Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, May 26, 1921, Image 1
VOT* Kg3lT THUBSDAY.
Fort Mill to Pan Upon
The biggest thing in the way of
a bond iarae yet undertaken by
the Fort Bfill eqmmuAity will be
deierauned pt he polls on Thursday,
June 2, when the qualified
resident electors pi the township
go to tfctffroUs to pass upon a proposed
bond issue of $75,000 for 1
road improvements in the township.
The election will be conducted
in Rtrict nnnfr?rmitv tn i
the Uw. Every elector offering
to vote will be required to produce
and display to the election
managers his registration certificate
and tax receipt showing that
all taxes assessed against him and
collectiMe durinn 1920 have been
paid. Herbert eHtlrris, Joe M.
Belk and W. M.- Wilson have been
named by the board of county
commissioners as election tuaua-'
gers. The polls will open at 7
o'clock a. m. and close at 4 o'clock
p- ?*
The proposed bond issue was
given impetus at a meeting of the i
nitifnnB nf !?*? ~ *1...
v> MIC vvn iqoil.*|J lit mc
Fort Mill town hall several weeks |
ago. At first the talk was of rebuilding
only the road between
the town and the Catawba river
bridge, a- distance of two miles,
but this talk was abandoned when
it was poirfted out thut with a
bond issue of about twice that
amount practically all the main
roads of the township could be
improved with top soil or sandclay.
Following th recent citizens'
meeting the York county board of
commissioners agreed- to appropriate
$10,000 for road improvements
in Fort Mill townahip and
the county legislative delegation
agreed to set- aside $20,000 for the
same purpose, which with federal
aid of $10,000 recommended by
the State highway commission
, mattes a total or 911&.UU0 available
for road wark in the township
if the bond issue is voted.
Under the act of 1920 providing
for township bond issues in York
county, the n^oney arising from
the sale of such bonds is expended
under the direction- of three
township road commissioners appointed
by the governor on the
recommendation of the legislative
delegation." The commission is
authorized to select the roads to
be repaired and to determine the
material to be used in the work.
Since the election in Fort Mill
township was ordered by the
board of county commissioners
several weeks ago, little discussion
of the matter has been heard
on the streets of Fort Mill*or in
other public places. Proponents
of the bond issue say that while
they do not expect the proposition
to be indorsed unanimously
at the polls, they do not look for
more than half a dozen negative
votes at most. Should the bond
issue be approved and ready sale
found for the bonds, it is expected
that work on the section of
road the commission decides to
repair first will be begun late in
4k. ?
in*? |N?Hrm Hummer or in the
early fall.
Cashier Oakley Out.
The resignation of C. 8. Oakley,
for the last two years cashier of
the Savings bank of Pineville,
was accepted a few days age by
the board of directors. Following
the acceptance of Mr, Oakley's
resignation, a bank examiner visited
the bank and made a thorough
examination of the books.
The bank is entirely solvent, but
since it was decided to change
cashiers the directors, well known
Pineville business men, have succeeded
in getting control ofr a
majority of the stock, in the
hands of Mr. Oakley since he became
connected with the institu-'
tioa. Pending the election of a
cashier, C. V. Walton, from the
American Trust company, Char- ;
lotee, is temporary filling the po ition
of*cashier.
lfeay 8t0)t QwtnTysd.
Prohibition enforcement officers I
operating from the Ash^ville, N.
C., headquarters since January
1, 1920, captured and destroyed
-more than lyOOOstills, apftrehende?l
a little leas than 500 blockadera
and destroyed enough whistaQT
and heer to float a battleship,
according to a summary of the
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FRAMING ROAD POLICY.
Congress Takes Up Problem of
Federal Aid for Wigbwigi.
Congress has begun forming a
new policy for federal aid in road
; building. The senate committee
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vu prawiuurh hiiu pofti roaas tias
begun hearings on the bill introduced
by its chairman. Senator
Townsepd of Michigan. The bill
would create a national highway
commission and provide for a system
of trunk roads throughout
the country. The house committee
plans to take up at an early
date the road bill introduced by
Representative Dowell of Iowa.
A prolonged fight between the
senate and house over road legislation
is expected. Senator Townsend
believes his bill will be reported
and passed by the senate.
