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The Fort Mill Times.
Established in 1891. FORT MILL. S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1913. . $1.25 Per Year.
CAN STILL SHIP WHISKEY
IF FOk PERSONAL USE ONLY
That there is no statute by the
State of South Carolina prohibiting
the importation of whiskey
from Another State for personal
use and that the Webb act gives
the State the right to enact such
a statute, if it so desires, is the
decision of the supreme court in
deciding a case testing the constitutionality
of the Webb act
which was passed by Congress,
withdrawing the protection of
interstate commerce from whiskey
shipments from one State to
another. The supreme court
held that the old dispensary act
forbidding the ordering of whiskey
for personal use from other
States, having been declared unconstitutional,
before the passage
of the Webb act, could not
be vitalized by the passage of the
Webb act.
"It is not the intention of the
Webb act to interfere with the
policy of the State in regard to
the importation of liquor but
merely to provide that the enforcement
of a State statute
would not be interfered with or
iuiiii[jcifu uy cue inicrsiaie uummerce
laws, says the decision.
"In other words, the act in
this respect is passive," continues
the decision, "while it is
incumbent on the State to enact
legislation of an active nature if
they are desirous of prohibiting
the importation of liquors for
personal use or other purposes.
Bnt even if Congress had undertaken
to give validity to an
unconstitutional State statute it
would have been beyond its
powers.
"While the legislature can not
pass an act. validating the previsions
of the dispensary statute
which we have declared to be
unconstitutional, to as to give it
a retroactive effect, it, nevertheless,
has the power to adopt a
statute with similar provisions
having a prospertive effect, prohibiting
alcoholic liqi.o s from
being imported into this State.
"Such a statute would not
contravene any provision of the
United States con titntion. As
we have already sai 1, the recent
act of Congress divests intoxicating
liquors of their interstate
commerce character and invests
the respective States with power
either to prohibit the importation
absolutely or allow it only for
sale and use through a dispensary.
The classiiication of
the counties, so as to allow the
sale of liquor in some of them
while it is not prohibited in
others, would not be violative of
section 1 of the 14th amendment
I to the constitution of the United
States which provides that no
State shall deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the full
protection of the laws."
The case arose in Richland
county through VV. W. Atkinson
bringing a suit to secure an injunction
against the Southern
Express company from enforcing
its order ret using to deliver shipments
of whiskey in South Carolina
for personal use. The injunction
was granted by the
court, the decision being written
by Chief Justice Gary and concurred
in by Associate Justices
Woods, Hydrick and Watts.
Associate Justice Fraser says:
"I concede that the above statement
so strongly made is correct,
but I dissent from the judgement.
The regulation complained of in
! the petition refers exclusively to
interstate commerce, and I think
this court has no jurisdiction to
1 interfere."
i A test case was brought under
the same conditions in Kershaw
| county and the court granted
the injunction in this case on
the same grounds as that from
Richland.
Scholarship is Offered.
The South Carolina division of
the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, offers a partial
scholarship at the Confederate
Home college of Charleston, valued
at $100, to girls of the State
of 16 years or m >re who are lineal
descendants of Confederate
* veterans. Applications for this
scholarship should be sent before
June 15 to Miss Armida Moses,
chairman committee on education,
S. C. Div., U. D. C., Sumter.
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Blease Calls in Constabulary. |
As a result of the decision of
the Supreme court on the Webb
law, Governor Blease said there
was no use for him to continue
to keep State constables in operation
and he addressed a letter
to his constables telling them ;
that he would have no use for
their services after the first of
June.
When asked about the decision
, of the Supreme court in the
! Webb case, and its effect upon
his policy, the Governor said.
"Well, of course, I am not surprised
at the decision. However, (
1 regret as much as it is possible
for a man to regret that the
court saw fit to render this decision.
If that was the court's
idea of the law, I wish it had
done as it has done in thousands
of other cases, held up the decision
and delayed. I have had !
more trouble and worry in the j
last two or thie* months with
complaints as to blind tigers than j
one noor fellow can stnnrt T i
have had my constabulary force
i full, my deteetives at work, and
recently counties have been calling:
on me to send them special
men, and I have been tightening
the screws. I had presumed that
. the Attorney General's views
! would be sustained, or if not,
that the memders of the court, '
who I presume are prohibitionists?certainly
politically if not
otherwise ?the majority of them
? would help me out of this
fight, by holding the decision,
even as it was rendered, until
11 could get the situation somewhat
in hand. But, lo and behold,
they shoot the decision
back with lightning-like rapidity,
'On with the dance, boys, the
music will be furnished.' "
Teachers Pay Too Small.
