Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 15, 1921, Image 1
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Arthur 0. Lytle Wins Mayoralty '
Contest?Vote Again Tuesday.
In what proved to be one of
the most spirited elections e?ev j
held in Fort Mill, Arthur C. Lytle :
Tuesday was nominated in the |
Democratic primary for mayor. .
He received 244 votes against 111) j
for George Fish and 54 for II. f. ]
Ferguson. 1i
Tuesday i'oi the first time in
the history of the town, women
participated in the voting, about 1
80 of them going to the polls and <
registering their choice for this ! 1
or that candidate. Froiu the <
time the polls opened at 8 o'clock
in the morning until they closed
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon automobiles
were scurrying to all ;
. sections of the town bringing in 4
voters. Numerous workers, not a- j
bly for the candidates for mayor,
were busy throughout the day in
the neighborhood of the ballot
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uua urging me claims of those in
whose election they were specially
interested.
When the polls closed it was
announced that of the 4t>.'> citizens
who had placed their names on I
the club rolls. 43f> had voted, an
increase of more than -00 over
the number heretofore participating
in any election for town oftieials
of hurt Mill. Following the
election, many were lie.:rd to express
their approval of the idea
of holding the primary, which
gave everyone who had placed his
or her name on the eiult rolls the
opportunity to have a voice in the
selection of the town's officials
for the next two years, thereby
shutting off the complaint frc
quently heard in the past that in
town elections in Fort Mill the
will of the majority was not exa
pressed because many citizens did
not have the necessary county
registration certificates to enable
them to vote in the general
election. There was no disorder
incident to the election about the
polls or on the streets. *
Ill the race for ahleriuan-at- |
large, none of tlie six candidate*
received a majority of (lie votes !
in the first primary ami a second
primary, set by the executive j
' committee for Tuesday, Decern J
ber 20. will therefore he neces- 1
sary to select the nominees for
the two places to he filled. In
the second primary B. W. Bradford,
.1, T. Young, Jr.. J. \V. (Junn
and W. L. Ferguson will be the
candidates, J. McElhaney and
W. L. Steele having been elimi- j
nuted in the first primary. The t
vote for aidermau-at-large was:
Bradford 181, Young 107. (lunii
143, Ferguson 121. McElhaney (
105, Steele 80.
In Ward 1 there was a tnixup
in the vote for alderman which
wus taken before the executive
committee at meetings Tuesday
evening and Wednesday evening
before the committee finullv decided
that W. Stroud had won
the nomination over K. E. MrKibbeu.
A recount by the comluittnik
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Miiavi i ill I" \ i*| | 111 w ill | 111'
ballots cast in Ward 1 showed 2fj
for McKibbeu and 27 for Stroud,
with three uncounted ballots for
McKibbeu which had been placed
in a box other than that provided
for Ward 1 voters. Tuesday eve- !
ning both men appeared before
the committee and agreed be- (
tween themselves to enter the
second primary for the seat in
council in question. But Stroud
Wednesday morning announced
that he had entered the agree- I
ment on the spur of the moment
and that he wanted the committee
to reopen the matter. This
the committee did Wednesday
evening and decided in Stroud's
favor, basing its action on the
rule of the party and the statement
made at the citi/./.ens' meeting
Monday evening and the instruction
given the election managers
that ballots placed in tlic
wrong box would not be counted.
In Ward 2 0. Hope was noniv
ilia ted for alderman over W. M.
Epps, 91 to .">6. and in Ward 2 B.
D. Culp was nominated for alderman
without opposition as was G.
W. McKenzie in Ward 4. the former
receiving 110 votes and the
latter 101.
For public works commissioner
\ there were four candidates for the
three places to be filled, the win- .
nera bejug J. L. By lea, W. B. Ar-1
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C. P. BLANKENSHIP DEAD.
Well Known Fort Mill Township
Citizen Passes Away Suddenly.
The Foit Mill community whs
greatly shocked to hear of the
sudden death of Charles 1\ iilankenship
at his home in the upper
section of the township Saturday
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parent ly Jmd been in {rood health
and was preparing tu coin* to
Fort Mill when he was stricken
with heart trouble. He was at
his barn at the time ami fell imconscious.
Within .SO minutes after
b?'injr.removed to his home he
died.
