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p: ,| The Fort Mill Times. * VOLUME 19?NO. 7. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19. 1910. $1.25 PER YEAR ? DRY WELLS CONSIDERED A MENACE TO COMMUNITY ? u Sewage Vats Being Installed in Fort 5 Mill Displeasing to Many Citi- J sens?The Law. c The installment of several dry <] wells in Fort Mill is the subject t of considerable adverse criticism 5 by a number of citizens who fear < that such depositories for sewage ] will menace the health of the ( community. It is pointed out 3 that these wells are apt to con- g taminate the drinking water of j the sections in which they are } located and may result in an ( epidemic of typhoid and other g dangerous disease. une citizen t who is very much opposed to > these wells is thinking of asking t the State authorities to see that j they are closed. Authority for such a proceeding is found in a ] recent act of the Legislature "to prohibit the use of wells for sewerage purposes." The act is as follows: "Section 1. Be it enacted by ; the General Assembly of the, State of South Carolina, That it shall be a misdemeanor for any I person to keep or maintain or use a dry well or other wells or privy vaults into which sewerage mat- ! ter is discharged or received in any city, town or village having a population of not less than 500, whether incorporated or unincorporated, where such city, > town or village has no public J general supply of water for personal and domestic uses. Any person found guilty of violating this section shall be fined not exceeding $100 or imprisoned not exceeding 30 days. "Sec. 2. Ai.v person who now , has or maintains any such well for the discharge or the reception ; of sewerage matter shall, upon j i fifteen days' notice from any Magistrate that complaint thereof , has been made, close up such well and discontinue its use entirely. Any person found guilty of violating this statute shall be fined not exceeding or ^imprisonment not exceeding 30 days." This act was approved the 24th day of February, 1908. Dr. J. C. Kilgo Elected Bishop. More than passing interest has been felt throughout this section of the State in the choice for the episcopacy by the general conference of the Methodist! Episcopal church, South, which is in session in Asheville. The elections were held Monday and resulted in the selection on the first ballot of Rev. Dr. J. C. Kilgo, president of Trinity college (N. C.). Twenty-five years ago Dr. Kilgo was well known in York county, having been at that time pastor of the Rock Hill circuit. In 1886 D?\ Kilgo came to Fort Mill and con-1 1 ducted a revival meeting in the | old Methodist church on Booth street, near the Southern railway bridge. The forceful, eloquent sermons which he de- j nverea on tnat occasion are yet remembered by many who heard them. His career has been watched with a great deal of interest since he resided in this section and his election to the bishopric is pleasing not only to the Methodists but to the Protestants generally. Bishop Kilgo is a native of Laurens county and is about 50 years of age. He went from i Wofford college to Trinity college several years ago as president of the latter institution. He is i considered one of the ablest men in the Southern Methodist conference. Aged Steel Creek Citizen Dead. Mr. John Summerville, an aged citizen of Steele Creek, died Tuesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. K. Price, after an illness of several months j of paralysis. The funeral service was conducted from the home of Mrs. Price yesterday morning and the interment was at Steel Creek church, of which the de-1 ceased had for many years been a member. Mr. Summerville was a man who stood high in the community in which he lived. He was 80 years of age and is survived by a wife, a daughter and three sons, among the latter being1 Wm. Summerville, of Fort Mill. | If? 1 i \ I ) I 1 B". , Savings Bank Wins Cotton Snit. The State supreme court has landed down within the lasl veek a decision in favor of the Savings Bank of Fort.Mill>which neans that Alexander Sprunt <& Son will have to pay to the bank i sum of money in excess of >1,500, with interest for more ;han two years. On February J3, 1908, W. B. Meacham, as :ashier of the Savings Bank of Fort Mill, bought 28 bales ol rotton for Sprunt & Son, paying [>1,567.50 therefor, under in>tructionsof the Sprunts' Chester igent. Sprunt & Son refused tc lonor the draft for the cotton, claiming that it did not grade tc ;ample, and wished to deduct ;here from $339.47, an amount .vhich they claimed was due :hem by their Chester agent from i previous transaction. The case was tried at the December, 1909, term of the rourt of common pleas for York county, before Judge J. C. Klugh ind a jury. After the jury were impaneled and sworn