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/ LONG IMPRISONMENT
ABOUT TO TERMINATE?
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v JUy of Hope for Connecticot Convict
y " After 50 Years Behind Bars.
When the Connecticut State
board of pardons meets at Hartford
this week it will consider and :
act upon an application for the |
the pardon of John P. Warren,
*vho is officially designated as
, convict No. 1 on the roster of I
/ the big Connecticut State prison
at Wethersfield.
If favorable action is taken by
the board, and it is generally believed
that such will be the case,
the coming Christmas will be a
happy one indeed for Warren, for
it will be his first Christmas outouIq
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century.
On the day the board of pardons
meets to consider his case
Warren will have completed an
even 50 years as an inmate of
the State prison. He is believed
to be the longest imprisoned life
convict in the United States, and
possibly in the world. When
the doors of the big prison first
closed behind him the Civil war
had not commenced, railroad
transportation was in its infancy
and such common conveniences
of the present day as the telephone,
the electric car, the automobile
and the typewriter were
unheard of, not to mention the
skyscraper buildings, wireless
telegraphy, flying machines,
submarine boats and a hundred
and one other things with which
the present generation is familiar.
Wife murder was the crime
for which Warren was sentenced
to life imprisonment. One day
in July, 1859, he invited his 18year-old
wife to take a walk with
him, and, coming to a brook near
their farm in Wilmington, a small
town in Tolland county, in northeastern
Connecticut, he suggested
that they take off their shoes
and stockings and bathe their
feet in the cool waters of the
brook.
She acquiesced, but once near
the brook, Warren seized her
and held her head under the foot
or more of water until life was
extinct, Just what was the
motive that actuated the man
to commit the deliberate, coldblooded
and apparently unprovoked
crime on his wife, none
know, and Warren himself has
never talked of the crime, since
he confessed and pleaded guilty
at the time of his arrest.
Warren's plea of guilty and
his attorney's earnest plea for a
second degree sentence saved his
life and he was sentenced to
prison for life on the day on
which a notable meeting was
held in- Hartford of famous
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Connecticut patriots, under a
call "to save the Union." The
war feeling was just then beginning
to become a factor in
national politics, but Warren
was taken to Wethersfield before
the war commenced, and what
has happened in the 50 years
that have elapsed since that
time, he knows of only indirect- i
ly and from what he has been
permitted to read.
It speaks well for the methods i
employed at the State prison that i
the 50-year inmate shows little j
I evidence of failing nowers, either
mental or physical. Though 71. |
he looks more like a man of 45 or
perhaps 50 years. He is alert!
mentally and takes an active
part in all that goes on about
him. In recent years he has
been allowed considerable freedom
in the institution, though ]
never permitted to leave the
prison grounds.
If the aged lifer is released
through the action of the board
of pardons this week he will be
well taken care of during the remaining
years of his life by his
t^vo younger brothers and other
members of his family, all people
of excellent standing. It is
understood that the application
for a pardon has been indorsed
by many persons of prominence
who have interested themselves
in his case.
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Dispatch Trains by 1 elophone.
The statement is made that
within a short time the Southern
railway will install a telephone
system along a portion of its
Charlotte-Washington line for
use in dispatching trains. The
| phones will be tested as to their
advantage over-the present tele- j
; graph system and if satisfactory
they will doubtless he installed
| over the entire system.
The telegraph lines will be
kept ready for service and if the
I phones are not satisfactory for
j dispatching business the instruments
will atrain beinn to click.
! However, the dispatchers are
j said to be enthusiastic over having
a phone system and believe
that it will be a considerable im
provement.
The telephone system is being
j used satisfactorily on other rail!
roads.
| SOUTHURN RAILWAY
| The following is the correct schedule
; of the arrival of the Southern railway
; passenger trains at Fort Mill. Trains
I 29 and 30 do not stop at this place exi
cept upon Hag:
i NORTHBOUND.
I No. 30 10:38 p. in.
I No. 3G 8:50 a. in.
No. 28..- 5:15 p. m.
SOUTHBOUND.
No. 29 4:00 a. iq,
1 No. 35...- 6:47 a. m.
J No. 27._ 5:15 p. m.
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CHRISTMAS EXERCISES I
AT GOLD HILL ACADEMY 1
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Interesting Program Prepared for the Evening
of December 23.
The friends and patrons of the
Gold Hill academy are looking:
forward with a great deal of
pleasure to the Christmas entertainment
which the teachers and
pupils"of the school are to give
in the academy on the evening
of December 23. Under the di- j
rection of the teachers, the
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pupus wno are to taae part in
the evening's exercises have
been rehearsing industriously for
some time and two hours of j
pleasing entertainment is offered |
all who care to attend. There :
will be no admission fee. nor will!
the hat be passed for any purpose
was the assurance of the
young gentlemen who brought
the following program of the
exercises to The Times office:
Opening address?C. E. Crook.
