Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, August 18, 1910, Image 1
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VOLUME 19?NO. 20. 1 OUT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1910. *i ** uvu x . TiT=
ALL OF THE YORK CANDIDATES
DECLARE FOR LOCAL OPTION
Whatever the result of the
gubernatorial election to be held
in South Carolina on the 30th
inst., regardless of the success
of a prohibitionist or a local optionist,
York county is certain to
be represented in the next Legislature
by a full delegation, in
both the house of representatives
and the senate, of local optionists.
Not one of the nine
candidates for the house is a prohibitionist
and Senator Stewart,
who holds over during the sessions
of the incoming Legislature,
is committed to the Carey-Cothran
law, which guarantees every
county ir. the State the right to
Hotorminn ifoolf u'ViofVioi* if
prefers local option or prohibition.
This is considered one of
the two most important developments
so far of the county campaign,
the other being the attitude
of the legislative candidates
toward the so-called Stewart
road law. Only one of the nine
candidates has indicated hostility
to the law, the single exception
being young Mr. Wallace, of
Filbert, who is advocating the
working of the public roads by
contract. Otherwise the position
of the candidates on the questions
which they consider of public
interest is almost identical.
The second meeting of the
1910 York county campaign was
held Tuesday at McConnellsville,
the prosperous little station nine !
miles south of Yorkville on the
Chester and Northwestern railroad.
The speaker's stand had
been erected in the centre of an
inviting grove on the plantation
of Mr. ,J. Frank Ashe, and it was
around and upon the stand that
the bountiful dinner which the I
good housewives of the community
had prepared for the
occasion was spread. McConnellsville
has long been noted for
its hospitality, but the community
iainy outaia useii iuesaay in
the cordial reception which was
extended everyone. Mr. J. Frank
Ashe was host in chief and he,
assisted by a goodly number of
his excellent neighbors, made
the occasion one of pleasure long
to be remembered. There were
about 600 people in attendance
upon the speaking and picnic
dinner and the best of order
prevailed throughout the day.
The meeting opened with prayer
by the Rev. l)r. J. J. Harrell,
pastor of Bethesda Presbyterian
church. The presiding officer
was Mr. P. M. Burris, member
of the county executive committee
for Bethesda township.
Only the candidates for the
Legislature spoke. Mr. C. W.
Wallace was the first candidate
to address the people. There
are no issues in the campaign, .
but he would discuss the subjects
in which the people are
interested. There is interest in
the road law, which is a good
one, but if the roads were
worked by contract instead of
under the township supervisors
money would be saved the county
and better roads would be built.
The commutation road tax is loo
high and should be reduced from
$3 to $2. Mr. Wallace believes
that the fertilizer tag tax, which
goes to Clemson college, is ex-,
cessive and should be reduced,
from 25 cents to 15 cents on the
ton. But Clemson is not the
only college which receives too
much State aid. If elected he
would try to reduce the extrav- ;
agance which he thinks is being
practiced in all branches of the 1
^ State government. A law |
snouiu do passed to put in the
penitentiary violators of the
liquor laws, depriving them of
the alternative of paying a fine.
York county is as near prohibition
as it will ever be and there is no
reason for passing a State-wide
prohibition law. The public
schools should be liberally supported;
they are of more importance
to the Commonwealth
than the colleges.
Mr. 0. L. Sanders was among
his home people, to whom he
was grateful for much past sup/
port. In the campaign two years
ago he refused to make any
promises as to what he would do,
and he had no promises to make
this year, but if reelected he
would give the interests of the
people his undivided attention
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Lancaster Authorities Do Not Show Up.
Much to the disappointment of
the Fort Mill and Pleasant Valley
citizens who have worked up
interest in the proposed roadway
improvements and the steel
bridge to take the place of the
wooden structure across Sugar
creek on the Barbersville road,
the Lancaster county authorities
failed to keep the appointment
which they had made with the
York authorities to meet Monday
at the site of the old bridge to
reach a decision in the matter.
Supervisor Gordon and Commissioners
Lumpkin and Aycock
were also disappointed over the
failure of the Lancaster officials
to put in an appearance. As the
matter now stands, the only
thing to be done is for the au
thorities of the two counties to
arrange for another meeting.
