Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, November 03, 1910, Image 1
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VOLUME 19?NO. 31. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1910. ^1^25 PER YEAR ~
PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF WEEK
IN CAROLINA'S CAPITAL CITY
Correspondence Fort Mill Times.
Columbia, Nov. L?The State
k. fair opened Monday morning
under favorable circumstances,
the weather being clear and cold.
To the casual observer the crowd
does not seem to be as large as
in former years. There are no
attractions on the streets of
Columbia and no preceptible decorations.
Thursday, the banner day of
the fair, will be additionally attractive
this year, on account of
the Farmers' union meeting. It
is estimated that there will be
several hundred farmers at the
fair Thursday.
Saturday the annual meeting
of the directors of the South
Atlantic Baseball league was
h^ld here in the Jerome hotel.
W. R. Joyner, of Atlanta, was
reelected president of the league.
It was decided to increase the
league next year to eight cities
instead of six cities. Charleston
and Albany, Ga.. will be the two
new members of the league. I
Capt. John G. Capers convened J
his "lilly white" State Republican 1
convention here Thursday, and ;
not an ebony speck soiled its j
immaculateness. Capt. Capers '
claimed that the calling of the '
convention was for the purpose ]
of putting a white Republican 1
ticket in the field, and, as far as J
possible, to eliminate the negro *
and his avarious clutch from the
Republican party in the State.
One hundred and thirteen delegates
attended the convention. (
President Taft did not give his .
official sanction to the conven- ;
tion, and Postmaster General !
Hitchcock forbade any of the [
Federal officeholders of the State J
attending the convention. Presi- ]
dent Taft, knowing that his
renomination by the national
Republican party is not at all (
certain, would not recognize the '
convention, fearing that by so '
doing he would antagonize the
negroes, thereby alienating many
negro votes in the national con- '
vention in 1912. W. J. C.
"Coke" Dealer Arrested.
1 Mack Fraser is a Fort Mill negro
who left this community several
years ago for the community's
good, after serving a sen-1
tence on the county chaingang
for stealing flour from a local
merchant. Mack is opposed to
manual labor and is not often
.caught doing any real work,
?.ough he did work his legs fastr
than usual getting out of Fort
.dill Saturday afternoon. For
?ome time Mack has been coming
from Charlotte to Fort Mill regu,'i>
larly on Saturday morning. So
regular had become his visits j
that Police Officer Potts suspected
that he was engaged in some
kind of get-rich-qui?k scheme.
Saturday morning the officer arrested
Mack and his suspicions
were partly confirmed when he
found upon the negro an eightounce
bottle of cocaine. The cocaine
was confiscated and Mack
was locked up. But for want of i
witnesses to testify that Mack
had been retailing the deadly
drug, he was released from the
station house Saturday afternoon
and told to stay away from Fort
Mill for two years.
Child Burned to Death.
Tho6-year-old daughter of Wm.
Baker, who lives near Taxahaw,
in Lancaster county, was burneil I
to death Saturday afternoon. The
child, in company with her sister,
was left at home by her mother
for (juite a while. Soon after the
clothes of the child caught fire,
Frank Craig, a neighbor, hearing
the alarm, went to the rescue and
arrived in time to tear off the
yoke of the child's dress. The
burns were so serious that death
followed in a short time.
Goes to Houston Y. M. C. A.
Charlton P. Younts, whose old
home was in Pineville, has moved
from Columbia to Houston, Tex.,
' to take a position as one of the
secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. in
that city. For several years Mr.
Younts was secretary of the
. Columbia Y. M. C. A., but resigned
last summer as a result of
differences he had with some of
the young men who roomed in
the association building.
Fort Mill's Cotton Market. ' 1
Fort Mill has one of the best!
cotton markets in this section,
although there is not as strong j
lompetition among the buyers! ]
lere as is to be found on many ! (
narkets. Farmers and others (
vho bring their cotton to Fort I,
Mill to dispose of it always re- \
:eive "the top of the market." <
Friday morning 14 cents was the j
-uling price for the "fleecy
staple" in Fort Mill,'while the (
aest price obtainable on the Char- }
otte market was 13 3-4.
Nor is all the cotton sold on the (
Fort Mill market raised in this (
section, as an outsider who is ^
acquainted with the fact that the 1
farming area of the town is hem- i 1
med in on one side by the Cataw- ; i
ba river and on the other by j
:reeks marking the boundary i,
k/if 1ITAAM \T /iwf K am/4 O /N lli- V*
jckn ccu iiui til nuu ouuill VjttlW- ! |
lina might suspect. The knowl- ,
*dge that Fort Mill has a good
:otton market has gone abroad, j
as was evidenced Saturday by .
the receipt of a load of cotton j
from the plantation of Mr. 0. H. ]
Bailes, a successful farmer of ,
the Shopton neighborhood in ]
Mecklenburg county. There were (
reasons of distance to be saved (
and the haul over macadam roads . |
to induce Mr. Bailes to market ,
his cotton in Charlotte, but he 1
iecided to sell it in Fort Mill, (
waiving the consideration that it ]
is one mile farther to Fort Mill
and that the roads are not so
easily traveled.
