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Tiie Fort Mill Times 5 VOLUME 19?NO. 24. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1910. $1.2sl?ER YEAR. |UNUSUAL RETURNS PROMISED PT ON FORT MILL TOWNSHIP FARM j 9 Two hundred bales of cotton i s on.150 acres of Fort Mill townI ship land may sound exaggeraI ted to those who have not seen | the farm of Mr. Edgar Jones, I two miles west of town, but the 1 cotton is there on the acreage indicated, in the opinion of dozens of as good farmers as this section boasts. Not a few of the more enthusiastic farmers who have visited Mr. Jones' place ^ / during the last fortnight say he will make more than 200 bales. Some place the yield as high as 250 bales. Whatever the yield, the crop prospect on Mr. Jones' plantation is a revelation to all who see it, and it is doubtful whether there is another such cotton field in South Carolina outside the Pee Dee section. Certain it is that thorp is not a likp field in this section of the State, v" And the land which promises such ' an abundant yield is not considered more fertile than thousands of other acres in the township. Then, what means has Mr. Jones adopted to make three stalks of cotton, each averaging half a hundred bolls, grow where one grew before whose burden was less than a dozen bolls? To his foresight in the liberal use of a high-grade fertilizer and to the skillful work of his superintendent, Mr. T. H. Merritt, in cultivating the cctton is due the promised extraordinary yield. This is the first year Mr. Merritt has had charge of Mr. Jones' farming operations. Last year the place was in charge of a good farmer, but different methods were pursued in cultivating the crop and the yield was not above the average for this section. Last spring when the farming operations of the year were about to be begun, Mr. Jones * and Mr. Merritt had a consultation as to the brands of fertilizer to use on the place and the con- j />lneir?n wus thnl nnlv (-hp ^ best grade of nitrate of soda, fish scrap, potash and Thomas' phosphate would be put in. Accordingly, the fertilizer was ordered in large quantities from wholesale dealers in Charleston and the mixing was done under the direction of Mr. Merritt. This work completed, an average of 600 pounds to the acre was distributed upon the land, and if any finer fertilizer has ever been used in this section results do not show it. The cost per ton of the fertilizer, exclusive of the expense of mixing, was little in excess of the price pa:d by other Fort Mill farmers for the best grades of fertilizers, but those who have observed the efficiency of Mr. Jones' fertilizer agree that it is superior to anything they have seen. Will Not Appoint Brock. PaI XA7 YV \f aat*o af Ro t*n VV/I. T? . ?l 1UWI VA AJttI IIwell, who was elected adjutant general yesterday, says that he has given no one reason to belive that he will reappoint Col. W. T. Brock assistant adjutant general. Col. Moore did say in a recent newspaper interview, however, that he would appoint an assistant whom he felt would be acceptable to a majority of the National Guard. "I have never at any time contemplated the reappointment of Col. Brock nor do I now, notwithstanding my desire to accede to the request of those espousing his cause," Col. Moore is quoted as saying. School Building Ready October 5. Work on the new building for the Fort Mill graded school is moving along at a rapid rate and the building committee is hopeful that it will be finished and ready for occupancy not later than October 5. The present quarters of the school, in the old academy building, are overcrowded with 200 pupils and all are looking forward with pleasure to the day when the new building is turned over to the trustees for the use of the school. Aside from the fact that the new building will be more suited to the needs of the school, it is more centrally located than the old school house and in this respect will prove a great convenience to a majority of the Talk of Contest for Dr. Saye. There was some talk in Fort Mill during the last week of Mr. S. H. Epps, Sr., filing a contest with the State executive committee for the seat to which Dr. J. H. Saye has apparently been elected in the General Assembly, but Mr. Epps has refused to file such claim and the proposed conI ?1 1 J teat iicta ueeu ctucinuuueu. It will be recalled that there was some doubt about Dr. Saye complying with the rules of the party by failing to file his pledge with the county chairman before the time limit expired on August 13 and that the matter was considered at a special meeting of the county executive committee at Tirzah a few days after the campaign opened. The committee ruled that Dr. Saye was entitled to become a candidate and that his name should go on the