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The Fort Mill Times.
VOLUME 19- NO. 44. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1911. $1.25 PER YEAR
AT LAST LEGISLATURE ENACTS
LAW FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE
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Substituting lor the Nicholson
house bill the similar measure
already passed by the senate, the
house of representatives passed
Tuesday a marriage license law,
with strict penalties, effective
July 1 next. There was a long
debate. For 25 years the elfort
has been made each year to pass
such a bill. At first majorities
against it were overwhelming,
but sentiment has gradually
grown in its favor. Governor
Blease advocated such a law on
l the stump and presumably will
' approve the act.
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t refused to strike out the enactI
ing words. The senate hill was
| substituted for the Nicholson hill.
m the measures being identical, and
r various amendments were sent
f to the desk. By a vote of 64 to
8 the house rejected a motion to
continue the bill until next sesIsion.
The license fee is lixed at
$1. In some of the counties
the licenses will be issued by the
clerk of the court. In others the
probate judge will issue them.
York County Teachers Organize.
An enthusiastic meeting of more
than 80 York county public school
teachers was held at Winthrop
college Saturday at which the
York County Teachers' association
was formed. The exercises
of the day were presided over by
President D. B. Johnson and after
an address of welcome the following
subjects were discussed:
"The Teaching of Primary
Reading." Miss Sara Withers:
"School Hygiene and Sanitation."
Dr. Lois Boyd: "Phonics
for Beginners," Miss Leila Cobb;
"Work of D. B. .Johnson Rural
School Improvement Association,"
Miss .Johnnie May Lynch;
"School Gardens." L. A. Niven;
"The Daily Programme," Miss
Leila Russell.
The following officers were
elected: President, .J. C. Cork,
j? Rock Hill; secretary and treas
urer, Harvey Witherspoon, Yorkville;
committee on constitution,
Mr. Cork, Mr. Witherspoon, Mr.
Crum, Miss Russell, Miss Bbbitt;
executive committee. Miss Russell,
Rock Hill; Mr. Crum, Fort
Mill; Mr. Spann, Clover.
No More Negro Notaries.
It is stated that Governor Blease
issued his proclamation revoking
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v*iv vv/iiMiiiooiuuo ui tin nuiancs
public in South Carolina for the
purpose of eliminating the negro.
After February 10 he will refuse
to issue a commission to a negro
as a notary public.
Hundreds of applications are
being received for a commission
as notary public. The most important
requirement is that the
applicant must prove beyond a
doubt that he is a white man and
of good standing.
It is expected that at least
5,000 notaries public will be commissioned
in South Carolina within
a few weeks.
Will Move to Fort M:!!.
Both the citizenship and the
business community of Fort Mill
are to receive a desirable acquisition
within a few days by the
removal to town of Mr. C. M.
Fite, of Charlotte. Mr. Fite has
been the principal owner of the
C. M. Fite company in Fort Mill
since the business was established
about a year ago, but has
continued to live in Charlotte to
trive his attention n nrAoiin^f.iin
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mercantile business he conducts
on east Seventh street. Within
the last few days Mr. Fite has
arranged to dispose of his Charlotte
business, however, and it is
now his intention to move to
Fort Mill to devote his entire
time to the store here. Mr.
Craig Fite will continue in the
employ of the C. M. Fite company.
Rock Hill Buys Water Plant.
Tuesday the board of commissioners
of public works of
Rock Hill closed negotiations with
Martin Maloney, of Philadelphia,
whereby, for the sum of $100,000,
the city of Rock Hill acquires all
of Mr. Maloney's interest in the
property of the Rock Hill Water
and Electric company.
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TWO ATTEMPTS TO ENTER ROOM
OF FORT MILL TOWNSHIP WOMAN
W. F. Cranford, a farmer who
lives four miles north of Fort
Mill, was in town Monday morn- ;
ing and reported that, for the
| second time within little more
; than a month, some one tried to
I enter the room in which his
18 year-old daughter was sleep-!
ing Sunday night at 11 o'clock. <
Mr. Cranford heard the noise1
! made by the prowler trying to!
open the blinds to his daughter's
room and arose as quickly as,
linc^i'iln Mn<l co/niwn/l V?Jo ..Ir.4-^1
UIUI ovvuivu IIIO |JiDlUl.
He hurried into the room and'
shot through the window, but'
his aim was poor, as there were
no evidences of the shot taking
effect in the human target for
which it was intended.
