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4* THE FORT MILL TIMES. Dwim imtic ? Puublished Thursdays. B. W. BRADFORD Editor and Proprietor. iDMCUmoM Rates: Om Year.. $1.25 8bt Months 65 The Times invites contributions on live subjects bat does not agree to publish more than 200 words on anr subject. The right is reserved to edit vary communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those interested. Teiaobone. local and long distance. No. 112. ' Entered at the poetoffice at Fort Mill. S. C.. as mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1912. The Fly in the Ointment. It is doubtful whether the | action of the State Democratic Executive Committee in refusing a~ A l?.? fV, o rocnltc nf ihp nri 11/ Ul'tiai t VI1V 1 VUUItv v> v-.? r.. mary election held on the 27th 1 ultimo meets with the approval of a majority of the voters who participated in the election, j While it is true that the cry of fraud and illegal voting has been j set up in various counties of the State, it is likewise true, we believe, that if there have been irregularities the Blease faction of the party, on which there is an apparent effort to saddle the blame,, is no more responsible if indeed it is quite as responsible for them as the Jones faction. It is v- y well to recall in this i connection that practically all of the election machinery of the State was in the hands of Judge Jones' friends. At most of the j precinct meetings and at a majority of the county conventions and the State convention Judge Jones' friends were in control. In this section of the State, as in most other sections, two of the1 three managers at every voting precinct was a Jones man. This : being taue, if they failed to do their duty by declining to allow doubtful votes to be cast, then Judge Jones and not Governor Please should have to suffer as a result of their negligence. We take little stock in the claim that thousands of illegal votes were cast. The claim is based ppon the fact that the total vote for governor this year is larger by several thousand than it has been at any Democratic primary in the past. Ic is doubtful if there has ever been held in the - .... , . , i State rn election in vvnicn cnere was anything approaching the universal interest shown in the recent primary. Furthermore. South Carolina is growing in white population, and there are more white men of voting age in the State today than there have ever been. This fact could, and we believe does, account for the large vote, to a great extent. It is well to remember, also, that Judge Jones received 00,000 votes, several thousand more than half the number of votes usually cast heretofore in our primaries. If Governor Blease had received the same vote the total would have been 132,000; but the trouble seems to be that he received 4,300 more votes than Judge Jones. If that is not the fly in the ointment, then we are loathe Xo believe there is a fly in it. This paper does not express the opinion that there was no illegal voting in the primary, but it does express the opinion that if the returns had shown that Judge Jones was 4,300 votes ahead of Governor Blease the executive committee would have hooted the cry of fraud and immediately declared Judge Jones the nomi nee. Mr. Massey Holds Successful Meeting. The relatives and many friends in this section of Rev. J. B. Massey will read with interest the following account, from the Presbyterian Standard, of a revival meeting held recently at his church at Mossy Creek, Va. : "A ten days' meeting was conducted here recently by the pastor, assisted by Rev. J. A. Trostle, of Warm Springs, Va., and as a result forty-two have been added to the membership of this church, according to the report in the secular papers. The meeting was marked by the deepest interest from the beginning, and the Spirit moved with it - 1 -i? iL. 1 power on me neans 01 me people. Rev. J. A. Trostle has been greatly blessed in such meetings as this and is endowed with evangelistic power in a marked degree." The Jewish New Year. Beginning this (Wednesday) afternoon the Jewish people all over world begin the observance of the Jewish new year, ushering in the great fall festivals, with the most solemn of all religious holidays, that of Yom Kippur or Atonement Day. For the next two or three weeks, while the festival period lasts, the various observances of the holidays will be religiously carried out. The observance of 1 Rosh Hashonah or the new year starts at sunset. The festival , proper continues for twenty-four hours, and is marked by services of thanksgiving and renewed allegiance to God, a season of < gratitude and repentance. j; Patience and Perseverance. One does not necessarily have to hark back to the biblical character Job to learn of patience and perseverence in the face of difficulties and discouragement. In Fort Mill for the last three or more