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1 !'?ii ;~^z$r* ^ J**r?v. '?,- sS' 5 ^ l v.v^/. ^. - . . *?, f.d The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19 -NO. 52. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1911. $1.25 PER YEAR TILLMAN IN TALKATIVE MOOD ? DISCUSSES VARIOUS SUBJECTS Saturday Senator Benjamin R. Tillman discussed in Columbia the tariff situation and national A politics in general, with especial emphasis upon the possibility of Democratic success at the next election. Senator Tillman be f lieves that the Democrats have a W srolden opportunity. "Will you stand for reelection?" the senator was asked. "I have already said," he replied, "that if my health is fair ly good I shall run again. I do not wish the office unless 1 can fill it reasonably well." The senator has not decided whether he will attend the special session of Congress; he probably will not. He is paired with a New Englander, whose position on the tariff would likely be the opposite to his own. "And what do you think of Governor Biease?" a reporter ventured. "I have given my opinion of Biease." said Mr. Tillman. "I gave it right after the last election. It hasn't changed much. He has disappointed me somewhat, but he has a hard road to travel. You newspaper folks have nagged him continually." In addition to stating that he was a little disappointed in Governor Biease, although the governor has had a hard road to travel. Senator Tillman referred to his pardon record by asking a question: "Don't you think," he said, "that Governor Blease's large pardon list might be explained by the possibility that there are a large number of meritorious petitions for pardon left over from the Ansel administration, because of the well known fact that Governor Ansel did not wish generally to interfere with the courts' verdicts?" Senator Tillman continued that "Governor Biease may be allowing his goodness of heart to influence him to some extent in granting pardons." Senator Tillman hopes the Democrats will tackle the tariff as a whole, not in spots. He thinks the whole task perilous in the extreme. "Every party that has tried to revise the tariff has shortly afterward gotten it in the neck," he said. "Oh, Railey just got into a rage." the senator said, when asked about the Texan's resignation. "He swung his little hatchet, the head flew off and he got his head bunged up. I think he'll be good hereafter." Senator Tillman said that he had recently heard attributed to Booker T. Washington the statement that Tillman and Vardaman were passing and that the negro was gaining a stronger foothold in the South. The senator, in a letter, replied that he had heard that Booker was making "googoo eyes" at a German woman and got into trouble. Also, that as long as the water flowed the Caucasians would rule over the Southland. Death of Samuel A. Kell. Samuel Alexander Kell died in Clinton, S. C.. on March 9, 1911. of dilatation of the heart. Mr. Kell was a Fort Mill boy, having been born here on November 1, 1880, being the son of Dr. Samuel A. and Mrs. Anna Reid Kell. He is survived by his mother and his two sisters, Hattie, who married Mr. Frank E. Cortney, and Margaret Goulding, who married Mr. Robert G. Parks. All of these live in Augusta, Ga. Five years ago he married Miss Olivia Watson, of Clinton, S. C., by whom he had three sons. The youngest dying last November. Mr. Kell was the manager of the Cable Piano Co. in Clinton. He had been in poor health for some time but seemed better, when he was suddenly called from time to eternity. For this change he was prepared as he had clearly expressed his faith in Christ a few days before, and intended uniting with the Presbyterian church on the following L4 Sabbath. Being a Mason, he ' was buried with Masonic honors. As one has said "Sammie was quiet in his life, but was a very lovable and popular man, always bringing sunshine with him." M. - Praise for President Riggs. Col. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton, a former chairman of the board of trustees of Clemson college and at present a member of the board, talked in an optimistic ; vein Saturday about Clemson and its future. "Clemson college is in better shape today than ever before," he said, "and thecollege is doing better work than ever , before, and there is less friction I than at any time since it was established. There is cooperation jand unity of purpose 011 the part of everybody connected with the college, and the work is prospering. Prof. Riggs, the new presi. dent, is doing splendid work, i He was acting president for more | than a year after the resignation I of President Mell, and the board ; elected him president at the I recent meeting after he had demonstrated his fitness for the 1 position, lie has shown wonderful Hliui'irv 'mil ? *v?i v i*v-i /s.