On the night of December 2G, I
i last, the first effort to enter the j
i young woman's room was made, ;
but the miscreant was frightened i
away by a noise before anything j
I could be done to apprehend him. |
There is no clue to the identity
of the guilty party. It is not
! known whether he is a white
| man or a negro.
"Inexperienced Principals."
In his annual report State High
School Inspector Hand has the
j following to say of the practice
of putting inexperienced princi;
pals in charge of schools employI
ing a number of teachers:
"Some successful experience is
| demanded in undertaking the
management of everything?but
I a school. To put a wholly inexperienced
teacher at the head of
a school is hazardous and may
i be ruinous. To put a principal!
without a day's experience in a
school room in charge of from
three to ten assistants, as is fre-1
quently done, is to invite disaster 1
to Doth the school and the princi-'
pal. This raw recruit is often i
put in charge of the work of
assistants who know more of;
teaching and school management
t than this novice will know when
he is ready to leave the school
room for some other vocation. |
The inconsistency of the thing !
becomes the more glaring when !
he is paid twice the salary'
of his most experienced and
successful assistant. Here are
i two instances for illustration: A :
school board put at the head of
its school with ten teachers and I
850 pupils, a young man who had
i been graduated from college in
June prior to taking charge of
, the school in September. Another
board put a June graduate in
charge of 5 teachers and 175
pupils. Two of his assistants
had had more than ten years'
experience.
"Some of the blame for this
playing with fate rests upon
over-zealous and indiscreet college
presidents and professors
who recklessly recommend their
raw graduates for these positions.
Some of their letters of recom- i
mendation have fallen into my
hands, and it is hard to understand
how men, with a proper
sense of their responsibility, can
give such endorsements to wholly
untried men for positions so
responsible. In bold contrast
stand other college professors
who absolutely refuse to recom-1
mend any inexperienced young
graduate to any but subordinate
positions. May their tribe increase.
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Telephone Under Your Hat.
The "telephone trust" will
shortly be throwing fits of alarm
if the wireless telephone of two
Oregon men is successful commercially.
They claim to have
the most remarkable wireless
telephone in the world.
Already tests have been made
which seem to prove that a telephone
message can be sent 40
miles without wires, that messages
can be distributed from an
automobile in the heart of a city
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aim mat me outnt can be made
so compact that it can be carried
under a derby hat.
Their latest step has been perfecting
a wireless telephone outfit
compact enough to be carried
in a common derby hat. It consists
of a common tipped walking
stick for the ground connection
and instruments that enable the
operator to talk in the field to
distant points. !
DOES BLEASE INTEND TO OUST
COMMISSIONER E. J. WATSON?
Indications seem to point to
the probability of a change in
the office <>f commissioner of
agriculture. As was forecast in
The Times a few days after Governor
Blease received the Democratic
nomination last September,
there need be no surprise if
Commissioner E. .1. Watson's
resignation is asked for by the
State's new chief executive.
The Times knew from remarks
made by Governor Blease during
the campaign last summer that
the work of the department was
not satisfactory to him. The
governor thinks that too little
has been accomplished by the
V4V"|icii LIIIVI1L 1UI LIIC cMUUUIll UI
money it has expended. He is
also of the opinion that the most J
effective work can be done by a
commissioner who is less a
whooper-up and shouter for himself
and devotes more time to
advertising the Commonwealth
along lines that cannot be characterized
as hot air.
Governor Blease has not stated
positively that he intends to ask
for the resignation of Mr. Watson.
but if straws show which
way the wind blows it is the pur-1
pose of the governor to do so.
Some days ago Mr. John G.
Richards, Jr., railroad commissioner.
called at the governor's
office to pay his respects, and j
while there the governor is!
quoted as saying he was sorry
Mr. Richards had accepted ai
place on the railroad commission,
as the governor had a better job |
for him. Upon inquiry, Mr.
Richards learned that it was the !
intention of the governor to'
appoint him commissioner of agriculture.
Mr. Watson was appointed
commissioner by Gover-1
nor Heyward when the department
was created several years
ago. He was reappointed by
Governor Ansel two years ago
and his term of office expires
in 1912.
Miss Lona Tillman to Marrv.
Saturday Senator and Mrs.
Tillman announced the engrave-!
ment of their daughter, Miss
Lona. to Charles Summer Moore, ;
of Atlantic City. The wedding
will take place in April, at Trenton.
Senator Tillman's South
Carolina home.
Miss Tillman is the eldest
daughter of Senator and Mrs.
