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. The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19?NO. 10. FORT MILL, S. C? THURSDAY. JUNE 9. 1910. $1.25 PElTYEAli" THE AFFECTIONATE HOUSE FLY IS MORE THAN A NUISANCE | ^ The Pest May be Abated by the Exercise of Cleanliness---Lime is the Best Deodorant. i; Seldom is a second thought ( given to the common house fly. ' It has always been considered a i nuisance, but recent studies have shown it to be very much i more than a mere nuisance. The \ germs of intestinal and filth diseases are readily carried in ( large numbers from the excreta , of patients suffering from j typhoid, dysentery and cholera direct to food intended for ( human consumption and even ' to me tinkers and lace and lips , of a babe or sleeping person, ( says the Clemson college bulletin , this week. Flies breed in filth and offal of . any kind, preferring above all \ else the fresh droppings of ^ horses and mules. Large num- j bers will develop in human excrement and in garbage bar- r rels, at places where dish water i is thrown out and wherever decaying animal or vegetable matter occurs. The adult flies are constantly passing back and forth from 1 such materials, where they deposit their eggs, to other materials upon which they themselves feed. They prefer sweets, but are attracted by almost any kind of human food, j Flies do not ordinarily travel to any great distance and if a little care is taken their numbers may be greatly reduced. Especially does the farmer have tV\n nKonnn o Luf 1 f L/a i tuv v i lauv^v; vi auatiu^ tut: [JC51 . so far as his own premises are concerned. 11 The eggs laid by flies hatch in about a day into the familiar white maggots. After about five days spent feeding, if the (. food supply is unlimited, and a , couple of days in a resting stage, J the adult flies appear. it takes them slightly more than a week ' to become flies. If manure can <r be disposed of, hauled to either ^ the field or a compact heap s ** some distance from the house : every five to seven days, no flies * will be able to develop. If it is not possible to thus dispose of the manure, it may be possible to provide a room, dark and c thoroughly screened, into which i the manure may be put until it s can be disposed of. v Of all the substances used to y kill or repel flies the one which i has proved most satisfactory is | J ordinnrv limf? limo io i ~ first class deodorant. A free ^ use of it around all stables, i J privies and garbage cans will S cause those places to lose half y of their disagreeable features, \ and they will cease to be at- a tractions and breeding places for g that menace to health ?the com- i mon house fly. | r ? r Rev. Albert A. James Dead. The Rev. Albert A. James, the * oldest Presbyterian minister in ^ South Carolina, and one of the best known preachers of the * South, died at his home in Paco- ^ let Friday night at 11 o'clock, in * the 86th year of his age. Death came after an illness of several 8 months. The funeral and burial 11 were held Monday at the Presbyterian church in Union. s Mr. James served in the active 1 work of the ministry for 59 years. His first charge was Fair Forest ^ church, in Spartanburg county. J? During his long career he served f in practically all of the Presbyterian churches of Spartanburg Y county. When the Civil war u came on Mr. James was elected c chaplain of the Eighteenth South 0 Carolina volunteers and served 0 with that regiment throughout the war. ^ Mr. James was universal! 13 known and loved throughout Spartanburg county. He was a forceful preacher, giving his J} people the pure Gospel. i Albert Allison James was born July 26, 1824, in Yorkville, and united with the church while a pupil of and under the ministry h of Dr. Ferdinand Jacobs, in 1843. v He graduated from Davidson y > college in 1848 at the head of his Ii class. He then entered the f< Theological seminary at Co- s< lumbia, from which he graduated n in 1851. In the same year he is was licensed by Bethel Presby- J tery. I tl ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND FORT MILL WINS THREE DAMES Three games of baseball were played on the Fort Mill diamond during the last week. Thursday afternoon the second nine of Chester showed up for a game with the Fort Mill team of like numerical standing and the con- , test was one of the prettiest of \ the season, resulting after ten 1 innings of play in a victory ; for the home team by the score ' ji \j iv v. lvniiai u r uip piicneu five innings for the Fort Mill ! ooys and it was during his tenan- j y of the box that the Chester ' boys pot their runs. In the i sixth inninp Ernest Thompson * svas sent from second base to :he mound to break the run- 1 jetting streak of Chester. He 1 lid it. Not a run did they get ifter he began pitching. Thomp- ( son is a left-hander and the Ches- 1 ;er youth did not take kindly to s lis offerings. ? Batteries: Fort Mill, Fulp, A Thompson and Ardrey; Chester, 1 A'ilkes and Brown. 