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The Fort Mill Times.
VOLUME I? ?NO. IS. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST T. 1910. *1.25 PER YEAR.
: NEW FLINT HILL
TO BE DEDi
\ PROGRAM OF SERVICES j
f Sunday, August 7, 11:30 A. M. i
J Doxology and invocation Pastor. J
I Music. '
J Scripture reading F. 0. S. Cur- 1
J tis. [
1 Music. ]
I Prayer?C. T. Scaife. /
* M usic. *
I Morning offering and announce- I
4 ments ?Pastor.
J Sermon ?Edw. S. Reaves. J
; Music. 1
1 Prayer of dedication ? M. W. I
f Gordon. f
+ Announcements, music, adjourn- *
1 ment. 1
3 P. M. f
J Music. ]
( Scripture reading M. W. Gor- J
i Music. I '
a Prayer of ordination?Edw. S. a
J Reaves. i 1
1 Laying on hands Council. I <
2 Music. 2 f
Sermon in nature of charge to [ .
j deacons?F. O. S. Curtis. j
f Music. f 1
\ Charge to church (address)?C. \ \
i T. Scaife. f
a Music. a
i Benediction. j
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Sunday, August 7, will be an f'<
eventful day in the history ofjl
Flint Hill Baptist church. On i
that day the splendid new church 1
building which was erected about '
two years ago will be dedicated. <
There will be present to take ;
part in the dedication services t
the pastor, the Rev. S. P. Hair, 1
and a number of former pastors
of the church. j
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FUNT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH-TO
Flint Hill Baptist church, under
the original name of Sugar <
Creek Baptist church, was
organized May 1, 1792. Its i
founder was Rev. John Rooker, '
who was born in Northampton
county, Va., March 12, 1755.
He removed to Warren county,
N. C., whence he came to the i
lands of the Catawba Indians in
1790. Eighteen months after
his arrival, he was assisted in i
the organization of the church 1
by Rev. Abraham Marshall of <
Columbus county, Ga. He was ;
a native of New England, but at i
this period was traveling extensively
in the South in evangelistic
work.
Rev. John Rooker in anh
autobiographical sketch, written ]
when he was 85 years of age,
says that the number of con- I
stituent members was 13, and I
that four others joined the 1
church as candidates for baptism ;
on the day of organization. <
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i nese iirst memDers were part ;
of a colony which came from ;
Warren county, N. C., and j
settled on lands of the Indians 3
at their friendly invitation. The i
names of these pioneers are ;
worthy of preservation. They <
are: John Rooker and wife, '
John Dinkins, John Smith, i
James Spears, Wm. Pettus, Juba <
(a negro servant of Mr. Harris), <
Margaret Dinkins, Celia Withers, i
^ Mary Smith, Alice Spears, Alice
Withers and Mary Cooper.
Rev. John Rooker became the 1
first pastor of the church and i
served nobly for 44 years, or i
until 1836, when he was forced i
to retire because of the infirmities
of age. He is described i
by one who knew him "as a '
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lovely Christian gentleman."
Fhat he was a faithful workman.
!iis labors bear abundant proof. I
tn the church, now one hundred
and eighteen years old, he has
left an enduring monument. He 1
lived in the community until the
:ime of his death, supported in
">ld ago by those whom he had
served, and his body awaits the
resurrection in the burying
ground hard by the scene of his
labors.
This is the inscription upon
liis tomb: "In memorv of F.ldor
John Rooker, who was born on
ihe 12th of March, 1755, in the 1
State of Virginia, and departed
this life on the 24th of June,
1840, in the 84th year of his age.
In 1782 he united himself with
the Baptist church. In 1788 he
entered the ministry, and in i
L792 became pastor of Sugar
Creek (Flint Hill) church, in
which he remained until the
time of his death."
The first deacons were John
Dinkins and John Smith. John
Dinkins was the first Baptist
in Mecklenburg county of whom
ive have any record, and it is
luite likely that it was through
liis influence that Rev. John
Rooker was induced to settle in
the community. If this be true,
then the organization of the
church is to be credited to the
seal of a layman. When the
irst house of worship was built,
>ve have no record.
In 1794. the church sent delegates
to Bethel association.
BE DEDICATED SUNDAY. AUG. 7.
which at that time covered 11
counties in North and South
Carolina, and had 32 churches
cooperating. In 1811, the church
transferred its membership to
Moriah association and in 1866
joined the York association.
During the history of the
church, it has had not a few
Indian members. To it probably
belongs the credit of having
first given the gospel to the
Catawba nation. For years the
church maintained a mission j
among these people. In 1806, a
noted Indian by the name of
Mush joined the church, by letter
from Lower College church, Va.
