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VOLUME 19?WO. 48. FORT MILL. S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1911. J1.25 PER YEAR
MAJ. JOHN BLACK MAY PAY FINE f
INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE PEN [
Governor Blease commuted, g
Monday, the sentence of Major t
John Black, of Columbia, former
director of the State dispensary,
to five years in the penitentiary r
or a fine of $2,000. Major Black t
was tried at Chester in the fall ^
of 1910, on the charge of con- j.
spiracy to defraud the State, and j
upon conviction?the co-defend- j
ants, Jodie M. Rawlinson and J. t
Lee Solomons being acquitted? |
was sentenced to serve five years t
in the penitentiary. Governor
Blease's action of Monday effect- :
ed the commutation of this sen- i
tence by allowing the alternative
of a fine. (
Acceptance of commutation by
Major Black terminates, auto- .
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maucaiiy, ins peiiumg appeal 10 j
the supreme court. The law j
books say also that "acceptance t
of a pardon has the same legal ^
effect as a confession of guilt or j
of the existence of a state of {
facts from which judgment of ,
guilt would follow," and the same j
authority says: "Since the ac- j
ceptance of a pardon admits the ^
recipient's guilt, when a pardon j
is accepted, pending an appeal, j
its acceptance operates as an ad- ,
mission that the criminal was j
rightly convicted and therefore i
constitutes ipso facto a waiver of
exceptions taken at the trial."
Pardon and commutation are j
classed as of a piece. In this j
case the appeal had not been
perfected and thus the practice ,
outlined for dismissal of the ap- |
peal need not be followed: "So
where a pardon is granted, ac- |
cepted and brought to the atten- j
tion of the court, pending an |
appeal, the appeal will be dis- i
missed." "The criminal," says
the law books, "cannot be forced :
to accept a pardon."
L Fort Mill Robbery Recalled.
E it i i f * *
Iw lunn me last lew weefcssatecrackers
have again become ac- ,
tive in various parts of the South. (
The latest bank robbery reported (
in the South Atlantic States oc- '
curred at Clover, Va., 40 miles ]
east of Danville, Monday morn- j
ing and the robbers escaped with ;
between $3,000 and $4,000, all
the money in the building. The ]
Clover robbery was in some re- ,
spects similar to the robbeiy of ?
the Savings Bank of Fort Mill, in ,
November, 1901, an incident in |
the town's history which is now ,
seldom thought of in the busy ]
life of the place. It will be re- (
called that the safe in the local ,
bank was cracked by a party of ,
expert yeggmen one November j
morning nearly ten years ago and .
that every dollar of the $4,500on ]
deposit in the institution was j
carried away by the robbers. A
few silver coins believed to have
belonged to the bank were afterwards
found in a field near town
where the cracksmen had evi- 1
dently divided the swag, but 1
practically the entire amount was 5
lost to the bank. Several months 1
after the Fort Mill robbery a <
number of safe-crackers were t
tried in South Carolina and sent 1
to the penitentiary and it is be- ?
lieved that they were the men
who robbed the Savings bank,
but no one has ever been haled
into court charged with the crime.
Organizing Fanner's Union Locals.
J. B. O'Neal Holiday, State
organizer for the South Carolina
Farmers' union, is spending the
week in York county reinstating
the local unions which have
ceased to exist during the last
few years through lack of interest
in the organization and working
up new locals. Mr. Holiday
does not hope to conclue the work
in York county before Friday of
next week and he is said to have
met with considerable success
thus far. The meeting for the
reorganization of the Fort Mill
union will be held at Gold Hill i
academy Thursday, March 2, and
the farmers who are interested j
in again putting the local on its ;
feet are requested to bear in ?
mind the date. It is said that 1
before Mr. Holiday came to the i
county the first of the week there j
^ existed only two of the score and i
more local unions which were ]
organized several years ago. <
Hy four votes the proposal for 1
the direct election of United j
States senators failed Tuesday. 1
FORT MILL'S OLDEST CITIZEN.
