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The Fort Mill Times.
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SCHOOL HSA&nrO CLOSE.
First of Public Bxottofces to Bo
Given Friday Evening.
Friday evening at 8 <f'clock the
final program of the pnraary and
grammar grades of the Fort Mill
graded school will be held in the
school auditorium. .All the grades
from the first to the seventh, inclusive,
will contribute one or
more numbers to the program.
A creditable entertainment is
promised. Songs and recitations
will be given by the first and
second grades. The third, fourth
and fifth grades will present the
choosing and crowning of the
May queen, with songs and
dances. The sixth and seventh
giades will gives songs and 'features.
This program is the first of the
commencemeht features of the
school and the patrons as well as
the public are cordially invited
by the school authorities to be
' present.
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
* the Rev. Mr. Mason, pastor of
the Methodist church of Lancas.
ter, will preach the sermon to the
graduating class of the high
school in the school auditorium.
Special music will be furnished
by the glee club composed of
high school girls. An invitation
also is extended the patrons and
friends of the school to attend
the service.
There are six members of the
graduating class of the high
school thiR year: Misses Marian
Parks and Hallie Gregg and Ladson
Mills, Douglas Jeter. Harmon
Harkey and Arthur Young.
The graduating exercises of the
class will be held Friday evening,
May 27.
Tax Levy Fixed.
The State tax levy to be collected
next %U -and winter for i
1921 was fixed by the comptroller
general Saturday afternoon at 12
mills, 11 1-2 for general State
purposes and 1-2 mill for the ?it<
adel, the military college at Char,
j leston. The appropriation bill
passed by the General Aswcmbly
early in March provided for a
j total levy of 12 1-2 mills, but on
account of additions tt> the taxable
property of the State the
, comptroller general was able to
reduce the levy 1-2 mill, making
the levy for this year the same as
the levy for last year with the
exception of the 2 mills for the
public ronds to be expended under
the direction of the State
highway commission, which was
omitted from the levy for the
present jr.ea.\
Gold Hill Honor Roll. ;
The honor roll of the Gold Hill
school, Misses Ruth Shuler and
Ida Lee Parler. teachers, for the
month beginning April 18 and
ending May 13, is as follows:
Fisrt Grade?Sammie Osborne.
Second Grade?Minuie Abernathy.
Fourth Grade?Joe Abernnthy,
Sammie Boyd. James Boyd, Edgar
Crook, Charles Cunnup, Minnie
Nivens, Agnes Osborne.
Fifth Grade?Eugene Gibson.
Sixth Grade?Van Blankenship,
Mardrie Coltharp, Lucy Crook.
Seventh Grade ? Mae Boyd.
Louise Warren.
? Rumored Textile Strike.
"No walkout of the cotton mill
operatives of the South has been
ordered and will not be, ut least
until I have visited several other
North Carolina textile centers and |
have conferred with President
John Golden, probably the latter
part of yie week," Saturday night
said Frank T. McMahon, vice
president of the International
Textile Workers' union, to a reporter
for the Charlotte Observer.
This was Mr. McMahon's reply
to an inquiry based upon reports
ourrent Saturday that the threatened
strike would be effective
Monday.
Poag for Magistrate.
John R. Poag has bJen recommended
to Governor Cooper by
the York county delegation for appointment
as magistrate of Ebenezer
township to succeed the
late Thos. B. Glenn. There were
several other applicants for the
position and at?one time it was
K thought a primary would be held
to select the new official.
X
ON PRINTING OOMMXTTfcE.
Congressman Gtereisson Goto Important
House Assignment.
A. Eugene Hutchison of Rock
Hill, secretary to. Oongresman W.
F. Stevenson, was in Fort Mill for
a few hours yesterday. Mr.
Hutchison has been spending a
few days at his home daring the
rut fit uf^nlr unH f aaIt o/lt?ot?4o?n nf
*( wn UIIU WVA avi V uu tugv V*
the opportunity to come to Fort
Mill to shake hands with some of ,
his many friends. He expects to
return to Washington this evening.
A matter of interest to the people
of the Fifth district, to which
Mr. Hutchison referred incidentally,
is the recent assignment of
Mr. Stevenson to the house com*
mittee on printing, which carries
with it ex:ofticio membership on
the joint committee on printing,
composed of three senators and
three representatives. The joint
committee has supervision of the
government printing office, for
which it annually awards contracts
for paper, machinery, ink
and other supplies amounting to
millions of dollars. It is perhaps
the most important joint committee
of Congress.
