Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 11, 1905, Image 2
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OCTOBER 11, 1905.
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They seem to be doing almost
everything down in Panama eKr
cept digging.
Some people are so mean as to
wonder when the foundations for
the park cautions will be built.
'Good bye old booze." The
Yorkville dispensary was closed
Saturduy morning by a State officer.
What we didn't know about the
big insurance companies a few
months ago would till a "cyclopedia."
When a college boy is killed in
a r*w, his relatives have the satisfaction
of knowing that it was
nothing but u hazing joke.
If the New Orleans people really
wnut an early frost, they sholnd
invite Vice-President Fairbanks.
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jlilc laii piuuuuc ninvciq niijr nuic.
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Now lliiit the yellow fever germs
are overworked and are resting now
and then, the New Orleans doctors
any tli^t they "have the situation
in hand.*'
This light over the race question
in Maryland is becoming very bitter.
A young man at Fruitland,
has sued his wife for divorce just
because she ran away with a negro,
A man in South Haven, Kansas,
has a greivanco against an editor
and consulted a lawyer to find out
the best way to break up the paper.
The lawyer told him the surest
way would be to buy the paper und
ruii it himself for a few mouths.
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Secretary Shaw says the country
is in need of a more elastic cur.
rency. He is right. One that will
stretch over the rer.t aud grocery
bills and leave a little margin for
the savings bank, is the kind of
currency the country wants.
*/%That
the mills have come to the
cotton and oome to slay, requires
the proof of no tedious array of
statistics, but is convincingly
shown in the single eloquent fact
that in the last three years4S3 cotton
mills have been erected, and
of this number 405 linye been constructed
South of Mason and
Dixon's line.
The work of re-surveying the
historic Masou and Dixon line has
been completed jointly by the states
of Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The work was very carefully douo,
nnd the old stoue posts set along
its course after Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon had marked it out
in 1703, were reset in solid cement
bases and iron posts wero substituted
in places where the old posts
had disappeared.
The census bureau has issued a
bulletin showing the production
and distribution of tho cotton of
the United StateB available between
September 1, 11)04, and September
1, 1005, to be 14,455,004
bales. Of this aniounf 61 per cent
was exported, 30 per cent was usod
in domestic consumption, leaving
a surplus of 9 per cent. The do
R mastic consumption includes 36,776
bales destroyed by tire.
Blow Your Horn; Call Off the Dogs.
^r' Stribling, writing to
the Anderson Intelligencer, has
the following to say of the fellows
ifltMP .who, despite the fall in price, conMfiSc"1'
tinne to market their cotton;
"We h?d just as well stop trying
to bond otv that silly gang of farmers
that are now rushing their cotton
on the inRrket. "We have done
onr full duty trying to keep them
from losing and holding prices
down, but it seems tho more we
holler'slop'the faster they go. A
large number of cotton growers nil
over the cotton belt?as well as
^ near home?have made arrnngnients
to take a large percentage
L of this cheap cotton and set it aside
I in warehouses to await for the pnA
pennt. march r,f fools to pass by.
"I* will now be to the interest
19 claps of furitroaaod
imbepnms,
to urge
lieir cotton on
iflt as possible,
hell-hound at
dv? of sending
>88 speed. S<?
fiumpera, and
vn, and out of
xiaaiLdP- interested
m getr
way."
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A Word to the Men of Means.
There has never, to our knowledge*
been ? time when honses
were moie in demand In Fort Mill
than at present, which ia an excellent
sign of the towns growth.
We do not know of n vacant dwelling
in town at this time, bnt do
know of several families who are
compelled to board on account of
being unable to get bouses in
which to live. Some claim that
there is no money iu renting
bouses; that the returns do not
justify the iqvestment; that there
is a risk to take in renting the
house. The returns from rent are,
of course, not as high in proportion
to the investment as they were
a few years ago because the cost
of building material has increased
from 25 to 75 per oent, bqt why
pot build and charge more rent.
We do not believe there is a renter
in this place who is paying as
much house rent as he would in
other towns of the same size.
