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VOLUME 19?NO. 15. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY U, 1910. $1.25 PER YEAR.
THUNDERSTORMS LEAVE DEATH
AND DESTRUCTION IN COUNTY
Fort Mill and Rock Hill Sections Visited
by Disastrous Lightning, Wind
and Rain.
Such a downpour of rain as
fell in Fort Mill, town and township.
Sunday evening from 8 to
10 o'clock has not been known
in this section for years. A
violent thunderstorm broke over
the community at 8 o'clock and
for two hours the rain came
down in torrents, flooding' the
streets and yards of the town ,
and the low lands of the country,
resulting in considerable damage
La irnrenf nl\l a # i*? ??/! nvro n iwl '
?u^ctauiu ^ai viunn aim liic;
cotton and corn crops. Sunday
was the hottest day of the year
and the earth dried rapidly after
the rain Saturday evening, lending
the hope that the new week
would witness much farm work,
but the hope for a few days' dry
weather was dispelled when the
storm clouds began to gather late
Sunday afternoon, to be followed
in a few minutes by the deep roll
of thunder and the almost incessant
play of the lightning in the
western sky. Then, in turn,
came the rain?such a rain as is
not often seen in South Carolina.
Scarcely a day has passed in
this section for the last two
weeks without rain in the late
afternoon or early evening. Consequently
there has been little
farm work of any kind done
and many farmers complain that
the grass has got the upperhand
of their cotton and corn and that
it will he necessary to abandon a
part of their crop. Others say
in this connection, however, that
with a week's fair weather all
would come around right and
that little if any of the growing
crops would have to be abandoned.
One farmer came to Fort
Mill a day or two ago from the
Wright's ferry section and remarked
that nearly all of his cotton
was waist high. Another
farmer overheard the remark and
replied that his friend's eyesight
was pool?that he mistook crab
grass and weeds for cotton.
A teriftic and destructive
storm struck Rock Hill Saturday
evening, lasting about an hour.
The electrical display was fearful.
carrying with it death and
destruction to property, but the
only fatality occurred on the
plantation of A. E. Willis, a
short distance from the city. A
negro, John Seagle, was struck
by a bolt of lightning and instantly
killed.
A barn on the plantation of
John A. Black was struck and
went up in flames, killing a mule
at the same time. Loss .SSOd,
with little insurance. The residence
of Leroy Wilkerson was
struck, hut no serious damage
done. The residence of Clark
Starnes was struck five times,
tearing holes in the structure
and knocking down the plaster in
several rooms.
The second destructive storm
of tho laef u'ool- <ti*iw?L- Pool.
Hill Sunday night. Lightningstruck
the harn, a big structure,
on tlu? plantation of \Y. J. Miller,
which was destroyed with all of
its contents. The loss is a most
serious one. In the barn were
three mules, two horses, 3,000
bundles of fodder, 10 loads of
peavine hay. 150 bushels of oats.
25 bushels of corn, a lot of gears
and harness, saddles and other
things, entailing a loss of about
$2,000. Mr. Miller only carried
$150 insurance on his barn and
$300 on his three mules.
Death of a Little Girl.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crook, of
the Gold Hill section of Fort
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luiii townsnip, suuerea an irreparable
loss Monday morning in
the death of their 12-year-old
daughter, Eleanor, who had beer
ill less than a week. The little
girl was stricken with brair
fever on Tuesday of last week
and her condition was regardet
as serious from the first evidence
of the malady. The besl
. medical attention and the de
voted care of the child's parents
failed to stay the ravages of th<
malignant fever and the enc
came at 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing. The child was a membei
of Philadelphia Methodist churcl
and the funeral service wai
preached by her pastor, Rev. Mr
White, Tuesday morning. Th<
interment was at Flint Hill.
Interested in New Delegation. !
Of the number of questions
which should be maturely considered
by the voters of York
county in selecting the members I
of the General Assembly who are
to be chosen in the election to be
held on August 30, none should
receive a greater share of public
concern in determining the 1
personnel of the delegation than '
the road question, according to
Senator W. H. Stewart.
T : 4.u? : e ii- _ i ?
jl/ui in& nit: M-asiwiis ui uie last
General Assembly, Mr. Stewart
devoted much time and thought 1
to the law under which the
public roads of York county are
l3eing built and repaired, with
the result that the county admittedly
has one of the best
systems of highway improvement
among the many systems of the
State. But Mr. Stewart realizes
that the road law for York
county is not what it should lie;
there are imperfections which
should be remedied and which
can be remedied if the voters
select a delegation to the lower
house of the General Assembly
who will cooperate with him in
perfecting the law.
"Of course I am interested in
I the election of the county's
delegation in the house of representatives,"
said Mr. Stewart to
The Times Monday afternoon.