Saturday, February 25. was the
7th birthday of Mr. Jos. Parks, j
he oldest citizen of the Fort Mill 1
ommunity. Mr. Parks was born
l few miles north of Fort Mill on
February 25, 1824, and except
he years he was in the Conederate
army has spent all of
lis long life in this section. He
s still in good health and is a j
aminar ngure on tne streets ot j
he town, his physical vigor being i
ess impaired by advancing years
han that of many men 60 years
>f age. Mr. Parks was a private ;
n Company B, Sixth South Caro- j
ina regiment, C. S. A., and is1
me of the few soldiers of the i
Confederacy living in this section
vho was with Gen. Lee at Appo- j
nattox. Monday morning Mr.
Parks remarked to The Times
:hat he saw more men at Apponattox
on the fated 6th of April,
L865, than he had ever seen before
or ever expected to see
igain. Mr. Parks not only saw
service in the Confederate army
limself, but is one of the very
few surviving participants of the
:itanic struggle between the secLions
who also sent a son to the
iring lines for the South, the
son being the late Ledbetter
Parks, who died in Illinois in
L891. Mr. Parks has been marked
four times and is the father
>? 24 children, 12 of whom are
iving. His father, the late Wm.
Parks died in 1852. He had an
ancle, Jos. Parks, for whom he
vas named, who was a soldier in
Lhe Revolutionary war. This
ancle was a few years younger
:han Mr. Parks' father, though
nis death occurred many years
aefore thelatter's. Many of Mr.
Parks' friends congratulated him
apon reaching the 87th milepost
n his life and all hope that many
/ears will yet be spared him.
Death of Mrs. Isabella Bell.
After an illness of several
months, Mrs. Isabella Bell, widow
:>f Chas. Bell, died at the home
5f her daughter, Mrs. W. E.
founts, in Charlotte, Wednesday
night. She is survived by a number
of sons and daughters. Mrs.
Bell was 75 years of age and had
spent most of her long life at the
family home in the Steel Creek
section of Mecklenburg county.
She was related to many of the
prominent families of Mecklenburg
county and had been a demoted
member of Ebenezer A. R.
P. church for years. The funeral
:>f Mrs. Bell was held Friday
morning and was attended by
many friends and relatives of the
?ood woman. Dr. J. B. Elliott,
i nephew of Mrs. Bell, went from
Fort Mill to be present at the
funeral.
Loctuts Coming?
All the States east of the Allegheny
mountains, from New
England and New York south to
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Mnun Carolina, are to ue visited
:his year by the 17-year locusts,
according to a bulletin issued by
:he department of agriculture,
[n addition to the 17-year kind,
a brood of 13-year locusts is exDected
this year in the lower half
)f the Mississippi valley, extendng
southward from middle Indiana
and Illinois as far eastward
is central Tennessee and westward
to Kansas and Oklahoma.
At the last appearance in 1894
careful study of the 17-year locust
was made in New Jersey
and New York, but some of the
records obtained in Southern
States were doubtful, especially
in North Carolina, because of
the simultaneous appearance of a
brood of 13-year locusts, which
are mistaken in many localities
for the 17-year kind. The bulletin
says:
"It is therefore very desirable
that all observers in South Carolina
report occurrences this year
;>f the 17-year locusts to clear up
these doubtful records."
There seems to be some doubt
is to whether the brood will reach
is far as South Carolina, although
some scattering locusts may at
east be expected. In the past
:hey have been reported in large
lumbers at regular periods of 17
fears in all the States east of the
\lleghenies as far south as South
Carolina, while scattering insects
lave been reported in western
Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia,
Ohio, Indiana and lower
Michigan.
FOR WEEVIL-PROOF COTTON D
GEORGIA HOLDS OUT HANDS
The boll weevil will be forced
to get flying machines if it ex- tl
pects to do any damage to a new e
species of cotton which is on its c<
way to Atlanta for examination tl
by the State department of agri- s<
culture. n
A letter has just been received h
by an Atlanta citizen from a man c<
named Billow in Guatemala. Cen- ir
tral America, proclaiming the nr
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species of cotton which grows p
from 15 to 30 feet high and bears C(
bolls 7 inches long and 5 to 8 p
inches in diameter.
In the letter from Senor Billow t
the writer requests the State
agricultural department of Geor- y
gia to suuply him with one of 11
their recent publications on the .
subject of cotton as it is grown F
in that. State. He also mentioned u
the fact that great success had p
been made in Central America 1
by Dr. Thomates, an Italian
scientist, who has produced a new ^
species of cotton called the "caraI
vonica" by hybiidizing a variety "
of cotton found in Mexico with
another variety which flourishes n
| along the tributaries of the upper ^
Amazon, in South America.
| The hybrid plant, according to S(
; the statement of Senor Billow, u
has been raised with great sue;
cess in both countries and the 11
plant grows to a height of 15 to ^
30 feet, bearing bolls of enormous j;i
size which are filled with clear .
lint. |v
The writer also called atten- s_'
. tion to the fact that the floss of r"
| the hybrid plant was very silky
and that the plant itself had t:
proved to be a prolific yielder.
From experiments conducted in
j the seetion of Central America
around Guatemala it was stated
that from 1,200 to 1,600 pounds j ?
per acre of clear lint had been
grown, which amounts to two ?
and a half or three bales to the
acre. Also that the ratio of the .
product was 48 to 82 per cent p
lint to the seed cotton, which is a j
much higher ratio than the cotton
now being grown in Georgia and 1 *
the other cotton States.
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Local Interest in Possible Champ.
Among the Fort Mill followers Z
of the prize fight game some in- L
terest is felt in the fortunes of a
Carl Morris, the Oklahoma giant 'i
who recently knocked out Marvin
Hart, former world's champion, ^
in three rounds. Carl Morris is ^
a first cousin of W. J. Morris, an i ^
operative at the Millfort mill, and
moved to Oklahoma from Ran- j ^
dolph county, N. C., about ten L
years ago. He is a locomotive' V
fireman who decided last July !
I that he would fight his way to n
| the top of the heavyweight heap S
; with a view to finally conquering j S
Jack Johnson. Morris, though I G
an unknown at the time, drew ?
4,000 persons to the ringside S
! when he disposed of Hart at
j Sapulpa, Okla., several weeks ?
| ago. With interest in the big r
; fellow now increasing by leaps E
and bounds Tulsa, Okla., is prej
pared to build an amphitheatre ?1
capable of seating 25,000 specta- ?
tors, it being estimated that Mor- r
j ris' next battle will net at least
$25,000 in receipts. Morris has
physical advantages over every
other heavyweight in the world.
He is 6 feet 4 inches tall, has a
reach of 801-2 inches, and so far
he has trained down to 235 j
pounds. He weighed 300 last ?
June and is 26 years old.
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Still in the Hospital. 1
A Kansas editor recently an- p
nounced that he would try to tell J
the truth in his paper for one g
week and he is still in the hosni- t<
! tal. He didn't get past the first h
! day. The following item ap'
peared in Monday's issue and now ii
the boys are getting out the ti
paper. This is what he said: ii
I "Married, Miss Sylvia Rhode to s
James Cannaham, last Sunday p
evening. The bride was an ordinary
town girl who don't know o
any more than a rabbit about a
cooking and never helped her s
mother three days in her life.
She is not a beauty by any means c.
and has a gait like a duck. The f
groom is an up-to-date loafer, has n
been living off the old folks all; o
his life, and don't amount to s
shucks nohow. They will have v
a hard life while they live to- r
'gether." d
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EMOCRATS WILL NOT HESITATE
TO TACKLE TARIFF PROBLEM
Word comes from Washington
lat President Taft, in calling an
xtra session of the Sixty-second ,:
Digress, to convene shortly after <
le adjournment of the present <
*ssion at noon Saturday, may 1
ot limit the purpose for which 1
e calls the special session to a
Dnsideration of the bill carrying
lto effect the reciprocity agreeient
with Canada. In addition
e may suggest that congress j,
roceed at once to the revision of
?rtain of the schedules of the
ayne-Aldrich tariff law, notably <
nose schedules affecting foodLuffs
and clothincr which havp n i
irect bearing on the cost of
ving.
It is known that the president
i being advised to take the :
litiative in inviting tariff re- :
ision. instead of leaving it to the
democrats, who will be in control |
f the house, to proceed with
leir revision program without
ny suggestion from the execuve.
