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The Fort Mill Times. ,< E,tttbli*hed ip 1891- FORT MILL. S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 13. 1913. ' WEBB AND TILLMAN TALK OF THE NEW LIQUOR LAW "There is no amendment to the Webb bill or any part of the bill which forbids the shipment of liquor into South Carolina or any other State when that commodity is shipped in in conformity to State laws." This was the statement made at Washington to The State's correspondent by Representative E. Y. Webb of North Carolina, author of the Webb liquor bill, when asked specifically whether or not the enforcement of this law would forbid the shipment of liquor into South Carolina. "This law." Mr. Webb continued, "only makes more per feet the enforcement of -the present State laws by throwing safeguards around them in such a way as to render them less liable to be violated, but in a State like South Carolina there is nothing that will prevent the shipment of liquor there so long as the State permits it. There need be no fear that the dispensaries will suffer or that any private person will suffer so long as the State law is not violated." Senator Tillman said: "The Webb law is in effect, but not in language, the same measure that I introduced in the Senate 16 years ago, but on which I failed to get a favorable committee report. It smply provides that liquor shall not be shipped into any State in violation of the laws of that State. This will not affect the shipment of liquor to the dispensaries nor to private parties in South Carolina, except for uses which are at present unlawful." The full text of the law is as i* 11 iouows: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the shipment or transportation in any manner or by any means whatsoever of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicating liquor of any kind from one State, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous to the subject to the jurisdiction thereof into any other State, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof or from any foreign country into any State, territory or district of the United Slates or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicating liquorvis intended by any person interested therein,to be received, possessed, sold or in any manner used, either in original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous to but sublet to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited." Some objection to the bill in Congress was based on the fact that it provides no penalty for violation, but it is likely that interstate railroads and express companies will obey the law. notwithstanding this fact. Some liquor has already been confiscated under the the new law in Oklahoma, a dry State, by State officers. Thousands Ask Treatment. The widespread attention which has been drawn to the tuberculosis serum of Dr. Frederich Franz Friedmann, the young German bacteriologist, will be brought to a climax next week. Announcement was made that on Monday Dr. Friedmann would open offices near his hotel on Fifth avenue in New York and for two weeks conduct a public clinic, where the poor as well as the rich would be treated, the serum to be administered free to those who cannot pay for it. It is ' declared that a number of American physicians will be invited to atted the clinic to assist in diagnosing the cases and to watch them afterward and to learn Dr. Friedmann's method. He has claimed that within a week the beneficial effects of the serum will be apparent. The doctor says that more than five thousand applications for treatment have been received. Dr. Clinkscales for Governor? j Dr. John G. Clinkscales. professor of mathematics at Woftord j College, has announced that un- | i less one of the candidates for, | governor should come out posi- j tively and aggressively in favor of compulsory education, he, himself, would be a candidate on ' that platform and would preach j the doctrine of compulsory edu-1 j cation from the mountains to I the sea. Doctor Clinkscales is a magnetic stump-speaker, and has, perhaps, as wide acquaint- j Q nnu i r\ QnnfK r? ir*o on I > uuubii vaiuuna cio anjf other man in the State. The degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon him last spring i by Erskine College. Sudden Death at Pineville. Mr. Robert A. Cunningham , dropped dead Thursday morning at his home at Pineville, shortly j after he had arisen from the night's slumber to go about the ; duties of the day. Mr. Cunningham had been in the