The government printing office
is by odds the largest printing
establishment in the world. It occupies,
besides various big annexc;i
and brauch offices, a building
on North Capitol street six stories
h?gh and covering the greater
part of an entire block. In this '
building more than 5.000 people
are employed and hundreds of
thousands of tons of printed matter
are sent out from it every year.
George H. Carter of Iowa is public
printer. He was recently ap- j
pointed by President Harding.
Mr. Carter wan for many years
chief clerk of the joint committee
on 'printing. During 1911 and
1912 he and W. E. Bradford of
Kurt -Mill -were alt* secretaries of ?
the printing investigating commission
of Congress, of which the
Irte Congressman D. E. Finley
\*as a member.
Miss Byers Married.
A wedding of interest to many
Fort Mill people took place in
Bethesda township, a few miles
south of Rock Hill, yesterday afternoon
at 4 o'clock when Miss
Annie Hall Byers was*married to
Dr. E. P. Alford, dentist, of Dillon.
The wedding took place at
the Byers home and the ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr.
Greene, Presbyterian minister of
Kershaw, brother-in-law of the
hridu. As Miss Byers, Mrs. Alford
luis been a frequent visitor at the
I home of Dr. and Mrs. John M.
Hutchinson in Fort Mill in recent
years and has many friends in
this see I ion whose 'good wishes
go with her. Fort Mill people attending
the wedding were: Dr.
and Mrs. Hutchinson, Miss Ethel
Doftis and Dr. R. S. Desportes.
"Country Store" in Rook Hill.
The York county home demonstration
clubs ure getting in line
with other counties in establishing
a market. 'The "Open-Air '
Country Store" has opened in
Rock llill with every kind of produce
for sale. The county council
has charge of the market and
has uppointed two of its members
lo act as mauuger and bookkeeper.
Practically everything
was sold the day the store opened,
Saturday, May 7, and the following
Saturday the store opened
mm in Tho ?? ? < ??./.?
a ?iv ivnu nuiiiru *>nc Uii
hand eager to make purchases
long before the produce arrived
from the country. The sales ran
up to more than $45 and more
chickens and eggs were wanted
after the supply was exhausted.
Miss.Juanita Neely, county agent,
says the store has bright prospects.
Church Without Paster.
j The Presbyterian church of
i Piueville is without a pastor.
I About three years ago a call was
I extended to the Rev. George E.
j Robertson and lie came from Ea*t
i Tennessee to take up the work,
in which he continued up to a
few weeks ago, without ever having
officially accepted the call,
however. Some time ago. Mr.
Robertson received another call,
this time from a church in Bristol,
Va.-Tenn.. which he accepted and
left a few days ago with his famI
ily to make his home in that city.
NEWS OF YO&K COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest Found- j
in >the> Yorkville Enquirer.
It is announced from Washington
that there will be no public 1
building bill at the present session i
of Congress, and Yorkville, which 1
has been waiting and waiting, 1
will continue to wait for quite a '
while yet. 1
The postoffice department has i
supplied Postmaster E. ?. Poag of a
Rock Hill with an army Colt re- ]
volver for the use of the post office i
messenger in Koek Hill and to I
main in the postoffice at Rock '
Hill at other times ready for use. i
County Superintendent of Edn- <
cation John E. Carroll said Mon- <
day that the close of the present !
week will mark the close of prac- '<
tieally all of the rural schools of
York county. There are, how- i
ever, a few rural schools whose j
respective terms will not come to '
a close until the end of next week. <
Dogs got into the sheep pasture I
o* Mr. J. D. Land, on York No. 1,
a few nights ago and killed three
sheep before they were discovered.
Mr. Land is very much disturbed
over the situation because
it i u vorv u-ull 11 rw I unotnnil tllflt
w hen the dogs start on a flock of '
sheep they do not let up as long j
as there are any she?p left.
Considerable cotton was sold 'n (
Rock Hill last week. Vurious
merchants asked aubout it said (
that their records of sales showed
thnt some cotton was selling. Most j
of the cotton sold, however, was j
low grade. There seems to be 1
little tendency on the part of 1
farmers of the Rock Hill territory j
to sell their better grades in any
considerable quantity. J
Because of the unseasonable 1
weather of the past several weeks
fully 40 per cent of the farmers .
of the Rock Hill territory who
had planted cotton will have to
plam over, according to the estimate
of well informed farmers.
