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I j The Fort Mill Times. / j VOLUME 19?NO. 10. * FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21. 1910. l'KH VKAH " MUCH INTEREST MANIFESTED ' IN GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION ' Newspaper Man Gives Reasons for Selecting Thos. G. McLeod as the Winner---Blease Strong. "Who will be elected governor?" This question is often asked the newspaper man nowadays, indicating that there is more, interest in the outcome of the August primary than is bespoken by the small attendance at the campaign meetings. Primary elections are somewhat "unsartin," however, and the news/paper man being neither (propnet nor tue son 01 a prophet, cannot vouchsafe a reliable answer. But he can guess?and his guess should be worth something, for it is his business to keep in touch with developments and draw conclusions therefrom. Less than a week ago The Times was favored with the prognostication of a well known newspaper correspondent who has been with the . campaign party at several meetings during the last 15 days and it is his opinion that Lieutenant Governor Thos. G. McLeod will be the next governor of South Carolina. "Prohibition," said The Times' authority, "is unmistakably on the wane in South Carolina. There are many reasons for this. For instance, there is a strong undercurrent of opposition to the activity in the campaign of the Anti-Saloon league. Many people look upon the Anti-Saloon league as an alien organization, which, in the West and in other sections of the country, almost invariably throws its influence against the Democratic nominees. Our people generally are not aware of this, otherwise the Anti-Saloon league would have to go out of business in South Carolina. Its support of Mr. Featherstone nr.w4.ii?.i.? a, J 1 v.^1 iaiiu,y i.-> innii>; linn nu }4UUU. He is losing by it. Then there is also deep-rooted opposition to the scheme of the prohibitionists to force their ideas upon an unwilling community. It is not Democratic. "I said I believed McLeod would be elected, but I do not think his victory is all over but the shouting. Many people un-; derrate the strength of Cole Blease. He has made a strong campaign and is certain to receive a large vote. If he should get in the second race with Featherstone, I have little doubt that he will defeat the Laurens county man. The other candidates will develop some strength on election day, of course, but they are hardly to be considered factors in the race, further than that both Richards and Hyatt have injured Featherstone's chances." Walk the Roads, Then Ride the River. Pedestrianism and boating1 seem to have the call with a number of Fort Mill young men. Friday morning Murray Mack, Honus Wagner and Kenneth Nims set out afoot for Mt. Holly, N. C., 30 miles awav, by the public roads. They negotiated the distance in nine hours and spent the night with friends in the little North Carolina city on ! the Catawba river. Saturday; morning the party decided to return via the Catawba and bought a boat in which to make the return trip. The river route between Mt. Hollv and Fort Mill is 35 miles, but the young men consumed less time returning than they did outgoing, i- n i if" i.i reacning rori mm in eignt nours. The trip was greatly enjoyed and the only obstacle to smooth sailing was the necessity of carrying the boat around the dam of the Southern Power company. Cansler Called Down. Barnwell Sentinel. Cansler, of Tirzah, got exactly v what was due him when the ministers in the audience here Monday got up and protested against the use of such sacrilegious language as he had used in his rambling talk. Such actions are insults to the community in which committed, and we trust that Cansler's rebuke will be even more to the point when the voters of this county cast their! votes for railroad commissioner. ! FORT MILL MEN WHO FOLLOWED THE SOUTH'S STARRY BANNER Forty-five years have passed since the unhappy day in which Gen. Robt. E. Lee gave up the unequal struggle for Southern independence from the American Union. Since that far day?as men measure time?the already decimated gray line has grown thinner and thinner with each succeeding year until the once powerful armies of the Confederacy are today represented by but a few individuals in each community. Most of those still living arc fast approaching the day when they will have joined their comrades of the '60s in the unending bivouac. It ought to be of interest to everyone in the South to know who among his neighbors followed the great Confederate captains who have filled history with their deeds and the earth with their renown. The limes, therefore, finds pleasure in complying1 with the request that it publish the names of the members of the Fort Mill camp, of Confederate veterans: \V. T. Alderson, Thos. Alexander, .J. W. Ardrey, J. M. Armstrong, VV. 