Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 09, 1911, Image 1
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The Fort Mill Times.
VOLUME 19?NO. 49. FORT MILL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1911. J1.25 PER YEAR
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CAPT. SAMUEL ELLIOTT WHITE
PASSES TO THE GREAT BEYOND
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Capt. Samuel E. White, gentleman
of the old South, soldier of
the Confederacy, patriot and
philanthropist, died in Lancaster
Saturday evening at the home
of his son-in-law. Col. Leroy
Springs. Capt. White had been
in declining health for several
months and his death was not
unexpected. When the announcement
of the death of Capt. White
reached Fort Mill, his old home,
where he was reared and spent
Dracticallv all of his lonir and use
ful life, there was universal sor- 1
row. for it told of the passing
away of a man who was loved
and respected in this community
as are few men anywhere.
As a man. Capt. White was
the soul of honor, of genial temperament
and magnetic personality.
An extensive reader, and
possessing a retentive memory
and the gift of expression, he
was an exceptionally entertaining
conversationalist. Innumerable
were his deeds of charity,
but being of innate modesty, his
contributions to relieve the unfortunate,
the sick, and the suffering
and to various praiseworthy
objects were invariably
made without ostentation. For a
number of years preceding his
death, he was a member of the
Presbyterian church.
Samuel Elliott White was born
in Fort Mill February 22. 1837,
and was therefore in his 75th
year. He was the son of William
Elliott White and Sarah Robinson
(Wilson) White. His early boyhood
was spent at the old White
homestead, just outside the corporate
limits of Fort Mill. He
was prepared for college in the
community school and received a
thorough education at the King's
Mountain Military academy and
the Citadel, from which he graduated
with honor. When the
War Between the States came on
in 1861 hppnlistpd in rnmnanv R
Seventh North Carolina regiment.
i and was elected lieutenant, af-!
L terwards being promoted to the j
captaincy of the company. At
*he battle of Newbern, March 15,
1862, he was desperately wounded
in the head.
At the close of the war, Capt. 1
White returned home and engaged
in farming, in which he J
was notably successful, accumu
latinga large and valuable estate.
On the 21st of November. 1866, j
he married Esther I'hifer Allison, i
daughter of R. W. and S. A. i
Allison, of Concord, N. C. They ;
had four children, but all died
young, except Grace Allison
White, who married Col. Leroy
Springs, of Lancaster. Mrs.
White died April 28. 1903. and
her daughter, Mrs. Springs, on
April 30, 1907, the latter leaving
one son, Elliott White Springs,
who is Capt. White's only surviving
heir.
In addition to his large farming
interests, Capt. White was
also interested in manufacturing
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auu uaiming enterprises, ana, at
one time, in the mercantile business
in Fort Mill. He promoted
and built, in 1886, the Fort Mill
Manufacturing company, one of
the first gingham mills in the
South. He also organized and
established the Savings Bank of
Fort Mill. He was made president
of both institutions, which
positions he still held at the time
of his death.
Capt. White's Funeral.
Four counties united Monday
in honoring the memory of Capt.
White. Lancaster, Chester, York
and Mecklenburg (N. C.) met at
the grave of Fort Mill's lamented
citizen, alluded to in the funeral
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Mack as the father of the town.
The remains of Capt. White
were brought to Fort Mill from
Lancaster on a special train,
aboard which not only a number
of relatives of Capt. White but
many of Lancaster's best and
most substantial citizens. These
were joined on the way by representative
citizens of Chester and
York counties, Rock Hill being
i largely represented. The morn|
' ing train from Charlotte also
brought many relatives and
friends of Capt. White. When
the funeral train reached the <
Fort Mill station several hundred 1
people were in waiting and as 1
the casket containing all that
was mortal of Capt. White was ]
carried from the car to the hearse
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the solemnity of the occasion <
was most impressive.
As an evidence of the tribute
which the people of Fort Mill )
wished to pay the memory of
Capt. White the cotton mills were '
shut down for the day, the stores :
and bank were closed and there
was a suspension 01 me usual
exercises at the graded school.
When the funeral procession
passed through Main and Booth
streets every head was bowed!
and when it reached the Presbyterian
church the crowd in waiting
was composed of several hun- i \
dred men. women and children. 1
Not more than half of those who 11
wished to witness the impressive
funeral exercises were able to
gain admittance to the church.
Many beautiful floral tributes. 1
sent by friends from both the
Carolinas, were banked about the
pulpit, these being taken to the
grave after the exercises in the
church. The pulpit was occupied
by five ministers: The Rev. Dr. ,
J. B. Mack, the Rev. VV. A. Hafner.
pastor of the Fort Mill
Presbyterian church; the Rev.
