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B. W. BRADFORD.
.J.IX.U? M.A- . 1 1 ?J- '- - -
MAY 3. 1906.
Jt JUJ- -!i. ! 1 < Jhe
Trend of Things ;Pqiit?cal.
Yesterday's Charlotte Observer
'has a very ioteresting article |
from its Columbia correspondent
^concerping the club meetings
Saturday in this county, and a
review of the political situation
and outlook." After a visit to
Rofk Hill this W^plf tllf? r?nwno
pondent writes.his paper in part j
as follows:
r
"The dispensary people of York
.county haye organized their;
fonces to oust Senator J. Steele i
Brie?, the anti-dispensary leader .
.and author of the Brice act, under
whfoh 14 counties have voted out,
their dispensaries. The correspondent
of The Observer, who
tyaft in Rock Hill this week, was
informed by a number of dis.*pensary
leaders that Senator
Brice's defeat for re-election as !
/county chairman May 7, was now
practically certian, enough delegates
having been elected last
week to accomplish that end.
W. H. Stewart, who has served
a lpng number of years as read-;
fog clerk of the Senate, and who
is a splendid organizer, is to be
put up to beat Mr. Brice."
The foregoing may come as a
shock to those who have not I
/Closely watched the York sena-1
ttpr's maneuvers during the last
general assembly and his general
movements since that time, but j
;to the leaders?those in whose
hands rests the welfare and fu- j
fore preservation of clean county
Politics?it has for some time been
apparent that a change would be j
very acceptable. Continuing The
Observer correrpondent says:
-" 'It is thought likely that the
/anti-dispensary people of York
tyill also put,out a legislative ticket.
In tnat event, other counties
will, in all probability follow suit.
TkoVn.l, ^ 1
IW iUin ^ LU IIUU'K j
the beginning of drawing 'sharp ,
fines on the dispensary issue in
$He coming summer campaign."
iln which case the people of
South Carolina will only see the
fu^tylment of Senator Tiilman's
predictions of several w^eks ago ,
concerning the approaching campaign.
But The Times wishes:
?o take issue with the Observer's
correspondent when h? says:
'"The vSib^m centime in York
pppe^rs be Fort Mill, where a
sUaight Stewart delegation has
Jeen chosen to the county conven-1
tlpn. The Ridden hand seems to
J>e that of ex-lteprese native J. R.
Ilpile, of that place, who is back- i
jing Mr. Stewart1.**
The club meeting was advertised,
conducted strictly according,
?o the rules of the party, and if
there were "hidden" hands pres- i
Opt ^hejr work was not in evi-!
jdence. Ex-Represenative Haile,
jto be sure, was on hand and, as
/ jpsual, took part ip the rerorganijpation
and election of delegates,
Jsut as for expressing opposition to
York senator, Mr. Haile's!
actions in this respect were none
the more marked than a large majority
of others present. Of Mr.
price's support among newspa
pers of the county, of which th^re j
are five, The Observer correspon-;
>Jent says:
"The Yorkville Enquirer is j
supporting the Brice faction
tnough all the other newspapers
Of the county are said to have
lined up on the other side.*'
Yes, practically all (and when
we say practically we mean all but
ope?have in reality taken the j
*^pt)?er" ?the right?side. The j
' one" paper to wbich we refer
is seemingly "on the fence."
In summing up the political
situation in this countv it may
be said that in the perpetuation
of a clean political machine a
change is needed and this
will cpme to pass in the coming
convention and August primary.
Xork vqters are awake to the sit-.
ytatiop and are up and doing.
gAgfe; The r\ewspt pe * is a law book for j
P $ie indolent, a sermon for the
thoughtless, a library for the poor
^nd an admonisher for the lawJdMf.
It may stimulate the most
ti j^ffprent, but it cannot be pub
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Note and Comment.
The county candidates are still
in hiding;. Can't someone stir a
bush ?
Our doctors ,say they have to
combine all the desiderata of
every furruginous tonic prescribed
by every school of medichie^
as an antidote for green cQjqfraif&
cucumbers. ^ .
The tfaoaflliCt&at ''neoais cares
and no one krto^v oiights many
a bud of' proipise. Be it the
young artist at the easel, the
workman at his beritm, the boy at
his mathematical problems or
your little girl at the piano, give
what praise you can.
It is only duty and justice to
encourage your home paper, extend
to jt the nourishment to
1. 1_ ix i.M _ i r\
wmcn 11 is enuueu. ray your
subscriptions promptly, anfl^endL
a few extra copies Lo your relatives
and friends at a distance.
