Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, November 10, 1921, Image 1
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CALL FOE PASTOR.
flt Presbyterians Would Secure SerW
vices of the Rev. Mr. Viser.
W After hearing the report of the
f committee appointed some weeks
' ago to recommend a pastor to
take the place made vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. J. B.
Black, effective on October 1, a
congregational meeting Sunday,
fallowing the regular morning
services, of the Fort Mill Presbyterian
church unanimously extended
a call to the Rev. it. H.
Viser of Laurel ilill, N. The
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iiauic vi ill# Ulill"! IIIIIIINHT TO Till
the vacancy was suggested by the
committee or considered bv the
congregation.
The Kuv. JtV. M. McPhceters. 1).
D., of Columbia Theological seminary,
who conducted the services
in the morning and again in the
evening, acted as moderator, and
F. M. Mack, speaking for the
committee, recommended that a
.call be sent to the Kev. Mr. Viser.
al a salary of $2,000 per your, the
use of the manse ami the expense
incurred in moving to Fort Mill
from Laurel Hill.
Mr. Viser preached for the congregation
at the morning and evening
services on October 20 and
remained in Fort Mill until Tuesday
morning, November 1. He
is said to have made a favorable
impression among the membership
of the church. '
Mr. Viser's church at Laurel
Hill is in Fayetteville presbytery,
the largest presbytery in the general
assembly of t lie Southern
Presbyterian church. His wife
was Miss Margaret Koonce of
Rock Hill, formerly a member of
Oakland Avenue Presbyterian
church. They have one child
' about two years old.
The congregation authorized T.
B. Spratt, clerk of the session, to
sign the call to Mr. Viser and to
jJiom-cuil" 11 UCHire r Uy?M ll'V 11 IC
presbytery.
f Methodist Pastors Assigned.
At the closing session Sunday
night of the Upper South Carolina
Methodist conference, which
met in Lancaster last Wednesday,
Bishop 17. V. W. Darlington
announced the following assignment
of pastors for the Rock Hill
V district for the year 1JV22:
0. (\ Leonard, presiding elder;
Blaekshurg. M. K. Meadors; Baldwin
mill, S. ,1. McDonnell; Ulackstov'k.
.1. W. Shell; Bethel. Henry
.. Stokes; Chester circuit, R. C.
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mniiwarc ; i lover, .1. *i. Muggins;
East Lancaster. .1. A. Bledsoe;
Fort Lawn, K. W. Wilkes; Fort
Mill. W. K. Bouknight ; Great
Falls, .1. E. Brown; Hickory
Grove, J. W. Lewis; M. (i. Latlicin,
supernumerary; Lancaster.
E. R. Mason; Lancaster circuit,
F. V. Robertson; North Rock Hill
circuit. W. F. .Johnson ; Rich bury:.
A. Q. Rice; Rock Hill. Bethel and
Park. 11. E. Griffin. supply; St.
John's. J. W. Speake. with R. L.
Holroyd. junior preacher, West
Main Street. Rock Hill, ('. I'.
Carter; Rock Hill circuit. W. P.
Meadors; Van Wvck. W. ('. Kelley;
Winnsboro. .1. I). Holler, with
R. F. Reavis supply junior preach
er York. .1. K. Walker; conference
secretary of education, d. ('.
Roper. Bethel quarterly conference;
conference missionary secretary,
J. \V. Speake.
Loses Game, Wins Friends.
The Fort Mill high school footbail
team failed to win its recent
game against the high school team
of Winnshoro. in Winnsboro, the
score being 7 to 0 against them,
but they won the good will of
that town by their clean playing.
In u loioH t A i Vint M M uoL'
superintendent of the Fort Mill
school. (?. F. Patton. superintend- )
ent of the Winnsboro school, says
that he heard "more than one of
our representative citizens remark
on the sidelines that your team
was the cleanest one they had
ever seen on our field."
Senator Clifton Dead.
.John H. Clifton. State senator
from Sumter county, died at his
home in Sumter last Sunday, after
an illness of several days. He
had b een prominent in the public
affairs of Sumter county for
many years qnd was considered
one of the strongest men in the
State senate. i
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BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHT.
Blue Ridge Mystery Explained as
Electrical Phenomenon.
"Tired professors and business
iiit'ii who sought surcease from
their sorrows 111 the mountainous
regions of Western North Carolina
have during the past few summers
given up some of their needed
hours of sleep to chase what
most of them believed to he nothing
more than a phantom, or the*
fires of some maker of mountain
lew, hut the Brown mountain
iiirlll is: iinu' <.f?tiiiiiir int?? itv
as an accredited electrical phe-.
noincnou." savs a bulletin of the
National Geographic society.
