Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, June 03, 1903, Image 2
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1908. ~
A number of people here lmve
inquired of us reeetitjy why it is
11)at the (government from time to
time places shad tish in the streams
in this section and yet, so far as is
known, no one has ever been
known to catch one in these parts.
The following from the Gatfney
1 iftilcrpr rtrrthahlv <riv?>n tiio rpo?/in
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exactly: "While the shad lays its
eggs in fresh water and the young
are hatched there, it is understood
that they soon seek salt water and
r 'niaiu there till laying time conn s
the next spring, when they ascend
the fresh water strentns to lay.
This being the case, tlie shad recently
put in Broad river will soon
seek Bait water, and when they attempt
to return next spring, most
-of th-ein will be caught iu the nets
which obstruct the river at Georgetown.
and the few that the people
of this section get, will be shipped
from that place a id sold to us at
froui sixty cents to one dollar each.
None of them will ever be taken
fresh from Broad river in Cherokee
county, for if a few escape the de* j
vices lor catcning them at Georgetown?some
of which are saiil to
be unlawful?the dam across
Broad river at Columbia will prevent
their further ascension of the
river. Broad river will never have
another edible shad in it above
Columbia until pructical iishways
are placed in that dntn."
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It is of interest to learn that
Senator Gorman will not be a candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination. It is stated
that a conference was held recently,
which was attended by a number
of prominent Democratic politicians
and the whole situation was
' discussed in detail. Senator Gorman
himself raised the question of
his attitude towards the Wilson
tariff bill and it was decided that
the Maryland Senator's opposition
to the bill as it came from the
House would be certuin to insure
fiIB defeat, even if be secured the
^^Pemocratic nomination. Senator
flBUiormnn, it is said, agreed with the
Etreasouing of his friends and told
that they could Bay
jpftftjpfciively that he would not permit
himself to bfc considered as a
Democratic possibility
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A suit has been brought in the
State court which practically looks
to the annulling of the lease of the
South Carolina and Georgia Kailroad
by the Southern. The suit
is brought for John Cart, of Or
angeburg, by J. H. Bryan and
Miller & Whnley, of Charleston.
The complaint alleges that the
) 'ase obtained by the Southern of
t!ie line from Columbia to Hamburg,
part of the old S. C. a id G.,
violates the clause in the State
constitution prohibiting the leasing
of a road by a competitor.
Mr. Cart asks to recover $100
per day from the date of the
Southern's lease, a sum amounting
to nearly $150,000. If received,
the money will be divided between
Mr. Cart and the State,
South Carolina, in 1900, had
127,390 native white voters, of
whom 15,711 were illiterate, or 12.3
per cent. The counties of Horry
Pickens, and Chesterfield had more'
than 20 native white illiterate vo
ters out of every 100 native white
voters. The number of literate and
illiterate white voters in York
' <urity was 3.801 and 485, respecti
ely. The number of literate ne*
. ... t Ml'.
h'>"-n wran WI1IK* 1116 Mllld'HlC
pt the race numbered 2,473.
Ttaohsrs la Pklllpplass.
A civil service examination of
special interest to teachers will be
held jr? ftpastapburg on June 2930.
It is for the position of tench*
era in the Philippine service. The
Hnlnry to start with is frotn $900
to $1,200, vacancies in the higher
positions being ft led by promoiioilR
from tllA invor nn?a
The age limit is from 20 to 40 |
years and the subjects of examination
are nn essay of 300 words to
show the applicant's knowledge of
tyntax, spelling penmanship, punctuation
and capitalization, knowledge
of arithmetic, grammar, geography,
history auci physiology as
treated in the orpinary grammar
pcbool, teat books, knowledge of
nature-study and drawing, science
uf teaching and experience and fit
peas for it. Also there are 20 optional
subjects on anyone of which
the applicant m*y increase his rating
on examination and thereby ipcrfaae
hM chanceg of success.
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100 Persons Die In a Cyclone.
A terrific cyclone struck tlie
city of Gainesville, Ga., Monday
at noon, killing probably 100 people,
and causing a properly loss of
$300,000. The greatest damage
and loss of life wus in the Gainesville
cotton mill, in which 500 people
were at work. The mill was a
three story building, and the second
and third stories were completely
swept away. The first
story was left standing, but badly
wrecked. It is estimated that at
Jeast75 persons were caught under
the wreckage of the third floor and
killed. Eighteeu people met death
iu the business portion of the
a. 1 i i r i*
town, uaving uiKen reiuge in lour
large stores which were blown
down. The Pncolet mills nlso suffered
heavy property damage, but
fortunately no lives were lost. At
this mill 100 houses were completely
demolished, the loss being
estimated at $7o,000.
