate talk on "Mother?What
She Meant to ITs. and What We
Owe to Her." and followed with
en earnest .appeal to the unsaved
to make the decision for Christ.
Seventeen responded to the invitation,
18 of the number applying
for church membership. This was
the result of careful and neavpr. I
fid preparation on the part of the
officers and teachers of the Sunday
school and the follow-up
work of the pastor.
L. R. Culp Dead.
Following an illneRs which had
extended over many months. L. R.
Culp. formerly of .Pineville, who
lu:d numerous relatives in the
Fort Mill community, died at his
home in Columbia Sunday night.
Mr. Culp was about 45 years old
and had been a resident of Columbia
for the last ten years. Several
years ago he was m irried to Miss
Fthel Fisher of Pineville. who.
with their children, survives him.
He was a son of the late John
Duncan Culp and was reared in
the Pineville section of Mecklenburg
county. The interment was
in Elmwood cemetery. Columbia.
Tuesday aftefnoon.
Music by Wireless.
Seated in her own home in Monroe,
N. C., says The Journal of (
that town, Mrs. Krvin Stack Sun|
day evening heard the rendition
of a violin solo in Pittsburgh^ Pa.
over a thousand miles away,
thmiioh tVin pnoaivo* o
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] telephone outfit installed by her
j husband, who is a skilled electri.
cian. Mr. Stack's wonderful instrument
has not been completed,
but when adjustments are made
and the delicate receiver is tuned
to other outfits over -the country
be believes, he will be able to hear
distinctly bands playing on ships
at sea, distress signals and news |
events as they are flashed over
[the country.
NEWS OF TORE COUNTY.
Current Items' of Interact Found
in ths Yorkville Enquirer.
Tax collections to date aggregate
#>93,847.28, with additionals
amounting to approximately $617,000.
The 7 per cent penalty attaches
to taxes paid between now
and next Saturday evening, after
which date delinquents will go
into execution. v~.
The textile industry is looking
up to some extent, according to
M. L. Smith, general manager and
treasurer of the Hawthorne mills,
"We are running on full day
nme, sum Air. smith tne oiner
day, " although we are doing no
night work. 1 hope we won't do
any night work, either. The mar.
ket appears to be some better.
We are having little or no trouble
fityling sale foi? our yarns and we
have no stock On hand."
Not less than 50 per cent of the
cotton of. York county has been
and is being replanted, and it is
probable that before the crop is
well on its way the replanting
will reach 75 per cent.' It is the
same story for all parts of the
county and from all kinds of
land, red, mulatto, sandy and
blackjack. Where the cotton was
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.uoiiua.v nucrnooa oil a iruCK.
Threatening skies that ?li<J not
materialize but which had the tf- j
fact of producing an atmosphere ,
pleasant anil comfortable pre-1
vailed in Rock Hill Friday aiiernoon
while bet wen 6,000 it:?d
7.<XX> people from all sections cf
North and Houth Carolina and
from othar States saw Wlnthrop
' college students, to the number of :
more than 1,000, review "The I
Making of South Carolina." The |
pageant, the most stupendous ever j
undertaken by a Southern college, j
t was wonderfully directed and even
more remarkably executed. There
j was not the slightest bobble anyI
where; there was no hesitancy or
indecision manifest by a tingle
one of the yast number of performers;
but the college girhw
conducted themaelvea like movie
eatresses of yean of experience. |
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pjanieu aurmg me iirsi vwo
week* of April it has been doing
no good. Home of it broke
through the top surface, some of
it sprouted anu curled up under
the surface without breaking
through ami some of it came up
aud died. It is the common
opinion that the cold weather
was the cause, it is recalled that
the chop was late in 1911. It was
June before cotton generally had
come to a stand, but nevertheless
there was a large crop that year.
J. N. Gates, a traveling man of
Itlaeksburg, representative of a
wholesale grocery firm of that
town, paid a fine of $10 in Magistrate
Fred Block's court Saturday
morning, - fotfovrmg hm p#<tt i
of guilty to a charge of gambling.