The Democrats, through Chairman
Underwood, of the the new
rays and means committee, and
peaker-to-be Champ Clark, have
erved notice that they will take j
p the tariff question if an extra
ession is called. They did this
i answer to the report that they |
:ere far from ready to underake
any tariff tinkering, and
hat if a special session was conened
they would content themelves
with passing the Canadian I
eciprocity agreement hill again, j
nd would do nothing with the ;
ariff.
Graded School Honor Roll.
The honor roll of the Fort Mill
raded school for the month of
'ebruary is as follows:
Tenth Grade, Distinction List?
dine Barber, Isabel Massey.
Ninth Grade, Distinction List? |
lamie Jack Massev, Lula Haile,
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kUtu lVltTcU~I Idlll, lVlUIlIUtr YY UllU,
.ono PnrlfQ
Eighth Grade, Honor Rolllae
White. Distinction list,
iUcy Merritt, Joe Belk, Ike Yarorough.
Seventh Grade, Honor Roll ?
ienas Grier, Frances Smith.
)istinguished list, Esther Meachm,
Margaret Spratt, Katie Wil-1
ams.
Fifth Grade, Distinction List? I
William Erwin, Andrew Hafner,
ignes Link, John A. Boyd, Mary
lcLaughlin.
Fourth Grade, Honor Roll? j
larjory Blankenship, Malcolm
-ink, Ruth McLaughlin, Charlie j
yhite.
Third Grade, Honor Roll ? At-!
lar Adcock, Harry Bradford, !
tephen Epps, Beulah Parks, j
adie Rodgers. Distinction list,
trace Erwin, Pearl Anderson,
William Grier. Haile Ferguson,
arah White.
Second Grade, Honor Roll ?
lattie Belk, Pettus Blankenship,
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lurence rieming, vjme tiooci, !
Ilanche Moser.
First Grade, Honor Roll ? Ar-1
hur Young, Maude Robinson,
Lai lie Griggs, Bessie Cray ton,
Yavor Kimbrell, Hope Harris.
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Grab Your Shot-gun!
When some vaccination fanatic
omes prowling around, to inject
ester into the pure blood of yourelf,
your wife or your child,
on't waste breath arguing with
im, urges Tom Watson's Jefferonian.
No fact or argument
ould penetrate a head like his. I
'o impress such a lunatic as that,
hysical force is indispensable,
ust grab your revolver or shotun;and
tell him that if he dares
o enter your door, you will blow
is crazy brains out.
If municipalities would spend,
n cleaning up and staying clean,
he monev thev lavish r?n crmft.
ig doctors and poisonous pus,
mallpox would entirely disapear.
Compulsory vaccination is one
f the most heinous crimes
gainst humanity. It is simply a
urvival of medieval ignorance.
The idea of stabbing a healthy
hild, and injecting a deadly
oreign substance is worthy of a
lad-house. There isn't a man
n this earth who can demontrate
that vaccination ever preented
small-pox. The whole
otten system is based on traition,
and nurtured by graft.
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"THE KNOW-IT-ALL."
Charleston News and Courier.
Do you number him among
your acquaintances, "the man
who knows it all?" He is encountered
very often and is one
of the most annoying obstacles
to overcome, not that what he
says really matters very much,
but his self-assurance and counterfeit
superiority provokes one to
the limit of endurance. He assumes
to himself the power of
dismissing as trivial topics which
do not happen to interest him
particularly and substitutes in
their place subjects the merits
of which he believes himself
fully competent to discuss. There
is no getting away from such a
rv/ivoAn until Ur?
t^iovsu uuui nc nan wau ms s<t> ,
and if by any misfortune we do
not happen to agree with all he
says he proceeds to direct the full
strength of his batteries upon us
until he, at least, is satisfied that
he has convinced us of our errors.
It is impossible for such a person
to ente?* into an argument;
his opinions must be correct because
he himself has formed
them if for no other reason, and
therefore, they do not admit of
criticism. He never suggests
that so and so may he the case,
hut always asserts his views unqualifiedly
and maintains them
almost to the point of offense, regardless
of the fact that others
may differ with him and that
they have as much right to an
expression of their opinions as
he has to the expression of his.
