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BIO LIQUOR SEIZURE.
gr* Large Quantity Foor.d on Place
of Willard 0 Bailee
The home of Willard O. Bailes,
f Fort Mill township farmer, who
a few years ago gained notoriety
extending over both the Carolines
as "the marrying squire"(he
was a notary public), entertained
for a short time Monday after
uoon a party whose aspect was
quite different to that of the
Uretna Green parties of former
days when officers from Mecklenburg
county and Fort Mill visited
his place and captured a large
quantity of bottled-in-bond whiskey
hidden in a corn crib, just
across the line in North Carolina.
According to the South Carolina
officers the seizure amounted to
140 quarts, but the Charlotte papers
of Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday morning had heard of
only 5t> quarts being captured by
the raiding party.
For the rather unique reason
that Bailes'home is in South Carolina
and the barn and other outbuildings
on the place are in
North Carolina, the raid was participated
in by officers from both
States. After searching the residence
and barn, the officers discovered
the .whiskey carefully
hidden under a pile of oats in the
corn crib. The crib being on the
Nortlr Carolina side of the line.
till* wtliul'liv lllxPlifnl'ii ' II 1i> till'
officers from that State.
Hailes was not at home when
the officers visited his place and I
up to this morning no word had
been received in Fort Mill of his
arrest. He is said to have been
in Fort Mill Monday. Magistrate
Haile of Fort Mill is of the opinion
that since the whiskey was
captured in North Carolina and
Bailes livej^ in South Carolina and
is said to have been in this State
when the raid was made, complications
alight be avoided by leaving
his apprehension to the federal
authorities. No warrant for
Bailes' arrest has Inton issued in
South Carolina, so far as The
^ I Times is able to learn.
The officers participating in the
raid were: Rural Officers Brown
and Johnston of Mecklenburg
county and V. 1). Potts, policeman.
and .J. F. Lee. special eonstable,
of Fort Mill.
Sheriff Fred Quinn of York
county state to The Times Tuesday
afternoon that his office had
huil its eye on Bailes* place for
Home tiiiit* and that he was not
surprised to hear of the seizure
of liquor there.
Henry N. Patterson Dead.
The Pleasant Valley soot ion of
Lancaster county lost a pood citizen
last Friday afternoon when
Henry N. Patterson died at his
home in that community. Mr.
Patterson had been in declining
health for several months and it
had been known for some time
that he could not survive the illness
which had been gradually
wearing away his strength, lie
was fill years old and hail spent
al! his life in the Pleasant Valley
community. He was a successful
farmer and in his younger years
was in the mercantile business,
out of which, in connection with
hif farming interests, lie had accumulated
a comfortable competence.
He was a member of Harrison
Methodist church, of which
he was also an officer. The funeral
was held Saturday afternoon
and interment was in Harrison
churchyard. Mr. Patterson is
survived by his widow and the
following children: W.Fred Pat
terson. H. N. Patterson. Mrs. Bnlah
Pettus and Miss Ruth Patterson
of Pleasant Valley. Mrs. Kffie
By rum of High Point. N. C?
and Mrs. Grace Hensley of Columbia.
Interest in Religious Meeting.
Much interest is being shown in
Rock Hill in the Gypsy Smith
meeting to he held in that city
early in October. Cottage prayerj,
meetings are being held twice a
s. week and many are attending. A
JP large tent has been secured for
the meeting and this will be located
on a lot near the center of
the city. The meeting will last
lor threqr weeks and the members
of all churches in the city are behind
the movement for a great
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HEFLIN / .xJlNO PEOPLE^
Alabama Senator Would Oive
States War Material.
Senatbr J. ThomaK lleflin of
Alabama is 0110 of the finest figures
in the public life of America
ami lie has won a high place in
tin* history of the American senate,
where he labors faithfully
ami well for the common people,
says Senator Tom Watson's Columbia
(Ga.) Sentinel.
The senate passed the good
roads legislation, an appropriation
of 75 million dollars to be
distributed among the States.
The bill contains a clause authorizing
the secretary of war to
! turn over to the road authorities
^ of the several States-all surplus
war material not needed for the
purposes of the war department.
I'nder the clause a vast supply of
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intuitiiivi \ 01 aiiuosi every descript
ion will lie delivered to the
road authorities of the States aiul
in this way the government will
render the people a great serviee.