Dr. Chalmers Fraser of the First
Presbyterian church of Lancaster;
the Rev. Dr. J. H. Boldridge
of the First Baptist church of
Lancaster, and the Rev. M. M.
Brabham of the First Methodist
church of Lancaster. The funeral
oration was by Dr. J. B. Mack,
years ago pastor of Cant. Wrhite
and always a devoted friend. Dr.
Mack's tribute to Capt. White
was beautiful in its simplicity, i
He spoke of him as the "father
of Fort Mill."
"Well it is," said he, "thatthe
hum of machinery is hushed, that
all places of business are closed
in honor of him who lies before
us in his last sleep. Successful
US a Ko ilaf ninnrl ? 1
?w ?%?% invft | uv u\. taiucu (yuunj; ,
men here and encouraged others
to come here by enterprises which
he organized. He conceived the
idea of a bank and made it what
it is. He conceived the idea of a
cotton mill and made Fort Mill a
manufacturing town. His mind, i
heart and purse were ever ready !
to help this place, which was his
chief pride. He was the man
who has made Fort Mill unique
in the South, in some things having
no rival. Here through Capt.
White's gifts and influence was
erected the first monument in
the South to the women of the
Confederacy, also to the Confederate
soldier, to the faithful
slaves, and jointly with the late .
J. M. Spratt to the red men
(the Catawba Indians) who were
the friends of the Confederate
soldiers. Not a dollar for these
monuments was given outside of
Fort Mill, and only those gave
who wanted to. Confederate
park. Fort Mill, S. C., tells the
history of the races that is made ,
known in no other place in the
land. We ought to honor Cant :
White's memory for he loved J
this town. He was a wide-awake j
citizen, and a Southern gentleman.
He was self-assertive and
often imperious with his fellow- j
man. but always humble before !
his God. Such a strong character
as his had strong temptations, |
but he met and conquered them, ;
The father and mother passed,
his wife and child were taken
from his home, but never from his
heart. Chastened but strengthened
and purified by these afflictions,
he comes now to lay
down his life, hidden in Christ
in death."
The hymns sung were "HowFirm
a Foundation," "Asleep in
Jesus," and "I would Not Live ,
Always." After the benediction J
the casket was opened and all
present were griven the opportunity
to look for the last time
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the Confederacy, this gentleman >
of the old South, who did so much
for Fort Mill. In the audience
were a score of Capt. White's
army camrades. Some of these
old men had walked several miles
to attend his funeral.
After the white people in at-,
tendance upon the funeral had i
passed the bier, the colored people
were permitted to look upon
"Marse Sam's" face. Many of
these had worked upon Capt.
White's plantations and two of
them were former slaves of the
White family who had served
Capt. White in his boyhood days.
The burial was in the town cemetery.
Such a funeral has never before 1
been known in Fort Mill and perhaps
not in York county. It was
CLEMSON'S REVENUE PROMISES I
TO REACH $300,000 THIS YEAR
It is estimated that Clemson
college will receive this year i
approximately $900,000 from the I
fertilizer tag tax. The amount
received by the institution last
year was nearly $250,000. It is <
thought that at least 1,200,000 i
tons of fertilizers will be sold to <
the farmers of the State during i
1911.
There has been much discus- <
sion as to how the fertilizer ex- t
animations are made. The State
is "divided into 14 districts, there
being an inspector for each dis- <
trict. During the fertilizer sea-;
son it is the duty of these in- j 1
spectors to draw samples from
every place where fertilizer is
sold in their districts and to send
these samples to Clemson college ;
for examination. Under the law
if these samples are found to bet
deficient in any manner, a refund
must be made by the fertilizer
companies. The samples drawn <
by the inspectors are analyzed ;
by expert chemists. The chemist
only know the samples by number
and do not know the name i
of the company manufacturing: .
them, as has been charged.
Fortune-tellers Before Magistrate.
Saturday morning a band of
Gypsies composed of three or (
four men and an equal number
of women arrived in Fort Mill i
and set up for fortune-telling a
short distance south of town. |
Sunday afternoon two of the (
women did some more arriving? j (
this time in the court of Magistrate
McElhaney, upon the j
charge of bilking a boy out of
75 cents. Upon the complaint i!
of the boy that he had given one ,
of the women a dollar for telling
25 cents worth of his fortune and ,
that she had refused to return
the 75 cents which he had ex- ;
pected to get in change, Magis- J
trate McElhaney sent a constable ; j
to the camp to bring the woman (
before him. There seemed to be
no way of identifying the woman j
the boy claimed had more of his ,
coin than she was entitled to. so (
two of them were arrested and
brought to town. But Magistrate
McElhaney did not waste much |
time on the examination
concluded that all hands includ- ,
iny, the boy, were lying about the (
transaction and allowed the j
women to go on their way without
a fine. The 75 cents was ;
returned to the boy. ,
Attending Commercial Congress.