and the ^leadings read. defendants counsel moved to vacate tht ittachment and release the bone ?iven, on the grounds that the iffidavit upon which the attach nent was issued was insufficieni ind was not filed in the clerk's )fhce within the time requirec ay law. The court refused the notion. The case then pro :eeded to trial, and the jur> rendered a verdict in favor o: the plaintiff. Defendants ap pealed, but the supreme cour upholds the decision of the circuit court. Fort Mill Boys Lose and Win. The Fort Mill ball team seem; to be unlucky in its games witl Rock Hill this season. In the Same betweers^the teams las Tuesday afternoon the Fort Mil boys appeared to have the eontes sewed up until two-thirds of the ninth inning was played. Thei the home boys took a trip to the clouds, probably in search of the comet, and by the time the} landed Rock Ilill had won 10 to 9. When the Rock Hil boys came to the bat in thei half of the ninth the score wai 9 to 5 against them. Two o their men were put out withou i- -ir i .i i * * mucn euon on me local boys part, but the second baseman o the Fort Mill team juried th< ball hit bv the third batter am then six men counted. Thi batteries were: Fort Mill, Pric< and Parks; Rock Hill, Gaines Maxwell and McCall. An inci dent of the game was the injur which McFadden, of Rock Hill received to his right hand, j small bone being broken. The second game of the weel was played on the Fort Mil diamond Friday afternoon witl a Charlotte team, which th< locals won, 6 to 3. The batterie were: Fort Mill, Spratt an< Spong; Charlotte, Carr an< Clanton. Million Immigrants This Year. Immigration to the Unite* States for this year promises t reach 1,000,000 people, if th record for the first nine month is maintained. The arrivals fo March were 136,745 and for th nine months of the fiscal yea t>bY,949. It has been severa years since the immigratioi figures reached the million mark the last year being 1907, whei 1,285,349 aliens were admitted t the United States, Of th immigrants admitted durinj the month of March, 110,20 were male and 26,538 wer female. Of these 8,400 wer German, 31,086 were from th south of Italy, 22,003 werePolisI and 5,906 were Greek. For the first seven months o the fiscal year, that is, from Jul last to January included, 12,08 immigrants were debarred. 0 these 209 were kept out becaus of insanity or feeble mentalit in some form. 1.655 becansp thp had diseases, 7,768 because the were liable to become publi charges and 859 because, it wa charged, they were contrac laborers. House Destroyed by Fire. A tenant house belonging t Mr. J. B. Johnson on the Kno place at Ogden, occupied by colored man named Geo. McNes and family,'was totally destroye by fire Sunday night. LANCASTER'S EX-HAYOR SAYS ' FORT HILL NEEDS WATERWORKS J I ?? > Mr. T. M. Hughes Points Out Advantages of System From Several ; Standpoints. ; Mr. T.~M. Hugires, ex-mayor r of Lancaster, was-in. Fort Mill i yesterday. Mr. Hughes had " heard of the effort which <s ucuiK mane tu Indian a system ui ; waterworks in Fgrt Mill and to a j 1 a representative of The Times < expressed the hope that the > citizens of this place would follow < the example of Lancaster, where, j > a first class water plant, both" ; ; for fire protection- and domestic ; purposes, was constricted some ] ( months ago. According? to Mr. j i Hughes, the successful installation of the waterworks system > has done Lancaster more good > than anything that municipality ; has accomplished in a long time. 1 i The town is now a very much ' ? more desirable place in which to ? live and the health of the com- j ' munity is noticeably better, and ? along with these bettered con1 ditions there has been a decided > decrease in the insurance rates . to the property owners. In the t residential sections of the town 3 the rate has decreased 10 per \ ctfnt., more in many instances, ; with an average decrease of 25 . per cent, in the business district. f Lancaster maintains a paid fire f department to meet the require. ments of the insurance comt panies, but the members receive 3 little compensation for their services, being paid so much per fire. The Lancaster waterworks plant cost twice as much as a . plant would cost in Fort Mill; * there it was necessary to lay a ^ greater amount of mains and to j: erect a larger standpipe with an I expensive filtering plant than ^ would be necessary here. a 1 Saw Halley's Comet in 1835. 