For many years Mr. Blankensliip
bad been one of the most
prominent farmers of the eastern
section of York county. He had
taken an' active interest in polities
for a long time and at the.
time of his death was a member
of the county Democratic executive
committee. He was widely
known and numbered his friends
by the hundred. Mr, Blankcnship
was a member of the Fort |
Mill township road commission.
He was born in Steel Creek
township. Mecklenburg county.
X. hebruury 21. IhliO. ()n l)c- |
comber ti. 1NS2. he was married !
to Miss Annie L. Yarborough. To :
M r. and Mrs. Blankenship seven
sons and two daughters were
born, 'two ot their sons died in
inlaiicy. Willi Mrs. liiankenship
ilie lollowiug children survive: '
iiuy I>iunkcuship. Bernard Blan-1
kcuship. Miss Kathleen Ulankeiisl:11>.
Finley Blankenslup, .uiss
Frances Iflankcnship. l'ruett
Mlai 11 kciislii|> and Van Ulaiiken- j
ship. All tin* i'hilili'i'ii an* grown
except tin- hahy hoy.
Tlio funeral serviees were eon- ,
ducted l?y the Rev. .1. K. Smiili. I
pastor of Flint ilill Baptist |
church. of which Mr. ltlaiikenship |
had for years been a faith till j
member. The interment was in j
Flint llill churchyard Monday at
1 o clock in the presence of hun
dreds of friends of Mr. Blunkcnsliip
whose presence attested their
sorrow at the passing of an up- j
right, public spirited citizen.
Saw Marshal Foch.
The Rev. .1. W. 11. Dvches, pastor
of the Fort Mill Baptist i
church, who stopped over for the
Foch Celebration at (ireenwood I
last Friday on his return trinl
trom tlx* Itaptist State convention
at (liven wood. says that he
got a near view of the great*
Krench eoniiuainler and that the
pictures of him seen in the papers
furnish a striking likeness of
the num.
Dr. Dyches further said: "Marshal
Koch is a speaker ??f considerable
force, he has a genial face
and at (Ireenwood presented the
appearance of a man who was ae*
cepting the honors accorded him
rather for the pleasure of those
who bestowed them than for any
gratification that came to himself
because of them. Ilis bright eyes
betoken his genius and his firmly
sel jaw and close shut lips indi- |
cste that dogged determination!
which brooks no defeat.
"Though apparently 11 man of
(? > or 70 years. Marshal Foch's
stalwart frame, erect carriage
ami forceful language combine to
impress you thai this military
chieftain is still capable of efficient
service to his country ami
to the world if need for it should
develop.
To Move to Fort Mill.
('apt. Klliott Springs of lain- ,
caster soon is to become a citizen
ot Fort Mill. Workmen are now
converting into a modern home
the old White mansion in the up- .
per section of town and when the
work is completed a few weeks j
hence ('apt. Springs will move j
into it. Me is a grandson of the j
late ('apt. S. K. White, his mother i
being before her marriage to Col
Lcroy Springs Miss Urace White. !
and he comes to Fort Mill to make
his home in the mansion occupied
for so many years by his mater- j
mil ancestors. Capt Springs has
many friemls in Fort Mill who [
will welcome him as a citizen of
the town.
drev and W. S. Belk, who received.
respectively, 1148. 888, and 824
v ot es. T. J. Cray ton received 173
votes.
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FOET MILL, 8. C., TUTORS!
NEWS OF YORK CdUNTY.
Current Items of Interest From j
the Yorkville Enquirer.
The Peoples National bank of j
liock litll lias inaugurated a rai
killing contest. It has offered [
!j*lo in prizes to the persons in the
immediate vicinity of Kock Hill
who by 12 noon, December 17, i
bring to it the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and
41It largest number of rat tails.
Secretary Fewell of the Roek
llill chamber of commerce and
assistants have been busy for the '
past several days delivering the
several thousand fruit trees that
were sold to farmers of the city
and eoinmunity during the fruit
tree eampaigu conducted by the
fit umber and Miss .Jiiunitn Neely,
home demonstration agent, some
weeks ago. About $1,500 worth
of fruit trees were sold during
the campaign.
Arrangements are being made
to operate the Howling (Jreen cot- I
ton mill at night as well as day.
according to announcement by
N. Alexander, general manager
of tin- mill. The spindleagc of the
mill lias recently been increased
from to 5,1)00 and other additional
machinery lias been installed.