11. Armstrong, It. T. Bailey, T. Bailes, S. I'. Bluukt-nship, \V. F. Boyd, Robt. Burns, .las. Burns, .1. II. Coftharp, Jas. P. Kpps, S. II. Kpps, W. A. Fisher, J. 1*. (Jarrison, J. It. Kimbrell, .1. S. Kimbrell, J. H. Kimbrell, J. B. Mack, B. II. Mussey, S. F. Massey, A. H. Merritt, Bowman Merritt, It. A. P. Merritt, S. M. Mills, .las. Miller, M. J. Mendenhall, W. F. Patterson, I. A. Patterson, It. (I. Pearson, Joseph Parks, \V. C. Perry, K. Shannon, I. (i. Smythe, W. 11. Stewart, Crockett Saville, J. W. Spratt. ; J. \V. Thompson, A. S. White, S. E. , White. Man for Whom Clemson Was Named. Prof. W. M. Riggs, acting president of Clemson college, has liad printed a little booklet entitled, "Questions and Answers Relating to Clemson College." A great deal of information about the institution is given, in which the following, relative to the i man for whom tlie college was j named, is of interest: Thomas G. Clemson died in 1888, and left the Fort Hill estate of 886 acres and about $58,000 in money to found an agricultural and mechanical college. M.? u-au 1 .AV <1 uu u 1 VIII IOJ I \ ll I I It II I, UUI II in Philadelphia in 1807. At the age of 10 he ran away from home and went to France. There he engaged in the revolutions of that time, and after winning distinction entered the celebrated School of Mines at Paris, graduating after four years as a mining engineer. lie returned to America, and establishing himself in Washington, practiced his profession, and accumulated a considerable fortune. Here he met and married Miss Anna Marin, the oldest daughter of John C. Calhoun. Being a strong disciple of John C. Calhoun, .and heading he was to be arrested, Mr. Clemson with his son fled from Washington, walked to Richmond, and offered their services to President Davis. Mr. Clemson was assigned to the TransMississippi nitre mining department, where he served until the end of the war, and his son, John C. Clemson, was appointed a lieutenant and assigned to 0/?f 1 fi ? si * * CIC live uuiv. The old homestead of John C. Calhoun, the Fort Hill place, which was bequeathed to the State for an agricultural college . by Mr. Clem son, was given to John C. Calhoun by the two brothers of his wife. The property descended to his wife at his death, friends in Charleston having paid off large indebtedness in order that she might have a clear title. The place finally came into possession of Mrs. Clemson, who, upon her death, bequeathed it to her husband, "absolutely and in fee simple." When Mr. Clemson died, the property under his will went to the State to found the Clemson Agricultural college, and by the same will he set aside $15,000 for his grand-daughter to satisfy any claim in equity which she might have in the property. She had no legal claim. Twenty-cent Cootton? Twenty cents for cotton this fall was predicted by Thos. G. Hudson, Georgia's State commissioner of agriculture, in an address Tuesday at Union City, Ga. L LITTLE STIRRING FOR M'NINCH AT CATAWBA COUNTY MEETING Republican Congress Nominee and His Sponsor, Jake Newel, Make Waterhaul at Newton. Saturday the Republicans of j Catawba county. North Carolina, j held their convention at Newton, i Among- those present were Jake ! Newel and S. S. McNinch, of| Charlotte. Newel is a Charlotte j lawyer whose practice is said to j be confined principally to small i nigger cases in the recorder's court. One mi? ht suspect, however, that he is a very prominent citizen of the Old North State's leading city from the frequent appearance of his name in the j news columns of the Charlotte 1 tress, and thereby be misled into the error of mistaking notoriety ; for distinction. Politically, Newel i bores with a gimlet, but upon the hypothesis that the Charlotte nntiTcnnnm. ."i Iiv no|/n|/ti I CJJWI IVTI a I1IIU 11 necessary to hold their jobs to turn in a certain amount of "copy" daily one can overlook the chaif concerning his doings which they palm off on the public as news. S. S. McNinch is the Republican nominee for Congress against E. V. Webb, Democrat, in the Ninth North Carolina) district. The trip which he and Newel made to Newton was in the interest of the former's candidacy. If their mission had been in search of gold they would have found garlic. Witness the following news story of the glorious impression which Mr. McNinch made in 1 Newton: "S. S. McNinch was introduced as the speaker of the day and the party would have been more benefited had Mr. McNinch remained in Charlotte. He undertook to confine his remarks to the tariff and ship subsidy, and on either of these questions he showed less knowledge of his subjects than an ordinary schoolboy. His ideas were dim, vague and decidedly muddled. Catawba people had a much higher opinion of Mr. McNinch before he began his talk than they have since." Jones Still in Jail. i v i * i -- i- - * n. i. uwiiCvi, LIIU \ UlUlg Willie | man who was arrested in Charleston some days ago and taken a prisoner to the York county jail, where he