He was licensed to preach and is
said to have been a man of
power but was addicted to drink,
for which he was disciplined by
the church. This indicates that
the church in its early history
was strict in discipline, drawing
i broad distinction between the
church and the world and taking
i decided stand against dancing
and all other forms of worldly
amusement. It was also care
ful in the reception of members,
requiring each candidate to give
an account before the church of
the Lord's dealings with his soul.
They refused to receive excluded
members, except on the consent
at* the excluding church, and required
all private offences to be
settled according to Scripture j
teachings.
From the first the church had
the missionary spirit. Its work
among the Catawba Indians has
already been stated. In 1815 a
missionary society was organized
which had for its object the promotion
of missionary interest.
The date is noteworthy, as being |
just one year after the organization
of the Missionary Convention
of the United States, which
came into existence to support
Judson and Rice, who were now .
in the foreign field, and who had
become Baptists after going out !
to their fields of labor.
The early missionary spirit of '
the church is further attested by
the fact that it sent out arms '
in several directions and estab- :
lished places of worship, some of
which grew into self-sustaining
churches. One of these was
Chalk Level, and another was
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Rev. S. P. Hair.
Ezell's meeting1 house, where 1
Marvin now is. At the latter 1
place Buck Hill church was or- :
ganized. which vvas later dis- 1
banded, its membeis going into J
the organization of the Pleasant
Valley church. Sardis, beyond '
the Catawba river, was organized 1
into a church in 1836. Mill Creek 1
was still another of these arms 1
where church services were at '
first maintained and where a :
church was afterwards organ iz- 1
ed. In 1833 a colony ol' ten members
was dismissed to organize a 1
church in Charlotte. Owing to 1
discord and death the first church '
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4 v. iiivm vil.n^lliviuu, Kill lilt:
survivors afterwards went into
Tryon Street church, now the i'
First church, of Charlotte. All
of the developments so far noted
were during: the first pastor- :
ate. !
On August 9, 1811, the first 1
worship was held in the second
building, which stood on the spot 1
where the new building now 1
stands. In 1838, this building, 11
which was of logs, was enlarged 1
by a frame addition.
In July, 1836, Rev. J as. Thomas j;
was called to share the labors of j
the now aged Hooker. He served j;
the church two years, during!
which time over 100 members 1
were received. Evil reports now !
followed Mr. Thomas and the I
church suffered a period of decline.
In 1841, Rev. William Nowell
succeeded to the pastorate and
remained with the church only
until 1842. He was followed by
Rev. Joseph P. Pritchard, father
of the late Dr. Thos. H. Pritchard.
during 1843 and 1844. He ;
had been one of those formerly
dismissed by letter to organize a
church in Charlotte and was,
Therefore a son of the old church.
Next came Rev. Win. C. Perry,
who served the church as pastor,
1844-1845. Rev. Jos. P. Pritchard
was now recalled and served
1845-1846. He was followed by
Rev. W. W. Rollins in 1850, who
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serveu unui lrsoz.
He was followed by Rev.
G. VV. Rollinson, of North Carolina.
in 1854, who served the
church but a single month. During
the year Rev. Milton Garrison,
a member of the church,
served in the capacity of supply
for several months, after which
Rev. Peter Nicholson became pastor
in August, 1854, and served
the church very acceptably until
1862. It was during his pastor- '
ate, 1855, that subscriptions were
taken to build the third house of
worship, which was occupied the
ii^At y cai .
In 1861 the Civil war came on
and the church gave the strength
of its manhood to fight the bat- '
ties of the country. The pastor
accepted a chaplaincy in the army
and went out with the men. He
was a man of ability and piety
and left his mark on the life of
the church. There is still in the
church a society of young ladies
which bears his name and aids in
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rOM WATSON POURS HOT SHOT
INTO CONGRESSMAN HARDWICK
South Carolinians are not unused
to political rows, but no
such row as that which is now
on between Thomas E. Watson
and Congressman T. W. Hardwick.
over in the Augusta
district of Georgia, has been
seen in this State in the last
half century. Watson is after
Hardwick for what he terms a
new rule by which Hardwick is
to be sent back to Congress by a
minority vote in a minority of
the counties of the district,
which he says is a revolutionary
scheme to keep Hardwick in
office never before proposed by
an insolent office-seeker. Watson
had advertised a mass meeting
to be held in his home town,
Thomson, on August 6 to protest
against the new rule of Hardwick.
Now Hardwick announces
that he, too, will be at the
Thomson meeting, to denounce
Watson. Watson resents the
nrosneetive nrpspneo of Hnv/U_
wick at the meeting1 and in a
newspaper interview has the
following to say about the
Tenth district congressman:
"I am not a candidate for any
office and was not the aggressor
in this row with Ilardwick.
