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i ! ! vim vmmmim*tmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I Kr:',r gttf ?EiU Stows.; _....._ .?.sM05r**T,2. I'TJBLISUED EVERY THURSDAY I j^V B. W. BRADFORD. On? yertT 91.00. fix months r.o J AUGUST 9, 1906. ? sb?? hs r-rs r We are not given to boasting bnit we are prouil of the farmer boys of this vicinity. They are, with rare exceptions, a healthy, j intelligent and hippy class of j young men. We feel like taking our hat clean off when we meet them upon our streets, and no class is more welcomed in our office. Too many boys leave the farm where they would have made substantial and good citi- ' zens, and go to the city where only one in a thousand succeed in life's battle. There are I vvVirt I'nirlv drivo i boys away. There is no excuse i for this. The farmer boy is en- { titled .to his vacations, to several j .relaxations, his visits to the city, 1 good books, magazines and his ; home paper. To the observing .cm it is plain to be seen that the , old farm is the best place in the world for the average young j man and never fails to bring- a happier and more useful life than the city. Young men, you who ' tili the soil and earn your bread 1 by the sweat of your brow, we are proud of you; our latchstring ' is always out to you and you will always have a friend in this j l paper. Come and see us and! \ give us the news from your \ neighborhood. \ The editor of this paper would \ be the last man on earth to: \ knowingly say a word to hurt; the feelings of any of its sub- j scribers or citizens, especially at a time when the dark winged : \ messenger of death has brought: sorrows to the home, but from the best of motives we desire to ! ,caii the attention of our readers " \ to the custom of publishing j "cards of thanks." It is a cus torn that has outgrown its pur- | pose, if it ever had one. When .sicknesss and death comes to your home it is only natural that your friends and neighbors should do what they could to .assist you. They would be heathens if they did not. They know from the expression of your face that you are thankful j .and deeply appreciate all they do, ' and it is not necessary to rush i into print and tell the world that your neighbors were kind when 1 you was in trouble. The reading public are becoming tired of the old stereotyped "card of thanks" ; You can express to your friends j by a look or word your thankful-: ness in a more impressive man- j r ner than you can in a column of , coldly pe. T]^ere are but few editors in ' ,our/state wno nave not maae a Jm vigorous and continuous fight! m ' against the city maii order house. W < This -has been done in the interW est oj the home merchant, and I without money and without r price, \ If the editors of the land had received regular advertising rates tfor all they have said against these enemies of the d>untry^ merchant they could now j }e wearing diamonds. Now the Jlepartrpent store man appreciates ; advertising space and is willing | to take Ull the average country editor ha3 for sale, and at a good price. What other class of business or professional men would refuse business to help1 their friends especially as many of said friends never seem in the least disposed to return the com- j pliment or even appreciate it. It is said that the best way to preserve apples in winter is to wra'p them in newspapers so as to exclude the air. The excep- i tion is made, however, that the . newspaper must be cne on j which the subscription has been paid, else the dampness resulting l'rom what is "dew" may result in spoiling the fruit. Each year the poultry business -is becoming more lucrative and now assumes proportions that will soon rival any branch of 1 .jL ... _ _ *-% imrn i nan scry. rnrmers nre forced to acknowledge that the VI ! old lien can lift her own weight i in raising a mortgage on the farm. Col. W. W. I^wis. Maj. Blythe, Maj<* Walter B. Moore and Capt. ,M. C WiWis, quartermaster, fcll the-^rst regiment, were in the ; ^^jpesterday on ^liferent mat- j ^ ^ u, v _ . ^w^Jk[w>; />^>.^SBBHB| York's Taxable Values. Some very interesting figures were brought out at the meeting during the past week of the State Board of Equalization, which met in Columbia. Mr. T. L. Johnston, of Rock Hill, is the York county representative. The total per cent, increase in York county real estate for 1906 j is 10.24. The increase in value : of real estate outside of cities J and towns is $398,045, the whole being returned at $2,635,390. The average value per acre of lands for 190G is placed at $5.55. For 1905 it was $4.57. York's city and town property is returned ?1. 