The luanufaeturers of road uiaehiiiery
have already reeeived
pay for this surplus material and
the govi rninent is putting it to
no use whatever. Thousands and
millions of dollars worth of fine
machinery will go to waste if tt
is not turned over to the Statgs
and used by the States in making
hctter highways for the traveling
puldie.
Tlie inanufaeturers ?lo not favor
delivering this property to
the Slates, because the inanufaeturers
would be glad to sell new
u aehinerv to the States and rob
. Item as they have robbed the
1'niled States when selling this
surplus material.
An effort was made to eliminate
section S id' the Towuseiid
bill and but for the good work
of Senator lleflin the profiteering
inanufaeturers would have
won.
In his speech Senator lleflin
might have told of the policy
adopted by the war department
in reference to millions of dollars
worth of auto trucks. autumn
iMics. tractors, ambulances, motoreyeles
and spare parts for
each, destroyed m France by the
American army beeause the inanulaetur.
rs objected to any reshipment
of this property.
If this property bad been returned
to this country it would
have been in competition with
the stocks "of manufacturers,
therefore the necessity for ils dcst
met ion.
It is alleged that the war department
had a secret agreement
or understanding witn tlie manufacturers
that this property
would not be returned to this
country after the armistice. In
view of the fact that the war department
paid millions of dollars
to eorporations for jroods never
i delivered to the army, it is not
surprising to leant that a secret
trade was made with reference to
war material in France.
REV. W. W. DANIEL DEAD.
Former Fort Mill Pastor Passes
Awav at Kin<rnt.r??
Tin* Kev. \Y. \Y. 1 >?i11i<*I. I). D..
pastor in 1 SSf> of tli?? fort Mill
circuit and since then for several
years president of Columbia college.
died suddenly at Ids home
in i\iiijrstree at midnight Monday.
Dr Daniel had been -in declining
I e.iltli for several months, hut
A'j.s aide Monday morning attend
the opening exercises of the
K ingxtree pnhlie seliool. Dr.
Daniel was a leading; minister of
the Methodist church ill South
Carolina. At the time of his
death he was pastT?r of the Kings
I !*??? Method tsi church and was
b'J vonrs old.
Dr. Daniel was admitted to tin*
Methodist conference to preach
in 188:1. Since that time he had
he.-n pastor of a larpe number of
the important churches of the
denomination in this State and
was president of Columbia collepe
from 1899 to 191t>, rcsipninp
the presidency duriup the later
year because of declining health.
A number of members of the
White and Nims families of Fort
^lill township Saturday joined
other members of the families livinp
in North Carolina for a pict
nic at Lakewood, near Charlotte.
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~ FORT MILL, 8. C., THUE8I
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest From
the Yorkville Enquirer.
"September," observed a Yorkville
man, "is the month of
snakes and typhoid fever. It is a
mean old month any way you
take it. But speaking of snakes,
I've run across two black snakes
in tile road in the past three
weeks."
The outlook is that more farmers
of the Clover community are
going to sow wheat this fall than
lias been the case for a number
of yours. Seed wheat is very
much in demand ami the few
farmers of this section who have
seed wheat for sale are having no
rouble disposing of it.
" Well," saiil a prominent physician
the other afternoon, "1
haven't collected anything scarce.
Iv in the past two years and 1 am
making it a rule to carry my books
with me on my rounds now. Lots
of people are selling cotton, you
know. It is bringing a good price
ami there's no reason why they !
should not pay me at least a part
of what they owe me. 1 collected !
$140 in old accounts last Satur- j
day and I have several thousand ,
dollars out that 1 am going to1
get if cotton stays around lit)
cents."
"What in the world made the
Vork county commissioners ever |
agree to build a bridge over the j
i atawha at the 'Blister' Boyd |
site is more than 1 am able to understand."
said K. N. Miller, well
known Bethel township man who J
v\ as mining aoout tlii' poposeil
n,w bridge tli?- other ilay. "The '
bridge is so locutcd that it will
lie ot" little value to York county
people." Mr. Miller went on to
say. "anil it is going to cost a lot
of money to huilil a road reaching
to it. I visited the bridge
site for the first time a few days
ago and I tell you 1 believe that
people are going to be disappointed."
Mr. Miler said that
work on the bridge had not yet
im en started.
More than 300 bales of new
clop cotton were sold on the Clover
market during the past week.
