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S The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19?NO. -2S. FORT MILL, S. C , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11)10. SK1.2R PER YEAR. ^wKTCH OF COLEMAN L. BLEASE THE STATE'S NEXT GOVERNOR ( oleman Livingston Blease, t oupi Carolina's next governor, * 1 MjRorn 42 years ago on a farm in Newberry county. His father, lenry H. Blease, and his father's hree brothers saw service in the Confederate army. Basil Blease, ine of these brothers, because if his daring bravery was steadily orotnoted from the position of private to the rank of captain. Henry H. Blease, the father of | the subject of this sketch, marked Mary Livingston, of what is J.ow Saluda county, formerly KqMfield, The Livingstons were T farming people. The four others of Mary Blease were ldiers and the Livingstons and leases were true to the cause of ade.Hampton in the days of '76. Cole L. Blouse was admitted to the bar 25 years ago. He soon became one of the leaders in his profession, and he has continu 1 *i ?? uusiy enjoyed an excellent practice. For the past 15 years he has been connected with many of the important cases tried in Newberry county. He has also been associated in important cases in Saluda, Laurens, Greenwood, Union, Lexington, Richland, Kershaw and Dorchester counties. For two years he served as city attorney of Newberry. Mayor Blease was married several years ago to Miss Lillie Summers, whose father, a farmer, resides in Anderson county. ! Mrs. Blease's father was a i Confederate soldier, her grand- j father was in the Mexican war, j and her great-grandfather was Capt. Philemon Waters, a soldier j of the Revolution. Being descended from him, Mrs. Blease is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. When Cole L. Blease was a very young man he was chosen to represent Newberry county ! in the house of representatives. | Twice he was reelected, each time heading ihe legislative ticket by a handsome majority. In the house he was recognized as a leader; and because of his iv ability as a parliamentarian he was twice selected as speaker | pro tern. In liX)4 Mayor Blease was elected to the State senate ! from Newberry county by a handsome majority, and was chosen by the members of the senate as president pro torn of that body in 1907, serving in this capacity for two years. He voluntarily retired from the senate with the close of his term in lt>08. He is now mayor of his home town, Newberry, having been elected to that position in December. 11)09. For two years he was county chairman of the Democratic executive commit te. Several times in succession he was elected by the county conventions as a delegate to the State convention. For the past twelve years he has represented his county on the State executive committee. In iK>litics Mayor Blease has always been a straight Democrat. Both in 1890 and 1900 he was one the presidential electors for William J. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Mr. Blease for many years has been prominent in fraternal circles. He is an Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Red Man, hlk and Woodman of the World. He is a past chancellor in the Knights of Pythias, and has been grand master and grand representative of the Odd Fellows. He has been great sachem and is now great representative of the Red Men. Bethel Presbytery at Winnsboro. The fall meeting of Bethel Presbytery is in session at Zion Presbyterian church, Winnsboro. and the delegates to the meeting from the Fort Mill Presbyterian church are the pastor, the Rev. i Mr Hafner. and Hlder W. M. Summerville. The last meeting of Bethel presbytery was held in Ridge way last spring. i Teachers' Examination. As will be seen by reference to * an advertisement of County Superintendent of Education McMackin, published in another column of The Times this week, the regular fall examination for York county teachers will be held in the court house October 7. k _ _ SUPERVISOR GORDON'S DEFEAT DUE TO COUNTY'S ROAD LAW? Since the election last Tuesday there has been considerable discussion in Fort Mill over the result of the race for county supervisor, in which the incumbent, Clem F. Gordon, was defeated by Thos. W. Boyd. Two years a^o, Mr. Gordon defeated Mr. Boyd by a decisive vote, after the latter had served six years in the office. Now Mr. Boyd is a^ain the choice of the voters, by a majority of 387 over Mr. Gordon. Both men are popular personally and both havo mado irnod of ficials. Usually, in York county the offiical who does his duty is given at least two terms, but Mr. Gordon has failed of reelection after serving only one term. Just why the voters turned against the present supervisor is largely a matter of opinion, but his defeat is attributed by many to the growing dissatisfaction which is said to exist over the present road law- this, too, in the face of the fact that the roads of the county are today in better condition than at any time in the past and that to the efficiency of the law is largely due the splendid work which lias been done upon them since the law went into effect less than two years ago. Supervisor Gordon's friends claim that he has had to bear the brunt of the opposition to the law and has lost his office