Meanwhile, a number of Lancaster
county citizens are in none
too good humor with Supervisor
Mobley and the Lancaster county
commissioners for disappointing
them.
A Prize Corn Patch in Fort Mill.
Some days ago one of the
Columbia papers contained an
interesting "story" of the fine
corn crop which, in the course
of a few weeks, will be harvested
on the farm of the State Hospital
for the Insane in Columbia. In
the article the prediction was
made that not less than an
average of 100 bushels to the
acre would be made on the 75
acres comprising the farm,
which some years ago was a
sand bed, considered almost
worthless. Under the scientific
direction of Capt. Hunch, the
land has been worked up until
it is the equal of any land in the
State in point of fertility. The
corn crop on it is indeed a thing
of beauty and it is worth a vist
of miles to see it; but it is not
the only prize corn patch in
South Carolina. ' Within the
corporate limits of Fort Mill one
can see in miniature what is to
be seen on the Asylum farm in
extenso. W. T. Hoagland has
an acre of corn in the rear of his
home on Booth street that
promises an even larger yield
than 100 bushels.
Death of Miss Elizabeth Patterson.
miss sara r.nzaoetn i-'atterson
died at the home of her brother,
Mr. John M. Patterson, in Fort
Mill Friday evening at 8 o'clock,
in the 39th year of her age. Miss
Pattersen had been little more
than an invalid for the last two
years, being seldom able to
leave her home. She connected
herself with the Baptist church
during her girlhood days and
was a pious, consecrated member
of the church. She was a
daughter of the late A. J. Patterson
and is survived by a number
of brothers and one sister, Mrs.
T. N. Lemons. The funeral
services of Miss Patterson were
conducted at the home by the
Rev. Mr. Hair Saturday afternoon
and the interment was in
the town cemetery.
Badly Cut by Broken Bottle.
Odcll Kimbrell, the 12-yearold
son of Mr. VV. J. Kimbrell.
was the victim of a peculiar and
painful accident at the Fort Mill
baseball grounds Thursday afternoon.
The little fellow was rolling
on the ground with a number
of playmates and turned with
considerable force on a broken
bottle which was concealed in
the grass, cutting a deep gash
about two inches in length in his
left hip. Medical aid was sought
for the boy, but both of the
town's doctors were engaged in
the country and he had to gc
home without the wound being
dressed.
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As The Times goes to press,
the congressional campaign meeting
is being held in Confederate
' park, Fort Mill. No account ol
, the speeches of the three candiI
dates, Messrs. Finley, Butler and
Henry, can be printed in this
week's paper without causing t
! delay of several hours, which is
not considered advisable. Next
week's paper will contain i
synopsis of the speeches that arc
being made in Fort Mill or the
speeches that will be made in
Rock Hill tonight.
SECOND BATTALION ACCUSED
OF MAIMING AIKEN NEGRO
If their identity is discovered,
there is serious trouble in store
for the member or members of :
the Second battalion. First
regiment, N. G. S. C.,- who, on :
the return trip of the battalion
from the annual encampment (
at Aiken on Friday, August 5, !
struck an inoffensive negro in
the face with what is thought to ;
have been a rock and knocked
out one of his eyes. The assault
on the man occurred at Salley,
a station in Aiken county, and
Governor Ansel has directed
Col. W. W. Lewis to have each
of the captains of the Second
battalion assemble every member j
of his command for a thorough :
investigation of the assault.
The Second battalion is com- j
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postu ui companies Kj pinion;,
K (Fort Mill), L (Yorkville) and
M (Union), and theie seems to
be no doubt that the maiming
of the man was the work of a
member or members of one of
these companies. Which one, is j
the question which is agitating'
the minds of the militia officials 1
and is perhaps causing the
assailants of the negro the loss J
: of considerable sleep.
The special train which brought
the Second battalion to Columbia ;
was composed of seven coaches, j
the first containing the horses'
of the officers and the second i
and third coaches were used for '
baggage. The fourth coach was
occupied by one of the companies j
and in the fifth coach was the;
Fort Mill company, with the two;
remaining companies occupying
the sixth and seventh coaches.