It is evident that at least a por- :
tion of the crop of every farmer
whs killed and consequently ail
of them are busy replanting, some
on a more extensive scale than
others, of course.
Eleven of the leading business
houses of Clover have joined
forces with a view to offering
"Hollar day" bargains to the .
Cover trade next Saturday. It
was announced yesterday that all
of the stores and business establishments
interested would make
IIIUIHIIhIIV HttKliptluu ununiul nffop.
in<x on account of "Dollar day," and
it waR expected that hundreds j
of people of the town and the
community would take advantage
of the special bargains offered
for the occasion. i
County Treasurer H. FT. Neil
and his assistants are about ready ,
to begin the work of writing tax j
executions to be turned over to ]
the sheriff for collection in all I
cases where persons have not paid
their 1920* taxes within the time |
prescribed by law. It was stated i
Monday that the time for writing
these executions may be gotten ]
under way this week. While the <
officials could not say definitely, i
they were rather of. the opinion
that there would be a much larger
number of tax executions issued
fc^ the year 1920 than there were
for the oreviouR vear. .
Otis Pew ell. 16, negro, who
figured in the courts several
weeks ago after he and h'lR grandit
o; her. Violet Shaw, were arrested
charged with fleecing Miss j
Margaret Thompson of Ebeneaer
out of $3,500 by alleged hoodo ,
ui.d hypnotic practices, is in bad (
again. Fewell is alleged to have
struck a negro boy of Hock Hill
over the head with a bat last
w'mfnocilair uupiaiioI.. ?
..v??u(< ? m;i I\?unij If 1J II1 III
tie boy. Hp escaped following
tbe alleged assault and police offi- (
c? rs throughout the county have
been advised to be on the look- out
for him. The injured boy, i* i
is said, mav die.
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New Ohnrch Planned.
Fort Mill friends of the Rev.
Robert G. Lee, who recently accepted
the pastorate of the First
Baptist church of Chester, will be
interested in the announcement
that his congregation plans the
erection .at an early date of a
magnificent church building. A
Chester dispatch says that since
Mr. Jiee moved to that city about
a month ago his congregation has
grown wonderfully.
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TRAINS ANNULSD.
Southern Announce* Discontinuance
of No* 28 and 35.
dm \ important announcement
to the people of this section is
mage by the Southern railway in
the; statement, issued yesterday,
that, effective next Sunday, May
33; passenger train No. 28, northbound,
which leaves Columbia at
1(15 p. m. and reaches Port Mill'
it *2:43 d. m.. and Dasseneer train
No.? 35, leaving Charlotte at 5:35
i. ty. and reaching Fort Mill at
5:lf a. mM will be discontinued.
rh? plan of the railway company
? to have the work heretofore
done by No. 28 taken over by
No.' 32 and that of 35 done by
31. ; Both the trains to be discontinued
have carried mail for
Fol^t Mill. The presumption is
that 31 and 32 will care for the
mail of this place in the future.
Neither of these trains has handled
mail for Fort Mill in recent
years.
GITS FAMOUS FOXHOUND.
"Old Beauty" Shipped From Fort
Mill to "Buck Bryant.
Although he haR been a resident
of Washington city for many
years, "Buck" Bryant. well
krown newspaper correspondent,
still entertains the love he acquired
as a youth on his father's
fnrta in the Providence section
of Mecklenburg county near Port
Mill for the fox chase and foxhounds.
For several years Mr.
Bryant had sought unsuccessfully
to get possession of "Old Beauty."
famous .luly-Birdsong foxhound,
owned by T. R. Garrison
of Fort Mill. Last Thursday Mr.
Garrison decided to ship the dog
to Mr. Bryant. A dqy or two afterward
he received the following
letter from Mr. Bryant telling of
the arrival of "Old Beauty In
Washington ;
" 'Old Beauty' came ahead of
vour letter. She is well named.
I wish she were two years old.
To show you how much T think
of her I went to hed at 11 last
night, heard her howl at 3 this
morning, got up, and took her 10
miles in the country. On the way
[ turned her loose after a rabbit
to hear her tongue. She tongues
rery much like 'Queen.' She will
h ive a good home. . . I am
nfraid to let her try a red with
the trained pack here, but will
see that she gets some exercise
after reds at the home of Mr.