official ballot, though members of the committee afterwards expressed the opinion that the decision was clearly a violation of the party rules and that if Dr. Saye should defeat any other candidate for nomination the defeated candidate would have a good case before the State executive committee. Something was said at the Tirzah meeting about an agreement among the candidates for the General Assembly waiving the right to contest the seat of Dr. Saye, but no such agreement was entered, The Times is informed. Since Mr. Epps has refused to contest the seat of Dr. Saye it is said to be within .the rights of either of the other three defeated candidates, Messrs. Glasscock, Wallace or Gettys, to file a claim for the seat. From One Vagrant Stalk. At his home three miles south of Fort Mill, Mr. J. D. Withers has a small patch of cotton which he has tended with unusual care and which he is watching with a great deal of interest. The variety of the cotton is unknown to Mr. Withers. Last year he I ordered a quantity of cotton seed i from Georgia which were planted on his farm. After the cotton came up he noticed one stalk which appeared to be unlike the balance and he determined to save the seed from the odd stalk and experiment with them this year. The cotton from eighty full-grown bolls was gathered from _ the stalk and the ; seed were taken from the lint by hand. Last spring the seed : were planted in six rows 31 yards long in Mr. Withers' garden, without the application of any fertilizer. The cotton has grown to an average height ol more than six feet and is loaded down with bolls to such an extent that some of Mr. Withers' neighbors who have seen the I patch think he will get l.OOC j pounds of seed cotton from it; ! but Mr. Withers does not thinV ; the yield will amount to more than 600 pounds. Mr. Withers will have the cotton carefullj ginned and if the production is as great as he thinks it will be, he will use all of the seed ir planting his crop next year. In and Around Clover. Fort Mill Times Correspondence. Clover, Sept. 13.?The younj people of Bethany gave a play j "The Deacon," at the Clove: . opera house Tuesday night, Sep , tember 6, for the benefit of Beth any high school. There was s I big crowd in attendance. The Clover high school opene< Monday under the supervision o Prof. Span. The Bethany high school, o Clover, routes 1 and 4, open Wednesday with Prof W. M. Mc Craven, of Gaftney, as principal Harry Neil leaves this wee! , for the University of Virginia b i take up his third year's cours in medicine. HP V\ n nrvftrl r? mo n jl 11vj xuau iuilw aic muw a work sanding and claying King' Mountain road. i Misses Ruth McGill and Ethe Pearce leave tomorrow for Du : West to attend the 1910-'ll ses 1 sion of Due West Female college >' Mr. Kirk Foster met with i1 painful accident last Thursda ; while sawing shingles. He le - his hand slip, sawing off one c i his fingers and cutting seven others very badly. J. L. R. A*.' r . - -JL. COLE BLEASE WINS THE GOVERNORSHIP; With over 93,000 votes out of i probably 110,000 accounted for, j returns from the second Demo1 cratic primary in South Carolina Tuesday indicate the nomination of Cole T,_ Rlense of Newherrv for governor over C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens, by less than 1 5,000 majority. For railroad commissioner, McDuffie Hampton has a lead of i 4,000 over Cansler of Tirzah. Moore is 30,000 ahead of Rich1 ardson for adjutant general. BOYD AND LOVE ELECTED The election in York county; Tuesday resulted as follows: County Tlckot. Ft. Mill. County. Supervisor? Thos. W. Boyd 148 1,895 I Clem Gordon 127 1,508 Auditor? J. J. Hunter 141 1,590 Broadus M. Love 129 1,845 State Ticket. Governor-BlejMe .. 179 1,670 Feathers tone 89 1,738 Adjutant Gen.?. W. W. Moore 226 2,512 J. M. Richardson 39 916 Railroad Comr.? Jas. Cansler 172 2,456 G. McD. Hampton.. 93 909 000 Record Cotton Prices. Quoting the Associated Press i story of the recent advance in the price of August cotton to 20 cents per pound as the highest j j price the South's staple had i reached since the Civil war. The ! Times, along with many other newspapers, was led into a mis: statement of fact, to which i attention has been directed by ! a number of its farmer friends. Twenty cents is not the after-the | war record price of the South's chief stanle as a little investio-a ; tion proves. The New York World Almanac for 1909 gives the following as the maximum prices paid for cotton in America | since 1865: 1866 highest price 52 cents. 1867 highest price 36 cents. 1868 highest price 33 cents. 1869 highest price 35 cents. 1870 highest price 253 cents. 1871 highest price 21J cents. 1872 highest price 27jj cents. 