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Established 1891.
INVESTING THOUSANDS.
Extensive Improvements Being
Made at Local Cotton Mill.
Extensive building operations j
and other improvements now an- |
der way at mill No. 1 of the Fort
Mill Manufacturing company will,
when completed, represent an |
outlay of many thousands of dol- i
lars and muke the plant one of I
the most modern and largest in !
the entire Piedmont section of the
Carolines. " The work is being
done under the personal direction
ol the general manager, lleorge >
Fish, and includes tin* erection of
a new dye house, 114 by HO feet,
which is completed and will he
put into use as soon as the new
machinery arrives a few weeks
hence; a new machine shop,
which is being built with the view
of its future conversion into a
weave room; a new supply room,
drawing-in room ami slasher
room, besides a two-story waste
room and cotton opening room.
114 by 40 feet.
A feature of the improvements
being made at the mill is the modern
way in which the cotton will
he handled from the time thebaic
reaches the oneninir rmn>? until
the cloth manufactured from it
is "ready for loading on the cars.
The cotton will be carried along
in its successive stages of manufacture
without the least loss id'
time or unnecessary handling ?
from the opening room to the
picker room, thence 1o the carding
room and drawing rooms, to
the slubbers and on to the speeders,
from the speeders to tin' spinning*
frames, to the spoolers and
warpers, to the slasher and tiein
machine, and finally to the
loom to be woven into cloth.
The plans for the modernizing
of the mill indue the erection of
a room to occupy the space formerly
occupied by the engine
roout and the driveway between
the spinning room and the weave
room. Underneath this new
building a subway will be provided
for the passage of motor
cars and other vehicles from the
front to the rear of the mill.
Yesterday Mr. Fish stated to
The Times that provision was being
made for the installation of
4ihj inure looms sit some lot ore
time should it he deemed advisahle
and that a new boiler room
and smoke stack, to he huilt of
white radial brick, will be erected
after the completion of the work
now in hand, perhaps during the
month of November. Should the
additional 400 looms to which
.Mr. Fish referred he iustsilled.
the weave room of mill No. 1
will them be the largest in York
county, it is said, with the 80G
looms now in use.
BURIED* AT HOME.
Body of Corporal McManus Interred
in Fort
The hotly of Corp. Harvey F.
McManus, who lost his life in
the. World war. arrived in Fort
Mill from France Friday afternoon
and was interred in the soldier'
plot in New Unity cemetery
Si.inlay aftcrnon, following funeral
services from the stand in
Confederate park. The funeral
was conducted under the auspices
of the local post, of the American
l>egioii. A fine tribute was paid
to his memory by ('apt. F. M.
Mack, who described his manli
m*Ns and devotion to duty. The
funeral was attended by several
hundred people, most of whom !
accompanied the body to the
cemetery.
Corporal McManus was a son
of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. McManus
of Fort Mill, lie lost his life in ;
France as a result of wounds lie I
received in action early in Octo- !
tber, 1918. He was a member ofthe
Fort Mill company. 118th ,
regiment, Hilt It division. He was j
promoted to corporal after reaching
France. His lualy is the sixth i
of the Fort Mill boys who lost ;
I their lives in the World war to j
be interred in the plot in the city J
cemetery set aside for that pur- i
pose.
"The Relation Between Faith
and Works" will be the subiect
of the sermon Dr. Dyehes announces
he will deliver at the
Fort Mill Baptist church next
Sunday morning.
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OLD CRIME RECALLED. |
Mysterious Murder in Fort Mill
During Civil War.
"1 was just wondering," said
a day or two ago one of the older
citizens of Fort Mill, "how many
people now living in this commu- j
nity know that a murder ahout
which there seemed to be a mystery
that has never been cleared
up. and perhaps never will be.
was committed during the Civil |
war eiose U) lilt' spoi on W11 It'll |
tin* Catawba Indian iiionuiuent 1
stands in ('on federate park. Not '
many, perhaps, but it is a fact j
nevertheless. Two men. one of
whom bore the name Bre/.eale. I
I lie other Hati{;h. ilril'ted into the
eommiiiiity some time after the
war started. I do not reeall how
it happened tli.it they were not I
in the Confederate army. Neither j
had any relatives here, so far as;
was known and neither appal*- j
ently bad very mneh business in I
the eommiiiiity. It was stated at
ilo* 1 iuu\ t hat hot 11 were reluetant i
to talk of their past life and no
one here knew wlienee they eame,
If they it.id known eaeli other
In lore they heiran to live here.
that too was a matter wliieh nei
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Ill iiimiismii, mil I lit' I'lHl ??I j
their relationship l?*?l up 1 ?> tlx'
l>? lit'!* t)i;t 1 at some 1 init* in life
they liail crossed I'licli other's
pat li.