Pharles A. Olnonrett r?f Rnekville
Md.. who has her and 'Queen* and
two others of mine.'*
Old Locomotives.
Few perhaps of the many people
of this section who ride between
Fort Mill and Rock Hill
on the midday trains from the
Kiugville branch of the Southern
know that; frequently the little
locomotives pulling the trains on
which they are passeng?rs have
been in service since the old 3C's
road was built in the '80s, 30-odd
years ago. Such, however, is the
case. There are two or three of
theee litttle locomotives which
ill make more or less regularly
the round trip between Columbia
and Charlotte. They were first
used on the 3C'h between Rock
Hill and Marion, N. C., according
to the statement of A. B. Withers
of Jacksonville, Fla., Fort Mill
man who at the time was a machinist
in the shops of the road
at Blacksburg. The locomotives,
having been kept in good repair
and never having met with serious
accident, are still in good condition
and capable of pulling
light trains on schedule time.
May Move to Jacksonville.
J. Lee Capps returned to Fort j
Mill Sunday, after spending ten
days with his brothers. C. I. Capps
and Harvey Capps, both former
: :~t. t?1- !
i;m?vuit in iiiin nruiiuii, 111 Maun*
sonville Fla. While in the Flor- ,
idn metropolis Mr. Capps was of- |
fered a position with The Timea- |
Union to become assistant to his
brother, Harvey Capps, chief linotype
machinist on that paper,
which has a battery of 17 machines.
As yet Mr. Capps is un-'
decided, whether he will accept
the offer of The Times-Union or I
become associated in business
with his brother, C. I. Capps, in a
brass foundry which the Utter
operates in Jacksonville, should
he make up his mind to move to
that city.
MAKES MTSMMfltB HOP.
Blanton of Toxas Keeps Fellow.
Congressman on the Jump.
There is a short, stocky, blackhaired
man in the house of representatives
at Washington who is
keeping his 4$4 colleagues in that
body on the ?anxious seat. His
name is Thondias W. Blanton. He
represents a Texas district and
has two hobbies, trying to ke?d
down appropriations and lambasting
Sam Gompers and federal
employee*.
When he ran for Congrats
Blanton said he would make the
house of representatives pet to
work earlier if poRftiblo. The
house still meets at noon, but he
is makinp the other members
"hop bells" with a venpennce.
Frequently they no sooner pet
Routed in the house office huildinp
near the capitol than he raises
the point of no quorum.
Electric bells ring in the corridors
of the office building, the
congressmen prab their hats and
hot-foot it for the hall of the
house in hopcH of getting there
before ^the tally clerk reaches
their name on the roll call. Then,
when they dwindle back, he ealU
foi a quorum and they are summnriffil
unuiti Thn down ?? <
?MV V|?J Ct ui
t1 era en's agreements are over, for
Blanton is on the job every day
to see that the representatives reaUy
represent.
Observed Sabbath^ Religiously.
Amonp the visiff?rs to Fort
Mill Tuesday was A. P. Spratt of
Osceola. Lancaster county. Although
in his 85th year. Mr.
Spratt is as well preserved and
active as most men 20 years his
junior. He is a Confederate veteran
who served in the 49th
infantry. Speakiug of the late
Col. James A. Dunn, distinguished
citizen of Mecklenburg and Union
counties, whose memory was reddled
by'TfitT'dfcath in; Pineville
last week of his duughter, Mrs.
Nanev Dunn Downs, mother of
Mrs. C. W. Kason of Fort Mill,
Mr. Spratt said Col. Dunn -was
one of the most pious men he ever
knew. "In the fall when Col.
Dunn hauled his cotton and
flour to the Camden market he
made it a rule to time his homeward
trip so that he would get
back on Saturday afternoon if
possible. If anything happened
to delay him on the way and he
got within even a mile or two of
his home when diirWnesa nuftPtnnb
him on Saturday evening he would
pitch camp and remain there until
Monday morning. Ho did not
like to travel at night and under
no circumstances would ho travel
011 Sunday. Few men ever observed
the Sabbath more religiously
than Col. Dunn."
Plenty of Hoboes.