According to the magistrate the
case against Gates arose as the result
of an effort made to require
him to pay a cheek issued by him
in the sum of $78. It is alleged
that he sat in a game with a numj
ber of Yorkville gamesters some
j weeks ago and lost. He gave one
of the gamesters a check for $78
and this was turned down by the
bank .on which it was drawn.
Gates was notified, but refused to
piy. The man to whom the check
was given lurped it over to the
magistrate for collection. It developed
that Gates could not be
made to pay the check, but pleaded
guilty to gambling,
Sidney Frledheim, Joe Rawlinson
and H. C\ Gelgor of Rook Hill,
who were seriously iniurad Ann.
day evening when a Cadillac automobile
in which -they were riding
with W. L. Still and Dolph
Friedheim, also of Rock Hill,
cranhed into a tree a abort dietance
south of Crawder'a Creek
station, were reported doing nicely
in a OaHtonia hospital Tuesday
morning where they were taken
immediately after the accident.
Sidney Friedheim had his right
shoulder and left hip broken, Geiger
had his left leg broken and
Rawllnson suffered four broken
ribs on the left side, one of which'
punctured his lung. Rawlinson is
said o be the most seriously injured
of the trio. Still, who was
dt'ving the ear. and Dolph Friedheim.
who was beside him. escaped
with comparatively minor injuries.
The car, which was totally
wrecked, was carried to Rock Hill
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PASSES OVER APPLICATION.
Highway Commission Undecided
On Additional Tort Mill Aid.
'iAt a meeting of the State highway
commission in Columbia Tuesday,
action on the application of
thjc board of county commissioned
of'York county for an additional
$10,000 federal aid for the
public roads of Fort Mill township
was deferred. At the regular
meeting of the highway commission
early in April $10,000 was
set aside for use on the roads of
C>4.t u:ti . l _ i -?
i ?u mil luwiismp, dux wire xne
pitospective issue of $75,000 in
toVnship road bonds the county
bqard hoped to be able to secure
$*20,000 for the township instead
of the original $10,000. The application
has not been denied and
it is yet possible that the highway
commission will be able to respond
to the request of the county board.
llirs. Nancy Dunn Downs Dead.
Mrs. Nancy Dunn Downs, moth,
er of Mrs. C. W. Eason of Fort
Mil, died Monday at the home of
her son, Robert J. Downs, in Pinevifle.
About ten days before her
dc$th, Mrs. Downs sustained a fall
ir .which she received injuries that
prCved fatal. She was 73 years
old and was the widow of John
T.tpowns and the last surviving
child of the late Col. James A.
Dunn. who represented Mecklenburg
county in the State Legislating
when Union county was set
apart frdm Mecklenburg end who
continued a? Union county's representative
until his death in 1860.
Mrs. Dow*ns was actively interested
in the work of the Presbyterian
church, becoming affiliated
in childhood with old Providence
chnrh in Mecklenburg county, of
which her father was a ruling
elder.
Mrs. Downs is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. C. W. Eason of
Fort Mill. Mrs. J. L. Carothers and
Mm. M. Q._ Hair of Pine.ville.,
and two sons. Robert J. Downs
and L. L. Downs, also of Pineville.
Forty-seven on Chaingang.
With the force augmented by a
squad of recruits as the result of
tl.e recent term of court in York,
there are now 47 convicts on the
county chaingang. This is the lar.
geshnumber on the chaingang for
a number of years and is rather
too many for the equipment, according
to Supervisor Hugh G.
Brown. The chaingang is now at
work on the road from Rock Hill
to Catawba Junction.
MAY ELECT*POSTMASTERS.
Suggestion That People Choose .
Heads of Offioes.
An Interesting suggestion which,
should It he adopted by the Republican
national administration,
would affect the selection of a
postmaster for Fort Mill, as it
wailu ? 1 * * 4
" (IWIIIUBRIVI'K I II rUUJfllOIlT ine
country generally, is that the people
be allowed to elect their own
postmasters by a direct vote of
the patrons of the office. The idea,
although advanced and given publicity
during the last ten days, is
not a new one. Several years ago
the plan was first put before the
postoffice committee of the senate
and there given serious consideration,
but those in control
did not consider it wise to adopt
such a plan then and the suggestion
was almost lost sight of until
it bobbed up in Washington anew
a few days ago.
