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r * .. .' , .. ? ' I- ' y ' % ' \ The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19-lfO. 46. FORT MILL. S. C? THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1911 .. - " %S===S!S:==!=!!=:=========!===!5=!=,?!,?5"!!S=^^ _ $1.25 PER YEAR TILLMAN MAINTAINS HIS RIGHT # TO HOLD THE TRUSTEESHIPS Senator B. R. Tillman has^iven the press a statement in which he says that the word "office" where it occurs in the constitution of South Carolina does not embrace that of trustee of a college, and that therefore he is within both the letter and the spirit of the law in holding the office of senator while at the same time trustee of Winthrop and Clemson colleges. Senator Tillman says he assisted in framing the section of the constitution regarding the right to hold two offices at once and that the meaning of the term 4 'office'' was discussed at the time with the result that it was t r\ l\n r?nf 1 r*nA?v\r\nf lUlri f a Ur*l a! ncivi tu uc i iui 11 iK^vJiu j;anuit iw iiuiu office and be a college trustee at the same time. He insists that it would have been absurd for him to frame any part of the constitution which would legislate him out of the trusteeship of a college he loved so well and had done so much for. Fort Mill's Live Stock Market. The reputation of Fort Mill as one of the best horse and mule markets in this section has gone abroad and within the last few weeks a number of North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee dealers have made their headquarters in town and all have been pleased with the amount ol business done. While the great er number of sales of work animals for use in this community have been made by local dealers, it is a good advertisement for the town to have outside dealers come in and go away pleased with what they were able to do here. Today there are perhaps more first class mules and horses ir Fort Mill, town and township, than at any previous time. The farmer with poor stock is the ex ception rather than the rule. As an indication of the amount ol business done in Fort Mill by live . stock dealers since the first oi 1** last December, the statement is made by one whp is in position tc know that between $22,000 anc $25,000 has been invested ir young mules and horses. Dr. Spratt Quits Militia. Having tired of service in the State militia. Dr. J. L. Spratl some days ago forwarded to Col. W. W. Lewis, of the First regiment, his resignation as quartermaster and commissary of the second battalion, with the rank of lieutenant. Notice of the acceptance of the resignation was received by Dr. Spratt from the adjutant general's office Tuesday morning. The second battalion is composed of the Fort Mill, Yorkville, Spartanburg and Union companies and the vacancy will be filled by the appointment of a member of one of these comryo nine T t i'o on f Lnf I^aiucot a. l d<iiu Lllcit U1IC ui IWl members of the Fort Mill company would be pleased to succeed Dr. Spratt and that their applications will be submitted to Col. Lewis in a few days. New Home for Congressman Finley. Congressman D. E. Finley has awarded a contract for the erection of a handsome and commodious dwelling to be erected or his lot on Congress street ir Yorkville. The material is now being placed on the ground anc it is expected that the building will be completed and ready foi occupancy during the coming summer. The building now or the lot, which Mr. Finley anc his family have been occupying for a number of years, has long been a landmark. It was erectec in about 1810, and during the enit me interval, wiin ine excepuor of about 15 or 20 years, has beer occupied by lawyers. Convincing Argument. Yorkville Enquirer. We are inclined to think that a few thousand dollars might be invested in the court house to A advantage in the installation of a steam heating plant, and we think also that a fireproof vault might be installed in the office of the county treasurer to advantage. * * * At the same time it will have to be admitted that the present building is fully eaual to any present, practical need. 1 \" What Direct Election of Senators Means. i The injection of the race question into the debate in the United States senate on the adoption of the proposed ameudment to the Federal constitution for the popui lar election of senators has had ; the effect of making the passage of the amendment doubtful, but it is nevertheless interesting to note the advantages that wouid be gained by a change from the present mode of electing United States senators by the Legislatures of the various States to the plan of choosing them by direct vote of the people: It would make United States senators more responsive to the wishes of the people, whose States they represent, by placing them in closer touch with the people. It would prevent, to a large degree. the corruption of Legislatures, and particularly prevent [ their corruption in connection , with the election of senators, for I they would have nothing more to do with such matters. The corruption of Legislatures in the matter