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f?". v m '' f A Sr* v *y * : i \X>.; . The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19 -NO. 50. FORT MILL, S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1911. 11.25 PER YEAR THROUGH FIRST NATIONAL DOOR CUSTOMERS ARE NOW PASSING \r After a delay of several days, ! occasioned by the lagging in transit of the plate glass windows for the front of the buildin#. the First National Bank opened its doors for business | Thursday morning in its attractive new quarters, beautifully fur' nished throughout and conveniently arranged in detail. The; counting room in furnished in mahogany and marble and the i walls are tinted with green, ; 1 lending a pleasing contrast to the whole. In the rear of the counting room are consultation offices | for the president, vice-president, J | cashier and board of directors. ' These rooms are simply but tasti-1 ly furnished and the walls are i similar to those in the counting i room. One of the best steel j safes, which the manufacturers claim is burglar-proof, has been installed in the commodious vault. . i 11 i ? lTiditj' visiuuih Ucive caiieu IU inspect the quarters of the bank since it opened Thursday and not a few emphasized the pleasing impression the home of the bank made upon them by opening accounts. Indeed, the officers of the new institution are more than pleased with the amount of business thus far handled and are sanguine that the accommodating but conservative policy which will be adhered to will merit the public favor. The first subscription to the stock of the First National Bank of Fort Mill was taken in less than 90 days ago and since that time the entire capital stock of $25,000 has been paid in, the new building erected, handsome fixtures installed and the bank opened for business. The officers of the First National bank are: T. S. Kirkpatrick. president; Osmond Barber, vice-president; T. B. Spratt. cashier; directors, T. S. Kirkpatrick, W. B. Ardrey, Osmond Barber, L. A. Harris, T. B. Spratt, Edgar Jones, J. M. Harris, W. S. Mc^ Clelland, W. A. Watson, Jackson Hamilton, J. L. Spratt. Ball Player Charged With Larceny. Baseball enthusiasts who are interested in the south Atlantic league and who are acquainted with the reputation of the players will read with interest the statement that J. C. Bender, former right fielder of the Charleston and Columbia teams, was tried in the Charleston police court Saturday morning on a charge of stealing $15 from the person of a Charleston man. Two dollars was recovered when Bender was arrested. His case was sent from the police court to a magistrate. Bender is a fullblooded Indian and three or four years ago was considered one of the crack players of the South Atlantic league, but was debarred from organized ball because of a difficulty he had with Manager W inn Clark of the Columbia team in which Clark was seriously cut with a knife by the Indian. Bender is said to be a brother of the noted pitcher of the same name of the Philadelphia Americans, world's champions. Five More Powerful Engines. The announcement is made that the Southern railway has received five more powerful Baldwin locomotives to be used in the freight service on the Columbia division. The new engines are the same type as a number received some months ago which are being used between Charlotte and Columbia. The locomotives are among the largest ever purchased by the Southern and it is claimed that each can handle a train of freight cars a mile long. What Sheriff Hunter Thinlu of Blease. U Sheriff John P. Hunter, of Lan}L caster county, was in Charlotte a few days ago and on being asked \ by a reporter what he thought of Governor Blease he said: "Well, sir, I think he will, if possible, do iust as he pleases regardless of m being called a partisan governor \ and with indifference for anyv\body's opinion and disproval of his treatment and utterances of any pf those who saw fit to vote against him in the two last primary elections." The News of McConnellsTille. Correspondence Fort Mill Time*. McConnellsville, March 14.? We were so pleasantly impressed with a copy of The Times that came a few days ago that we wish to send a few items of interest in our little town. The most absorbing question in this section now is that of good roads. The chaingang has reached McConnellsville, grading the road. The people have responded liberally and have sanded the road as far as it is graded, so that, now, we have a most magnificent sand-and-clay road from here to Yorkville - a fact that is nxnrlont tUn *x-T unto v * iviv hi. i i viu iiiu iiuniuci ui auiumobiles to be seen passing from Yorkville and other towns. The new highway makes an ideal track for machines and only a short while ago an empty wagon could scarcely be pulled over it at this season of the year! Since .January the farmers have made no progress on account of the numerous showers of rain; but as soon as the ground dries everybody will be busy, as everyI thing is ready for plowing. There , has been more fertilizer shipped ! to this place than ever before not on account of increased acreage, but because of the intensive system of farming so generally practiced here. The creamery at Yorkville has stirred up quite an interest in I dairying. A route has been es: tablished from here and the j wagon goes regularly with cream to the creamery. Several men 1 in this community are especially I interested, so much so that they are building barns to house the cattle