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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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