There is evidence to substantiate
the claim that the man was j
struck with a rock thrown from
the third coach, which was used
for baggage, and if this be true
the fact would seem to exonerate
the Fort Mill company; but it is
not a foregone conclusion that a
member or members of the Fort i
Mill company were not riding in j
the baggage coach. Neither is,
it an established fact that the!
man was injured by some one j
riding in the third coach.
On the return home of the!
j Fort Mill company, one member
I is said to have boasted of what
was done to a negro, or negroes,
and it is not improbable that
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he has yet told, though it is a:
fact that a number of members |
of the Fort Mill company, perhaps
not unlike members of
other companies throughout the
State, on the return of the company
from each encampment
brat; of their exploits while
away.
Saturday afternoon Capt. T. B.
Spratt summoned before him
, every member of the Fort Mill j
company he could reach who returned
on the special train bearing
the Second battalion and i
questioned each one closely. Not
the least information developed
on which to base the opinion
that anv mpmhpr nf thp FVn?t I
Mill company knew aught of the
assault on the negro. The Fort
Mill company returned from
Aiken under the command of
First Sergeant Guy Bradford, as
Capt. Spratt came home the day
before the encampment closed
and Lieuts. Parks and White had
gone to Charleston for the annual i
brigade rifle shoot.
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Filbert W. 0. W. Picnic.
Friday was an ideal day in the
western section of the county
| and the Filbert camp, Woodmen
of the World, added another delightful
occasion to the long
. string of successful picnics which
l they annually hold in the grove i
, near the station at Filbert. Visr
iting Woodmen and others were
nresent. from ovfw !/\?
the county and good cheer and
conviviality were remarked on
every hand, not a single untoward
incident occurring to mar
the pleasures of the day. Ex!
cellent music was furnished by
the Yorkville band and at 1
o'clock a basket dinner was
1 spread by the ladies of the comi
munity. Speeches were made in
i the forenoon by Senator W. H.
! Stewart and a number of candi-,
: dates for the Legislature. In
i the afternoon an interesting talk
; was made on "Woodcraft" by
J W. T. Slaughter, State organi
izer for the Woodmen of the
[ World.
Good Roads Meeting in Yorkville.
A pood roads meeting was held
in the York county court house
Saturday at which unusual interest
was manifested in the subject.
The presiding officer of the
meeting was State Senator \Y. H.
Stewart and the principal address
was made by D. H. Winslow,
representative of the National
Good Roads association.
Mr. Winslow spoke of his experience
in traveling over this and
other States. York county has
one of the best equipped chaingangs
he has yet seen and the
road work of the convicts is furnishing
the people with public
highways unsurpassed in this
section. He thought that other
counties would find it profitable
to send representatives to York
county to inspect the convict
camps and investigate the system
of road-building. In the upper
section of South Carolina
considerable grading is necessary
to insure trood roads and t.hp
old roads should be straightened
where practicable.
Arthur L. Black was elected
chairman of a county good roads
association which was formed,
with D. Cal Clark as the member
of the State executive committee.
Lancaster Campaign Meeting.
The first campaign meeting of
the Lancaster county candidates
was held at Belair Tuesday.
There was a big crowd on
hand from the "Panhandle" of
the county to hear the officeseekers
discuss the issues and
criticize each other.
The bone of contention among
the candidates for the house of
representatives, the senate and
county supervisor is the new
road law which was passed at
the last session of the Legislature.
There are those who do
not consider the law equitable,
as it provides for the improvement
of the main highway
through the county. Naturally,
those living off the main highway
are not pleased with conditions
and are inclined to hold the
present officials responsible for
the law.
There are a number of candidates
in the race for the house
of representatives and strong opposition
is developing to Supervisor
Mobley. Senator Yancev
Williams is being pushed hard
for his seat by ex-Congressman
T. J. Strait and it is said that
there is no telling which of the
two men will be elected.
Jim Lemons Bound Over.
Jim Lemons, the cotton mill
employe who induced the wife of
J. C. Furr, a Pineville farmer, to
run away with him six weeks
ago, has been bound over to the
superior court for Mecklenburg
county, after being brought back
to Charlotte from Louisville, Ky.,
on requisition papers of Governor
Kitchin charging him with
abduction. Mrs. Furr was also
brought back to Charlotte on a
warrant charging her with abeuction
of her infant child, which
was born after she and Furr
were married about two years
ago, but has been released.