C hampions of good road legislation
in the house are lining up behind
the Dowell bill, which would
furnish more lotfal roads. Indications
are that each house will
pass its own bill and the differences
will have to be threshed nui
in conference.
The Townsend bill would permit
the use of federal fuuds only
on interstate roads. It proposes
in a general way north and (south
I and east and ^vest highways across
each State in the union.
The Dowell bill provides a double
system of State roads, interstate
and intereounty. the two to
total at the beginning not more
| than 7 per cent of the road mile!
age of the State. In short, the
1 Townsend bill provides for the
{building of federal trunk line
highways by the government
I with State aid. and the Dowell
I bill for the construction of interstate
and intereounty roads by
the States, with federal aid and
federal supervision to insure connected
interstate systems and
guard against waste oij federal
funds.
RAPS COL.v HARVEY.
Stevenson Recalls Utterances of
Ambassador at Charleston.
I In the house of representatives
I Saturday Reoresentutiv* su<?v??i.
sou attacked Ambassador Harvey
for the latter's statement at the
Pilgrims' dinner in London that
the United States "entered the
war to save its hide?uot to save
civilization."
Mr. Stevenon said that in an uddress
in Charleston in 1906 Harvey
"boasted that some of his allocators
during the Confederate
war were so yellow they hired
substitutes and that one went to
jail rather than fight to preserve
the union," adding that he supposed
the ambassador soon would
be telling the British that his ancestors
had refused to fight for
American independence.
The following language was attributed
to Col. Harvey at the
Charleston banquet:
"At the outbreak of the Civil
war, of my immediate ancestors
lit ing were two grandfathsr, my
own father ipul nine uncles. They
wore Northern men" Not one of
thein hail ever crossed the Mason
and Dixon line. They regarded
any forin of slavery with abhorrence,
but not one of those 12
men ever lifted his hand against
his white brother iu the South.
From their meager store and from
necessity, 11 oi thein furnished
the federal government with the
si;ins of money fixed for the procurement
of substitutes. One un-i
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cie, pernaps the best able of the
1*2 to do so, absolutely refused
and chewed the cud of bitter reflection
for nearly two years jn
the county jail* Whether dt that
time, under those circumstances,
I should have done as they did. I
do not know, but the facts are
family history and constitute the
bus in ol my assertion that I have
uti absolute and unqualified right
to apeak to you men of the South
the word? of u fraternal heart."
Millionarie Day Laborer.
Howard Parmenter of Wayl.uid,
Mass., is a millionaire who
geta up at 5 o'clock in the morn
ing, works on a farm all day and
goes to bed with the jchiekena.
He wears overalls and a slouch
hat. milks the cows, hoes the potatoes
and works harder than any
rue else on his farm, for he is not
a "gentleman farmer." He inherited
the fortune of the late Jon*
athan Parmenter, original "overall
millionaire."
LEGION POST REVIVED.
Nudn Changed to "Eli Bailee"
at Bnthueiastic Mooting.
x With about a score of former
service men in' attendance, the
Fort Mill post of the American
legion was reorganized at an enthusiastic
meeting last Wednesday
evening by the election
Col. W. 11. Nims commander Jas.
T. Young vice commander, and
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uutv l?. v.uip uujuiauv. a tunnci
to demand the early attention of
the meeting was the motion of
Capt. F. M. Alack that the otnne
ot the post be changed from " Fort
Mill" to "Eli banes," in honor
of one of the Fort Mill boys who
lost his life in the World war.
JL'he motion of Capr. Mack wus
unanimously adopted. The post
then appointed a committee to ascertain
the cost of securing and
furnishing quarters suitable for
club rooms uud the committee is
to report at an early meeting.
Others matters which claimed thu
attention of the meeting was the
proposition to erect a monument
011 the plot in New Unity cemete
wuer a muiiuer ui soiuiers
who lost their lives overseas are
buried and the competitive drive
now under way to round up every
former service man in the community
tor membership in the local
post.
Last night it was stated that
the next meeting of the post
would be held next Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock" over Lytie's
drug store and that all ex-service
men are urged to be present. At
ihe meeting last week two teams
were appointed to secure new
members of the post. Capt. Qeo.
11. Potts is in charge of one team
and Herbert Harris the other.