of electing senators now frequently is reflected in the 5 legislative action of the legislas tors in State matters, apart from ; the election of senators, and such ' corruption tends to the destruc tion of the rights and liberties ? of the people. Such agitation as - followed the election of Senator ! Wiiiiam Lorimer in Illinois, and c which is now before the senate, - would not be possible under a : plan of electing senators by dir rect vote of the people. It would prevent the improper ; use of money in the campaigns ; | before the electorate, by men i with ambition to obtain a seat , in the senate, frequently by men ;! without legislative experience, 11 and whose only recommendation , i is the size of the check they are ; able to draw. It would prevent disturbance 5 and turmoil in State Legislatures, f | It would compel candidates to ; subject themselves to the severe f scrutiny of a campaign before ; the people, whose suffrages they > might seek, and tend toward the 1 selection of men best fitted for \ the important office. It would prevent legislative deadlocks due to the contest among rival candidates, such as are witnessed almost every other ! year, when a senator is to be - chosen in some State. Winthrop Rejoices. The Winthrop college communi; ty is greatly pleased over the - success of Senator Stewart and > Representative Saye in getting ? a legislative anDronriation of ' $60,000 for the industrial, arts ; and science building to be erected . at the college within the next few months. "This building is I needed for the proper and adei quate accommodation of the de. partments of cooking, sewing, i elementary agriculture, physics, . chemistry, geology, biology, man1 ual training and such other practical subjects," says a Winthrop correspondent. An Aiken Girl's Achievement. Aiken county has been afforded > a great deal of advertising by Miss Katie Gunter, a modest - little girl of Samaria, who is the \ champion raiser of tomatoes in 1 the world. Miss Gunter raised, ' last year, and canned on one1 tenth of an acre of land 512 quart r cans of tomatoes, 10 quart jars r of pickles, 8 pint jars of pickles, r 6 pint jars of catsup. 8 pint jars i of tomato preserves and 5 quart I jars of peach preserves. At this f rate Miss Gunter was raising : 5,380 quart cans of tomatoes per I Qprp T l-i oca . mtoc kuniaiucs were packed much closer in cans than i the bought ones, and are cheap i at ten cents each, at which rate her tomatoes were worth $51.20, which is $512 per acre. "Unjast Discrimination." , Charlotte Observer. The Fort Mill Times wants to ? know why the train announcers at the Southern Railway station in Charlotte and Columbia persist in omitting the name of that community. We think this is an undoubted case of uniust dis; crimination and wish The Times t every success in its attempt to > bring the careless heralds to time. SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED BY APPROPRIATION BILL VETO | While it seems probable that the General Assembly will adjourn sine die Saturday, final ad-! journment depends to a considerable extent on what Governor Blease does with the appropriation bill and other important j matters, says the Columbia Record. If he should decide to veto j the appropriation bill, as it has been urged by several newspapers that he should do, or if he should veto certain other bills, i it would require a prolongation i i of the session. The governor 1 I i a. ^ uctn luc power 10 veto any Dill, but in the case of an appropriation bill he may veto any section or item which he does not approve and may approve the balance of the bill. He must return any bill that he vetoes to the house in which it originated within three days after its receipt, unless in the meantime the General Assembly has adjourned. It is customary for the General Assembly not to adjourn until a message has been received from the governor stating that he has signed the appropriation bill. "An Infair of 1776." Encouraged by the success of the ladies of the Methodist church who gave an entertainment in the auditorium of the graded school building some weeks ago from which they made a substantial sum of money, the Fort Mill Daughters of the American Revolution will give "An Infair of 1776" in the town hall on the evening of the 23rd instant. A small admission fee is to be charged and the proceeds of the entertainment will be divided between the graded school and the fund to erect the monument on the capitol grounds in Columbia to the State's partizan generals of the Revolution. The Daughters of South Carolina are making a supreme effort to collect their part of the money necessarv to erect the monument, a legislative appropriation for the purpose having been made several years ago conditional upon the Daughters contributing $5,500 to the monument fund. The Daughters already have a substantial sum in their treasury for the monu! ment fund, but work on the monument will not be begun until the entire $5,500 is in hand. The undertaking is a worthy one and it is hoped that the entertainment will be liberally