7Ri* "in inprunsfi over 1905 of $342,907, this male- I ing an increase of over $700,000 ; taxable values. All cotton mills j are asking for a reduction, think-1 ing CO per cent basis too high. j I Proposed Piedraomt Leacue. The Chester Reporter says that plans arc on foot to form a baseball league to include the leading towns of the Piedmont section? | Rock Hill, Chester, Winnsboro, j Union,.Abbeville, Anderson, Gaffney and Spartanburg. The idea is to furnish twelve weeks of clean, high-class sport ;^ 4-u^. i i it j?: j i in cn? way sji uui iiig mo | 1907 season. It is proposed to i hire only college and local players, i all native men, and hence as free ! as possible i'oom the usual variety I of professionals. Oscar Potts Fined $200. Oscar Potts was before Mayor ! Roddey this morning charged! with violating the State dispensary law, and he played before a 1 large audience. His arrest was effected by State Constate M. L. Wiggins, whose testimony was so conclusive upon two similar charges! that Mayor Roddey lined Potts $200 or 60 days on the gang. The prisoner's counsel, W. M. Dunlap, promptly noted an appeal, which will carry the case before the York county court, ! Potts furnishishing a bond of | $500 to perfect the appeal.?Rock Hill Record. Mr. Pollock Withdraws, Mr. W. P. Pollock, of Cheraw, who early in the campaign an- j nounced his candidacy for the seat in congress now occupied hy Mr. D. E. Finlev, on Saturday sent to Gen. Wilic Jones, chairman of the State Democratic executive committee, a letter stating his intention of withdrawing from the race. Mr. Pollock was seized with appendicitis some weeks ago and has been unable to attend any of the public gatherings in his dis- j trict and he does not feel that it .would be doing himself or his j friends justice to remain in the race. Mr. Pollock's withdrawal loaves 1 the race between Mr. Finlty and Dr. Strait. The Greater Charlotte fhatann**. Special to Th<- Time a. Charlotte, August 7. ? The Greater Charlotte Chataqua is! doing its utmost to make the September meeting the biggest event1 of its kind ever held in I ho Cnrolinas. No expense will be spared. Manager Reid says, to crowd the week with the best oratorical and musical talent to be had. It is promised that there will not be a dry number on the programme from the first meeting, which will be held Sunday afternoon, September 8, until the close the j following Sunday evening. Among the distinguished speakers and preachers who have already been engaged are Senator j B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina; j Rev. Sam. P. Jones, of Georgia, j the noted platform preacher; j Kev. Geo. R. Stewart, known in ) the No^th as the "noted Southern evangelist", and lion. John! Temple Graves, editor of the \ Evening Georgian, of Atlanta. Manager Reid is now busy in j an effort to secure additional speakers. Several hundred dollars will he 11 spent on the musical feature of } I the prop-ammo. Contracts have I already been signed with the I Daly Quartette and several solo- I ista, including Madame Shbtw ell- : Piper. On account of the occasion, all { the railroads will give special rates. [ i IK SELF DZFDilSE. BfaWHnmin, editor and manager of rtin CoiiatltationaMst, Emiwujee. Ky.. Whoru he vraji aturkoU, Xom* yeat-s ngo. by Pi low. hough t n box of Byyklon'* 'Aruiou Salvo, of which he ngMK); ''It cured nio i<i toil days nud no trantye ntneo." Quickest haahvr Of Sores, Cuts and Wounds. 96c at A Big Fish. ? A Story. The Abernathy .fishery at Jones' Mill on Catawba river on Sunday made the biggest single j catch of the season, and in I fact the biggest single catch since the establishment of the fishery several years ago. The fish was a sturgeon and was 5 feet, seven inches long and i weighed 78 pounds. It was J necessary to kill the fish by; shooting before it could be taken j from the trap. Police Officer' TNltts hnncrfjt tbr"> 5tnr"Pf?n onrl 1 placed it on exhibition and the j police station here, charging 10 J cents admission to see it. This was the first sturgeon taken from , this section of the Catawba in many years. The following concerning the landing of the big fiish comes to ; us through the Charlotte Chronicle of Monday: A terrible fish story comes today from South Carolina. A man, a North Carolinian, came into The Chronicle