Not Mrs. E. R. Patterson's Brother.
A story was printed in the
Columbia Record a few days ago
from an Ironton, Ohio, paper
stating that a young man who
Lfave his name as George Barber
and his residence as Fort Lawn,
Chester county, had just died in
the Ohio city and that trouble
was being experienced in locating ;
his South Carolina relatives. In- ;
ciuiry on the part of The Record .
elicited the information that (
George Barber was a son of Mrs.
Elizabeth Barber, of Fort Lawn, ,
and a brother of Clyde Barber,
of Clio, and Mrs. Patterson, of
Fort Mill. Mrs. E. R. Patterson,
of Fort Mill, is a sister of Clyde
Barber, who formerly lived in
Fort Mill, but she had no brother
named George Barber. Besides
Clyde Barber, Mrs. Patterson
has two brothers, Will and Jim
Barber, living in Texas.
II
Thought Himself a Bullfrog.
The other day a fairly well
dressed white man, apparently
about 25 years of age. wandered
into Sheriff Sear's office in Raleigh,
N. C., and begun to unfold a
choice bunch of yarns about his
property. He gave his name as
Bullfrog, and said he was married,
and his wife was known as
Mrs. Frog. It was soon seen
that there was something radically
wrong in "Mr. Frog's" belfry,
and he was taken into custody.
He was committed to jd.il
under the name of "John Doe,"
and will be held pending an investigation
as to his sanity. He
could give no intelligible account
of himself. His name was always
"Bullfrog," and he didn't
know from whence he came. He
was apparently harmless, but for
the protection of himself and the
public it was considered best
that he be locked up. The charge
against him is vagrancy.
What the Farm Supplies.
When the world wants good
i ? ?
cows, norses, sneep, hens and
hops it sends out to the farm f
and pets them.
When it wants pood thinps to
eat it writes a letter to the farmers
and is never disappointed in
pettinp just what it orders.
When it is lookinp for homes
for the thousands in other lands
who never knew what home really
is, it sends to this preat country
of ours.
When the world, feels the need
of men to do preat thinps, it
reaches out its hand to the farm
and says: "You have just the
ones we want. Send them to us!
It is a time of sore stress; do not
fail us!"
And from the farms a steady
stream of men poes to answer
the call. You find them in offices,
in the factories, in the stores of
the preat cities. They are doinp
much of the world's work today,
; and they will always be doinp it.
)VER TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
LOST BY FORT HILL FARMER
Mr. W. H. Windle, one of Fort
Mill township's well known farm?rs,
had the misfortune Wednesiay
afternoon to lose from his
socket a roll of currency amountng
to $260, 13 20-dollar bills. All
effort to locate the money has
proved iutiie.
Wednesday afternoon Mr. Winile
joined a friend at his (Mr.
Windle's) home and the two
drove in a buggy to the home
)f a neighbor, several hundred
yards distant. Mr. Windle
:hinks the money slipped from
lis pocket and fell to the ground
while he was in the buggy. He
s confident that he had the
money, wrapped in a piece of
paper, in his trousers pocket
when he left home.
After alighting from the bugary
he missed the package and
although a search of the road
the buggy had traversed was
made shortly after the loss was
iiscovered, the money could not
be found. Several wagons passed
iver the road meanwhile, however,
and it is Mr. Windle's opinion
that the money was found by an
iccupant of one of the wagons.
The $260 had been in Mr. Windle's
possession only a few hours,
being a part of an $800 payment
which he received at the Savings
Bank of Fort Mill Wednesday
morning for a lot of cotton he
had sold on the local market.
Rock Hill's New Depot.
One of the most acceptable
pieces of news announced in Rock
Hill in many moons was that by
Mayor Roddey Wednesday afternoon
that all obstaolps hnrl Iwon
removed that have heretofore
been in the way of the new depot
and that the Southern railway
authorities at Washington had
stated that they are ready to proceed
with the new building.
The plans call for a handsome
double-decker to be placed about
150 feet farther north, on the
sarre side of the main line, as
the present depot, at the intersection
of the main line and the
Charleston division track. It
will cost in the neighborhood of
$50,000.
Pee Dee Boy Breaks Corn Record.
