Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 03, 1901, Image 3
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FORT MILL MELANGE. I
Pithy Points Qtthcrcd lor the Perusal
of Times Readers.
Miss Carrie Pobr, of Ebeuezer, is
the ^uest of Miss Ella M (-Murray.,
Mr. Luther Niins, of Mt. Holly, J
N. C., spent laat Friday at the i
home of his brother, Mr. F. Xiuis,
in this township.
The Charlotte Brick Company,
whose plant is *2 ihMhh c.miU
^ Fort Mill, had more than 200,000 ;
brick destroyed by the rain of last
week.
S The Times is requested to state
? that Dr. Thornwell will preach at j
the Presbyterian church in this
place next Sunday nfternuon at 4
o'clock.
* Messrs. J. M. Spratt, Z. D. Boyd '
and J. L. At matron;: were drawn (
yesterday to serve on the petit jury
during the second week of the approaching
term ?.f the circuit court.
The Spratt Machine Company I
has the contract for the erection of
two live-room cottages for Mrs. 11.
O'Connell, on the vacant lot adjoining
the grounds of the Presbyterian
manse.
On account of the absence of
Prof. S. M. Mason, who went to ,
Yorkville yesterday afternoon to be
present at the marriage of a friend
this evening, the j?ruded school is
closed to day.
The Lancaster Enterprise states
that the residence of Mr. J. T.
Mackey, who moved from Fort Mill
to Lancaster rome time ago, came i
near heiiiK destroyed by fire one
day last week.
Saturday morning the Catawba
Power Company filed with the
secretary of state notice of an increase
of its cupitul stock from
$100,000 to $150,000. The increase j
is to he made hy the issue of preferred
stock.
Mr. Lewis Baker, whose home
was in Fort Mill for several years
prior to 1800, was in town Monday.
Mr. Baker is living in,Uoek Hill'
at present and will accept the po- i
sit ion of weave room boss at the !
Chicora cotton mill in that city as
soon as the new machinery which
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is now being put in the mill is installed.
Word conies from Rock Hill to
the effect that the company which J
is soon to begin the publication of
the new semi-weekly newspaper in
that city placed an order for a
$11,500 outfit last Friday. Now, we
admire the pluck of the gentlemen
who are to run The Journal?that's
to be the name of the paper?but
like the old fellow who witnessed
the boy's efforts to but tin? billy
goat off the bridge, wo question
their judgment. However, we wish
The Journal all kinds of good luck.
At the meeting of the Fort Mill
camp of Confederate veterans Saturday
afternoon, Messrs. W. I.
Jones and J. M. Armstrong were j
elected delegates to the State reunion
to he held in Columbia next
month and Miss Mabel Ardrey was
appointed sponsor for the camp.
As yet she has not selected her
maid of honor. Columbia is making
extensive preparations for the '
reunion, which promises to he the
most successful one yet held.
Monday afternoon the regular
monthly meeting of the town council
was held and the vagrancy law j
which The Times has urged for |
some time was passed. It is said j
to l>e the purpose of the town otfi- j
cials to see that the law is enforced
10 me letier, and those wlio are
convicted under the law will either
have to pay the fines imposed or ,
serve their time on the streets. As )
most vngrants are not 011 speaking
terms with ever so little coin of
the realm, it is thought that much
good work will be done 011 the
streets during the coming summer
rts a result of the law.
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Attention, Sons of Veterans.
A meeting of John M. White J
Camp No. 88, U. S. C. V., is called J
for Friday evening, April 12, at 8 '
o'clock, in the town hall, for the 1
purpose of electing officers for the
ensuing year. Delegates, a sponsor |
and a maid of honor to represent
the camp at the State convention
to be held in Columbia, May 8, will
also be elected at this meeting.
J. K. Haile,
Coinmaudaut.
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Negro Woman Killed Suoday. j
As whs stated in these columns
some time ago, difficulties among
the negroes employed in constructing
the dam of the Catawba Power !