* uit\i v.*4| ;uv iv> , tn in tl thorough grasp of the work to be done. He has the lull confidence of the student body, and is being given the heartiest support and ; cooperation of the faculty and j the trustees. The influence of the college is broadening, and the i worth cf the institution to the people of the State is appreciated ' by the people of the State as I never before. The college authorities have in view several important steps to extend the usefulness of the college still further. The whole situation at the college is most satisfactory 1 and most gratifying. It is better ; than ever before." _ ^ Mr. B. E. Mangum Dead. Mr. B. E. Mangum. a former citizen of Fort Mill, died VVednes- > day morning at 6:30 o'clock at the home of his daughter. Mrs. j ,J. W. Hood, in Rock Hill, after , an illness of only a few minutes. I The burial was in Elm wood cemetery, Rock Hill, Thursday. morning. Rev. Mr. Whitaker conducting the services. Mr. Mangum had been in deiclining health for several months | but seemed as well jis usual until Wednesday morning, when he suddenly became violently ill and j expired before medical aid could ' reach him. Heart failure is j thought to have been the cause ! of his death. Mr. Mangum was 80 years of I age and a Confederate veteran, ! having served through the war, I with a South Carolina regiment, j He was a life long member of! i the Methodist church and before I | the infirmities of age seized him 1 ! was a regular attendant upon j ; church services. His death was j i a great shock to a wide circle of i ! friends. Mr. Mangum is survived by : I the following children: Mrs. E. S. I | Parks, of Fort Mill; Mrs. T. E. J Merritt, of Huntersville, N. C. ! Mrs. W. L. Moton, of Gastonia;; ! a# T 1?r ff * ?* ^ rar?. -j. w. riooa. Mrs. tj. A. { Furr and Mr. Fletcher Mangum, | of Rock Hill. Paroled by Governor Blease. Friday Governor Blease paroled j Larence Marley, a York county ' prisoner in the State penitentiary. who was serving1 a seven-, j year sentence for the murder of John Warlick in a Yorkville barber shop about four years ago. 1 The petition sent the governor in ! | Marle.v's behalf is said to have ; been signed by all the jurymen j ! who returned the verdict against him and many influential citizens ; of the county. Monday Governor Blease paroled Hamp James, sentenced by j Judge Gary at Marion, in October. 1903, to be hanged for, 1 murder; sentence commuted af, terward to life imprisonment. Reuben Cunningham, of Lanj caster, was also paroled Monday ; by the governor, after having served six months of a year's ; sentence for housebreaking and | larceny. "The Mouataiaeer's Daughter. ' 1 The Mountaineer's Daughter'' j is the title of a comedy drama in ] six acts to be presented by local talent at the auditorium at 8 o'clock on the evening of April 4. ; i Music will be furnished by John-; . ston's orchestra, Rock Hill, and an admission fee of 15, 25 and ! 35 cents will be charged. The ! ! i -" .i ? * > pruceeas 01 me evening will be j rwed for charitable purposes. PROGRAM OF YORK SCHOOL DAY J MEET AT WINTHROP COLLEGE Following is the program of the York County school day ex- t ereises to he held at Winthrop I college, Saturday, April 15: * Literary features 11 a. m. to } 1 p. m. . Arithmetic contest for pupils | ' from first to fifth grades, inclu- ' sive. This will be a written con- ( test and a committee will be \ appointed as judges of the papers. J Contest open to one representative from each school. r Similar contest for pupils from J , sixth to tenth grades, inclusive. 1 ' Spelling contest for pupils of; j first to fifth' grades, inclusive. , | Open to two representatives from * each school. Spelling contest for pupils from ' sixth to tenth grades, inclusive. * Open to two representatives from \ cai.ii ricuuui. i , Declamation contest for pupils | . from first to sixth grades, inclusive. . Declamation contest for pupils! of sixth to tenth grades, inclusive, j Only one pupil to each contest from each school, and pupil cannot enter more than one literary ! contest. Picnic dinner on college cam- J pus 1 p. m. to 2 p. m. Athletic features for girls. 2 to ! 1 p. m. I LOO yard dash, one from each school. I Baseball throw, one from each school. Relay race, each team consists of four, one team from each school. Potato race, one from each school. Athletic features for boys: 100 yard dash (boys under: twelve), one from each school. 100 yard dash, one from each school. 140 yard run, one from each school. \ Kunning broad jump, one from j 1 each school. Running high jump, one from ] each school. s Baseball throw, one from each ' school. Relay race, each team consists of four, one team from each ' school. 