*One* Saturday afternoon the
; wo men met in the pnhlie li it eh j
in;* lot. now the site of ("onfedeiate
park. Angry wonls were
lipard to pass hetween them hy
bystanders ami without any
threateiiing tiemonstratitui being
made against him. ltre/.eale. win
was the ohler man of the two.
whipped a pistol from 11is pocket
ami shot llangli through the
le-arl. killing him instantly, lire
/.eale immediately ran away ami
that was the last ever hear*I of
hiin in Fort Mill. In those days
ii was much easier to commit
a crime and escape arrest than it
is now; The hotly of Itaugh was
buried beside the railroad track
neai where he was killed."
Elect Bryan to Lower House..
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i .iiiiiu r m i .>i 111 i lines :
t>4>nif }??ip?*i* recently quoted you
us favoring tIn* election of W..I.
Ilryan io tin* I'liilcd States senate
trom Florida. Hot!or to floor
hint io tlio o'tlior house of Congress.
us hero is some talk ahout
abolishing 1 ho I nitoil Stales sena
i o.
t 'oiigrcssnion should lie elected
at large throughout the 1'uited
States, because the right rule is
! hat t lie J' vol el's til the distrie.
v|.r? sentoil hy an official should I
tieeitle who shall he their representative."
A member of i'ongross
is a representative of the
people of the I uitod States.
Therefore to allow only the voters
?d one State or a part of one j
State to vote when a 1'nited |
Slates congressman is being elected
is as unreasonable as it would j
lie to allow the voters of a few j
11recs ol a liiir oitv to elect a I
city mayor.
The 11111111 ??> r <?t' congressmen
IicmiIi! lie reduced to lot). With
so many congressmen as there is
now it requires too much of their
t iiue getting acquainted with each
other. that time calls their at.(iition
away from active work.
Summary: Abolish the I'uited ;
States senate, have only lOtt eonpressmen.
elect congressmen at |
large throughout the I'nited (
States. Thus. II. (Sordnier.
Watts. ('al.
George Heath Dead.
< raw ford Heath of Fort Mill I
w as called to Monroe. N. t'.. Sunday
by the death of his eldest ;
nrother, George (Heath, w ho
siieenmhed early Sunday morning
to an attack of pneumonia. Mr.
Heath had been ill for only a
few days. Some days before his
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ii nisi I ?*li with which he was li??hti11?
a cigaretee and from tin*
hums pneumonia developed. Mr.
Ilejilh was a soil of tile late <). I'.
Heath ?d' Charlotte and was a
well known Monroe business man.
Ih'sides his widow and three
children, he is survived * by a
number id' brothers and one sis- ,
tor lie was about 40 years old.
The interment was in Monroe
Sunday afternoon.
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NEWS or YORK COVNTY.
Current Items of Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.
Broad River township officers
got a 40 gallon capacity galvanized
still which they found on
the place of Mrs. Reola Leech,
about two miles south of Hickory
drove, early Monday morning.
About 200 gallons of beer was
poured out and the still was de
st roved.
Charged with poisoning a number
of chickens, the property of
Louis Roth, well known Yorkville
citizen. O. C. Taylor, superintendent
of the Yorkville Cotton
1 >iI company, was acquitted when
tried before a jury of four men
in Magistrate Fred C. Black's
court Monday evening.
There was a noticeable increase
in cotton selling on the local market
last week as compared with
the week before, according to a
statement made Monday by liobt.
K. McClure. public weigher for
the town. Mr. McClure weighed
about l"?l) bales of cotton last
week as compared with only
about f>0 for the previous week.
(leorge t^uinn. 2d. guard on the
York county ehaingang. working
near Lesslie. accidentally shot
and fatally wounded himself with
a shot mill last Kridav afternoon
tin- charge from the gun striking
liiin in tin- leg. rutting tin- large
artery and causing him to hleed !
to ih-nth in mi hour or less. lit*
was n veteran of tht- Worhl war
ami was u nativt- of Cherokee
county.