Last night ('apt. Potts' team had
secured 25 new members against
21 for Herbert Harris'.
RED TAPE ERA. <
Government Honeyoombed by
Useless Bookkeeping.
This is no longer a government
of the people; it is a government
of red Jape, says a Washington
newspaper.
If the United States government
buys a mule, a corps of veterinary
doctors examine the mule until
the poor creature is reduced to a
sti.te of mental dissolution, whereupon
said mule is passed on to
the next station of red tapeists.
Who IliHHKlirn ltu saw l"?o
-? reja,
luil, etc., recording their findings
in several ledgers.
By the time the mule escapes,
it is no iougcl a tamed or domestitated
animal, hid is ready for
the wildest sections of this democracy.
The illustration applies to everything
connected with the government
: it is an endless chain of
useless bookkeeping, to conduct
which thousands of men and worn*
u are employedWashington
city reminds you
& gigantic wheel of red tape.
Wh^t is spent for print paper
alone would feed every starving
child in Christendom; tons of
worthless documents are shipped
from Washington; millions of
pounds of stuff leave the public
printer, and* hundreds and thou.saijds
of employees are paid to
Dundle this junk and deliver it to
the mails; and this waste grows
with the years.
R. F. D. Convention.
The annual meeting of the R.
1\ I), men of York county will
b?- hehl in Fort Mill Monday
morning, May 30. in the town
hall. It is expected that a nura
!> *?* or short talks in the interest
of the service ami the carriers
will be made by members of the
i organization, following which officers
for the ensuing year will be
elected. A considerable number
of carriers from various sections
of the count3' are expected to attend
the meeting and the local
carriers are looking forward with
pleasure to entertaining the visitors,
especially since this is the
first meeting the county ?association
has held in Fort Mill. At
the close of the business session in
the town hall a fish fry will be
given 011 the banks of the Cats
wba.
W. B. Meacham. Sr.. is spending
several days in Greenwood
this week attending the meeting
of the grand lodge, Knights of
Pythias.
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SCHOOL TERM BHDS.
Fort Mill Graded School Closes
Session Friday Evening.
The eloeing exercises of the
Fort Mill gracled school, session
1920-21, will be held in the school
auditorium tomorrow evening, beginning
at 8 o'clock. The program
will consist of the graduating exercises
of the 11th grade, an address
bv Prof. W. HJ W#p<l nf tho
Greer schools, former superintendent
of the Fort Mill graded
school, and the awarding of the
diplomas, certificates and school
honors. The salutatory will be
given by Miss Hallie Origg, the
cluss history by Arthur Young
Douglass Jeter will read an essay,
Ladson Mills the class will and
Herman Harkey the class prophecy.
Miss Marian Parks will be
the class valedictorian. The address
by Mr. Ward will follow the
class exercises.
J. E. .Carroll, superintendent of
edueatiou for York county, is expected
to deliver the Stale diplomas
to the graduates, to whom J.
B. Mills, chairman of the board of
trustees, will, present the certificates.
Bruce II. Stribling, superintendent,
will then award honor
certificates to the pupils that have
distinguished themselves by having-perfect
attendance records or
unusually high scholarship records
during the session. The ?5
gold piece offered by the local
chapter of the D. A. K. to the
high school student making the
best scholarship record during
thv session also will be awarded.
Friday night the first of the
commencement exercieea of the
school were held at the auditorium
which was filled with patrons and
friends of the school, despite the
inclement weather. All the grades
from the,first through the seventh
took part in- the exercises
and all did well. Chposiug and
crowning the May queen l?v pupils
of the third, fourth and fifth
grudes proved one of the most
popular numbers 011 the program.
The singing of the primary grades
also was greatly enjoyed es were
the features given by the sixth
and seventh grades.
Sunday morning the lV?v. E. R.
Mason, pastor of the First Methodist
church of Lancaster, preached
the sermon to the graduating
class iu the school auditorium.
The choir for the services was
composed of the high school glee
club.
Want Road Fund Divided.