office this afternoon and, with a sort of youmay-not-believe-it air. said: "I've got a pretty good fish tale to tell i you, if you care to publish it." "Sure," the reporter said. I "Let's have it. Where did you catch him?" "O, I am not the fellow that! caught him,'' he replied. ' 'A man I down in South Carolina, thecoun- | try where they giow the biggest) tilings in the world, had the good i luck to have a trap built after j the fashion of Noah's ark, and j he run the fish to earth and I saw i it." "Now, you may not believe this," the man who saw the fish J continued, "but ;t's so. A fisherman of Fort Mill, S. C., put a big trap in Catawba river at Jones' Mil! some time ago. He caught small frying-pan fish until he got tired and then he bait-, ed for an enormous representa-1 live of the finny tribe. He went; to his trap yesterday morning-and ; found a sturgeon that looked like , the first cousin to a whale. "The fisherman couldn't do a thing with his catch. He called : in all his neighbors to assist him j in keeping the mighty monster | of the deep from swimming off ; with the tree, to which the trap j was fastenedwith a huge chain. "They hauled the sturgeon ashore, but it snorted and cavort- j ed around in such a fashion that; it had to be shot. The fish was about to scare the whole commu- j nity to death. It died game? the tail neves stopped switching i and the eyes still gleam in rebuke to the captors. "The fish was dragged to the largest scales in Fort Mill and weicrhed. It tinned the beam nt ! 78 pounds. It was measured, i From snout to tail it was just1 exactly six feet long. In color, the sturgeon was brindle, with , horny head like a bull of Bashan i and tins like cross-cut saws. Its | eyes were hazel. "The fisherman took his unus ual find to Mr. W. L. Ilall, mayor; of Fort Mill, who paid $2 for it, not to eat, hut as a piece of finan-j cioriug. lie built an enclosure! around the murdered fish and J charged an admission of 10 cents i for anyone to see it. At last accounts lie had made $20 from his investment. There will be a pic- J nic down at Fort Mill to-morrow and the sLurwreon will he not on exhibition. Those in charge of' the picnic are very anxious that i every Missourian in North Caro-: lina go down and take a look. ! Several guards will be kept in the pen with large clubs to ham- j mer the fish ii' it switches its tail too hard." The man who told all this j claims no kin to Aesop. [By bending low to the ground 1 we hear a rumbling that the Hon. j J. J. Bailes spent Monday in j Charlotte.?The Times. 1 A l etter of rhanks. To the citizens of Fort Mill and those in surrounding neighborhood. I wish to thank you one and all for your liberal patronage, and the courtesy shown my representative and myself while here, and to assure you all that I will always do my utmost to stand high in your esteem. If there are any mistakes or dissatisfaction on my part, I shall always be willing to make right 4/\ ?-*? -1 ' ? t- ?. Ill Villi! UXIJ l'U\ <U.J !! few coupons not used that are still out will gf>od any time at; my studio in Charlotte or on my next trip here, which will be not later than a month. Will Three Negroes Lynched . A ;nob of over two tfc ousand determined men entered Rowan j county .jail at Salisbury shortly after 11 o'clock Monday night, | removed therefrom Nea: ie and, John Gillespie and Jack ' Dillingham, charged with the nurder of the Lyerly family at Barber Junction, July 13th, and marching them to the edge of town, strung them Up to a tree, 1 iddling . the dangling bodies with Juliets. . George Ervin was takei 1 from ; his cell with his associate !S, but j after closely questioning him, j the leaders of tne mob r< turned him to his cell. Before getting in its wc rk the ? il 71 . _ _ M i 1 mco gave tne tnree victi ms an opportunity to confess the crime. Dillingham and Nease Gillespie refused cither to con fess or deny the crime. John Gillespie, in tears, maintained his innocence to the end. Tiring of efforts to get confession > from the negroes and heedless of the ' pleadings of citizens who urged that the victims be spared, the; crowd hurried the victims to thei baseball field near Col. John S.4, Henderson's residence and com- ! pleted their work. At midnight, j less than an hour from thje time ; of the final attack on tne jail, the three bodies were swinging in the moonlight from the1 limbs of an oak tree. Gold Hill" | Editor Times: We have nothing special to report, but feel like