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I The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19?NO. 12. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23. 1910. $1.25 PER YEAH. I AGRICULTURE IN EMPIRE STATE a AS SEEN BY A FORT MILL MAN Dairying the Principal Industry, but Grain and Fruit-growing Also Receive Much Attention. (Written for The Times.) Farming in New York State [differs greatly from that in South Carolina?the soil is different, the climate is different, and thus the crops are different. Dairying is the greatest agricultural industry in New York State. Nearly every farmer has a herd of at least 15 01 20 cows, and often as high as 50 or even ? l i i mil- tt_i_a.-:_ 1.1 ^ a nuiiuifu. xne nuisieui is ine jjl* popular cow. The Jersey and jjf Ayrshire are seldom seen, the W Guernsey much more often, but the Holstein is everywhere. She is large, lazy, eats a lot, but gives great quantities of good milk, and the modern Holstein is not a bad butter producer. Most of the milk is sold to the Borden company for about 2 cents a quart. The Bordens ship it in regular milk trains to New York and other large Eastern cities, where they get 8 cents a quart for it. yet the farmers make money at 2 cents. Of course every dairy farmer raises most or all of his feed, consisting of clover, timothy, and alfalfa hay, corn silage, the different grain crops, such as corn, wheat, oats, barley and rye. Much hay is raised for the market, being baled and shipped to the cities where it commands a high price. The busiest season on a New York farm is in July L during the hay harvest, when all the idle men and boys of the towns and cities go out into the hay fields to earn their $1.25 or $1.50 a day. Corn, wheat and oats are important crops. The corn is planted in hills and forced to rapid growth and early maturity on account of the short season, it beincr their endeavor to hnrvpsf |pfB it in not more than 120 days! from planting. Fruit growing is a profitable industry. There are few who enter into it without drawing comfortable incomes. It seems that the most prosperous New York farmers are apple growers. There are many sections of the State where apples are grown that equal the famous Hood River apples of Oregon in beauty and even surpass them in flavor. Niagara county, in New York, is famous for its grapes, apples and pears. Cherries and plums are grown for the city market. Peaches are also grown but not as successfully as in the South, for in New York the peach seems to be out of its natural environment. Dairying, hay, and fruit are the principal lines, but the New York State farmers follow others to a greater or less extent. The raising of truck crops, especially on muck lands, is a growing industry. The raising of blooded stock, horses, cattle, swine, etc., rivals that of the blue grass region of Kentucky and Tennessee. Beef, cattle, sheep, and poultry come in for a share. One noticeable thing is that kiic laiiucio aic an up-iu-uaic in their ideas and practices. They are guided by the experiment stations, they hold conventions and farmers' institutes, they patronize farm demonstration trains. The Grange, a national association of farmers, is a powerful factor in the prosperity of New York State. The condition of farm labor is excellent. The average farm laborer in the North is a young man, usually a native white, sometimes a foreigner. He receives from $20 to $30 a month, according to ability, and his ;board and washing. He is treated as one of the family, eats with them, goes to church or any neighborhood social function with them and has the use of a horse and buggy when he wishes to take his best girl for a ride on Sunday afternoon or the Fourth of July. fin tViD urknln UFA miinl n/vn v/i* VIIV TT 1IV1V Tt V UlUOt LUI 1 elude that the New York farmer is a prosperous man. The very fact that the one-horse plow is unknown, and that one often sees four or five horses to one plow, seems to indicate this. The homes are modern, neat and .attractive. The barns and out Fort Mill Loses One, Wins Two. Speaking of baseball, there was a plenty doing on the Fort Mill diamond Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons when the local boys took on the strong Huntersville (N. C.) team. The opening game of the series was a swatfest for the visitors. The first Fort Mill pitcher was not in condition; a major part of the time he could not locate the plate and consequently issued many passes. When he did get the ball in reach of the Huntersville boys they hit it a mile. Score, Fort Mill 4; Huntersville 11. Batteries, Fort Mill, Hoover, Ardrev and Parks: Huntersville. Cashion and Rodgers. Things broke better for Fort Mill in the second game, however, and they got next to Cline for ten hits, registering five times, while the best the Tarheel boys could do was to count one time?on an error. Jesse Price kept the hits of the visitors scattered