He is a familiar type, this man
of many claims and small accomplishments,
and just so long
as he is tolerated and allowed
enough leeway to move about in
comparative comfort he will be
with us to magnify his own importance
and to minimize the
achievements of others, and to
hang like a millstone around the
necks of those who lack the moral
strength to throw him off once
for all.
"School Butter."
A little case of disorderly conduct
near one of the city schools
was brought before the mayor
of Spartanburg last week.
Long before we had mayors
and city councils in this Piedmont
region, men or boys who
disturbed a school or insulted the
scholars were dealt with by the
larger boys, says the Spartanburg
Journal. It was a great insult
for a person in passing a school
house to shout "school butter."
When he did that the larger boys
dropped their books and hastened
out to catch the man who would
dare insult them. The teacher,
if active, would join in the race.
If they caught him the penalty
was carrying him to the spring
branch and ducking him. It was
generally difficult to catch the
disturber because he would not
dare cry out "school butter" unless
he was mounted.
The origin of the phrase is in
doubt. It evidently came down
from early colonial days, if not
brought over from England. The
only plausible explanation is that
it is a cor?*uDtion of "the school's
better," signifying that he was
superior to the boys. We have
some doubt as to the correctness
of that supposition.
Auctio
On Saturday, M<
p. m., I will sell at
the highest bidder
the head of Main s
3-4 acre and has b
it. This lot is si
business or residen
J. J. BAIL!
SCHOOL BOARD'S STATEMENT
AS TO COST OF NEW BUILDING
At a meeting of the board of
trustees of the Fort Mill graded
school held about two months ago
a resolution was introduced instructing
the chairman to appoint
a committee of members of the
board to make public a statement
of the cost of the new school
building. The resolution was
adopted and the committee, composed
of A. O. Jones, S. A. Epps
and R. P. Harris, was appointed
to prepare the statement. The
Times is pleased to comply with
the request of the committee
that the following statement of
the cost of the new school building
be published in its columns:
RECEIPTS.
Sale of school bonds $10,000.00
Interest on bonds .... 000.00
State school building fnnd. 300.00
County " " " .. 300.00
Sale of old school building 725.00
Total $11,925.00
DISBURSEMENTS.
Building lot $ 1,200.00
Recording deed for lot. 1.00
Well and pump 72.00
266 new desks.. 700.00
448 auditorium chairs 423.36
Heating plant, complete 1,035.00
Wiring, switches, etc. 127.17
Slate olackboards, etc 113.65
Eight tables and freight 27.44
65 window shades, etc 43.91
12 chairs for teachers 16.50
$8,000 insurance on building
and furniture for 3 years 120.00
School building complete,
painting, etc. 7,959.51
Total expenditure .. . $11,839.54
Cash on nand _ 85.46
Grand total ... $11,925.00
Gold Hill Items.
Editor Fort Mill Times:
Our people are generally well,
I think, and the farmers are
quite busy preparing their lands,
hauling fertilizers, etc. Early
gardens were hard hit by the
freeze of last week and much replanting
will have to be done.
Mr. C. T. Crook, who has been
on an extended prospecting tour
through Georgia and Florida, returned
home the past week. He
gives a glowing account of the
fine country he passed through ?
as if there was any better place
in the world than this same Gold
HiH section.
The Misses Inez and Myrtle
Smith and May Coltharp, of Winthrop
college, spent from Saturday
evening until Monday eveniing
with their parents here.
Neighbor Sam'l Boyd has added
another little boy to his
squad, so you see our population
is increasing. The fact is we
are progressive and adhere strictly
to the scriptural injunction
which says multiply and replenish
the earth.
The corn crib of Mr. S. H.
Epps, Sr., was burned Sunday
night, together with his wagon,
harness and a lot of guano. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
S.
Gold Hill, March 1.
Negro Assistant Attorney General.
Tuesday President Taft nominated
William H. Lewis, of Boston,
a negro, to be assistant
attorney general to the departinpnt.
nf instine. This is fht* first
time that a nepro has been named
for such a prominent position in
the department.
n Sale.
arch 4, 191 1, at 4
: public auction to
the Bailes Lot at
w
treet. Lot contains
lacksmith shop on
jitably located for
tial purposes.
lS, Broker.
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