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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1912.
The Fly in the Ointment.
It is doubtful whether the |
action of the State Democratic
Executive Committee in refusing
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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
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
We Guarantee This Pleasant
and Effective Treatment for
Biliousness and Blues
When you are bilious your liver is out
of order and the poisons in your system
are not being properly removed. Instead
of being expelled from the body
they are carried oy the blood to the
stomach, the brain, the kidneys, the
muscles, clogging and hampering every
organ, making it impossible for you to
work, or think or enjoy yourself as you
ought to.
1'erhaps you have the blues, or are
rheumatic, or gouty, or suffer from
dizziness, indigestion, heartburn, nausea,
or are constipated, have a bad
breath, or kidney trouble, or a blotchy
and impure skin.
Your liver is not doing its work properly.
Waste products poisons ?that
should have been eliminated, are remaining
in the system. Or the liver is
not secreting enough bile, thus hindering
that part ol the digestion that
takes place in the bowels.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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^ 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.
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of Clothing for M<
for Ladies, Misse
whole family. W
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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,
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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.
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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 ^
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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
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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
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velt, Wm. Taft.
iree Will be Elected Presivided?
Company will sell the greatest line
en and Boys, Coat Suits and Suits ?
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: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
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TO INFLUENCE EVERY DIN- 3
3 NEK TABLE IN THIS CITY. S
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It's worth while to run a store that does that?or that does a JJ
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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
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service, we re pruuu ui u. ^
j Parks Grocery Company, jjj
A E. S. PARKS, Manager. ?
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