It is said that President Harding
does not want to go back to
the old spoils system that was
prevalent before President Wilson
hie i?V A/liif it/o oollin rm
?>v%? " * avvuvit^ viuui vailing
for an examination for postmasters.
He has been urged to rescind
ihc order, appoint Republicans
and then have them put under
civil service. Under the proposed
election plan, in the South practically
all postmasters would be
Democratic, while in mosv communities
In the North it wonld mean
Republican postmasters.
If the plan ahonld be adopted,
each city and .town would provide
for its faction to select its own
postmaster. Every eligible voter
ir stich city or town could take
part in the election and there
could be no question of the fitness
of the man thus selected because
he would be the choice of the people
of the office in which he would
err*. ^ s
life;, isi,
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GIVES UP PASTORATE.
E9*. G. 0. Epps Rations From
Darlington Churches.
A recent issue of the Darlington
News and Press tells of the rsignation
of the Rev. G. C. Epps, son
of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Epps of
Fort Mill township, as pastor of
the Central Baptist church of Darlington,
as follows:
"The members of the Central
Baptist church were surprised and
saddened Sunday moraine, when
their pastor, the Rev. G. O. Eppfe,
tendered his resignation. One of
the leading members of the church
who had to be out of town Sunday
was the only one who knew
of the pending resignation. Those
who know Mr. Epps know that he
is filled with the seal to preach
the gospel to all, and it wap his
first intention to work in the foreign
missionary field. Good reasons
prevented this and Mr. Epps
then accepted a position of stewardship
and evangelistic work
with the joint boards of State and
home missions for South Carolina.
"Mr. Epps has deeply endeared
hismself to his congregation, and
when he made his wishes known
to them Sunday all were much
touched and affected. He wan
firm in his desire to do evangelistic
work and his resignation was
accepted with sincere regret. Mr.
Epps conducted servies every Sunday
at the Central Rapt 1st church
and preached in the afternoon and
evenings at the Second Baptist
church, the Uovesville Baptist
church and the High Hill Baptist
church. His ministry has been
most acceptable at those charges
and his departure will he a source
of sorrow and regret to all."
Mr. Epps and his family came
to Port Mill last week and are
now at his father's home in Gold
Hill, where they will spend the
summer. Mr. Epps' first stewardship
conference began in Seneca
a few days ago with, the Rev.
W. M. Thompson. Locals
Trim Pineville.
The Pineville team of the Mecklenburg
County league came to
Fort Mill Saturday afternoon in
high hopes of taking the measure
ot the locals, but when the nine
innings of play had been finished
they were able to observe that
the seorer had credited them with
only 2 runs while foe was marking
up 8 for Port Mill* Both
.earns played good hall afield, but
inability of the visitors to hit
when hits would have meant runs
for them was responsible for their
undoing. M Whacker'* Smith, infielder
for Port Mill, distinguish...1
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<11 IlliaSPU Ml Dill uy UriVUlg Oil I
.three doubles, while Douglas*
Nims, in left for the locals, got a
hund for a difficult catch. The
batteries were: Pineville, Billiard (
and Parnell; Fort Mill. A. Fergu- ,
son and W. Ferguson.
Fort Mill's next home game will ,
he played with Chester Saturday |
afternoon. The Chester boys are
said to have h fast team which
recently played Great Falls to a
standstill and the locals are not
expecting to be able to loaf on
the job and land at the top of the 1
heap.
Fort Mill Homes Robbed. i
Two Fort Mill homes have been j
entered by burglars during the |
present week. Sunday night the
home of Mrs. S. M. Mills, on Con- i
i'ederate street, was broken into
.md a quantity of food in the dining
room stolen. Monday night
I F. Lee's home, in the outskirts
of town, also was broken into and
there, as at the home of Mrs. Mills, <
a quantity of foot! was stolen, in i
addition to dC-t in cash. It is nol t
improbable that arrests will be
nade in connection with the burglaries.