'l'lu- supreme court of South
t'iit'oliua has granted a new trial
iiisi in the ease of .Jessie lluey
Massev vs. the director general
or railroads. This ease was tried
l.ist Deeeinht-r and the jury ren
h ret I a verdict of $20,000 for the
plaintiff, specifying that $8,000
was for damages ami $12,001) for
pi nitive damages. The supreme
ct urt's tlccision means that unless
the plaintiff remits the $12,-000
of punitive damages that a
in w trial must he hud. Attormys
for the plaintiff state t<liat
tliev will not remit the punitive
th.mages, so there will he a new
truil.
Operatives of the Highland
Park mill in Rock ilill didn't accept
the invitation of the mill
management extended to them to
go hack to work last Monday.
There is no telling when the
si nut' situation in Koek Hill will
It. sot t It'll ami while there is lit ih
tlniihi hut that hoth the uiatia;fluent
ami the workers would
like to get the trouble settled and
the wheels to turning again, it is
e\ ident just now that hoth sides
are determined to jazz along for
a while jit least. The textile sitin.
iion in Koek Ilill is not healthy
h\ a great ileal. Carhut'tt mill
No. 2. at Carharlt station, has not
turned a wheel in months and
months. There is no indieation
tl ai work will he resumed at any
time soon. The Highland Hark
operatives have heen out* for several
weeks now. The latter mill
employs about 2(H) operatives and
Koek Hill merehants and other
eoiumereial houses are feeling
piitty keenly the tieup.
"I am delighted to know that
('..mp Jackson will be ahan>'?
'ed." said former IJovemor
,-f!e L. Hlease. while in Yorkville
l.i? i Thursday en route to the h'ill?:i
picnic. "That camp, espe- i
ially since the armistice, has
re: tailily been a stumbling block
tor Columbia and there is no way
in the world to estimate its cost
to the capital because of increas
ril immorality ami all that sort
of tiling. It has hern the cause
ot the downfall of many an innocent
trill and it has caused the
city of Columbia to train a most
unenviable reputation for immorality
a reputation that she will
be unable to live down for a lonjr
time to come. Now during the
war when hoys of our own State
w. re trainintr there it was a diffeient
matter altogether. But
since then some of the scuiniest
scum in all the earth has congregated
there and there have been
numerous robberies, various other
kinds of disorder, assaults on
white women, and in fact vice
and viciousness have been rainpant."
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JACKSON TO BE ABANDOKED
Army Camp at Columbia Buftt at
Cost of 14 Million Dollars.
An investment of mor.j thin 14
million dollars will be deserted
by the government with the abandonment
of I 'a tup Jackson at ?*olumbia.
(hi#? th? ?.?n:
tary camps ever constructed up- !
pears to be about to g ? ill the
scrap heap.
The camp area contains 21946
acres of laud, all owned by the
government. This land cost the
government more than a million
dollars. On the catup reservation
are 15,096 buildings, the construction
of which cost the government
more than lit millions.
The cuiup is in itself a complete
city, with complete light, water
and sewerage systems. It has
post offices, telegraph office, newspaper
and other city advantages,
its laundry will wash clothes for
50,000 men. Its remount depot
will take care of 10.000 horses. It
mms 9 1-2 miles of asphalt paving
and 2 miles of concrete paving,
it is connected with Columbia by
a good street ear service. It has
Height accommodations, a complete
theater, a dozen service
dubs, hotels, places of amusement
and houses lor religious worship
.itit 1 a large hospital.
Camp Jackson wus built overnight.
like a mushroom, it has
served the nation since 1917 and
there some ot the tmest fighting
i.nits that served in the \\ orld
>< iii writ* iruuieu. .\i oil*? lime
there were said to ho 80.000 men
iti training at Camp .laoKson for
overseas service.
It will not take many weeks to
got the men away from Camp
Jackson, if the order of Secretary
Weeks goes tli rough. The
government has no monVy for
railroad fare and the men will
have to hike-' away, all except
about a regiment, which it is
thought will be left to take care
of the camp.
The order for the discontinuj.iiee
of Camp Jackson will mean,
as it now appears, that the men
who leave for other camps will
probably make the record march
of the American asmy's modern
history. Those who are sent to
St. Louis or to Texas will have to
march more than a thousand
miles.