Brown mountain inn lies 17
miles from- Blowing Rock in the
Blue Ridge mountains ami though
plainly visible from the inn. is in
an uninhabited and sparsely
wooded section. Suddenly and
without warning a light sometimes
blazes out on the crest of
tlu? mountain, slowly moves down
its side and then fades out; sometime
it seems to rise from the top
of the mountain utid hang suspended
in the air where it fades.
"It has as many whims and
moods as a temperamental artist,
sometimes appearing several times
during one night, now stationary,
now slow, again swift in its flight,
ind sometimes it cannot he seen
for a comparatively long period
of time, hut it usuallly is most ireive
when the sky is clearing
after a rain. Those who have
Milium it in all its guises say
iliat it often is not unlike the star
from a Inirsting skv rocket. ami
that it is sometimes red ami sometimes
yellow, due probably to the
condition of tbe atmosphere.
"Scientists were at first prone
to cavil at tbe stories which came
out of the mountains with the
tourists, thinking that perhaps lo
comotive headlights or mountaineers
were playing tricks on active
imaginations, but .today Dr. W. .1.
Humphreys, physicist of the I'nit
is! States weather Omreau. and
otlier meteorologists of note believe
that there occurs around the
mountain's crest a brush discharge
of lightning, similar to the
famous Andes lightning.
"Perhaps the most remarkable
feature of the electrical discharge
which takes place either from
be earth or sky at Brown mountain
is that it is silent. The same
thing is true of the electrical displays
in the Andes, which have
long been known to* scientists and
,ravelers in the South American
continent as the Andes lightning.
It appears as' a, silent but very
luminous discharge of electricity
along the crest of the Cordillera
Weal in Chile, where thunderstorms
are practically unknown
"The same phenomenon has
!Iso been ubted in the Swiss Alps.
One observer, after a long period
of hot and dry weather, reported
that he had seen a succession of
semi circular flashes which shot
pp from a mountain, occasionally
lighting up the group of surrounding
peaks. Such displays
are notable for their likeness in
appearance to the aurora, except
that they do not reach such
heights."
T> TTTT T %TAmnM
UUI.U niijL. nuxiis.
Tin* farmers of Hold Hilt are
hoping that rain will hold off for
a few days longer, as they are
anxious t<? get heir wheat, oats
and clover in the ground before
it is too late.
S. (\ Karis was ill Friday, hut
is ajrain able to be up.
Edgar .loues and (\ T. Crook
spent Thursday in Charlotte.
Thursday \V. 11. Crook went to
I Charlotte to secure supplies with
which to finish the repair work
recently begun on the (lold Hill
| school building, but the school
i will not open Monday as was expected,
on account of the illness
i of the father of Miss I'arler. one
'of the teachers.
i The Rev. \V. ('. Owen of Nashville.
Tent!., is a guest of his uncles,
\V. II. Crook and 0. T.
Crook. He will leave for his home
Sunday night.
J. II. E vans of Kingstree is visiting
S. P. Wilson. B.T.N.
Mrs. Mamie Boyd is visiting
her daughter. Mrji. J. J. Stewart.
I in Mount Holly, N. C.
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
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Current Items of Interest From
the Yorkville Enquirer.
Demonstration Agent .John R.
Blair says that there have been
seven sweet potato ho>ises built
in York county this year, and
that all of them are pructically
full of potatoes and all are in
good shape.
They ure going to have that
Yorkville-Roek llill road in fine
shape this winter. During last
winter it tiwit iminl I
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get an automobile over the road
between Newport ami Tirzah at
the rate of ten miles an hour, but
bv Saturday there was no diftieulty
about smashing the speed
limit to smithereens.
Reports have it that the epidemie
of iteh. reported anions
school children of Sharon several
days ago. has spread to the east
side of the eounty and that there
are numerous eases among Rock
Hill school children. In fact, a
trained nurse is the correspondent's
informant for the statement
that there are many cases in
not*k mil.
It is about seven miles farther
from Yorkvillo to Charlotte by
way of Clover anil (iastonia than
by Rock Hill ami Fort Mill, according
t<> one automobile party
that made the trip Sunday, going
one way and returning the other.
Hut people who know always go
hv (Iastonia because of the roads.
1 hoy can make, the longer distance
quicker than the shorter distance.