talking some whether we say anything or not. Since laying by their crops the one-gallus, wool-hat boys are just lying in the shade, eating watermelons, drinking cider and asking no one to be da's paw, and the young man is hauling his best girl around having cords of fun. Our genial friend Blackberry Ned, of the Steele Creek section, was nosing around in this section recently. We learn he has an eye on a lump of Gold Hill's rich dirt. Come along, Ned, and settle among us. We are mighty clever folks, and as you are noted for having lots of good rations, it would just suit us. A couple of Mormon elders passed through this section the past week distributing articles of their faith. We have just learned of a shooting scrape on W. H. Win die's place last Sunday between ! some white men. No particulars. Splinter. Pleasant Valley. Owing to so much rain some of our farmers have not finished laying by, but have quit. me rieasant Valley and l'rov-; idence nines crossed bats on the latter's diamond Wednesday evenine:. The score stood 12 to 13 in favor of Pcovieence. We think the baseball fever has J struck this place, as Mr. John M. ; Harris has tendered the boys land for a new diamond and they ; are now busy getting it ready} for a game. Mr. J. Z. Bailes had the mis-! fortune of losing one of his twin ' colts last week. The Pettus family and friends ' surprised their parents Thursday bv giving them a picnic at their home at Belair. Mr. Duncan Wolfe and wife after spending several days with relatives in this place, returned to their home at Fort Mill Saturday. Children's day exercises will he held at Pleasant Hill church next Sunday morning. Miss Mollie Culp, of Pineville, ; is spending a few days with friends in this place. ?After a visit of several weeks to relatives in this place. Miss Emma Ilunnicutt returned to her home in Concord Monday. Miss Azilee Skinner, of Charlotte, is visiting her grandmother Mrs. Patterson. A State Line Joke. A Yorkville man speaking of Senator Tillman's explanation at Filhert of the V-shaped State line along the northern border of Fort Mill township, tells a joke ' on an old lady who lived just above the line in North Carolina. Some years ago he says there i was talk of changing the line, j which caused considerable stir among the people along the bor- j der. The old lady was opposed to being cut off into South Cam- J Una giving as her main reason, j that South Carolina "always was J considered unhealthy."?York- i ville New Era. ? j, | Semt> c!?m ? - . * Responsibility for thr* Wreck at Hamlet. T~ The responsibility rc- ih?? awful wreck at Hamlet 'Sunday a week ago, in which twenty-five or more people were killed, seems to have been fixed by the railroad dn the operator at Rockingham. The railroad commission investigated and reported as follows: "This wreck was caused by the failure of agents of the railroad company to observe and obey the rules and regulations of the company governing the movement of trains. It would serve no useful purpose for the eorpo ration commission to find which agents are guilty of negligence in this matter, as such finding would not be binding or conclusive upon any one and might be prejudicial in other investigations. The purpose of our investigation, as all understood it, is that the corporation commission might take such measures within its powers as to prevent the recurrence of such accidents. We are satisfied that the wreck would not have occurred had the block system been in operation on the portion of the road where it occurred. The operator at Rockingham and the operator at Hamlet, only six miles apart, permitted trains to leave these places at about the same instant of time, meeting each other, and neither knew that this had been done until the trains were beyond their control. This could not have happened under the block system. Eight passenger and freight trains, besides the soecial trains, daily go over the Seaboard Air Line's side track between Hamlet and Monroe. We have no power to order the block system of signals to be put in operation on this section of the road, but we do most earnestly recommend that the Seaboard Air Line railway install | the block system between Ham-1 let and Monroe as soon as praeti- J cable."" "/!rs. TWnwcll Entertains. Mrs. J. H. Thornwell celebrat- j ed her birthday on last Thursday j by having a porch party at her I home on Confederate street, j About seventy-five invitations were issued and porch benches, i rugs and