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'The Fort Mill Times.
VOLUME 19?NO. 43, ~~ 7ull . ~
FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 9fi ion ~~ ~~
1 11.3* PRR YT.AP
GOVERNOR ASKS LEGISLATURE
^ TO INVESTIGATE COMMISSION
Governor Blease sent to the
General Assembly Tuesday afternoon
a message which startled
the legislators with an urgent
demand for a thorough investigation
of the dispensary winding-up
commission. Numbers of
specific transactions supposed by
the governor to have been made
by the commission are mentioned,
with the insistent recommendation
that each be carefully looked
into.
As to the commissioners, he
asks, "How much per diem have
they received for their services
on the Sabbath day, particularly
the chairman, and did he work
any on that day?"
Another question he asks:
' LI n ft 4 Vt/i n f f r\*?m n? r i 1
JLiao inc atiuiiicj ^cuciai icceived
any money, and if so, by
whom paid and for what?"
Continuing, Governor Blease
asks: "Did Clarke rebate the
present commission?" Clarke
was the representative of a
Peoria, 111., concern that sold the
State dispensary whiskies and
admitted paying rebates to the
old directorate. "How much
more than $5,000 did Farnum
pay and where is it?" Farnum
was fined $5,000 in a criminal
prosecution for alleged grafting
k in State dispensary days. He
was known as the "Beer King"
R of Charleston.
Asking why certain members
^ of the old dispensary directorate
| have not been prosecuted, the
governor adds: "What was the
agreement had with ex-Governor
John Gary Evans and ex-State
Chairman H. H. Evans (the
famous "Hub" Evans) for information
given by them at a
conference held in Atlanta with
Attorney General Lyon and Attorney
Felder?"
As to Attorney Felder, who represented
the commission, Governor
Blease asks. "Why was
he not indicted when it was
known he represented a whiskey
house?"
Death of Mrs. S. L. Manson.
Five little children are left
motherless, a good wife is gone
.beyond recall and a Christian
woman has passed to her reward
as a result of the death Monday
afternoon at her home in Pineville,
N. C., of Mrs. Viola Manson,
wife of Mr. S. L. Manson.
Mrs. Manson's death occurred
after only a few days' illness.
She was 32 years of age and as
Miss Viola Walsh, of Chester
county, was married to Mr. Manson
about 12 years ago. Besides
her husband and little children,
the oldest of whom is 11 years,
Mrs. Manson is survived by two
sisters, Miss Bessie Walsh, of
Chester, and Mrs. Carrie Drennan,
of Richmond, Va. ' The
funeral services were held at
f n h Am t\ ir/iot Ai</lnir ?i
vuc; uuiiiu jcatciuajr niuiiiiu^ ni
11 o'clock and the burial was in
the Pineville cemetery.
Whiskey for Personal Use Not Illegal.
Holding that it is not unlawful
to have whiskey in possession for
personal use, even in the dry
I counties, the supreme court of
South Carolina Saturday reversed
the finding of the circuit court in
the case of Elias Bookard, convicted
in Spartanburg county for
alleged violation of the act of
1909.
A new trial is ordered. The
opinion is the first passed by the
supreme court, on the section of
the act of 1909, which prohibits
"keeping in possession" of alcoholic
liquors in dry counties.
Circuit judges have held that
the section applies to liquors for
personal use. The supreme court
reverses this, holding that if
lawfully received, the liquor may
be lawfully kept.
jEfcv 10 curtail Ejection Lxpenses.
Representative J. E. Beamguard,
of York county, hasintron
duced in the house of representaK.
tives a bill to have one set of
k commissioners and managers of
Hggj&election for State and Federal
HIMofTices. Mr. Beamguard says
|B|Bthat his bill will greatly simplify
HgVthe election machinery of the
gjjp State besides saving thousands
of dollars to the people in holding
the elections every other year.
Would Require Notice of Mills.
