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The Fort Mill Times. * i*i?. VOLUME 18?NO. 52. 1 OUT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 31,1910. $1.25 PER YEAR. INTEREST IN COUNTY POLITICS AS THE MEETINGS DRAW NIGH * The Voters are Beginning to Speculate on the Year's Candidates---York's Present Officers. As the time for the holding of the Democratic club meetings and th'j county convention approaches, the voters are beginning to manifest interest in things political and are wondering who will be the candidates for the county offices in the August primary and who will ask to be sent to the General Assembly from old York. The meetings of the dozen or more uemocratic clubs in the county will be held on Saturday, April 23, when club officers will be elected for the next two years and delegates chosen to the county convention on Monday, May 2. At the county convention the successor of W. B. Wilson, Jr., the present chairman, will be elected, as will the delegates to the State convention and a member of the State Democratic executive committee, and arrangements made for the county primaries. The State convention will be held In Columbia on May 18. The executive committeman from York county is J. C. Wilborn. Among Fort Mill voters considerable interest is developing as to the next legislative delegation. The present delegation is composed of W. B. Wilson, Jr., of Rock Hill; J. P. Hollis, of Rock Hill; J. S. Glasscock, of Roddeys, andO. L. Sanders,of McConnellsville. Senator YV. H. Stewart's term does no expire this year. Mr. Glasscock is the only member of the delegation who has served more than one term. It is not known whether any or all of these gentlemen will offer for reelection, but it seems that Mr. Wilson does not care to be returned to the Legislature, as a statement was published in the W/W? Lr Will W 1 /I ? tuvn Hill uciaiu OWIIIW VVCCKS ago that he would not again be a * candidate and he has not denied the accuracy of the statement. The supposition is that Mr. Hollis will ask for reelection, as will Mr. Glasscock. Mr. Sanders has not stated what he intends to do. Two years ago Fort Mill was left out in the county's representation for the first time in years, S. H. Epps having failed of reelection by a small majority. It is said that friends of Mr. Epps are trying to induce him to enter the race this summer. If he does not announce himself, it is practically certain that another Fort Mill man will become a candidate. Successors to all the county officers, except the sheriff and clerk of court, will be elected in ? August. The present county officers are; Sheriff, Hugh G. Brown; clerk of court, J. A. Tate; supervisor, C. F. Gordon; auditor, J. J. Hunter; treasurer, Harry Neil; superintendent of education, T E. McMackin; judge of probate, L. R. Williams; coroner, 1^ W. Louthian; county commissioners, W. A. Aycock n rl I T T . i m tiI/IV xjuui^nui. Mr. Henry Bryant Dead. Mr.' Henry Bryant, a well known resident of the Providence section of Mecklenburg county, died early Sunday morning at his home following a general decline in health brought on by advancing years. The funeral service was conducted f mm Kaiyjo M nn/loir ?awiia VIIV IIVMIIV ATIV/Iiua.v ai ICI " noon by Rev. H. M. Parker after which the burial was made at Providence church, of which the deceased was for many years a member. Mr. Bryant was a native of Green county, N. C. He served throughout the war with company A of the Third North Carolina infantry. At the battle of Locust Grove Mr. Bryant received a wound in his ankle which made him a cripple for life. He was leading his com-pany when wounded, his captain having been killed a short while before. Mr. Bryant is survived by one brother, William Bryant, of Freemont, N. C., and eight children, among the latter being Robt. M. Bryant, who is well known in Fort Mill. I Ups and Downs of One Piano. Church-goers Sunday morning witnessed the novelty of seeing a piano hauled through the streets of Fort Mill. The piano is said to be the property of the town. It was purchased some time ago by funds raised for the purpose by the Civic league and it> said to have been presented to the municipality for use at public entertainments in the town hall. The piano is not in good condition at present. It has been roughly used. A few months ago some one entered the town hall and scratched a row of cap Xs across the face of the piano. The scratching bespoke the work of one poorly versed in the art. But nobody laid great stress upon the lack of j scratcnmansmp, tnosa in wnose I custody the piano had been left perhaps consoling themselves with the thought that the piano might have been more illy used?busted up with an axe, for instance. Notwithstanding the seeming lack