weeks there has been going on daily an illustration of these virtues such as one seldom observes in this day and time. Three months ago a Charlotte contractor was employed to sink a pipe well at the head of Main street. In due season his machinery arrived and the work was begun. Everything seemed to run along smoothly enough for a while, but things began to go awry when at a depth of about a hundred feet a strata of granite was reached. For days and days the contractor, his negro assistant, who seems to have been born for just such work, and the rather rickety old steam engine puffed and pounded away; but they made little progress. Then the contractor left Fort Mill and returned to Charlotte, taking the negro with him, but leaving the engine behind. This was not the end of the effort to sink the well, however, for a few days ago the contractor's son and the same negro showed up in town ready to resume hostilities against the! granite. Tney lost little time in renewing the work where the! 1 ' 1- - J l-ri _?T D..4- ! eider man nau ieii un. uui they found the granite equally hard and the engine as prone to lie down on the job as ever. Finally a charge of dynamite was set off to crack the granite.! The dynamite did its work a little too well?the crack it rent was so wide that all thought of finishing the well had to be abandoned. Then a few feet away work was begun on a second well and the young man, the negro and the engine are doing their best to fulfill the contract. Most men would have long since given up the work, returned t^e money which the tc^^n advanced on the undertaking and left in disgust. Blease Men 100 in the Shade. The Blease men of Fort Mill are as hot as an irritated hornet over the action of the State executive corqtnittee in refusing to declare Governor Blease the gubernatorial nominee of the recent primary and are saying things about the matter that are more vivid than elegant. They take the view that the executive nnmmiHoo hac rtplihprHfplv nlnn ned a xrame-up to do the Governor out of the nomination and in substantiation of the view declare that the selection of W. F. Stevenson as chairman of the subcommittee of seven to investigate. the charges of alleged fraud and illegal voting is enough within itself to insure a crooked deal. They do not think that Stevenson could do the right thing or be fair to his political opponents in any event. Of all the extreme anti-Blease leaders which the campaign produced he is perhaps the most cordially disliked. He has, it is stated, a record which creates doubt as to his sincerity of purpose. A few days ago when it became known in Fort Mill that Stevenson was to be i he chairman of the subcommittee, a Blease leader displayed an old copy of The Times in which Stevenson was excoriated without let or hindrance for alleged lobbying before a committee of the General Assembly as a hired man of the Seaboard Air Line railroad while he was speaker of the House of Representatives. His connection with the winding-up nM .Qfiito flic. V VUIUIIO^IVII Vi V itv VI\? VVV* vv VIII.; I pensary was also recalled in a way that did him scant credit and his critics are saying that if he is a straight man may the day soon come when the world will be peopled solely with crooks. These are some of the things that are being said about Steven- i son. Both Butler, another member of the subcommittee and some time candidate for Congress in this district, is likewise the objective of a few more or less doubtful compliments, one of which is that he would better learn how to act on the square in his business relations before he undertakes to balance the scales of justice between his fellow-men. The statement is 1 also being made with reference i to Both that if he ever bobs up again as a candidate for Congress he may expect little encouragement and less votes from the Blease faction of the party. Lastly, the local Blease leaders see what they claim is a very kinky-headed nigger in the woodpile in the time which it is said to be the purpose of the executive committee to devote to the ; primary hearings. They have no stomach for the hearings to consume practically the entire intervening time until the day of the general election and say that it means nothing 11 it cioes not mean that in the eleventh hour Judge Jones is to be declared the gubernatorial nominee and the rights of Governor Blease and the 70-odd thousand Democrats who voted for him are to be outraged. The Men Who Succeed as heads of large enterprises are men of great energy. Success, today, demands health. * To ail is to fail. It's utter folly for a man to endure a weak, run-down, half alive condition when i Electric Bitters will put him right on j his feet in short order. "Four bottles I did me more real good than any other medicine I ever took," writes Chas. B. Allen, Sylvania, Ga. "After years of suffering whith rheumatism, liver