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.
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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.
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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
) $18,500,000, as shown by its
recent annual statement, it is nol
[ likely that the construction work
, contemplated will call for new
- financing:.
i While the American has always
I been a factor in the Southeri
; field, the move of building three
new plants simultaneously cannot
> be taken otherwise than an ag
. gressive invasion of the preserves
> of the Virginia-Carolina Chemica
; company. An interest closely con.
nected with the Virginia-Carolina
I Chemical company stated thai
, I the Southern field is large enough
for both, but generally in fertilizer
circles the outlook for a
trade war is considi red excellent.
Death of Mrs. J. L. Stevens.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, wife
| of .John L. Stevens, a well knowr
' Fort Mill carpenter, died sudden|
ly Tuesday morning while on a
visit to her daughter, Mrs. .J. A.
Wagstair, in Pineville. Mrs.
Stevens had not been in good
health for more than a vear. but
her death was unexpected and a
- great shock to her family and
[ friends. Mrs. Stevens is sur.
vived by her husband and three
, children, one son and two daughi
ters, W. W. Stevens, Mrs. J. A.
WagstafT and Mrs. R. S. Wolfe.
. She was about 55 years of age
[ and had resided in Fort Mill with
. her family for a number of years.
, Mrs. Stevens was a member ol
. the Methodist church. The inter
> ment was in the Fort Mill ceroe,
tery yesterday afternoon.
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Has Passed the Century Mark.
The Waxhaw Enterprise says
that Mr. Charlie Kiker, whe
. lives about two miles west ol
> Waxhaw, will he 101 years old
I the first day of January, 1011.
Mr. Kiker was too old for regulai
; service in the Civil war, bein$
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."
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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.
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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
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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. !
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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.
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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.