All sorts of business telt vit and
local tradesmen had the busiest
week they have had in a long,
long while. The general policy
seems' to lie to sell new cotton
and hold on to the old cotton
Lots of dcb.s were paid in Clover
the past week and a good 1
deal of money that Mmiaiued over
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urn mi- Mjur 01 couon at11?i seen
was spent for clothing ami shoes
ami other articles. Cotton in the
Clover section is opening fast ami '
people living on the farms are !
losing no time in gathering it as1
fast as possible. Clover titer- 1
chants, arc getting in their fall
stocks ami everybody is looking
forward to a season of good lmsmess.
.1. S. liricc. Ksq., is now in the
I sixth week of his very serious ill|
iless at his home in Yorkville. lie
continues to make progress, at
least to tin- extent that every day
in which tlier is no market* I
. backset the outlook is more hope- ,
i fill. Unt it is not fair to say that (
Mr. Hrice's condition is no longer i
serious. There are still periods
I of annoying temperature ami
days on which his lungs arc not
I so e.ear as on other days. Hut
, In tools that In* is (;oiiio to get
| will: lu* knows that his friends
an- prayiujr for him and lie be(
lit'ves that their prayers are having
uitleh to do with the resist 1
aiH'e lie has been able to offer to
the disease. All alon<; lie has
been patient and eheerful mid lie
: eontinues in just that frame of
: luind and spirit, lie does not tulk
iiiueli. however, even to Mrs.
I'rii e. because as yet he cannot
speak more than a very few
words except at the expense of
painful exertion. It is not praetiuible
to predict the course of
his illness, but it is hardly probable
that he will be able to be
up and about for several weeks
Mr. and Mrs. \V. B. Ardrey
have returned to h ort Mill following
a visit they recently paid
in Decatur. (!a.. to the family of
the late Alexander Mack. M. I).,
who was a brother of Mrs. ArI
drey.
Mill
>AY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921.
DOG AT AUCTION.
Unusual Sale to Take Place in
Fort Mill Saturday.
A novel aucti' Me is advertised
on the bul'.v board at the
loeal post office to take pluce in
Fort Mill Saturday afternoon at
1 o'clock in front of the store of
h. A. Harris & Co.. when a hound
belonging; to a citizen of the upper
section of the town is knocked
do\*n to the highest bidder to
satisfy "damages and mainteI13I1II***
il 1*1 ?? * " .! 1 flu 1^?'
I ?? iuvuii * in(; i u int." |
sale is to be conducted under the j
[direction of Magistrate J. R.
Haile. whose constable. J. H. Patterson.
will be the auctioneer.
Robert Burrage was the owner
of two Belgian hares which he
kept in a warren at his home in
the village of milll No. 1 of the
Fort Mill Manufacturing company.
One night about three weeks
ago a dog broke into the warren
and killed the rabbits. Ooticlud- j
in?? that the dog would return the ;
following night in search of oth- |
er rabbits to kill. Burrage set a
steel trap to try to catch the canine.
Sure enough the dog <li<l
come back to the warren the following
night as Burrage had eoneluded
it would, and sure enough,
also, ihe steel trap did the job
planned for it. as the yelping of
the dog disclosed.
Burrage located the owner of i
the dog and demanded $1 dania- |
ges for the death of the rabbits.
The owner of the dog refused to
pay the dollar, saving he did not
think the rabbits worth so mucn.
Burrage held out for the dollar,
however, and in addition said |
he would not only hold the dog
and nroceed legally to try to eol
leet the amount, but would put in
another bill for maintenance of j
Hir dog until it could he sold by j
tl?c local magistrate. Neither the
claim for damages nor the threat
of a bill for maintenance moved I
the owner of the dog. He was oh- |
durate. Hence the prospect of
the first auction sale of a dog
ever witnessed in Fort Mill.
Erwin-Smith Wedding.
A marriage of interest to many
friepds and relatives of the young
couple in York and Mecklenburg
( ( unties took place at the home
of Mrs. Dovic Krwin in Fort Mill
last Wednesday evening when
her daughter. Miss Juanita. became
the bride of Mason Smith,
a prosperous young farmer whose
home is in Mecklenburg county ;
a few miles from Fort Mill. The
ceremony was performed by the
Rev* ,1. W. 11. Dyches, pastor of
the Fort Mill Baptist church and
was witnesesd by only a few relatives
and close friends of the j
families. The wedding march :
was played by Miss Klina Brad(",....I
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mini. i tie nihit' in a popular <
young woman and the good wish- |
<?s of her many friends follow |
her to her new homo, llor fathor |
was the lale Robert M. Erwin, a
loading citizen of this section a
score of years ago.