State Senator Macbeth Young,
of Union county, has introduced
a bill which is designed, as the
author says, to prevent the hardships
to which cotton mill employes
are not infrequently subjected
by the mills shutting down
without the employes being given
any intimation of the fact that
they would either be thrown out
of employment by remaining
where they were or would find it
necessary to go elsewhere to secure
work. Senator Young's bill
provides that all employers who
require a notice of the purpose
to quit their employ from
the operatives employed by them
give notice to their employes
of shutting down. The bill provides
that the employers must
post in every room of the mill or ;
hiiilHincr nof lo?c f-l-itin fin <1htc i
? ? v?vr unjo
before the date proposed to shut
down a notice to that effect.
Failure to comply with the terms
of the act would be punishable by
a fine not exceeding: $5,000 and
the company would be liable to
such damages as the employes
might suffer for the failure to
comply.
York Boys' Corn Club.
A meeting of the York County
Boys' Corn club was held at Winthrop
college Saturday. About
40 boys were present and quite a
number of the boys' fathers were
present. President Johnson welcomed
the club to the college.
Prof. Niven then discussed and
illustrated the best method of
seed corn testing. Several of
the foremost farmers of the
county gave the boys a few words
of advice and encouragement.
More than 100 ears of corn were
on exhibition by the boys, and
prizes were awarded for the first,
second and third best ten ears.
The boys decided that they would
become a real organization by
electing officers. This was deferred
until the next meeting,
which will be at Yorkville on
February 25. 1911. After the
i club adjourned Prof. Niven gave
a spraying demonstration on the
back campus and the boys and
men seemed to be especially
pleased with it.
Newnham Succeeds Lindsay.
At the annual meeting in Co!
lumbia Tuesday night of the
i National Guard Association of
' South Carolina, Governor Blease
j announced that he would appoint
. Col. Chas. Newnham. of Columl
bia, for disbursing officer of the
I National Guard of the State to
| succeed Col. John R. Lindsay, of
: Yorkville. Col. Newnham was
an unsuccessful candidate for
adjutant general in the Democratic
primary last summer.
Maj. W. B. Moore, of Yorkville,
was elected president of
the National Guard association.
The Farm of the Future.
Under the caption of "The
Passing of the Man With the
Hoe." Edward A. Rumeley discourses
in The World's Work
for January the wonderful
change in farm work which is
being affected with modern machinery.
He makes the statement
that to plow five square miles the
farmer walks the distance around
the world this Dloddinir toil to
be ended by machines that will
use the power stored in one acre
of potatoes?alcohol ? to plow 200
acres. He makes this prophesy
of the future of butter manufacturing:
and the work of the farm
household, which is, to say the
least, interesting to contemplate:
"The farmer's wife will need
but to turn a wheel, throw a
switch, twist a stop-cock and be
saved her hardest work. Butter
will again be made on the farm
and not in the factory. The
motor will run the cream separator
and churn and dispense with
the labor of the milk cellar and
its endless array of pans and
crocks to be washed. It will
give new speed to her sewing
machine. On Wednesday, 'sweepincdav.'
it will savp ViooiiK
and strength with a vacuum
cleaner. It will run her washing <
machine and mangle. Through ;
a dynamo, in the electric fan and ;
flat-iron, it will bring her blessed :
relief from the fiery heat of the
range on ironing day. It will be |
a ready helper in the kitchen. All j
this takes no account of the,
promise of new inventions."
JIM TILLMAN SAYS IT'S A LIE,
HE'S NOT POVERTY-STRICKEN
Relative to an Edgefield, S.
C., special to the New York Herald
concerning Col. James H.
