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The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19 ? NO. 47. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1911. $1.25 PER YEAR GOVERNOR'S VETO SAVES STATE MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS s Governor Blease has reduced * the expense of the State govern- a ment for the current year ap- [ proximately $70,000 by vetoing certain sections of the appropria- t tion bill of the General Assembly. | v Items in the appropriation bill j t amounting to about $20,000 which 1 ? were vetoed by the governor re- 1 main in the bill, the General As- s sembly having refused to sustain ' the veto. Governor Blease's rea- c sons for vetoing certain sections I of the bill are in part as follows: ? "I do not veto the entire act. 0 but in obedience to pledges made s to the people of South Carolina in r my campaign for the office of r governor, and doing what I believp tn ho ritrhf and for the best. L interests of all the people. I feel r to redeem those pledges and to s do my full duty that I must exercise the right given me under the s constitution. I do not disapprove ? all of the items of said bill, but y mention specifically those which ^ I do disapprove. "South Carolina pays upwards b of $20,000 each year interest for P borrowing money to pay appro-: ji priations which are made in ex- ? cess of the amount which is e collected from her levy. If you t are going to make the appropriations, you should make the levy t sufficient to meet them. b "Furthermore, South Carolina b has to borrow from New York a each year one-third of the money t that is appropriated to run her t government. Now. gentlemen, b behold our condition in debt, s heavily already, borrowing and t paying large interest still mak- a ing appropriations to do what we r are not compelled to do. and bor- c rowing money and paying inter- > est to meet the deficiency. This i s would be disastrous immediately * to private industries and must be 1 sooner or later to our grand old 1 Palmetto State. Suppose, gen- I tlemen, that we were to strike a 1 panic like we had in 1907 and could not borrow this money, , t L. what a pitiful condition our proud I W mother would be in unable to j' meet her obligations and unable 1 1 to borrow sufficient to meet them. < Humiliation would follow and dis- i 1 aster would be the result. You j may say that the panic is not ' coming. None of us thought so in 1907. The gambling and speculation which is now going on in this country, with a few men controlling the entire money in- |' terests, may throw it upon us at j any moment. The wise man guards against such contingen-1 ( cies. Shall we be wise, or shall1 we be like the foolish virgins, with our lamps not trimmed and burning? "See the amount of appropriations for 1911; compare with that the fact that your revenue for this year from indirect sources (estimated by your comptroller, who should know from Ids long experience in that olhce) is$212,700. Your taxes, at a levy of 5 3-4 mills on $297,755,000 (ac- ' cording to the estimate by the same party) will bring in $1,573,621. making you a grand total of $1,816,321. Now, gentlemen, look on the other side of the balance sheet and see what amounts this bill appropriates. Where is the money? How can we pay it? The people of South Carolina said to me: "Check it.' The people of South Carolina are saying to you: 'Relieve us from our burden; the yoke is heavier than we can bear.' "Gentlemen, you have seen fit not to do it. L do not criticise i you. You are a separate and distinct department of this gov-1 ernment. but I said on every 1 stump in this State that what was i needed in the executive office was a man who had the political cour-, age and the backbone to veto these appropriations when they j were extravagant, and that if I was elected I would do it. The , majority of the people of South Carolina believed me and I must be true to my trust, let the con sequences be what they may. The responsibility will not rest on me, ^ but those who have brought about the conditions which I attempt to avoid. When all of us again appear before the sovereign people, they must pass judgment, and to their judgment I will humbly and peacefully bow, as I have done in the past whether it 'be in defeat or in success." Early Gardening. As the time to begin planting: pring gardens is at hand, the tulletin of Clemson college this veek containing "suggestions to imateur gardeners" is of timely nterest: Frost-proof cabbage or caulilower plants may be planted now vithout danger of being injured >y cold. The plants should be et in rows 3 feet apart and 24 nches apart in the row and in- i erted in the ground up to the irsi leai. leaving me enure stem overed with soil. The frostnoof plants or plants that have [rown in the open ground can be i ibtained from growers in the outhern part of the State who nakea business of growing these ?lants. English or garden peas may >e planted any time during the nonth. For best results the seed