Meets Next at Flint HillFlint
Hill Baptist church, in
the upper section of Fort Mill
township, will entertain next Sep- '
temhcr the annual meeting of the
York Baptist association, whose
f?:M session was held at the First
Baptist church in Rock Hill last
Wednesday and Thursday. At
the ltoek llill meeting .1. F. Boyd
of F'ort Mill township wase reelected
moderator with \V. A.
McAfee of York vice moderator,
-I. I). Smith of York clerk and K.
B. -loh list on of Rock Hill treas:
urer. The meet in); in Rock Hill
was well attended and the reports
showed the Baptists are
steadily progressing in their work
in the county.
Mrs. Mamie Boyd is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. -I. .1. Stewart,
in Mount Holly. N. ('.
.In liti's: .lot of "f Sluiitiw, ? Y ?, w? *,
w V tv? w? MUlliltV, ^ HIUII
county, was a recent guest of his
sister. Mrs. O. L. Culp.
Dr. A. Ij. Ott returned to Fort
Mill a few days ago from a visit
to friends in <'olumhia and IvidgeHMjf.
Harry M. Rradford returned
this week to Charleston, where he
will resume his studies at the
Medical College of South Carolina.
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MODERN TEXAS CITY.
San Antonio Still Retains Spanish
Twang, However.
San Antonio. Texas, scene of
the latest destructive flood in the
United States, is the subject of
the following bulletin issued by
the National Geographic society:
"San Antonio is an intimate
mixture of old Spain and Mexico
and the hustling, bustling America
of today," says the bulletin.
"It began its life in 171H as a
tiny Spanish military settlement,
'El Presidio de San Antonio de
H??vnr " Itui *i... i..: ? ?
..... ..... niv ivimiifi\ name
officially lost most of its trimmings
when the town bdUHtn" an
American tommiuiity, ami to
many who have known it best?including
O. llenry?it has taken
on the unofficial cognomen. *Sanontone.'
"A hundred years ago San Antonio
was almost entirely Spanish
and Mexican. Fifty years ago
it could be considered only half
American. Then the railroads
came to quicken its life, the rich
'caw country' round about was
developed and a few far-sighted
business men woke up to the fact
that it was situated without competitors
in the very center of a
territory that would need unmeasured
supplies. Since that
time Sail Antonio has grown its
forest of skyscrapers and foctory
chimneys like scores of its fellow
American cities. Approaching
the 200.(HK) murk, and with a
greater population than that during
the winter tourist season, it
leads all other cities in Texas. .
though it is closely approached
by Dallas and Houston. An observer
set down suddenly in Commerce
or Texas street inigh easily
imagine himself in Syracuse.
Atlanta. Memphis. Dayton or any
one of a dozen other cities of
similar size.
"As it has grown San Antonio
.his him iiioni oi us exotic iiavor.
but touches of old Spain and
Mexico arc still to be found if
one searches for them. A few of
the narrow, winding streets of
the old days are left with sidewalks
op which two pedestrians
can hardly pass. Iron barred
windows are to he seen behind
which coy semiritas have stood
as Spanish or Mexican youths
'played the bear.' Urated doors
and gates in yard-thick walls of
the mission days hint as mystery.
Those who like the peppery dishes
of Latin America may find
them of a quality not equaled
outside the City of Mexico and a
few of the larger cities of the
southern republic.
"And in the center of the
town, strolling down ordinary
business streets, one comes suddenly
upon the historic Alamo,
the 'Thermopylae of America.'
There in Texas' war for independence
from Mexico. 170 American
frontiersmen held off for 10
days a Mexican army of ti.OOO
until the last defender was killed.
1* is a battered old huildinir
raised hy the hands of Francis-1
rail monks 20d years ago as an
outpost of the Christian religion'
among the Indians. because of
the part it played in their war]
for illdepeiidenec it is a saered
shrine to all Texans.
"A string of four other mis-I
xionx extending for la or 20 miles j
down the San Antonio river rep- '
resented, with the Alamo and the
Presidio and the village of San
Antonio, all that there was of
civilization in that part of T?xas ,
200 years ago. Automobile buses ,
now whisk tourists over the.
'mission loop' and they elumhnr ]
over the eruiubling walls uud ,
halt to read over tin liquid Spanish
names -Purisiina. Coneepeion.