Tillman, former lieutenant governor
of South Carolina, reproduced
in an Asheville paper, Col. i
Tillman has just given out a I
rather interesting statement. J
The special said he was there
dying in poverty, and in the :
course of his statement Tillman '
says:
"Larkspur Cottage, Jan. 20. |:
"In the Gazette-News of yes-1 <
terday afternoon appeared a dispatch
which compels my attention,
though long ago I made it a '
T* 1110 fn
uiv w igiiuic tuvcii newspaper 1
attacks. It would seem that de- i
cency would force an honorable '
man to refrain from such as- 1
saults at least until I have re- 1
covered my health and then as
in the past no quarter will be
asked and none shown. i
"Although the dispatch carried
an Edgefield date line it was i
never sent from that little city i
for no one there is low and mean 1
enough to have done it. 1
"It was conceived in Columbia i
and bears the familiar markings '*
of the human vulture that has 1
long befouled that place. I know j
it pains my friends to have it go i
out to the world that they shun l
me after having shown so much <
loyalty and devotion, but to char- <
acterize the author a liar would 1
be but to pay him a compliment. <
Among the hundreds of letters 1
received from them since my 1
stay in Asheville, none is more ?
gratifying than one from Gov- <
ernor Blease, which I trust he ?
will pardon me for quoting, in 1
which he says: 'Don't lose your
nerve. Be what you have always <
been, a brave man. Take cour- 1
age and win your fight. Get 1
well and come back home and be <
here with me in my fight to re- <
.deem South Carolina, * * * and <
let's put her back on her high
plane of citizenship.' He and 1
C i- '
uracil iui years nave neen spe- <
rial targets of the newspaper <
brigands in South Carolina. His *
recent victory, however, in my I
State shows what little influence <
that press enjoys at the present1?
time. *
"I occupy a desirable cottage 1
in Albemarle park and have an t
old family negro for a servant. 1
This statement that I am penni- 1
less is too ridiculous and absurd t
to deserve notice. >
"The Asheville climate has '
been of great benefit to me. I
am under the skillful treatment (
of physicians. Friends who are \
ignorant of the situation are as- i
sured that I am steadily improv- '
ing. The report that I am in a 1
dying condition 'is greatly exag- : 1
gerated,' as Mark Twain would 11
say, and what I would say is ; <
rather too warm for print. " ?
"James H. Tillman."
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f* vauii I VsliaiI?C5.
There's no telling what an hour
will bring forth. Persons who
sallied forth in the warm sunshine
Sunday afternoon at 4
o'clock thinking that the winter .
was over and that it was about
time to pack their heavy clothing
in moth balls or cedar shavings
and dig up the hot weather ones
had another think coming before
they got home. The weather
man said it was going to snow
or rain Sunday, but he missed it
a mile. Nobody saw a drop of
rain and one little boy whose
daddy had agreed to make him a
bob-sled the first time it snowed
lost the sight of his other eye
looking for even one flake of the
white stuff that means wet feet
and bigger wood bills. Things
did come the way of the weather
liar, however, when the cold j
UT3VO K1 f tVlCk tAiifn ? 1 1
> ? v K1V vuv tl/tY II. VYILI11I1 1IVC I *
minutes the temperature dropped r
15 degrees, which all agreed was I
dropping some. c
Commission Plan for Rock Hill. t
A meeting of the governing r
board of the Rock Hill chamber c
of commerce was held a few days j J
ago at which a resolution was a
adopted indorsing a commission v
form of government for Rock
Hill. The secretary was directed
to lay the matter before the t
York delegation and have it c
made possible, by legislation, for i
the people to vote on the question. \ 1
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NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY
OF THE DOINGS OF THE WEEK
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Corrospondenne Fort Mill Times. I ^
Columbia, Jan. 24.?The sec- t
ond proclamation of Governor | T
Blease, just issued, discharges j t
all dispensary constables and de- j j
tectives. This order takes effect s
immediately. It was anticipated v
by the Charleston constables, who v
resigned last week. It is not r
known in what manner the m
governor will handle the illicit a
liquor traffic, whether he will a
place it in the hands of the c
sheriffs and the police, or appoint 1
other contables. He has made ; r
no statement. I
Governor Blease's inaugural t
address has been severely criti- i v
cised locally by many for its t
savage attack on the nress and ! f
on those who differed from his , o
political views. A prominent \
man, in discussing the message, f
said: "I was in hopes that Mr.