The principal handicap over
the Fort Mill route, it appear^, is
the road through the Hold Hill
section of Fort Mill township.
"Oh. ves. my deputies and 1
have already been out after hunters
who didn't trouble to provide
themselves with licenses." said
County (lame Warden Dan T.
Woods Monday. "We have nabbed
several and have a line out
on quite a number of others.
While the number of hunters who
fail to provide themselves with
hunting licenses grows smaller
each year. 1 doubt if the time ever
comes when everybody will obey
the law. However, we are troiinr
to try to tighten Mown this season
I'vi'ii closer than we Mid last."
\V. 11. Xims, eonunaiiMer of the
Kli llailes post. Aiiu-riean Legion,
of Fort Mill hopes to have home
40-odd ex-service men of his cominnnity
who are not now memliers
of the post in as members
before the end of the year. Commander
Nims said the other day
that there are about 70 ex-service
men in Fort Mill and vicinity eligible
for membership in the
American Legion and he was
hopeful that all of them could be
made t?> see tin* value of membership
in the Legion before the end
ot the year.
Speaking id' the 'JO mules and
41 convicts included in the chaingang
plant the other day. Supervisor
Brown said that the plant
had been handicapped for some
time for lack of as many mules
as are necessary. "There have
been times on the road below
,Hoek Hill when we were unable
to utilize all our convicts to advantage
for lack of the necessary
mule power. There was nothing
that the extra convicts could do
that was worth while, but it will
be different now. There is a good I
deal of grubbing and cutting over ;
. i -i . i- ~ I
(iii i lie ?I'M Miir 1'ieamig iiie i
right of way. There was notli- j
iiiir of that on tin* oast road, you (
know. I think we will he all
right through the winter and that j
it will not he necessary to get i
more nudes before next spring."
Pupils on Honor Roll.
Pupils of River View school, in
Kurt Mill township, of which Mrs. j
S. II. Sutton is teacher, who
made an average of 90 on all
their studies during the last
mouth and thereby won a place
on the honor roll are as follows:
Ninth grade. Grace Hiekett ; (
eighth prade. Mahel Biekett and
Mary Bennett ; sixth grade, liarrison
Bennett ; fifth prade, Odell
Merritt; fourth grade. Arthur
Biekett ; third grade. .luanita
Bennett and Ardell Nivens; second
grade. Marion Sutton and
Nelle Robert Porter; first grade.
Alex Sutton. Jr.
WORD POR "BOB WHITE."
Correspondent Urges Fanners to ^
Protect Birds.
Editor Fort Mill Times:
Just now when there is being t
so much said among the sports- c
men about the offensive warfare f
they soon intend to wage against s
onr feathered friends, I think it i
is time for the farmers to come to i
the rescue, especially of the quail, t
It has been proved by experts, t
scientists and other people who i
know that each quail in the boll
weevil infested territory is worth j
$25 for the good he does in exter. ,
initiating the weevil alone. Now. [
Mr. Sportsman, do you think that
a covey of ten quail, worth $250 |
to the average farmer, is worth ,
protecting? t
Besides this, what would the ]
country be without its birds? I j
believe it is an unpardonable sin j
for any man. no matter how many j
permits and licenses he may have, j
to go out and deliberately crip- |
pie. mainland murder little inno- ,
nun! f-- * *?I
>< Ml cunnili n jlini nil" . rtllj' t
one who will do the like is not t
only violating the landowner's
lows, hut is violating the laws of j
nature and the Creator. 1 do not j
see in what wav any man who ,
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would praetiee such is different j
from other murderous creatures. ,
if he has sense enough to know at
the time that it is wrong.
So if sportsmen do not wish to >
pay a tresspass fine they had bet. |
ter stay out of this corner of the }
woods, for these are not my sentiments
alone, hut those of my
neighbors and farmer friends as
well. It just fell to my lot to
get the word to those who may
Consider violating the law.
S. E. White.
Fort Mill. Nov. 9.
Seriously Hurt in Tennessee.
C. T. Crook of Fort Mill township
was informed Tuesday of n
si nous accident which had befallen
his sim. W. M. ("Tot") Crook,
in an automobile accident last
Friday some miles from Knoxville.
Tenn. Mr. Crook is in a
Knoxville hospital suffering from
a fractured skull.
According to the information
received by the _ fat her of Mr.