"I should dislike very much to
see the time and labor I have
spent in trying to give York
county a good road law practical-;(
ly nullified by the refusal of the :
delegation to cooperate with me '
in the changes which may appear ,
necessary in promoting the
I efficiency of the law. The road
1 question is of concern to everybody
and the voters ought to 1
' know what the attitude of the
candidate is on the subject before
election day."
D. A. R. Picnir at Warhaw
A basket picnic is to be given
I by the members of Kanawha
chapter, I). A. R., at old Wax-1
i haw church in Lancaster county
one day next week, probably
Friday, and the Daughters extend
a cordial invitation to their
friends in this community to
accompany them on the outing.
Arrangements are under way
with the officials of the railroad
between Rock Hill and Lancaster
to stop their southbound
morning train at a crossing near
the church, so that the party will
experience little inconvenience
in reaching the picnic grounds.
The committee in charge of the
arrangements for the picnic is
composed of the following ladies,
who will be pleased to furnish
information as to railroad
schedules, etc.: Mrs. J. 11.
McMurray, Mrs. J. 1J. Klliott,
Mrs. J. L. Spratt.
Rube Benton a Puzzle.
The Cincinnati Times-Star is
ivnrrvincr I /\C
Kenton, who was sold by Macon
to the Cincinnati Nationals some
weeks ago lor $7,000. Benton
formerly lived in Lancaster and
is well known in baseball circles
in this section. Here is what
was said about Benton in a recent
issue of The Times-Star:
"Rube Benton has now been
seen by Chicago and Cincinnati
audiences. He has paraded
twice, and, from the standpoint
of hits, runs, bases on balls and
general success, has been one of
the most monumental frosts
turned loose since the panic of
1873. And yet he is a mystery.
The fans still think he has the
goods, and that with good supi
j>ort he will become a conqueror.
On both of Benton's tryouts he
itvtntu auouiuici; iiuai'i iiuic:
support from the Reds. The work
done behind him was enough to
i crab the work of any pitcher and
I to make his best attempts look
i pitiful. It is quite true that the
? boy pitched wildly and with bad
i judgment, but he wasn't getting
; any help from anybody. Give
1 Benton a show on a day when
the Reds are working snappily
t and without errors, when things
- are breaking right and there is
^ pepper in the very atmosphere.
-1 it is the belief of the fans that he
1 will make good and prove worth
- a considerable portion of the
i* $7,000 that was paid for him. He
i certainly has wonderful curves."
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A game of ball between Pinee
ville and Fort Mill small boys
Tuesday broke up in a row.
SMOOTH YOUNG MAN SWINDLES j J
THE FORT MILL SAVINGS BANK
Stranger Giving His Name as J. Y. 1
Jones Passes Worthless Check on
I.oral Institution
Two hundred and forty dollars
is the amount of a fraudulent ]
L-heck which was passed on the ]
Savings Hank of Fort Mill on h
June 80 by a young man giving j
his name as J. V. Jones and his .
residence as Charleston. Jones
came to Fort Mill with the Yoi*k- '
ville ball team on June 80 and 11
remained with the team during <
the series of three games here. ;
He was a young man of pleasing 1
address and wore good clothes, i
so when he was introduced to i
Cashier Meacham by a Yorkville ;
young man with whom Mr. <
Meacham was acquainted he was 1 <
extended the courtesy of opening (
an account with the Savings
bank. 1
Jones presented a check on an
Asheville bank payable to him- <
self and signed by "T. C. |
McCauley." Across the face ol' i
the check was written the :
words "monthly allowance," <
indicating that the drawer was
accustomed to extending financial |
aid to Jones periodically. Jones :
explained this phase of the I
transaction by saying that
McCauley was a kinsman of his. I
On the day the account was 5
opened Jones withdrew only a;
a few dollars of the deposit, but |
on July 1 he withdrew a total of <
iHIIUl luavinir a I'lalnnnd nf 41 -111
Before leaving Fort Mill in the I
afternoon of July 1 he asked Mr.
Meacham to give him a cashier's ]
check for the balance. The re- <
quest was granted.
The check on the Asheville |
hank de|>osited by Jones was for- '
warded for collection in due:
time, but was returned a day or ]
two ago as worthless. As the l
result of a similar swindling
transaction Jones is now in
the York county jail. He was ar- i
rested in Charleston Sunday for j
passing a worthless check for <
$172 on the Bank of Clover last i
Tuesday and was taken to Yorkville
Monday by Deputy Sheriff
F. E. Quinn. ! j
Mr. Meacham went to Yorkville
Tuesday to arrange for the
prosecution of Jones for bilking :
the Fort Mill bank.
Wreck Narrowly Averted.