has since been held, j on the charge of swindling' the Fort Mill and Clover banks of a sum of money in excess of $400 three weeks ago, is apt to be! liberated if his father comes to his rescue with the cash to replace the money he secured on worthless checks. The officials of both the Fort Mill and Clover banks have agreed to withdraw the contemplated prosecution of Jones if their losses are made i good. Jones says that his home is in Texas and that his father is a farmer in good circumstances. He feels confident that his father will not refuse to help him out t lw? w? WIIV tt V7UWIV. White Man, Negro, or Gorilla. For those who have gone race mad over the outcome of the Johnson-Jeffries prize fight, let it he said that it doesn't make a particle of difference who holds | the pugilistic championship, whether white man, negro, or gorilla, says an exchange. To ali right thinking people it is a : matter of no importance. Mere brute strength is the lowest in the scale of every kind of \ strength, and, for our part, we had as lief for a negro or a j gorilla to carry off the palm in j that respect as for a white man. ; In fact, considering the low place the negro occupies among human beings, it is natural and meet that he should take the ---i-'L'. ?1 icmx in such exmuiuons oi strength. Lightning Made Tree Imprint. On the body of Frank Miller, a young farmer who was killed by lightning near Lancaster Friday afternoon, those who j were preparing the body for burial Saturday found imprinted a perfect picture of the tree under which he was standing when he was killed by the bolt. The outlines of the tree were perfectly depicted, even to the, smaller branches. I STATE EQUALIZATION BOARD 1 HOLDING IMPORTANT SESSION The State board of equalization is in session in Columbia today 1 (Wednesday) and matters of importance to the taxpayers of the State are being: discussed and decided upon. This is assessment year in South Carolina and 1 all real estate will be reassessed by the State board. The work ; of the board will be watched i with interest by citizens of all < sections of the State. i During: the past week the ( subject of taxation has played an i important part in the discussion t by the candidates for governor, i The gfeneral conclusion reached i is that equalization of the prop- ( crty in the State is needed. i Comptroller General Jones has always been an advocate of the i equalization of taxes. He ap- t peared before the Charleston 1 county voters on Saturday night t and pvnlnini'd liie lvwit * r. pvuivivu VII L11v: I tax question and made several I recommendations. i Charley White Given Two Years. Charley White, the Fort Mill t negro who was tried in Yorkville i last week for the murder of Will i Tillman, another negro, was convicted of manslaughter and sen- i tenced by Judge Shipp to two t years on the chaingang. Judge t Shipp is quoted as saying that c White should have been acquit- c ted. A motion for a new trial j for White was overruled by t Judge Shipp, but he was after- ^ wards released on bond in the c sum of $750 on appeal of his at- c torneys to the supreme court, j. Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrick is White's j; bondsman. The crime for which White was j tried grew out of a difficulty n which he had with the Tillman c negro, whom he accused of mis- s treating his. (White's) daughter. Some months ago White's (laughter was missing from home one r?i?rVif ntnn ? - ? one in company with Tillman at a nearby f house. A difficulty followed be- p tween White and Tillman and t the latter was shot to death by c White. ! v Institute at Capp's School House. The citizens of lower Steel Creek community, in Mecklen- ~ burp: county, are looking forward with interest to the farmers' and women's institute which is to be held at Capp's school house on Monday, August 1. Experts from the North Carolina department of agriculture will be present to discuss subjects relating to farm improvement. Arrangements have also been completed to make the institute of value to the women in their daily duties and home life. Separate sessions will be held on the same day and at the same i place as those for the farme.rs, J and programs have been arranged for showing improved methods of home sanitation, preparation and preservation of foods, etc. i?ii. iitiiiib nui a vanaiaaie. Mr. J. Porter Hollis, of Rock Hill, was in Fort Mill Monday collecting statistics of the local manufacturing industries for the t national bureau of the census. While in town Mr. Hollis was asked by The Times if he intended to be a candidate for re- e election to the General Assembly. He replied that his private n affairs were such that he could q not lose the time necessary to make the canvass of the county and that he would not, therefore, stand for reelection. Mr. Hollis has been a member of the General Assembly only one term. He has many friends throughout the county who will regret to learn of his intention to retire from politics. ti Dr. W. J. W. Cornwell Dead. Dr. W. J. W. Cornwell, one of ^ unester county's most prominent -? physicians ana best citizens, died Friday nivrht at Cornwell, after a week's illr.ess, aged 68. The funeral was held Saturday at ^ Pleasant Grove Presbyterian church. Dr. Cornwell was a member of the Chester Blues and served throughout the war, being wounded once. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. A. K. Holler, of Columbia. [RON MARKERS TO BE PLACED AT GRAVES OF CONFEDERATES Fort Mill Daughters F. riPAOArt in I on/1 ? 0-B "?UU- | able Undertaking to Honor Departed Soldiers. The latest undertaking by A'hich the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy ire striving to perpetuate the nemory of the departed soldiers >f the South whose graves are I n this community is the placing j if an iron marker at each. The marker is made of iron, with an xiter coating of aluminum, and s both appropriate and ornamental. It is a maltese cross in icsign, as is the cross of honor Aorn by many Confederate veterans, and is one foot square vith a spear IS inches in length 0 be driven into the ground to lold the marker in place. On he face of the marker appear he Latin words "Deo Vindice" [God vindicates), surrounded by; 1 laurel wreath. Below the vreath is a star, in the points of vhich are the years of the war, 86I-I860. On tlie reverse side >f the marker, in large letters, s the C. S. A., also surrounded |>y a laurel wreath. The markers are not expensive, >ut they are not furnished free! o the chapter by the manufacurers, and as it will require a onsiderable sum to place one at ach of the 51 graves of veterans! n the Fort Mill cemetery and he numerous other soldier, graves at Flint Hill church and lsewhere in the community, any ontributions which the public s pleased to make to further the | audable undertaking will be ;ratefully received by the )aughters. Mrs. J. M. Spratt nd Mrs. R. F. Grier are the ommittee to whom contributions hould be sent. Encampment Site Pleases Militiamen. The officers and men of the i \>rt Mill Light Infantry are j xeatly pleased with the selec-! ion of Aiken as the encampment < ity for the First regiment this ear, and ('apt. Spratt is confilent of taking practically the enire membership of the company n the encampment. muiw A Summer S Extremely Name your price?we ha\ he price you name. Sometimes an alluring pri >ut after he has tried the ex, nighty glad to come back t< ;elebrated schloss cl OTHER TIN A complete line of Men's K P laf Pcf fifuloc a . w avj iV/O auu icaiUCI 9 u n the dollar. In this lot of 'ROSSE 11, for men, and DC 'here's no better shoes made. Our motto is not to carry o another, so we start the rac McElhaney 1 FORT MILL TRUSTEES ELECT MASON CRUM SUPERINTENDENT A meeting of the board of trustees of the Fort Mill graded school was held Saturday morning to elect a superintendent for the lhlO-'ll session. Several applications for the position were considered at the meeting, but the choice of the trustees fell upon Mason ('rum. of Orangeburg. who was highly recommended by Prof. John G. Clinkscales of Wofl'ord college, A telegram was at once sent Mr. Crum notifying him of his el of t ion <ni<1 lofni* -1 - ?uu ilin.1 111 LIIV" nil \ cl reply was received in which Mr. Crum stated that he would accept the place. Mr. Crum is a recent graduate of Wolford and is a young man. Very little is known here of his qualifications as a teacher or his executive ability. The trustees acted solely on the recommendation of Prof. Clinkscales. The D. A. R. Picnic at Old Waxhaw. Considerable interest is being manifested in the basket picnic which is to be given by ~ the ladies of Kanawha chapter, I). A. R., at old Waxhaw Presbyterian church, in Lancaster county, Friday. The train on which the party will go to Rock Hill to connect with the train on the Lancaster road passes Fort Mill at 6:17 a. ni. The round trip fare to the gicnic grounds is $1. At Rock Hill the Fort Mill party will be joined by a number of members of Catawba chapter and a prolitable and enjoyable day is in prospect for all who go on the outing. Steel Creek Church. Waxhaw Enterprise. Steel Creek church, in Mecklenburg county, is 150 years old and its congregation is preparing for a celebration of that event some time in August. All the living pastors will be present; some of them will come hundreds of miles. Steel Creek church, like ner sister, old Wax haw Presbyterian church, which is, nine years her senior, represents, old Presbyterian aristocracy. Both have a glorious heritage and a rich history. uit at an r Low Price. re a suit to fit both you and ce will lead a man astray, periment on his back he is d such clothes as we sell, the .OTHES. 1ELY TIPS. and Ladies' Oxfords in all t a special discount of 20c shoes are such brands as ILLY MADISON for ladies. over goods from one season ket on July 15th. ? Company