Tillman. Mr. Moore is the son ,
of Mrs. Hannah Moore, of Mays
Landing, N. J. He is a wellknown
young lawyer and is
prominently connected throughout
that State, being a nephew
of Judge Joseph Thompson and
a cousin of Judge Allen B. Endicott,
of Atlantic City, and Rear
Admiral M. T. Endicott, United
States navy, retired, of Washington.
''Ovcr-snperviied Schools."
Commenting on over-supervised
schools, Prof. W. H. Hand, State
high school inspector, says in his i
annual report:
"A few schools are over-supervised.
By this is meant that the !
best paid teacher in the school i
spends more time than is necessary
in supervising his underpaid
assistants, instead of giving an
inspiration to them by doing
more superior teaching himself.
An overworked woman trying to
manage and to teach forty restless
boys and girls, is in danger
of losing her poise when she
remembers that every minute of
the day has its assignment in her
schedule, and that she gets $40
a month, while the principal
teaches about one-half his time
at a salary of $100 a month i
These over-supervised schools are
usually found in the smaller
towns employing from five to ten
teachers. Here are a few rather
extreme cases: In one school
there are 6 teachers. 9 grades,
and about 190 pupils. The principal
in this school is paid more
than twice as much as any one i
of his assistants, but has no
regular schedule of classes, although
he does some teaching
every day. In another school
there are 7 teachers, 10 grades
and approximately 200 pupils;
the principal teaches less than
one-half his time. Others might
be cited."
FOR FORMER PINEVILLE WOMAN
DIVORCE AND ALIMONY GRANTED
Practically the entire town of
Pineville, N. C.. was excited with
curiosity last week over the progress
of the suit of Mrs. Neola
Taylor for a divorce and alimonv
from her husband. Guy Taylor.
The case consumed several days
in the superior court for Mecklenburg
county and early Saturday
morning tne jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff. A former
hearing of the case resulted in a
mistrial. The plaintiff and defendant
are well known in the
Pineville community, where both
were living when they were married
in Charlotte in August. 190(>.
Young Taylor is still a resident
of Pineville, but Mrs. Taylor,
who was Miss Neola drier, has
made her home with her parents
in Charlotte for several years.
They have one child, a boy 4 years
old.
The couple have never lived
together. Taylor claiming that he
was forced to marry Mrs. Taylor
by her father, Lewis drier, and
brothers. He also claimed that
one of Mrs. Taylor's brothers
personated him to secure the
marriage license. Taylor slipped I
away from his wife within a few
hours after the ceremony and returned
to his home in Pineville,
where he has since lived, working
a part of the time at the Chad- j
wick-Hoskins mill.
The judge before whom the
case was tried has not yet fixed
the amount of alimony, but is
expected to do so during the i
week.
The first issue submitted to the ;
jury was, "Were the plaintiff and j
the defendant married as alleged
in the complaint?" The answer
was, "Yes."
The second: ' 'Was the defendant
forced to enter into the marriage
by force and duress as
alleged in the defendant's ans"W?
"
The third issue was: "Did the
defendant abandon the plaintiff
as alleged in the complaint?"
The fact that he had left her was
not denied by the defendant, so
the jury answered this, "Yes."
The Weather for January.
The daily mean temperature j
for January was above the 32-year
average on two-thirds of the
days, the excess in temperature
reaching as high as 20 degrees a
number of times. The accumulated
excess for the month
reached about 150 degrees or
nearly 5 degrees a day; in fact,
there has been but little cold
weather since Christmas, al- j
though December up to that time
was the coldest on record at the
Charlotte office of the weather
bureau. There were 18 cloudy
days, with numerous fogs; and j
but 7 clear days. And yet the ;
total rainfall for the month was
slightly less than two inches
against a normal for the month
of four and twenty-nine hundredths
inches, giving a deficiency
of nearly two and a half inches.
The Spread of Pellagra.
"Statistics that are available
indicate that the disease is still
increasing in the number of eases
and in the territory involved."
In this way Surgeon General
Walter Wyman, of the public
health and marine hospital service,
discusses pellagra in a report
just submitted to Congress.
In this report he also says:
"Statistics that are available
indidate that the disease is
steadily increasing in the number
of cases and in the territory
involved. It has been reported
from at least 30 States and the
District of Columbia, and practically
it may be said to exist
over the entire country. Less
than three years ago there were
only a few cases reported from
two or three insane asylums, and
although the total number of
cases at the present time is unL'
nAllfn it" 1C LM/vnifirtr?rxf < L?
mvnii r 10 oi^iniiLaiii iiictk Lilt:
health officer of a Southern State
has recently estimated that his
State alone carried 50,(MM) cases.
