The Fort Mill Times.
VOLUME 19?NO 3. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1910. $1.25 PER YEAR.
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THE INSPECTING OFFICERS SEE
FORT MILL COMPANY DRILL
Year's Test of the Local Militia Passed
Friday Afternoon---Personnel of
the Company.
The annual State and Federal
inspection of the Fort Mill Light
Infantry for 1910 was held on
the baseball grounds Friday
afternoon. In every respect the
inspection, which was conducted
on the part of the State by
Assistant Adjutant General
Brock and for the national
government by Lieut. C. R.
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cennett, was tne most satisiactory
held since the company was
organized t#n years ago. Several
hundred interested persons were
present for the inspection and it
was a source of gratification to
Capt. T. B. Spratt to report only
two members of the company
absent. These members were
Second Lieut. G. C. Epps, who
is in college in Greenville, and
Officers of the Fort Mill Light Infantry?
Spratt, First Lieut. S. W. Par
Corporal Hyder Windle, who was
ft. ill.
As is customary at the inspections.
the commands for the
field movements and the manual
of arms were given by the
officers of the company and in
both thecomnany acquitted itself
creditably, not a bobble being
made, except by one member, a
recent recruit, during the entire
inspection. The officers were
highly complimented by Col.
Brock and Lieut. Bennett upon
the precision with which some
of the more difficult manoeuvres
were executed, the statement
being vouchsafed that the Fort
Mill Light Infantry was the only
one of the dozen or so companies
thus far inspected which could
execute these movements with
the degree of exactness which
l.hf? (rnvprnm^nt Hpcirpa TKo
guns, uniforms and other equipment
were found to be in excellent
condition.
The Fort Mill Light Infantry
is an organization in which the
entire citizenship of this section
Group of Member* of Fort Mill Ligf
feels great interest. It is composed
largely of some of the
most substantial young men in
the town and township and it is
certain that if they should ever
be called upon to go into the
field by the State or Federal
governments that there would be
no laggards in the ranks. The
Lijhi
company was organized in the
spring of 1900 with W. R. Bradford
as captain, T. B. Spratt
first lieutenant and S. W. Parks
second lieutenant. Since then
the membership of the company
has greatly changed, very few
of the original members now
being on the rolls. Originally
there were about 90 members of
fho nnmnanv V111 f Vi o u;dih1 in rr
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out process of undesirable members
and the removal of others
from the community has reduced
the membership to 46.
The membership of the F"ort
Mill Light Infantry is as follows:
Officers?Captain, T. B. Spratt;
first lieutenant, S. W. Parks;
second lieutenant, G. C. Epps.
Sergeants?J. M. White, W. L.
Hall, D. V. Epps, Alva Parks, E.
G. Bradford, John T. Spratt.
Corporals?Moulton Faris, David
Moss, Hyder Windle, Allen
Ferguson.
Privates?Edward Bailes, William
Belk, Ira A. Belk, Jesse
Blackwelder, Bernard Blanken '
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Reading From Left to Right, Capt. T. B.
lea, Second Lieut. G. C. Eppa.
ship. William Boyd, J. C. Crowder,
Wilborn Ferguson, Richard
Fulp, Everette Griffin, Herbert
Harris, Hope Harris, Carl Jones,
John H. Jordan, Elliott Kimbrell,
Thomas Lytle, Arthur C. Lytle,
James E. Merritt, Morris Moser,
Albert Osborne, William W. Osborne.
Luke Parks, George Potts,
Marvin Sutton, Alex Sutton,
Samuel Warren, Robert Williamson,
Jr., Williard Wilson, Thomas
K. Wilson, Charles Windle,
Henry Windle.
Cook?Titus White.
Democratic Club Meetings.
Saturday afternoon, April 23,
the dozen or more York county
Democratic clubs will meet to
reorganize for the following two
years and to elect club officers, |
delegates to the county convention
and a member of the county
executive committee. So far as
the information goes which has
been received at The Times
office the meetings are apt to be
| mere perfunctory affairs, as
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it Infantry at Chickamauga Park, Ga.
there are not apt to be any important
issues before the people
in the campaign next summer
which would offer advantage to
either faction?if indeed there
can be said to be two factions in
the York Democracy- by the
election of adherents of either
faction.
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NEW CLEMSON DEPARTMENT
SHOULD BENEFIT FARMERS
Extension Work and Farmers' Institutes
to Be Given Much Attention in
the Future.
The announcement of the
Clemson college authorities that
the board of trustees has recently
established in the agricultural j
department a division of extension
work and farmers' institutes j
should be of general interest to
the farming population of the
State. It is intended that the !
men of the division devote their
whole time to helping the
farmers produce larger and
more profitable crops. With
this end in view it is purposed
to establish a permanent insti
tute corps, who will, from time
to time, hold farmers' institutes,
principally in the rural districts,
where the advantages of the
work mapped out can be presented
to those most in need of
the instruction.