No trouble has been
fyiind in securing operatives, ac- !
cording to Mr. Alexander, despite
the tact ili.it Howling iireeii is a
very small place.
Now that Dr. .1. H. .Johnson has
announced Ins candidacy tor !
mayor of lioek Hill in the .Jnnua
ry election against Dr. David 1
li.vle. in all probability the lis.s |
tor that oilier will close. lialph
Armstrong the present mayor,
can t offer for reelect ion without
resigning and going into the lisis '
anew, for the reason that lie was |
elected mayor by the present
hoard of three eouncilmcu. Arm- I
strong isn't going to do it. The j
race between .Johnson and Lyle
will likely lie a spirited one.
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?... ? lit * ii"? 1H# VHIV 111 I in
identity of the two white men
who. driving u high powered
touring ear toward Yorkville Fri. j
day morning, knocked Mrs. Craw,
ford Hpulap, compulsory school
attendance officer for York county.
and her Ford touring eiy into
a ditch on the Sharon road between
Sharon and Turkey creek
bridge Friday morning. Although
Mrs. Duidap was pinned under
the wreckage of her machine, she I
was uninjured. The car was badly
damaged.
At a meeting of interested educators
held in the chamber of
commerce hall in Hock Hill Friday
morning the Kasteru York
Citizens' Kdueation association
was organized with .). C. Cauthen i
as president and O. K. Williams
as secretary. Five delegates to
the meeting of the State association
to he held in .January were
elected as follows: Mr. Sharpe of
l.tsslie. Dr. I>. It. .Johnson, l'rof
.John F. Thomasson, l'rof. It. C.
Hurts. .J. A. Harbor. The principal
talk of tin- organization meet
tug was that of Superintendent
of Kdueation .John K. Carroll.
A valuable horse, the nronertv
of .1. F. Carroll of Yorkville. was
killed Friday night when it was
struck by a Buick touring car. the
property of .1. S. Brice. Ksq., of
Yorkville and driven by bis sou,
liobcrt Briee. The buggy which
the horse was drawing was torn
to pieces by the impact, while
fSnm Krwin. colored, who was
driving the horse, was badly
bruised and shocked. Young
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glass of tin* windshield and the
ear lie was driving was badly
damaged. The accident occurred
011 the Yorkville-Kock llill road.
A special meeting of the hoard
of trustees of the Fort Mill graded
school was held last night at
which a number of matters affecting
the intcrst of the school
were considered. The resignation
of Miss Claroline t'arothers. high
school teacher, was accepted. A
successor to Miss t'arothers is to
he elected at a meeting of the
board a few days hence. Three
members of the hoard of trustees
are to be elected by popular
vote on January 10. The board
decided that fhe Christmas holidays
for the school will begin on '
December 21 and cloap on Janu- '
?ry 2. . ( .1
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DAY, DECEMBER 15, 1921.
WINS RACE FOR MAYOR.
Arthur C. Lytle Receives Flattering
Vote in Tuesday's Primary.
Friends of Arthur C\ Lytic,
successful candidate for mayor in
Tuesday's Democratic primary,
lost little time in rushing to his
place of business on Main street
i immediately after the announce|
ment of the result of the election
to congratulate him over the flattering
vote he had just received
lur cinfi omciai oi the town lor
the two year term beginning early
in .January. From the first these
friends of Mr. Lytic were confident
the voters would favor his
cendidaey, but they took nothing
for gratified in the campaign preeeding
the election and on eieetion
day itself and were active in
his behalf from the time he announced
his candidacy until the
last ballot had been deposited.
Much of the credit for Mr. Lytle's
victory, however, is due to
bis own efforts, for In* left no
stone untureml to win the office,
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ARTHUR C. LYTLE.
il?u 11 i11*r 1 ?> good account the experience
lie had gained in former
campaigns in helping other candidates.
His friends are eonfi- |
dent lie will make the town an
active, progressive mayor, and
that his administration will he
marked hy numerous accomplishments
for civic betterment.
Mr. Lytic is :10 years old. Tie
is a son of the late .1. F. Lytle.
a splendid citizen who died
several years ago. and was born
at the old Lytic homestead near
York. As a hoy 10 years old he
moved to Fort Mill with his pa
rents and for several years was a
clerk in different drug stores in
town. In 15)1 G he formed a part- |
ucrship with Dr. .1. M. Ilutchiu- i
son in tin* drug business as one
I of the proprietors of the store
I which ha?l been operated for revera
I years by ("apt. S. \V. I'arks.