Quartet, "It Looks Like a Big
Night Tonight" By Messrs.
Crook, Paris and Epps.
Music By orchestra.
' Recitation, selection from
"Christmas Night in the Quar-:
ters" By Morgan Paris.
Music?By orchestra.
Play, "A White Shawl."
Characters: Dr. Adolphus Katz
(with a fad), D. V. Epps; Arthur
Clayton (engaged to {Catherine),
W. M. Wilson; George Ryall
(engaged to Elizabeth), J. E.
Epps; (Catherine and Elizabeth
Steele (sisters), Roberta Bradley
and Alda Therrell; Betsy Briggsi
(their aunt from the country), I
Cammie Crook. !
Act I ?Arthur's little joke, and
its consequences. The doctor's :
wooing and Aunt Betsy's mis- i
take. Elizabeth's little flirtation,
and George's strategy. The i
midnight assignation. The white '
shawl makes trouble. The telltale
ring. The wrong Elizabeth.
"Turkey Song" By 15 children.
Act II-Aunt Betsy's second
disappointment. Arthur and
George caught in their own trap,
and how they got out of it. The
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is mated at last and everybody
is happy.
Pantomime, "Nearer My God
to Thee" ?By Misses Myrtle and
Mabel Smith, Ruth Faris,
Eleanor Crook, Hester Kimbrell.
The Cer Line Froj:Ct.
j Charlotte Observer, Friday.
Messrs. W. S. Lee, vice-presi1
dent and chief engineer of the
Southern Power company, and
j ex-Judge F. I. Osborne, special
counsel, appeared before the city
council of Gastonia last night to
i declare the intention of those inRRY
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XAUS will hav?
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terested in the interurban traction
project to begin work on the
street car system of Gastonia
before January 1. Franchise
was granted this company several
months ago when the plans
af an interurban street car system
were in an embryonic state
in the minds of the promoters of
the Southern Power company
and the determination seems to
be to follow out the terms of the
contract upon which a franchise
was secured for Gastonia, stipulating
that the work must begin
before Jan. 1.
This project is only a part of
the great scheme which is in the
minds of the Duke interests to
build a great interurban car line
in the South, connecting the
principal towns and cities of the
Carolinas. While no official
notice has been given, it has been
persistently stated that this system
would extend as far north
as Greensboro and as far south
as Anderson, S. 0., where the
Dukes have already taken over
the car system of that prosperous
little town.
The Carolina Traction company
was chartered some weeks
ago at Columbia, S. C., under
the laws of South Carolina, to
construct and operate a street
car system in Rock Hill, S. C.,
and other towns and the same
interests are largely involved in
the Gastonia enterprise. The
capital stock of the concern is
$300,000.
The best pills is DeWitt's Little Early
Risers?the safe, easy, pleasant and
sure little liver pills. DeWitt's Carbolized
Witch Hazel Salve is the
original. Good for cuts, burns and
bruises, and especially for piles. Sold
by Ardrey's Drug store.
TAX RETURNS FOR 1910.
Office ok the County Auditor of
York County, S. C.
Yorkville, S. C., November 30, 1909.
As required by statute my books will
be opened at my office in \ orkville on
Saturday, January, 1, 1910, and kept
open ? .it.il February 20, 1910, for the
purpose of listing for taxation all
personal and real property held in York
county on January 1, 1910.
Particular attention is called to the
fact that all real property must be reassessed
during the period mentioned,
and all property real or personal not
returned will be subject to a penalty
of liO per cent, which will be added after
February 20.
All returns must be made in regular
form and it is preferable that they be
made by the property owner in person
to me or my assistant, direct, on blanks
provided for the purpose. The returns
must be duly sworn to either before me
or my assistant or some other officer
qualified to administer an oath.
All it^ms of realty whether farms,
or town lots, must be listed separately,
and no return which simply says
"same as last year," or "no changes,"
will be accepted. .
Returns made on proper blanks and
sworn to before an officer qualified to
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administer an oath and forwarded to u
me by registered mail before February
20, 1910, will be accepted. S
All taxpayers are particularly re- 1
quested to ir form themselves as to the F
number of t'leir respective school districts.
and '/here they have property in d
more than one school district thev will t
please make separate returns inm.-atmg
the location of each piece of >p- n
erty. The school districts in wnich *" t s
are special levies are as follows. o-. li
23 and 27, in Bethel towrtship; Nt?. b, j s
29, 33 and 43 in Bethesda township; ! t
Nos. 9, 20 and 40 in Broad River town- s
ship; Nos. 6, 9, 16 and 20 in Bullock's
Creek township; No. 12 Catawba town- t
ship; Nos. 7, 12, 36 and 43 in Ebenezer a
township; Nos. 26, 28 and 39 in Fort F
Mill township; Nos. 2 and 37 in King's s
Mountain township; Nos. 11, 20, 33, 35, d
42 and 43 in York township.
