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The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 18-NO. H8. . FORT MILL, S. C? THURSDAY, MARCH 3. 1910. ? ? $1.2a PtR YEAR. JUPITER PLUYIUS' ACTIVITY L - MORE THAN DISPLEASING When Great Mythological God Runs for Office He is Certain to Be Scratched?Too Much Wetness. Rain, rain, rain! Old Jupiter Pluvius has about! put everybody and everything! out of commission?on the blink, if you prefer?in this very important part of the world. And he has lost -friends by it. No use to suggest?*twouldn't help, any^-that his nibs does not mind such a little thing as losing friends, that he has them to spare, since there'?*e steen billion people in the world, all of whom he can? wet up and make feel like a dish rag looks any old time he cares to, and that they have no way of getting back at him since he is too far away to be hit in the face with a brick. True, old Jupe's friends can, . and do, cuss at him for what a u ?.. u J : i c . i mey say is ins uisregaru 01 ineir wishes and comfort, but the old fellow jist frowns, winks the other eye, continues to drive the water wagon in all directions all the time and knocks out the bung whenever it suits him, regardless of what anybody thinks about it. He doesn't care any more for the opinion of mere man than the Charlotte News does about misspelling words. Jupe is absolutely independent, and therein he and The New^ favor each other, only he outfavors The News?which is to say, Jupe is the real article and the Charlotte News, by comparison, is a counterfeit junk heap. But pardon the digression, fas the smart city* fellows # . sometimes say in their editorial ? no reference to the Charlotte '-News?the purpose was to let the folks of the outside world know that^ it has 'been raining, and then some, in old York for the last day or two. And to tell them, also, that they would be better off in jail than -they would be wading through , ' six inches of mud?if 'they hap- ! pened to be in Fort Mill, where there is more or less (mostly less) ineffectual effort made to work the streets in the minor end of flip anrrnnpr urlion ilia t ...v uwuuiavi, n Ubll Ult UUOllCia fly the thickest and the skeeters probe the deepest. ? Yes, it has been raining some here lor the last day or two; but things are never so bad that they could not be worse, and the prospect pleases when one contemplates that spring is almost upon us?the season of the year when the birds sing and the girls don their peek-a-boo hosiery and a lot of other gauzy things that are conspicuous for the cloth that was omitted in the making?the season when the beautiful dogfennel emerges from its winter quarters shot full of the delicious *?roma that is second only in fragrance to the precious boyhood memories of the sweet-scented billy-goat. In a few short weeks we will have forgot all of the rains and mud and bad colds in the joy of visitincr the swamps where the cat-tails and dead dogs grow. Know Anything About This Factory? How many residents of the Fort Mill of today know that there was in this town years ago a tobacco factory? Probably not one in ten; but the factory was here, nevertheless, and while it lasted only one season, the enterprise was not discontinued because it proved unprofitable. In 1883 Dr. J. E. Massey rented a tract of land"near the residence of T. B. Spratt and put it to tobacco. The tobacco plants grew luxuriantly and when suncured were manufactured into a first-class quality of smoking tobacco, which was put up in r-cent packages and placed on Ine market under the brand of "Waxhaw Belle." Ready sale was found for the tobacco, but the business was not continued after the first crop was disposed of for the reason that Dr. Massey did not have the time to de, ^ vote to the undertaking. The factory in which the tobacco was manufactured was in the rear of a drug store which Dr. Massey was conducting at the time. The building, a frame structure, stood on the site of the large store-room .now occupied by Kimbrell & Co. Baseball of the '80s Recalled. "I see by The Times that the baseball players and their friends ' are arranging to organize the i Fort Mill team for this year,"; said an old fan who was one of star players of Fort Mill a quarter of a century ago. 4 'Let me tell you about a game Fort Mill played with Pleasant Valley along in the latter '80s. That game is a memorable one and puts on the shelf any game played before or since in this section. The Pleasant Valley team, buoyed up by several' recent victories, challenged Fort Mill for a game, to be played on their grounds. We readily accepted the challenge, for our team was strong for those days, 1 and we were confident that if we did not win Xve would at least hnvp nn r> n n c o fr> lie ooliimn^ nf i the kind .of playing we did. Well, the clay arrived for the game and we left bright and early for