hould be planted about 5 to 6 nches deep. It has been oberved that the most successful rardeners do not plant their gar- | len pea seed more than 21-2 to inches deep. The following vegetables may ?e planted in the open ground iow without danger of being njured by frost: Beets, lettuce, ale, onion seed and sets, radishs, parsnips, parsley, salsify and urnips. After the ground has been horoughly prepared and fertiized, the above named vegetans may be planted in rows bout 24 to 36 inches apart and he seed sown continuously in he row. After the plants have lecome 2 to 3 inches tall, they hould be thinned out, leaving he plants from 1 to 3 inches ipart in the row. Later on, if lecessary, they may be thinned >ut stil! some more. While parsnips, carrots and ?i.i i... . i i. J .1. i<tiauj miuuui ui' piameu 111 ine jarly spring, they are usually lot used until the l'all. Howev;r, for best results they should je planted not later than the niddle of March. Celery seed should be sown at :his season in a cool, moist place, preferably on the north or west >ide of a building*. The seed may pe sown in rows about 6 inches apart and covered very lightly with fine soil or broadcast and dightly raked in and the ground lightly rolled or packed. Governor Vetoes Acts. Refusing to aflix his signature. Governor Blease has vetoed quite a number of the more important bills which were passed by the General Assembly and ratified as acts. Among these probably the most important was the act providing for the distribution to the public schools of the dispensary fund of $100,(MX) and the act removing ministers of the gospel, nnivsniinni' man ,....1, iers from the exempted list of persons not liable to jury duty. Another bill of importance which the governor has vetoed provides for a commission form of government in certain cities. New Telephone Directory. Mr. S. \j. Meaeham has been busy for the last day or two delivering to the 400 subscribers of his Fort Mill and Pineville telephone exchanges a new directory which came from the press Saturday. The directory is carefully gotten up and is almost free of errors. The pages of the directory devoted to the Fort Mill exchange give the street, public highway or section in which the subscriber lives, a feature which is a decided improvement over former editions of the directory. There are many new names in the directory, indicating that the telephone development in this section is continuous. Death of Mrs. J. M. McCorkle. After an illness of several clays, Mrs. Lucy McCorkle. wife of Mr. J. M. McCorkle, died at her home in the Steel Creek section of Mecklenburg county Sunday morning. Mrs. McCorkle was a daughter of the late S. N. Merritt and until her marriage to Mr. McCorkle several years ago had always lived in this section. She was a member of the Raptist church. Mrs. McCorkle is survived by her husband and several children. The interment was in the Flint Hill cemetery Monday afternoon. LOCAL SCHOOL ACT AMENDED, 1 POPULAR ELECTION OF BOARD By adopting an amendment introduced in the senate by Mr. ( Stewart and in the house by Mr. 12 Beamguard to section 2 of an act 11 creating special school district, c No. 28 in York county the Gen- t eral Assembly has legislated out 1 of office the board of trustees of t tlif T<Y\vt M ill nri"irlar\ cr?V?rw-?l oiirl ' 1 kliv M. VI V AM III ^iuuvm oviiwi, cum I hereafter the trustees of the local l * school will be elected by the peo-! > pie instead of vacancies occuring j on the board being filled by the < trustees themselves as has been I done in the past. A numerously i signed petition of the voters of j the district and patrons of the i school was sent to Senator Stew- < art several weeks ago praying t that the law be so amended as to c give the people the right to select 1 the trustees and the amendment c just adopted is the result of the I ] petition. 11 The law provides that an elec- c tion is to be held in Fort Mill for! ; nine trustees of the school be- ] tween the first of April and the first of June of the present year, the date of the election to be fixed by the present board. Only ' qualified electors may participate ( in the election. There is every 1 indication that the election of [ the new board of trustees, upon whom will devolve the selection of the teachers of the school for ' next year, will be the most spir- ' ited heid in Fort Mill in years. ; The affairs of the school have not been run to the entire satisfilf'tinn l?f* till" I.'jtmno O/VM-W. time and the suggestion is made that changes in the teaching force could be made with profit to the school. Application of First National Approved. A Washington special to The State Tuesday morning was as follows: "The application of the First National Bank of Fort Mill to engage in business has been approved by the secretary of the treasury. The capital is $25,000, and the directors are T. B. Spratt. T. S. Kirkpatrick, .1. L. Spratt. L. A. Harris and J. W. Ardrey." Capt. T. B. Spratt, cashier of the First National Bank of Fort Mill, stated