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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
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! 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
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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
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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.
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JONES PROBABLY WILL ESCAPE
PROSECUTION OF YORK BANKS
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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