and at no time during the game was he willing to allow Huntersville a look-in. Besides catching his usual steady game, Springs Parks was the handy man with the bat. Craig Fite also gave a demonstration of the kind of stick-work necessary to win games. Huntersville 100 000 000?1 7 4 Fort Mill 100 220 000 -5 10 6 Cline and Rogers; Price and Parks. There was a big crowd on hand to witness the last game of the series with Huntersville Saturday afternoon and the enthusiasm was as hot as the weather until the seventh inning, when it died as suddenly as the recent hero-worship of the country for Dr. Fred Cook. Fort Mill had treated the visitors to a row of zeros up to and through the sixth, meanwhile scoring two herself, but in the seventh three successive hits, an error and a dumb play allowed the lads from across the line to forge ahead with a margin of one run. In the ninth, however, the locals got together for a final rally and by some stirring batting and OTi\A/^ Koo^_i*nnninnr f Ka ftWU wuuv-1 UIIIIIII^, i LilC lost ground and put an extra one on the right side of the score sheet. Hunteraville 000 000 300 -3 9 4 Fort Mill 100 100 002 - 4 9 5 Caahion and Goodman; Spratt and Parks. "Buck" Bryant Leiret Charlotte. H. E. C. Bryant, better known to newspaper readers of this section as "Buck" Bryant, has given up the Washington correspondence of a Charlotte paper to accept a position with a Montana paper. Mr. Bryant has been connected with the press of Charlotte for the last ten years and during that time has made an extensive reputation as a writer of negro dialect and hunting stories. Before he entered newspaper work Mr. Bryant's home was in the Providence neighborhood of Mecklenburg county, eight miles east of Fort Mill, and he has many friends in this section who will learn with regret his determination to move to the West. Besides being a man of parts himself, "Buck" will find it to his advantage to let his new Western neighbors know that he is a brother of Bob Bryant. There is an asset in the kinship. Boyd-Brock Row Cost $1,005. Th<? anm nf HA!\ AH ro?ii?/i a uvtiti VI yi | VW. "TV 1 V/J/I V," I sents the amount that the Boydi Brock court of inquiry cost the J State of South Carolina. Just ' what provision will be made for the payment of this sum is not known, although Governor Ansel has promised that when the matter was presented to him he would decide the question. J. 0. Stewart Operated On. J. 0. Stewart, a former citizer of Fort Mill, who moved to Char j lotte some years ago, was operated upon for appendicitis in ? i Charlotte hospital Thursday afternoon. Mr. Stewart passec through the operation success fully and is now considered ou of danger. buildings are well built and neat ly painted, the machinery house< i and well cared for, and there i plenty of it too. All of whicl are indications of prosperity. . ( LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PTLEOD INVITED TO SPEAK IN FORT MILL r t Friends of the Lee County Candidate J Trying to Arrange a Meeting for ^ Friday, July 1. d Unless the plans of a number g of Fort Mill friends of Lieutenant t Governor T. G. McLeod mis- s carry, the citizens of this com- j munity will have an opportunity c to hear that gentleman speak at a Confederate park on the evening r of July 1 in behalf of his candi- ^ dacy for governor. Governor e McLeod is with the State cam- c paign party making the county- c to-county canvass. The York county meeting will be held in Yorkville on July 1 and the arrangement which the Fort Mill friends of the lieutenant gov ernor are trying to perfect is to have him come to Fort Mill in the afternoon at the conclusion of the court-house meeting and speak here that evening. Governor McLeod is auxious to accept the invitation which has been extended him to visit Fort Mill, but is unable to say definitely that he will come, owing to the possibility of a night meeting in Rock Hill on July 1, at which the other candidates will be present and which he could not well afford to miss. The following letter received from Governor McLeod by the editor of The Times Tuesday morning explains the situation fully, however: "Your telegram received today, and I am hurrying this through, inasmuch as I could not answer you fully by wire. I would like very much indeed to speak at Fort Mill Friday night, but the situation is just this: there may be a meeting scheduled at Rock Hill for that night, at which the other candidates will be present and at which I too would wish to be present. I: understand that sometimes here-' tofore they have had such meetings at Rock Hill. Another question would be the schedule? that is, the schedule to VVinnsboro the next day. If you can ascertain that there will be no campaign meeting at Rock Hill that night, and I can speak at Fort Mill and go to Winnsboro the next day, I will be very glad to do so. This I will leave to you." Tuesdav morniner The