yesterday morning that the foregoing dispatch doubtless was authoritative, and that the bank hoped to open its doors for business by the first of March. There has been some delay in the work on the bank building, but the building is now nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy in about a week. The fixtures to he used by the bank have been completed and are readv for shipment to Fort Mill. Monday Last Day for Tax Returns. Monday was the last day for making tax returns for the year and word comes from Yorkvillo that the oflice of County Auditor Hunter presetited an unusual scene of activity all day. due to the presence of many who had failed to make their returns up to that time. In Fort Mill Magistrate McElhaney has been taking the returns of those who failed to go before the auditor for the pur-, pose when he visited this place i several weeks ago, and it is not thought that the books will show many delinquents in Fort Mill township. The penalty for failure to make tax returns after J February 20 is 50 per cent, and it is understood that the penalty will have to be paid by all delinquents. Not From Pineville. I C 1 1 - _ - * ? ii mere is any irum 111 me story printed in a Charlotte paper Friday that a wayward Pineville girl was arrested in Charlotte Thursday afternoon and, given a hearing in the recorder's; court Friday morning on the charge of vagrancy, careful inquiry by The Times of a number 1 of Pineville citizens has failed to elicit any information as to the probable identity of the girl. I The story said the girl claimed her home was in Pineville and expressed a desire to return to it. She was not found guilty by the recorder, but he advised her to return home. The girl claimed to be a member of a good family. | fORK COMMISSIONERS TO SELL PART OF COUNTY HOME FARM At the recent session of the jeneral Assembly a number of intendments to the laws for York ounty were adopted and the :ounty commissioners were auhorized to sell to the highest tidder 300 of the 400 acres of the :ounty i>oor farm, the sale to be telci during the present year, and o purchase a new site and erect suitable buildings for the county tome. The poor farm is within L 1-2 miles of Yorkville and is >aid to be good land which should tring about $50 per acre. An intendment to the general law governing cotton weighers was idopted which includes York ;uuuiv, giving me larmers 01 tne :ounty the right to select their :otton weighers. The law for ifork county now is that the :ounty commissioners shall appoint cotton weighers selected by he cotton growers of the several jommunities in the county, the appointments to be good for two /ears. Rear-end Collision at Pineville. One man was slightly hurt, a . aboose and freight car were torn ip and there was a delay of several hours to Southern passenger train No. 3f> and freight train No. 63. both southbound, as a result of a rear-end collission of the trains at Pineville, just across the State line, early Monday morning. The freight train reached the town first and was on the main line preparing to take the siding, but, according to the statement of a member of of one of the crews, the flagman of the freight train had failed to go out to protect his train against the passenger train, which was ^ 4 : u 41 11:~: ? um- L?J ilJI INf. IlVIlCf lllfCUIHNlUIl. Robt. A. Barclay, a well-digger, whose home is said lobe in Charlotte. but who is employed near Pineville, was a passenger on No. 35 and was on the platform ready to alight when the crash came. He was slightly injured. Boys' Corn Club Saturday. There will be a meeting of the York County Boys' Corn club in Yorkville Saturday and all the boys who expect to join the club are urged to be present. Those who expect to compete for the year's prizes must become members of the club on or before the first day of March, as the club roll will be sent to Washington on March 2. All that is necessary to become a member of the club is for the boy to send in his name to the Yorkville Enquirer, the Fort Mill Times, or to Mr. .John R. Blair, of Sharon. Boys who cannot attend the meetingmay send in their names on that day. The larger the club, the larger the prizes will be. nu iiiu uuj o ciir: j i. * j m i ui i iu bring ton ears seed corn in order that they may contest for the prizes to bo offered. A prize of $5 is offered for the best ten ears exhibit. The meeting will be held in the court house at 11 o'clock and will by presided over by Mr. ,1. YV. Quinn. county superintendent of education. There will be two or three talks along the line of seed corn selection, corn growing, etc. $79.50 for Clemson Baptist Church. A substantial contribution of $70.50 was made by the Fort Mill and Flint Hill Baptist churches Sunday toward the erection of the proposed Baptist church at Clemson college. Sunday morning a missionary sermon was preached to the Fort Mill congregation in the interest of the church fund by the Rev. T. B. McCall, Baptist missionary pastor ? / 'I,.