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' . I The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19?NO. 34. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1910 ** MOVEMENT WELL UNDER WAY FOR SECOND FORT MILL BANK The latest of several efforts which have been made during the last three or four years to organize a new bank for Fort Mill is now under way and the men who are pushing the proposition are confident that the bank will be established within a few weeks. During the last ten days the undertaking has met with favor and subscriptions to the capital stock to within a few thousand dollars of the amount considered advisable to organize upon have been secured. The statement is made by one of the gentlemen interested in the new enterprise that the work of selling stock in the bank will be pushed vigorously for the next four or five days and that it is hoped to call a meeting of the stockholders during the latter part of next week and perfect the organization. If the bank is organized it will mean a new building on Main street for the home of the bank. Already several owners of vacant lots on Main street have proposed to put up a building for the bank, but this phase of the undertaking will not be considered until the organization is completed. Old Academy to Be Sold. More as a matter of sentiment perhaps than because of any material concern in the price at which the property will be sold, the passing of the old Fort Mill academy building from the hands of the graded school trustees to private parties is of interest to many of the town's citizens. For OC aL_ 1 bite iaav ou ^fiirs me acuuemy has been the home of the local public school and to many it is rich in memories of happy days spent within its walls. The building is advertised to be sold at public auction Saturday and the trustees are hopeful of receiving a fair price for it. Originally the building cost $4,500. It was built in 1875. The building is not, of course, as good as it once was, but it is yet substantial and could be used to advantage for many purposes. One of the evidences of deterioration in the building which those who bid upon it are apt to remark is a crack in the rear wall. This crack was made by the great earthquake of August 31, 1890, and is not due, as many suppose, to faulty workmanship. New Assistant Superintendent. Mr. J. P. McCraw is expected to arrive in Fort Mill today from Lexington to assume the duties of assistant superintendent of the Fort Mill Mfg. Co. and the Mimort mill. Kecently Mr. McCraw has been connected with the Saxe-Gotha mills in Lexington, but was formerly with the Walterboro mill, at the time the present superintendent of the Fort Mill mills, Mr. C. W. McNeely, was also with the Walterboro mill. Mr. McCraw and family will occupy the Barber cottage, near the graded school. Lotes Foot in Railroad Accident. A distressing accident occurred a few hundred yards from the Southern passenger depot in Rock Hill Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock which cost Henry Talley, fireman on train No. 113, running between Rock Hill and Marion, N. C., his left foot. Mr. Talley was at work on the engine, preparing to go out on his run, and was in the act of stepping from the engine to the ground when his foot slipped and was caught under the wheels of the tender, being so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. Mr. Talley is a young man, 24 vears old and hn? a >?<) two children. Five Supreme Court Justices. The proposed amendment to the State constitution, voted upon in the election two weeks ago, increasing the number of supreme court justices from four to five, apparently has been carried by a majority of about 2,000 in a total vote of less than 15,000. In York county the vote was 153 to 139 against the amendment NOW CLAIMS THAT WALL STREET HELPED HIS OPPONENT TO WIN Mr. S. S. McNinch, late Republican candidate for Congress in the Ninth North Carolina district, is not satisfied with the result of the election, in which his Democratic opponent, Mr. E. Y. Webb, was reelected by the greatest majority ever given a candidate in the district. Mr. McNinch admits that it was seemingly a Democratic year, but he does not think that sufficient reason for his crushing defeat. In Mr. McNinch's opinion Wall street spent a barrel of money in making certain his defeat. So Mr. McNinch is not satisfied. He will accept the Republican nomination for Congress two years hence if it is tendered him. In a recent newspaper interview Mr. McNinch has the following to say: "If put up again for Congress, I will certainly accept, so far as I know now, having the beliaf that the same amount of money will scarcely be put up next