From inquiries of rales in several
different towns we are led to
believe that rents in Fort Mill are
indeed low. A vacant house is
seldom soen in the town, and if one
is offered for reut, it is only a
matter, or a very few days until a
party takes it. We know of at
least two families who are at present
wanting dwellings and these
have been on the lookout for a
month or more for such but without
success. We say to our
monpyed men, build houses, and
charge more rent. Then, too, this
scarcity of houses is not at present
confined to dwellings. We need
QAunrnl m nrn hnoinnu linnonn
UIWIU UUOIUWQ *AVSUOWr~. illtlC
is not at present, and has not for
several months been a VRcant business
houso in town, and it has been
only a short time ago that Fort
Mill missed a valuable citizen and
good family because the gentleman,
who was a merchant, could
not iind a store house in which to
conduct his business. And again,
we understand that one of the
town's most enterprising and prosperous
firms will be compelled to
discontinue business here January
1st on account of being unable to
secure a building for another year.
Such conditions are deplorable to
people who would like to see the
town go forward, and it is hoped
that those of our people who are
able to build will do so and not
allow their money to longer lay
around idle.
Government Control for Personal Profit.
B. O. Flower, of Boston, editor
of the Arena, thus comments on
the revelation of the iusurunce inquiry:
"If insurance officials are to be
permitted to contribute from the
company's money campaign fuuds
without the permission or direction
of the policy holders, it must bo
evideut that the officials will have
iu their hands the power to effect
legislation favorable to their per
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Buiitu 1 merest mm mimical to me
interest of those whose trust funds
they hold, and to compass the
election or appointment of officials
who are blind to in6iirnuce corruptions
and irregularity.
"And more than this, if custodians
of trust funds, such as are
the insurance officials, can divert
the money entrusted to them to
influence election, it requires no
special foresight to see the early
overthrow of free government, by
an inteiested plutocracy, a repetition
of the old, old story of the
destruction of democracy by class
or privileged interests controlling
government for personal enrichment
an power."
Letter to MoELHAN Y-PARKS CO,
FORT MILL, 8. 0.
Dear Sirs: Tho easiest business in this
world is dry-goodB; tho ruaaon is: your
customers want your stuff as much ns
you want to sell it; they come-in; you
show it and still it. That's tho whole
business, except your buying tho goods.
Devoe comes next. It saves money,
and people like money. They like somebody
else's more than their own; they
like to make it more than save it; they
like to kcc'p it perhaps as well as to
make it.
Building run-down fast, without
paint; poor paint is the same. Dovoe is
the means of stopping a leak; a big
one. AH we'vo got to do, to sell Devoe,
is to show that a man saves money by
using it.
E L> Jewell, Corry, Fa, painted his
house 5 yoai ^ ugo with a mixed paint:
11 gallons. Tost spring ho pointed Dovoe:
10 gallops. Baved 915 to $20.
Yours truly
fl'.i F W Dkvok & Oo.
F 8. W B Ardrey & Co sell our pnint.
Best cotton was quoted 9.25
cents on this market yesterday.
A Brutal Murder iq Camden.
The whole State was shocked
Wednesday when it became known
that Mr. R. A. McDowall, a prominent
citizen nud merchant of i
Cauden, had been waylaid and
foully murdered Tuesday night i
while on the way home from his
business. He was struck in the ,
baok of the head, presumably with t
a heavy club, and robbed of his ,
wptcb, keys and money. The spot <
selected for the foul deed whs near
a large tree, opposite Hampton
park. McDowall did not arrive
at home as usual and his wife sent i
ner 14-yenr-olci son to see was detaining
bis father. The little fel- i
low had gone only a short distance
when he stumbled over his father, i
who was in the last throes of death.
Mr. McDowall, the murdered
man, was 48 years old and was a
highly respected and sober citizen.
He leaves one son and a wife, who
was a Miss Haile. He was a brothof
Editor McDowall of the Camden
Chronicle.
Another chapter was added to
the horrible tragedy of Tuesday
night, when on Wednesday morning,
Mr. R. W. Porter who was
attending court at Camden ns a
juror in u murder case, carne to
consciouspeBS and found himself
two miles from the scene of the
McDownll murder, with a fractured
skull. He was brought to
Camden by a man coining in from
the country. Mr. Porter remembered
that he was with Mr. Mcdowall,
going home with him to
spend the night. It was about 8
o'clock, and he remembered the
conversation up to the tune of the
murder, but his mind was a blank
after that until he found himself
by the roadside the next niorning.
He knows nothing about how he
got to that place, but it is supposed
he wandered off unconsciously.
Mr. Porter wns taken to a hospital
in Columbia for treatment,
and it is believed will recover.
Rewards aggregating $1,000 are
offered for the perpetrators of the
deed.
Warm Times Ahead.