When thl' I'uitcd States declared
war 011 Uermany early in 1017
Mr. Lytic sold his interest in the
business to Dr. Ihitchinson aud
1 culisttyl in the Fort Mill company
of the 11S111 region lit. :M)th division.
for service overseas. Before
having this country as a soldier
1 he was promoted from private to
[Sergeant. which rank he held
throughout the war. lie was with
his company in the numerous engagements
in which it took part
against the (iermans in Belgium
and France and did his part in
breaking the soealh-d iiup'regna- '
hie Hindenburg line in the early
jdavs of October, 10LS. He went ;
Through that terrific engagement 1
as lie <|i?I tin* oilier engagiments
in which his command participat- ,
imI without receiving so much as u |
scratch.
Shortly after returning from
the war .Mr. Lytic bought the 1
Ardrey drug store, of which business
he and Dr. \Y. II. Martin are '
now the proprietors, lie was one
of the moving spirits last year in
organizing the Tom Mall (Juards.
National (Suurd company of Fort
Mill, in which he served as first 1
lieutenant until some months ago 1
when he resigned to organize the !
third battalion headquarters com- 1
puny of the First regiment, S. C. 5
N. U. He is now the command- !
irg officer of that company.
Mrs. llattie Mack, who for fcv. 1
eral months has been away froqp .
Fort Mill visiting relatives at-0?- 1
tinge. Va., Decatur, Ga., and Cf- 1
lnmbia, has returned to her home t
in Fort Mill. ^ n
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Time?
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HEBE AND THERE.
Comment and Facts Picked Up
by The Times Reporter.
"Flections in Fort mill are not
what they were some years ago."
Tuesday night sunt a citizen of
the town in commenting on the
orderliness of the crowds on the
streets and around the polls all
day Tuesday us a result of the
municipal primary. "Perhaps
the presence of u large number
of women who came up town to
vote had a good effect, but however
that may be, the day passed
in most commendable fashion and
was without the slightest display
ot disorder of any kind, and if
mere whs engendered any ill feeling
incident to the election I have
not heard of it. Why the marked
contrast between this election and
some former elections held in
Fort Millf The question almost
answers itself. Formerly, liquor
was plentiful and easy to get." j
"The report of the department |
of agriculture Monday forecasting
a cotton crop for the current
year of more than 8 million bales
hits the farmers of the South another
wallop." continued The
Times' talkative friend. "I was
one of the number who had con- |
cluiled that at most the yield j
would not go beyond 7 million i
bales. If the estimate had not
exceeded that number, there is
reason to believe that immcdiatc1\
after the first of the new veur |
the trend id' the market would j
have been upward, and it may i
yet take a turn for the better but
with me that hop** is about dissi-1
patcd. Now I am inclined to
tliiuk that the farmers who sohl .
their eotton this fall us soon as ill
was ginned acted wisely, llow ^
the production could reach H mil -1
linu'halfs with the boll weevil at I
work over practically the entire |
cotton States and the limited
amount of commercial fertilizer
used under the crop. I confess my
inability to understand. It leads
to the conclusion that in some sections
as least they have learned
how to get the upper hand of the
weevil.''
Well, this was mv first effort
to obtain public office," said one
of the candidates in Tuesday's
primary, "and 1 think it will be
:nv last. I went into the primary
reluctantly and thought of withdrawing
a few days ago. but
stayed in at the solicitation of
some of my friends. I got the
office I was seeking and a little
later on shall perhaps get the
cussing I am told eotnes to all
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oince-noiders. To my way of
thinking there isn't much to
holding public office."
"The Fort Mill contingent at
the football game in Rock Hill
last Friday between Chester and
fSaffnev pulled hard for the Gaffney
boys, as did most of the Rock
Hill folk who were present, but (
all our cheering and encouragement
otherwise did not have the
effect of warding off defeat for '
them," said a Fort Mill man in
whose heart the Chester team evidently
lacks a warm spot. "The (
truth ?*? <'i.* ? ?1
* iirniri I mill tJUl-l
jlasses every team it has played I
lince the season opened. They
iro not only a husky lot. hut they
understand the game and play it
for all that is in them. My pre- .
iiction is that when the Chester
boys meet Charleston for the ,
^tate championship in Columbia
Friday. Charleston will get the '
unall eml of the score, much as (
I would he pleased with the sue !
ess of the low-country lads."