best of health and the supposition is that he suffered an i attack of apoplexy, death follow; ing instantly. When he was i ' found by members of the family, he was beyond the aid of help j and although a physician wis summoned at once, nothing ! could be done to restore the i unfortunate man. Mr. Cunningham was one of | the best known citizens of the Pineville community. He was about 65 years of age and was born and reared in that par- 1 ticular section of Mecklenburg | county. Three brothers, Messrs. Ed Cunningham, John Cunningham and Walter Cunningham survive in addition to one sister, Mrs. T. 0. Ross, of Providence township. Mr. Cunningham was unmarried. The funeral services were conj ducted from the late residence i Friday morning and the inter j meni was at narnson church. Won't Deliver Expressed Whiskey. Acting on instructions from the 2nd vice-president at Chattanooga, E. T. Whitesell, Fort Mill agent of the Southern Express company, Saturday refused to deliver liquor shipments to callers, regardless of the purpose for | which they said they had ordered I the whiskey. It was generally supposed that i the embargo was due to the new > j Webb law, prohibiting interstate ! ! shipments of liquor, except for private use, but Mr. Whitesell i thinks the company's lawyers, : under whose advice the 2nd vicepresident acted, were considering the question if it were not a violation of the State law of ) South Carolina for the company : to haul liquor into dry counties. Mr. Whitesell added that the company evidently was not accepting whiskey for shipment into Fort Mill, as the amonnt handled in the local office has suddenI.. J1..J J : _ i . i ly uwuiuieu uunug me last lew days to almost nothing. He thinks, however, that this falling off may be partly due to the refusal of the wholesale whiskey j dealers to ship their product, i through fear of violating the Webb law. N McLaurin and the Legislature. The 1913 Legislature, in the! opinion of John L. McLaurin, | State Senator from Marlboro and | former United States Senator, was "the product of a campaign J conducted upon a low plane of thought," and he says is "intent solely upon the erection of political fences." Mr. McLaurin simply "could not do a thing except hope for better days to , come;" for says he, the Legisla- j ! 1 'oo o ?1 A - kuib c?o a WIIUIC IS upimseu LO constructive legislation." These opinions of the lawmaking body, of which he is a member, were expressed in a letter to Harvie Jordan in reference to South Carolina sending a representative to Europe to study rural credits, marketing societies, etc. Surprise Your Friends For four weeks regularly use Dr. King's New Life Pills. They stimulate the liver, improve digestion, remove blood impurities, pimples and eruptions disappear from your face and body and you feel better. Begin at once. Buy at Ardrey's Drug Store, Fort Mill Drug Co. and Parks Drug Co. (Advertisement.) Vote, Vo Saturday, Mi FORT MIL will j 1000 on the McEl for each dol subscri C. 0. D. for Parcel Post The postoffice department is continuing to make improvement in the parcel post service. Ef- : fective March 1st, the special 1 delivery feature was added to the service and now comes in- ' formation from Washington that on July 1 parcel post' packages ( may be sent C. O. D. This , feature means further compe- ( tition with the express companies. The fee for collections is the same as that required to buy a money order with which to make remittance.. For instance, the money order fee on one dol- '> lar is three cents. If you C. O. D. a parcel post package to Colum- 1 bia the amount to be collected being one dollar, the collection 1 fee is three cents, and the post- 1 master at Columbia would collect from your correspondent there 1 one dollar and three cents, sending you money order for one dollar. C. O. D. collections will be made only on insured parcels, 1 ami III aillUUlll not exceeuing < $100. Insurance fee is ten cents in parcel post stamps. This does not mean that all insured parcels areC. 0. D., but that all C. O. D. parcels must be insured. Steel Creek News. Fort Mill Times Correspondence. M rs. J. D. Withers and daugh-1 ter, Miss Winnie Withers, and Miss Nannie Stroup, have been to Matthews, N. C. where they attended the W. M. U. Mrs. H. E. Millwee died at her; home in lower Steel Creek Saturday and was buried at Steel Creek Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Millwee had been in failing health for about a year and so her death was not unexpected. Mr. R. G. Kendrick died