Times got into communication with | County Chairman W. B. Wilson, Jr., with the view of learning whether it is purposed to hold a night meeting in Rock Hill. Mr. r Wilson had heard no suggestion ^ of such a meeting, but he thought * it not unlikely that a meeting * would be arranged, which would j preclude the probability of * Governor McLeod coming to [ Fort Mill. Governor McLeod * would be able to reach Winnsboro ( in time for the Saturday meet- 1 ing Meanwhile, the local ' friends of Governor McLeod can * only await developments in Rock * Hill. 1 Severe Storm Sunday. ( Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock a severe thunder storm broke | over Fort Mill township which 1 lasted for several hours. The < rain was accompanied by a high j wind and a considerable fall of hail in the Gold Hill section. The hail did not, however, damage to an appreciable extent the growing crops, but many terraces were < broken on the farms by the i heavy rainfall. Farmers consider ] the worst feature of the storm i the fact that it rendered im- ] possiDie tne worK which they had ; planned to do in their crops the . early part of the week. Both I cotton and corn are growing s satisfactorily, but much of it will have to be abandoned to the 1 grass unless there is within a few days a cessation of the excessive rainfall of the last two weeks. Revival Services at Baptist Church. The announcement is made by 1 the pastor of the Baptist church, the Rev. Mr. Hair, that a series I ^A- :.._i : ? ?i - I ui revival services in wmcn ne is to be assisted by the Rev. Henry t Miller, D. D., of Greenville, will be begun in the church Sunday, July 24. Dr. Miller is pastor of - the Second Baptist church of i Greenville and is a forceful and s eloquent preacher whose seri rnons doubtless will be interest1 ing and helpful. Children's Day Exercises. ] Rehearsals have been held alnost daily for the last fortnight >y the scholars of St. John's dethodist Sunday school who I vill take part in the children's lay exercises to be held in the hurch next Sunday evening, at 1:30 o'clock. The exercises are mder the direction of the Sunday 1 chool superintendent, Mr. E. W. 1 lussell, and will be composed of < Icriptural readings, recitations i md vocal and instrumental nusic. The selections of a male luartet are expected to prove an 1 tnjoyable feature of the exer- ! :ises. The nnhlio is evtanHorl q : :ordial invitation to attend the ; sxercises. i t , , 1 Militia Department Negligent. Since the Boyd-Brock contro- , ,rersy arose several weeks ago, ittle attention seems to have >een paid by the adjutant reneral's department to the welfare of the South Carolina National Guard. Four weeks igo the second lieutenant of the ?ort Mill Light Infantry. G. C. Spps, sent in his resignation to ;he colonel of the regiment. The esignation was thence imnediately forwarded to the idjutant general's office and it vas expected that the resignation vould be accepted and the rolonel directed to order an Section for a successor. So far, lowever, the matter seems to lave been overlooked and the ocal militiamen are wondering iow much longer the company vill have to suffer from the legligence of the department. Whitesell-Sutton Marriage. Alex C. Sutton and Miss Lena A'hitesell were married VVedneslay evening at the parsonage of ,he Methodist church by Rev. VIr. White, a number of rela;ives and friends of the couple leing present for the ceremonv. Vlrs. Sutton is a daughter of W. 2. Whitesell and has many 'riends in the community who ire interested in her marriage. Mr. Sutton is superintendent of he McNinch farm, two miles >outh of Fort Mill, and he and Mrs. Sutton will live in the :omfortable brick cottage which las heretofore been occupied by he superintendent of the Charotte Brick company, an industry ocated on the McNinch farm. J. Lon Thomasson Demented. J. Lon Thomasson, a young nan who lived in this community intil he moved to Gastonia, "4. C., a few years ago, was aken from his home to the rlospital for the Insane in Morganton, N. C., Monday norning. Mr. Thomasson had >een acting peculiarly for several lays, but it was not known intil Saturday afternoon that lis mind was affected. The luthorities then decided to Conine him for fear he might do violence to some one. Mr. Thomasson has a number >f relatives and many friends in :his section and his deplorable londition is a source of regret :o all. It is hoped that the treatment he will receive at the state nospital will restore him :o his normal condition. Forty-three Bales of Cotton Sold. D. O. Potts has sold a part sf his 190y cotton crop, consisting of 43 bales, to Geo. H. McFadden & Bro., of Charlotte, receiving therefor an average price of 14.85 cents per pound. A number of bales of the lot were hauled to the Fort Mill depot from Mr. Potts' farm in Pleasant Valley Saturday afternoon, the remainder having been stored in a local warehouse