They will appreciate the favor
and so will we.
*
This is iust the right size town
to settle down in and enjoy life.
Every thing for the comfort of life
can be bought here and $10 will
go as far as $25 in larger cities.
When you want to leave the farm,
come to our town and build a nice
comfortable home and be among
the best people in the world.
m *
If, perchance, a copy of this paper
should fall into tne hands of
ariy who is in search of a new
location?a place where church]
school and social advantages arei
given emphasis, and where youl
can live out your allotted number
of years without fear of pestilence
or famine, we say. like one of old,
"Come thou with us and we will
do thee good," without emphasis
on the "do."
The postoffice department has
decided that children going to and
fi*nm ooUaa! 1>? -H" 5
ii vui tivuuvi oiiu.ll UUt DC UllUWtf'l
to get their parent's mail, so do
not blame your post master if,
your child is refused th$ -mail.
The postoffice habit among children
nas become a nuisance both
to the public and the postmaster,
and the department has done
wisely in making this decision.
We hope this will be observed and
no other means need to be used
ta enforce this law:
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The senate committee on privileges
and elections, to whom
was referred the Tillman bill to
prohibit corporations making
cotributions in connection with
political electious, has made a
favorable repoit, and has recommended
that it pass. This is indeed
a compliment to Senator
Tillman; likewise further assurance
to his friends in this State
that they haye a representative
in Washington City who is not
only doing a lot of work but is
accomplishing things.
* *
In these days of strife between
two great political parties we
must remember that after all we
are just a band of brothers here
on earth traveling from the cradle
to the grave. W e live side by
side, our children attend the same
school and after the smoke of the
battle has cleared away, we will
still be friends and neighbors.
Let the bitter things go unsaid.
At best, life is short, and we get
out of it a full measure of sorrow.
Le us in our little city live as one
big, good natured family.
News comes from Washington
that Senator Tillman visited the
war department a few days ago
and learned that the department
would buy a large quantity of
tent and sheet cloth from Southni?n
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oin mum, <11 in uieoenaior airects
all South Carolina mills having
this class of goods to sell to communicate
with the depot quartermaster
at Philadelphia. Verily,
the Senator seems to have an eye
(one) single to the welfare of
employer and* employe alike..
Hut, tnis is only characteristic of
the man.
GoldHill.
The crops that were planted
early are coming up nicely. Our
farmers have almost finished
planting their corn and cotton.
One of our "crack" farmers, who
has finished, is preyaring to
stock the market with potatoes
this fall.
We are glad to report that
Miss Azilee Wilson, who has
been sick is a great deal better.
Miss Hamilton Smith of Lower
Steel Creek spent Saturday
night with Miss Maggie Wilsoa
Mr. S. P. Blankenship and
family visited Mrs. T. M. Faris
Saturday. Mrs. Sallie Billue
is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Edgar Campbell, of Steel Creek.
rm _ i _ j TEnanKi-u
i ne iaoies' Missionary Society
held their meeting at Oak Grove
Wednesday, April 25. 3 %
.' Al;:%
^SS!fSTwm^^on.
feSH^Bictions oi
1 pursuarJ^gyygr the York
i Chairman^M^raB Executive
county MWKii club meJ;
1 ComiuittAL^^^^ the town
Saturday ^ Bgof .reorgani.
zatio^ur^mggggon in xora (
Crook.
i tipd^fi? * *
FMBIlB?El5raqTorq was elected
|tfcgjff?Sfcry secretary. A comrWittee,
consisting of Messrs.
J. R. Haile, C. P. Blsnkenship
and B. W. Bradford, was appointed
to nominate club officers
for the year and the following
were nominated and elected:
C. T. Crook, president; F. Nims,
1st vice-yresident; J. M. Spratt,
2nd vice-president; W. L. Hall,
secretary and treasurer. Executive
committee?S. H. Epps,
Sr., , J. W. Ardrey, F. Nims,
HtaCrook, W. Mc. Culp.
FouowiAg this was the balloting
for delegates and alternates,
nominated by5(|L committee of
seven, to the coimty convention
which resulted as fofhvws:
Delegates: Alginates:
! J.W.McElhaney W. Led Hall
i T. S. Kirkpairick B. W.. Bradford
i W. F: Harris L. L.iWorrells
I D. A. Lee D.dlKimbrell
Fred Nims Le<n\rmstrong
J. R. Haile, Sr. iB. F. Bennett
J.H.Sutton jiV. H. Jones
C. T. Crook C. Faris
C.P.Blankenship *1. L. Kimbrell
W. H. Windle *W. P. Epps
T. V. Boyd F T. F. Davis
S. H. Eps, Sr. J. G. Smith
Mr. C. P... Blankenship was
"unanimously , elected a member of
tnwpounty executive committee,
and Mr. B.Id, Faris was recommended
atrf delegate to the State
convention at Columbia May 16,
with Mr. J. W. McElhaney as
alternate.