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.iosc. .-sail r rancisco <ic in
Ivspuda, and San Juan Capist
ratio.
"San Antonio's 1 it11** river has
always addi'd a picturesque (
touch to the city. Throughout
the husincKS district the hanks of i
the wall-confined stream have
heen parked, and groups pause
constantly on the many little
bridges to admire the sloping,
close-cropped lawns set with
flower beds and shaded by tall,
deep green clumps of banana
t rees.''
Cotton: Twenty cents today.
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$1.50 Per Tear.
IN NEW QUARTERS.
"The Times" Now in Building
Erected for Its Use.
The Fort Mill Times is now oc
cupying the new building on the
west side ot i.'onfetlerute streii
winch, toilowing numerous dv luys.
n\ us ntusheit u lew tla\ s ago.
i ne blinding is next door to tinPuimetto
hotel, u short distance
oil .Main street, and apparently
is much better adapted to the
use to Which it is to tie pu.
uiuu utt\ ot the oilier rooms or
buildings occupied by tile paper
< III l-lll.r i w
mv ears i-XlSU'lllf.
I p lO I- ago. W lu ll 1 lie
limes uioveu into nit1 mimimg u.i
i laioorue si root wiueii u useu lu.
iu years, the paper was prinieo
oil a? Iiaiul pre** ami louiitl one
small room large enough 10 wee.
Us needs. 1 hen a eyumler pres.
was mstalleil lor lue newspaper
ami more rooui w as neeessaiw.
lieu l lie limes decided lo pu.
hi a lynoiype ami oilier eipup
iiieiu-iiie lioor sjiaee oi I Ins bumi
nig oil I laihorne si reel iii lurn
proN I'll loo 11 nil I eel ami llie oliici
was moved lo the Siewnri building
iii llie rear oi llie posioinee
oil l oiifoderaie si reel early in
itiliO. In a iillinoer of respeels
tile Stewart building pro\etl uu
St.iistaetory as a home lor llie
paper. llenee I he ereelion ol llie
minding l lie I'lines is now occupying.
I'uolieation of the Fort .Mill
i uuos was begun l>y the present
publisher, \vlu? was tkion a buy lb
yours om. in thill. There was
little reason for establishing the
paper other than to give the
publisher a job. For the greater
pari of the time since I SSI# I The
l imes has been published by l?.
sV. Bradford, who. during the
?ast three or lour years of his
eonneetiou with the paper, pub
ushed it only for sentimental reasons
and as an advertisement for
the town. The paper never lias
been a money-maker.
The Fort Mill correspondent of
The State sends that paper the
following news item relative to
the removal of The Times to us
new home:
"The Fort Mill Times, the loeal
newspaper, will be issued this
week troni its new home on the
West side of Confederate street,
a building specially erected for
its use and admirably adaptctd
for its purposes. Since the interests
of the paper were acquired
several years ago by W. K. Bradford,
many improvements have
been made in the appearance and
matter contained in the weekly
issues and in the equipment of
the plant. For many years a
patent outside* was used, hut the
paper has heeu all home print tor
several years and the matter is
unusually {rood and lull of com
muuity interest. Mr. Itradford
contemplates carrying a stock of
stationery in connection with his
joh printing plant.*'
Cooper Pleases Charlotte.
Speakinjr editorially of the
visit Monday of (iovernor Koht.
A. t 'ooper to ('harlotte and the
speech he made at the "Made-ill<
arolinas Kxposition,'* The Observer
of Tuesday said:
"'I hey arc reporting it to The
Observer that (iovernor Cooper
of South Carolina made the best
speech of the series so far during"
the life it) the exposition and reports
in the local columns indicate
that lie measured up to the
occasion in handsome style. The
Seutli Carolina exccul ive made an
excellent impression here and
from lIk* warmth of liis reception
ho must have felt as if ho wore
anions the people who are entitled
to vote for him.
"(Jovornor <'coper's visit was
decidedly olio of tho most interesting
events of the exposition
anil tin* people of ('harlotto were
glad of tho opportunity to do
him honor. Coming into a hotter
knowledge of the qualificat ioiis
of the South Carolina executive,
and being familiar with those of
their own chief executive. Unpeople
of Charlotte have come
into an appreciation of the manifest
fact that for once both of
these two brug Southern commonwealths
are ably and equitably
governed." ^