Possibly the most important
man in the force is the specialist
in rural school agriculture. It
will be his purpose to encourage
the teaching of agriculture in the
rural schools. To this end he
will select a few rural schools
and visit them regularly, giving
agricultural instruction to the
children. In addition he will also
meet the teachers in the various
organizations and by pointing
out subjects and methods,
encourage them to teach agriculture
themselves.
But it is not intended that this
extension shall be confined to the
efforts of the four men who corndose
the division. Every man in
the college, and especially in the
agricultural department and experiment
station, will be called
upon to help in the good work.
The engineering department is
now preparing a bulletin giving
a number of plans and specifications
for the building of the
simpler rural school houses and
stands ready to advise not only I
along these lines, but regarding
all farm buildings.
Eventually a number of short
courses will be established at the
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conege so tnai tnose wno nave
time can spend a few weeks
there, thus getting the benefit of
the superior teaching facilities.
A summer wind-up institute, or
congress, to last the better part
of a week upon the college
grounds, will be the clincher to
each year's work.
To sum up, Clemson college is
virtually throwing her doors
open to every farmer and citizen
of the State. She proposes doing
this?
By holding one hundred or
more institutes over the State.
By visiting in person the farms
and advising with their owners.
By sending her representatives
into the schools and encouraging
the teaching of agriculture to
those boys and girls who may
not be able to attend college.
By editing a reading course for
farmers to be published in every
paper in the State.
By establishing short agricultural
courses for farmers.
By assisting in the betterment
of rural schools and farm buildings.
By holding a summer farmers'
congress once a year, thus
bringing together for instruction
and the exchange of ideas the
best and most progressive farmers
of the State.
Mist Elsie Norris Bereaved.
The Fort Mill friends of Miss
Elsie Norris, of Charlottesville,
Va., were greatly distressed to
hear of her recent bereavement
by the accidental death of her
father, who lost his life last Saturday
by being thrown from a
buggy in which he was riding.
The accident occurred on the
streets of Charlottesville and was
due to a collision of the butrirv of
Mr. Morris with another vehicle.
Mr. Norris was thrown violently
to the ground. In the fall his
head struck on the street curbing,
fracturing the skull. He
never regained consciousness.
Death followed at a late hour
Saturday night. Mr. Norris was
about 80 years of age. His
daughter, Miss Elsie Norris, was
a resident of Fort Mill for several
months three years ago,
being connected with the millinery
department of Meacham
& Epps.
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LOCAL POSTOFFICE BUSINESS
SHOWS ENCOURAGING GAINS
Postmaster Massey and His Assistants
Have Been Actiye---Increases on
R. F. D. Routes.
One of the best evidences of a
town's growth and prosperity is
found in the increase of mail
matter handled by the postoffice.
During the last few years
the business of the Fort Mill
postoffice has grown by leaps
and bounds. The volume of
business being transacted at the
local postoffice is double what it
was a few years ago?this, too,
notwithstanding the fact that
the office of grand keeper of
records and seal of the Knights
of Pythias was removed from
Fort Mill about two years ago,
resulting in the loss of a considerable
volume of business for
the postoffice. For a while following
the removal of the headquarters
of this society there
was a noticeable difference in
the amount of business done at,
the postoffice, but the loss thus
sustained has been more than
offset by the increased amount
of mail matter handled from
other sources.
Much of the credit for the
gratifying increase of business
at the postoffice is due to the
splendid work which has been
done in behalf of the service by
Postmaster B. H. Massey. Mr.
Massey feels a pardonable pride
in the growth of the business.
He has worked early and late
to increase the amount of matter
received and sent out from the
postoffice.
Some years asro when there
was considerable talk of rural
free delivery routes in this section
being discontinued because
they were too poorly patronized
to warrant the government mainI
taining them except at a great
loss, Mr. Massey, aided by his
clerks and the R. F. D. carriers,
[ began an active campaign to inI
duce the people living along the
I routes served by the office to
' write a greater number of letters
} and to subscibe more freely for
| newspapers and other publicaI
tions. The result of the work is
best told in the following figures,
I which Mr. Massey has prepared
J for The Times:
In November, 1905, the number
of pieces of mail handled on
Route No. 1, of which C. C.
Haile is carrier, was 2,724. In
1 March, 1910, the number of
! pieces handled on this route was
3,921.
The volume of business on
Route No. 2 shows an equally
gratifying increase, the number
of pieces of mail handled jumping
from 2,806 in November,
1905, to 4,339 in March, 1910.