time as was done this time. Really my mail brings from my friends over the district an interesting study in finance. If Wall street did not put up a barrel in this supposedly doubtful district, then indeed my opponents were worse beaten than I was. The thing seems to have gone at a high figure." Rock Hill to Build New Plant. The Rock Hill city council has at last thrown down the gauntlet to the Rock Hill Water and Electric company, its president. Mr. A. P. Moloney, of Philadelphia, having refused to accept an offer of $100,000 for the local holdings of his company. This offer was about $8,000 in excess of the appraised valuation by an expert. Wednesday the city board bought a lot and ordered the board of public works to proceed to the erection of a water and light plant. The council also named a sewerage commission, by adding the names of Messrs. J. M. Cherry and Dr. W. G. Stevens to those of Messrs. J. B. Johnson, W. C. Whitner and J. J. Keller, the board of public works. Providence Claims the Honor. The Democrats of box 2, Providence township, just across the line in Mecklenburg county from Fort Mill, do not take kindly to the claim of a Nash county precinct of polling the largest strnicrht vmta ir> Carolina in the recent election. The voters in the Nash county precinct claim the honor over Providence precinct on the grounds that they had 103 registered voters, and out of that number 93 voted for a Democratic congressman, notwithstanding the fact that the Republican candidate from that district was a resident of Nash. On the other hand the voters of Providence precinct beg leave to remind the public that the Republican candidate for Congress in the Ninth district was a resident of Mecklenburg. Furthermore, they would like to know what became of the other ten registered voters in Nash. Providence cast 61 Democratic votes with none for the opposition, out of a total of 62 registered. Considers The Times a Good Paper. Some days ago Mr. John Porter T T ? I 1 ? ? - * 1 TT'll 1 i noms, 01 kock 11111, naaoccasion J to pay a visit to Governor-elect j Cole L. Blease in Newberry and as he entered Mr. Blease's office, the next governor of South Carolina was reading The Times. "I see you have the Fort Mill Times," remarked Mr. Hollis. "Yes," replied Mr. Blease, "and it is a good paper." Mr. Blease's name has been on the subscrip tion lists of The Times for several years and it is gratifying to the 11 publishers to know that he thinks j so well of the paper. j Dynamite Corn Crop Measured. J. H. Caldwell the Spartani eurg farmer who sprang into fame by dynamiting his corn land, raised on his prize acre of dynamited land 85.56 bushels of corn. SAYS HE IS GUILTY OF MURDER AND WOULD MAKE REPARATION Doc Lanier, a 45-year-old white man, who lived in Fort Mill for some time prior to the winter of 1909 and was employed as a laborer at a sawmill near town, has shown up in Winston-Salem, N, C., with a guilty conscience and a desire to make reparation to the State of South Carolina for a capital offense which he alleges to have committed in York county some years ago, but I for which he was acquitted by the courts. Last Thursday Lanier stated to a police officer in WinstonSalem that he had slain a man named Boland in York county and that, although he had been tried and acquitted of the crime, he wished to return to this county and make amends for the wrong he had done. Lanier was locked (up by the North Carolina authorities, pending instructions from the York authorities, al! though it is the opinion of the Winston-Salem police department that he is demented. Lanier is remembered by a number of Fort Mill citizens, both as a resident of this place and as defendant in the case in which he was charged with j the murder of Boland. It is recalled that while he lived in Fort Mill, I>anier had little to do with 1 j other people and that at times he acted peculiarly. He lived with his family on Ardrey hill and worked at the sawmill of W. B. i Hoke. Prior to leaving Fort Mill { Lanier fell in with a man named ! Davis, a North Carolinian, and ! the two are said to have gone to i Winston-Salem together. It is true that Lanier was tried | at Yorkville, about eight years ago, for the murder of John Boland and was acquitted, being 1 able to lay the crime at the door i t*I * wi uuicra. mere is no reparation he can now make to the Commonwealth for the crime, however guilty he may be. Presbyterian Churches Call Pastor. Ranks and Providence Presbyterion churches, the former in Union county and the latter in ' Mecklenburg county, were left without a pastor some time ago when Rev. I)r. H. M. Parker, who had served them for three years, accepted a call to James Island, near