Crook, lie was in an automobile
at the construction of a road in
Tennessee of which he was ill
charge when in some manner he
accidentally hacked off a high
embankment and fell with the
machine a distance of 4f> feet. ,
The antomohile turned over four (
or five times in the descent. When (
picked up Mr. Crook had a fractured
skull and severe lacerations ^
about the head and body. ^
Mrs. Crook, who was near the j
scene, witnessed the accident and j
she hastened to the aid of her
husband and then placed him in
an automobile ami started for
Knoxville, 52 miles away. On the .
way to "Knoxville an ambulance i
that had been summoned met the <
automobile and completed the
trip to a hospital in that city. ,
Federal Aid Refused.
No part of the $500,000 federal (
aid which was allotted Tuesday
at a meet inir of th?? l?i?rtiw?iv
FIRST SESSION SATURDAY.
Washington Ready for Big Disarmament
Parley.
The eyes of the world will be
ipon Washington Saturday at the
ipening of the international conference
011 disarmament. Representatives
of the world's leading
latious have been reaching Washngton
for the last week, or more
tnd the capital is taking on a fesive
air which rivnls th??
lors of tlie old European capitals.
The foreign statesmen who will
participate in the conference,
uany of whom are visiting Amerca
for the first time, have been
(elected because of their personal
prestige and prominence in interlational
affairs. The call for the
:onfereuee, issued by President
Harding last summer, met with
nstant approval by nearly all the
principal powers invited to take
part in it. Secretary of State
tiughes will preside over the conference,
the other American representatives
being Elihn Root,
Senator Lodge and Senator Unlerwood.
Washington appears to be de
termiued to make a lasting impression
upon the visitors. Special
oinmittees in charge of prepara.ions
have been busy for weeks
turning the city into a blaze of
{lory. Wonderful illumination
features huve been installed, untight
ly buildings torn down, paint
ias been freely applied to many
structures and a uniform plan of
iecoration adopted. The plans
all for a greater display of pomp
md ceremony than that of any
presidential inauguration. Friday
wul Saturday nights of this week
^25,000 will be spent for electrical
displays. Profiteering by hoels
and boarding houses will not
pe toleruted and regular prices
ire to be maintained during the
onfereuee. A social seasofi such
is Washington^ had never before
mown began with the arrival of
the foreign diplomats.
The conference will be held in
he Pun-American building, olio
>f the most beautiful and luxurious
structures in the country. Th?? J
representatives will meet in a
room known as the Hall of the
Americas, a palace rtoom that ri
nils in beauty ami grandeur the
Hull of Mirrors at Versailles,
France, where the peace treaty
ending the WorUl war was signid
The building was erected in
1910 at u cost of $1,100,000, of
ivliich the 21 American republics
contributed $250,000 and Andrew
Pariiegie the remainder.
Specir.l arrangements have been
made for the comfort and convenience
of the hundreds of visit
ing newspaper men who are expected
to report the conference.
PLZA3ANT VALLEY NEWS. ,
MiiS Kahleen Hall of the llar isoi.
community spent the week*
ml with relatives here.
A number of members of IMeasiiit
liill Methodist church attendid
the recent meeting of the Upper
Methodist conference in Laudator.
F. I'. Stephenson began his duI
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FOUGHT TOGETHER.
Lee and Grant in American Army
at Ohapultepec.
Robert K. Lee and Ulysses IS.
Grant, who later became the rival
leaders of the Southern and
Northern armies during the.Uivil
war, fought together in at least
one decisive battle of the Mexican
war, the siege of Uhapultepec,
on September 12-111. 1S47
"The hill of grasshoppers"?
I which is the meaning of I lie old
Aztec name?stands time miles
southwest of the City of Mexico,
with head reared 150 feet above
the level of the surrounding plain.
The storming of the fortress by
(Jen. Scott's army, in which Lee
and Grant were young officers?
the former a captain, the latter a
(first lieutenant?crumbled the
last' of Santa Anna's defenses
and formed one of the most dramatic
incidents of the war. Both
|officers distinguished themselves
in the siege, where Grant was
brevetted captain. Lee was one
of the two officers of engineers
who had charge of the arrangement
of four batteries on a nearby
hill. Shortly afterward, he
was brevrtted colonel.
In the Mexican war Lee win
first with (Jen. 'Wool, for whom
lie did excellent scouting. He
held the rank of captain, having
been conuniasioned to that oflice
nine years after his graduation
from West l*oint. ('apt. Lee was
jtransferred to the army before
Vt ra Cruz at the personal request
of Gen. Seott. and he arranged
the American batteries so t hat I lie
city was reduced in less tbi.n a
week. After each of the battles
of Cerro Gordo. Cherubusco and
k'hapultepec, he received promo,
tion, earned by remarkable feats
of physical and moral courage.