1873 highest price 21 g cents. . > > Health Service Discusses Rabies. Hydrophobia is a reality and not a dream, incurable and not i5 infallibly preventable, and is a respecter of no particular season i or species of mammal, says a national public health service report. A. M. Stimson, its i author, repudiates certain mad) dog fallacies and his report ad; mits rabies may not be uniform: ly fatal, though it is almost so. ; Mad dogs are not always wildi eyed and frothing at the mouth ! and determined uuon anv and 5 everybody they see. , "The rabid dog," says the re1 port, "is sick ; he is not necessarily running wild and furious; he is frequently obedient up to a late stage, and often seems to have a bone in his throat or to have sustained injury to the back." Another fallacy is the general ' belief that rabies is much more easily transmitted in the summer " than in other months. The ex" planation is that more people are moving about and become j subject to attack. Nor is the r malady confined to any climate or region. It is liable to occur f in the Arctic or the equatorial jungles. Dogs, wolves, coyotes and skunks seem to be especially susceptible. k 0 Finds Germ of Pellagra? e Dr. C. H. Lavinder, who spent many weeks in South Carolina t invesHtmtinir thp pnusntinn r?f s pellagra, a disease first recognized as prevailing in America by Drs. Watson and Babcock, of e Columbia, has written from * Europe, as he was sailing for home, a note saying that after a a hard summer's work he believes y he has made discoveries which * will enable the public health and marine hospital service to isolate the pellagra germ and determine J its source. HOW YORK DISTRICT VOTED HALF A HUNDRED YEARS AGO While looking through some old papers of his father, the late A. C. Sutton, one day last week, Mr. S. P. Sutton discovered a tabulated statement of the "Official Vote of York District, October 8th and 9th, 1860." The statement is interesting in many respects. Among other things, it shows there were 2,420 voters who participated in the election at the 20 precincts in York district, now York county, and that the election consumed two days instead of one, as is now the cus torn, uanaiuates were voted lor for the State senate, house of representatives, ordinary and tax collector. The candidates for the senate were Robert G. McCaw and Wm. B. Wilson, the latter the father of W. B. Wilson, Sr., of Rock Hill. Mr. McCaw received 1,384 votes to 1,036 for Mr. Wilson. There were ten candidates for the house of representatives, four for ordinary and fourteen for tax collector. Probably not one of the thirty candidates is now alive. The largest vote polled at any precinct in the district was at Yorkville, where 808 electors cast their ballots. The heavy vote at Yorkville probably was due to the fact that the election laws at the time entitled the voter to cast his ballot at any point in the district and it was the custom of many citizens to go to the court house to vote. Shiloah was the second largest voting precinct in the county, with a total vote of 149, while Fort Mills was third with 143 votes. At Rock Hill there were 123 votes polled. Many of the voting precincts of 1860 have either been abolished or the names have been changed, as *-v. ? r?i i : i:~4 liic luiiuwiug ilot ui iuc precincts at that time, compared with the precincts of today, will show: Yorkville, Allison's, Brattonsville, Boydton, Coates' Tavern, Clinton's, Clark's Store, Clay Hill, Ebenezerville, Feemster's Fort Mills, Kerr's, King's Mountain, Love's, Moore's, McConnellsville, Rock Hill, Shiloah, Smith's, Wylie's Store. Pat Rogers in Trouble. Pat Rodgers, Fort Mill's clothes cleaner, was taken to the county i jail Thursday morning by Constable Coltharp as a result of a difficulty he had Tuesday afternoon with Truman Magill, 15year-old son of Mr. C. B. Magill, i in which the boy was slightly cut about the neck with a pocket knife. A warrant was sworn out before Magistrate McElhaney by Mr. Magill for Pat's arrest charging assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Pat was arrested at once and at the preliminary hearing Wednesday morning he was bound over tc the circuit court in the sum of $200. Being unable to secure a bondsman, Pat was taken to jail. The difficulty between Pat and the Magill boy seems to have come about as a result of s number of boys hiding Pat's coat. When he discovered the coat, he struck at the Magill i boy with the coat and a pockel i knife which was open in one of the pockets cut the boy aboul the neck. It is stated that Pal had the knife open in his pockel expecting trouble with a mar with whom he had just had i j difficulty. But Pat's tenure of a part oj the county jail was short lived He got out Saturday morning When Mr. W. B. Meacham re 5 turned to town Thursday nigh from a trip to New York an< learned of Pat's trouble he fur nished the bond for Pat's releas< and Pat came home Saturda; morning, apparently not hal done up for the short stay in jail The Piedmont. The greatest seetinn r>f fV?, South is the Piedmont section j the Carolinas?that country lyinj between Charlotte, N. C., an< Anderson, S. C.t says the Spar | tanburg Herald. There is : wonderful future before thi region and the realization of ou . fondest dreams of greatnes j rests entirely with the peopl who are here. \ aiifc '.