The Fort Mill Times.
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VOLUME 19?NO. 51. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1911. J1.25 PER YEAR
ED CATON, OFTEN IN TROUBLE,
WANTED FOR THE CHAINGANG
Getting into trouble and staying
in it seems to come easy with
Ed Caton, a former Fort Mill
township farmer. Afterserving
a sentence on the chaingang of
York county about ten years ago.
for violating the dispensary law,
Caton migrated to Mecklenburg
county, N. C. He had not been
long across the State line when :
he was suspected of again engaging
in the illicit liquor traffic
and was promptly haled into
court by the North Carolina authorities.
He was fortunate
enough to be acquitted of the
charge. Two years ago, howpvpr
he ncain bohhed ur> in the
Mecklenburg court as the defendant
in a suit charging adul- j
tery. This time the court got |
Caton's goat and sent him to1
the chaingang for 18 months. '
He served part of the sentence
only. Upon what now appears
to have been a misrepresentation
of the facts as to Caton's health, !
Governor Kitchin was induced to
parole him. Caton at the time
being at large through escape
from the chaingang. After
Caton received the governor's
parole, effective during good behavior.
he settled down in the
Sharon section of Mecklenburg
county. Little more was heard
of him until Sunday, the 5th
inst.. when he and a numerous)
party of "sports" foregathered |
at Caton's home and got busy i
inaugurating a big cocking main
they had planned for the day. i
The officers of the law got busy i
about the same time, however,
and swooped down on the
k "sports," with the result that
L about a dozen of them were fined
in the recorder's court in Charij|
lotte the following day, Caton
being one of the number. Next
to get busy was the good people
gll of the Sharon neighborhood, who
|H sent a petition to the governor
gj| praying that he rid their eommunity
of Caton's presence by
S? nrrlfiHlur him ruf i > >-><,<1 thn
rv?4 v ? v> & j fs I > I 1 I I k V W I I IV' VJ LV I I
chaingang to complete his unexpired
term for adultery. Governor
Kitchin ordered Caton to
appear at a hearing to he held in
Charlotte to show cause why he
should not be returned to the
chaingang for violating the terms
of his parole. Caton did not appear
for the hearing, however,
and when the officers went to
arrest him there was no Caton of
the name of Ed to be found. He
had run away.
Considers It No Dishonor.
Ex-State Senator J. S. Brice,
of Yorkville, does not think that
reproach has been brought upon
him by the action of Governor
Blease in dismissing him as a
member of the winding-up commission
of the old State dispensary.
In a statement prepared
for the press. Mr. Brice
says: "1 would say the commission
a few weeks ago gave to the
governor, and through the press
to the State at large, the reasons
of the delay in the completion of
their work and also the reason
why a certain amount of money
was retained in their hands. It
is useless to discuss the legality
of the acts of the commission
with the governor, since the
governor in his mvn
knows more law than any other
lawyer in the State.
"I will say, however, that 1 do
not consider it any dishonor to
be removed from office by a man
of the calibre and character of
our present governor.
"My work as a member of the
commission is an open book, that
may be read by all men. and I
leave it to the honest citizens of
South Carolina, who have no
sympathy with thieves and grafters,
to say whether or not 1 have
done my duty."
Hub Evans Case Continued.
The case against Hub Evans,
former member of the old South
Carolina board of dispensary di
rectors, under indictment in one
of the so-called "graft cases"
was continued in the Newberry
court Monday until the next term.
The continuance is probably the
last which will be granted, the
case either being brought to trial
at the next term of court or nol
proased. according to Judge R. C.
Wutta, presiding.
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PARDON RECORD OF GOVERNOR
AHEAD OF HIS PREDECESSORS'
Governor Blease is shown by
the records to have set a pace
in the issuing of pardons, com-1
mutations and paroles which no
other governor in many years has
reached.
Fifty-five times within the 60
days, ending Saturday night,
since his inauguration he has
utilized his power of executive
clemency.
Twenty-seven of his beneficiaries
have been pardoned out- j
right, 18 have had their sentences
commuted and 10 have
been paroled during good behavior.
Many of these comU
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iut.iicii.iiMi?> iicive utrcn mj arrangea
as to be in effect full pardons, except
that the beneficiary is not
restored to citizenship.
On each of these cases Governor
Blease has acted without
official advice, having: said some
time ago that he had no use for
the State board of pardons. He
has not seen fit to take the public
into his confidence as to the
grounds of his action 011 the
various petitions for clemency
which he has granted. In the
office of the secretary of state,
where the records are kept, only
the purely formal orders are
filed. Governor Ansel's custom
was to file with each order of
this kind a brief statement of
the reasons moving him to his
action. These statements were
shown to newspaper men visiting
the office and the rej>orters were
also shown at the same time the |
petitions, with indorsements.
Runaway Buggy Demolished.
A buggy, the property of W.
M. Ad kins, a farmer of Fort Mill
township, was completely demolished
Friday afternoon by a
runaway pair of mules belonging
to J. Z. Bailes, of the Pleasant
Valley neighborhood. The mules
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l were standing- on Main street
near the public well. Mr. Bailes
ordered the negro driver to take
hold of the bridle of one of the
j mules, lest they become frightened
at an approaching train.