Without any provocation whatsoever,
he began to abuse me in
his speeches. He has done what
was not done during the bitter
days of the nineties. He has assailed
my private character and
accused me of cheating and
swindling an old Confederate
soldier.
"Through the columns of his
organ, the Augusta Herald, he
proclaims his purpose to denounce
me in my home town on the 6th
day of August. He advertises
bis intention to lash me with his
scurrilous tongue among my
neighbors.
"This is the one straw too
many. I hereby announce my
purpose to be present on that
occasion. I intend to enjoy the
luxury of being denounced by a
burglar, a thief, a dishonest gambler.
a habitual drunkard, a twofaced
hypocrite, a congressman
who. in eight years, couldn't do
anything but increase his own
salary on the sly. Infamous little
scoundrel!
"He has been buying up affidavits
which he proposes to use
on me in my home town. I wonder
if the insolent little rascal
thinks that I am a worm, to be
trodden on with impunity. The
abuse of me by Hardwick in
Thomson has gone far enough,
and it has got to stop.
"I will be present when he
speaks on the 6th of August.
With the recklessness of a bluffing
gambler, Hardwick has
rushed in upon our own date.
This effrontery is intolerable.
"Let every friend of mine who
can get there be in Thomson by
9 o'clock in the forenoon. Singlehanded,
I have been putting up
a fight for the common people,
such as has not been known
since Ben Hill dropped the pen
which wrote the 'Notes on the
Situation.'
"Deserters and do-nothings are
desperate and my life is in danger.
Let every friend of good
government who can do so be at
Thompson on the 6th of August,
prepared to stand by me to the
Criminal Assault Case Fails.
Quite a flurry was created in
Magistrate McElhaney's office
late Monday evening when the
mother of a negro girl swore out
a warrant for the arrest of John
Springs, also a negro, charging
him with criminally assaulting
her daughter. The warrant was
served early Tuesday morning
by Deputy Constable C. Z. Boyd
and Springs was locked up. A
few minutes after the man was
put in prison a conference was
held between Magistrate McElhaney
and the girl in which the
girl stated that there was no
foundation in fact for the charge
against Springs. Springs was
then turned loose.
Fire Loss $50,000.
A late inventory of the loss to
the Carolina & Northwestern railway
occasioned by Friday morning's
fire at the shops in Chester
fixes the total loss at $50,000,
with $22,000 insurance.
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PLEASANT VALLEY PREPARING
FOR INSTITUTE AND PICNIC
The citizens of the Pleasant
Valley section are anticipating
the farmers' institute which is
to be held at the community
school house on Tuesday, the 9th
inst., as the best yet held thereabouts.
The following speakers
from Clemson college, under the
auspices of which the institute
is to be held, will be present and
take part in the day's exercises:
Prof. J. N. Harper, director of
the experiment station; Prof. C.
C. Newman, son of the late Col. J.
S. Newman, who is a horticulturist
of the experiment station,
and Dr. C. L. Goodrich, of Washinctnn
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agriculturists in the national department
of agriculture.
In addition to the regular
coterie of speakers from Clemson
college, Mr. S. E. Bailes. a recent
graduate of Clemson, whose
farm is in the Pleasant Valley
section and who is greatly
interested in the success of the
institute, has arranged with
| President I). B. Johnson to send
from Winthrop college one of
the woman teachers to address
the women of the community on
domestic science and related
subjects. This is a new feature
of the institute work and it is
certain that the women of the
community will appreciate Mr.
Bailes' thoughtfulness in arranging
for the presence of a
speaker who will discuss matters
of peculiar interest to them.
But to make the institute a
success beyond peradventure, the
committee entrusted with the
responsibility of securing speakers
for the day have arranged
; with Prof. John (1. Clinkscales
of YVofford college to be present
and deliver an address on education.
Prof. Clinkscales is one of
: the greatest apostles of education
South Carolina has ever produced
and what he will say on
the subject is certain to prove
not only interesting, but should
greatly quicken the efforts of
: the parents of this section to
provide better educational facili;
ties for their children.
I Another feature of the day,
which is not to be lightly esi
teemed, is the picnic dinner.
1'leasant Valley is noted for its
"good things to eat" and the
dinner will he one of the best
yet spread on a similar occasion.
Lemmons Arrested in Louisville.
Requisition papers have been
issued on Governor Willson of
Kentucky by Governor Kitehin
of North Carolina for the return
to Charlotte of Jim Lemmons,
the cotton mill worker who some
weeks ago alienated the affections
of the wife of J. C. Furr, a
Pineviile township farmer, and
persuaded the woman to leave
this section with him, the couple
taking with them the child of
Furr. Lemmons has been arrested
in Louisville, Ky., and
will be brought back to Charlotte
as soon as the requisition
papers reach Sheriff Wallace, to
be tried on the charge of abduction.