chairs and the like, and 1 the ladies were everywhere. Dr. J. E. Massey, Sr., of Rock Hill, and Mr. J. M. Spratt, of this place, were the only men invited, , their age being the same as that i of Mrs. Thornwell. Four little? girls carried through the crowd baskets with souvenirs done up in boxes and tied with ribbon. The hall was red and green where frappe was served. Ice cream, cake and mints wtrc served on the porch. The entire crowd was photographed by Plio-, tographer Scott, and everybody went home delighted with the occasion. GALVASTON'S SEA WALLmakes "life now us asfe in that city as oil the higher uplands. K. W. Goodloe, who resides 011 Dutton St., in Wnoo Tex., needs no sea wall fori safety. He writes: "I have used Dr. Kind's New Discovery for Omsumption the past tivo yenv-j and it keeps me well and safe. before that time I had a cough which for years had been growing worse. Now it's gone." Cures chronic, coughs, I aGrippe, croup, whooping cough and prevents Pneumonia. Pleasant to' take. Every bottle guaranteed at all drug stores. 1 Price 50e and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Mrs. W. S. Stewart, of Charlotte was the ftuobt Tuesday of Mrs. L. P. Fulp. THE END CF THE WCSLD of troubles 1 hat robbed E II. Wolfe, of Bear Grove, la., of all usefulness, came when he began taking Electric Bitters. He writes: ' Two years ago Kidney trouble caused mo great suffering. which I would u ver have survived had 1 not taken Electric Bitters, They also cured ino of General Debility." Sure euro for all Stomach, 1 iver and Kidney diseases, Headache, Dizziness and Weakness o- bodily decline. 1 rice50c. Guaranteed by all drug store. _ - ? Mr. las. D. Fulp, of vhe Chnrr\\ * - i'?ice wuscrvcr Torce, was amonjr the visitors to Fort Mill Monday. A MYSTEEY SOLVED. "How to keep off periodic attacks of billionsuess aud habitual constipation was a mystery that Dr. Kind's New Life Fills solved for me," writes John N. Pleasant, of Magnolia, Ind. The only pills that, are gunranteed to give perfect satisfaction to everybody or money refunded. Only 2.">c at all drug stores, -? ?? - ? Fresh Bakers' Bread every Saturday at?'0NE8'. ? Misses Maud and MarySledgre, of Chester, are spending a few days with relatives in this section. ? Old lngLls would he acarco and hard to Softld tbtv do tit r h v. fi ' Wrmi I ANNOUNCEMENTS? I COUNTY SUPT. CfEoOcAti^'" I AVc are authorized to )? > ..4oe . I i A. SHUItr ,utir.or. a < : I ! date for the office of Comity ?u*?.iw temlout of Education of York oo nitty, subject to the action of the Democratic primary election. We are authorized to announce T; | E. McMACKIN of King's Mountain j township as a candidate for cecity ! superintendent of education, subjeJb to i the notion of the Democratic voturto lij. j the approaching primary election, p H0U3E - F MP The many friends oi Mr. S. ... ;!*S, Sk , of Fort Mill, hereby auuouueo him as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of tho Democratic party. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR." ~ ' k Wo are authorized to nnnontico J. J. HUNTKR as a candidate for rcoouftlnendatioii to tho office of county Auditor, subject to the action of the Democratic primary election. . Wo aro authorized to announce W. P.. WILLIAMS as a candidate for 1 appointment :is Auditor ot York comity, subject to the recommendation of the I Democratic.voters in Lho approaching I primarv election. ! ' FOR COUNTY TREASURER. We an* authorized to announce H. A. D. NFELY a> a candidate for recoinmcudntion for re-appointment as 'Treasurer of York counry. subject to tho choice of the Democratic voters in , tho approaching primary eloction. FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR. Recognizing the ability and high worth of Mr. JOHN F GORDON, we ! do with pleasure present his name to the voters for Snperviser of York comity, subject to tin; rules of the approaching Democratic primary. VOTERS. We are authorized to announce Mr. THOMAS W. liOV Oas a candidate for the Democratic nomination for re-eleotiou as Suiierviaor ol' York county, nobj.-ct t > the choice of the Doinooratio voters in the approaching primary oieot ion. I IF ^ You would kindly call for Colgate's Cashmere Boquet or Violet Talcum Powder and Cashmere Boquet Soap, or any of Colgate's Soaps, IF jj You would nave the satisfaction of knowing you are getting the finest quality of the price, we have a large shipment just in. 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