The depression which struck
the country some months ago has
had the effect of increasing the
number of hoboes to be seen
beating rides on freight trains
which pass through Fort Mill. On
one northbound freight train
which passed here n few days ago
four white men and two negroes
were seen riding the rods or
Stnn?llll(T hnlu-non Ka* hum
many, if any. 'boeR wore inside
empty box oars on the same truin,
no one eonld aee. "When times
were flush a few months abound
joba were easy to pot. apparently
there was a shortape of the usual
number of hoboes, but renditions
have chanpod aince hard times
came about last Rummer. Now
rod-riderR and other train-beats
are so plentiful as to pive the
train crews considerable annoyance.
Death of Little Boy.
Joseph Caldwell Patterson. 16months-old
son of Mr. and Mrs.
S. J. Patterson of the upper section
of Lancaster eountv. di?*d
Monday evening, after a week's
illness. The little hodv was interred
in Harrison churchyard,
following funeral services conducted
hv the Rev. Mr. Houck of
Pineville.
Wednesday afternoon a petition
was being circulated on Main
! street for signatures requesting
the town council of Fort Mill to
order a special election in which
it is proposed to issue .$14,000 of
town bonds, to pay off indebtedness
of the town and to improve
| streets.
OLD YORKTOWN.
Isolated Virginia Village Where
Gornwallis Quit.
The historic battlefield of York-,
tojvn, Va., where the British geueral,
Cornwallis. surrendered, and
where for all practical purposes
the American Revolution was
brought to a victorious conclusion,
may soon be made into h shrine
to share popularity with Bunker
Hill, Valley Korge and Mount
Vernon.
The little village and its surroundings
form the subject of the
following bulletin issued from the
Washington headquarters of the
National Geographic* society:
"Though Yorktown was not a
thriving community nor a place
noted for its accessibility during
Revolutionary days, it was relatively
much more important and
much less remote from the daily
life of the country than it has
been at any time since. Most
other American towns were small
:.t J ?
... uiunr UttJN |HjriS WCTC ICW, itlhl
railroads were unthought of. As
cities have sprung up where there
were only hamlets or patehes of
.wilderness before, ami railroads
have brought even the two oeeaus
relatively closer together. Yorktown.
at a point where little
commerce has been developed and
without rail connections, has become
in effect more and more remote,
and its character as a
sleepy village has become more
emphasised.
"The Yorktown of today is a
community of less than 250 inhabitants
with u few fine old colonial
homes and a number of less
pretentious dwellings. The nearest
railroad lies eight miles to the
south. In the town is a monument
erected in 1881 on the 100th anniversary
of the surrender of the
British. As a reminder of the ?
early importance of Yorktown
there still exists the first custom
house in the United States. Near
the village are remains of tin?
forts and redoubts whose capture
by the Revolutionary soldiers
and their hVeneh allies marked
the real birth of the United
States. The scene of Cornwallis*
surrender?which was bv proxy
through his Gencrul O'Haru?is
believed to be iu the open country
just south of the village.
"Yorktown is on a narrow peninsula
lying between the wide est
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rivers, atwl is where the latter
meets Chesapeake bay. PornwalIis.
after scourging Virginia, burning
homes, killing anil driving off
stock and capturing large numbers
of slaves, retired down the
peninsula to Yorktown. Lulayette.
with a handful of American
soldiers, followed at a distance.
I* was when this situation was
pointed out to Washington that
lie was pursuaded to abandon his
plan to attack New York and instead
to take his own forces from
West Point and Ilochamheau's division
from Providence, R. I., to
stake all on a battle in the South.
The arrival of De Grasse with a
French fleet in the Chesapeake,
blocking the entrance to that bay
and preventing reinforcements
reaching Cornwallis, made the defeat
of the latter inevitable.
"It is not strange that Cornwallis
considered Yorktown a
good location for military headquarters
in spite of the ease with
which the peninsula might be
blocked. It possesses a truly remarkable
deep water harbor, and
Cornwallis counted on the maintenance
of communication by
water with the hritish forces in
New York.
"Yorktown'a harbor was put
to good use during the World t
war and -so for the second time
played an important part iti the
country's martial history. It the
mouth of the York river opposite
the famous village the greater
part of the Atlantic fleet at times
rode at anchor. There, behind the
defenses at the entrance to the
Chesapeake, and further protecten
by nets and patrols across the
mouth of the York, dreadnoughts
and lesser vessels were safe from
molestation bv enemy submarines.
Thousands of men were intensively
trained for naval duty at this
anchorage while the whereabouts
of the fleet was kept a profound
secret. The Yorktown anchorage
was alluded to in oflieiul communications
throughout the war only
as 'Base No. 2.' "