trouble, stomach disorders and deranged kidneys, I am again, thanks to Electric Bitters, sound and well." Try them. Only 50 cents at Barks Drug Co., Ardrey's Drug Store and Fort Mill Drug Co. ji Son of R. G. Graham Killed. Friends of Mr. R. G. Graham, who moved with his family from Fort Mill township across the State line into Mecklenburg county some years ago, will learn with regret that his son Charles, 18 years old, was killed by a falling tree on the banks of Little Sugar ceeek, a few miles from Pineville, Saturday morning. Young Graham was employed by the Mecklenburg Drainage Commission to assist in clearing out the right of way for the dredge boat that is opening up Little Sugar creek and was working near where several other workmen were engaged in cutting down a big tree. As the tree was about to fall, Superintendent Weaver shouted to all hands to get out of the way and Graham, instead of running away, appears to have run directly in the danger zone. It is supposed that in the excitement he lost his wits and hence the untimely accident. His skull was crushed by one of the giant limbs and death resulted almost instantly. It is stated that the accident J a- * i. .1 was uue to no iauit 01 inose in charge of the work but was one of those tragic affairs that occur without anybody being to blame for it. Woodmen's Axe Heard on Main Street. For the first time in perhaps a half century the sound of falling trees in response to the woodman's axe can be distinctly heard on Main street in Fort Mill. For several days a force of hands has been busy cutting down the most desirable timber in the grove on the outskirts of town known as "the old cemetery woods." Within the 'next fortnight a saw mill is to be set up in the grove and begin sawing the timber into lumber for a large cotton warehouse to be erected in the near future by the Fort Mill Manufacturing .Company, on a site near the socalled "upper" mill of the company. During the lifetime of the Tate Capt. S. E. White, who owned the grove, he refused to allow any timber to be cut from the land. It is in this grove that old Unity cemetery is located. The cemetery, which contains a number of graves of Revolutionary soldiers, is now cared for by the local chapter, D. A. R. Catawba River Getting Low. Although they deny that there is any serious shortage of water in the Catawba river, officials of the Southern Power Company admit that they are preparing for any emergencies that may arise in the event of a continua tion of the present drought. On its surface the situation may not appear critical. In fact, the average observer would not become aware of the fact that there is a deficiency in rainfall this summer to such an extent as to amount to a famine; neither do the records of the weather bureau disclose any figures showing a material shortage in the rainfall, but the fact remains that the Catawba river is low and getting lower. And the Catawba river furnishes the raw material for the electricity that operates 146 textile institutions in the Carolinas in addition to a multitude of others of lesser consequence and the lighting facilities of practically all the towns and cities of any consequence in the two States. ?Charlotte Observer. "Bugs" Raymond Dead. Telegraphic despatches Saturday told of the finding in a Chicago hotel of the dead body of Arthur, better known in the baseball world as "Bugs, " Raymond. former pitcher with the New York National league baseball team. A coroner's jury decided that Raymond's death was due to heart disease which had been aggravated by excessive heat. The death of Raymond marks the passing of another famous baseball character. Bugs played with Atlanta once and was with Savannah, in the Sally league. He was one of the game's greatest spitball pitchers, but drinking got the best of him, __*n r *1 just iiKe u will any 01 mem. Wilson Matthews, manager of the Savannah team, used to ride around Savannah in a hack all the night before the day it was Bugs' turn to pitch, keeping track of him, generally keeping Bugs right with him in the hack as the only sure way. What We Never Forget according to science, are the things associated with our early home life, I such as Bucklen's Arnica Salve, that mother or grandmother used to cure our burns, boils, scalds, sores, skin eruptions, cuts, sprains or bruises. Forty years of cures prove its merit, i Unrivaled for piles, corns or cold-sores. Only 25 cents at Parks Drug Co., Fort Mill Drug Co. and Ardrey's Drug Store. One great difference between cleverness and ignorance is that the clever one gets what he wants because he does not want the unattainable, while ignorance cries after the moon. Uncle Ezra Says "It don't take more'n a gill uv effort to gu ioiks into a pecu 01 trouoie ana a little neglect of constipation, biliousness, indigestion or other liver derangement will do the same. If