Charleston. A call has been extended to Rev. Mr. Carson of Georgia, who came and preached at Banks church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and at Providence at 3 o'clock in the afternoon with a view of accepting the call if he is pleased with the territory and the work. A Double Marriage. For several days prior to Tuesday morning business had been somewhat dull with Magistrate John W. McElhaney and he had begun to wonder if no more North Carolina couples were coming to Fort Mill to be married. The situation was none low promising ior tne town to maintain its reputation as the Gretna Green for Tarheels, but I one can never tell what an hour will bring forth, nor the mission 1 of those who do not announce their business through a megaI phone. Which is one way of saying ; that business brightened up for Magistrate McElhaney Tuesday morning after the arrival of train No. 35, which brought to town two Concord, N. C., couples who had heard of the best town in America to be married in and the most accommodating magistrate in the business. Hence, John W. Seehorn and Mrs. Mary L. Chambers are now husband and wife; ditto James A Chambers and Miss Mary Belle Hartsell. Supervisor Cordon Married. County Supervisor Clem F. Gordon was busy Friday and Saturday receiving the congratulations of his friends over his marriage Thursday afternoon to Miss Minnie Hair, an accomplished young lady of Blackville. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon reached Rock Hill a few hours after the marriage and are residing at Mr. Gordon's home in that city. GINNERY COTTON COMPRESS PROMISES MUCH FOR SOUTH ? : Perhaps the greatest recent advance in the cotton industry of the South is promised in the j Neely compress, an invention ! v% mull, il i? ciaimea, reauces tne t size of the cotton bale, thereby i eliminating the cost of transpor- i tation to the old-style compress, c operated only in the larger cities i of the cotton belt, besides im- j proving the quality of the bale. 1 The new compress is the inven- [ tion of a Chester man and it is ' now being exhibited at Union City, Ga. Under the old system the farmer's wagon load of cotton must be hauled to a ginnery, whence, . after it has been ginned and loosely packed, it must be shipped by rail to a steam compress, frequently over a long distance, to j be compressed again. Then it must take still another trip to port. But under the Neely system, the wagon load of cotton is , compressed at the ginnery itself. It comes forth ready for shipment to the remotest point in the world. This, it is estimated, means a saving of not less than $5 to the bale, for the cost of recompressing and rehandling is wiped out. while the cost of rail freight, marine freight, bagging, t tare and many other items is greatly reduced. In addition to this the new ginnery compress vastly improves the package in which cotton is shipped from the South. For. long years the American cotton bale has been a sore vexation to j the foreign markets. The new ginnery compress satisfies this very need. The bale it turns out is rectangular in form and measures eighteen by thirty by fifty inches. With J a density of thirty pounds per cubic foot, it is so compressed that the bale is freed from air, I thus becoming well-nigh im?MTiAnc? I '1 * 3 i'vi v iuuo iu nit; riiiu water ana proof against the wear of transportation. It can girdle the I globe and still be in prime condition. Such a system means money saved for the farmer, the i ginner, the carrier, the insurance j companies and for the spinner. Cotton Crop Almost Gathered. Farmers and others who are in position to estimate accurately the amount of the cotton crop which remains in the lields of ] York county unpicked say that it will not exceed 5 per cent. That the crop is so nearly gathered is gratifying to the farmers and business men generally and is due to the ideal weather conditions for cotton-picking since | the crop began to open about ten weeks ago. During the entire fall the cotton-pickers have been i unable to proceed with the work only two or three days. Under I the summerlike sunshine which prevailed up to a few weeks ago the cotton matured earlier than usual, notwithstanding the rainy , spring and summer, which de- : layed the planting and working of the crop. I Al\ 11- ?