1 Tug of war, each team consists of four, one team from each school. Boys will not be allowed to j enter more than two athletic contests, not including the relay ) race. Entrance in literary con- 1 j test will not debar entrance in athletic contest. i Each school is requested to . send an exhibit of drawing, map- i making, composition work, etc. A first prize of 50 cents and a second prize of 25 cents will be given in all contests, and pictures to scholars for best exhibits. First place shall count five: points, second three points, and j third one point. m m m Tillman's Public Service. Senator B. R. Tillman has been in public life since 1886, when he , began a campaign for industrial and agricultural education. He was made governor in 1890 and became senator in 1895. There he found Morgan, of Alabama; Teller, of Colorado; John B. Gor- , don, of Georgia; Allison, of Iowa; Gorman, of Maryland; Vest and Cockrell, of Missouri; David B. Hill, Hoar, Quay, Daniel, Pfeffer, Lindsay, of Kentucky, Wal-* ( thai and George and John Sher- , man. . All of them are gone from the j senate and most of them from ' life, and with them half a score of lesser lights. On the senate | horizon, too, has rizen, blazed: | and vanished the meteoric light of < Carmack. There Hanna and For- . akcr have played their roles. , Hale and Aldrich have passed. Only Lodge, Fry, Gallinger, Bacon and Cullom, and maybe one or two more, of all those that served with Tillman in his first j term, will take their seats in the 1 Sixty-second Congress next Tues- ! day. Yes, After He Learns tbe Law. j Charlottr Observer. If a vacancy should arise, Prcs- ] dent Taft might go farther and i fare worse than by appointing i former Governor Ansel of South ] Carolina to the Federal bench. i IUDGESHIP NOT FOR MR. MOORE j EMPHATICALLY SAYS GOVERNOR The refusal of Governor Blease ;o commission Judge Ernest Moore as special judge, to hold i special term of court at Union. ; vhich was to have commenced Monday, has renewed the special udgeship fight. It would ap-1 >oar that the question of whether >r not the supreme court can j nandamus the governor of the State is now put squarely up to J Jiat tribunal. In the presence of Senator! Tillman and Mr. R. E. Wylie. of Lancaster, whom Judge Moore I isked to go to Columbia to get lis commission. Governor Blease ;aid Saturday. "Ira B. Jones can mandamus >r God-dam us or do anything he Meases. I am not going to appoint Ernest Moore as special udge for the Union county court, i You can take these papers back, 'or I will not read them." These remarks were addressed .0 Mr. Wylie, who presented the' equest for the commission for fudge Ernest Moore. Sundav Governor an. lounced to the press his reason I 'or refusing to appoint Ernest; VIoore special judge: John K. damblin, a member of the Union bounty Bar association, who had > Deen handling the special court natter for the Union bar, sent a etter to Governor Blease stating hat the recommendation of Er- i ?est Moore had been withdrawn 3y the bar association. The letter of Mr. Hamblin to Governor Blease is as follows: "As we have a court ordered for lext week, beginning March 27, I to try equity cases, and there are >ut-of-town attorneys who are nterested in the court and makng inquiries, I should be very ?lad if you would give me the nformation as to whether or not i judge has been commissioned to hold this court. "Our bar has withdrawn the name of Ernest Moore, and has j suggested (in event there is no disengaged circuit judge) that we have Walter Hunt of Newberry, or C. C. Sims of Barnwell, >r Judge R. O. Purdy of Sumter. '' Miss Mabel Hinshaw Hart. Miss Mabel Hinshaw, teacher in the Fort Mill graded school, was painfully injured about the face and arm Thursday evening by a fall from the automobile of Mr. W'. B. Ardrey. Miss Hinshaw was one of several passengers Mr. Ardrey was taking to Charlotte for a theatrical performance. As the machine was n.i??in<r thrr\11 rrV-i tKo Cfnnl Kv?ww(ii^ VUV Ul/WI V-?I CCI\ neighborhood at a sharp turn in the road an unobserved "breaker" was struck with considerable force, throwing Miss Hinshaw to the roadside. Following the accident, Miss Hinshaw was hurriedly taken to the home of Mr. W. A. Watson, in Charlotte, where she received medical attention. Friday Miss Hinshaw returned to Fort Mill and Monday morning she was able to resume her duties in the school room. Mrs. Cleveland Not Engaged. S. S. Hastings, executor of the estate of the late Grover Cleveland and in chargeof Mrs. Cleveland's personal affairs, has issued the following statement: "The paragraph appearing in one of the weekly society publications siicrcrpstintr that th<?rn iu an engagement of marriage between Mrs. Cleveland and Prof. West, of Princeton, is not only without the slightest justification, hut is fully refuted by