The outcome of the case is
attracting considerable interest
in Mecklenburg county and is
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?aiu 10 oe a maner 01 concern
because of the principles which
will be laid down in such cases.
The question will arise as to
whether or not a married woman
can be abducted when the
leaving is an action of her own
will caused by other circumstances
than the promises of the
alleged abductor. And it is
supposed that some idea will be
gained from the decision of just
how much a woman is supposed
to stand from her husband before
leaving him.
The case will come up this
week at the regular session ot
the criminal court in Charlotte.
Board of Health Gets Busy.
A meeting of the local board
of health Wfl<i hold in th.. tnwri
hall Thursday morning and aftei
a thorough discussion of the
health conditions of Fort Mill the
decision was reached to give the
streets of the town a thorough
cleaning and direct the chairman
of the board to order all private
premises to he carefully cleaned
at once. Already there are noticeable
improvements as a result
of the meeting of the board.
NEGRO WATERMELON FEAST
ENDS IN FIVE BEING SHOT
The inability of a negro to '
slice a watermelon into eight '
equal parts brought on a disturbance
at a picnic in the* lower
Steel Creek neighborhood of J
Mecklenburg county, N. C., ,
Thursday afternoon which re- ,
suited in five negroes being more
or less seriously shot. One of '
the wounded negroes, Charley (
Adams, was brought to Fort Mill 1
i Thursday night and his wound '
was dressed by Dr. J. B. Elliott. ,
He had been shot in the left leg 1
below the knee with a .38 calibre
revolver and his wound was in
bad condition. The difficulty occurred
at McClintock church.
One of the negroes to whom a
piece of watermelon fell claimed
that he had not had a square ;
deal, that his piece was smaller
than the seven other pieces. He 1
therefore refused to pay five
cents of the purchase price of '
the watermelon. Another negro :
said that the negro who had complained
of unfair treatment would
have to nav his nnrt m- .?
boating. Then the row started.
About a dozen negroes drew
their pistols and the bring became
general around the scene
of the interrupted feast. When
the firing had ceased and nearly
all the the negroes in attendance
upon the picnic had burnt the
wind for safer surroundings,
five negroes were lying on the
ground, each with a pistol wound
in his body. The negro who was
brought to Fort Mill for medical
aid had little to say.
Profitable Cotton Farming. '
There are many good cotton
farms in York county, but there
probably is not a field of like
size in the county which produces
a greater yield than the
three-acre prize patch of Mr. J.
H. Coltharp, near his home,
three miles north of town. In
1908 Mr. Coltharp gathered seven
500-pound bales from the
three acres and the prospects for
as large, or even larger, yield
this year are promising.
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Good Live Stock in York County.
One of the best evidences of
the prosperity of an agricultural
community is to be found in the
quality of the farm work animals.
In the cotton belt, for
many good reasons the mule is
preferred to the horse. Unfortunately,
however, in this section
of the South as yet only
sporadic efforts are made to
supply the needs of the farm
with home-raised mules, notwithstanding
that a mule of the same
quality which costs $250 if shipped
in from Kentucky or Missouri
can be bred and raised in
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Enoch Barnett of the live stock
department of Clemson college,
for $100. But since the farmers
prefer to pay the higher price
for imported mules, it is gratifying
to note that in Fort Mill
township, as in other townships
of York county, many of the
finest mules to be seen anywhere
are at work on the farms, bespeaking
the prosperity of their
owners.
Fort Mill Marksmen Unsuccessful.
The five members of the Fort
Mill Light Infantry who left
Fort Mill on the 7th inst. for
Charleston to participate in the
brigade shoot for the selection of
marksmen to represent the
National Guard of South Carolina
at the national shoot to open
at Camp Perry, Ohio, on next
Monday returned Sunday morning.
None of the Fort Mill
marksmen succeeded in making
the national team, nor will the
First regiment have a representative
on the team, which will be
composed of 12 men, ten from
the Third regiment and two
from the Second regiment.
New Rock Hill Jewelry Store.
The Ruff Jewelry company of
Rock Hill has been chartered by
the secretary of state with a
capital stock of $10,000 to do a
general jewelry business. The
otlicers are H. E. RulF, president
and treasurer; A. RulT, vice president.
and C. E. Tucker, secretary.
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