from which they expect to supply cream. The largest barn that we have heard of yet will have a capacity for 100 head of cows, and is being built by Mr. J. T. Crawford. He has engaged Mr. Sherrer, of Gastonia, to superintend his dairy. Much interest is being mani1 r i. - J v * i ri 1 1 * iesieu in me sunaay scnooi at Olivet church. The school has recently been graded and much good work is being done. A Baraca and a Philathea class are being organized. The school hopes to be represented at the State Sunday School convention, at Spartanburg. Cane Hay and Spanish Peanuts. Editor Fort Mill Times: As the time is here for the farmers to begin thinking about what to raise for stock feed next ! winter, and as I recently heard a number of them in Fort Mill i township speak of the trouble of i securing roughness, I trust you will allow me space to tell what we use for feed in Texas, with the hope that some of my South Carolina friends will try it: Select from two to six acres of fair j land and sow to it amber cane ! seed, from two to three bushels | per acre, as the land may require. If good land, put about , f hroa hucKolc nov mava ?>n/l !%#*% bin w ^uouvm |/v i uv. x ^ auu mil" i row level for mower. Sow dur1 ing cotton planting season and the harvest will be fine hay for horse or cattle feed. Of course the farmer will have to be his own judge of the land. If the seeds are put in too thin, the cane will grow too large. In this country there are generally one I or two men in each neighborhood with a mower and hay rake who do the cutting for $1.25 or $1.50 per day. They cut the cane I and let it sun about two days, I then go with rake and put it in i wind rows. Then the cane should be put into good shocks | for one or two weeks, afterwards J being put away in the barn or ; in hay ricks. On my visit to the Fort Mill 1 section some months ago, I found j only one or two farmers who j i movu kjpaiiioii X I peanuts are without doubt the i finest hog feed the farmer can i grow, but the hog must have plenty of water while eating them. Knowing that the farmers I around Fort Mill have more or J less land on which corn cannot be grown profitably without ferj tilizers. I advise that this land be used for a peanut crop. Spanish peanuts are easy to grow and j can be fed to horses and mules as well as hogs. I trust that some of the farmers in Fort Mill township will experiment with j amber cane seed and Spanish ! peanuts this year. H. F. Johnson. | Rockdale, Tex. V I WHAT "MILITARY PAY" BILL WOULD MEAN FOR THE MALISH Had Congress passed the "mi-1 litia pay" bill, which went through the house successfully and which remained a possibility in the senate until the closing "hours of the session, there would now in all probability be speeding toward the Mexican frontier a large portion of the National I Guard of the United States. In ; fact after the session ended many ; ! persons were not aware that just j before it came to a close the! mnoenrn f hot Jrl J i ivaoui v uiai nuuiu ikivt: |?UlCfU ' every soldier within the country | 1 practically under Federal control ; had been smothered to death by the senate committee on military ; affairs. Under the bill the enlisted men were to receive $48 a year each i , for attending a certain number of drills and to receive, in ad- J ! dition, a percentage of the regu-! lar army pay in time of war. i Likewise officers were to secure. pay for their time while not under orders from the war department | ; and additional pay when at the ! front. Those who desired to see the ; enactment of this measure point| ed to the fact that in some parts of the country the Nat'onal Guard J is in a deplorable condition, totally unfit to render service to the j , government if called upon, and j I that if the State troops are to! continue to be the beneficiaries1 of the government that they | should be required to show a > greater degree c>f efficiency and ! military duty. There is every reason to believe that at the next session of Congress?possibly at the extra session soon to begin-another effort will be made to get the "militia pay" bill through, and1 it is not improbable that the matter will end in success. Rev. Dr. Mack Returns to Fort Mill. The many friends and admirers throughout this section of the Rev. Dr. J. B. Mack will be j pleased to learn that he has deI cided to return to Fort Mill to i live and has stated that he inj tends to spend the remainder of I ! his days here. Dr. Mack is re! garded one of the ablest of the | many able ministers of the Southern Presbyterian church and the i , intimation that the people of this ; section will have the opportuni-! | ty of occasionally hearing him 1 ! preach will be received with in- j ; terest. Several years ago Dr. Mack j moved from Fort Mill to College Place, Ga., where he has since! been the pastor of the Presbyte rian church. To the regret of his congregation, Dr. Mack re: signed the pastorate at College Place some time ago. Great ! pressure was brought to bear on Dr. Mack to withdraw the resignation, but his mind was made up to return to Fort Mill. Discussing his return to Fort Mill, Dr. Mack recently said: "I have been preaching for j.. n 1 ii '' ucariy 01 years anu in mat time j I have received into the church; 1 nearly 9.000 converts. In Georgia at this time, there are 238 Presbyterian churches. I have taken part in the formation and ; organization of one-sixth of them. j ' I am now getting old, have some j land in Fort Mill on whith I can , make a living