The local physicians of Gainesville
were unable to cope with the
situation and a special train, carrying
forty physicians was sent out
from Atlanta and arrived on the
scene a short time after the disaster.
A public meeting was held Monday
night to organize relief com
mittees, and the public has been
appealed to to aid the wounded
and homeless.
Dr. Richard Woods Dead.
The many Fort Mill friends of
Dr. Hi chard T. Woods will be pained
to leHrn of his death, which occurred
Wednesday night at the
Pryor private sanitarium in Chester.
A few days prior to his death
the young man was stickeu with
appendicitis. He was taken to
the hospital on Monday and an
operattou was performed. Tlie
operation revealed that the nppendix
was already ruptured, and
while the chances of recovery were
small, the 0[>eration was considered
successful. The patient held his
own fairly well until Wednesday,
when a change for the worse took
place and the young man gradually
grew worse until 10 o'clock at.
night when death relieved him of
his suffering.
Dr. Woods was well known to
the people of Fort Mill, having resided
here the better part of 1891-2,
and was highly esteemed by all
who knew him. At the time of his
death, he was president of the
Woods Drug Co., of Chester, a
firm which has flourished during
its several years of existence. Dr.
Woods was a brother of Mr. Harppr
Worwla wltn ?a oIda wol I Lr
to the people of this section.
Slaviry Still Exists In Alabama.
The grand jury of the United
States court at Montgomery has
found an indictment against Robert
N. Franklin, a white citizen of
Goodwater, Ala., charging him
with having sold one Joe Patterson,
a negro, to J. W. Pace, a land
owner of Tallapoosa county, in
condition of peonage or involuntary
service.
The negro borrowed $1 from
Franklin, promised to pay it back
the next day. He failed to do so.
He was arrested, convicted and
fined for obtaining money under
false pretences before n magistrate.
He was sold for $25 to a Mr. Hardy,
who worked him for a year.
Then he was sold for $40 to Mr.
Pace, who has been working him
since for a year. This is only one
of many such cases.
Secret service men are working
up the cases. It is said that many
more negroes are still in bondage
in three or four counties of this
State.
Big Educational Rally.
The usual Allinnee encampment
wilt not be held at Tirzah this
year. Instead the people of the
neighborhood are arranging for a
big educational rally there. The
date has not yet been named, but
the purpose now is to have it just
after the close of the State summer
school at Winthrop, or if not
then, in August. The former will,
it is believed, bo selected as a more
propituous time. It is expected
that Governor Heyward, Superintendent
Martin and other distinguishen
men in* the Sate will be
present to make speeches.
The community is fully alive to
the importance of the meeting and
expect to nuike it a red letter day
in that neighborhood.?Hock Hill
Herald.
Small Fir* la Marvla.
The village of Marvin had a lively
little fire laat Tuesday night between
11 and 12o'clock. Mr. L. F.
Courtney's blacksmith shop, together
with a11 his tools, was
burned, and it was with difficulty
that Crane's store and other buildings
were saved from destruction.
Had the wind been a little stronger
most of the village would have gone
up iii ashes. The origin of the fire I
is Unknown.?WhsUhw Eperprise. '
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Death of a Veteran of Two Wars.
" 'Tie true, 'tie pity, and pity
'tie 'tie true" that every now and
then it becomes our duty to note
the fact that Time has swept into
"that country froin whose bourn
no traveler returns" the soul of
another soldier of the Lost Ouuse.
Uii last Wednesday at the home
of a kir.ainan, in Steel Creek. N.
CM occurred the death of John M.
Bayne, a veteran of both the Mexican
and Confederate wars. The
death of Mr. Bayne was due to old
age.'more than to any other cause,
he having almost reached the allotted
four score years.
As a very young man Mr.
Bayne enlisted in a Georgia regiment
for the war with Mexico
und it became his duty to take
part in more than one of the hardfought
battles thereof. When the
War between the States came on,
Mr. Bayne was among the first to
respond to the call of his country
for volunteers and enlisted i*n Co.
li siivti. sir...4i. r??-^i:..?
x/, ?.;i a in uuuui vni uuim i
of which the late John M. White,
a brother of Capt. ?S. E. White,
was lieutenant-colonel. Immediately
after the close of the waa
Mr. Bayne came to Fort Mill and
has made his home in this community
ever since, having engaged in
farming. Before the war Mr.
Bayne was a stone mason and is
said to have worked on the State
house in Columbia and also in
building the mason a ry for the
bridges, culverts, etc., of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta railroad.