If Camp Jackson is cold as
junk, it will mean a heavy lost to
the government, as it will Wring
only a small fraction of the money
the government spent in its
development. It is expected that
if the abandonment order is carried
out the camp will he salvaged
in a few years.
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Wouldn't Help "The Times."
There are many unaccommodating
people in the world and
a lew of them?one certainly?
live in Fort Mill. A day or two
ago a good friend of The Times'
who keeps close tab on the paper
by reading his neighbor's copy
remarked that sometimes he
tl.ought the paper up to the
standard lie had set for a representative
small town weekly,
but more often lie failed to find
in it anything of interest. Then
it was suggested that he was in
position to furnish for the current
issue an item of news of the
character he lutd before been
heard to remark made interesting
reading. "What is it?" asked
The Times' good friend. "(Jo
out behind the negro shoe shine
'parlor' on main street and destroy
yourself." was the reply.
I?ut he refused to do it.
First Telephone Directory.
An interesting souvenir of the
days when tlit* telephone business
was in its infancy in this section
was discovered a few days
ago by S. L. Meacham, owner
ot the Kort Mill Telephone exchange.
It is a copy of the first
printed directory of the local exchange
and appeared as an ad- I
vcrtiseinent in The Times in the
fall of 1898. The directory bears
the names of 2'J subscribers, some
ol whom still retain their original
numbers, and is pasted on a
piefte of cardboard about three
inches long.
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Enrico Caruso, famous tenor,
ill less than a week, died Tuesday
in Naples, Italy.
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POLITICS AT LOW EBB.
Picnic at Filbert Draws Crowd
Below Normal.
That York county people are
less interested in polities this
year than in a decade or more
seeius a justifiable inference from
the Filbert picnic lust Thursday,
says a York special. Though
given wide publicity and having
for the speakers ot the occasion
veil known public men who have
formerly proved great drawing
cards, the attendance was disappointing.
numbering little more
than half the crowd that assembled
there in 1917. the year of
the last previous picnic.
And not only was the crowd
below the normal in si/.e, but its
spirit was distinctly different,
'lhere was little evidence of partisan
feeling or of keen political
interest. Caustic criticisms of
men and measures failed to evoke
the vociferous demonstrations of
other days. The crowd was apathetic
in uts attitude toward parti/unship.
It was a sober, reflective
gathering. decideU less
emotional than the usual assemblage
there.
The changed attitude of the
crowd, some observers thought,
presaged the dawning of a new
day in South Carolina politics,
one in which the people will think
ii ore. talk less and diseotint perfervid
anneals from the liotniitupw
Whatever it may mean, ami there
is room for a difference of opini?
II. there is no doubt that subjects
such as crops, roads and the
price of cotton overshadowed
polities at Filbert Thursday.
REACHES YORK FIELDS.
Boll Weevil Establishes Self in
Various Sections of County.
That the boll weevil is steadily
pushing its invasion of York
county, having extended its activities
to new localities in the
last few days, was the information
given out a day or two ago
by .John K. Ulair county demount
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mi ,ii mm tiffin. iii?' pest lias
made its uppearance in spots in
southern and eastern York and
is rapidly widening the area of
its operations. There is absolutely
no doubt of the identity of
the invader as the entomologists
of flemson college have prououneed
it the weevil.
While no appreciable damage
will result to the cotton crop of
the county this year unless there
is a wet August, the outlook is
anything but promising for next
year. By that time the weevil is
expected to completely cover the
county and become a factor to
be reckoned with in the production
of the 1922 cotton crop.
Patterson Family Reunion.
The annual reunion of the faini'y
of Mr. and Mrs. 1. A. Patterson
was held at their home five
miles cast of Fort Mill Thursday,
duly 28. when Mr. Patterson celebrated
his 85th birthday. The
five sons and three daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson and their
ti) grandchildren were present,
besides a large number id' other
relatives and friends, there being
in all about 150 in attendance.
The day proved a delightful and
happy one for all. A bountiful
dinner was served in the grove
near the home and in the afternoon
a number of watermelons
v ere enjoyed. .Many old acquaint-1
anccs were renewed am! a nuui- .
her of new one made and the
pleasures of the day will he long
remembered hv all who were
present at the reunion.
Storm Wednesday Evening.