A rear-end collision that
probably would have eost a nuin- '
her of lives and the destruction
of much valuable property was
narrowly averted on the Southern
railway near the depot in Fort
Mill Friday at noon. The work
train which had been engaged
for several days in cleaning the
drains in the cut was at work a
few hundred yards north of the
Main street crossing, occupying
the main line. The flagman of
of the work train was sent out
to flag against approaching
northbound trains, but upon
reaching the depot he sat down
and was soon fast asleep, entirely
oblivious of the approach
of a melon train, which ran by
the depot, but fortunately was
stopped by a signal of Operator
1). F. Lee to the conductor, who
was riding in the caboose. The
melon train got within a fewyards
of the work train before
it could be stopped.
The negligent flagman was discharged
from the service of the!
railway company Sunday.
First Regiment to Encamp at Aiken.
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int.* rirsi regiment, .National
Guard of South Carolina, of which
the Fort Mill. Rock Hill and Yorkville
companies are units, will go
into camp at Aiken on July 21)
for ten days. Mayor Salley, of1
Aiken, received a telegram Monday
morning from Col. W. VV.
Lewis stating that Aiken had
been decided on. Col. Lewis and
Capt. M. C. Willis were in Aiken
Friday and investigated that city
as a possible camping ground,
but were ordered by Gen. Boyd
to inspect Anderson before making
their final decision. Accordingly
they went to Anderson Sat
urday, but decided that the Aiken
offer was more advantageous.
Governor Ansel has refused to
pardon Clarence Holmes, a 17year-old
white boy, convicted of
housebreaking in this county last
1 year and sentenced to two years.
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\NNUAL CONFERENCE IN SESSION
WITH THE FORT MILL CHURCH
Meeting of the Rock Hill District,
Southern Methodists, Opened Yesterdays-Attendance
Good.
The annual conference of the
Rock Hill district, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, is
oeing held with St. John church.
Port Mill, the presiding officer
aeing the Rev. T. C. O'Dell,
presiding elder. About 75 delegates,
representing the 40-odd
churches of the district, are in
attendance upon the conference,
which was opened yesterday
morning at 9 o'clock with a Sermon
liv nf mSnietoi*o in
attendance. Preliminary to the
opening of the conference a
sermon was delivered in the
:hurch Tuesday evening by the
Rev. II. \Y. Whitaker, former
pastor of St. John.
No program of the proceedings
jf the conference has been prepared.
but it is hoped to have all
matters of interest to the conference
presented by the various
committees on church work
which have been selected by the
presiding elder. Among the
subjects to be considered during
the conference are the following:
"The Measure of Our Duty to
the Heathen and to the Missionary."
"Methodism?A World Power."
"The Supreme Need of the
Church of Today."
"The Steward?His Duty to
he Pastor and to the People."
"The Sunday School Teacher?
dis Opportunity and His Re- i
sponsibility."
"Is the Ministry of Today as
x>tent for Good as in Former
fears?"
"Difficulties in the Way of
Ep worth League Work and How
o Overcome Them.
Conference Committees.
The conference committees
ire as follows.
Missions W. S. Martin, I.. I). Child.*, j
14. E. Anderson, N. A. Funderburk,
W. A. Hood, T. C. I.oitner, .1. M.
KiddIt*. II. .1. Zinker, .1. A. Harber.
State of Church I). A. Phillips, I).
Tiller, J. C. Shannon, A. M. Whisonint,
A. S. Presley, A. Gibson, .J. I), i
Flynn. R. .1. W. Moss.
Quarterly Conference .lournals 11. i
li. Hardy. K. C. Allison, T. W. Jackson,
.1. T. McFadden, Walter Simpson.
1. F. Smith. K.'I*. Niven. .1. I!, liurh-v.
K. E. Montgomery, T. J. Bradford.
Sunday Schools and Epworth
Leagues l>. M. McLood, .1. T. McFarlane,
J. F. Collins, I. S. Kidd, .1.
Roberts, .1. B. Svkrs, .J. B. Creightoit,
J. l.ylcs Ko, .1. II. Cams. H. C.
Steele, W. 11. Simpson.
Education 11. It. Mills, F. E.
Hodges, \V. W. Lewis, S. Carter,
\V. 11. Hardin, W. B. Culp, W. I.
Kirkpatrick. J. D. McMeokm. .1. K.
Thomas.
Temperance T. .1. White. C. B. Carter,
1). M. Benlield, J. A. Shearer, J.
\Y. Wylie, J. I,. Bettus. S. K. Clinton,
It. 1). Sealy. .1. M. Seagle.
Periodicals W. M. Owings, J. S.
McKeown, W. F. McCullough, T. It.
Thompson, .1. C. Dickson. Klzi< .Myers.
Finance S. 1>. Bailey, H. \V. Whitaker,
VV. H. Hope. L. 1). ("hilds. J. E.
Lathem, It. E. Montgomery, T. .J.
Bradford, .1. M. Riddle.