the Pleasant Valley grounds. There we found awaiting us the Pleasant Valley play-! ers and a considerable portion of the people of the countryside. I The P. V. boys were in high feather, confident that they would make us look like a1 brownie with a hole in it. But things did't come their way, contrary to the experience of the cat at whom some one shied a brick. They did not have their regular lineup for the game, as some of i their players were down with I chills and fever, though the shortage of players did not seem ! to be a major consideration, for the Pleasant Valley folk were confident of winning anyway. ! Well, the game started about I 10 o'clock and in the first inning our boys hit the ball for a total of a dozen runs. The Pleasant Valley boys didn't do so well when their turn came to bat. We continued to hit the ball to all parts 'of the lot during the1 entire game and when we had finished the score stood 85 to 10 in Fort Mill's favor.- That was j not the only game ever nlaved i between Pleasant Valley and Fort Mi'lly however. A few years later in a game on the local grounds the boys from the country got revenge by beating Fort Mill in a splendidly played game by the score of 14 to 11. In those days baseball had not become the scientific game it is now, but it afforded quite as much amusement for the public, especially as the teams used only home players." What's Doing in Pineville. All the pupils of the Pineville high school were subjected to vaccination Tuesday, much against the wishes of the children and a number of their parents. Mayor L. A. Harris, of Fort 1 Mill, has sold a tract of 40 acres, a few hundred yards beyond the corporate limits, to T. R. Garrison. It is said that Mr. Harris received for the land just twice the amount he paid for it a year ' ago. The services of the Baptist congregation were held in the Presbyterian church Sunday, the handsome new church which ; they are building not yet being completed. A visiting minister. ! the Rev. Mr. Vipperman, of ' McAdensville, preached the ser- !1 mon. The cotton mill in Pineville J will work only four days in the week until further notice. This ; mill is one of the string of Hoskins-Chadwick mills, all of which are curtailing their out- J nut Miss Annie Gilkerson, of Col- , umbia, returned home Friday, , after an extended visit to her j cousin, Miss Rebecca Nichols. Victor Fuller, cashier of the ] Pineville Loan and Savings j bank, has purchased the home > j of T. R. Garrison, which will be J occupied in the future by Dr. and Mrs. John Hood. * # Unlawful to Shoot or Trap Fox. , An act affecting York county 1 was passed at the recent session < of the General Assembly making 1 it unlawful to shoot or trap any 1 fox at any time, or to kill or i take in any other manner any i fox between the 15th day of ] February and the 1st of September, under a penalty of not more ] than $25 or 30 days imprison- 3 ment. 11 ? ANDREW JACKSON'S SIGNATURE CONSIDERED IMPORTANT FIND Mr. Sallcy Thinks He Has More Proof That "Old Hickory" Was a South Carolinian, Born Near Fort Mill. While Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr.. the secretary of the historical commission was engaged in his office in Columbia Saturday filing some claims against the State of South Carolina for services rendered or supplies furnished by individual citizens of South Carolina during the Revolution, he found a very interesting appraisement of a horse furnished for public use by William Crawford, of Camden district. The appraisers, who estimated the value of the horse to have been one hundred and fifty pounds currency, were Robert Crawford and Andrew Jackson. Their nnnraiuomont \uoo ournm fn l>o ?-? J/i M1UV1 UVil V * ? MrO OH V/l 1 1 IV W V. fore Robert Montgomery, J. P., and was dated December 12, 1783. At that time Andrew Jackson was nearly seventeen years old. The signature is in nearly the identical hand-writing of "Old Hickory" in his mature years. Robert Crawford, his affiant, was his foster father and kinsman, upon whose plantation, in what was then Camden district, but which later became Lancaster district, Jackson was born as repeatedly asserted by himself and others. This is possibly the first official paper that Jackson put his hand to in this State. Senator Tillman Will Not Resign. The newspaper story going the rounds that it is the intention of Senator Tillman to resign his seat in the* senate has been de- j nied by one of the senator's closest friends in Columbia, presumably Dr. Babcock, supermtendent of the I^ospital for the Insane. This gentleman stated Sunday morning that Senator Tillman had no more idea of resigning nor had his family than he had of flying. Continuing the con-1 versation he said that resigning was entirely foreign and incompatible with the nature of Senator Tillman. Sf?nntr?r Tillman Viae I years more of service before he has to go