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y-v- " 1' 1 7J|P!1 *$' ' ** > ' The Fort Mill Times. " " 7n" - * VOLUME 19?NO, 27. FORT MILL. S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER (>, 1910. $1.2i l>EH VKAB ' TILLMAN THROWS WET BLANKET OVER POLITICIANS' ASPIRATIONS * Ambitious South Carolina politicians who had let it be known that they were not averse to succeeding B. R. Tillman in the United States senate on March 4, 1913, heard a noise Monday morning that sounded like the explosion of a dynamite bomb when they read in the morning newspapers the statement of Senator Tillman that he would be a candidate to succeed himself in the primary two years hence if his health permits. Recently the impression has been growing throughout the State that at the expiration of his present term in the senate, Senator Tillman would retire from politics, but the senator's statement does not indicate such a purpose. tie makes it plain that the only thing which will prompt himfto voluntarily retire from the senate is failing health. Some months ago Senator Tillman's life was despaired of as a result of a stroke of paralysis he sustained, but since returning to his farm at Trenton the first of the year there has been a great improvement in his condition and he has apparently almost entirely recovered his former physical vigor, though he still walks with the aid of a stick and is attended by a negro boy when he is away from home. The impression that Senator Tillman would not again ask for reelection to the senate had gained such currency that no later than Saturday of last week one of the State's leading dailies published an article to the effect that Governor Ansel, Asbury F. Lever and Lewis A. Parker were receptive candidates for the senator's seat. Governor-elect Cole L. Blease is also said to have aspirations to succeed Senator Tillman, but now that Senator Tillman has stated that the only thing which will stand in the way of his candidacy two years hence is ill health it is expected that there will be less activity among these or any other prospective candidates for his seat. as it is generally recognized that if Senator Tillman asks for reelection he will be returned to the senate. The statement given to the press Monday morning by Senator Tillman is as follows: "If my health continues to improve I expect to be a candidate for the United States senate in 1912, otherwise not. All will depend on how I stand the work in Washington when I go there in December." Ideal Harvesting Weather. The rainfall foi this section during the month of September was considerably below the normal, but aside from the dusty condition of the public roads and streets the drought ;s said to have helped rather than harmed the farming interests. September was an ideal month for harvesting fodder, hay, etc., and not one farmer in this section reports the loss of any farm products from freshets. Indeed there have been no freshets. In Fort Mill township the last rain of any consequence fell the first of September. Since then there have been one or two showers, hardly heavy enough, however, to "lay the dust." Cotton picking became general about two weeks ago and the conditions for gathering the crop have been as favorable as could be asked. Markers for Soldiers' Graves. The first order for markers for the graves of Confederate soldiers in the cemeteries in Fort Mill township will be forwarded to the manufacturers the latter part of the week by the Daughters of the Confederacy. The markers are expected to arrive within a fortnight and will at once be placed upon the graves of veterans. As a number of ' relatives of deceased soldiers have expressed a desire to relieve the Daughters of the expense of buying the markers for the graves of their kinsmen, Mrs. R. F. Grier, regent of the local chanter, wishes to ask that these sena in at once the money for the markers. GRADED SCHOOL NOTES By Supt. F. M. Crum. It will not be long now before the new school building will be occupied by the school children of Fort Mill. On the opening day there will be appropriate exercises held in the auditorium of the school. The State high school inspector, Prof. W. H. Hand, of Columbia, has kindly consented to be present. It is hoped that as many as possible of the patrons of the school and the people of Fort Mill will be present that day. Come to the school and see where ; your child is being trained, and make yourself more thoroughly acquainted with the workings of the school. Why should not the school be very close to the hearts of the people? It is the place hnuc frtl-lo O frt rvinrln I T. ..va.