The Fort Mill Times.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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