License to Breach and Recommendation
to the Annual Conference for Admission
on Trial M. M. Brabham. W.
S. Martin, 1). A. Bhillips.
Deacons' and Elders' Orders I). M.
McLeod. It. II. Mills. J. A. White.
The sessions of the conference
are to he held twice daily, at 11
a. in. and 3:30 p. m., with divine
services at 8:30 o'clock in the
evening*. The conference is expected
to close Fridav evening.
Congressional Vote for Victor Bryant.
The Fort Mill friends of Victor
S. Bryant wore greatly pleased
to note that he received a substantial
vote for the Democratic
nomination for Congress in the
Greensboro convention of the
Fifth North Carolina district,
which adjourned in a deadlock
Friday after several days' session.
The convention will meet
again later in the month to complete
its work and it is the hope
of many in this section that Mr.
Bryant will be the nominee. He
is a Providence (N. C.) young
man. who, after graduating at
me i niversuy 01 rsorin i aroiina
some years ago, located in Durham
for the practice of law. In
the few years that he has been a
member of the Durham bar he
has made a name for himself
that extends all-over North Carolina
and there are not a few of
his friends in this section who
believe that he will some day be
governor of that State. Mr.
Bryant is a brother of Messrs.
Bob and "Red Buck" Bryant.
Record of World's Champion Cow.
Upon his return to Fort Miil
some weeks ago from Cornell
university F. Murray Mack
stated to The Times that during
an inspection of a number of
famous dairy herds in the
Syracuse district of New York
he had seen several prize milkers
which produced about 13 gallons
per day. The statement may
have seemed exaggerated to those
who do not know Mr. Mack and
whose knowledge of cows is
limited to the mikers of this
? it
secuun. nere, us in most sections
of the South, the cow
which produces as much as six
gallons of milk per day is considered
one of the community's
wonders. Not so in the "milk
district" of New York State,
where cows of ten-gallon record
are seen in every herd.
In Chenango county, New
York. Mr. Mack saw the best
cow the world has ever known.
The name of this queen of cows
is DeKol Queen La Polka 2d. and
she is owned by Clayton Sisson,
of Sherburne, N. V. The cow
is of the Holstein-Freisian breed
and was purchased by Mr.
Sisson from a neighbor for $175.
The record made by this cow is
as follows:
Butter record, seven days, was
35.34 pounds.
Butter record, 30 days, was
145.10 pounds.
Milk record, one day, was
15 1-2 gallons.
Milk record, eight days, was
841.8 pounds, or an average of
13 gallons per day.
Milk record, 30 days, was
3,376.9 pounds, or 1,650 quarts,
making an average of 13 1-2 gallons
per day.
Just reflect for a moment
what this means?more than a
ton and a half of milk from one
cow in 30 days. There is only
one cow in the wide world that
has ever beaten any of the above
records and that animal was
Grace Fayne 2d's Homestead,
owned by 11. A. Moyer, of
Syracuse. She made 35.55
pounds of butter in seven days.
Mr. Moyer was offered just
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the test was made and in two
weeks from that day the animal
was dead.
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GOV. FOLK BANKING ON BRYAN
AID TO LAND THE NOMINATION
Missourian's Friends are Active and
Think His Candidacy is Causing
Apprehension to Others.
From the trend of events in
the Democratic fold, it is evident
that former Governor Folk, of
Missouri, is relying on William
Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, to
assist him in gaining the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Silence and gum-shoe work
was never used to better auvantage
than it is being used
now by the political adherents of
the former governor who want
him to lead the Democratic party
to the polls in 1912.
It is believed that the candidacy
of Joseph W. Folk is causing
some apprehension to the friends
of Governor Judson Harmon, of
Ohio; Governor Marshall, of
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niuiana, ana :u ay or u ay nor, ot
New York city. In the case of
! the two governors, there is no
doubt that the nomination would
be gladly accepted. With Mayor
jGaynor it is different. Many
believe that the executive of
New York city does not aspire
to higher office than he now
holds and would flatly reject any
proposition to elevate him even
: to the vice presidency.
The Folk boomers are active
in the East, in the South and in
the West. Lon Sanders, of the
Democratic League of Missouri,
has been making a tour through
the New England States interviewing
Democratic leaders.
Short Items of Interest.
Elwood F. Bell, a good citizen
of Rock Hill, died Monday.
A. Frank Wood, an aged Confederate
veteran, died at the residence
of his son, Dan T. Wood,
in Yorkville Sunday evening.
L. B. Drennan, a Rock Hill
business man, was seriously injured
Tuesday morning by being
struck by a locomotive at a street
i crossing in that city.
The July term of the court of
general session for York county
'opened one day late, on Tuesday
i morning, on account of illness in
I t he family of the presiding judge,
| Judge Shipp.
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