%/ MVJU U11V4 511 10 C4I C lliauc ! into men and women. Show your interest by your presence, and be assured that any father or mother will always have a warm welcome in the schoolroom. The new building: stands as a monument to the educational adj vancement of the community, I and should be a source of pride i to every citizen. Let it be the hub of the town; the place where social gatherings are held, and where people come together and know and understand each other better. Whatever function is of worth and has an uplifting character, let it be held at the school building, and make it the pride of the town. Butofall things don't "kick." I Of course it will not please everyone, but what could? ft is a bad sign when a man stands on the side line and says bad things about the players on the home team. One hearty cheer from j the grandstand is worth a thousand harsh criticisms. The work on the building will soon be com; pleted, and besides being an addition to Fort Mill's educational facilities, it will be an added beauty to the town. Negro Killed at Fish Fry. One negro was killed and two others were more or less seriously wounded at a fish fry on the Ardrey plantation, in the liar nson neigni)ornood, eight miles east of Fort Mill, Friday night. Erskine Kirkpatrick is the name [ of the dead negro and his two brothers are the wounded ones. Twenty or more negroes of t he neighborhood had gathered at a tenant house on the Ardrey place i for the fish fry. The Kirkpatrick brothers became involved in a row with three other negroes, : Will Boyd, Sam Byers and Char: lie Houston. The disputants j agreed to leave the house and go into the yard to settle their difj ferences. Pistols were drawn and a dozen shots were fired, one of which struck Erskine Kirkpatrick in the heart, killing him instantly. Another shot penetrated the back of Henry Kirkpatrick and the third of the Kirkpatrick brothers was struck over the head with a rock. The difficulty is said to have arisen over the wife of one of the Kirkpatrick negroes. At the coroner's inquest Saturday afternoon the killing of Erskine Kirkpatrick was charged to the Houston negro, with a verdict against Boyd and Byers as accessories before the fact. Two of the negroes charged with the IfillinfT ftf VlVl/t-ofmnl. V ivuujmti l^i\ IW1VC UCtMl arrested and are in the Mecklenburg county jail. Will Boyd was located in Union county, N. C., by Constable Wagstaff, of Pineville, and captured. Charlie Houston surrendered to an officer in Lancaster county and was taken to Charlotte to await trial. Barn Burned. Tuesday morning between 3 and 4 o'clock the barn on the old Spencer place of Col. Leroy Springs, two miles east of Fort Mill, was destroyed by fire, ent^ni liner a lnca nf aVvrmf D c* V * MMVUb A I1CI C was no insurance on the barn or the contents, which consisted of a quantity of cotton, fodder, hay, etc. Fortunately the fire was discovered by R. L. Ferrell, who lives on the place, in time to get the mules out of the burning building. It is not known whether the fire was of incendiary origin or due to another cause. i n*trfr - - i JONES PROBABLY WILL ESCAPE PROSECUTION OF YORK BANKS , It now seems certain that J. Y. Jones, the young white man who on June 30 passed a fraudulent check on the Savings Bank of Fort Mill for $240, will escape trial for the offense. Neither does it seem likely that he will be prosecuted by the Bank of Clover for uttering a similar cnecK ontnat institution,ior$lYU. | Jones' parents, who live in Eli, i Tex., will reimburse the banks for the amounts the young man secured by sharp practice and he will be liberated from jail, probably before the 15th inst. It will be recalled that Jones came to Fort Mill June 29 with the Yorkville baseball team. He was introduced to the cashier, Mr. W. B. Meacham, by a well known Yorkville man, who vouched for his reliability. Jones presented a check at the bank, drawn on an Asheville bank and indorsed by "T. C. McCauley," | for $240. The full amount of the check was paid to Jones. A few days afterwards the fact developed that the check was! fraudulent. Jones was arrested in Charleston July 10, on a warrant of the Clover bank, and: taken to the York county jail, where he has since been held a | prisoner, awaiting trial at the i fall term of court, which opens j November 21. But the officials of the Savings Bank of Fort Mill and the Bank I of Clover have agreed to with- | draw the prosecution of Jones upon the return of the money he ! fraudulently secured from them and it is said the case will be I settled within the next ten days. Death of Lee S. Nivens. Mr. Lee S. Nivens, the well known farmer and horse dealer whose serious illness was noted in The Times last week, died at ; his home in upper Fort Mill town| ship Friday night at 11 o'clock. | Mr. Nivens' health had been failing for more than a year, but, not until a few weeks ago was : the seriousness of his condition I apparent. About ten days ago hope of his recovery was aban- ; doned by his family and he con- | tinued to grow worse until the j end came. Mr. Nivens was born in Fort Mill township in November, 18G0. j He would have been 50 years old , had he lived a month longer. Until a few years ago he was a familiar figure on the streets of Fort Mill, but during the last six or eight years his visits to this place were infrequent. He j enjoyed a wide acquaintance throughout York county, having had business relations with perhaps as many different men as anyone in this section. Mr. Nivens was a man of a great deal of energy and by careful trading had accumulated an, estate worth perhaps $35,000. It consists principally of lands in rFort Mill township. He owned j the livery stable property occupied by Harris & Sons at