1 ^ The Carhartt Mill Game. The second game of the week } .vas between the Fort Mill ; egulars (sometimes they are a : ittle irregular) and the Hamil;on Carhartt mill team, of Rock dill. There was nothing to the >ame but Fort Mill; at no time iid the Carhartt boys have a ook in. Their nice new uniforms lid not seem to help much. The l^ort Mill boys hit the ball to all sections of the lot and ran the lases at will, amassing a total of L5 runs, while the best the d. C. C. M. could do was to ross the pan three times. Rock Hill Beaten Tuesday. The best game of the season >n the local lot was played Tuesday afternoon between Fort dill and Rock Hill, resulting in a \ to 1 victory for the locals, loth teams were on their toes 1 .1 ' luring me enure name and the >obbles were few. The batteries vere: Fort Mill, Bradford and Vrdrey; Rock Hill, Huey and Brown. m # m v Death of Mrs. Mattie Kendrick. Mrs. Mattie Kendrick, widow , f J. Fox Kendrick, a well } mown citizen of the Steel Creek j; ection of Mecklenburp county, c cho has been dead about ten c rears, died suddenly at her home f n Rock Hill Friday evening. r drs. Kendrick had been sick v ibout 24 hours. Apoplexy is g riven as the cause of her death, f drs. Kendrick moved from a Iteel Creek to Rock Hill some f ears ago to be convenient to ^ Vinthrop college, from which a i number of her daughters have r rraduated, and has since resided c n that city. She was an esti- s nable Christian woman, being a t nember of the Baptist church. s Ier home was formerly in the t, i'lint Hill section of Fort Mill f ownship and she was the e laughter of the late J. Leonidas c Srwin. Mrs. Kendrick's mother * ^ /as, before her marriage, a Miss t Hack, of Bethesda township. f Mrs. Kendrick had been in v ;ood health untii Friday mornfig, when she complained of not t eing well and consulted a phy- jj ician, who pronounced the c rouble as indigestion. Later in h he evening one of her neighbors n /as sitting with her when Mrs. 0 Lendrick suddenly covered her e ace with her hands, exclaiming, v 'Oh, my head!" She fell for- v /ard and expired instantly. She ; survived by six children. The c hildren are: Mrs. W. C. Owen, a f Little Rock; Mrs. T. J. Bethea, jj f Dillon; Miss Sadie, teaching h t Dillon; Leon, at school in r[ lharlottesville, Va.; and John b nd Frank, at home. p The remains were taken to v 'lint Hill for burial Sunday a iqrning. Mrs. Kendrick was d 6 years old. c h Election for Second Lieutenant. v Second Lieutenant G. C. Epps a aving resigned the commission c rhich he has held for several p ears in the Fort Mill Light 11 nfantry, an election will be held b or his successor at a date to be q et by Col. W. W. Lewis, com- tl landing the First regiment. It a \ presumed that First Sergeant tl . M. White will be promoted to v tie vacancy. n i iffffiki > mm 1 WORK ON SCHO( BEGUN MO? Educational Centre of the Co: and Commodious Structur Work was begun Monday morning on the new building for : the Fort Mill graded school, the ! board of trustees having made ; arrangements with a Charlotte I bank for the loan of $5,000 with ; which to begin the work. The 1 bonds voted by the school district 1 n April of last year have not 1 jeen sold, but the trustees are : WIIUUIIIO libit Ihehonds will be | old and paid for before the < >5,000 in hand is exhausted and : ;hat the work on the building; ,vill not be interrupted. 