ailing, take Dr. King's New Life Pills for quick results. Easy, safe, sure, and only 25 cents at Ardrey's Drug Store, Fort Mill Drug Co. and Parks Drug Co. He who quickly loses his temper also loses self-respect and the respect of others. Every outburst of temper serves to weaken his own character and lessen his influence. Mrs. Mary Boyd Dead. Mrs. Mary Boyd, of Flint Hill, whose illness was noted in the last issue of The Times, died Wednesday afternoon, after an illness of only four or five days. She is survived by five sons and three daughters, who are Messrs. Rufus, Charlie, Rosser, Willie and Cary; Misses Zeddie, Janie and Katie Boyd, ail of whom were at their mother's bedside when the end came. She is also survived by three sisters, Misses Jane, Rebecca and Mollie Davis, and one brother. Mr. Joshua Davis, of the Flint Mill section. Mrs. Boyd was a most estimable woman, and her unexpected death was a shock to her numerous friends. She was a devoted member of the Baptist church, of which she had been a useful communicant from her girlhood. The funeral was conducted Thursday at Flint Hill Baptist church, by her pastor, the Rev. S. P. Hair, and the interment was in the churchyard, where cho wqc laiH tn rpcf hv thp si'Hp of her husband, the late T. V. Boyd, who died about three years ago. DON'T BE BILIOUS. 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Rexall Liver Salts contains certain salts commonly found in the celebrated mineral waters at Baden Baden and other famous resorts to which invalids travei thousands of miles to partaKe oi the waters. You can stay at home and get similar treatment. Rexall Liver Salts contains Ricarbonate of Potash, Sulphate and Chloride of Sodium, Lithium Carbonate, Potassium Sulphate. It is agreeable, pleasant, effervescent, gently laxative?not violently purgative?cleansing the intestinal tract without any but the most beneficial and grateful effect. We know what Rexall Liver Salts is made of, We know it is good for the liver and for derangements caused by or contributed to by an unhealthy liver. We guarantee it to the fullest extentgiving you your money back if not effective. We know you will be pleased with the results. 25c and 5Uc. Ardrey's Drug Store, For Pure and Delicious Hand-made Ice Cream, the product of A. 0. Jones' herd of fat, sleek Jerseys, meet me at? Haile's cn the Corner. " " iff V *' FOR SALE. We offer for sale Berkshire Pigs, $10 ; each. Let us breed your sow to one of our boars, oui fee, a pig. Reliable party can have one of our boars on shares. See us if interested. L. A. HARRIS & BRO. House Out of Shape Sounds funny, doesn't it? But you have seen them: warped, settled and shrunken. Poor Lumber was tne cause of it. Houses built of sound, well seasoned Lumber like we sell, keep their shape. Remember this when making: your next purchase. J. J. BAILES. _?l lllll I . Br.'M3a.TO< A.-?4 I Electric Bitters Made A New Man Of Him* r "I was suffering from pain in my stomach, head and back," writes if. T. Alston, Raleigh, N. C., "and my liver and kidneys did not work right, but four bottles of Eioctric Hitters made me feel like a new man." FOR SALE VALUABLE PROPERTY One five-room house with large front and rear piazas, large barn and fine water, situated on one of the best streets ift. town, ioins lands of D. A. Lee on west and Miss Ella Stewart on east, size of lot, one acre more or less, property of Mrs. E. K. Barber. Terms, 1-3 cash, balance in three equal annual payments at 8?r interest. Price $2,100. One 7-room house with large front and rear piazza, good barn and best j well of water in town; also one of the best finished houses in town. Halfacre lot, situated on Booth street. This is valuable property. Owner and terms same as above. Price, $2,625. One 2J acre lot on west side of Confederate street with one four-room dwelling and large barn. This property faces four streets. With small cost for grading, etc., can be made double its present value. Owner and terms same as above. 270 acres fine timber in Lancaster county on Catawba river, near new Ivy Mill bridge. Will cut about three million feet. See it and ask for price. Owner same as above. 440 acres, 2 miles southeast of Fort Mill, near Pleasant Valley, on Sugar creek. Ten farms in cultivation, good buildings, red sand land. Property of T. M. Hughes. Will sell on long credit. Subject to present lease. Price, per acre, $32.50. 462 acres, 7 miles Southeast of Fort Mill, on Charlotte-Camden road. Twelve farms in cultivation, and within 3-4 of mile of two churches and one school. Property of J. L. Pettus. Easy terms. Price, per acre, $25.00. 