patronized. Hawkers' and Peddlers' License. The State senate passed Monday night Senator Summers' bill amending the present laws so as to fix a license of $500 for "hawkers and ' peddlers" who take chattel mortgages to secure unpaid balance of purchase price. This bill is a compromise for a bill introduced by Mr. Mars some time since to prevent the foreclosure of a past due chattel mortgage between certain months C A 1 r*** - ? oi tne year, mat Dill was killed but its object, to provide a means of defense against "hawkersand peddlers" who made a practice of collecting their past due moitgages during the early months of the year, was recognized as a good one. and Senator Summers' bill was framed accordingly. Thirty Days for Selling Cocaine. Police Officer Potts did a clever piece of work Thursday afternoon in arresting Jess Brockman, a negro who said his home was in Charlotte, on the charge of selling cocaine in Fort Mill. The negro was given a hearing before Mayor Harris Friday afternoon and fined $60 or 30 days on the chaingang. He was taken to thechaingang Saturday morning. tsrockman came to Fort Mill early Thursday morning and the police officer decided he would bear watching. Later in the day he was seen in company with two negroes who are known to be cocaine fiends. These negroes admitted they had bought the drug from the Charlotte negro after Officer Potts discovered traces of it in their nostrils. When Brockman was arrested he had a bottle and two packages labeled cocaine in his pockets and this circumstance together with the testimony of the Fort Mill negroes was enough to convict. PLOT TO RUIN COTTON CROP WITH BOLL WEEVIL UNCOVERED An alleged conspiracy by crooked speculators to ruin the South's cotton crop by secretly distributing thousands of live boll weevils in the fields under cover of night was brought to light in Atlanta Saturday when Governor-elect Hoke Smith made public a letter of warning, sent him anonymously by a New Orleans business man. This man called at Mr. Smith's office Friday afternoon, made known his identity and 1 good faith, and corroborated all the statements in the letter. Two men approached him in New Orleans a short time ago, he declares, and solicited his help in a diabolical scheme to curtail this year's crop by inundating Georgia and South Carolina with the weevils, buying great quantities of October cotton now. and selling when the crop shortage sent prices higher, making a fortune for themselves, at the awful expense of devastating one of the richest agricultural sections of the Union, not only for one | year but for years to come. The author of the letter says he swore to the two men that he j would not disclose their names, and insists that his own be with| held from publication. He went from Birmingham to Atlanta Friday to assure Goverrtor-elect 1 Smith of his good faith. He convinced Mr. Smith that he was not a crank, and not a grafter, for he wanted nothing. He simply felt it his duty to make the matter public, just as Mr. Smith now feels it his duty to give the contents of the letter to all the farmers of the South, through the newspapers. Both he and Mr. Smith are inclined to believe i that the widespread publication ! and exposure of the scheme, putting the farmers on notice, and uiuusuiK iiicm lu proicci ineir ' fields, with armed force if necessary, will force the conspirators to abandon their plans. Court House in the Country. Mr. V. B. Blankenship returned to Fort Mill Sunday from a prospecting trip to Sanford, N. C., and the country roundabout, whither he had gone with a view of moving to that section and engaging in the lumber business. Sanford is almost in the central part of North Carolina and is a : progressive town of 2,500 people, to which it has grown from 900 five years ago. An odd and interesting thing noted by Mr. Blankenship on his trip through the country near Sanford is that, the court house of Lee county is in the country midway between Sanford and Jonesboro. Sanford and Jonesboro are rival towns, two miles apart. Both are in Lee county and when the formation of the county was under way a few years ago neither would give way to the other as the most suitable place for the county seat, so a compromise was effected by locating the court house m irl u'Oi' Kof -~ 4 * c Illurioj ucmccil tue luwns. 