11 The building will occupy a site >n Monroe White street opposite!; .he Baptist church and will be aj substantial, two-story brick; structure with large. well-1: ventilated, well-lighted class h ooms of sufficient capacity to!; neet the wants of the school for several years. The building will )e 100 feet long and 50 feet vide. The ceiling in each of the ,wo stories will be 13 feet, and < lie walls are to be 17 inches to i lie second floor. The building i J - f ' A goo I IIBB-ifiM THE NEW GRADED S vill be covered with metal c hingles and made as near tire- i >roof as possible. The music I i: ooms will be large and well 1 ighted. There will be eight ji urge vlass rooms with a seating i q apacity of 400. Six of these j o lass rooms will be on the first; o loor, with commodious cloak 11 ooms adjoining. The auditorium t vill have a seating capacity of >00 and will be on the second loor, with a st ige 12 feet deep ,nd 30 feet long, elevated three I f eet above the floor. It is ^ danned to use the auditorium as c , class room in the event of tne ; n egular class rooms becoming { rowded. There will be two taireuses, one in either end of ^ he main hall, leading to the t econd floor. The main hall isjv o be 12 feet wide and 100 a eet long. There is also an ntrance hall 14 by 20 feet. The v loak rooms are so arranged that a he pupils will march through 't he building to them without con- f usion. A modern heating and () entilating plant will be installed. I ^ A prominent contractor is au- jf hority for the statement that j tr will hp 1 > nrt*a? i .v.. anu IIIUM I TJ oniplete $10,000 school building I v e has ever seen, which state- j lent is borne out by the failure f the board of trustees to receive ven one hid for the building /ithin the amount of bonds b oted for construction. s The only way the building v ould be put up with the money! C vailable was to employ a super- b itendent of construction and ^ ave the work done by the day. d 'here will not be a dollar wasted P y the building committee, com- ^ osed of Messrs. L. J. Massey, E V. B. Meacham and R. F. Grier, a nd these gentlemen are confi- ^ ent that when the building is ? ompleted the public will wonder n ow so much could be done * rith the comparatively small ? mount of money. Several arhitects were invited to submit lans for the building. In each istance the plans called for a uilding that was either inade- tl uate or too expensive. Finally A he dilemma was solved by the t< doption of the plans of one of p he trustees, Mr. L. J. Massey, ti rho has patriotically devoted A mch time and thought to their o OL BUILDING IDA V MORNING. mmunity Will be Handsome e?State and County Aid. preparation without cost to the school. Mr. Ma^sey's work saves the school about $300 in architect's fees His nlnn? .... 114 ? V. >een approved by both the Statel ind county boards of education. I ;o whom they were submitted I with the view of securing several lundred dollars aid in the con-1 struction of the building. There I will be $300 contributed by each I >f the boards to the buildingl fund and tins, with the $1,000 which it is hoped to derive from! [he sale of the old academy I |>uilding, will pay for the site I and leave a considerable sum I Lo be used otherwise. The completion of the new I school building is expected tol mark an era in the educational I iffairs of the community. Fort Mill has long been noted for its I splendid school, but of recent I rears the work has been some-1 what handicapped by thel crowded condition of the classl rooms. Now that the new buildng is in sight, with a corps of I * . . k . * - V - / VtK' ? CHOOL BUILDING. capable teachers to assist Superintendent L. M. Bauknight, who s considered by many the best lead the school has ever had, nterest in the school is materially luickening and at the opening f the fall session the enrollment f pupils is confidently expected o be larger than at any time in he past. Japanese Walnuts. Mr. L). K. Hall, magistrate or the Belair and Pleasant ralley sections of Lancaster ounty, was in Fort Mill Monday lorning and told The Times of wo Japanese walnut trees which re now growing on his plantaion in Pleasant Valley. The roes were put out about seven ears ago and the yield last year mounted to about a bushel and half from each tree. The walnuts grow in clusters of about i dozen and are not dissimilar to he English walnuts sold by ruiterers in this country, being t like size and almost the same j avor. The trees are heavily j ruited this year and promise a : reater yield than last year. Mr. [all finds a ready market for the : ralnuts in Fort Mill. Second District Convention, U. D. C. The Florence Thornwell chap-1 er, U. D. C., was well repreented at the first annual conention of the Daughters of the Confederacy of the second dis- j rict of South Carolina held in Lock Hill Tuesday, the following; elegates from Fort Mill being resent: Mrs. J. W. Ardrey, Irs. J. H. Mc Murray, Mrs. Elizabeth Belk, Miss Ella Stew rt, Mrs. A. O. Jones, Mrs. J. M. pratt, Miss Susie White and Irs. R. F. Grier. In the afteroon a reception was tendered he