~ i I ..,) - Ci *11 \ IUIIIdUIii:Ull^L't <UI<1LIJ<U <11 LCI noon a similar sermon was preached to the Flint Hill congregation. For years the Baptist congregation at Clemson has worshiped in the college chapel, but it is thought the church work could be pushed to greater advantage with an independent building for the denomination. The work of raising the fund is progressing satisfactorily and it is planned to begin work on the building in a few months. The highest price paid for cotton on the Fort Mill market yesterday was 14 cents. An Extravagant Legislature. Writing to his home paper, the Lancaster News. Representative George W. Jones, of Lancaster county, recently had the following to say anent the extravagance of the Legislature: "This is the most extravagant Legislature that I have ever seen. The great majority of its members are professional men and a lot of these young men are fresh from college and not many of them have any general inforni:itinn nluinf uuvuk I llllLlVi O \J 1 ^ciiciai import: that is to say, they dc not understand or appreciate the conditions of the great mass of the people of the State. This fact is demonstrated by the quick manner in which they act on all matters and expenses of State and county. They are ever ready to vote on fee bills, appropriatior bills, endowment funds, salary grabs, increase in number o1 offices and big salaries. This ii verified by the heavy and un necessary appropriation mad< j which in many instances coulc and should have been put off unti next session; in fact, many ol them should have been killed ai this session. Our higher institu tions of learning are inveterat< and unreasonably insistent ir ! their demands upon the State and in my opinion this is a mat ter that in the near future mus strike rock bottom. The rura schools are more the hope of th? ! country than the high school; i for the reason that all thing; j must have a foundation." An Unlucky Milepoat. Milepost No. 29. four mile south of Rock Hill, seems to b< an unlucky place for Southeri railway passenger trains. Mon day morning for the eighth timi in the last six months an acci dent occurred to the train o Capt. Walter Brown, No. Mb northbound, in the neighborhoo( of the 29th milepost. resulting ii a delay of several hours. For innately none 01 tne accidents t< the trains at this point has beei serious. ' " ? I Keep Yo Open an< Our advertise that you will knov what you want. Iing m almost ever is to your interest and visit us often, goods that have a 600 pairs of Oxfc all the best leathei for men, women shoes are strictly 1 One lot ladies' , Underwear and (prices. 50 pieces bright spring patte We are expecti a* i r i i mis weeK or laaie Goods, misses' ai Dresses, Embroid Come to see us often an things for Spring. I Mills & ^ . I Fort Mill agents fc SENATOR TILLMAN'S HEALTH CAUSES SOME APPREHENSION Reports sent throughout the country Saturday night to the effect that Senator Tillman had suffered a collapse in the senate Saturday while attempting to deliver a eulogy on the life of the I late Senator Clay of Georgia have caused considerable apprehension ' to he expressed on the part of | Senator Tillman's friends in | j Washington and elsewhere. ( While it is true that Senator , Tillman is not near the same he was physically before he suffered ; his severe illness last year, and : does not exert himself in debates, 1 he is able to transact his ordinary ' business in his office and to be on r the floor at the sessions of the ? senate. He is still a believer in r physical exercise and takes his F accustomed walks from the capi> tol to his apartments, at the - Hotel Normandie, every afteri noon when the weather is good. 1 This gives him a walk of about 1 a mile and a half. ^ His Name Lives. 2 The official postal guide of the i United States shows 42 towns , and cities named Washington, - or with Washington as a part of t the name, such as Washington1 ville. It is said that there are e 364 fire companies named after s the first president. Hs is honored s by more than 10.000 meat markets which have been named for him. Eighty-four steamboats are called after this great historic figure. If Washington had not s been horn, five mountains, 2C e lakes. 40 springs and seven n rivers would have sought for - different names. It is said that e 4,000 children are named for - George Washington every year, f This makes about 150,000 George . Washingtons living at the same 1 time. There are Washington t halls, Washington hotels, Wash ington clubs. Washington so3 cieties, Washington streets, and t would-be Washington generals and presidents. ur Eyes i Read iments each week so v just where to find New goods are com y day. 1 herefore, it to watch this space 1 lie new spring rrived this week are )rds and Pumps in rs and newest shapes and children. The 1911 styles. Shirt Waists, Muslin Gowns at popular > Gingham in pretty >rns at I Oc the yard, ng our first shipment s* Neckwear, White ii-ii ? ad children s spring ery, Laces, etc. d keep in touch with the new ifoung Co. >r "Star Brand" Shoes.