the fact that Dean West already has a wife living, and their son is now a student in Princeton University." Jack Johnson's Cranium. Jack Johnson's skull has been measured under the Roentgen ray by San Francisco surgeons, who declare that a blow sufficient to kill a steer would barely jar Johnson. His head, say the X-ray artists, was built to withstand everything but a steel projectile. It takes the Roentgen ray from 5 to 16 seconds to penetrate the skull of the average person; it took 5 1-2 minutes to penetrate the champion's cranium. Special Courses For Rural Teacbers. In addition to the usual courses in the elementary and secondary subjects, the summer school for teachers, to be held at Winthrop college, beginning June 1. has arranged to offer certain courses designed especially to aid the rural teachers. Among these will be included the following: Special problems of the rural school. Special methods and devices for the rural schools. Rural school agriculture and school gardening. Domestic science for rural schools. Practical manual training fori rural schools. The cost of board, including room nnrl Urrrir ??rill U.? cmo ... .i^aiv, >>iil UC t?10 1U1 the whole term (four weeks): $5 a week for time less than the whole session; and $1 a day for less than a week. A matriculation fee of $f> to cover the four weeks' work will he charged. Teachers are urged to engage rooms at once. State Militia Officers to Texas. Major Boyd Cole and Captain Harold Simms. of Barnwell; Captain George Warren, of Sumter, and Captain Isadore Schayer (surgeon), of Laurens, were designated Friday by Adjutant General Moore as the first militia officers from South Carolina to participate in the current manoeuvres on the Mexican frontier. Another group of four South Carolina officers will probably be sent forward a fortnight hence. Winthrop's New Building. Among other matters taken up Saturday at a meeting of the Winthrop College board of trustees in Columbia was the new science and arts building to be erected at that institution. The building will cost $60,000 to be paid in three annual instalments of $20,000 each, appropriated by the General Assembly in the memorable appropriations fight at the last session. ??oiouotiouo?tiouo: !=milli 9 8 = Special displays g in Pattern Hats, Q American styles; al | Tailored Hats for s ' MISS LILLI1 8 Rock H 8 Rooms upstairs in Mutual Di By appointment I will me w to Rock Hill on the early rrv 5 turn home on the 9 o'clock I 0 nOtCKiOtOCHOiKCXO SPECIAL AND SPEC! Chicken and Chi< Irish Cobbler See variety, superior to (JOOP Molasses, good we mean good 2ft and 50 gallon ke \V are overstock they must go. McElhan MAJOR BLACK NOW FREE MAN BY GRACE OF PARDONING POWER Major John Black, of Columbia, sentenced at Chester last November to five years' imprisonment. for conspiracy to defraud the State, in connection with the late State dispensary, of which he was a director, was pardoned outright Friday afternoon by Governor Blease, who had on February 27 commuted Major Black's sentence to five years' imprisonment or a fine of $2,000. The $2,000 had not been paid, the defendant being given until September to put up the money; and this fine will never J be paid. The pardon wipes Major Black's slate clean and restores him to citizenship. No comment from the governor appears iti the record, the proclamation pardoning Major | Black being only the usual form. ' "divers good cause and considerations me hereunto moving;" but Governor Blease said, in announcing his action to reporters, that he had finally determined to move as he did in the matter by a letter received Friday morning from Attorney General Lyon. This letter told of various criminal prosecutions, arising from the dispensary scandals, which had been dropped and of several civil actions which had been compromised. Roddey-Pegram. The Fort Mill friends of Mr. Ward W. Pegram were pleasantly surprised a few days ago to learn of his marriage the evening of the 19th instant to Miss Estelle Roddey, of Lancaster. The marriage took place at the manse of the Lancaster Presbyterian church and was performed by the pastor. Rev. Chalmers Fraser. The bride is a daughter of Mr. A. J. Roddey. Mr. Pegram was reared in Fort Mill and is well known and liked in this community. He is at present engaged as conductor on the Lancaster and Chester railroad. K CKO NE.RY = ? of all the new ideas * both French and g Iso the New Gage Q >treet wear. E B. THOM, j [ill, S. C. 5 ry Goods Co.'s building. et Fort Mill ladies who come orning train and wish to re- j train. t??no< iooooooi mrnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm S I [AL PRICES [ k Feed, (1 Potatoes, "Maine" others, , and when we say Put up in 5, 10, ><rs iinrl hnrrolti ^ w ?'%? i iv in* | ed on Molasses and ey & Co.