since last fall. The 43 bales were shipped to Charlotte Tuesday afternoon. Carter Parks' Death a Mystery. Mystery surrounds the death of Carter Parks, a 22-year-old farmer who resided in Union count v. N. C., a few miles from the State line. Young Parks left home Wednesday, on a business errand, and not returning, a search was instituted by his family. Thursday morning his dead body was found near a spring on his plantation. His head was nearly shot off. His death is being investigated by the authorities. DISPLAY OF WEATHER SIGNALS BY THE RURAL NAIL CARRIERS [f Bill Ptoses Congress, Fanners of the Country Will Get Daily Bureau Service. T ? n ? ii congress gets busy and passes in the last day or two of the session which is expected to end this week the bill requiring rural letter carriers to aisplay from their mail wagons signals forecasting the probable state of the weather for the succeeding 24 hours, thousands of dollars and much labor and incon- ( venience will be saved the farming interests of the country contiguous to the rural routes. According to the bill the carriers are to carry flag signals similar to the signals hoisted on buildings and elsewhere in the populous centres for the guidance of those interested in the weather. The bill provides that "the rural deliveryman shall carry a flag signal of convenient and suitable size, to be determined by the fourth assistant postmaster general, indicating the weather predictions as reported by the United States bureau for the period in advance of the current trip." But it is also provided that the report of the period shall have been received in sufficient time so as not to retard the departure of the mail on schedule time. It will be necessary, under the plan proposed, for the weather bureau to telegraph the weather prediction each morning to each postoffice in the country which sends out rural mail deliverymen. The mail man thereupon fixes to his wagon the flag indicating the expected state of the weather, and as he rides by, the farmers and others along his route can know with weather bureau certainty what the weather will be for the next 24 hours. B. B. Evans, a brother of exGovernor Evans, is a candidate for attorney general against Fraser Lyon. I NO MATTE Y(W If you ever eat w We want you to 1 good to eat we hav< got it we will get ii I for others and wil v I > imi. i wu i auiiut you come to Fort I us right in the cen gest, cleanest, fresl stock of everything in this section of \ We employ only ive salesmen and awaits you. If you ing your groceries now. We will m while. If your pu we guaranteee worth and satisfael back. Mills & \ PHONES: Dry Goods, 37. Rah for Dad!---He'i the Lead Ox. A Florida editor was in a home where he saw over the parlor door the legend worked in letters of red, "What Is Home Without a Mother?" Across the room was another brief, "God Bless Our Dad." He gets up early, light? the fire, boils an egg, and wipes off the dew of the dawn with his boots while many a mother is sleeping; he mnlroc fV>o mooH" U~ ? J ?A c? v?iv irvtnijr lldllU-UUL IOl* the butcher, the grocer, the milkman and baker and his pile is badly worn before he has been home an hour. If there is a noise during the night, Dad is kicked in the back and made to go downstairs to find the burglar and kill him. Mother darns the socks but dad bought the socks in the first place and the needles and the yarn afterwards. Mother does up the fruit?well, dad bought it all, and jars and sugar cost like the mischief. Dad buys the chickens for the Sunday dinner, carves them himself and draws the neck from the ruins. "What is home without a mother?" Yes, that is all right; but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it's a boarding house, father is under a slab, and the landlady is the widow. Dad, here's to you; you have your faults, you may have lots of 'em, but you are all right and we will , ' " miss you when you are gone. ^ To Leave Foit Mill. The announcement that Mr. J. T. McGregor and his excellent family will leave Fort Mill on July 1 is a source of much regret to their many friends here. Mr. McGregor has accepted the superintendency of the Florence cotton mills at Forest City, N. C., and will assume the duties of the position within the next ten aays. it is a splendid testimonial to the ability of Mr. McGregor as a mill man that he should be entrusted with the direction of the affairs of a manufacturing industry of the magnitude of the Florence mills. i WHERE II ARE e want to see you. know that if it is b it. If we haven't t. We save money 1 do the same for TT /? H miss our store. II II Vlill you will find II tre, with the biglest, lowest priced ? for man and beast ork county, polite and attenta warm welcome have not been buyin Fort Mill begin II ake it worth vour II J . _ remise is 5 cents or * * ? you your money's Lion or your money ?? oung Co. Furniture, 144. Grocery, 12. 1 %xr r W ' 'l\