- ' t Would Drive Mules *' .raskington. "If T _?ed speaker of the nouse of representatives, I will drive a team of Missouri mules down Pennsylvania avenue." The foregoing is the promise Congressman Champ Clark, Democratic leader, made to a crowd of visitors at the home-coming [ celebration in Moberly, Mo., Thursday in the course of an address. The promise pleased the crowd and for several minutes the speaker was unable to proceed with the speech owing to the cheering and yelling. "Missouri has taken a back seat too long," he said. "We have done the work and the other fellows have gotten the glory. Missouri has never had a president, a vice president, a justice df the supreme court, or a speaker of the house. It is time we had all of these officers and I'm going to see to it that we get one of them right away.''' Winter on the Way. There has been a breath of autumn in the air for several mornings, and one was almost minded to look out of the window for traces of frost. Of course, there weren't any, but one could feel that summer was all but ended, and the next thing was to prepare for frosts and perhaps snows, for they are only a few weeks off. One can hear the solemn prediction in the rustle of the dry leaves, in the sunflowers growing old and in the sparrow fledgling getting big and saucy. Survey for Waterworks. At the September meeting of town council, held last Tuesday evening, impetus was given the proposed waterworks system for Fort Mill by accepting the offer of an Atlanta firm of civil engineers to make a survey of the town and furnish a detailed statement of the cost of the plant. The engineers have been informed of the abtion of council and it is expected that the sur- j vey will be made at once. Ilw, || Busy, I The dray wag< nail pullers are a hauling from the fi ing open boxes, pil ing, Dress Goods, tions, in fact, ever; up-to-date dry go shoe store. Within for fall and white and then it will pa Times through, tu f I ment, read it caret 1 I aside, come straigl i I examine the new \ ? Compare our pi f * other stores and v with the result. e f = | Mills & \ ci r PHONES: Dry Goods, 37. s e SHORT COTTON CROP 1909-'10 THE MOST PROFITABLE OF ALL " * Notwithstanding the fact that the cotton crop of 1909-'10 was 3,210.(XX) bales less than that of liX)8-'09, the statement is made in the last report of Secretary Hester of the New Orleans cotton exchange that the value of the last crop was more than $95,000,000 in excess of the crop of two years ago and that it far surpassed that of any previous crop in the history of the country. This does not include the value of cotton seed, which, if added, would show the actual wealth-producing capacity of the Southern cotton lands for the commercial season just closed to have been $902,894,000, a gain over 1908-'09 01 $127,100,000. According to the report, the grade of the crop was good, averaging practically "strict middling," a bare shade under last year. The average price of middling cotton for the year is placed at 14.37 cents per pound, and the commercial value of the bales at $73.41, against $49.40 last year, and $58.10 the year before. The report places the actual growth at 10.389.000 bales, and says that as a result of the high prices the interior has practically been swept clean, farmers having little or no old cotton left over and Southern mill stocks having been materially decreased. Would Have Col. Brock Reappointed. Capt. T. B. Spratt of the Fort Mill Light Infantry is one of a number of South Carolina National Guard officers who have signed a letter of recommendation indorsing Assistant Adjutant General W. T. Brock for reappointment. It will be recalled that charges were preferred against Col. Brock by Adjutant General Boyd some months ago and that a court of inquiry investigated the charges. The findings of the court were submitted to Governor Ansel, but he has taken no action. Busy. I r\il (3 I trur*, iMiiiiilll I .1 (IIIU 11 playing a part? I rei?ht station, tear- I in<2; out now ClothFurnishings, Northing carried in an ods, clothing and a few days our stock t will he complete iv yon to read The - rn to our advertise- I ally, lay the paper it to our store and *oods. rices with those of I re wi 11 be satisfied || roung Co. Furniture, 144. Grocery, 12. :;.kH