and I intend spending the remainder of my life I there, preaching at such times as I my health will permit. However, j I never intend to have another j ! regular charge permanently any-' where." Dr. and Mrs. Mack will occupy their home on Confederate street I as soon as some repairs which are ': under way are completed. Governor Blease to be in Charlotte. i' Friends of Governor Blease in '; this section of the State are i hoping that he will tind it con' venient to accept the invitation . which will be extended him to; visit Charlotte on the 20th of 1 i May and participate in the exercises celebrating the adoption of i the Mecklenburg declaration of i independence. Governor Kitchin of North Carolina will be on hand : and make a speech and if (lover- j nor Hlease accepts the invitation it is certain that a large crowd will be attracted to the city by the presence of the two gover- i i nors. OLD WHITE HOMESTEAD GOES TO CAPT. WHITE'S GRANDSON Considerable interest attaches locally to the distribution of the valuable estate of the late Capt. S. E. White, who died at the home of his son-in-law. Col. Lerov Springs. in Lancaster, on the 4th inst., as much of the estate is located in Fort Mill township. As yet the will of Capt. White has not been offered for probate, but The Times is in formed that in it Col. Springs is! named as the sole executor, with-1 out bond. Col. Springs and his | son. Elliott White Springs, grand-; son of Capt. White, are theI principal legatees, between whom the estate is divided almost equally. To Elliott White Springs 1.1 u urL'i i - - * I i? fit lmi.* oiu ? nice nomesieaa, comprising: the historic old mansion and 500 acres of land surrounding it. The mansion was built in 1832 by the father of Capt. White, Col. William White. It is a commodious two-story building, built of brick imported from England, and is situated in a beautiful grove a few hundred yards beyond the corporate limits of F\>rt Mill. For many years before and a few years after the War Between the States, the mansion was noted throughout the upper section of the State for the lavish hospitality dispensed within its walls. In it President , Jefferson Davis was entertained a few days after the fall of the Confederacy at Richmond and in the shade of one of the beautiful oaks on the lawn his last full cabinet meeting was held. In recent years the old mansion has been used as a boarding house and there is now about the place little to mark it as the former home of Southern culture and refinement. Interesting objects to many ; who visit the grounds of the old White mansion are a millstone and cannon ball which partly cover the spring, 200 yards in the rear of the house. The millstone was used years ago at the old White mill, two miles east of ! town, and the cannon ball was found near the Catawba river, a short distance south of town, ' *u U4. i ? I n UCIC 11 ID LllUU^HL IU ilitVC llt'UIl left by Yankee troops during the war. Some years ago Capt. White had the millstone moved to the grounds and laid in mortar and cement as a partial covering for the old spring. Securely fastened in the aperture in the centre of the millstone is the cannon ball, on which is inscribed the names of the various owners 1 of the homestead since a remote i ancestor of Capt. White acquired it from the Indians 171 years ago, 1 the inscriptions being as follows: j "1740 - Land owned first by the Indians; William Kllliott; Samuel; Elliott; William Elliott White; David H. White; Samuel Elliott White; Grace White Springs; j Elliott White Springs." Gold Hill School Closet. The 1010-T1 session of the I (iold Hill public school will close i Tuesday, the 21st, after what the j patrons consider one of the most' successful sessions the school has yet had. Under the direction of Miss Esther Boyd, of Corn well, principal, assisted by Miss Alma Therrell. of Pleasant Valley, the work of the school has progressed smoothly and the 80-odd pupils have shown marked improvement in their classes. Invitations have been extended Miss Hyde, instructor of domestic science at Winthropcollege, and Prof. L. A. Niven, head of the agricultural department at Winthrop, to be present and deliver addresses at the closing exercises of the school and it is hoped that the invitation will be accepted by both. Cannot Accept the invitation. Among the South Carolina militia officers who were given the opportunity to attend the army manoeuvres along the Mexican border was Capt. T. B. Sprattof the Fort Mill Light Infantry. Saturday Capt. Spratt received a telegram from Col. W. VV. Lewis, First regiment, asking if he cared to he designated by the war department as one of the j National Guard officers of the' State who will be sent to Texas. Owing to the press of personal: business, Capt. Spratt was forced I to decline the invitation. Former Fort Mill Citizens. \ Two former Fort Mill citizens whose numerous friends here were pleased to note their presence in town a few days aero were v Messrs. B. F. and Ben Powell, i father and son. respectively, of ? Charlotte, who moved to the ? North Carolina city from Fort J" Mill about 30 years ago. A third ^ of a century ago the Messrs. Powell were well known citizens i of Fort Mill. For several years { following the Reconstruction era * Mr. B. F. Powell was the local magistrate and to him is given . much of the credit for reestab- ! lishing order after the orgy of scalawag and negro domination. v In those days Mr. Ben Powell , ~ S- ^ ' I ?cio rt 111111Lii11l young