But instead of taking fright at
(the train the mules became
! frightened at the negro and
bolted up the street. They ran
into the hitching lot at the head
of Main street and one of them
jumped on the buggy of Mr. Adkins.
breaking it into many
pieces. Mr. Bailes readily agreed
to pay the damage to the buggy
and the matter was amicably
settled.
Massey-Hunter.
The announcement, made at a
meeting of the Book club held
Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. T. B. Sprat t. of the
approaching marriage of Miss
' Li 1 lie Massey to Mr. J. Cleon
Hunter, of Woodruff, came as a
pleasant surprise to their many
i friends in this section. The marriage
is to take place early in
June, and will be an event of
interest in Fort Mill's social circles.
Miss Massey is a daughter
l?r M.. I 1 V? > -
i v i mi. ij. ??. masht'y ill HI is ii
young woman of lovable dispoi
sition and attractive personality,
j She has a wide circle of friends
in this section and throughout
the State. Mr. Hunter formerly
j lived in Fort Mill. He is now a
popular druggist of Woodruff and
also has a large number of friends
here and elsewhere in the State.
Can You Spell It?
The proper form of writing
(Sugar creek has come into quesj
tion. notes the Charlotte C.hron1
icle. Some one has suggested
that the spelling is Indian and
i is not the ordinary S-u-g-a-r.
Some has said that it ought to
j be spelled S-h-u-g-a-vv. Another
i mat it ougni 10 oe spelled S-ug-a-w.
Out on the ridge be'
yond the Sugar Creek church,
there is an old graveyard. SomeI
one has put up a tablet on the
edge of this graveyard and on
that tablet the name is spelled
S-u-g-a-w. Who can tell what is
the proper way to spell Sugar
creek? If it is any other than
S-u-g-a-r, then the name must be
j Indian, and it is more than probable
that the name was originally
I Indian.
PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL PASSES
FORT MILL IN GREAT HURRY
Returning to Washington from
a rest of several days at his
winter home near Augusta, Ga.,
President William Howard Taft
passed through Fort Mill at 9:12
o'clock Sunday evening on a
special train running on the time
of regular train No. 32, which 1
was delayed ten minutes on account
of the special. President 1
Taft probably did not know when
his train reached Fort Mill, otherwise
he might have deigned a
hurried howdy-do to the score
of citizens who were at the depot
awaiting the arrival of the train
in the hope of getting at ieast a
glimpse of the first citizen of the
republic. As it was, the train
slowed up a little as it passed
through town, but at that one
man said it was "hitting the
ball," as the expression goes in
railroad parlance. The special:
was composed of five coaches and
the president was riding in the
rear coach. President Taft and
his party reached Washington
early Monday morning.
Orangeburg Schools Fly State Flag.
The graded schools of the town
of Orangeburg are the first to
comply with the law, passed by
the General Assembly in 1910,
requiring that the Palmetto flag I
be displayed from every public
school house in the State. In all I
the other counties of the State
the law d' ubtless will be observed
as soon as the fiags can be secured
from Clemson college.
The act of the General Assembly
lequires that the fiag be
displayed, except in rainy weather.
from a stair upon the State
house, and every court house and
upon every public school building,
except when school is closed
during vacation. The act further
provides that the cost of the fiags
1 shall be paid out of the expense
funds for the maintenance of
the respective buildings and that
the fiags are to be made at Clemson
college at a reasonable price.
Tho rloeirrn iu Kino nnfli ? nrKitn
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crescent in the upper flagstaff
corner with a white palmetto tree
in the centre. It is a misdemeanor
to mutilate or destroy
the flags.
It is thought that the display|
ing of the flags from public
schools will be of great benefit
to the school children, as there
are are many of them who probably
would not know the flag of
their State if it were shown to
them. Many are unable to name
I and describe the color and design
appearing on it.
Cattle Quarantine Modified.
Local marketmen and others in :
; this section who deal in cattle
and dairy products were greatly
pleased to learn a few days ago
that an order, effective March
15. had been issued from the agricultural
department at Washington
releasing York. Lancaster
and other counties of South
! Carol inn from th<? PoHBrul ooolo
quarantine for Texas fever or
tick fever. This action of the
agricultural department was the
result of good progress made,
during the past year in the ex-i
termination of cattle ticks which I
spread the disease. The total |
area released from quarantine
since the eradication of ticks was j
systematically undertaken in the
summer of 1906 now amounts to j
nearly 140,000 square miles.
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Death From Blood Poisoning.
Rea, the 5-year-old son of Mr. |
j and Mrs. J. M. Parks, died of j
blood poisoning at the home of'
his parents, one mile from Pine- j
ville, early Sunday morning and
the little bodv was interred at
u-ii *? >
i' nut nui cemetery ivionuay ai
noon. The blood poisoning de!
veloped from an ulcer in the little
boy's mouth which was noted
first about a month a^o.