at his home in Steel Creek Sunday nigrn at 11 crciocK ana whs buried at Flint Hill church Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Kendrick was 90 years of age and had been in very good health until about 2 weeks before his death. He is survived by his wife and the following named children: Mr. Z. V. Kendrick, of Charlotte; Rev. R. G. Kendrick, Jr.. of Greensboro, and Rev. James Kendrick, of Texas; Mrs. M. A. Edwards and Mrs. S. M. 1 Garrison, of Steel Creek; Mrs. J. M. Blankenship, of Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Alexander Garrison, of Oklahoma City. Miss Anabel Neely, of Charlotte, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. XT 1.. rteeiy. Mr. Walter Potts who has been sick is improving some. Mr. Erwin Potts has been to Matthews where he attended the W. M. U. E. H. P. Steel Creek, March 10. Entertainment Friday Evening. The young people will give an entertainment in the auditorium | Friday evening, the 14th, at 8:30 o'clock. The proceeds will be | used to replace the communion service .which was burned in the Methodist parsonage some time ago. Some of the best talent in the town will assist in the entertainment. Admission, 20 cents and 10 cents. I te, Vote. irch 15, the L TIMES jive V otes haney Piano liar paid on ption. Will Not Stop Retailing. There are a great many people who do not understand the Webb anti-shipment law passed by i Congress Saturday over the President's veto. Some think that, according to the provisions of the Act, it is impossible for peo-1 pie living in "dry" territory to order and obtain whiskey from outside territory. This, however, is not the law. The Webb law provides that no liquor may be shipped from a| "wet" State into a "dry" State j for the purpose of sale. Hereto-' fore, the whiskey business has been in the hauds of the Interstate Commerce commission, and was ruled by that body. The question now is governed by the individual laws of the different States. As soon as the whiskey enters the border of a State, it is ruled and governed by the laws of that State, and not by laws of the United States. This is done to meet the individual laws of the States in regards to the! amount of whiskey that makes a case of prima facie evidence against a person for retailing. The Newt of Gold Hill. Gold Hill, March 11.?This old sinner has been heap sick of late, as the Indian would say, but is feelinj? better now, and will write you a few lines. Mr. R. G. Kendrick, who lived just over the State line, died on j Sunday last, and our old chum, ! Z. T. Bailes, has been quite sick j for some time. I learn that J. II. 1 Sutton is repairing the buildings 1 on his Latham farm and that James Porter will hold the fort there this year. Superintendent of Schools Carroll has been visiting the schools in this section of late and it seems that he don't have a very exalted opinion of our school buildings. Well, of course, they are not what they should be. But poor folks wiil have poor folks ways, and w? have noticed a lot of good material amongst the output of log cabin houses. We learn that Miss Winnie, the little daughter of W. H. Crook, just lays the Gold Hill school on thp shplf if comes to spelling. This is praise-, worthy in one so young. Last Sunday, the 9th inst., j marked the 58th anniversary of ! the great wind storm that swept over this country on Friday the 9th of March, 1855, when there i were thousands of panels of | fence burned on the plantation where W. P. Epps now lives. There was not a single rail left. The dwelling of Robert Potts in the Pleasant Valley section of Lancaster county was burned that day. Nearly a new genera- , tion has come into existence since then. Some of our people think that Uncle Sam should interfere and stop that fuss out in Mexico, but we would say hands off, for we got into trouble >/?i i ? i- 1 - * in 01 anu got scarea to death a hundred times, and even at this late day we never hear the report of a gun but what we want to run or st< al something. So no war in ours, for some one has said that there never was a good war nor a bad peace. Splinter. Don't fail to read the big offer in the advertisement of McElhaney & Co. Adv. Important to Baptists. | An important measure passed by the General Assembly this session effecting the Baptist denomination in this State was the bill that will allow the incorporation of the South Carolina n Baptist hospital. The committee , named will have the authority to , establish at some point or points in the State, a hospital and sanitarium, either