For the purpose of facilitating the
taking of returns, and for the greater
convenience of taxpayers, I will be at _
the following places on the dates
named:
At Piedmont. SwhirHnv -Tnnnnrv 1
At Bethany, Monday, January 3 (McGill
Bros, store).
At Clover, Tuesday and Wednesday.
January 4 and 5.
At Bethel, Thursday, January G
(SifTord & Riddle's store).
At Bandana, Friday, January 7 (Perry
Ferguson's).
At Point, Saturday, January 8 (Har- ;
peels store).
At Smyrna, Monday, January 10.
At Hickory Grove, Tuesday and
Wednesday, January 11 and 12.
At Sharon, Thursday and Friday,
January 13 and 14.
At Bullock's Creek, Saturday, January
15.
At Tirzah, Monday, January 17.
At Newport, Tuesday, January 18.
At Fort Mill, Wednesday, Thursday :
and Friday, January, 19, 20 and 21.
At McConnellsville, Monday, January
24.
At Ogden, Tuesday, January 25.
At Coates' Tavern, Wednesday, Jan- .
COSTS
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A Dre9Bed Lumber, Moulding. La
T Pine), Doors, Window Sash, Bli
5 You can see what i aeil you and
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selecting his pres
all at prices thai
)OLLS, TOYS, GA1
Etc., Etc., for the Ch:
Ve have anticipated Ss
nd have laid in the
assortment of Dolls, Ga
:ver shown in this sect
ncludes hlobby Hors(
J/ agons, T rains, W
iooks, Tea Sets, Pia;
foys of many kinds, G
tnd Saucers, Etc.?in
o be found in the large
tores for Santa Claus ?
Our dolls are wonde
:inds, all sizes?from t
o the handsomest dres
cil to visit our Toy De
We would suggest that you sho]
apt to he depleted as the Christn
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At Rock Hill, Thursday, Friday and ;
Saturday, January 27, 28, and 29, and
'uesdny, Wednesday and Thursday,
February 2, 8 and 4.
The cmce in Yorkville will be open
uring ihe whole period of tuking reurns.
All males between the ages of 21
nd 60 years, except Confederate
oiuiers over uit age or ou years, are;
iable to a poll tax of $1, and all per- i
on8 so lir.ble are especially requested
o give ^e numbers of their respective i
chool districts in making their returns,
It will be a matter of much accomnodation
to me if as many taxpayers
is possible will meet me at the restective
appointments mentioned above
o as to avoid the rush at Yorkville
luring the closing days.
JOHN J. HUNTER,
County Auditor.
Yorkville, S. C., Nov. 30, 1909. '
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To See or
is the Question
I can settle that question
if you will call and have
your eyes examined.
Dr. DAV1ES,
120 E. Main, Rock Hill.
Palmetto Hotel, Ft. F/.ill
Every Friday. /
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OF BUIlilNG
delays and, in some casee, exceBSive pri
,ths, Shingles (Lot No. 1 all-heart Louis
nds, Mantels, Plaster?everything net
satisfy yourself p?> to quality. I deli"
lucement.
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ristmas Time. ^
inta Claus' needs
most wonderful
imes, Toys, Etc.,
ion. The stock S*
ss, Velocipedes, fp
atches, Pianos,
nos, Mechanical
uns, Vases, Cups 1
fact, everything /
i city department b
rful values. All
hef tiniest rag doll
sed doll. Don't
p&rtment.
3 <?arly, as the assortment
i^s holidays approach.
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WHETHER YOU WRITE 'l
50 OR 50,000
BUSINESS LETTERS
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a year, it payr -it pays well?Ito uae
neatly printed stationery.
Each letter is a unit, and the renponsibility
and solidity of your busir.css is
reflected to no small degree in the
quality of your printed matter.
So the cost of dignified, refined and
productive stationery should be a matter
of importance to you.
And not by its first cost, or the coat of
the total issue.
Q00D JOB PRINTING
costs a little trior," thnn tho in/jirinr
kind?but the compelling power, the inHuencc
and prestige it gives to your
letters ? your business is worth ten
times its extra cost. I
On your next order, suppose >"u figure
with
THE FORT MILL TIMES.
Why Pay Rent
When $2.50 a week will
Buy a Home?
For Particulars sac
L. A. HARRIS
UILD NOW |
ro buy #
MATERIALS \
ces and freight rates. I handle
liana Cypress and Nos. 1 and 2 A
>ded from foundation to roof. w
ver material the day you buy. \
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