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Local Mill Conditions Satisfactory.
i Dispensary Constable Sanders
Tuesday morning paid his first
visit to Fort Mill in the dual
capacity of liquor officer and cot:
ton mill inspector. It is understood
that Mr. Sanders found the
conditions at both the local mills
satisfactory and will so state in
his report.
OLD WINDING-UP COMMISSION
MAKES WAY FOR NEW MEMBERS
After issuing an order last
Wednesday removing from office
the winding-up commission of
the old State dispensary, the
members being W. J. Murray,
Avery Patton, J. S. Brice. John
McSween and A. N. Wood, Satday
Governor Blease named a
new commission to take the place
of the men dismissed. The members
of the new commission
named by the governor are John
V. Wallace, Charleston; James
Stockhouse, Marion; T. F. Brantley,
Orangeburg; F. H. Dominick,
Newberry; John L. Mimnaugh,
Columbia. Mr. Mimnaugh
has since declined to
serve, however, and the governor
has not yet appointed a member
to take the place offered him.
ine otner members named by j
the governor have accepted.
John V. Wallace, of Charleston,
represents the Cable Piano
company and is a former member
of the house of representatives.
James Stackhou.se, of Marion,
is a former member of the State
senate.
Thomas F. Brantley, of Orangeburg.
is a former member of the
State senate and at one time was
a candidate for Congress.
F. H. Dominick is a former
la\V partner of Governor Rlease
and was at one time a member
of the house of representatives.
He lived in Columbia for a number
of years. His home now is
in Newberry.
Destructive Fire in Chester.
A destructive fire in Chester
Friday morning razed the big i
wood-working plant of the Chester
Machine and Lumber company.
entailing1 a loss of $35,000,
with but $6,500 insurance. The
fire originated in a dry kiln and :
spread so rapidly that the fire i
department could do nothing to i
check it. One of the owners of '
the company is Mr. B. M. Spratt,
formerly of Fort Mili. The plant
will be rebuilt at once.
Negroes Fight on Train.
Rock Hill Herald.
Last Friday evening while j
seated in the colored coach of
the South bound passenger train,
between Grattan and Carharrt
stations. VVylie Keenan. colored, ;
of this city, was struck two;
terrible blows, one on his head
and the other on the left shoulder.
by Ike Brown, colored, the
instrument used being one of the |
heavy brass cuspidors used on
the trains. Brown had been arrested
that day in Fort Mill, on
charges made by Keenan, and
Brown waited his chance to do I
his damage. Keenan received a ;
long gash in the back part of his
head, 15 stitches being neces-!
sary in sewing it up. Brown i
made his escape by jumping off
the train while it was running
between the two stations
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The Land of His Birth.
The late Edward Ward Carmack
was the most brilliant of;
the first magnitude stars of the
United States senate during the
six years he was in that body.
Nothing prettier has ever been
said of the South than this, from
the lips of Tennessee's matchless
son:
"The South is a land that has i
known sorrows: it is a land that i
has broken the ashen crust and j
moistened it with its tears; a:
land scarred and riven by the
plowshare of war and billowed
with the graves of her dead, but
a land of legend, a land of song,
a land of hallowed and heroic \
memories.
"To that land every drop of
my blood, everv fibre of mv beinir.
every pulsation of my heart is!
consecrated forever.
"I was born of her womb: I
was nurtured at her breast, and
when my last hour shall come, I
pray God that I may be pillowed
upon her bosom and rocked in 1
sleep within her tender and en-j
circling arms."
What! Assassination?
Spartanburg Herald.
If South Carolina ever elects
another governor over the pretest
of the press and the pulpit
some way to keep him from
serving will probably be found. !
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SPECIAL
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Chicken and Chicl
Irisli ('obbler Seed
variety, superior to <
GOOD Molasses,
i^ood we mean ?ood.
fc2(> and f)0 gallon ke<
We are overstocks
they must go.
McElharu
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^ And get your Baseba
^ quarters?Parks Drug Co.
Mitts, Gloves. Masks and
^ is up-to-the-minute and y
^ orders promptly.
^ Mail orders receive th
? the customer was in the i
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SCHOFIELD ENGil
???i "Have Stood the
They have no superior in point of DU
for Saw Mills, Oil Mills, Cotton C
r~required. Write for pr
Maaafactarc BOILERS. We can
T^rJiJp"k'' Constructed Uoilers, r
Sell Saaportiat Write todaj 1
Steel Stark*
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1 Branch Office. 307 U
FOR RENT A four room dwelling
in good condition. Large stable, 1 1-2
acre lot and good garden. Situated on
Confederate street. Applv to AI.KX j
HAULER.
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FOR SALE 100,000 frost-proof Cab- I
bage Plants, Early Jersey and Charleston
Waketield varieties.
2-2-tf B. M. FARIS. i
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Uniforms. Our stock ^
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ry for immediate shipment the Bert
nnging from 12 II. P. to 1">0 H. I',
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0, Works and Head Office, MACON, GA.
'est Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C.
WHITE LEGHORN EGGS.
I have for sale for hatching
purposes pure Wycoff
strain White Leghorn Eggs
it one dollar for 15.
D. A. LEE,
Fort Mill, S. C.