Fearful of prosecution undei ]
the 1920 act of the General As t
sembly prohibiting the exhibition
of carnivals or other similar
shows under tent in York county,
a vaudeville company that came (
to Fort Mill from Rock Hill Hun- (
day morning expecting to put oil j
a week's entertainment on a lot j
on upper Main street left Mon- j
day at noon without incurring the j
liability of prosecution for violat- fi
ing the law. Arrangements had
been made by a number of citizens
who objected to seeing the ]
law violated to prosecute the at- j
trches of the show had they t
opened for bucinesa. i
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PLACES RAIL TROUBLES.
Union Spokesman Bays Financial
Buccaneers Control Linos.
Speaking in Chici***" * ??
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day before the federal railroad labor
board against the proposed
wage reductions sought by about
100 railroads of the country, B. M.
Jewell, representing the' railroad
labor unions, said that the rail
workers could not be expected to
accept a wags schedule when they
have no way of knowing how
much they are to receive under
the schedule.
4'If the railroad managements
are not utterly blind to their own
selfish interests," said Mr. Jewell,
"they will join me in requesting
the board to withhold its decision
in the matter until we have the
new agreements. The delay will,
be no longer than the carriers
themselves make it. From the day
the roads were returned to private
ownership we were determined to
have a speedy determination of
the <iuestion of agreements, and
the carriers rejected every overture
we made.
f "The railroads have proved only
that they were in financial straits.
Thanks to the methods of the financial
buccaneers who have always
controlled them, ttyey were
hard up when the government
took them over during the war.
They were hard up when they
were returned -
... Ilivil 1*?1 lllfl
managements, and they are hard
up today, despite the fact that '*?
they have received more than a
trillion and a halt' dollars from the
treasury of an over-generous people
and that they have been {riven
rate increases sufficient to cover
everything except their own prof
ligacy. And they will be hard up
until they are made servants of
the public instead of the playthings
of Wall street." agl
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Florida in Good Shape.
A. Y. Williamson, traveling ?
salesman for an Ohio shoe con- * rag
cern, returned to his home in Fort , i
Mill a few days ago, after being V*
on the road several weeks, most jjj
of which he spent in Florida. Mr. '
Williamson says business condi- .
tions are much better in Florida ?
than in either South Carolina or '
Oeorgia, but that down there, as
here, one hears much complaint * -^*jl
over the high freight rates, which
are doing much, he thinks, to re- j
tard building operations. "At
present," said Mr. Williamson, ^
"the people <d' several Florida
counties are wrought up over the
reeent decision of the supreme
court under which they will havff^jfl jJ
to pay the salary of sheriffs dis-*!
missed about two years ago by
< ?>< I mil \ IIIIJ* lis Wt'll, IIS TtlOfW?
lie appointed to succeed to the o
fieoH. Most of those with whom I
discussed the matter thitik Catts
guilty of accepting money to rJaflB
grant pardons while he w?h gov- .4jSfH
arnor, as recently charged by a
legislative committee."
Reunion in Oamden.
Camden is preparing to receive ' -j
with open arms the Confeder- *?/ jv?,
ute veterans of South Carolina w?
foi their annual reuniou on May III
1ft and 19. At a recent meetinj^jbf
he central reunion committeesftdl
uibcommittees reported '' reaajy
Mid when it was estimated'- that
there probably would be
?rana present, the reply was, fctI*et
hem come; each will re^ciVC a "...jpp
vi rm welcome and the best that
;iiinl**ij has to offer."
Warrant Withdrawn. m; ;J
A warrant sworn out ? lays
ago before Magistrate deffc.
11 rile by Kd MeKinney chnroyhg
\llen White with assault mid batery
with intent to kill McKifraey
"as withdrawn by consent of -J*j
icitor Henry when the case Was
ailed for preliminary hearing by J
Magistrate Haile Monday J
Replanting Cotton. %*} > jfl
Many Fort Mill township;^arjn~
ms have been busy for several
lays replanting cotton: Heed put A
n the ground several weeks ago A I
bailed to germinate on ai$Ont
the cold weather andt'&i nnnv^^^^J
Molds than half a stand wafl I
leenred from the first plantinfl^^H^H
8. L. Meacharo has sptd to 1^^
Wary Adkin* a lot m White* 1
mrk on Which Mrs,
o build a home (or.
ng the next two
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