"Public school teachers of the
United States do not receive
enough salary to save money to
carry adequate life insurance or
to proceed with further professional
training," announced a
report of the United States bureau
of education, issued Saturday.
Most of tl e teachers of;
the country have in effect had
their salaries reduced since 1897,
says the report. Despite an apparent
increase in money re- j
ceived by them, the high cost of !
living has cut into their salaries
; just as definitely as if a school
i board had sliced them A te^eh.
in*? position which paid $600 in
1897 is pa.ung in purchasing
power the equivalent of about
$416 today, if measured by 1897
prices; the teachers on the $1,000 j
salary gets no more for his
money than he would have procured
15 years ago for $693.
Chattanooga to Welcome Veterans.
The United Confederate Veter-'
i ans hold their annual reunion at;
Chattanooga May 27-29 and at
the same time the Sons of Confederate
Veterans will hold their
reunion.
Hardly a more suitable place
could be found for such a gathering,
as in and around Chattanooga
were fought two of the
heaviest battles of the Civil war,
the battle of Chickamauga and
the battle of Missionary Ridge. |
Two lesser battles also took place
there, those of Lookout Mountain I
I and Orchard Knob. The veter-!
, and will truly be in their glory
| in these surroundings.
The Times is giving its readers
in this issue a special story covering
a history of the territory
with pictures of several monuments
now on the battlefield,
i The story doubtlsss will prove i
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uitvicotiii^ tu an*
Counterfeit Paper Money.
The dangerous counterfeit In- j
i dian five-dollar silver certificates i
i recently discovered continue in j
i circulation, despite the vigilance
of secret service and treasury
officials. The notes, which are
almost perfect imitations of the
genuine ones, are finding their
i way through banks and subI
treasuries. The secret service
operators have redoubled their
efforts to find the counterfeiters.
The notes are printed on genuine
I paper, obtained by washing one
; dollar bills. Government officials
believe that the maker of
the notes is the same counterfeiter
who for months circulated
bogus one dollar bills throughout
the country.
BITS OF INTERESTING NEWS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
The $50,000 in bonds issued for
Richland county's proposed new
jail were sold by the board of
county commissioners to the
Union National bank, of Columbia,
at $104.33, with a premium
of $2,165.
The contract for the erection
of an addition to the Rock Hill
school building has been awarded
to J. J. Keller & Co. on a bid j
of $17,800. W ork is to begin as
soon as the school closes and the
building wili be completed for
the opening in the tall.
A checker tournament is scheduled
to be held in Cheraw on
June 3 and 4 at the Chiquola
cluh rooms. Capt. Fishburne,
the renowned checkerist of the
South, will he present and on
the 3rd will play, blindfolded,
six experts simultaneously without
sight of board or pieces.
Congressman Joseph T. Johnson
will hold a competitive examination
on Friday and Saturday
at Spartanburg to fill a
vacancy from the Fourth Congressional
District at West Point.
The winner of the scholarship
will be required to report at the
Military Academy for entrance
examination in June, 1914.
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Capt. J. M. Richardson, a
candidate for Adjutant General
three years ago, and until recntly
a member of the staff of the
Governor, was arrested at Aiken
on a warrant charging him with
arson. The warrant was sworn
C at by R. A. Wharton a deputy
from the office of F. H. McMaster,
State insurance commissioner.
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A. F. Funderburk, the Pageland
man who left Wilmington,
N. C., Tuesday morning. May 13. I
on a walking trip from ocean to
ocean?Wilmington to San Fran- |
cisco?arrived in Cheraw Saturday
night ahout 8 o'clock. Mr.
Furiderburk is carrying no baggage
and left without money, his !
intention being to earn money
for his expenses by lecturing.
It is stated that sufficient
names have been secured on |
the petition to warrant the calling
of an election to run out the
dispensary from Florence county.
The prohibitionists have been
putting in some hard work of
late, and while they are satisfied
that they will vote it out, the
anti-prohibitiwnists are equally
as satisfied that it will be voted
to continue business.