He was located upon
information given the authorities
by a High Point man, for which
Furr paid $10.
Cold Hill Institute and Picnic.
Fort Mill Times Correspondence.
What promises to be the host
picnic ever held in this section is
Brown shop picnic and Gold Hill
farmers' institute, which will he
held jointly, Monday, August 8.
It is due to the fact that the
institute could not he obtained
for another date that the picnic
will be held on Monday.
Services of the Flint Hill
protracted meeting will he suspended
on the 8th in order that
the entire community may attend
! the institute. Themes bearing
upon the various branches of
agriculture will he discussed by
members of the Clemson corps
of speakers, who will he pleased
to answer all questions relative
to the subjects under consideration.
All who attended the North
Carolina institute at Capps'
school house are cordially invited
to come and hear the South
Carolina corps of institute workers.
Provision will be made at
the grounds for seats, etc., and
no efforts will be spared to make
everything pleasant. C. B. F.
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UNCERTAINTY OF RESULT
OF THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR
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With just 13 of the 40-odd
county meetings to be held and
the primary only 27 days away,
there is as much uncertainty as
to the result of the election for
governor as there was when the
campaign opened several weeks
ago. Friends of Messrs McLeod,
Featherstone and Blease seem
' confident of the result, but no
1 one is willing to hazard a guess
as to the vote his favorite will
receive.
The consensus of opinion in
j Columbia, as The Times is informed.
is that Featherstone
will get in the second primary
with either McLeod or Blease, the
chances seemingly favoring the
former. Should the run-off be between
Featherstone and McLeod.
many politicians agree that the
popular lieutenant governor will
defeat the Laurens candidate by
a safe majority.
This assumption is based in
part upon the support which it is
tU^.wrKf TV/f-T 1 ?ill
viivu^ut ijuuu wiii receive
from the daily press of the State,
as both the leading South Carolina
dailies are urging the rejection
of the State-wide liquor
platform on which Featherstone
is making his campaign.
Meanwhile, however, all eyes
are turned to the Piedmont
section, for it is generally conceded
that as goes the Piedmont
so goes the State. If McLeod is
able to break even, or approximately
even, with Featherstone
in Union, York, Spartanburg,
Cherokee, Greenville, Pickens.
Oconee, Anderson, Abbeville and
Greenwood there is little doubt
that he will be the next governor.
The Pee Dee counties and lowcountry,
including Charleston,
seem to be safe for the Lee
t county candidate.
Life at Camp Ansel.
Fort Mill Times Corresponcler.ee.
Camp Ansel, Aiken, Aug. 1.?
The Fort Mill Light Infantry
arrived here in good condition
Friday afternoon for the annual
encampment of the First regiment.
The camp-ground is about
two miles from the city of Aiken.
It is not considered a desirable
camp-ground by many of the
boys. When we reached the
camp-ground we found many of
the tents blown down and out of
position from a wind storm of the
previous evening, necessitating
much work to again put the
camp in condition for occupancy.
Sunday morning the regiment
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imu icuyious services, conducted
by the chaplain. After services
the boys were given leave of
absence until (i o'clock in the
afternoon, when the bugle
sounded for dress parade. The
parade was witnessed by a large
crowd from Aiken and Augusta.
Sunday evening religious services
were held by Mr. Smith, of
! Charlotte, secretary for the
Y. M. C. A. At 9 o'clock Sunday
evening the camp was again
visited by a severe wind storm,
i which blew down about half of
the tents.
Monday morning at 7 o'clock
we were ordered into battalion
drill, after which there were
company drills and a small sham
battle, which was greatly enjoyed
by the boys. M. F.
Negro Woman Kills Her Husband.
Oscar Price, negro, was shot
and killed by his wife, Hanna
Price, at 3:30 o'clock Sunday
morning on the plantation of the
late Dr. John T. Kell in the
Providence section of Mecklenburg
county, seven miles east of
Fort Mill. The dead man and
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no hiic nt'if muurers on ine
plantation of John L. Rea, Jr.,
two miles from the scene of the
homicide.
Hanna Price accused her husband
of having forsaken her for
another woman, Beulah Miller.
Early Sunday morning she
armed herself with a shotgun
and went in search of her
husband. He was located at the
home of the Miller woman.
After calling her husband to the
door, the infuriated woman shot
in the face. He died instantly.
Hanna Price was committed to
jail in Charlotte Sunday and
with Sam VValkup, a negro who
is accused of being an accessory
to the crime, will be tried for the
killing at the next term of the
Mecklenburg superior court.