Flint Hilf
Your correspondent has been
enjoying some very pleasant
events. On the 25th of April, I
attended the Woman's Missionary
Union, which convened with
the Oak Grove Baptist church.
The forenoon ^ya3 given to the
ladies to transact their business,
which they did in a very appropriate
manner. A sumptuous
dinner was served on the grounds.
In the afternoon Rev. E. S.
T> _ * * '
I jtveeves maae an address on
"Womans Work."
On the 29th I attended the
communion service at Pineville
Brptist church, of which Rev.
A. L. Stough is pastor. Rev.
E. S. Reeves did the preaching.
The services were very elevating
and impressive.
Mrs. A. I,. Stough. is very sick.
Mr. Alvin Edwards, is quite
sick. "sMrs.
Dominy made her husband
Mr. Dominy, a present of
a fine boy a few days ago, of
which he seems to be very proud.
Mrs. Simpson, of Charlotte,
who has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. J. E. Miller, has returned
home. Mrs. McNeely.of Charlotte,
is visiting at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Miller.
The farmers are all smiles now.
They have finished planting, and
have had two nice rains and their
corn and cotton are coming up
nicely.
Pleasant Valley.
Prof. Hoke's school enjoyed a
fine picnic at Mr. D. O. Potts'
spring on last Friday.
Mrs. O. \V. Potts was quite
sick for a few days last week.
Dr. Potts gave a dining last
Wednesday in honor of their
j guest, Mrs. Wrer.n. Those presi
ent were, Mrs. 0. P. Heath, of
J Charlotte, Mrs. W. F. Harris, of
; Fort Mill, Miss Lizzie Cou&ar, of
Chester, Mrs. J. K. Hall and Mr.
and Mrs. D. 0. Potts, of this
: place.
Mrs. J. W. Hall is visiting in
I Fort Mill this week. Prof, and !
! Mrs. Hok^ will go to Rock Hill ;
; tomorrow Miss Margaret Hengan,
who has been with her aunt i
Mrs. 0. W. Potts, will go to j
Pineville tomorrow. Mr. Oscar
Faris was in P. V. Sunday.
Mr. John K. Hall lost a fine i
mi lie* H v lirrhtiiini,
. >.f,>iv>iiii? i i may.
A few Pleasant Valleanns had
! a picnic at the dam Saturday.
Strawberries are ripening'. Several
of our neighbors report al-;
ready having had pies.
We hear that there will be
wedding bells ringing in P. V. ,
during the month of May.
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of I>\\ Kikn's New Lifo Pills in.reason
They tuivo yon from danger a?d bring
quick mid painless release from oonsti- 1
nation and tho ill* growing out'of it.
I S* nmgth and vigor a 1 way8 follow their
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Fresh Bakers' Bread
Civory Saturday at JOJSKS'. '' ' *'
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j A PEN PJCTUR ^OP PANAMA
and knew what I know now, I'd
enjoy spending at least a few
months in a place like that, just
to see and satisfy myself of how
high a woman's value can rise;
for, truly, a fine woman is regarded
most reverently there.
I She's the cynosure of eyes. I
| don't mean by this that the un,
married men, obtrude themselves
, or intrude either; but they have
a wav of makinc a woman roal 17.0
more keenly there that she really
J is all that has ever claimed for
her?Queen of Creation.
About the only American girls
here officially are the nurses and
the wives. But a few daughters
(Misses) are sprinkled here and
there, though few of them work
?except it be to entertain their
admirers. I know of just one ofI
ficial American giri stenographer.
She is stationed ot Colon, and
gets the regular stenographer's
salary of $125 per month. I am
sure though that the Government
would take as many girl Stenographers
as would offer themselves
for by so doing the men there
would be more contented to stay.
We have one little girl (she's
postively "a peach" so all' the
jealous boys say) there at Empire.
She just arrived a few
tj? __ ?
| uajo a^u. nci miner IS till tJIl;
gineer, and she has charge of
I the new telephone exchange,
which has iust been established.
| She's a dainty, rosy-cheeked,
; dark-haired, brown-eyed damsel,
timid as a fawn, and 1, of course,
arn sorry for her; i. e. I am
sorry she has not some other
l girls with her.