Since his advent to Congress,
Mr. Finley has made several attempts
to secure a federal pension
for Mr. Bayne on account of the
service of the latter in the war with
Mexico, but was never successful,
owing to 6ome irregulnrity in the
discharge issued to Mr. Bayne.
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iui . i/n y 110 ? cio n jvuui uiuii,
probably never owned a nigger or
a foot of ground, but *wlieu his
State called him, be, like tens of
thousands of his fellow oouutrynien
responded to the call, with
nothing under God's heaven to
fight for except the love he bore
for his native land. And who will
say, after all, that the real heroes
of the war were not such men as
John M. Bayne.?
The interment was at Flint Hill
Baptist churchyard, of which denomination
deceased was a member.
Outlook More EncouragingThere
is undoubtedly a much
better feeling among the cotton
m At. it I. it ---
unit uifii, mm uiey uiiuk iney see
si^ns of an improvement in the
cotton nooils business, said a Charlotte
mill man to a Chronicle reporter
yesterday: "Four-yard good*
are now quoted at 4 7-8 cents. 1
would not sell at that price today."
For sometime past cotton floods
have been selling on a basis of 8^
cent cotton, but during the past
week there has been an increase of
a full cent a pound in the sellinu
price of the manufactured ^oods.
The mill men are thankful for this
rise in the price of their products
and take it as the fore-runner of
better conditions in their business.
?Charlotte Chronicle.
Made $70,000 Profit.
A rather unique situation has
developed in the Graniteville Manufacturing
Company. This large
cotton mill is located at Graniteville,
S. C., but has its executive
office in Augusta.
President T. I. Hickman closed
a deal for the sale of his stock of
cotton amounting to 3,500 hales,
and figures out a profit of $70,000
by selling his raw material and
closing down his mill for the summer,
as Compared with operuting
the mill and converting the cotton
into cloth at present pries.
While the mill is clost d the operatives
will continue on the pay
roll at half pay. President Hickman
will also utilize the closing
down of the mill to make some important
improvements and additions
to machinery.
Make Yourself a Standard.
If every citizen were such a citi
zen as yourself, what sort of a citizenship
would we have? If every
church member were such a church
member as yourself, what sort of
churches would we hnve? If every
husband, wife, daughter, son, were
built after your pattern, what sort
of husbands, wives, daughters, sons
would make up the life of the community?
If every man were to
measure himself by your standard
in the observance of the law, what
kind of civic conditions would we
hnve? It is customary for us to
measure the follies and failures of
others very strictly, while we are
slow to give them full credit for
the good qualities they possess. It
is also frequently the case that we
judge our own faults leniently, but
dwell at length upon our good
qualities. -Suppose we take a just
measurement of ourselves and try
to see what sort of a world we
should have if wo should be taken
for tho standard.?Ex.
Startling EvidenceFresh
testimony in groat quantity
i6 constantly coming in, declaring
Dr. Kind's Now Discovery
for Consumption Coughs and Colds
to be uuequaled. A recent expression
from T. J. McFarland, Bentorville,
Ya , serves as example.
He writes: "I had Bronchitis for
three years and doctored all the
time without beiug benefited. Then
I be^an taking Dr. Kind's New
Discovery, and a few bottles wholly
cured me." Equally effective in
curing all Lung and Throat troubles,
Consumption, Pnuemonia
ana wnp, uaiaranieoa ny an
druggists. Trial bott ei free, regular
sizes 50c, and $1.00,
Many of the Southern mills have
agreed to stop all night work and
to run only four days in the week.
This action on the part of the
mill is made necessary by the high
price and scanty of cotton. To
continue to run on full time would
cause a loss to the mills. How
long this reduction will last is not
stated, but we suppose it will con
tinue until the new crop comes in,
or the price of cotton goes down
very considerably. The price of
the manufactured goods has not
Gone up with the price of cotton
and this putH ninny of the miilH in
a very critical financial condition.
Worst of All Experiences.
Can anything be worse than to
feel that every minute wiil be your
last? Such was the experience of
Mrs. S. H. Newson, Decatur, Ala.,
"For three years" she writes, "I
endured insufferable pain from indigestion,
stomach and bowel trouble.
Death seemed inevitable when
doctors and all remedies failed. At
length I was induced to try Electric
Hitters nnd the result was miraculous.
I improved at once and
now I'm completely recovered."
For Liver, Kidney, Stomach and
Howel troubles Electric BitterH is
the only medicine. Only 50c. It's
guaranteed by all druggists.