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An illustration of how to get
rotes by the short speech route
was furnished at the citizens'
meeting in the town hall Monday '
light. .1. P. Lyles. candidate for ?
public works commissioner, was j
invited to make a speech. He '
: "A friend of mine invited I
me to enter the race. 1 asked i
aim how much it cost to get in. I
Fie said, 'Nothing.' Then 1 asked I
tim how much I'd get out of it. *
Again he repliel, 'Nothing.' I *
[old him to count me in." Mr. 1
Lyles then sat down. In the elec- 1
tion Tuesday he led the public i
worka commission ticket. I
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$1.00 Pt Year.
WORLD S BIGGEST FIRM.
Unole Spin's Postal Department
Employs 326,000 Persons.
The UYiited States postal servieej
with 326.000 employees immediately
connected with its operation,
serving 110 million eustomers,
is the biggest distinctive
business in the world, according
to a statement recently made by
Will H. Hays, postmaster general.
The department spends (>00 million
dollars annually.
The department has the largest
express company in the world.
I lli-1
uuiiuiing uiore than 2.b00.0lHJ
packaged this year. It Iris over
a half million depositors in
postal savings, the largest savings
bank in the world, with 7f> per
cent of the depositors being of
foreign extraction. Titer? is
twice as much postal savings business
done in New York city
alone as there is in the entire Dominion
of Canada. It has increused
2M9 per cent since 1912. with
110 increase in postal facilities
since that date.
The statistics id' the postal department
show that in every single
hour of the day 1.400.000 let
tcrs arc sent, and this year more
than 12 billion letters will he handled.
The departunii1 1..-> handles
more than a l.i'l 01: and a
quarter postal cards ever.- y?.ir.
A big sum ill debts is .-..il.sfied
each year through the sale 01
lot) million postal money orders.
The earth could he envied ten
times with the two rails 011 which
the mails are carried in the I'uiied
States, and postal employees
use enough lead pencils in one
year to place one behind the ear
of more than a million persons.
In New York city alone there
arc u quarter of a million letters
read dressed each day l?\ clerks
using city directories, and there
are ID million letters handled
annually by the division of dead
letters at Washington, all owing
to the negligence of the public
it: addressing mail. The cost of
this service to the taxpayers all
comes back to the careless individual.
Kach day 411,000 rural carriers
go out in the morning, serving
more than t> million families, and
before sundown every day these
carriers travel 1.170.000 miles, a
total of 353 million miles every
year over the highways of tlo*
country. The postal service uses ?
800.000 miles of twine every year,
enough to girdle the earth 30
times. Mr. Hays figures that the
department will save 15 million
dollurs in the current year from
appropriations already made by
Congress without any detriment
to the service.
Toung People in Session.
The B. Y. I*. C. convention of
the York Baptist association met
last Sunday in the First Baptist
church of York, with delegates in
attendance from various eluirehes
in the county. The meeting was
L'alled to order hv tin- president,
J. A. Bass of Hock. After prayer
mid a praise service devotional
I'Xeroises were conducted l?y '
W. McGee of York. The address
of welcome was made by All's.
I'. W. McGi.e and was responded
lo by I'haR. A. Scott.
Problems in 11. Y. P. F. work
> t-rr men mscusseu oy several of
the delegates in a helpful man
uer. Miss Beatrice I'urks of the
Fort Mill union was elected eon
volition chorister and Miss Lulu
"bnith was chosen reporter for the
convention to succeed S. A. Lee
)f Kort Mill, resigned. It was
lecided to award the convention
Danner to the union with largest
percentage of enrolluu nt present.
James E. Steadman Dead.
Following an illness of several
Months, James K. Steadman died
it his home in Fort Mill last Wed
lesday. Mr. Steadman had lived
n Fort Mill for many years and
lud many friends in the comiuulity
who greatly regretted to
tear of his death. He is survived
>y his widow and a number of
ions and [daughters. The funeral
lervices were conducted by the
Eiev. K. H. Viser,' pastor of the
Fort Mil Presbyterian church,
tnd the Interment was in Flint
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