Blease would rise above the man I r
and embrace his opportunity, but I o
he has made a false start. He 11
should not have exhibited his s
animus in his inaugural address; v
he is now governor of all the i ^
people?not some, but all. An a
inaugural address should be, c
above all things, decorous, not a J
mud-slinging tirade of the hust- ! r
lings. It should be a document j e
in which the incoming governor v
gives his views on the theories
af government and in which he
outlines the policies of his administration.
While some parts
af the address were good, others *
were inexpressibly bad. Still I v,
hope that the governor will rise
above what seem to be his preju- ^
iices and become in fact, as well ?
as in name, the governor of all
Lhe people." *
Senator Carlisle's marriage li- *
:ense bill passed the senate ^
Friday night after strenuous de- y
pate. Senator Stewart, of York i
:ounty, was one of the principal ;
champions of the bill. It was ! a.
ardered sent to the house.
There is a great fight being I n
put up by the Columbia chamber i f
af commerce and Columbia mer- *
ihants to have the national corn *
show come to Columbia next v
/ear. The show is to he held in "
Columbus, Ohio, this year, from
January 3 to February 12. A
strong delegation will go to Coumbus
to press Columbia's claim
:o the corn show. They will
>robably take Jerry Moore, the
champion boy corn grower, with
.hem. President Finley, of the
Southern railway, has indorsed i
Columbia for this show.
If this show could be brought to
Columbia it would mean much for
South Carolina and for the South;
t would concentrate the atten- j
:ion of the nation on South Caroina,
and bring many Western
farmers here. It could not but
redound to the agricultural and
commercial benefit of the State
md of the South.
Last year at the national corn
show there were 22,000 prizes
?iven, valued at $50,000. Over
100,000 people attended the show.
W. J. C.
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Mr Beamguard's Bill Killed.
There was considerable debate j
n the house of representatives 1
Wednesday over Mr. Beamguard's
bill to provide for the
egistry of chattel mortgages of
:rops, and to fix the fee, rex)rted
unfavorably by a majority
)f the judiciary committee. The
V"* i^l* 1 - ? ?
iigoout c wiiu in i fMUi r i lit" Illlllg
?ee to 15c and make it a sufficient
ecord for such documents, with>ut
reference to the amount, to
rnter upon an index kept for
hat purpose, the "names of
nortgagor and mortgagee, the
tmount and character of the debt
;ecured" and a brief description
>f the chattel pledged. Several
nembers attacked the bill, sayng
the record proposed would
lot give sufficient protection. Mr.
dcDow thought the bill a good
me. He said it would save the
armers perhaps as much as
>50,000 a year. He did not
hink any great inroads would be
nade by the bill upon the income
>f the 43 county clerks of court.
Vn aye and nay vote was taken,
ind by a vote of 68 to 46 the bill
vas carried over.
A negro tramp was killed and
wo trainmen were injured in a
rash of freight trains at Killans
Monday night. The road was
docked several hours. |
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Boys Urged to Join Corn Clnb.
In a letter to The Times, Prof.
_j? A. Niven. of Winthrop college,
vho is in charge of the organizaion
of the boys' corn club of
fork county, extends an in vitaion
to the boys of Fort Mill to
oin the club. "Last year." ,
ays Prof. Niven, "Fort Mill
vas not represented at all, but
ve are anxious for it to be well
epresented this year. There ,
vill be about $300 in prizes given,
nd any boy under 20 years of
ige who can grow an acre of
orn may contest for the prizes.
I'he prizes are both money and
nerchandise and they are given
>y the business men of the couny.
The Fort Mill business men j
vill be called on to contribute to
his fund. One of the Fort Mill
>oys, of whom there were three
r four at the club meeting at
Vinthrop Saturday, won a prize
or the best ten ears exhibited.