The Fort Mill community was
visited late Wednesday afternoon 1
hv the heaviest fall of rain for
the same length of time of the
s? ason. The rain came down in
torrents more or less cejrularly
for upwards of two hours am!
was accompanied hv vivid flashes
of lightning, which put tin* local
lighting system out of commission
for a few minutes. There was
also a light fall of hail during
the height of the storm. The
streets of the town ami cotton
and corn fields in the township
were considerably washed in
pieces by the rainfall.
Virginia Democrats have nominated
R. Lee Tinkle for governor.
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SPEAKS FOR BONUS.
Stevenson in Favor of Additional
Pay for Ex-Service Men.
"There are other reasons why
1 am in favor of a bonus for soldiers
that I did not mention m
my speech at Filbert." said (in
gressmun \V. F. Stevenson a d iv
or two ago. "That's this-, 'i h
I uuuiuiliiiiallUII IS gel I tug rt'.ul,
to pay contractors over the country
the sum of about It billion dnl lars
because of contracts which
thev had for war munitions and
armament when the armistice
came atul which therefore they
did not fill.
"That program is going to be
pushed through by the Kepuldicans
in udditiou to the millions
that they have already given tinrailroads
and the other millions
of indebtedness they are going to
cancel for them and still other
millions that they are going to
give them.
"Now here they are going to
pay these millions ami billions to
tin- railroads and contractors and
yet they say that the countr\ iI
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rif'in now too poor to pay tin* fel
lows who *1 ill the fighting and
mil it y of whom were maimed and
d'sahlcd. It is not fair and it is
only simple justice that the
World war men get something. I
repeat, as 1 said at Kilhert. that
while it may eost us all somethin-r
to pay the honus 1 am going to
do all in my power to keep up
tin fight and I am quite eonl'i?11
lit that I can maintain my position
on the matter anywhere.
"There is no chance for the soldier
honus to he passed by *h;s
Congress." Mr. Stevenson eon
eluded, "because the president
has already had it pigeonholed.
Hut another day is coming."
BOLL WEEVIL ACTIVE.
Does Qreat Damage to Cotton
Crop During July.
The holl weevil played havoc
I with the South s cotton crop during
duly, heavy rainfall aided in
the destruction by promoting a
rank growth id' weeds and grass
and as u result a prospective pro
duct ion of S,2(K{.0()0 l>;i I ?->> was
forecast Monday by the national
department of agriculttire basin;:;
its estimates on conditions existing
.July 2i>. 'I'llat is "a loss of
'J.'lO.(hH) bales compared with the
production forecast a month ago.
The crop declined -Ipoints
during the month, iiuieh more
than the average decline, bring
ing the condition to til.7 per cent
of normal, the lowest .Iitlv li- eon
tlition on record. with one exeep
1 lull tlui! nf tSSli vv li..ii it \v i
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Tin* coiiditioii of tlo* crop in
most of t h?* Imlt is unpromising
and there is a scl'ious threat, the
depart incut experts say. of continued
ami increasing damage
t loin the h(?ll Weevil, while grass
and weeds are exhaust ing much
of tin- crop that remains.
To Bid on Abbeville Job.
The Fort Mill Lumber company
is preparing a bid which it will
submit within the next week lor
the construction of a high school
building in Abbeville. The tens
tees of the Abbeville schools ha\e
about $100,000. it is said, which
will be expended within the next
three or tour months for the civc
tiou of the high school building
and improvements to the central
graded school building. Ma.j. .1.
I). Fulp. formerly of Fort Mill, is
superintendent ol the Abbeville
schools.
Evangelistic services at- Pleas
ant Valley Baptist church will
hcirm on lit.* MiM'oiiil viiii<I;iv- in
August instead of the fourth
Sunday as announced some time
ago. The Uev. A. Finch. a former
|>astor of tin* church. now of
I > 1111 ?i i roiinty. will assist the pas
lor. tin* I it* v. Dr. .1. W. II.
Dyches. in tlio mooting.
Fort Mill oiti/.ons who havo \ isitod
within tin* past work t ho
camp of the local troop ot I toy
Scouts at 4 *hiinn?*y Kock. N. t
say that the hoys havo an ideal
place for their outing and are enjoying
every minute of their stay
in the mountains. Camp will he
broken Friday and the troop w ill
return home at once.