97 acres at Pleasant Valley. Joins lands of Frank Therrell and others. Good, new residence, barns, etc., worth $1,400. Owner, J. O. Hall; price $4,500. You should get some of the profits of steady increasing values of real estate. "DO IT NOW." T. M. HUGHES, Broker, LANCASTER. S. C. As Much < Of the Earth FOR SALE CL The P. K. Mull property, locati C., with 5-room brick residence a The 7-room residence on lot on Main street, now occupied as a re The 6-room cottage on Clebour dence by P. L. Wagner. The 4-room cottage on Leonida; The 6-room cottage on Elm Stn The 6-room dwelling on 7-8 acr now occupied as a residence by E The 6-room residence on Booth now occupied as a residence by S COUNTRY 1 The Wm. Nicholson farm, con bounded by lands of W. H. Wine Nivens, located about 5 miles frc being offered at a bargain. 48-acre farm, located 2 1-2 mile and occupied by K. L. Bennett. The Sam Billue place containin miles of Fort Mill; 35 pcres undei es; good well and fine growth of FOR 1 The home of Mrs. Jennie Sprat acres of land. Apply to us for t If you have property FOR SAI w e will handle it to your advanta BAILES & LI : POLIC While our policy: tive, we never fail t to our patrons and large. Our first the and liberal accomr trons and we offer courtesy and accom ^ rightfully conducte offer. I THE FIRST NATIOf t T. S. KIRKPATRICK, ^ President. i -V ; I Vote for Wht * * * ? i * -1- - -I.. 1 Ana uon t iei anyoouy lea ^ is any other Sewing Machine ways near as good as the New New Home Sewing Machine ^ years and know it is by far t\ market. While it is the hi*] ^ highest grade machine made + ing them enables us to sell eral terms. Buy a New Horr troubles are ended, for you + wear one out. f L.J.M/ I . \ I Woodrow Roose One of the Th dent, Pro McElhaney & C of Clothing for M< for Ladies, Misse whole family. W line, too numerous I Our Fall stock 1 M'ELI - I !u l _ l" 3r as i-iuie as You Want. IY PROPERTY. ?d on Main Street., Fort Mill, S. r.d well thereon. Booth Street, 125 x 220 feet, near ;sidence by the Hon. J. R. Haile. ne Street, now occupied as a resi5 Street. Det, now occupied by J. B. Erwin. e lot, located on Booth Street and I. VV. Kimbrell. Street, owned by J. \V. Elms and . A. Epps. PROPERTY. taininp 134 acres more or less, II- O Til...,! ? V,,] T Q lit', cam Dirtiirvciiauip ciuu u. kj. ^ )m Fort Mill. This property is >s east of Fort Mill now owned This faim is offered at a sacrifice, i g 121 acres of farm land within 5 r cultivation: houaes and outhousyoung timber. RENT. ;t, located in Sprattville, with two erms. iE or RENT, list it with us and . ige. \I1^ Real Estate Brokers, [y IV, Fort Mill, S. C. y ; ; t is always conserva- ^ o recognize our duty the community at ^ night is for the just nodation of our pa- * every convenience, modation which any id institution could ^ i (AL BANK, r0RsTr | T. B. SPRATT, f Cashier. 4 i You Please.i d you into believing1 that there on the market that is any + Home. We have been selling s for the past twenty-eight V\r\o4- mn/iliinQ r\ n f liA 1 1C VC1) l/cot iiiaviiiuv vii wtiv ^ | diest priced as well as the our economical wav of sellat very low prices, and lib- + le and your Sewing Machine can't live long enough to = f VSSEY. I \ ' V/ilson, Theodore velt, Wm. Taft. iree Will be Elected Presivided? Company will sell the greatest line en and Boys, Coat Suits and Suits ? 9 :s and Children, and Shoes for the e have other things in the wearing * 5 to mention, at enticing prices. ias insf arrivpn. HANEY & CO., Store of Style and Quality. \ We Are Busy. We are too busy opening up and displaying our line of Beautiful Fall Goods to write an ad. this week, but be sure to watch this space next week for our loads of handsome Autumn Values. : : : : : E. W. Kimbrell Go. "The Place Where Quality Counts." What Does is Cost l u L-ivcr Note the following prices and see if they won't reduce :he cost of your living: Good Rice, per pound, at 5c. 2 Cans 20c Pink Salmon for 25c. Choice Mackerel, each, at 5c. Seven bars Octagon Soap every Monday for 25c. No, we didn't say that "Diamond" Flour would rise without lard, but we did say it would reduce the cost of iving. McEIhaney & Co., Store of Style and Quality. | We Want This Store I k a TO INFLUENCE EVERY DIN- 3 3 NEK TABLE IN THIS CITY. S J] ? . ru i a It's worth while to run a store that does that?or that does a JJ j small part of that! jj The dinner table is the "assembly" of the home?the rallying ? J{ point, where all the members of the household meet and rehearse J{ the droll events of the day, and the sombre ones as well. The home jj jj ties are cemented, reinforced, at the dinner table. What more Jj Jj important work, then, than furnishing the eatables which play "the JJ jj star" part at dinner tables? Looking at our business as one of high JJ 11 ? nJ service, we re pruuu ui u. ^ j Parks Grocery Company, jjj A E. S. PARKS, Manager. ? B jjj 3rSS55Z5H55E5HHSSS55H5TE5iBL51 E5g55Z55535a5Bga5Z5H5aSSiE] cinc's new life pills b. j. white, The PillS That Do Cure. Attorney at Law. ~ Office Over Ardrey'a Drugstore, ELECTRIC _The sei T?n'?;,iV(; fort um, S. 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