Commissioner Richards of the
General Land Office has announced
the allotment of the federal irrigation
fund. This fund, which amounts
to $7,730,000 is increasing
rapidly and will, it is estimated,
approximate $15,000,000 by the
first of July. 1 n the distribuiion of
fund the largest amount will be
expended in North Dakota which
Stale receives $1,227,000. Oklahoma
comes next with $1,008,000
and Nevada gets but $23,-100, the
smallest allotment.
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Driven to Desperation.
Living iit.au out of the way place
remote from civilization, a family
is often driven to desperation in
case of accident, resulting in
Hums, Cuts, Wounds, Ulcers, etc.
Lay in a supply of liuckleu's Arnica
Salve. It's the best on earth.
25c, at all druggists.
The American Bible Society's
eighty-seventh annual report states
that almost 2,000,000 bibles and
testaments were issued last year,
an increse of 269,7G7 ov?r the previous
year. Of these 734,619 were
distributed in the United States,
including Porto Rico ami Hawaii,
and, 1,258,900 in foreign countries.
The receipts of the year were $385,000
and the expenditures $100,000.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements, not exceeding 8 lines,
will be published nndor the above heading
at 2.1 cents for oach insertion.
WANTED?We need at once a few
more teachers, both exjterienced and
inexperienced. Wo have moro calls
tins your l ban ever before. Schools
and colleges supplied with competent
teachers free of cost. Address with
stamp, American Teachers' Association,
,1. I>. Graham, LL D., Mamig r,
Memphis, Tenn. 6-27-2m
NOTICE?P. D. Barron, Esq.. of the
law firm of Finley Bairon, will
hereafter visit Fort Mill on Wednesday
of each wook and will promptly
attend to all matters pertaining to
law that may be entrusted to his
care. 6-27-tf
LOST?Near my home on May 12th, one
ivory handle, hammerless Smith &
Wesson Pistol, No. 85930, 82 calibre.
Reward for information or return of
same. O. B. Kimbrell. 5-20-3t
Wintlirop College Scholarship
and Km ranee Examinations.
The examinations for the award of
vacant scholarships in Winthrop College
and for the admission of now* students
will be held at the County Court
House on Friday, July 10th, at 9 a. m.
Applicants must not be loss than fifyoars
of age.
When scholarships are vacated aftor
July 20th, they will bo awarded to
those making 'ho highest average at
this examination.
The next session will open about September
16, 1902.
For farther information and a catalogue
address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock
Hill, S. O.
Several hundred old newspapers
for sale nt The Times office. 2Q
cents per hundred,
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OF
During the balance o
offer SPECIAL CUT I
| tire line of Men's, B(
m :
UlUlIllIlg ci
And we doubtless have
assortment of these line
shown in Fort Mill.
Men's Suit
Tat t he world can't b
a few pairs of Ladies
Cut shoes that arc woi
what we are offering tl
of these shoes before tli
be quick, for they we
Furnitui
House Fui
At ereatlv reduced nrie
$23 kind, at $18, the $'
foniers, Hall ltacks am
prices too low to men1
Lace Curtains, Windo
Etc., at llock Bottom ]
! Old - Reliat
T. B. BELK?
A Regular
3,000 YARDS ENBR01D
Rock llill nor Charlott
line of Trimmings for lesj
The 15 and 20c kii
? 12 to 15c ?
ft t 0 12C yy
Balance goes at
If you are interested,
will send or mail them to
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TRESPASS NOTICE.
All norsoiiHnro hor?>hv wnrnoil n?rjiiiwf
hunti-'K, fishing, or otherwise trespassing
upon the lands of the undersigned,
wilder penalty of the law.
W. H. WINDLE.
FOR
GOOD WHISKIES, ,
WINES, i
BRANDIES, ETC.,
CALL ON OU WRITE TO
W. H. HOOVER,
COMMUTE, N. C. !
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f this month we will
PRICES on our en|i
>y's, and Children's
nd Hats,
the largest and best
*s that have ever been
We have a line of
;s at $5.00
eat. AVe also have
and Children's Low
rth j list three times
lieni at. Get a pair
tey are all sold, and
ai t stay here long,
re and
'n!cli!n (rc
os. Sideboards, the :
20 kind at 815. CliifI
Folding Lounges at
bion. White Quilts,
w Shades, Mattings,
)riees.
)le - Store,
Proprietor.
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PickUpERY~aHD
INSERTION.
e can m>t show a nicer
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id at 13c the yard.
? 11 l-2c the yard.
,, 9c the yard,
from 3 to Sc the yard,
ask for samples. We
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