^* * mi vji wiiu.ii sptrns prune ior the farmers, for, with an abundance of help, they have been able to gather the crop in the best possible condition, free of the stains which invariably mean lower prices than for the unstained grades. Not the least gratifying feature of the York county cotton crop this year is that it will be several thousand ; bales in excess of last year's crop, which was considered a fair yield. Rev. Mr. Hales Transferred. j At the annual session of the Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist church, which closed in Winston Monday, ; among the presiding bishop's announcements of pastoral charo-es for the year 1911 was that trans! ferring the Rev. W. S. Hales from the Pineville church to Stanley Creek. Mr. Hales has been the pastor of the Pineville church for several years and not only his own congregation but the people of the village generally will regret to learn that he has been transferred. The Rev. I). S. Carver has been assigned to the charg* which Mr. Hales leaves and he is expected to arrive within a few days. Saved Her Own Life Lebanon Jet.., Ky.?Mrs. Min- ' lie Lamb, of this place, says, *'1 relieve I would have been dead ly now, had it not been for Cariui. I haven't had one of those lad spells since I began to use t four medicine." Cardui is a spe- c :ific medicine for the ills that vomen suffer. Cardui is made 1 from harmless vegetable ingre- 1 iients. It is a safe, reliable med- Q cine, successfully used by women for more than fifty years. Try I t today. For sale at all drug- \ jpsts. ( A vyi Ww/uiv^? c A very fine $450.00 Piano, Rood * as new, big bargain at $190.00. ( Also a $250.00 Piano Player and 1 150 rolls of music worth $100.00, , will sell all for $50.00. This is a bargain you cannot afford to < pass. Can be seen and heard at < Massey's store. All Millinery and Ladies' Suits go at wholesale cost after Thanksgiving day. Special bargains in Dress Goods, Rugs and Art Squares. New lot ' of famous llarrisburg Shoes and Now Home Sowing Machines just received. Drop-head, ball-bearing Sewing Machines, $17.50 to $35.00. You can't live long enough to wear out a New Home Sewing Machine. We have Needles and Shuttles for all makes of sewing machines. L. J. MASSEY. Here's Your Chance Wu have several thousand dollars worth of finished marble and granite monuments on our yard. This is more than we consider necessary to carry and we wish to reduce it by one-half between this time and the end of the year. In order to do this we are offering any headstone or monument now in stock at a lower price than other dealers have to pay for the same work. No use to pay $100 for a monument when you can buy the same thing from us at $75. The agent gets the difference. Come to our yard and keep the $25 in your pocket. YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS, .JOHN E. CARROLL, Pres. and Treat?. 1 School Buildi The trustees of tf School will sell at p highest bidder for c my building and 1< Saturday, Novemb the Savings Bank o R. F. GF Forward or Which Way A: I Are you savin# or are you ri enough money to accept some < tunities that are available, or i your friends? It's to your best interest to f ter. You surely cannot be#in t until you learn to save your n business enterprise on promise add a little to it every pay day I take advantage of some of th< self in your own estimation, ar I nition of influeiTtial business m | THE SAYINGS BANK W. B. Meac mncanMHBHBmmnra X JLtXV IJCiAit For Particular People, Our Vanilla and Len\on Exracts are from one to two years >ld. We know it, because we ige them right nere in our own louse especially for our own con;umption in making ice cream, ^ike some other good things, age mproves the flavor and strengthjns it. Buying in large bulk luantities we can sell a superior irticle at the price you usually ?et the ordinary and much of it considerably under the ordinary, ifou will probably find it to your idvantage to come to us for )ther flavors, also Chocolate, Zlocoa, Gelatine, etc. Ardrey's Drug Store. '-3 LINEBACK & ELAM (POPULAR JEWELERS) CHARLOTTE, N. C. West Trade St., Near Square. "The Little Store with the Big Stock." VVe are getting in tremendous stocks of the most select lines of Jewelry, Watches, Silverware, Cut Glass and Holiday Goods. Our stock has the variety that you want when you select a Wedding or Holiday Gift. Come to see us and we will always Rive you the best Roods for the least money. Trespass Notice. All oersons are hereby warned not to trespass on the lands of the undersigned. J. II. SUTTON. Fort Mill, Nov. 23. ing For Sale. ie Fort Mill Graded ublic auction to the ash the old AcadeDt at 1 1 o'clock on er 26. in front of I f Fort Mill. UER, Chairman. .a Backward? I re You Going? I inning behind? I)o you have of the many business oppordo you have to borrow from lit down and consider the mato make any financial progress noney. You can't start any s. Start an account with us, , and you will soon he able to I sse opportunities, raise yourld win the respect and recog- I len. $1.00 starts an account. OF FORT MILL, S. C. I ham, Cashier