Company, near Fort Mill, are not,
inft cqueut. Most of the trouble
seems to arise from differences over ,
card playing ami is confined prin- |
cipally to the men. Only a few
days ago two negro men became t
involved in a dispute over a card
name and one of the men was shot i
in the neck. The first difficulty
which has resulted seriously, how- 1
ever, occurred Sunday moruing at
11 o'clock. This time the princi-j
pals were a man and a woman, and ,
the woman lo?t her life.
Reuben Stewart is a negro man
who is said to have come to this
community some time ago from
Blnckstocks. He is known by most
cf the negroes hereabouts and is '
considered by them u sort of bully,
having been heard to boast a iium- j
ber of times that he did not intend
to he arrested. Several weeks ago I
he secured work on the dam of the ;
Catawba Power Company. llisj
quarrelsome disposition is said to :
have gotten him into itiiuinienihle .
rowa with the other negro oniployees.
Sunday morning at 11
o'clock Stewart got into a difficulty
with Ida Watts, a dissolute colored |
woman who was living temporarily
near the dam, but whose home was .
in Charlotte. The woman called
Stewart a liar, whereupon he drew i
his pistol and fired at her. The ball 1
penetrated the woman's heart, killing
her instantly.
Stewart at once fled from the
scene of his crime and came to Fort ;
Mill. He ate dinner at a negro
restaurant in this place about 1
o'clock and immediately left town,
going down the tracksof the Southern
Railway toward Rock Hill.
News of the killing reached Fort
Mill within a few minutes after
Stewart had gone, and Police Otfi- j
ccr H. C. Culp, accompanied by n
deputy, at once left town in search
of him. All efforts to locate the
murderer proved futile, however,1
and the two officers returned i??
town late in the evening* after un- J
expectedly discovering more than i
a Kcore of negro men and women '
gambling in a grove near the brick
plant 2 miles south of town.
It is said that the body of the
dead woman was not removed from
the spot on which she was killed
until Monday night. Whether an
inquest was held over the body,
The Times has not been able to
learn. The killing occurred in
Ebenezer township.
Last Week's Ksln Storm.
The hcnvy rains of last week
played havoc with most of the
creek bridges in this section, bosides
doing no little damage other- !
wise. The swollen condition of
Sugar creek on Tuesday and Wednesday
resulted in no mail being
carried over the star route between
Fort Mill and points in Lancaster
county and Ardreys, N. C..011 those
days. There are three bridges
over Sugar creek near this place,
and all of them are in bnd condition.
Especially is this true of the
bridges known as Barber's and
Murray's, both of which are now
impassible.
Fortunately, the county bridge '
across Catawba river is not damaged,
and tlie published report to
thecontrury is erroneous. By noon
Thursday the river had risen 15
feet and was out of the banks, but
this fact occasioned no inconvenience
to those who wished to cross
on the bridge. It is thought that
the bridge will not be impassible \
until the river has risen at least 20
feet, and then it would probably be
unwise to attempt to cross.
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Five ThouMnd Dollars Stolen.
A Columbia press dispatch says '
that on last Thursday the Bank of
Columbin forwarded to the Bank
of Commerce in New York $5,000
in paper money. When the puck '
age arrived at its destination on I
Saturday it was discovered that
the money had been removed and
brown paper substituted for the
money. The Columbia bank was
astounded to receive telegraphic
information to that effect and an
investigation was ordered at ouce.!
The package whh put up by a bunk
official in tin* presence or the president,
Col. W. Ci. Childs, ami an- |
other official carried the package
to the express office. The Columbia
bank is absolved from all blame
and the financial loss is upon the
Southern Express Company; and
Capt. O. M. Sadler, general superintendent
of the company, is at
work on the case. It is believed
in Columbia that the package arrived
in New York City all light,
and that the substitution was made I
there. The work is represented to j
have been clever; the package bore '
110 evidence of having been tam.......~i
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Georgia Has Slaves, Too.