separately or together, for the treatment of all diseases of the human body; to train nurses and to confer , diplomas upon tliem. At the next meeting of the c State convention of the Baptist ^ denomination in South Carolina, j. that body is vested with the . authority to create a board of j > trustees to govern the proposed " hospital, whose number shall not j exceed 18 persons nor be less j than nine. The board of trustees j of the hospital may be given the ^ power delegated in the act to L the State Baptist convention, in |. that they may have full control ] of the hospital. ^ Yorkville Watchman Murdered. J Yorkville was all agog Sunday t with the excitement of a murder i mystery?at least it is supposed i to be a murder, said the Hock \ Hill Herald of Monday. i James Ramsey, the Sunday t watchman, at the York Cotton i mill, began the turmoil when he i found the body of the night t watchman, Sam Smith, negro, cold in death, 011 the boiler room floor of the mill on coming on duty Sunday morning. < Smith's lower jaw was shot ( away. It is supposed that the t assailant hid behind a door in the j t boiler room and, using a shot t gun loaded with No. 6 shot, fired t on the negro from the rear and 1 on his left side. The watchman's clock showed > that he had made his 3 o'clock t morning round and it is thought > he met death soon afterwards. . Coroner L. W. Louthian em- ] panelled a jury at once. They ? sat Sunday and Monday but up to the time of going to press The r Herald could get no reliable in- | formation as to what was done j or would be done. t The dead negro was con- ( sidered dangerous and it is | thought that some person with whom he had brawled, took this < way to "get even." | j ARE YOU FOR TH Watch this space every we least money. New list each w< BARGAINS arriving daily. JUST AF New shipment White Crep< special value at only 15c per ya See our Ladies', Misses' ai I Snrinir nrnoenc of 111^ ? / I V oov n (4U i/\/V u Beautiful Quality Flaxons, Checked Flaxons in White for ( underwear and Waists. Pretty assortment Val. Lac Ask to see our Wide Shadow Li dresses. SPECIAL-All-over Embrc only 50c per yard. Handsome quality Striped dresses in white and colors?th Spring waist or dress. Big lot that absolutely does not fade ? i HAND 1 $t3.00 Special Value Mesh 2 75 2.50 1.50 1.25 50 LEATHER Hj $1.50 Pretty Handbags, 1.00 .50 E. W. Kimb "THE PLACE WHERE i.?u for rear. /ETERANS WILL 6ATHER AT AIKEN NEXT MONTH April 23 and 24 have been lefinitely set by Gen. B. II. reague, commander of the South Carolina division. United Conederate Veterans, as the dates >f the 1913 reunion to be held in \iken, says a special to The state. Gen. Teague has so lotified Mayor Gyles and the :ity council, in a communication iddressed by him to the mayor n response to a formal invitation signed by the mayor inviting he South Carolina veterans, hrnnrrh Taomio i ut, IU IIUIU heir annual reunion there this rear, and asking what dates would best suit the veterans. Gen. Teague states that he rhose April 23 and 24 with the ?nd in view of suiting the convenience of as many veterans hroughout the State as possible, md because he realized that ^ ater in the month many people would be deterred from attendng on account of the business lecessity of arranging for the irst of the month. April 23 and 14 fall this year on Wednesday ind Thursday, which as he jointed out, will eliminate the lecessity of any of those who nay be opposed to doing traveling on Sunday either coming to \iken or returning home from he reunion. Big Increase in Fertilizers. Figures in the office of the State Treasurer show that to late the sales of fertilizer tax ags show a great increase over he sales to March 6 last year, hough the sales were not nearly ;o large as they were in the ecord year of 1911. - To date since January 1, the lales of fertilizer tags have staled $140,608 as compared a*ith $110,525.60 between Janu,rv 1 nrul fi of loci \roo*> - ^ ^(i v/ v/4 IUUW jcait For the same period in 1911 the iaios amounted to $175,447.50. It was explained in the State IVeasurer's office that the reason tor the big increase in sale of fertilizer this year was due to the fact that the weather and consequently the roads had been much better this year than last and that the farmers had accordingly been able to haul their fertilizer earlier. WAITING IS AD? ek and buy the BEST for the eek of the special Spring tRIVED 5 for waists and underwear, rd. id Childrens' Ready-to-wear in Plain. 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