A South Carolina boy, who resides
in the Pee Dee section of
the State, has broken the boys'
world's record for corn production
on one acre with a yield of
228 bushels and 3 pecks, thereby
winning over $500 in prizes and
a free trip to Washington. The
name of the boy has not yet been
disclosed by the farm demonstration
work of the national government,
under whose auspices the
the corn was grown, but the
auiinucni is maue mat ne is trie
son of a minister and that the j
record-breaking yield was grown
on the parsonage land. The;
largest yield recorded for a South 1
Carolina boy last year was 152 1-2
bushels.
The "Unloaded Gun."
Some people have a habit of
pranking with unloaded guns.
The man who pranks with the
unloaded gun is similar in many
respects to the fellow who rocks
the boat, says the Dillon Herald.
Both are dangerous individuals.
Recently the papers have contained
several accounts of accidents
and tragedies from "unloaded
guns." There is a way
of punishing such people without
confining them in an asylum.
The statutes provide a penalty j
and the penalty should be en
forced. Section 359 of the acts
and joint resolutions of the General
Assembly for 1910 contains
the following:
"That from and after the approval
of this act it shall be unlawful
for any person to present
or point at another person any
loaded or unloaded firearm, and
anyone, on conviction therefor,
shall be punished by fine or imprisonment
in the descretion of
the court: Provided, That nothing
contained herein shall be
construed to abridge the right of
self-defense or to apply to theatricals
or like performances."
This law has been in force
nearly a year but so far we have
heard of no convictions for any
violation of its provisions.
W. 0. BAILES AGAIN ADVERTISES
FORT MILL MARRIAGE BUREAU
There seems to be no such
thing as suppressing Willard O.
Bailes, the ex-notary public, of
Fort Mill township, as a "professional
nuptialist." He is again
seeking business as the "greatest
marrying specialist the South
ever knew," notwithstanding the
fact that he has been deprived
of his commission of notary public.
So reprehensible had the
conduct of Bailes' ' 'marriage burea"
become to the good people
of this community and to the bet4.
4. 4.1 - 4. 1 n
lci eiemciii ui uie ciuzensmp oi
Mecklenburg county, N. C., that
in 1906 Governor Heyward was
induced to revoke Bailes' commission.
But the revocation of
his commission seems to have
had the effect of putting Bailes
under restraint only temporarily.
He is again advertising for business
and as formerly is issuing a
schedule of his marriage fees.
Until a few weeks ago, little
had been heard of Bailes in Fort
Mill since Governor Heyward
sought to close up his "bureau"
in 1906. He had been out of the
State for some time, there being
an indictment against him in the
York county court for adultery.
But a rather unexpected turn in
Bailes' domestic affairs influenced
Solicitor Henry to quash the indictment
and he is again residing
at his home in upper Fort Mill
township, conducting the affairs
of his farm and trying to induce
love sick swains and lassies
to come to him to be made
husband and wife.
Bailes' latest scheme of advertising
his "marriage bureau" is
a neatly printed post card which
he is circulating generously
throughout the country. The
face of the post card bears a likeness
of Bailes, printed in blue
ink, with the following wording
underneath it: "Squire Bailes,
the greatest marrying SDecialist
the South ever knew. Residence,
York county, S. C. Nearest postoffice,
Pineville, N. C. Railroad
station one mile." On the reverse
side of the post card is the
schedule of marriage fees, concluding
with five lines of doggerel
about his ceremony and kind
treatment.
Ed Caton Pardoned.
After serving ten months of
an 18-months sentence on the
public roads of Mecklenburg
county, Ed Caton is a free man,
by pardon of Governor Kitchin.
Caton was convicted in the
Mecklenburg superior court of
disreputable conduct. The pardon
was secured from Governor
Kitchin upon the representation
that the health of Caton would
be impaired if he continued on
the roads the full 18 months.
Caton is not unknown to the York
county courts, having been convicted
here several years ago of
transporting liquor in violation
of the dispensary law, for which
he served 30 days on the chain
Rang.
School Trustees Meet.
A called meeting of the hoard
of trustees of the Fort Mill graded
school was held Saturday morning
at which matters looking to
the welfare of the school were
considered. A petition signed
by the teachers of the school
requesting that action be taken
in a matter of which they complained
was acted upon favorably.
A resolution was also
adopted inviting bids for the old
academy building, which is to be
sold at auction within a few
weeks.
South Carolina's Corn Crop.
iNt'WDcrry neraiil and Mmvs.
It is stated that the corn crop
in South Carolina this year is one
of the largest in the history of
the State. Corn clubs have been
formed in the several counties
and the children of the public
schools have been interested in
growing small patches of corn by
the offering of prizes for the largest
yield and soon.
The corn exposition is to be
held in Columbia during December
covering several of the Southern
States, at which at least
$10,000 in prizes will be offered,
and, in fact, it is stated that the
prize money offered in South
1 Carolina will aggregate $30,000.
The Partridge Season.
On November 15 the partridge
season opens in South Carolina.