At the close of the war (.Sen. Scott
pronounced Lee "the greatest
living soldier in America."
Graded School Notes.
The first quarterly examinations
of the session, most of which
were held Thursday and Friday,
are over. The honor rolls will l|e
published as soon as possible.
1'hysieal ami dental exaiuinations
of tin* school children were
bold this work. Many of tin* children
wort' foil ml to have.diseased
tonsils, atlonoitls ami ha?l tooth,
i Tho smallor ohihlron considered
tho oxaminat ions so serious that it
was nooossary to persuade thorn
to go into tho oftiee.
Fritlay tho school will liavo holiday,
which is called "school
day" at tho county fair. As it
also is Armistice day. there will
ho a l>i?r parade in Kock Hill, including
tlio children of various
schools in the county. It is hoped
that many of the Fort Mill school
children will attend the fair that
day ami take part in the parade.
The last football game of the
season in Fort Mill will he played
by tho high school team with Lanjcaster
high this afternoon.
Many to Attend County Fair.
Armistice day. Friday, November
11, will bo observed in Fort
Mill by a general closing of tho
stores and other places of business
and many Fort Mill people
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I ' t A|M VU U III m# III 1VIM K I 1111
(luring tlit- tiny to take part in
tin- celebration which has been
arranged in connection with the
comity fair. The Tom Hall
(ttinrds of Fort Mill will .join the
Frank Roach (Suards of Rock llill
in a military display at the fair
grounds, after marching in the
parade through the city.
Oil Stove Explodes.
Kxplosion of an oil stove early
Tuesday evening in ifn upper
room at the home of S. L. Meacham
on Hall street resulted in considerable
damage to the furnishings
of the room ami the personal
effects of Miss Kdna Tindal. Fort
Mill graded school teacher, who
was occupy ing the room. Mr.
M each a m's hands were slightly
burned when he threw the blazing
stove through a window.
A liberal application of paint
and wall finish to the interior of
the Fort Mill post oft ice during
the last few days has added much
to the appearance of the lobby
and work roofei of the building.
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.i i i< i|><ii in i ii?? oaruerk'illc
ochool Monday. October 31.
Mrs. Lavinia Davidson visited
Her sister, M rs. J. K. Halt, in the
Harrison community Monday.
A purent-teaeher club was organized
at the local school house
ast Wednesday. Mrs. (). W. Potts
vas elected president, K W. Dickion
vice president, Miss Nancy
jrahani secretary and Miss Sadie
Wheeler treasurer. The club contemplates
closer cooperation between
the teachers and patrons
>f the school as well as improvements
to the school house and
jeautifying the school grounds.
Mrs. D. O. Potts entertained a
lumber of young people at her (
loine last h'rnlav evening. The
I
rourg people enjoyed music, sing j
ng, conversation and numerous
rallies. Refreshments were serv- i
:d. Those present were: Misses
^aney (Sralinm. Sadie Wheeler,
jitcv Tiee, Kathleen Hall. Rebec;a
Hall, Ethel Patterson, Verda
ftTolfe, Thelma Potts, and Lester
?tar.c, Sam Kell, Klmore Alexanler,
Murray Bailes. Stroud Kims
Clarence Patterson. Walter Patorson.
"Spinner."
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commission *4m th<? interest ot ,
tin* Staff for road building will
In available for tin* roads of Fort
Mill township. Tuesday morning
Col. T. H. Spratt and W. B.
M eachain. Sr.. members of the
Fort Mill township road commission,
went to Columbia and appeared
before the State highway
commission "n the interest of
getting federal aid for the const
ruction of an 18 foot wide hard
surfaced road from the Catawba
river bridge to Fort Mill, the
other end of the road to the North
Carolina line to be of topRoil or
sand-clav;" but in the allotment
of the federal funds as published
ill tile duilv nnnwPK tif veutoeituv i
/ r-t;v " " y"'
there was nothing to indicate I
that the request for aid for thu J
Fort Mill project had been ap- i
proved. The township commis- j
si >n is tit ill hopeful, however, of t
getting the original $10,000 prom- I
ised it seine months ago by the 1
State highway commission for c
use on the local ronda. ^
At its meeting Tuesday the (
State highway commission allot- c
tod $10,000 to the Western York (
road. t
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