Richard Henry Austin, the
negro desperado and triple murderer,
who has successfully
eluded capture for the past four
weeks, has been definitely located
in Jacksonville, according to
authentic information received
Monday by the Columbia Record.
He will probably be captured
or killed shortly. He was
recognized by a white Atlantic
Coast Line railway fireman who
is a resident of Luray and who
has known the daring black all
his life. A trap was laid for his
capture Saturday night by the
.Jacksonville police, but he failed
to fall into it.
Hail Storm in the County.
Parties returning to Fort Mill
Monday afternoon on passenger
train No. 28 reported much bail
in the terrific rainstorm that
swept over the lower section of
York county between 5 and 6
o'clock. The heaviest downpour
occurred about a mile below Rock
Hill, where it was stated that
considerable damage was done
to earty garden truck and such
of the cotton that was above the
ground. A little of the rain fell
in Fort Mill and vicinity, but it
was manifestly the edge of a
heavier downpour farther to the
south.
Wonderful Skin Salve.
iiucklen's Arnica Salve is known
everywhere as the best remedy made
for all diseases of the skin, and also for
burns, bruises and boils. Reduces inflammation
and is soothing and healing.
J. T. Sossaman, publisher of News, of
Cornelius, N. C., writes that one box
helped his serious skin ailment after
other remedies failed. Only 25 cents.
Recommended by Fort Mill Drug Co.,
Massey's Drug Store and Ardreys
Drug Store.
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SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST
to TIMES READERS.
Mrs. Preston B. Barnes, of
Union, is visiting at the home of
J. R. Haile.
Make it a rule to have the
back yard, at all times, as clean
as the front one.
Good schools, good churches
and good roads never fail to
make a good town.
Mrs. A. J. Graham and children,
of Greenville, are guests
at the home of Dr. and Mrs. T.
S. Kirkpatrick. in this city.
The prosperity of a town depends
chiefly upon the confidence
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can prosper whose citizens are
untrue to it.
Mrs. Wm. R. Bclk returned
Friday to Parksville Tenn., after
a visit of several weeks to her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
Sutton, of the township.
The Times would be pleased to
have a news letter each week
from the prosperous Pleasant
Valley section of Lancaster.
Won't some one of our Pleasant
Valley friends give us the news
of that section occasionally?
Sergt. J. W. Hobbs, of company
K., Fifth Infantry, U. S.
A., is in Fort Mill for a few days
instructing the members of the
local military organization. The
instruction includes rifle practice,
patrol and outpost duty and
non-commissioned officers school.
The Times has received an
invitation to attend the commencement
exercises of Clemson
college, to be held June 8th, 9th,
and 10th. The baccalaureate
sermon will be preached by Rev.
Howard Lee Jones, of Charleston.
The second annual conference
of the State and county organizers
of the Girls' Canning clubs
of South Carolina is in progress
this week at Winthrop college.
There are present delegates from
sixteen counties and interesting
programs are being carried out
each day.
A very pood and much needed
rain fell throughout the township
pretty generally Saturday
morning. In the immediate vicinity
of Fort Mill the fall was
slight but in both the upper and
lower parts of the township the
rain was heavy and was\ very
helpful to i he crops and truck.
Individual members of the local
military company are taking
a great deal of interest in the
| rifle pract'ce at the range and
I some good scores are being made.
In the Sta e shoot at Charleston
last year the Fort Mill company
won the State championship and
! members of the company are
confident of doing as well this
year.
The services at the Fort Mill
Methodist church next Sunday
evening will be especially interesting.
A number of ladies who
have been busily engaged in
"turning over" their dollar for
the benefit of the church repairs
will make their report. Special
music will be rendered and a
profitable hour is being annticipated.
The public is cordially
i invited to be present at 8:15
Invitations have been issued
j by Mrs. W. G. Neville, of Clinton,
to the marriage of her
(laughter, Miss Talulah Neville,
to .John Spratt, of Laurens, the
ceremony to take place in June.
Mr. Spratt is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. M. Spratt, of ClusUr.
and has,a number of relatives in
Fort Mill and vicinity. With
his brother, Frank K. Spratt, be
is now engaged in the wholesale
! grocery business in Laurens.
; Late Wednesday afternoon a
foreigner employed at the plant
of the Charlotte Brick company,
at Grattan, lost a leg as a result
of an accident on the railroad.