of care of the piano, it is still serviceable. One day last week it was rented f to an alleged carnival conpany ; which worked overtime in ! Fort Mill last week buncoing the unwary. The piano was moved to the carnival grounds. . Saturday night the carnival comBany wound up a week's profltale engagement with its gambling games and quit the town. Like' wise the piano, which was left standing or sitting?does a piano ; stand or sit??in a cotton field at the head of Main street. There the piano stayed until Sunday morning with no visible covering except the elements. Then it was removed to the hall by an industrious drayman. But the door to the town hall is not locked and the piano may be scratched up some more soon ?in which event there may be an effort made to locate the initials of the party who did the scratching. To Be Ordained to Baptist Ministry. Robt. G. Lee, fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Lee, is to be ordained to the ministry of the Baptist church next Sundayevening at 7:30 o'ciock. at the tTV-i- i\*;n r>?_i > i ui i nun utipn&i cnurcn. 1 no ordination services will be conducted by the Rev. Messrs. S. P. Hair, pastor of the Baptist church here; Edw. S. Reaves, of Honea Path, and R. T. Marsh, of Rock Hill. Mr. Lee is a student at ; Furman university, in Greenville. He will attend the Southern ! Baptist Theological Seminary in I Louisville after finishing the I course at Furman. Victims of Another Man's Game. John Doe proceedings were instituted in Magistrate McEIhaney's court Saturday morning by A. B. Cook, a Pleasant Valley farmer, against an attache of the carnival company which showed in Fort Mill last week charging the defendant with swindling. Cook claimed the man got $8.10 of the former's money in a gambling game. After hearing the evidence Magistrate McElhaney fined the man $5 and made him return Cook's money. Eph Wilson and Tom Bennett are said to have lost $24.50 between them by patronizing the carnival games. General Confederate Reunion. The Southern railway announces the round trip fare of $11.85 from Chester to Mobile on account of the general Confederate reunion which is to be held i:i the latter city on April 26, 27 and 28. Tickets permitting stop-over privilege will be nlflood on shIp Ar?t*il OA tn ou , ? ^V?*V A It ~X IV limited to return until May 2, but an extension of the tinal limit of the tickets until May 19 may be secured by depositing the ticket with the agent of the company in Mobile and the payment of 50 cents. Ex-Governor Glenn to Visit Rock Hill. Ex-Governor Robert Glenn, of North Carolina, will deliver an address in Rock Hill next Sunday night at the First Presbyterian church. His subject j will be "Home Missions." It is expected that a number of Fort Mill people will hear the address. EMBLEM OF PALMETTO STATE MUST FLOAT OVER SCHOOLS Recent Act of General Assembly Mast Be Observed by Trustees Throughout the Commonwealth. The board of trustees of the ; Fort Mill graded school will at J once comply with the act which was passed at the recent session of the General Assembly requiring that the State flag be displayed on all public school buildings. There are a number of other public schools in Fort Mill township the trustees of which probably will also comply with the provisions of the act as soon as it is called to their at-' ! tention. If the act is generally l observed throughout the county, as it doubtless will be, the Palmetto emblem will become fa1 miliar to everyone and wiii stimulate State pride and patriotism, especially among the school children, the purpose which the author of the act, j Representative John J. McMahan, of Richland, had in mind when he had it passed by the I Legislature. The act goes into 1 effect at once and is as follows: "That the State flag shall be , displayed daily, except in rainy ] weather, from a staff upon the | State house &Dd every court house, one building of the State university and of each State coiI lege, and upon every public . school building, except when the j school is closed during vacation. | "That it shall be the duty of the officer or officers in charge of ' said buildings to purchase suitable flags and cause them to be , displayed, the expense to be borne out of the funds provided for maintenance. "That it shall be the duty of Clemson college to manufacture in its textile department and sell at approximate cost flags of suitable sizes and correct design, : which shall consist of blue, with i white crescent in the upper flag-' staff corner, and white palmetto tree in the centre, as prescribed in the resolution adopted by the General Assembly, January 28, j 1861. to be approved by the secretary of the historical com I mission. 