One officer in the hygienic laboratory.
who has been designated to
study the disease, reports that it
is undoubtedly increasing.
"The nature of pellagra, both
as to its cause and transmission,
is obscure."
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FORT MILL CITIZENS PETITION I
FOR CHANGE IN SCHOOL LAW
Within the last month a considerable
number of patrons of the ,
Fort Mill graded school and other (
citizens of the community have (
signed a petition to the General
Assembly requesting that the act
creating in York county special (
school district No. 2X, the Fort :
Mill district, be so amended as to i
provide for the election of the
trustees by popular vote. Under 1
the present law, the board of :
trustees till all vacancies on the i
board. 1
The petition requesting the
change was forwarded to Senator
VV. H. Stewart a few days ago
and he has introduced in the
senate the following bill: "A hill
to amend section 2 of an act entitled
'an act to establish a special
school district in York county to
be known as "the Fort Mill school >
district" and to authorize the
levy and collection of a local tax
therein,' approved December 23,
1899, by providing for the election
of the board of trustees."
Long Staple in Anderson.
S. A. Burns, a prominent Anderson
county farmer, has sold
seven bales of long-staple cotton,
grown on his farm in Rock Mills (
township, to Lewis W. Parker of
Greenville for 18 cents per pound, i
The bales averaged 500 pounds ,
each. Mr. Burns says that the i
long-staple cotton grows just as
well as the ordinary cotton, mak- (
ing the same yield to the acre. ,
and with no more fertilizer and <
cultivation than is needed for the ]
short-staple. He expects to plant .
his whole crop this year in longstaple.
This particular cotton is
known as "Burns' long-staple,"
and it has been grown with success
at Clemson college for two i
years or more. Mr. Burns three '
years ago noticed a stalk of cotton
in his held that was larger
than the rest, and with a finer <
grade of lint He preserved the :
seed, and from this has been
developed the long-staple cotton, i
in which he intends to plant his
whole crop this year.
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 leathc
substitutes for leather shoe
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 i
combined political influer
who use substitutes for le<
of shoes.
But the Roberts, Johns
given up the fight for the
have sent copies of the
of other States and have th
introduced.
Hon. Champ Clark, of IV
the manufacturers of "Stai
to introduce the "Pure Sh
Congress.
"Star Brand She
| Mills & Y
Fort Mill agents for *
MESSAGE HOLDS THAT COURT
IS NOT ADHERING TO THE LAW
Charging that the supreme
court itself is careless of obedience
to the constitution, and declaring
that many members of
the General Assembly violate the
constitution by holding their
seats and at the same time serving
as trustees of State institutions,
Governor Blease sent to
the General Assembly Saturday
afternoon a special message suggesting
appointment of a joint
committee to ascertain what persons,
in the Legislature or holding
other official positions, are
trustees of State institutions.
Owing to the fact that few
trustees trouble to take out commissions
as such, the records in
the office of the secretary of
state do not show just who are
trustees of State institutions and
so are of little help in determin
ing just what persons are referred
to by the governor. The
records do show, however, that
State Land Agent D. W. McLaurin
is also a trustee of Winthrop
college. Judge Robert Aidrich,
commissioned in HR)6 as a
trustee of Clemson. is still carried
on these records as a trustee,
but in fact he was succeeded
on the Clemson board by Mr,
Rawl of Batesburg. Railroad
Commissioner John G. Richards.
Jr.. is also a trustee of Clemson,
though not so commissioned.
Another Clemson trustee not
commissioned is Senator Alan
Johnstone of Newberry. Still
another member of the Clemson
board who is without a commission
is Senator B. R. Tillman.
Chief Harris on Hand.
Dave Harris, chief of the Catawba
Indians, is in Columbia
to look after legislation for his
people. There is a proposition
before the General Assembly
calling for an appropriation of
$60,000, to be used in providing
for the tribe, which numbers
about 100. The appropriation
would provide permanently for
the tribe.
:ACTS
Pure Shoe Bill.
as prepared by the Rob;
Co., makers of the famous
the influence they could
on the bill in their desire
e of Missouri. The firm
;r "Star Brand" Shoes, and
s made by other manufac;ure
at Jefferson City, Mo.,
J. & R. Co. finally sucsenate
that this country
but the bill was killed in
t was lost was due to the
ice of the manufacturers
either in the manufacture
ion & Rand Co. has not
"Pure Shoe Law." They
law to the Legislatures
leir promise that it will be
lissouri, has, according to
Brand" Shoes, promised
oe Law" in the National
>es Are Better."
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'Star Brand" Shoes.