Tlit* Columbia correspondent of
the News and Courier nays that
Governor McSweeney lias received
a letter from a substantial eiti/.en
in Laurens county which would (
seem to indicate that they have 1
something like the Anderson system
of labor farms in Georgia. It
was only after public attention had
been called t?? the situation in Anderson
that the system was exploited
and finally broken up. From
the letter received there seems to
be u disposition across the line to
delay formal trials. The letter contains
the following statement, and
is signod^by Mr John D. Sullivan, 1
of Sullivans, in Laurens county,
who has voluntarily taken up the
ease of James Giay:
He states that Gray was arrested
on his ulantation for o??ttv Inr,
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and carried to Elbert, Ga., and was |
promised a speedy trial. A convict
contractor took him out of
jail; ho was never carried before
any court or tried or offered any
trial, but was carried to a convict i
camp, locked up at night with the j
convicts, guarded and worked with
them during the day.
Mr. Sullivan begs the governor
not to issue requisition papers bofore
acquainting himself with the
facts in the case, and says that he |
went to Georgia in behalf of the
negro and witii difficulty got hi 111
j to trial. The heaviest fine possi- i
ble was impo.-ed on the negro.
Here is a clear case of the same j
offense committed in Anderson
county. The owner of the convict
camp told the negro that he owed
him $100 from last year, and he
did not know how much he would
i t
charge him for the escape, and that '
he intended to keep him locked up
and guarded until he and his wife
signed papers agreeing for him to
! work.
Mr. Sullivan says that this has
I been going on in Georgia for many
1 years and asks in the name of lni.
inanity that it he stopped.
Defrauding Pensioners.
'
W. 1). Starling,one of the inem- |
I hers of the State pension tnmrd,1
has heeii informed that a man calling
himself Dr. DeLeon has been i
j going anions the pensioners in
i Orangeburg eounty, armed with a
i list of that county's pensioners, and
representing himself as an agent
of the State hoard, has been col|
lecting &1.410 from each pensioner,
representing to each that it costs
that amount to get the money, < )f
course Dr.-DeLeon is a fraud, and
i those from whom he has collected i
this sum have lost their money. 1
Sponsor for York Regiment, U. C. V.
Fokt Mii.i., S. C., March 28, 1901.
IIdqus. York Co., Kkoimkst, U. C. V.
(Order No. U.)
Miss Ollie Elder,
Gathriexville, S. C.
Dear Miss: You are hercbv annoint?d
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sponsor for York County Itegimeu', U.
C. V., at the reunion of the South Carolina
Division, U. C. V,, to be held in
Columbia, S. C., May 8, 1901, and you
are hereby instructed to nppoint your
own maid of honor.
By order of the colonel:
S. K. White.
W. II. Stewart, Adjutant.
MONUMENTS,
HEADSTONES.
I aid agent for the George W.
Clark Monument and Headstone
Company, of Uutlan, Vt.# and ;
Jacksonville, Fin., the largest concern
of the kind in the United i
States. Anyone in need c>f anything
in my line would do well to
call on me for prices before placing
their orderH.
r. D. FAULKNER, Fort Mill, 8. C. j
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Are Times
When ono wants a liair brush or
comb, ami because it is purchased
so infrequently, it is preferable to
^et a good one. We have a select
assortment of each, ami other (
things in this line. In hair brushes,
we have a splendid assortment at
50 cents, ami several nice brushes ,
at 25 cents.
If we can't suit you in a tooth
brush, you are too hard to please.
Another tiling, besides our va- |
riod line of t<>il?'t snaps, we have
the well-known unci reliable clean- ;
sers?trramlpa tar soap, octagon i
soup, ivory soap, pearline anil supolio.
ARDRET'S.
CI IEERFU L SU RROU NDINCiS
add to the pleasure of eating. l*a- :
trons of
hand bros'. restaurant
nro made comfortable. Our well |
appointed dining room, courte- .
oiih waiters, well cooked fotsl of
line quality and moderate prices |
make thiH an ideal place to break- j
fast. dine or sup, regularly or occa- i
sionally.