5 Florence is not the only South 5 Carolina town which can boast >' a citizen who saw Halley's comet , on its appearance in 18d5. Mr. 1 Jos. Parks, of Fort Mill, rer members distinctly seeing the s comet when it visited the earth, f or rather came within the vision t of man, in the first half of the 1 l??i. i. *f T\ 1 I last ?:t?ntury. ivir. farKS was f born in 1824 and was therefore e 11 years old when the celestial i wanderer last appeared. He e says that there was cool weather e similar to that of the last few . days during the time the comet - was visible in 1835 and that the 7 negro slaves were terribly , wrought up over its appearance, a fearing that it meant the certain destruction of the world, c ' Election of Teachers for 1910-'ll. e A second meeting of the board s of the trustees of the Fort Mill \ graded school was held Friday j evening for the election of teachers for the session of 1910-1911, the first meeting, at which Superintendent L. M. Bauknight was reelected, having been i held last Monday night. Mr. o Bauknight was invited to appear e before the board and report 8 orally of the year's work of the r school which will close when e the summer vacation begins r today. The report of Mr. Baukil night was that gratifying n progress had been made in all , the grades. The balloting for n teachers for resulted in the o reelection of all the old teache ers, as follows: Miss Kate ? Ardrey, first grade; Miss Mabel 7 Hinshaw, second grade; Miss e Minnie Garrison, third and e fourth grades; Mrs. W. T. _ n _ n r* / . i i . 1 * e ^eiiers. nnn ana sixtn grades; h Miss Louise McMurray, seventh grade; Miss Minnie Yarborough, f high school department; Miss y Annie Link, music teacher. It 3 is stated that Mr. Bauknight has f not yet decided whether he will e accept the superintendency of y the school for another year. y y Thinks Columbia Has Good Team. ? Richard A. Fulp returned to ^ n a if *11 m l * * ron, mm luesaay morning aner a short visit to Columbia, where he witnessed Monday afternoon the ball game between Columbia and Columbus, Ga., South o Atlantic league teams. Columbia x won the game, 3 to 0. Mr. Fulp a thinks that Columbia has a d splendid team and that the team d will be able to win many games before the season closes. Death of Mrs. James Sledge. Mrs. Emma Kendrick Sledge, wife of Mr. James Sledge, died Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at her home in lower Steele Creek, a few miles from Fort Mill, after an illness of several weeks. The fnneral services were conducted at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian church at noon Friday, Rev. W. T. Bothwick, of Pineville, the pastor, officiating. Mrs. Sledge was 55 years old and besides her husband she is survived by six children, among whom is Mrs. W. M. Kimbrell, of Columbia, who formerly lived iji Fort Mill. Mrs. Sledge was ; a daughter of the late R. G. Kendrick. She was a woman of many fine qualities and was beloved by all who knew her. Sites Offered for New Asylum. The commission appointed by Governor Ansel in accordance with the recent act of the Legislature to purchase lands for the State Hospital for the Insane met in Columbia Monday and considered propositions. No decision was reached. There were about 35 offers of land to the commission and these | were carefully gone over. The j counties represented included Beaufort, Richland, Chester, j Kershaw, Chesterfield and Lexington, but especially Lexington and Richland. The commission went over sites within 20 miles j of Columbia Monday afteri.Don in automobiles. All members of the commission were present as follows: I)r. James W. Babcock, ' chairman; Dr. George Cromer, Newberry, secretary; Dr. Robert Wilson, Charleston; R. O. Purdy, Sumter; Leroy Springs, Lancaster. The commission will borrow $100,000 from the sinking fund commission. From York's Capital. Correspondence The Times. Yorkville, May 17.?A first; mortgage of $10,000,000, given to the Farmers' Loan and Trust company, of New York, was filed with the clerk of court Tuesday, May 10th, by the Southern Power company. The mnrtcntrp i? ?itrnoH for tho Southern Power company by James B. Duke, president, and Richard B. Arrington, secretary, and for the Farmers' Loan and Trust company, trustee, by E. S. Marston, president, and A. V. Heely, secretary. It j covers 138 pages. This mort-; gage will be recorded in seven counties in South Carolina and thirteen counties in North Carolina, a total of twenty counties in the two States. Being a large mortgage, the fees for having it recorded will be about $50 in each county, aggregating $1,000 in all. This is the third largest mortgage that has been filed with the clerk in recent years. On May 24, 1906, the Southern Railway company recorded a mortgage given to the Standard Trust company for $200,000,000, which was the largest mortgage ever recorded in York county. Two mortgages, amounting to $150,000,000, were recorded last fall for the Seaboard Air Line. The first was a refundive mortgage for $125,000,000 given to the New York Trust company and Mortimer N. Buckner, trustee. The second was an adjusting mort trace for 825.000.000 trivpn to the Fidelity Trust company