democrat Q who could always he depended V upon to help regulate the little J political and racial disturbances I , that could he more satisfactorily settled out of the courts. He ^ was a powerful man physically * and not infrequently his strong : right arm was used for the com- f munity's good. It is said that on one occasion a negro became ? too familiar with Mr. Powell by placing his hand on the latter's * shoulder during a conversation I between the two and that the only remonstrance from Mr. :I Powell was a blow with his fist which doubled the negro up in a wad 25 feet away. . fl Poil Office's New Order. The ]X)stoffice department has ., issued an order affecting pub- f Ushers which is of particular f interest. It requires that when c second class mail matter includ- ^ ing newspapers, periodicals, s magazines, etc., are left in the j office unclaimed for any cause, ^ the postmaster shall send to the t newspaper, magazine company, c etc., a notice of the non-delivery j of the same, and that after five r weeks from the sending of the ]( notice, if the newspapers, etc., ^ are unclaimed the postmaster ~r shall attach to them a label and \return to the publishers and col- r lect nostatre at the rate of one i cent for each two ounces. If, j however, the publisher sends j, stamps for the return of the mat- ^ ter. postage will be accepted at a the rate of one cent for each j, four ounces. This order makes j, it of utmost importance for the t postmasters to keep the publishers informed of matter that is not delivered, on account of refusal or other reasons, and it also places an obligation upon sub- f scribers to leave at the postodice a in whose vicinity they live, notice ? to immediately inform the post- s master of any change of address ^ so he, as well as the subscriber, n can notify the publisher and save I delay and expense. v From Fort Mill to El Paso. Ml' R M I OO '? l-n/,i..r> * * ? A/* AtA, AUVV , f 4 Ull IVilWV> II young citizen of the township, has arranged with Mr. J. F. Lee to attend to his farming interests t for the year and Tuesday morn- s ing he and Mrs. Lee and their a little girl left for San Francisco, c After spending two weeks on r the Pacific coast. Mr. Lee and r his family will go to El Paso, t Tex., where Mr. Lee has ac- t cepted a position with the El Paso 2 & Southwestern railroad. c GROCEF New goods ar received in our G which insures our ing perfectly fr< handle only the b able brands of e^ product, and sell prices. For the 1 to eat go to? McFlhane> ? mm VIFE'S SUIT AGAINST HUSBAND, B. R. TILLMAN, JR., CONTINUED By consent of counsel, amotion s'as made before Judge Sease n Leesville. Lexington county. >aturday, to continue the case of Jrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman against ler husband, F>. R. Tillman, Jr. rhe case was instituted about our months ago. upon an account or money alleged to be due Mrs. Pillman by her husband, the sum ued for being upwards of $13, 00. The case is now pending in he court at Edgefield and would, n the natural course of things, lave been tried at that place this veek. The motion for continuance was >ased on the physical inability of senator Tillman to attend court, ic being a witness for the deense. A certificate from Dr. '. W. Babcock was submitted, riving it as his opinion that it vould be unwise and detrimental o the senator's health for him o attend court at this time or to >e troubled with the matter. The ourt ordered the case continued, t being understood between counel that the condition of the senaor was not to be used in the uture as a ground for continu inee. Mrs. Mills' House Warming. On Friday afternoon Mrs. T. A. dills celebrated the event of noving into her handsome new lome on Booth street by giving; l house warming: to many of her riends. During: the afternoon rom 3 to 6 o'clock about 50 ladies ailed. The beautiful home was >right with the first flowers of pring and handsome pot plants, drs. Effie Thompson, assisted by diss Marjorie Mills, received in he hall, which glowed its welome in red and green. Mrs. dills, in her gracious manner, eceived her friends in the par r, which was fragrant with rellow jonquils; and the dining oom pleased the sense of the eautiful by the exquisite arangement of violets. A deightful luncheon was served by drs. T. S. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. I>ed Harris and Miss Minnie iarrison. All spent a delightful fternoon and went away wishtig for their hostess peace and oy through all the changes of he years. Winthrop's Summer School. Plans for the summer school or teachers at Winthrop college " * ' ? ire oeing: periectect and the asurance is given that one of the trongest and best schools of the dnd ever held in South Carolina vill be conducted for four weeks, >eginning June 21. In a few veeks the Winthrop authorities vill issue a circular outlining ourses of study and expenses. Gipsies Hike Along. The band of Gipsy fortuneellers whose presence on the itreets of Fort Mill some days igo occasioned much averse criti:ism shook the dust of the comnunity ofT their feet Thursday norning. A few cents more han nine dollars was collected of he fortune-tellers by the town mthorities in license and fines luring their stay here. mmmmmmmm mmmmmmm aaamtsmmmm m IIES | =zzzz= a e being constantly rocery department customers receivssh articles. We est and most relivery kind of food them at bed rock Dest in everything y & Co. mmmmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmmm m