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rl The Fort Mill Times. v ^ pLUME 19?NO. 28. FORT MILL. 8. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1910. ~ *1.25 PER YEAIL^ SK a ^MIDENTIAL BEE WON'T BUZZ r ^ JBMAYNOR GAYNOR'S BONNET - is the word used by ^^MpDr Gaynor, of New York, as l^Hing the suggestion that he Bp /vSn^Bthe presidency in mind. This r emphatic term he employs K )i#a letter dated at Deepwells, | Si. James, L. I., September 25, I to James Creelman, a close I friend, through whom he publicly I declined the Democratic nomina| tion for governor. The mayor ifers to a suggestion made by enry Watterson, the editor of e Louisville Courier-Journal, ! that he (the mayor) is a candidate for the presidency. The mayor says: "As for myself, or my political future, I shall not. consider that at all. Mr. Watterson is in error in supposing that I have tne presidency in my nnna. Never! and it is too late for me to begin shaping my course for any ambitious purpose." Fire Escape Law to Be Enforced. Within the last week Insurance Commissioner F. H. McMaster has had arrested and fined $10 each in magistrate's court several Columbia- hotel proprietors who had failed to comply with the law passed at the last session of the Legislature requiring that all hotels in the State of three or more stories be provided with fire escapes. It is said to be the k intention of the insurance comI missioner to see that the law is f enforced impartially and instructions have been sent out to the magistrates in communities where the law has not beer, observed . directing them to see that the hotels which come with"V. in the purview of the law be \ provided with fire escapes at \ once. The penalty for non-compliance with the law is $10 per day, but Commissioner McMaster will not insist upon a fine of more than $10 until violators have been notified to comply with the law. Ball and Tournament in '69. An interesting: reminder of the Fort Mill of bygone days was brought to The Times oflice Monday afternoon by Mr. W. H. Jones. In looking through some old papers of his uncle, the late W. 1. Jones, a few days ago Mr. Jones discovered a printed invitation to a ball and riding tournament held in Fort Mill November 18. 1869. The invitation does not designate the building in which the ball was to be held, but the town's public hall in those days was a large frame building which stood on the site now occupied by the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Withers, at the corner of Booth and Baptist Church streets, and it is more than likely that the ball was held in unit uuuuiii.u. Forty years ago dancing was a more popular pastime than it is today and was indulged in by the middle-aged as well as the young, which accounts for the fact that the invitation to the Fort Mill ball of November 18, 18(>9, was signed by not only a number of the young men of the town but by a greater number of citizens who were no longer on the sunrise side of life. The old-fashioned riding tournament of skilled horsemen tilting at rings suspended in the air which they sought to bear off on lances has entirely passed out of custom in recent years. Not one of the 31 "managers" and "knights" who issued the invitation is now living in Fort Mill. There are perhaps less than a dozen of the number who have not already crossed "the great divide." The committee^ issuing the invitation hall iI'flro Managers?Col. J. M. White, Col. A. B. Springs, J. Miller, J. H. Faulkner, B. If. Massey, I. B. Withers, J. P. Sossaman, J. T. Hotchkiss, Jno. B. Withers, J. S. Davant, B. M. Spratt, Banks Kell, B. F. Powell, Dr. S. A. Kell, J. W. White, J. S. Sossaman, S. E. White, N. G. Bradford. Managers and Knights?R. J. Watson, J. I). Kell, J. M. Spratt, R. A. Clark, C. L. Miller, Henry Massey, E. B. Springs, J. A. Withers, R. Bradford, J. D. Hotchkiss, J. W. Harris, James Sutton, Master James Miller. A Jm w * One More Mill Town Tax. A matter of considerable in terest to the owners of Fort Mil 1 property was the action of towr council at its meeting a feu nights ago in increasing the ta> levy from 2 to 3 mills for the cur rent year. It is stated as th< reason for the increased levj that several hundred dollars oi revenue has been lost to the towr by the action of the State boarc of assessors in reducing tht assessments of the local cottor mills, the custom being to mak< the assessment for municipa purposes the same as that for .State purposes*. The statemenl is also made that the town's revenues have been decreasec considerably by the removal fron the tax books of other propertj which has heretofore been assessed for taxation. Good Farming in Fort Mill Township. This year on several plantations in Fort Mill township j a noise has been heard thai sounds like real farming and if the good work is kept up for a few years the fame ol York's old red hills will be such as to attract attention far and wide. A number of farmers have prize acres in corn, cotton, etc., but Mr. C. P. Blankenship probably will find the one acre lie prepared for peavine hay the most profitable of all. Eight tons of peavine hay is his har. vest, which is considered by j many a more remunerative crop than a bale of cotton to the acre. | But add to eight tons of hay the value of GO bushels of oats which Mr. Blankenship harvested from the same acre last spring and a crop of crimson clover which he hopes to gather next spring in time to put the land tc cotton, and the possibilities of intensive farming in this section j are readily seen. ? Mules Bolted, Farmer Hurt. J. W. Stallings, a white farmer I _e i-?i L. ir. 11 - ui neasHiit vauey, was painrully injured a mile south of Fort Mill i Thursday afternoon in attempting to jump from a wagon tc which was hitched a pair of mules that had become frightened at the automobile of Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrick. The mules bolted and ran into a gully just as Mr. Stallings jumped, throwing him tc the ground with considerable force. The impact with the ground broke two of his ribs. In falling Mr. Stallings got between the wagon wheels, hut the drivei succeeded in stopping the frightened team before the wheels passed oved his body. Dr. Kirkpatrick says that as soon as he saw the mules were frightened he slackened the speec of his machine and passed on, nol knowing that Mr. Stallings was hurt. "Columbia Morning News." It begins to look as if there is A U ? ? -t-_ 11 ! aviiibbiiiuj^ nunc Ulilll IIIITI* IHlh I behind the proposal to establish a new morning daily in Columbia. Friday a commission was issued by the secretary of state to the News Publishing company of Columbia, the capital stock beinj> $50,000. The petitioners are: Ceo. R. Koesterand I). W. Robinson, of Columbia. The company proposes to publish a daily paper called the Columbia Morning News. The promoters of the company say that the first issue of the paper will appear or January 1. Proposed New County Road. A number of Fort Mill names were added to a petition circulated here Tuesday praying the county commissioners to open a public road from the Catawba river bridge to Rock Hill. It is stated that the new road would shorten iliaHn/io i? . . vii v v?iuvttiiV/V UCl VV UUU Fort Mill and Rock Hill by two miles. The petition will be presented to the county commissioners within a few days. Charlotte's Population 34,014. The United States census returns for 1910 Kive Charlotte a population of 34,014, an increase of 88 per cent. In 1890 Charlotte had a population of 11,557. In 1900 Charlotte's population was 18,091. The city shows Kains of 6,534 from 1890 to 1900, and of 15,923 from 1900 to 1910. REDUCED PRICES MAY RESULT FROM FERTILIZER TRADE WAF 1 ! South Carolina farmers wil ' read with interest the statemen " that three new fertilizer plants [ will be constructed by the Ameri ' can Chemical company during ? the next year in the very heari of the territory covered by th< . Virginia-Carolina Chemical com , pany. One will be at Savannah ' where the company has purchasec ? 70 acres of land, and should b( I completed early in 1911, as th< . contracts have already been let. l The second will be at Wilming L; ton, and the third at Columbia j Work on the latter two will b< begun as soon as possible, anc r the entire three should be ir operation by next summer. Alto gether the expenditures for new construction will total something like $1,000,000, and as the Ameri can Chemical company has ? ?? via iuj? va^iuii Ui (l|)|)LUAl[Iiait;iJ ) $18,500,000, as shown by its recent annual statement, it is nol [ likely that the construction work , contemplated will call for new - financing:. i While the American has always I been a factor in the Southeri ; field, the move of building three new plants simultaneously cannot > be taken otherwise than an ag . gressive invasion of the preserves > of the Virginia-Carolina Chemica ; company. An interest closely con. nected with the Virginia-Carolina I Chemical company stated thai , I the Southern field is large enough for both, but generally in fertilizer circles the outlook for a trade war is considi red excellent. Death of Mrs. J. L. Stevens. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, wife | of .John L. Stevens, a well knowr ' Fort Mill carpenter, died sudden| ly Tuesday morning while on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. .J. A. Wagstair, in Pineville. Mrs. Stevens had not been in good health for more than a vear. but her death was unexpected and a - great shock to her family and [ friends. Mrs. Stevens is sur. vived by her husband and three , children, one son and two daughi ters, W. W. Stevens, Mrs. J. A. WagstafT and Mrs. R. S. Wolfe. . She was about 55 years of age [ and had resided in Fort Mill with . her family for a number of years. , Mrs. Stevens was a member ol . the Methodist church. The inter > ment was in the Fort Mill ceroe, tery yesterday afternoon. i Has Passed the Century Mark. The Waxhaw Enterprise says that Mr. Charlie Kiker, whe . lives about two miles west ol > Waxhaw, will he 101 years old I the first day of January, 1011. Mr. Kiker was too old for regulai ; service in the Civil war, bein$ therefore over 50 at that time. Instead of regular service as ? soldier, he was made a government hauler of provisions to tht ? soldiers and their families, and : did this kind of work throughout i the war. Mr. Kiker was a juroi at the first term of Union county I court, which was held in 1843. ' His eyesight failed him about six years ago, and since that : time he has been totally blind. Odd Fellows' Student at Winthrop. Friends of the Odd Fellows' orphanage at Greenville and the , public generally will be interested and greatly pleased to know that ( Miss Lucile Gunter, the oldest child in the institution, has been appointed to a scholarship in Winthrop college. She entered that school in September. Miss ; Gunter is in her 17th year and is a native of Lexington county. Her father and mother are dead. . She entered the Odd Fellows' i orphan home, near Greenville, on i November 13, 1905, having had, previously, little opportunity for i education. Jones Out of Jail. E. Y. Jones, the young white man who has been held in the York county .jail for the last three months for defrauding the Fort Mill and Clover banks out . of a sum in excess of $400, was t released last Thursday upon the return of the money by his parents to the banks. It is stated that Jones' parents refused to i help him out of the trouble unless he agreed to enlist in the navy atonce. YEGG ARRESTED IN LANCASTER I WANTED FOR WESTERN OUTRAGE 1 J. B. Leonard, a notorious safe- ! t cracker who operated in this sec3 tion a few years ago, is believed - to be one of the men who der stroyed the building of the Los t Angeles Times with dynamite! j ten days ago. A man who gave - the name of J. B. Leonard is , wanted by the California au1 thorities for the destruction of j the building and every effort is j being made to capture him. It is thought that Leonard is - one of the gang of five yeggmen . who were arrested near Lancasj ter three years ago for a series 1 of postoffice and other robberies i in North Carolina, Virginia and - South Carolina. The men had in r their possession all appliances | j for safe-cracking and were a - tough looking set. All five were i convicted in the United States r court in Raleigh and sentenced > to five years in the federal penit tentiary at Atlanta and heavy ; fines. President Taft subse' quently pardoned two or three of the convicts and one of these ; met a violent death in lirooki lyn, N. Y. Price of Cotlon Seed Coins Down. ? The price of cotton seed has 1 taken a 5-cent per bushel tumble . since the 1910-'ll season opened l a few weeks ago and instead of the rather abnormally high price , of 50 cents per bushel which was . paid for the seed for a few days t following the opening of the season the market is now 45 cents per bushel. Purchasing agents of the oil mills are of the opinion that the price will go several 4 cents per bushel lower within i the next few weeks, the opinion being based upon the prospective i supply from the bumper cotton crop which it is expected will be j grown in Texas and the Southl west generally this year. Registration in Mecklenburg. Registration books have been ; > opened in Mecklenburg county . for those who are otherwise i qualified to participate in the State and congressional elections , on November 8. Names of prospective voters will be enrolled , for 20 days from last Saturday, I or up to and including the 28th . inst. Those who were registered . two years ago will not be re-1 quired to register for