the, head of Main street in Fort Mill, I l i * ? oesiues a considerable amount of personal property, including ; sums of money in various banks. , Mr. Nivens is survived by his ! wife, mother and seven children, } four sons and three daughters, all of whom live at the home place three miles from Fort Mill. ; The interment was in the cemetery at Flint Hill church Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Billion Dollar Cotton Crop. The cotton crop in the United I States for 1910 is figured out by statisticians who have just made , a report to the department of commerce and labor to be worth almost as much as it takes to run the government of the United States for a year. Billion dollar i congresses are becoming the rule, j but this year's is the first billion dollar cotton crop according to inese ngures. Meeting at Methodist Church. A week's meeting is in progress at the Fort Mill Methodist church in which the pastor, the Rev. Mr. White, is being assisted by the Rev. W. A. Daniel, of Huntersville, N. C. The morning service is at 10 o'clock and i the evening service 7:30. VOTING STRENGTH OF RACES WHEN THE NEGRO HELD *'*.aY Anint^-w newspaper clipping relative to the voting strength of the white and colored races in York county in 1868 and during the Reconstruction era has just been sent to The Times office by Mr. S. P. Sutton. Almost invariably the whites were Democrats and the negroes Republicans. From the clipping it is learned that under the revised registration ordered by the military authorities for March 8, 1 SfiK t"Vinrn U'PVP 9 fWY7 urtiifo mon against 2,057 negroes eligible to participate in the election for a constitutional convention that year, though the vote for and against the convention showed 1,757 for and only 7 against, the white voters having abstained almost entirely from voting. In June, 1868, an election was held for county officers. The negroes offered no organized opposition to the Democratic ticket, which was elected by a vote of 2,081 against a vote of 452 for the negro nominees. In the congressional election held on November 3, 1868, the county gave VV. D. Simpson, Conservative, 2,039 votes to 1,537 for A. S. Wallace, Republican. But in the elections of 1870, 1872 and 1874 the negroes, aided by a few native whites and a number of Yankee carpetbaggers, outvoted the white Democrats by the following majorities: 1870, 112; 1872, 314; 1874, 397. In I876. however, the Democrats carried the county, and thereby helped materially to elect Wade Hampton governor. It is interesting to note that Fort Mill never failed to return a Democratic majority. Making Good Roads. The York county chaingang has been working the Chester road, beginning at the corporate limits of Yorkville and working south for several months. It is now at Guthriesville, seven miles south of Yorkville, and has made a fine piece of sand-clay road. Previous to going on the Chester road, Superintendent Lindsay with his convicts did some fine road work on the Blacksburgroad for several miles west of Yorkville. Graded School Honor Roll. The honor roll of the Fort Mill graded school for the month of September is as follows: High School, Tenth Grade--Aline Barber, Ola Crowder. Ninth Grade? Mamie Jack Massey, Lana Parks, Monroe White. Eighth Grade?Lucy Merritt, Ethel Armstrong, Mae White, Ike Yarborough. Common School, Seventh Grade -Violet Culp, Zenas Grier, Clarence Link, Esther Meacham, Frances Smith, Margaret Spratt, James Young. Fourth Grade?Marjorie Blankenship. Third Grade?Sadie Rodgers. Second Grade?Paul Anderson, Blanche Moser, Bernice Plyler. First Grade ? Marion^ Parks, rravor Kimoren, HiiuottTnerrell. Any pupil making the honor roll must have a general average of 95. This general average includes not only attendance and deportment, but scholarship as well. To get on the honor roll, the pupil, besides being well behaved and punctual, must do good work in his studies. Four Months for Oscar L. Potts. Oscar L. Potts will serve four months in Federal prison, perhaps in Atlanta, for assaulting J. A. Brandies, a Charlotte mail carrier, on the night of September 23. In the Federal court in Charlotte Tuesday Potts pleaded guilty to assaulting Brandies and interfering with the mails, but said he was drunk and knew nothing of whatjoccurred. Potts is wen Know in f ort iviiii. York's Registered Voters. There are 3,450 registered voters in York county, says the Rock Hill Herald. Of this number Rock Hill has 986 and Coates Tavern 63, making a total of 1,049 in Catawba township. Fort Mill has 300 registered voters. Eighty-five negroes are registered in the county, 35 of whom live in Rock Hill. / & ; BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Philadelphia Vs. Chicago. There is wellnigh universal interest throughout the country in the games to be played this month between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Athletics for the world's baseball championship. The two first games of the series will be played in Philadelphia, beginning Monday, October 17. Then the clubs will move to Chicago for two games and back to Philadelphia. If the seventh game is necessary to decide the championship, it will be played on