"Any boy who sends in his (
lame on or before the first day
>f March will be eligible to conest
for the prizes." In concluion
Prof. Niven urges the boys
vho enter the contest to be in
forkville at 11 o'clock on Februry
25, when the details of the
ontest will be announced. The
Times has been designated to reeceive
and forward to Prof. Nivn
the names of the boys who
rish to contest for the prizes.
Deaths in the Williamson Family.
Death has cut a wide swath in
he family of the late Mr. Lundus '
Villiamson, of Pineville, N. C.,
luring the last two years. Mr. ]
Villiamson himself was the first
f the family of six to die, in '
)ctober, 1909. In the spring of '
910 the second member of the
amily to pass away was a son of ,
Ir. Williamson, Grier, whose '
eath occurred about six months '
efore that of his mother, Mrs.
ulia Williamson. Last week j
nother son, Walker Williamson,
ied at his home, a few miles 1
orth of Charlotte. The two
erviving members of the family
re Mrs. E. H. Hand and Miss j
'i,,.-., w:ii: i -i ~
.ma t?uiiaiiison, ootn 01 l'ine- t
ille. i
THE F
Regarding the I
The "Pure Shoe Law" w
erts, Johnson & Rand Shoe
"Star Brand" Shoes. All
secure was brought to bear
to get it passed in the Stat*
sent samples of pure leathe
substitutes for leather shoei
turers, to the State Legislat
for examination.
After these efforts the R.
ceeded in convincing the
needed a "Pure Shoe Law,'
the house. The fact that it
k: i --i-** ?' n
buuiutiicu political inriuen
who use substitutes for lea
of shoes.
But the Roberts, Johns
given up the fight for the 4
have sent copies of the
of other States and have th
introduced.
Hon. Champ Clark, of M
the manufacturers of "Star
to introduce the "Pure Sh<
Congress.
"Star Brand She
Mills & Yc
Fort Mill agents for "
PROGRESSIVES PLAN TICKET
FOR CAMPAIGN NEXT YEAR
A new organization, the Progressive
Federation, has been
formed and a movement launched
by it to fight for popular control
of the State and national conventions
of the Democrats and
Republicans next year, the object
being to elect a progressive president.
Backers of the federation
are publicists and editors of progressive
magazines. Their plan
is to ask for pledges from the
voters that they will attend all
primary elections within their
parties and vote only for delegates
who stand committed to
support the popular candidates
for president.
President Taft has been informed
that there will be a third
ticket in the field in the event of
the nomination of Mr. Taft by
the Republicans in 1912 and of
Governor Harmon, of Ohio, by
the Democrats. The third ticket
will probably be headed by Senator
LaFollette, of Wisconsin, and
will appeal to the radical element
in both parties.
Credence is given to this report
at the White House. All
the actions of Mr. LaFollette for
the last two years have indicated
that the presidential bee has been
within stinging distance of his
head. He has maintained himself
as the champion of radical
legislation, has kept aloof from
Mr. Taft and has rejected all the
overtures made to bring him
within the regular fold.
LaFollette expects the votes of
the Roosevelt enthusiasts and of
a good proportion of the Republican
insurgents, and also of
many Democrats. He takes the
view that Mr. Taft will not be
acceptable to Republicans with
advanced views on public questions.
Also he believes that
Judge Harmon can be successfully
attacked as the friend of corporations.
Prof. L. A. Robinson is to be
succeeded as head of the Win:hrop
training school by Dr. J. W.
Fertig, of Summerville.
ACTS I
'ure Shoe Bill. |
as prepared by the Rob- I
Co., makers of the famous
the influence they could
on the bill in their desire
e of Missouri. The firm I
r "Star Brand" Shoes, and
j made by other manufacure
at Jefferson City, Mo.,
,, J. & R. Co. finally suesenate
that this country
but the bill was killed in
was lost was due to the
ce of the manufacturers
ither in the manufacture
w* a>uo liui
'Pure Shoe Law." They
law to the Legislatures
eir promise that it will be
issouri, has, according to
Brand" Shoes, promised
>e Law" in the National
>es Are Better."
oung Co.
Star Brand" Shoes.