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The Fort Mill Times. *
VOLUME 19?NO. 7. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19. 1910. $1.25 PER YEAR
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DRY WELLS CONSIDERED
A MENACE TO COMMUNITY
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Sewage Vats Being Installed in Fort 5
Mill Displeasing to Many Citi- J
sens?The Law.
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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. |
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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
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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
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> 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.
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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
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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,
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' 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.
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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.
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y Thinks Columbia Has Good Team.
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Richard A. Fulp returned to
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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.
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LOCK OF JACKSON'S HAIR
IN FAR OFF WASHINGTON ,
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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
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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
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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.
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Furniture, 144. Grocery, 12.