into another campaign if he is then a candidate for reelection. If Senator Tillman then should be in good health it will be ample time for a decision as to what he will do, but three years is a long time in politics and in the meanwhile it will be just about as well not to figure on resignations. The latest news from the bedside of Senator Tillman is that he is rapidly recovering the use of his limbs and that as soon as he is able to travel he will be taken to a hospital in Atlanta, where he will spend some time before he takes the trip to Europe, which has been recommended by his physicians. Death of Henry H. Kimbrell. Henry H. Kimbrell, a former resident of Fort Mill township, who moved across the State line into Mecklenburg: county about 30 years ago, died at his home ! in Charlotte Monday morning:. 1 He was 55 years old and was a native of this county. He issur- j vived by his wife, one son, E. H. Kimbrell; one brother, J. B. Kimbrell, and a sister, Mrs. \1. J. Merritt, who lives near Fort Mill. The funeral was conducted from Mr. KimbrelPs residence ruesday morning by the Rev. Mr. Coburn, pastor of a Charotte Methodist church of which Mr. Kimbrell was a member, ind the interment was at Flint Hill Baptist church, in this township, Tuesday afternoon. Charlotte Mills Curtail Output. The five plants of the Chad wicK-nosKins Mig. company, the largest cotton mill corporation in Charlotte, will be operated only Four days of each week until Further notice, according to instructions just issued to the superintendents of the various plants. The Chadwick-Hoskins company operates very nearly 1,000,000 spindles and looms to match. Death of Mrs. H. N. Patterson. Mrs. Florence Patterson, wife of H. N. Patteison, a well known farmer and merchant of the Pleasant Valley neighborhood of Lancaster county, died at fler home Sunday morning after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Patterson is survived by her husband and four children. Be- I fore her marriage- Mrs. Patter- i son was Miss Florence Patterson. She was a member of Harrison 1 Methodist church and was active in all church work. She was a good woman and in her death the community in which she lived sustains a great loss. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hales and the interment was in Harrison churchyard Monday afternoon. York Farmer Kills Himself. About 5 o'clock Saturday morning George Stewart. a farmer living near Clover, took his own life by cutting his throat with a razor. Leaving his wife and baby in the house, Ste\vart went into the yard and sent for a colored woman, stating that his wife was sick. Failing to return to the house, his wife sent a little negro to search for him. The negro found his body lying in the barn, his throat cut and a bloody razor lying near. No cause for the suicide has been found. Stewart was in comfortable circumstances and was apparently happy and contented. It is supposed that he committed the deed while temporarily insane. The Year's Cotton Acreage. "Will the cotton acreage be reduced in this section this year?" This question was put to one of the largest farmers in the county a day or two ago and he replied that in his ' opinion it would be. Then he proceeded to give a number of reasons why the cotton acreage should be reduced and more attention paid to the production of food crops, 1 i * uuiu iui 11ict11 ana ocast. If the cotton acreage is re- j duced systematically all over the South, said he, and the proper amount of attention devoted to food stuffs, next winter will see j the South in a condition of prosperity heretofore unknown, for, with the smokehouses and barns bulging with home-raised sup- [ plies this section will be independent. An argument sometimes advanced against the Southern farmer making his own supplies and a surplus for market is that he could get nothing for his products?that the price would be so low it would not pay him to sell them. This is a fallacy. If corn should drop to 50 cents a bushel and bacon and lard to 7 cents a pound, or less, it would pay the farmer to make his own supply and a surplus. His remuneration would come in high priced cotton, cheap living for everybody and cheaper labor. Cotton could be grown at half of its present cost and and would never sell for less than 15 cents. The farmer would j get the profit instead of the speculator. m l /? i ne iarmer who raises his own supplies and makes cotton as a surplus crop is always in better shape than the farmer who buys his supplies. + + + News Notes of Recent Events. The battleship South Carolina was placed in commission Tuesday at the Philadelphia yard, with Capt. Augustus F. Fechteler in command. The South Carolina and her sister ship, the Michigan, are the most powerful vessels in the navy. Governor Ansel has authorized Comptroller General Jones to extend the time in whinti fo-u- ? ?? tttA I C" turns