1 "That any person who mu-i tilates, injures or desecrates the i flag of the State wherever displayed, as above provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished i by a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment for not more j than 30 days." * Gold Hill Notes. 1 Fort Mill Times Correspondence. We have nothing special to report from this section. We are still top sideup and ahopin'. The health of our neighbors is good, and all are busy preparing their land. Some are planting corn, and as we write the Steel Creek j boulevard is lined with wagons hauling up that precious dust called guano. We heard one man say he would buy all the merchant would sell him on time and put it and the seed in the ground ana turn it all over to Providence to make the crop. Now, we have always heard that Providence is the laziest nigger on the plantation. The small grain crop is not very promising at this time. The bluebirds, turtle doves and whipporwills are serenading us ; on the way. Miss Johnnie May Faris, of the Point section, is visiting relatives in this neighborhood. Miss May Coltharp, of Winthrop college, spent Sunday and Monday with her parents here. There is much being said these , days about the high cost of liv ing, but from a statement we saw in the Columbia State a few daye ago, President Johnson of YVinth *op and his corps of cooks have got it down fine. They say they can furnish a meal for less than eight cents. We would be delighted to board with them a few days just to see how they keep house. If I was a young man I would make a desperate eflfdrt to lasso one of those econonomical cooks to go with me along this rugged path. Again we announce the advent of the inevitable, aU>minable, detestible, unscrupulous, unprincipled, nasty, filthy, famous and notoriously infamous house flly into society, CASE OF DR. MAXCY G. LEE < RECALLED BY CARSON PARDON c f The Darlington County Parricide Refused Pardon by Two Governors, I but Ansel Freed Him. The case of Dr. Maxcy G. Lee, j who was pardoned -from the I penitentiary by Governor Ansel on April 6, 1907, Mter serving a 1 few years of a life sentence for ^ killing his father, has been re- j called by the -recent pardoning of Fannie Carson by Governor j Ansel and several interesting c comments have been made in the i press about the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the \ killing of the elder Dr. Lee, and ] later the pardon of the young physician, who was charged with ] the deed. - | ] ~ Dr. Maxcy G. Lee was tried I ] at the November term of court | in Dnrlincrton prtnntv in \r?n? 1899 for the killing of his father. He was convicted of murder, and the verdict carrying the recommendation to the mercy of the court, he was sentenced to serve a life term at the State prison. Dr. Lee himself described the killing in his petition to Governor i Ansel * ' 'That on the 5th day of October, A. D. 1899, at the residence of the petitioner and his lather, the deceased, where they then iived; and had lived alone for many years practicing their profession together, in perfect harmony and enjoying to an unusual degree the affection that exists between father and son, your petitioner and his father, being and having been for several days under the influence of whiskey, by reason of which your petitioner was deprived of his reason and rendered temporarily irresponsible for his acts, became involved in a difficulty in J which the father was killed by : your petitioner without provoca- J tion and without any motive | whatsoever. That your petitioner | 1 has no distinct recollection of ' the circumstances attending the difficulty or the killing and can assign no motive whatever for the crime, and can explain the killing only upon the hypothesis that he was temporarily crazed by the excessive and protracted use of whiskey." There were numerous petitions | in this case during Governor McSweeney's, Governor Heyward's and during Governor Ansel's administrations. The trend of many of the petitions was that Dr. Lee was not in the right frame of mind when he committed the act, and that if he naa put up this defense he would have been acquitted, he having: relied upon the defense of accidental killing. "The State's Best Town." Under the above caption, the Columbia State is running short articles from its South Carolina news correspondents asking that they give reasons "why your town" is the best in the State. The Clover correspondent sends in the following: "Clover is situated near the North Carolina line in York county, one of the most healthful sections to be found anywhere in the Piedmont section. Its close proximity to the mountains of North Carolina furnishes an abundance o^pure air, which is so essential to the health of any community. Its water supply is of the purest freestone. i nu lown is situated 715 teet above the sea level, on a sandy ridge, which makes drainage perfect and from the standpoint of health can not be excelled anywhere. "Clover is on the main line of the Southern Power company's electric line, which provides power for the different manufacturing enterprises and lights the town. "As a business point Clover offers every inducement to persons wishing to invest their money. Clover cotton mills has an enviable record as a money maker "The Bank of Clover, four years old, offers its customers the best to be had in banking circles. "Clover oil mill, a new enterprise. was organized last year and bids fair to make a dividend pay-. 