neutral grounds, perhaps in Pittsburg or New York. Most of the sports writers on the big Northern dailies seem to think that i fVio ( hinnrm nluK vt*v vyuivu^v v,ini/ win it way with the big end of the games, but not one of them has been so rash as to express the opinion that the Athletics will have no more show than a ham sandwich in the hands of a hungry hobo. The Philadelphia team is a grand piece of baseball mechanism and, except in the catching deparment, is, man for man, the equal, if not the superior, of the Cubs. A summary of the record of the two clubs shows that the Philadelphia team outclasses Chicago in the pitching department, and excels in hitting, run-getting and sacrifice hitting. Their infield is fast, probably 15 to 20 per cent, faster than that of the Cubs, their outfield is a strong hitting trio and their pitching staff is second to none and is in good condition to stand a world's championship battle. Baby Finds Good Home. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Owens, who reside in a nice, new home on the corner of Marion and Saluda streets in Rock Hill, were presented Thursday night, by some unknown nartv. with a finp baby boy, apparently about two weeks old. About 11 o'clock tl.ere was heard a rapping at the front door, and when Mr. Owens went to see what was wanted he found a nicely wrapped bundle lying on the porch. Awakening Mrs. Owens, they opened the bundle with the above startling result. There seemed to be no clue to the child's identity and whence it came is all surmise. Death of Mrs. Guy A. Poore. A sad death occurred in Mooresville, N. C., Saturday night in the passing away of Mrs. Dora Hudson Poore, wife of Mr. Guy A. Poore, who a few years ago was agent <a' the Southern railway in Pineville. Mrs. Poore was 28 years of age and is survived by her husband and a 2-year-old child. She had been ill for several months of tuberculosis and until recently had lived in Columbia. Mr. Poore is well known in this section and has many friends here who will regret to learn of the death of Mrs. Poore. Weather forecast for Thursday: Partly cloudy. I PONCE I SYI Is a combination of Georgi put up in very handsomel cans. These cans have boi making them very conven and come in three sizes, vi: gallons. The syrup is A delicious flavor, contains : ANTS, and is consequen Try it. FOR SALE BY FOR BRYAN SCORED BY TILLMAN FOR BOLTING PARTY JICKET Senator B. R. Tillman, at his farm near Trenton Saturday, when asked for an expression of his opinion in regard to Mr. Bryan's bolt of the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Nebraska, said: "I am astonished and must say somewhat disgusted and grieved at Mr. Bryan's action. He was the victim of the bolters among Democrats in 1896, and very justly he has held them up to scorn and has not hesitated to express his feelings nf fiioiV treachery. His action in bolting the Democratic nominee in Nebraska forever silences him on the subject of his own betrayal; and this is too bad, just when things seem to be coming our way politically. ' 'A Democratic house of representatives is almost a certainty, and a Democratic president next time a very promising probability. It is too bad, and, in my opinion, ends Mr. Bryan's political career." The Cost of Roosevelt. That the single term to which Theodore Roosevelt was elected as president cost the American people more than twice the cost of the running of the government during its first 72 years of existence, is the startling fact that is revealed by the actual figures. This is shown in a recent magazine article, and the New York World makes the following comment: "The total expenditures of the United States government from the inauguration of Washington in 1789 to the beginning of the Civil war in 1861 were $1,795.273.344.14. "The appropriation bills signed by Theodore Roosevelt during his second term in the White House, from March 4, 1905, to March, 4, 1909, authorized expenditures amounting to $3,522,982,816.87. rour years 01 Kooseveltism cost twice as much as the first 72 years of the republic. "One term of Theodore Roosevelt took twice as much money out of the j)ockets of the American people as the combined terras^! of Washington, Adams, Jefferi son, Madison, Monroe, John JQuincy Adams, Jackson, Van Huron. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan. "During the 72 years covered by the administration of these 15 presidents, the United States government paid the Revolutionary war debt incurred by the States. It paid the cost of the War of 1812. It paid the cost of the Mexican war. It bought Louisiana. It bought Florida. It paid for the Gadsden purchase. It acquired all that vast extent of territory from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean. "What have the American people got to show for the four years of Rooseveltism which cost double the money? And what would be the cost of four years more of Roosevelt under the new nationalism." I )E LEON IUP a and Florida Cane Syrups, y lithographed square tin th screw and friction tops, ient for the house-keeper, z: quarts, half gallons and BSOLUTELY PURE, of a no DRUGS or ADULTERtly the best FOR YOU. T MILL GROCERS. ? . -