may be made until March 10. After that date the county auditor is required to add the penalty of 50 per cent, for neglect or failure to make returns for taxation. i W. J. Crawford, a well known Chester broker, committed suicide at his home in that city Tuesday morning by shooting himself in th<* head. Depressed spirits from poor health is supposed to be the cause of the rash act. CRIPIE IN SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE LAST YEAR. Annual Report of the Attorney General Shows Convictions and Acquittals by Circuits. An examination of Attorney General Lyon's report for the year 1909 is quite interesting. There were in the whole State last year 194 convictions for violation of the dispensary law and 36 acquittals. There were 103 convictions for homicide and 123 acquittals; 38 convictions for carrying concealed weapons and four acquittals; six convictions for arson and three acquittals. In the Twelfth circuit there was a grand total of 118 cases tried, ; of which 90 were convicted and QO itJ 1 T , *-* wo ucquiuLtru. nr me Eleventh i circuit 94 cases were tried, 79 j being convicted and 15 acquittals. In the Tenth circuit 219 cases were tried, of which 159 were convicted and 60 acquitted. In the Ninth circuit 196 cases were tried, of which 155 were convicted and 41 acquitted. In the Eighth circuit 213 cases were tried, of which 160 were convict1 ed and 53 acquitted. In the Seventh circuit 228 cases were tried. ! of which 196 were convicted and j 32 acquitted. In the Sixth circuit 230 cases were tried, of which 160 were convicted and 70 acquitted. In the Fifth circuit 176 cases were tried, of which 117 were convicted and 59 acquitted. The report for the Fourth circuit was not complete. In the Third circuit 125 cases tried, 84 being convicted and 41 acquitted. In the Second circuit 156 cases were tried, 135 being convicted and 21 acquitted. In the First circuit 114 cases were; tried, 87 of which were convicted and 27 acquitted. It is thus seen that the Sixth circuit disposed of 230 cases, and i stands first in thecamount of business, while the Seventh circuit disposed of 228 cases and stands second in the amount of business. J. K. Henry is the: solicitor of the Sixth circuit. I Ranges an . . Sto What kind of coo have you in your hon too much fuel, or smoke and soot? These are timely tions and if you can your own satisfactioi These ranges and st best steel and iron, gi from flaws and prop perfect baking. Un tions they will last 15 in v Mivenienee. labor will pay for thenise vwuapui in\MI >> till ill ranges that are mad terials. I MILLS & Little items of Local Interest. Catawba river is rising rapidly. The only transfer of real estate in" town during the last week was in the purchase by J. H. Bailesof J. E. Armstrong's home in the western part of town. Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Spratt returned Tuesday evening from a trip to Orangeburg, where, as grand secretary of the Order of the Eastern Star, Dr. Spratt assisted in the institution of a local chapter, O. E. S. At a meeting of the city council Tuesday night the care-taker of the city cemetery was author- > ized to extend the limits of the cemetery by including a number of lots which were purchased some time ago. The committee appointed at the last meeting of council to investigate the street lighting contract for the current year failed to report, as it had been requested to do. "Git Up, Dobbin!" During the recent session of the Legislature, a Pee Dee county senator wishing to stress a point he had just made in defending the administration of Dr. Babcock at the State Hospital for the Insane, told of an amusing incident which occurred near Bennettsville recently. A negro was driving a poor old mule hitched to a wagon heavily loaded with wood. The mule looked as if he had been subsisting on half rations the greater part of his life and consequently found it difficult to draw the wagon. The negro driver applied the whip to the mule too freely to please a gentleman who was passing along. "Have mercy on your mule, uncle," said the gentleman; "I think he would do better work if you would feed him more." "pat's not what ails dis mule," replied the negro. "He's lazy. I gim him a quart of chinaberries for supper last night and if he works good terday I'se gwine gim him anudder quart ternight.. Git up, Dobbin!" BHHRBSH&SHHHHENMflHHHRSSHBHHIHHI id Cooking ves , king stove or range le? Does it consume till the house with and important quesnot answer them to 11, let us say that it would add greatly 81 to the economy, comfort and cleanliness of your home to secure from us a Princess ? Steel Range or a . , Phillips & Buttorf Stove, ovesare made of the uaranteed to he free erly const rue ted for der ordinary coiuii> or more years and and saving of fuel Ives many times in e cheap stoves and I e of worthless maYOUhG. I hhbhhmmhJI