'm Proposition." ' traded School Honor Roll For March. LO The following is the honor roll ?f the Fort Mill graded school or the month of March: Tenth Grade?Jesse Harris and " Clizabeth Nims. I Ninth Grade?Aline Barber, fulia Boyd, Ola Crowder, Annie , lussell, Esther McMurrav and sabelle Massey. "c Eighth Grade?Lana Parks and W Cathleen Blankenship. ab Sixth Grade?James Gaston Violet Culp, Clarence Link and fames Young. t:v Fifth Grade?Alice Harris, nr Ylice Bradford, Fair Lee, Willie sellers, Mary Sellers and Barron st. Bennett. ca Second Grade?Atmar Adcock, William Grier, Beatrice Parks, Vlargarct Steele, Maud McKain. First Grade- Ladson Mills, ns^ Kravor Kimbrell, Hattio J3elk, Marion Parks and Price Sum-1 gt merville. b? First rank in the various grades! j. j[, for March is: be Tenth Grade?Carrie Merritt. ^ Ninth Grade?None for March. By mistake Ola Crowder s name p was left otV the February report. C( Eighth Grade-Lana Par'ks. J u Sixth Grade?James Young, Zenas Grier, Frances Smith, Esther Meacham, Margaret anu Clarence Link. cj Fifth Grade?Alice Bradford, n, Alice Harris, Ocey Hood, Mary ^ Sellers and Lloyd Moser. * Fourth Grade?Agnes Link, i( Luther Belk, Charlie Branson, ni John A. Boyd, Alfred Jones, Jessie Baker, Odell Kimbrell. tt Third Grade?Stephen Epps, sl Mary Spratt, Sara White, Beulah Sl Parks, John Wilkerson, Johnsie Branson, Harry Bradford, Mar- s'( jory Blankenship, Malcolm Link. ai tl Barn Burned Near Rock Hill. ^ A small barn on the planta- tl tion of W. S. Adams, just outside the city limits of Rock Hill, te was destroyed by fire at an early p; hour Sunday morning. In the b< juilding at the time of the fire in was a lot of provender and a tl hne Jersey cow, both of which oi were lost. at Money! Here are a 1 Specials for Ladies' $1.50 Waists at Ladies' $2.25 White Silk Ladies' $3.00 Taffeta Waii Ladies' $1.25 Linen Finisl Ladies' 75c Lawn Waist a Ladies' 50c Chambra^ Wn Children's Wash Suits, wc Biglline of Embroidery, w our price, the yard, 5c, Great values they are. * * T * -* We have the , Hat counter in to\\ We are expectin Ladies' Neckwear Don't fail to see th Remember our Goods for Less Mc MILLS & Y CAL BASEBALL TEAM NEEDS ASSISTANCE OF THE PUBLIC Fort Mill is to Be Represented on the Diamond, the "Fans" Must Contribute. The baseball days are almost re, the gladdest of the year, hat is Fort Mill going to do out baseball? In a few days e spirit of baseball will move e piety era to commence acuities closely allied to the apoaching summer months, and behooves the enthusiastic to xrt at once healthful agitation lculated to insure a good base.11 team for Fort Mill. To be represented on the amond is well nigh as important representation provided for in e legislative bodies of the ate and city. And a goo^ baseill team is almost as good adversement for a town as a good )dy of men in the county's deletion to the General Assembly. People who never heard of ort Mill will be attracted by insistent notices of games won ; thft Fort. Mill lere is a good chance to nave team that can win games from le neighboring towns and ties. No town of like size has lore promising amateurs in its ounds, and all these will help >rm a team if encouraged. _ There is but one way to go bout it. The youth of the town 111 furnish the talent. It is > the business men that the ;riplings must look for financial ipport. The young men cerlinly are willing to exert themjlves for the honor of Fort Mill nd for the pleasure of playing le game. The men of affairs v robably are equally willing to lpport the team financially if lev are properly approached. There have been good hall iams in Fort Mill during the ast .-.eve/?I years. They have sen the result largely of individil effort on .he part of a few enuisiasts who knew the benefits ' the game. This year concerted ition is desirable. Savers ew of our this week: SI.19 Waist at.. ... $1.69 st at $2.43 1 Waist at._ ... .89 t .58 list at.. .29 >rth $1.00, at .69 orth up to 25c, 8c, 10c, 12 l-2c .15 greatest Straw m. g a big line of and Belts today, tern. motto: "Better yy >ney. OUNG CO. I