through no fault of his own, but because to him fell the duty of seeing that the provisions of the law were enforced. But aside from the result of the election for supervisor, there seems to be a growing demand among the voters that the county roads be worked by contract, as is evidenced in the lower section of Fort Mill township, where the property owners have induced Township Supervisor Blankenship to call for bids 10 worK me Lancaster road ny contract next year, in accordance with a provision of the law. Cotton Crop Irregular and Late. The following summary of cotton crop conditions was published by the Memphis Commercial-Appeal Monday morning:: "The cotton crop is coming: to maturity in an irregular manner. In all parts of the South, save the most southern cotton growing sections, there are fields which are thrifty and growing and a late frost is necessary to permit maturity. In all sections there are fields which have apparently come to full growth and will make no more cotton. In such the bolls are opening rapidly. It appears that, on the whole, the past two weeks have brought the crop toward maturity more rapidly than the farmers had anticipated." The State Flag on School Buildings. The attention of the trustees of the State is called to the bill passed by the last Legislature, which provides that every school in the State shall display a South Carolina flag. These flags are to be made by Clemson college, and are to be sold to the schools and public institutions at actual cost. It is understood that some new machinery will have to be installed in the textile building before the cloth can be manufactured. It is not definitely known when any of these flags will be available. Chinese Whiskey in Fort Mill. Perhaps the first bottle of Chinese whiskey ever seen in Fort Mill was brought to town a tew days ago by Mr. YV. B. Meacham from New York city. While sightseeing in the Chinese quarter of the metropolis twe weeks ago. Mr. Meacham entered a grocery and bought the whiskey as a souvenir. Saturday night the l>ottle was opened and a number of Fort Mill citizen* were afforded the novelty ol taking their first "nip" of spiritus frumenti from the Celestia Empire. The whiskey was saic to have had the flavor of sweet ened alcohol, with strong trace* of chloroform, and a number ol those who "sampled" it ex pressed a preference for th< South Carolina dispensary out put. VETERAN OF THE BOER ARMY AN INTERESTING VISITOR HERE Ah interesting visitor to Fort Mill during the last week was Johannes F. Neethling, of the Transvaal, South Africa. Mr. Neethling spent Friday and Saturday with his friend F. Murray Mack, with whom he became acquainted as a fellow-student at Cornell university last winter. He is one of a score or more young Boers who have won competitive agricultural scholarships ofTered by the Transvaal govern| ment at American universities. Mr. Neethlinc sneaks English fluently and is a bright young-, as is evidenced by the fact that he not only won a government ! scholarship against many competitors hut will complete the four-year course at Cornell in two and a half years. Though less than 25 years of j age, Mr. Neethling is a veteran ; of the Boer army which offered such magnificent resistance to the armies of great Britain several years ago. When the war began between the Transvaal republic and Great Britain Mr. Neethling was a lad of only 12 years, hut he entered the Boer army with his father, who was a chaplain, and performed a soldier's part in behalf of his native land. Mr. Neethling heartily dishkes the English, and his aversion to i them is due in no small measure to the fact that his mother died of fever while she was a prisoner in an English detention camp. Mr. Neethling will return t<? tin1 Transvaal as soon as he finishes the agricultural course at Cornell and accept a government position as a plant breeding specialist. Senator Core in Charlotte Tonight. A number of Fort Mill Democrats will go to Charlotte this (Wednesday) evening to hear the political speech to be delivered by Cnited States Senator i Gore, of Oklahoma. Senator Gore is considered one of the strongest men on the Democratic side in the senate and the chairman of the North Carolina Democracy considers his visit to Charlotte a matter of great party interest. While Senator Gore's speech probably will he devoted l>rincin:illv tn n;itinn:il lw> is expected to have something to say in behalf of the candidacy of Congressman K. V. Webb, who is opposed for reelection by Mr. S. S. McNinch. Republican nominee. Senator Gore is one of the youngest men in the United States senate, being only 40 years old. lie is a native of Mississippi. Large Farming Interests. The Southern Power company is said to be the largest farming corporation in this section, with its 22,000 acres of land, all of which is rented out. Much of the land is in cotton, but more in corn, as the lands are situated principally in the bottoms of the Catawba and Broad rivers and are better adapted to the cultivation of corn than cotton. These farms are adjacent to the power sites at Port Mill, Great Falls, Catawba, Ninety-Nine Islands, I.oekhnrt Shonls I .smdsfnrfl VVm. teree and elsewhere. Mr. Paisley Returns to Virginia. Rev. J. A. Paisley, the Moores. j