It is easy enough to seo that the
state campaign next year is going
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10 uo nit) most interesting ana me
most hotly contested since 1892
and we will be lucky if we oscape
a revival of the old antagonisms
and hostilities that existed at the
time, says the Spartanburg Journal.
The dispensary is going to be
the issue and will have strong
assailants and defenders. Senator
Tillman will be a candidate for
re-election and will be the foremost
champion of the dispensary.
There will probnhly be one or
more candidates against him, hoping
that the anti-diapensnry sentiment
will be the means of retireilig
to private life the unquestioned
leader of South Carolina politics
for the past 15 years.
The present legislature will
hardly feel disposed to take rndical
and definite action on the whiskey
question until the people have
passed on it at a primary election
after a cnmpnign waged on that
issue. After such a contest the
people can if they so desire, eleot
n legislature that will immediately
abolish the dispensary law and
substitute prohibition or another
form of legalized liquor selling or
local option to the counties as between
dispensary, high license and
| prohibition. The election of this
legislature therefore will be the
crucial point, of the contest.
Candidates for state offices will
in all probability be selected with
reference to the popular will to
the dispensary and if the issue
should hpf>nmn snflRpiAnflv nruilo
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this measure might be applied
also in some degree to the candidates
for United {States senator,
although, of course, a senator in
congress lias nothing to do with
the dispensary in South Carolina.
This issue might also be forced on
down and through county politics
and every candidate for olfice be
required to align himself on this
3 nest ion and stand or fall on the
etermination of the democratic
voters on this principal.
Certainly some warm times are
coining in South Carolina with the
campaign of 1006. Nothing to
compare with it has happened
since 1802 and nothing to compare
with it can happen without stiring
up much bitterness and factional
and party feeling.
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Mr. Marvin Wliitlook lias acoeptt
d n clerkship in the store of
Mr. JL. ?T. Mnssey.
DON'T BORROW TROUBLE.
It Is a bad habit to borrow anything,
hot tho worst thing yon can possibly
borrow is tronble. Whin sick, sore,
heavy, weary and worn-out by thcjtain
and poisons of dyspepsia, biliousnoss.
Bright's disease and similar internal
disorders, don't sit dowu and brood over
your symptoms, but fly for relief to
Electric Bitters. Here yon will find sure
and permanent forget fulness of all
your troubles, and your body will uot
be burdened by a load of debt disease.
At Ardrey's drug store. Price GOo.
Guaranteed.
Newbold Left Afoot.
Reports sent out from Kershaw
Inst Wednesday were to the effect
that W. H. Newbold, a former
dispensary detective, was practically
run oat of the town on Tuesday.
Newbold, who is at present i
practicing law in Chester, had excited
the ire of the people of Kershaw
on account of his being engaged
as a detective to work up
evidence against the parties accused
of lynching a white man,
John Morrison, who had killed
three men and ruthlessly and
crueny anaoa a tourtti victim dii
the streets of Kershaw. Under a
Btatute allowing the estate of a
mobbed citizen to bring suit for
damages, New bold has sued Lancaster
comity for $5,000, in behalf
of Morrison's estate. Tuesday lie
and McCaskell, administrator of
the estate, went to Kershaw to get
evidence in the suit. On all sides
they were insulted, abused and the
enraged citizens were with difficulty
restrained from violenpe.
Newbold appealed to Mayor Welsh
in his office and the mayor was
about shake hands with Newbold
when the mayor's son stepped between
them ami cursed Newbold J
vilely. Steve Welsh was one of
the pnrtics whom Detective New- I ;
bold and H, B, Howie had charged
with the murder of Morrison.
Newbold then seeing that there (
was no protection for him, left
afoot, going toward Camden. McCaskell
attempted to go to Lancaster,
and was taken from the
train and would have been horsewhipped,
but for hia pitiful appeals.
Newbold caught a train
and reached Camden. The jnob
is said to have meant to whip him
and to kill him if he drew a pistol.
Green and Gay nor in Savannah.
Gaynor and Green, the alleged
grafters who have been hiding behind
legal technicalities 111 Canada
for the pust year or more, passed
through this place Sunday night
011 train No. 29, bound for Savan- (
nah.
The much-talked of tirieoner i
occupied n smoking compartment
in a Pullman car and were i 1
charge of two United States deputy
marshals. (iaynor and Green
are charged with conspiracy to dofraud
the government out of large
sums of money in connection with
tho river and harbor improvement,
at Savannah.