1V1 r. Blankenship is undecided whether he will move to San ford, but thinks that the town has a promising future. Campaign for Farmers' Union. Beginning Monday, February 27, a two weeks' campaign is to be made in York county in the interest of the Farmers' union by J. B. O'Neall Holloway, deputy organizer for the State. The purpose of the canvass is to revive and strengthen the local unions in the county and to organize new local unions, with a view to putting the union in a position to do more effective work in the future than it has been doing in the past. "Nice Looking People." Jesse J. Russell and Miss Nora Davenport, a North Carolina couple, drove through the country from Charlotte to Fort Mill Saturday afternoon and were married by Magistrate J. W. McElhaney. When asked by the magistrate to give their residence, Russell replied that it was Charlotte, but Magistrate McElhaney remarked to The Times that he did not believe their home was in Charlotte ? "they were nice looking people." The Fort Mill Business School. J A splendid opportunity will be offered the ambitious boys and girls of this section to gain a business education at home by ] the opening of the Fort Mill , Business school, on the evening of the 20th inst., with Prof. J. J. J Bailes as principal. The school j will occupy rooms in the Ardrey building, which have been nicely t fitted up for the purpose, and the c classes in double-entry bookkeep- 1 ing, business arithmetic, spell- i ing, ornamental and business t penmanship, etc., will be taught j from 8 to 10 o'clock on Monday, i Wednesday and Friday evening, t As soon as the machines can be ^ - secured it is the purpose of Prof. r r*- ? 11 1 canes 10 enroll classes in short- ; hand and typewriting. In this < work he probably will be assisted ( by M. S. Young, bookkeeper for \ | the E. VV. Kimbrell Co. Prof, j Bailes has had wide experience c as a teacher of modern business methods. He is a graduate of < the Eastman National Business i college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., j where he won first prize for ex- < pert penmanship over a large | number of competitors. Since j graduating at the Poughkeepsie l school Prof. Bailes has taught i successfully in one of the largest < business colleges in Pennsyl- j vania. The outlook for the Fort < Mill Business school is encourag- < ing, a score or more students < having already been enrolled. ?. 1 Ernest Whitesell Station Agent. ' Capt. T. B. Spratt has been * succeeded as Fort Mill station | agent of the Southern railway by . Ernest Whitesell, who has held j the position of assistant to the ^ agent for several months. Tues- j day morning Auditor Bethune Glass came from Columbia to j Fort Mill and spent the day | checking in Capt. Spratt and Wednesday morning Mr. Whitesell assumed the duties of station J agent. Mr. Whitesell has had considerable experience in rail| road work and his friends are ' confident he will fill the position i satisfactorily to both the company < and the local patrons of the road. I ' I I Keep You Open and Our advertiser! that you will know I what you want. N ing in almost every is to your interest tc anrl inoif no imu VIOil UO U1U II. goods that have arm 600 pairs of Oxfor< all the best leathers for men, women a shoes are strictly I 9 One lot ladies' Sf Underwear and G prices. 50 pieces ( bright spring patterr We re expecting this week of ladies' Goods, misses' anc DrpQCPC F mkfr?ir]pr I??A v-'vyv/v,/*-* y M 4 JL A A Ky A 1V4V/ X Come to see us often and 1 things for Spring. Mills & Y Fort Mill agents for * AMENDMENTS TO MILITARY CODE ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATURE Members of the South Carolina National Guard have watched vith considerable interest the progress before the General Assembly of the bill, recommended Dy the National Guard associa:ion, amending the military code )f the State in several important espects. Of particular interest s the amendment providing for .he bonding of the adjutant general in the sum of $1(),0CH) md that with reference to .he compensation of the militia ,vhen on duty aiding civil officers. The bill has passed both the house md senate and only lacks the signature of the governor to become law. The section of the jill relating to the pay of officers md men engaged in the service >f the State is as follow: "When the militia are ordered \1 if tr/\l?iw?f ? J ;ub, ?ji uavc vuiuiaCCICU 1UI UIIU Yvhile they are in active service, is heretofore specified, or are in :amps of instruction, they shall ae subject to the same ruies and irticles of war as troops of the United States, and during their :erm of service be entitled to the *ame pay, rations and allowances for clothing as are, or may be, established by law for the army )f the United States. When lalled upon as a military organisation to aid any civil officer in :he execution of the law or the preservation of the peace, each officer and enlisted man of the militia so engaged shall receive :he sum of $1.50 per day and actual expenses, to be paid by :he governor, through the commanding officer of the organiza:ion so ordered out. When the National Guard and the Naval Militia are on duty together at fhe same time, the commanding officer of the National Guard shall command the whole force." The next meeting of the County Teachers association will be held n Yorkville March 11. An inter?sting program has been arranged for the day 's exercises. ir Eyes 1 Read lents each week so just where to find ew goods are cornday. Therefore, it ) watch this space ] The new spring I ived this week are ds and Pumps in and newest shapes nd children. The 11 I styles, lirt Waists, Muslin iowns at popular jingham in pretty is at 1 Oc the yard. \ our hrst shipment Neckwear, White I children's spring y, Laces, etc. ceep in touch with the new oung Co. 'Star Brand" Shoes.