ville, N. C., minister who some weeks ago admitted that he was the father of a child left in his doorway one night by a white . woman unknown in that com munity and whose resignatior 1 was accepted by the officers ol 1 the church of which he was pastor. has left Mooresville and re turned to his former home ir Virginia. ) i State Aid for 47 Weak Schools. Under the building act passee 1 at the last session of the Legis * lature. South Carolina has aider t 47 weak schools in the erectior - of new buildings, the tota I expenditure for the purpose II amounting to $11,842.50. Twi - of the schools thus aided are ir i j York county, the Fort Mill am f Clover schools, each of whicl - received $300. The value of th< i Fort Mill building is given a - $11,000, while that of Clover i: $10,000. COLUMBIA CITIZEN CERTAIN I P WATSON WILL WALK PLANK "Cole L. Blease will be inaugurated governor of South Carolina ^ about the 15th of January. Before j the 1st of March there will be a , new head of the department of ? agriculture and commerce." said 1 a well known citizen of Columbia to The Times a day or two ago. I "I happen to know that Mr. c Blease does not like Commissioner I Watson and that he thinks less c of the commissioner's method of 1 running the business of the c bureau. It is therefore all but f certain that Mr. Watson will 1 have to walk the plank. Who I his successor will be, of course j y no one knows. Mr. Blease c probably has got given the matter :i any thought, further than to t determine that he will not retain e the present commissioner. As a t result of the removal of Mr. c Watson, you may expect to read i many editorials in the South 1 Carolina press denunciatory of a the governor, but as Mr. Blease v has said that his will not be a I newspaper administration I tig- t ure it out that he will not lose a much sleep on account of what I the press says about the matter. Personally. I think the interests of the people demand a change. { The bureau over which Mr. Watson presides is an important one and if it were conducted 1 along the proper lines, its work *' would be of great good to the s State. But we do not need at v the head of it a whooper-up and shouter for the commissioner who J uses his position as an advertising 1 agency for himself. It is pos- * sible, of course, that Mr. Watson 1: will forestall the action of :l Governor Blease by resigning, ' which course would seem the wise thing for-him to do; but if 1 he does not do it, I am contident i" he will be removed, and the 1 people will be benefited by the 1 change." More About Mr. Jones' Farm. j Editor Fort Mill Times: r \ j e rn 1 m * * I as a reauer or 1 lie nmes l ( noticed an article in last week's t paper about the farm of Mr. Edgar Jones. I have known the ( farm for some time and wish to > ' add an observation or two to the j article. j In regard to the statement that % there are thousands of other j acres in the township as good as ,, Mr. Jones' farm, the writer must be mistaken. As I see and know the land. I do not think there is another UK) acres in one farm in 1 the township which is as valuable as Mr. Jones' farm, as 1(H) of 1 the -UK) acres are rich river i bottoms, not subject to overflow, t It is true that Mr. Jones used i more fertilizer than the average ( farmer of this section, but if the < same grade of fertilizer. S-7-(>, ( ' with a top dressing of 100 pounds 1 i of nitrate of soda to the acre, I were used on most of our farms I 1 do not believe as good results i ' would follow, as Mr. Jones' land ; is so much stronger and better 1 in every respect than the average ^ of the farm lands in this section, i As to the amount of cotton t ' which will be m:i<le nn \I ? teneu' i farm, I cannot say. but the pros- pects are for a good crop. I do not think I have ever seen as good cotton, on the whole, as is on this farm. "Farmer." Fort Mill, Sept. 20. Egg and Butter Supply Short. The supply of eggs and butter ; on the Fort Mill market for the 5 last ten days has not been suf ficient to meet the demand and j - unless there is a sptedy increase 1 in the supply of each from the usual country sources a number of grocers apprehend the neces sity of placing their orders wilh * out-of-town produce dealers. The retail price of eggs on the local market is 20 cents the dozen and butter is quoted at ^0 cents per j pound. { Killed by Blow With Shovel. 1 Walker Jeter, a nejrro em1 ployed on J. M. Cherry's hif?h? way between Rock Hill and the ) Catawba river, was hit on the i head with a shovel by another 1 nejtro, named Sam Hart, and his i skull crushed so badly that he B died from the effects Saturday s nitfht. Hart made his escape and s up to this time has not been apprehended. /lACISTRATE HALL REFUSES I TO RISK THE LOSS OF HIS OWN D. K. Hall will be the magisrate for Indianland township, 1 Lancaster county, for the next ( wo years. Two weeks ago The 1 ^imes carried a story to the 1 fleet that Magistrate Hall and < d. O. Potts would oppose each < ither for the office in the second i democratic primary last Tues- ; lay, but the former seems to I lave concluded that there was no i >blipation upon him to contest or that already his. Mr. Hall i las been the magistrate of ] nrlinrilnnrl tmrnol,;,, '?? 1 .