and Van Lean Black, trustee. The chaingang is now working on the Chester road about two miles and a half from town. Work was commenced at the city limits and will be continued until the Chester county line is reached. When this is finished the road to the Gaston county (N. C.) line will be worked. The new depot of the C. & N. W. wiil soon be ready for occupation. Considerable improvement is being made in the road-bed, approaching and in front of the uc^uu The York cotton mill has made arrangements to install 160 Northrop-Draper looms for the manufacture of sheeting. This machinery probably will be operated by electric power. J. M. D. Rev. Alexander Miller, of Rock Hill, who was painfully hurt in a runaway accident in Fort, Mill recently is rapidly recovering from his injuries. / ( \ LOCK OF JACKSON'S HAIR IN FAR OFF WASHINGTON , < It Was Secured From ''Old Hickory's" < Nephew by Spokane Man Who Got It From His Mother. 1 C. P. HaUett, a storekeeper in , Spokane, Wash., has come into possession of a lock of iron-gray ; hair, cut from Andrew Jackson's head after the battle of New Orleans in 1816. His mother, Mrs. A. M. Hallett. formerlv of %/ 1 Nashville, Tenn., received the relic in 1848, as a present from J Mrs, Donelson, wife of Andrew , Jackson Donelson, nephew of "Old Hickory," with a double , page of black bordered sta- ] tionerv, bearing this inscription: , "Mrs. Donelson's respects to Mrs. Hallett, with a small , quantity of Andrew Jackson's ' hair, cut from his head after the battle of New Orleans in 1816, together with a keepsake for the little boys, hoping they are good Democrats." Mrs. Donelson reigned as mistress at the White House during Gen. Jackson's term as president, when her husband was his private secretary and confidential adviser. Mrs. Hallett died near St. Paul, Minn., in 1889, when the relic was handed to her eldest son, who in turn passed it to the Spokane man. "My father was intimately acquainted with Andrew Jackson," said Mr. Hallett. "He was chairman of the committee which greeted 'Old Hickory' on his return to the Hermitage at Nashville, after retiring as president. My father was the first man to shake hands with the general when he arrived in Nashville on the steamer Buckeye, on which he made the journey up the Cumberland river." Mr. Hallett added that he would not part with the relic -for a fortune, but intends to make some provision for its preservation after he is gone, when it probably will go to one of the historical societies in Tennessee. He intimated, however, it might JUST RJ Another shipr Patent Leather, metal and Suei Pumps. You save from I pair by buying y< Sizes, Prices, $1. Acces To be faultles must pay attent things, such as tl ??iro VfcV? Tf liuvg marked down a i accessories and i and make a selec ? Mills & Y PHONES: Dry Goods, 37. JhulfeltJU , L k. ^ ' killl s f *UL _ Commencement at Winthrop. Commencement exercises at Winthrop college will begin Sunday morning, June 12, at 11 a'clock and continue through Tuesday. Following is the programme of the exercises: Sunday, June 12?11 a. m., sermon before the Y. W. C. A., Rev. A. T. Bowers, Newberry; 3:30 p. m., baccalaureate sermon. Rev. James J. Vance, D. D., Newark, N. J. Monday, June 13 10 a. m., inspection of buildings and departments; 8:30 p. m., joint celebration of the literary societies. Tuesday, June 14 ? 9:30 a. m., alumnae reunion: 6:00 p. m., daisy chain procession; 8:30 p. m., address to graduating class, Dr. Henry N. Snyder, Spartanburg; awarding of diplomas and certificates. No Agreement as to Lighting Contract. The town council and the electric company which furnishes the street lights for Fort Mill have not got together on the price the town is to pay for the lights, but it is thought the matter will be adjusted satisfactorily at the next meeting of council. There have been differences of several months' standing between the council and the company, council taking the position that the lights were costing too much and the company replying that the lights were furnished at as low rate as possible. Now the council offers the company the same rate per light as is paid by the citv of Rock Hill. An Address by Prof. Thornwell. Prof. Jas. H. Thornwell, of Winnsboro, has accepted an invitation to be present and deliver an address at the school entertainment in the town hall this morning at 10 o'clock. Prof. Thornwell will also deliver the medal to the winner in the I). A. R. essay contest. be presented to the city of Nashville, his birthplace, after his death. ;CE1VE[)| nent of Ladies' Vici Kid, Gunde Oxfords and If) 25c to 50c per )ur shoes from us. I to 8 35 to $3.00 _ I .sorips sly grcomed you ion to the little tie shirt, tie, hat, just opened and V? - 1 lew line ot these nvite you to call :tion. oung Co. Furniture, 144. Grocery, 12.