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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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