The man, with several others,
was engaged in "pinching" a
car along the sidetrack when a
shifting engine struck the car,
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me man uvwn uiiu iiiu
wheels passing: over ore of his
leprs. He was taken tc a Charlotte
hospital on train No. 28 and
amputation of the lep was found
necescary to save the man's life.
Johnson Signs Land Act.
California's alien land bill became
a law of that State Monday.
Against protests of Japan and |
representations of President Wilson
and his personal envoy, Secretary
of State Bryan, Governor
Johnson signed the bill and JM)
days after the adjournment of
the Legislature, or on August 10,
the act becomes operative.
While the governor was signing
the bill the steamship Korea
was passing in through the Golden
Gate, bearing two distinguished
Japanese, one a former
pupil of President Wilson's, on a
mission of investigation. Meanwhile,
complications, National i
and sectional, beset the bill.
Overshadowing all is the outcome ;
in Liu' negotiations now in progress
between this country and
Japan, which has interpreted the i
act as discriminatory and offensive.
The Carlin Act.
The first violation of the new ;
Federal law?known as the Car-L
lin Act?was the stealing of an I
express package in one of the i
Chicago depots resulting in thet
arrest of the offender and placing
him under $5,(KH) bail. This act j
imposes a maximum fine of
$5,000 or imprisonment of not j
more than ten years for any |
person convicted of unlawfully
breaking into any railway car
containing interstate or foreign
shipments of freight or express
or of stealing or obtaining by
fraud or deception from any car,
depot, platform, vessel or wharf
any freight, express or baggage
which constitutes or is part of
interstate 01 foreign shipment.
While the Carlin Act in no way
infringes on the jurisdiction of
the Slate courts, it puts the
whole power of the Federal !
Department of Justice behind
j the detection and prosecution oi
persons guilty of stealing from
cars or depots since it will be
practically impossible for thieves
to distinguish between intrastate
1 and interstate shipments. As
the Carlin Act becomes better
known and understood, the petty
crook will look upon an express
package in transit with the same
reverence and awe as he has
been taught to respect all mail
matter, however tempting its'
purloining may be to his criminal
instincts.
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White Pique, beautiful quaiit
White Madras, something nit
White Crepe, only 25c yard.
Eg White Flaxon, extra values,
White Checked Flaxon, only
White Poplin, pretty quality,
|e SPECIAL- White Dimity on
S2 Embroideries, beautiful pattt
to match, 25c and 30c.
1 EXTRA S
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30 White Ramie Cloth, the best,
White Nainsook, checked ant
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FORT MILL PUBLIC SCHOOL
FINISHES 1912-13 TERM
The closing exercises of thQ
Fort Mill Graded and High school,
to which the public is invited,
will begin at the auditorium this
(Wednesday) evening at 8:30
o'clock. Following is the program
for this evening's exercises:
Opening prayer by Rev. F. L.
(ilennan of the Methodist church.
Chorus, "Freedom, My Queen,"
by advanced grades.
noil bong" by First grade
girls.
Address by Prof. .J. (J. Clinksoaks
of Woll'ord college.
Song. "Asieep in the Deep,"
by quartette of High school
boys.
Thursday's Program.
(hob p. m. Daisy Chain and
May Pole dance.
8:30 p. m.?Song. "Hurrah for
a Holiday," by pupils from primary
grades.
Presentation of gold piece and
picture of Andrew Jackson, gift
of local chapter of the 1). A. R.,
with presentation speech by B.
J. White.
Exercises by Literary society.
Chorus, "My Dear Native
Land."
Recitation, "What is a Boy,"
by Olive Harris.
Declamation, ''Responsibilities
of Young Men," by Brice Culp.
Instrumental Trio, "Absent,"
by Olive Harris, James Young
and Clarence Link.
Essay, "Americanism," by
Ethel Armstrong.
Debate ? Query: "Resolved,
That the Mental Capacity of the
Male Sex is Superior to that of
the Female." Affirmative, James
Young and Clarence Link; negative,
Bessie Smith and Florence
Bennett.
riano solo, The Minuet," bv
Heath Belk.
Recitation, "Just Graduated,"
by Lila Hall.
Quartette. "Down by the Old
Mill Stream," by Brice Gulp,
Ernest Patterson, Clarence Lin I:
and Heath Belk.
Miss Marguerite Link, of Hick*
ory, N. C., is a guest at the
home of her brother, C. S. Link,
in Fort Mill.
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