Hand Bros, rock hill, s c. !
Silverware.
We nro adding at all tinioH to!
our lino of Sterling Silver all the 1
moat desirable pieoea for table use.
For proHcnta or use in your family
you can tind nothing better.
'Phone -277. CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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To Business Men
WE PRINT
What is there ia our line
on which you would like
quotations? We want your
trade, and if you will give
u? a. ciuiice, will submit
sample* iiutl prices that
will be interesting to you.
WE PRINT
R. M. London
ROCK HILL. 8. O.
For First-class Service k?i to
H.(MILTON'S - RESTAURANT,
Opposite 1st Presbyterian church,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Best Oysters iti the city.
lair^est lunch counter iu tho State, j
221 West. Trade street.
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canned
Goods. I
Tf yoti need any canned
Koodfl, coine to bee ino for
them. I nin very particuulnr
about thin port of my
ntoek, nnd claim to carry
the bent nnd frenhent. In
that the kind you want?
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A. O. Jones.
New Spi
We have the largest and p
in this town. We are a little 1
waiting.
OUR MILLINi
Will be especially attractive t
Miss Mabel Ardrey will have <
ten days trimming patterns iu
merits in New York and Baltin
prepared to fix you up a hat in
expect to have all our milliner
OUR ORES
Are ready for your inspection,
useless to nttempt to describe
pleasure in showing you the pi
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SPRING
As Eeaster conies on the 7
on Thursday, the 4th, believin
n new hat or bonnet for that
sping millinery this senson. ]
with quite a number of patteri
styles for the season. We inv
surrounding country to come I
buy, come and see anyway, j
who doesn't want it to remain
put aside at once.
Our entire line of DRES
TIONS is complete. In EM
and LACE. w? ? Nrit tlin luiiil.ivu
Yours for
MEAGH
P. S. Miss Curtis, while i
a $75 French hut, and her wor
tion st> perfect that the tnunny
hut displayed for two days wit
instruction room told Miss C
only a few who received instri
ei
Clearance
"THE OLD R
In order to make
are selling for a fe>
WINTER CLC
We have a big st<
suits and men's tii
only last a few day*
will fret extraordin
o
"Oi/n
We are the Fort
Hickory*' Wagons,
ger and need fewe
wagon on the mark
let us sell you an "(
satisfaction.
T. B. BELK,
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ring Goods.
irettiest stock that has ever been shown
ater than usual, but got lower prices by
httT UtiPAKTMENT
his season, both in styles nnd prices,
charge of this department. She spent
two of the largest millinery establishnore,
aiul with her natural talent is folly
l the most popular and latest style. We
y open by April 4th.
S GOODS, ETC.,
We have so many pretty things it is
them, but if you will call we will take
ettiest goods ever displayed in Fort Mill.
MASSET.
OPENING.
th, we have decided to have our opening
g that a majority of the Indies will want
day. This will be our firBt display of
Miss Curtis has returned from New York
ii hats and her head full of nil the new
ite ull the Indies in Fort Mill and the
to our opening. If you do not want to
\ny lady purchasing a hat on that day
i in the display, can have it boxed and
S GOODS, WASH GOODS and NOBROIDEKY,
TUCKING, ALLOYEU
Easter,
AM & EPPS.
n New York making pattern hats, copied
k was so nicely done and the reproducer
of the French room had MiBB Curtis'
h her name on it. The manager of the
nrtis that that was a compliment |>aid
iction. M. ?fc E.
BEAT
Clothing Sale
AT
ELIABLE STORE."
room for spring goods we
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> nays oniy ail
)THINO AT COST.
>ck of children's and boys'
no pants. This sale will
and those who buy now
ary bargains.
tORY" WAGONS.
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Mill agents for the "Old
These wagons run lonr
repairs than any other
:et. If you need a wagon.
Did Hickory/' They give
PROPRIETOR
"TUB OLD RELIABLE 5T0RB.*
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