Prior to that date the birds are
protected by law. It is a misdemeanor,
punishable by a fine of
$10 for each offense, to kill a partridge
in this State during the
close season. A further provision
of the law is that no game is
allowed to be kept in cold storage,
except in a private residence.
Non-residents are forbidden to
hunt in this State, except upon
the payment of the hunter's license
of $10.
For several years a law has
been in force in Mecklenburg
county, N. C., forbidding the killing
of partridge in that county.
As a consequence Fort Mill township
has become the hunting
ground of many Charlotte sportsmen,
not a few of whom ignore
the law with respect to the hunter's
license. Local sportmen are
hopeful that the law against nonresidents
will be enforced in this
section this year.
Pat Rogers' Case Settled.
The case of the State against
Pat Rogers, Fort Mill clothes
cleaner, who was charged with
assault of a high and aggravated
nature upon Truman Magill, 15year-old
son of Mr. C. B. Magill,
has been settled out of court by
Pat paying a fine of $20. Some
weeks ago Pat and young Magill
got into a difliculty and Pat
struck the boy with his coat, in
which was an open pocket knife.
The knife cut the boy slightly
about the shoulders. The case
was to have been heard at the
term of court which opens on the
27th.
Negro to Hang in Gaffney.
For the second time in the history
of Cherokee county a jury
has returned a verdict of guilty
without a recommendation tr
mercy in a murder case. This
verdict was rendered Friday by
the jury in the case against Bud
Hames, colored, charged with the
murder of his wife in the countr>
near (iafFney some months ago.
The jury deliberated 15 minutes.
Fort Mil
My Dear Sweetheart:
You need not postpone
having enough money to buy ;
Massey's store you will find
half the price the other stor
some sample hats that you
sale prices. Think of it, a
$7.50. They have a lot of nc
lots of pretty things, so let's
we will get lots of presents,
and art squares and maybe
them. The new Harrisburg
ing so long are better and pr
they hardly ever wear out,
them. Be sure and iro to M:
hold out anywhere else. Do
new watches and jewelry a
while you are there. Meet n
I School Buil<
The trustees of
r? 1 i ii .
ocnool will sell at
highest bidder for
my building and
Saturday, Novem
the Savings Bank
i I
TROLLEY LINE MUST PAY $75
FOR FIVE CENTS WORTH OF ICE
The Augusta and Aiken trolley
line will have to pay William
Mcintosh the sum of $75 for refusing
to carry him as a passenger
in one of its cars when he
had 5 cents worth of ice, wrapped
in a sack, in his hand.
Mcintosh was carrying the ice to
1 a sick friend, but the conductor
of the car he attempted to board
said the ice was leaking through
, the sack and would not allow
. Mcintosh to ride.
The jury decided that the ice
was wrapped so it couldn't leak
ana tne supreme court said that
this settled that end of the transaction.
"We can not say as a
matter of law," writes Justice
Jones, "that a small piece of ice
carried under the arm is not
personal baggage." The court
points out that there was a rule
of the company that passengers
would not be allowed to carry
bulky or dangerous packages and
that the conductors had been instructed
to not accept passengers
i carrying ice unless the ice was
wrapped so it would not leak.
Inasmuch as this issue was settled
by the jury the supreme court
upholds the verdict for $75 for
the plaintiff.
Graded School Honor Roll.
The honor roll of the Fort Mill
graded school for the month of
October is as follows:
j Eighth Grade?Lucy Merritt,
i Mae White. Ethel Armstrong.
. Seventh Grade?Clarence Link,
Frances Smith.
Sixth Grade?Ocey Hood, Lillian
Potts, Floyd Moser.
Fifth Grade?Agnes Link.
Fourth Grade- Marjorie Blanr
kenship, Malcolm Link, Ruth
' McLaughlin, Mary Spratt, Eula
> Patterson.
> Third Grade?Atmar Adcock,
Stephen Epps, Sara White, Bel
atrice Parks, Harry Bradford,
? Sadie Rodgers, Sophie Link.
r First Grade- Elma Bradford,
, Hallie Griggs, Fravor Kimbrell,
, Ruby Plyler.
1, S. C., November 1, 1910.
our wedding on account of not
pour trousseau. If you will go to
some beautiful hats at almost
es ask for them. They have
can buy for less than wholenavy
blue broadcloth suit for
w silver, and fancy china, and
send out lots of invitations so
They have some beautiful rugs
somebody will give us one of
shoes that they have been seilettier
than ever, and you know
but last until you are tired of
issey's or your money will not
n't fail to take a peep at the
nd pick out the wedding ring
ie at Massey's store tomorrow.
Your devoted
Harry.
ling For Sale.
the f ort Mill Graded
public auction to the
p r\ U I
v^uon uiv, UiU i I
lot at 1 I o'clock on
ber 26, in front of
of Fort Mill. |
iRIER, Chairman. I