delegates by the Rock Hill >aughters which was a delight- ] ul feature of the convention. At Home on Furlough. Robert B. White is visiting at he home of his father, Mr. I l. S. White, two miles south of )wn. Mr. White is in the hosital corps, U. S. A., and is staioned at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta. This is his third term f enlistment in the army. NATIONAL CHAIRMAN MACK PREFERS NEW YORK'S MAYOR Mayor Gaynor, of Greater New York, Governor Harmon, of Ohio, and former Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, at the present time are the most conspicuous possibilities for the Democratic nomination for President in 1912 in the opinion ( of Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, chairman of the Democratic national committee. While making it clear that he is not giving any particular attention to the matter, Mr. Mack says that he is interested in the record M"1 \Ifir ...?J v> IS IllcllVlIlg. "I find Democrats everywhere discussing the mayor," said Mr. Mack. "His readiness to do the right thing at the right time has already demonstrated that he can be trusted to administer safely the business of the country. "Hut there are many good candidates this year and we never had a more encouraging outlook. Governor Folk is a good man and a strong man, and | I am glad he has come out openly as a candidate. The i platform he has outlined is a good one,, but, of course, I cannot i say whether the national convention will adopt it. Governor Harmon is a strong candidate. "I hardly think Mr. Bryan will run again in 1912. We do not expect him to run and I do not think he expects to be a candidate. Mr. Bryan is a young man, however, and there is no reason why he should not lead the partv in 1916." Farmers' Congress at Cleicson. A farmers' congress will be held at Clemson on June 26. 27 and 28. The congress will be held under the auspices of the division of extension work and farmers' institutes, of which D. N. Barrow is the superintendent. Every farmer in South Carolina is invited to attend this congress, and it is exnected that the attendance will be lar^e. I STOP, AND CC And you will fii are looking for. niture, Organs, Iron Beds, Felt M Machines, Etc., is ed. Our line of 5 Windows will inU l!i_. i I quality ana pric< celebrated Phillip of Cook Stoves ar ten guarantee goe: They last a life til We are now ] new rubber tires and baby carriage I price. Give us a CASH OR Mills & Y PHONES: Dry Goods, 37. Ft BISHOP HENDRIX NAY ATTEND CONFERENCE IN FORT NILL Rock Hill District of Methodist Church to Hold Meeting With St. John Church in July. The annual conference of the Rock Hill district. Methodist Episcopal church. South, will be held with St. John church. Fort Mill, from July 12 to 15, inclusive, and the committee recently appointed by the pastor of St. John, Rev. T. J. White, to arrange for the entertainment of the delegates to the conference has bep:un the work of ?uic I limits UL 11 lose who will provide homes for the visitors during their stay in Fort Mill. The members of the committee are the Rev. Mr. White. Messrs. A. 0. Jones, E. W. Russell, L. A. Harris and W. F. Harris. There are 18 charges in the Rock Hill district, in which is included about 40 churches, which will send to the conference 80-odd delegates, ministerial and lay. The presiding elder of the Rock Hill district is the Rev. T. C. O'Dell, but it is not known whether Mr. O'Dell will preside over the conference, as it is the prerogative of the bishop in whose diocese the district is to preside. This year the Rock Hill district is in the diocese of Bishop C. E. Hendrix, of Missouri, but he has * not yet indicated whether he will preside over the conference. The membership of St. John would be greatly pleased to have Bishop Hendrix attend the conference. To Petition Governor for Reward. E. P. H. Nivens, the Gold Hill merchant whose store was burned on the night of April 17, entailing a loss of several hundred dollars, will ask Governor Ansel to offer a reward for the apprehension of the incendiary. It will be recalled that Mr. Nivens' store was burned while he was away from home attending the spring term of court in Yorkville. LOOK )ME IN. nd here what you Our line of FurRanges, Stoves, attresses, Sewing large and assorticreen Doors and jrest you, both in e. We sell the s & Buttorff line id a 15-year writs with each stove, me. prepared to put on your go-carts is at a reasonable call. CREDIT. oung Co. / unbare, 144. Grocery, 12.