On the steamer enroute from
Colon, were six young men, all
of whom came up for the sole
purpose of taking back their respective
brides-to-be. So it may
well be taken for granted that
such men are very much in
I earnest in regard to the digging
: of the wonderful waterway which
though few seem to realize it, is
I really a part of these United
I States. Uncle Sam doesn't want
; any weaklings or tenderfoots or
sloths down there; but to men
whojjike to work?either in the
offices or at the actual drilling
and excavating?every courtesy
comfort and consideration that
1 is common to humanity, will
be generously extended.
James Hampton Lee.
P. S.'?Since writing the above
my attention has been called to
an artiale just published in the
Charlotte Observer, from its correspondent
on the Isthmus, Mr.
Woodworth Clum. And inasmuch
as Mr. Gum's article ap
t pears in certain particulars contradictory
of my own, and as both
articles will be read by many
Fortmilllans, I feel justified in
appending a few additional remarks.
I am not aware of how long
j Mr. Clum has been in the Canal
Zone; but the general tenor of
his article certainly convinces me
that if he is not a professional
pessimist, he at least has made
only the most superficial observations,
deducing therefrom very
erroneous and unjust conclusions.
; He has selected the very worst
I spot and example in the entire
zone, and has conveyed the impression
that it is typical of conditions
all along the line. Can
Col. Gorgas or Col. Anybody Else
compel p negro to live on the hill!
tops of the country if the negro
! prefers to reside in the lowlands
near town? Now those very nei
groes, over whom Mr. Clum seems
! so solicitous, know only too well
; that loading and unloading steamers
and dilly-dallying on the
streets of Colon is easier than
diggiiig on the canal. They therefore
are very likely living in the
swampy sections of their own
| volition; for there are better
| quarters elsewhere. But supposing
there were not? There
I arc some things which it is impossible
for Uncle Sam to accomplish:
for instance, to build houses
without lumber. True, houses
for both white and black are being
rapidiy built right now. But
they are also rapidly filled. At
Culebra at this moment lies lfi -
000,000 feet of lumber, just
brought from thousands of miles
of the Pacific coast. It might
have been turned into houses
sooner, but for the fact that some
dirt had to fly meantime. Surely,
however, Mr. Clum would not
expect the Isthmian Canal Commission
to worry over indigent
negroes, while white Americans
- perhaps forty per cent Southerners
were still without suiia-1
ble quarters. The government's
motto there is "White Americans
first, Spaniards next and then
the negroes." Yet, . notwithstanding
Mr. Clum's intimations
and insinuations to the contrary, j
the negro there on the canal
fares, if not sumptuously, at least I
fine Certainly finer than in
+
! Jamaica, where they are ground i
into the veiy dus?. As clerk in ,
the mining department on the
Culcbra division, in .which fully
live hundred negroes were employed,
I am .able to state that
those negroes are positively happy.
And a large per centage of
those who go home, go only on ,
vacation. 1 have myself, by direction
of the Supt. of Mining,
given many such letters to help
them get back, guaranteeing ,
their old positions to them on
their return. And it is passing
strange, if Mr. Clum's allegations
of bad treatmeat of them
be true, that old employes go and
bring back their brothers, wives J
and sistefs to endure the terrible
things which Mr. Clum so imaginatively
depicts. The real
tmf-h is that iirKt-rlnas pnt.tncrps
and bunk houses (painted, too)
are furnished to both Spaniards
and negroes who work on the
canal proper, at all points between
Colon and Panama City,
without one cent of charge. Perhaps
Mr. Clum's bugaboos were
victims of some of the embryo
grafters of the Republic of
Panama; but, as for Uncle Sam's
officials down there?they are
mosP.y earnest, energetic men
of scientific attainments and
plenty of executive ability.
But when one reads Mr. Clum's
postscript (ah, his conscience
wasn't quite easy, was it?) it is
to iaugh! I refer to his really
absurd inference that the officials
down there rushed to rectify
errors and delinuuencies that
he pointed out and proposed to
expose. Why, if they cared so
much as that for criticism, and
heeded everybody's advice, they
would accomplish nil. They are
too old at the game for that.
Far be it from me to enter into
any controversy with the Observer's
gifted correspondent, but
if a question of accuracy is to be
raised, my statements can be
verified. J. H. L.
TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.
All persons having claim8 against the
estate of L. G. Wilson, deceased, are
: hereby requested to present them to
i me, duly authenticated, within the
I time specified by law. All persons indebted
to said estate must make payment
to me at once.
S. P. WILSON,
Administrator,
April 3<?, 11M)0
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