A delegation of citixens from
the Gold Hill, Flint Hill and Sutton's
school districts of Fort Mill
township Monday afternoon appeared
before J. J. Railes. chairman
of the Fort Mill township
road commission, ami requested
that instead of the township road
fund being used as a whole to
work the rouds under the jurisdiction
of the commission that it
!>< split up and that the amount
of money paid in by each of the
school districts for swhich the
committee spoke be returned to
those districts for the upkeep of
the roads therein. Mr. Bailes told
the committee that he would subrait
the matter to the road commission
at its next meeting. Following
the hearing he said that if j
the request should "be complied |
With, the chances were that there
would be leas money for use on
the roads in those districts than
the commission contemplated using
on them.'
Crane Lemmond Marriage.
A marriage of interest to. many ]
friends of the young couple took !
place in Fort Mill last Thursday ]
afternoon when Miss Kula Mae
Crane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. i
A L. Crane, became the bride of
Grady L. Lemmonds. The offl- 1
ciating minister was the Kev. W. ;
R. Bauknight, pastor of St. John's
Methodist church. The wedding
was at the home of the bride's parents
and only a few close friends i
and relatives were present. Mr.
and Mrs. Lemmonds left the same
afternoon for Charlotte, where
they will make their home. Mrs.
Lemmonds has a wide circle of
friends in the community who re- i
gret that her marriage will take
her away from Fort Mill. Mr. '
Lemmonds formerly lived in Fort
Mill, but has made his home in
Columbia and Charlotte since the i
close of the World war, in which
he served as a sergeant of the
Fort Mill supply company of the
90th division. ]
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STATS LAWS PARAMOUNT.
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Conflicting Ordinances of Town
Councils of No Force.
South Carolina municipalities
are not clothed with authority to
set aside or through their city or
town councils modify or pass ordinances
in conflict with acts of
the General Assembly, which are
paramount to laws of municipal
bodies just as the laws passed by
Congress take precedence over
State statutes. For the information
of those who may be otherwise
informed or who may be entirely
without information on the
subject. The Times, prints the following
opinion recently written
on the subieet liv ? KmitU !%? ?
Una authority:
"Any municipality chartered
under the general laws of the
State is purely and simply a
creature of statute just as any
other'corporation is. ami it gets
it a powers solely from the acts
under which it is incorporated
and it is clothed with only such
authority as the statute law gives
it. Certainly no town ordinance
is paramount to a statute pertaining
to any of the functions or authority
of that town, and where
there is a conflict between the
town ordinance and a statute, the
statute is paramount. This is not
only so provided in section 299a.
volume 1 of the Code of 1912, hut
is a well recognized principle of
luw in connection with municipal
ordinances.
. . . "The constitutionality of
any ordinance or statute can only
he determined in the end l?y a
court of competent jurisdiction.
Of course any lawyer is entitled
to his opinion of the constitutionality
or unconstitutionality of an
act of the General Assembly or of
an ordinance of a municipal;! \.
but this has no judicial weight
and certainly is not conclusive of
the question."
BONDS FOR RIVER BRIDGE.
Court Expected to Pass on Mecklenburg
Issue at Once.
The Mecklenburg-York bridge
over the Catawba river seems
i nearer realization than ever hefore,
according to the Charlotte
Observer of Tuesday.
; York uml Mecklenburg counties
[ two or three years ago agreed to
build a bridge across the Ca tHWln.
nt TJ-.-i" :
>m ... wunici UO^ll Sill', 1)0!
twecn the two counties. York
county was to pay one-third the
cost of the bridge and Mecklenburg
county two-thirds. York's
money for the bridge has been
available' for the last two yea's,
but there was doubt of the validity
of the Mecklenburg county
bonds which the commissioner*
of that county decided to sell
j for the purpose and action nv as
| taken in the superior court by a
taxpayer to restrain the eounty
from issuing the bonds. The superior
court hehl that the bonds
were valid and the ease was then
appealed to the supreme court.
! which is expected to soon render
( a decision in the case.
The proposed bridge has bemi
discussed for several years. It
is to eost $120,000. It will open
up considerable territory in bethel
township, York county, end
will he on almost a straight line
between Charlotte and York. It
the Mecklenburg bond issue is
upheld by Jhe supreme court work
on the bridge is expected to lie
begun within the next 'two or
'hree months.