the elec-1 tion this fall. In Pineville township the registrar is M. E. Gulp and the judges It. B. Johnson > and Will A. White. At precinct ) No. 2, in Providence township, f W. E. Cunningham is the regis1 trar and S. II. Kell and G. B. ; Bryant the judges. Thornwell-Reid. t The following invitations were . sent out Tuesday: > "Mr. Elias Earle Thornwell I requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of his sister Frances Harriet to - Mr. Edwin Sidney Reid on the evening of Wednesday, the twenty-sixth of October at half after eight o'clock Fort Mill Presbyterian Church Fort Mill, South Carolina." * Miss Thornwell is the youngest daughter of the late Rev. Jas. H. , Thornwell, D. I)., and is one of Fort Mill's most attractive young 1 1 Tf uuues. iter marriage is therefore an interesting event in this ! community. Mr. Keid is a young hanker of Chatham. Va., where he and his bride will make their future home. Paroled by the Governor. Marshall Melton, who was convicted in York county in 1908 on the charge of grand larceny and sentenced to three years on the chaingang, has been paroled by Governor Ansel, pending good behavior. He is required to make report to Governor Ansel every three months. In the petition it is stated that Melton has a wife and several children dependent upon him, who are at present residing in Georgia. Steel Creek Couple Married. Moody Thomas and M iss Esther McDonald, a well known young 1 couple of the Steel Creek section of Mecklenburg county, drove to Fort Mill Tuesday evening and were married by Magistrate J. W. McElhaney. Mr. John W. Davidson Dead. ( The Pleasant Valley section of Lancaster county sustained a great loss Friday night in the death of Mr. John W. Davidson. Mr. Davidson's health had been c declining for several months, but p his condition was not considered J1 serious until a few days before his death, which was caused by ^ acute stomach trouble. Mr. ^ Davidson had long been one of Lancaster county's foremost citi- ^ zens and his death is sincerely . regretted by all who knew him. He was a leading member of J* Pleasant Hill Methodist church and was a good man. He was v 55 years of age. Mr. Davidson is survived by his wife and one . son, Walter Davidson, of Char- !' lotte. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. T. J. White and the interment was in ? Pleasant Hill cemetery Sunday morning. ?^1 South Carolina Still Leads. f South Carolina still leads the 1 other States of the South in the v manufacture of cotton, according s to "The Southern Cotton Mill Directory," which has just been j ? compiled by David Clark, editor a of the Textile Manufacturer, y North Carolina is a rather poor! t second, being more than seven 11 million do'lars behind this year n in the amount of capital invested c In tVtn 1 ^ in lhv; iinumil) UIKl Willi OUU.INIW | 11 less spindles and 43,000 less' c looms. The mills of South Caro- a lina average about 27,000 spin- jc dies to an average of 11,000 for U' North Carolina mills. ' J . . t t Political Horoscope. South Carolina's political horo- e scope was handed out in Spar- s tanburg a few days ago by a r gentleman who has had some ex- t perience in observing the politi- i< cal horizon, and is, at the same c time, acknowledged to possess some gift of prophecy, says the Spartanburg Herald. He says he reads in the heavens?or somewhere else?that there are going () to come to pass many and strange things within the next decade h or some such space of time?in \ South Carolina. He says he has a seen or heard?we forget which v ?a slate. And on this slate he ? has seen it framed up that Con- 11 gressman Lever will succeed the ? present senior senator in the h United States senate two years s hence; he sees George R. Rem- ? bertof Columbia slated as Lever's " successor in congress, and heM reads the reelection of Governor- ^ elect Cole L. Mle.ise, who at the ^ end of his four years as governor of South Carolina will b * called v by the people to cause the re- ? tirement of United States Senator E. I). Smith from the halls ( of the national congress. J1 Right here, he says, he woke a up. P We are glad he did, and if his . dream was sent as a warning, it might be well for the people of South Carolina to wake up also. ! 