NEW CURE FOR CANCER.
All surface cancer t are now known to
bo curable, by Bucklen's Arnica Balve.
.Tas. Walters, of Dufticld, Ya., writes:
"1 had a cam or ou my lip for years that
seemed incurable, till Bucklen's Arnica (
Salvo healed it, and now it is perfectly S
well." Guaranteed cure for cnts and
burns. 25c at Ardrey's drug store.
Tho Florida State board of
health has issued an order forbidding
boarding schools and colleges
in the State to open before govern
ber 1, on account of the yellow !
fever infection.
PLANS TO GET RICH
are often frustrated by sudden hreak- ' ]
down, due to dyspepsia or constipation. }
llrace up and take L)r. Kiug's New Life i J
Pills. They tak.i out the materials '
which are cloggiug your energies, and J t
give yon a now start. Cure lmadaolio |
and dizziness too. At Ardrey's drug [ j
store; 25c., guaranteed.
Mr. John Youngblood is report-I
ed to be seriously ill of typhoid i ;
fever nt hie home in lower Steel
Creek. ]
FULL, OK TRAGIC MEANING ]
are olicso linos from .T. H. Simmons, of
Casey. Ia. Think whut might hnvo re- ;
suited from this terrible cough if he had
not takeu the medicine about which ho i
writes: "1 had a fearful cough, that disturbed
my night's rest. I tried every- .
thing, but nothing would reliove it, un- '
til I took Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption. Coughs and Colds, which
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more than one would naturally i
suppose. Why? Principally lie- cause
we keep up with all the now
things, the good tilings that are ^
continually coming along. We |
montion this because we are proud j !
of it, and as a hint to our own 1
home people?the rural route patrons.
"Write or telephone us your
wants and the goods will he forthcoming,
alright, and you'll be satisfied.
Lot us serve you to our
mutual advantage. And when wo
can accomodate you?aside from
business?wo will gludly do so as
far as time permits.
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Skirts, new .12>?c ill
: Collars... 2o ^
; Caffs, per pair 4c
' Underskirts He t?
; Drawers.............. 8c ! ai
i f-ocks, per pair, He i 1!
Handkerchiefs, liueu He jj'
Handkerchiefs, silk 5c
Punts 25c to 7oc | 11
Coats 25c to 75c ' R
| Vests 25c
Jshirt-Waists 15c up ' d,
, Curtains 60c up tl
Blankets, single, 15c; double, 2*c >
Counterpanes 10c
Table Cloths 10c
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AN ORDINANCE.
ixing the Levy and Providing for the
Collection of Property Taxes in the
Town of Fort Mill, S. O.
Be it ordained by the intendaut and
ardens of the town of Fort Mill, S. C..
ad by authority' of the same.
Sec. 1. That two mills on the dollar
i hereby levied on all taxable property
ithin fhecoriK>rate limitsof Port Mill.
. C.t on January 1, 1905, be and the
inie is lieruby made, for ordinary pur*
3ses.
Sec. 2. That said taxes shall bo and
Bcome dne and payable on the lath
ly of October, 1905, at the ofiico of S.
7. Parks, secretary and treasurer,
ad the treasurer's books shall be open
:i that date for the collection of said
ixes, and the same may be paid up to
ad including the 1st day of "November,
M)5, after which date said taxes may
a paid with 15 per cent penalty added
ntil tho 15th day of November, 1905.
Sec. 3. That on and after November
5th, 1905, executions will bo issued for
II delinquents for the full amount of
ixes due together with the iifteen per
mt penalty and all costs, including one
ollar cost for every execution issued by
le treasurer.
Done and ratified in council assembled
tis 29tli day of September, 1995.
\Y. 13. Mcaclutm
Attest: Inteudanfc.
S. W. Parks, Sec. and 'lreus.
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ill wear as lonsr as Dovoe'a. No otlicr?
re as heavy bodied, because Dovoe eigli
3 to 3 ounct s more to tho pint,
old by W. 1). Ardrey & Co
iM tin Risk?
i, you or your family, if
Hd Line Life Insurance
:ourse. So, when I as!
t say "I am not able to
n the risk of dying up
lily is taking the risk
is depending on your
* a livelihood, willingl\
K2o or$30--tlic price of
s each year than run
d be without both you
i you are able to make,
le cost of a life insirrtter
than she could do
ling anility.
older, think over th'^
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