With the highway improved !
from Fort Mill to the point on I
the State line nearest the bridge j
nirder the proposed $75,00) bond
issue of the township. Fort Mill ;
business interests are anticipating j
list the building of the bridge j
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v. hi resuiT in the bringing ot n??r j
only a considerable volume of
trade here from Bethel township,
birt that the improved highway
to the North Carolina line in the j
neighborhood of the bridge a'so
wjll bring to Fort Mill many far-!
nfers and others from Mecklen-1
burg county to purchase supplies j
and transact other business. - J
The Rev. and Mrs. J. W. II.
Dyches, Miss Martha Dyches.
Hampton Dyches and Miss Marian
Parks motored to lleuth
Springs Sunday afternoon to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Nellie K.
Small, widow of the Rev. R. E.
Small, a former pastor of the
Iieatb Springs Baptist church.
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BAPTISTS IN CHATTANOOGA.
Incidents of Great Convention of
Southern Church.
(Written for The Times.)
The Southern Baptist convention,
which met in Chattanooga
on May 12th and lasted through
May 17th, has a constituency of
2C.000 churches with a combined
membership of about 3,000,000
members in 17 States and the District
of Columbia. The convention
is thoroughly democratic, being
composed of men and womfcn,
ministers and laymen, without
distinction. There were more than
5,200 delegates enrolled at the
Chattanooga meeting which was
held in the Billy Sunday tabernacle,
with a seating capacity of
7.0^0 or more. The Woman's
(Missionary union meeting this
year was separate and. with the
visitors, brought the total attendance
to 9,000 or 10,000. The con- >
vention this year wus called the
"Loyalty" convention. At Washington
lust year the "Victory"
convention enrolled more than
8.000 representatives from the
churches and associations. In
Atlanta two years ago the enroll
ment was 4.200, or more than
2.000 in excess of the number cn-#
rolled at any preceding convention.
1 have always heard \ that
"pleasant company makes the
way short." And 1 am assured
that this is true. The fellowship
of a convention party is always a
goodly fellowship. It was no less
so on this trip than on others of
its kind which I have hail the
pleasure of attending in the past.
One of the greatest pleasures of
these gatherings is the meeting
of friends of other years and places
brought together from the
ends of the earth. This is literally
true here because in addition
to those one knows in the different
sections of the Southern convention
territory he has the privilege
of meeting and greeting missionaries
from almost every country
on earth.
The Rev. J. R. Smith and the
Rev. and Mrs. U. C. Kpps were
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...i: umy run Mill people who attended
the convention besides
myself. At the convention I saw
four former pastors of the Fort
Mill .Baptist church and on the
train near (Jaffnev a former pastor
of the Presbyterian church.
At Spartanburg we met a large
number of delegates from Columbia
and the lower section of the
State. The Rev. S. P. Hair of
Fountain Inn carried a delegation
numbering-20. two of this
number being Presbyterians.
We ran into a hail storm at
Landruin and as we climbed Saluda
mountain we beheld the unusual
but pretty sight of the
ground well covered with ice of
snowy whiteness, giving it a wintry
appearance, though the trees
were clothed with living gn.cn. ?
The convention sent a message
of love and sympathy to Dr. .1. B.
Cambrel I of Texas, who has been
its president for the past four
years. It also received from him
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ilit* inspiring message, "Do right
and go forward." Dr. E. Y. Mul1
ins. for the past 21 years president
of the Southern Maptist seminary.
Louisville. Ky., was elected
president of the convention. A.
W. ('liaiubliss, mayor of Chattanooga.
is a son of the Rev. Dr. .J.
A. Chamldiss. the first full graduate,
I8t>2, of the seminary. The
mayor's mother is still.living and
one of the happy incidents of the
convention was her presentation
to it during the hour when the
seminary was under discussion.
All the work of the boards of
the convention, with its colleges,
seminaries, hospitals, etc., was
Well discussed and found to be in
excellent condition. During the
foreign mission hour about 50 of
the board's more than 400 missionaries
were introduced and a
number of them made brief addresses.
The board is planning to
-*nrd*out another hundred workers
during the present .year. Dr.
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ij. iwtiruoroup, ciirpcior oi tne
conservation commission. reported
that. notwithstanding the statem.
lit made by a religious paper
in the North that Southern Baptists
hail "fallen down" on their
7" 01)0.1)00 campaign and that
they would "never he so foolish .
again," more than $25,000,000had
been paid in on the subscriptions
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