Tuesday morning Rev. S. P.
Hair left Fort Mill for Atlanta to
attend the sessions of the South- j
ern Commercial congress, which
opened yesterday. Mr. Hair will 11
remain in Atlanta for the Taber-1 :
nacle Bible conference, to bej 1
held in the church of Dr. Len 11
Broughton, from the 10th to the 1
20th inst. During Mr. Hair's ab- '
sence, Mrs. Hair will visit rela- !
tives in .Jonesville, Union county. (
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Surprised Their Friends. j
Carl Morris, an employe of the <
Southern Power company, at the 1
plant near Fort Mill, and Miss '
Kate Carothers, whose home was <
in Ebenezer townshiu. were mar- I
ried at the Presbyterian manse 1
Thursday evening by the Rev. 1 <
W. A. Hafner. Mr. and Mrs. j J
Morris left on the northbound 1 ]
train Thursday evening for ail
visit to relatives of the former at 1
Huntersville, N. C. h
a tribute of love which any man
might have envied. The people [
among whom this man spent the 1
greater part of his long life set \
aside the day to do him honor and
almost the whole countryside 1
stood around his grave
Capt. White's death marks the 1
passing of the last member of 1
William Elliott White's family.
In less than half a century, Mr. 1
Whifp hifi urifo eiv ~ 1
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three daughters have passed
away. Capt. White outlived any 1
other member of the family ten 1
years. He is survived by one j
descendant, his grandson, Elliott
White Springs, 15 years old and s
the only son of Col. Leroy Springs 1
and his wife, the late Mrs. (Jrace 1
White Springs. |{
Capt. White leaves a fortune
estimated at $250,000 which it is i
understood is given mainly to his i
grandson and Col. Springs. j
LONG AWAITED COTTON-PICKER
SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN INVENTED
One of the greatest obstacles
the cotton farmers of the South
have had to contend with is the
necessity of gathering the staple
by hand. Every year the cry
goes up from various sections of
the South that there is a scarcity
of labor with which to harvest
the crop. Not infrequently press
dispatches tell of whole fields of
open cotton being abandoned because
there is no one to be had
to pick it. Therefore any plan
which will insure the harvesting
of the crop is of great importance.
For years Angus Camp
Dell, a Scoteh inventor, has had
his attention turned to the invention
of a cotton-picker to take
the place of hand labor, and it is
now claimed that he has at
last invented a machine which
will solve the problem.
Campbell's cotton-picker is so
adjusted that it picks only the
open bolls and leaves those which
are not matured. The machine
is said to operate so rapidly and
is so efficient that the percentage
of open cotton left after the machine
has done its work is so
small as to be insignificant, as
compared with the great waste
which results from careless picking
by the negroes. The machine
picks about 10 pounds of seed
cotton per minute, or 6,000
pounds per day of 10 hours, if
kept running continuously, or
5,400 pounds per day, allowing
10 per cent, for stoppage. The
quantity picked varies somewhat,
depending on the amount of open
cotton on the stalks, but the
above amount may be considered
as a fair average. On the first
trip it gathers 90 per cent, of
the open cotton, and the remaining
10 per cent, is picked on the
second trip.
An average of 30 horse-power
is required to operate this interesting
cotton-picker. A gasolinn
Oft 1
11iit muiui ui ix? nurse-power is
usually installed for the service.
Beneath the engine are what are
termed two picking attachments
swung under it. and a pair of
L'anvas bags hung out behind. It
moves over the field as fast as a
man walks, the wheels passing
between the cotton rows. The
cotton is picked over by the revolving
steel fingers which catch
the lint but leave the plant uninjured,
so that later bolls may
mature. The picking machinery
is on two drums which hang from
the frame of the tractor.
Every motion is delicately adjusted.
While the needles move
fast enough to catch the fiber,
their speed is not fast enough
Lo throw it out of the receiver.
The cylinders bring each needle
into place at the proper time,
so that there is never a space
large enough for an open boll to
pass through without being
stripped of its contents Th#?
drum is moving backward at the
same rate that the whole machine
moves forward, so that the
picking needles do not move
horizontally through the plant,
hut merely turn in it. In the
cylinders of each picker are no
less than 816 of the steel fingers
which harvest the cotton. Rut
Dne man is required to operate
the engine, while he also steers
the mechanism. A boy may be
employed to sit in the rear to
see that the cotton is all deposited
through the conveyor into
the storage bins, but unless
the bolls are think on the stalk,
all of the cotton is stored mechanically.