11 a Improvements at Winthrop. o A large new cattle barn is s being built at the Winthrop col- t lege farm to hold 1(K) head of h beef cattle. These cattle are j h fattened at the farm and used 1 for the board in# department of h the college. By this arrange- j u ment the best beef is secured at ?' small cost. A new silo has been c added to the dairy barn to increase the amount of ensilage e for the dairy herd. A large h chicken house has been built at d the practice home and poultry d raising will be done on a much more extensive scale this year than ever before. Not only have | these improvements been made, jj but many have been made on the n college kitchen. w Death of a Little Boy. j h Kirk, the 6-year-old son of Mr. , and Mrs. Shirley Gordon, who V, live in the village of the Fort Mill . Mfg. Co., died of fever at the home of his parents Tuesday a; morning and the little body was interred in the Fort Mill cemetery yesterday morning. In September Kirk was sent to the v\ Fort Mill graded school for his 01 first session, but in a few days JV after the school opened was F stricken with the fever that p ended his little life. S] Weather forecast: F'air today, b WNDITION REPORT ON COTTON UNFAIR TO SOUTHERN FARMERS? "The condition report of the otton crop issued by the national ;overnment a few days ago means a loss of hundreds of housands of dollars to the cotton;rowers of the South which irould have gone into their pockts but for the report," said a pell known farmer of this secion to The Times a few days ago. 'It is nothing short of an outage that the Federal government should, wittingly or unfittingly, aid the bears in their ffort to keep the price of cotton lown. Cottort has gone up some n the last few days in spite of he report, however. "What I, as well as hundreds f other cotton growers, object o in the condition reports of the government is the inclusion of he States of Virginia, Florida. ennessee, Missouri and Caliornia. It is well known that Honda and Tennessee grow ery little cotton, comparatively peaking, and as for Virginia, lissouri and California, the three Itates together do not produce s much cotton as York county; et the crop reporting board of he department of agriculture ncludes these five States in estinating the crop condition, the ondition report in each of the ive States, except Florida, being onsiderably higher than the verage for the nine principal otton-growing States, thereby infairly boosting the crop coalition and consequently bearing he price, which of course means loss for the farmer. "Our Southern senators and ongressmen are in position to et the national government ight in this matter, and it is heir duty to see that the reform ^ inaugurated before another otton crop is grown." Good Roads, Better Schools. Good roads would revolutionize ur country schools. Contrast he lot of the country child on is way to school in winter with hat of the city child with only few blocks of paved streets to *-alk. Our country child, with atchel over shoulder and lunch asket in hand, must leave the heerful fireside of home from alf an hour to an hour before chool opens in order to be there n time. The roads are wet and "Kiddy many months of the year, 'he country is open and the cold /inds are unmerciful in their atacks upon him. So that, by the ime he reaches the school house, /men is often unscientifically entilated and poorly heated, his eet are so cold and his body so hilled that he is unfit for study lost of the day. and exposure nd chilling of the body invite tneumonia and other diseases. These conditions cause irreguar and broken attendance. They reate an aversion in the child or the school room instead of a >ride in punctual attendance ind studious advancement. Not nly this, but a mother hates to ee her children trot off to school wo or three miles away in cold, iad weather. She fears that the njurious effects upon the body rom exposure will do greater arm than the beneficial effects pon the mind will do good. She ealizes that a vigorous mind an only dwell in a healthy body, nd that it would be misdirected xercise of maternal care to force er children to school under conitions of exposure which enancrer thoir hnililv hnulfK "Buck" Bryant Managing Editor. The many friends of "Buck" tryant, who left Charlotte some lonths a*ro for the Northwest, ill he pleased to learn that his ood work as a newspaper man as been rewarded by the prorietors of the Missoula, Mont., aper on which he is employed. Buck" has just been promoted rom a reporter's desk to manning editor. Small Fire at Cotton Mill. A propertv loss of about Sinn as caused by fire which broke ut in the dye room of the Fort I ill Mfg. Co. at 11:45 o'clock 'riday night. The fire is suposed to have originated from pontaneouscombustion. A quanity of cotton and some leather elting were destroyed.