The carrier on this route is Sar;
gent Kimbrell.
i Route No. Sis server! hv A lev
Barber as carrier. Since November,
1905, the volume of
business has steadily grown.
Then there were 2,724 pieces of
mail handled. The number of
pieces had increased to 4,829 in
March, 1910.
The greatest gain of business
on either of the four rural routes
served from the Fort Mill postoffice,
however, has been on
Route No. 4, of which Edward
B. White is the carrier. In
November, 1905, he handled 972
' pieces of mail. In March, 1910,
j the number of pieces handled on
! this route had grown to 3,292.
Routes Nos. 1 and 2 were es!
tablished in January, 1902, and
Routes 3 and 4 were created in
1905, the two latter routes being
made in part from territory
formerly served by Routes 1
and 2.
Colored School Entertainment.
F. H. Comer, principal of the
colored graded school, is making
extensive preparations for the
closing exercises of the school,
to be held at Bethlehem Baptist
church on April 24-27. An
interesting programme has been
prepared and an invitation is
extended the white people of the
community to attend the exercises.
On Tuesday, April 26, an
address will be delivered by Prof.
L. M. Bauknight, superintendent
of the Fort Mill graded school.
Arrangements have been made
with a Rock Hill band to furnish
; music for the occasion.
Spring Meeting of Bethel Presbytery.
Bethel presbytery met with
Aimwell church, at Ridgeway,
last Tuesday evening at 8:30
o'clock and was opened with a
sermon by Rev. S. J. Cartledge,
pastor of Purity church, Chester.
Rev? Alexander Martin, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church
of Rock Hill, was elected
moderator and Rev. J. M.
! Holloday, of Winnsboro, assistant
clerk. There were 27
ministers and 42 ruling elders
present at the meeting.
Rev. Robert Adams, D. D.,
and Rev. J.J. Harrell, of Enoree
j presbytery, were received into
this presbytery and arrangements
were made to insta''. them
pastors of Bethel and Bethesda
churches, respectively.
Revs. T. B. Craig and James
Russell, and J. C. Foster and
W. L. McCrorey, ruling elders,
WPl'f plpffivl fnmmieeinfioi't! tn
vviiuiaooiuti^LQ tv
the general assembly, which
meets in Lewisburg, W. Va.,
May 19. Mr. I). M. Clark, of
the senior class of Columbia
Theological seminary, was licensed
as a probationer to the
gospel ministry and Mr. F. R.
Riddle, of the Bowling Greenchurch,
was received under the
care of the presbytery as a
candidate for the ministry.
Bethel presbytery now consists
of 32 ministers, 59 churches
and has under its care one
licentiate and eight candidates
for the ministry.
There was nothing before the
presbytery of exciting interest
except an effort was made by
Drs. Harry Louis Smith and
J. L. Douglas, of Davidson college,
together with a number of
members of the presbytery, to
influence the presbytery to
rescind its action, taken last fall,
relative to the withdrawal of its
trustees from Davidson college.
After an animated discussion of
the subject the presbytery voted
not to rescind, and this means
that at the next regular meeting
the presbytery's official relation
with Davidson college will
cease.
Presbytery adjourned to meet
in Winnsboro Sept. 20, 1910.
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SAND CLAY ROADS CONSIDERED
THE BEST FOR SOUTH CAROLINA
The New Method of Road-building is
Less Expensive and Eeasier of Construction
than Macadam.
Good roads men say that the
macadam method of roadway
construction in South Carolina is
passing out for the reason that a
better way has been found in the
sand-clay construction.
When the good roads agitation
was commenced in South Carolina
several years ago the most
popular and universal method
was macadam. Many miles of
roadway were constructed to
overcome "mud holes."
The costly macadam has been
supplanted by the sand-clay road
which is cheaper, more serviceable
and durable. The past
three years has seen the fact
demonstrated that the sand-clay
road can be built at a minimum
cost in all sections of South
Carolina. The machinery necessary
for the construction of a
macadam road is not necessary
for the construction of the sandclay
and thus has many thous*
ands of dollars been lost by the
counties because they did not
know of the sand-clay process
and its usefulness.
The total number of miles of
public highways in the State, according
to figures prepared by
the department of agriculture
last year, were 44,803,
Miles
Macadam 3,015
Sand-clay 3,248
Shell 62
Stone 106
That the sand-clay road is
gaining over the other methods
of construction is shown by the
following table of the number of
miles of roadway constructed
in 1909:
Sand-clay 1,308
Macadam 64
Stone 29
Shell... 17
The demand for good roads,
building upon intelligent lines
with pro per gradients and drainage,
is increasing in the State.
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