>U.U<??IIU mil noiii|i iwi several : -ears, but he has not filled the 1 >ffice to the entire satisfaction of 1 ill his constituents. This being < he case, Mr. Potts decided to ] nter the race in the primary i hree weeks ago as an opponent ; if Mr. Hall. But Mr. Potts did lot file his pledge in time to get i lis name on the official ballot and i ilthough he received one more i ote in the primary than Mr. 1 lall, the latter claimed to be lie regular Democratic nominee ind refused to enter the second | irimary with Mr. Potts. In and Around Clover. 'ort Mill Times Correspondence. i Clover, Sept. 20. There were 70 pupils enrolled last Monday < it the opening of the Clover high 1 chool, and the following teachers ; cere at their places: .1. H. Span, < uperintendent: Misses M?'ll Neil, ] A\y Hell Neely, Eunice Crist, i Cm ma Currence and Annie .lack- 1 on, assistants. The teaching 1 s being done in the old building i md opera house until the new ; milding is completed. i Cotton is being brought in I ight along now. Mr. \V. P. i Imitli is doing most of the buy- ; ng and lie is paying the highest < narket price. j: There was considerable interest i n the election last Tuesday in his section, especially in the race < or trnvernnr Tlinro ? *'> *" " i n A . .VI V ?? V. I V a I | nany workers at the polls for < ach candidate, hut Blease was ; he favorite, as many of us are ; dad so say. 11 Mr. R. N. Plaxco, of Clover, sTo. 4, will begin plowing in a ; ew days with his steam plow, dr. Plaxco is very much pleased ; vith the result of his plowing 1 nst spring and he intends doing ill he can during the fall and vinter. J. L. R. Will Try Mr. Finley Again. Neither Solicitor J. K. Henry lor Col. T. R. Butler is satisfied vith the result of the recent lection in which they were msuccessful candidates against Congressman I). K. Finley and 'ach has declared his intention >f entering the race against Mr. Mnley two years hence. Col. Sutler, in thanking his friends; or the vote he received in the lominating primary three weeks'; igo. refers to the fact that Mr. finley was not elected to Congress until he ran the third time ind he thinks that like good 'ortnne will atfonrl im ..... ?VVVIIU llt.-l lllllll I lilt' n 1012. PONCE[ SYF Is a combination of Georgii put up in very handsomely cans. These cans have hot making them very conven and come in three sizes, via gallons. The syrup is A delicious flavor, contains i ANTS, and is conscquenl Try it. FOR SALE BY FOR] DOES GOVERNOR-ELECT BLEASE ASPIRE TO SUCCEED TILLMAN? It is a matter of common talk in political circles in Columbia that Cole L. Blease, even at the moment he enters upon his J gubernatorial career, is aspiring j to be the next senator from this State. It was stated during the campaign that he is grooming for the senate and that his ambitions ire in that groove. There are .. <iv kiim kite |A>^aiUlllLV is by no means remote. The race for the United States senate is two years from now. Hardly any of the political observers believe that Mr. Blease will seek to be governor for more than two years, but that he will at the conclusion of his first term run for the United States senate, provided Senator Tillman is not a candidate to succeed himself. It is known that Senator Tillman was a Blease supporter in the primary just closed, although there was no public announcement to this effect. Beauvoir Now Soldiers' Home. Many Mississippi veterans of the Confederacy are housed in the home which was once the house of .Jefferson Davis, on the Gulf of Mexico, not far from New Orleans, where they can see the blue expanse of water, bathe to their hearts' content, and in spare moments collect uysters or catch crabs from the piers in front. Beauvoir is an ideal spot for an old man's home. It was given Mr. Davis by a Southern woman who admired him greatly, and for many rears he and his family lived there when they were not in the larger cities. It is one of the many Southern homes on the Mississippi and Louisiana stretch >f the Gulf of Mexico, with their shell roads in front and wide domains covered with trees behind. It is built in the usual style ;>f that region, with a long, wide hall extending throuch the mid lie of the house and opening into a veranda or gallery which runs across the front. The hall is used as a living room, and off from it are bed rooms. In the yard is a guest house where Mr. Davis entertained his friends, and a small but well stocked library housed in a cottage, which fell to the Davis family with the bouse. Hut the estate of Beauvoir is not the only attraction that the veterans enjoy, for it is situated in one of the most unique regions of the United States. This part was the home of the Arcadians, who migrated here from Nova Scotia, and it is also the home of main aristocratic Creoles, who live here the whole year, or own picturesque summer cottages, retiring to New Orleans or Mobile in the winter. Starr M. Mason Dead. Starr M. Mason, eight years ago superintendent of the Fort Mill graded school, died in Charleston Tuesday morning of heart disease. He was about 35 years of age. )ELEON IUP i and Florida Cane Syrups, / lithographed square tin h screw and friction tops, ient for the house-keeper, :: quarts, half gallons and BSOLUTELY PURE, of a 10 DRUGS or ADULTERtly the best FOR YOU. T MILL GROCERS. .