Tests have been made of the
new cotton picker in several
States, while it is being operated
extensively in the Texas fields.
These tests of capacity and
thoroughness were carried out by
experts of the agricultural department,
as well as the farmers
themselves who are operating it.
As to the cost of operation, the
maximum expense does not exJttOd
fl Hav iY>olnrUr?r? Ur*
Tw ? V>MJ t IMVIUUIII^ tUC
wages of the man and boy, and a
gallon of gasoline consumed every
hour for a day of ten hours. This
is the average outlay as shown
by calculations made in Texas
and other portions of the South.
Except for a few green leaves,
the cotton is as clean, if not
leaner than, that hand picked.
Mayor L. A. Harris has been
ill at his home on White street
for several days.
The High Price of Males. J
Notwithstanding the fact that
| the present season has witnessed
| the highest prices ever paid for
mules in this county, the demand
in York county for the long-eared j
j work animal has been greater 1
than ever before. It now costs c
almost as much to buy a pair of I
good mules as a small house and V
lot. Numerous sales of good '
mules for $750 have been recorded
in the county in the past
few weeks, and a cottage with
honeysuckle vines thrown in for
good measure is not much more
expensive.
"Why are mules so high, anyway?"
This is a question that
the public has been asking. One
answer is that the SpanishAmerican
war is responsible. A
heavy draft was made on the
country's mule stock at that time
and since then the supply has not
been equal to the demand.
I Just before the Spanish-Ameri|
can war a good mule could be
! bought in this section and else- i
\1'V>ni?/\ ??-* 0^.-4-1- -C /-VA
*? utic in i/iic? ouuui lor ?j>iuuf ana
previous to that the price was J
, sometimes as low as $75. Nowadays
a good mule costs from $250 *
to $300 and sometimes $400.
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York Teachers to Meet Saturday.
The York County Teachers'
association will meet in Yorkville
on Saturday, March 11, in the
|| McNeel opera house at 11 a. m. 1
J. Harvey Witherspoon, superin- ?
'! tendent of the Yorkville school, *
1 is making extensive preparations ?
11 for the entertainment of the
visiting teachers, as well as to r
i make the meeting a success. The %
following program is announced: r
Prayer. Rev. J. L. Oates; ad- T
dresses of welcome by Mayor
John R. Hart and Prof. J. C.
Cork, president of the associa- ^
tion; roll call and reading of the
minutes of last meeting; vocal rj
solo, Miss Suader; "School Gardening,"
C. B. Haddon, of Clem- ?,
son college: "Ardelia in Arcady."
Miss Reid; "School Athletics."
F. E. Schofield; vocal solo, Miss
Suader: address. Dr. S. C. Mitchell.
president of the University d
of South Carolina; general dis- S
cussion. "How to Secure Coopera- h
tion Between Pupils, Patrons and h
| Teachers." s
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in the depot, and we e:
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in this neighborhood a
the classiest line of 0
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IUDGES MUST BE APPOINTED
ON COURT'S RECOMMENDATION
The governor must appoint spe:ial
judges upon the recommendaion
of the supreme court or the
:hief justice. This is the em)hatic
statement made by Chief
lustice .Jones, in an opinion
landed down Saturday involving
i point very similar to that which
las occasioned a breach between
Governor Blease and the supreme
:ourt.
The whole law on the subject
>f appointing special judges,
?rom the constitutional provisions
o the statute pursuant to those
provisions, is gone into by Chief
lustice Jones.
It was not the question of appointing
special judges that
uumea up in tne opinion. Put of
?special moment is the obiter
licta of the court on this matter,
rhe real issue in the James Davis
:ase, which is the case in which
;he decision was handed down.
,vas whether or not the governor
:an order a special term of court,
fhe supreme court rules that the
governor can order a special
>f court, when the solicitor reluests
it and when public policy
lemands such.
February's Weather Record.
According to the weather bureau,
February has the distinction
>f having the highest mean
emperature of any other Februiry
since 1890.
The mean temperature for the
nonth was 51 degrees, which
vas 4 degrees lower than the
nean temperature for the same
nonth in 1890, when the mean
emperature was 55 degrees.
In only five other Februarie.>
ince 1879 has the mean temperaure
been higher than it was last
nonth. The highest temperature
luring last month was 72 degrees,
n the 18th, and the lowest 20
egrees, on the 22d.
Child Burned to Death.
Little Delia Smith, 3-year-old
aughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
imith, of Tirzah, was fatally
urned Sunday morning at the
ome of her parents, death enuing
Sunday afternoon.
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5 and SHOES ever
f this community,
in your appearance [T
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u will see for your
iollar. |j
le starting this adat
we have 25 cases
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interested in a pair
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