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4 \ The Fort Mill Times. Established in 1891.* FORT MILL, S. CM THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1913. oc ?? ? - ' BITS OF INTERESTING NEWS THROUGHOUT THE STATE Rock Hill people have been -warned to boil their city water, as chemical analysis has revealed evidences of contamination. The nomination of Capt. William E. Gonzales, of Columbia, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Cuba, was sent to the Senate Friday by President Wilson. -According to B. H. Teague, major general, South Carolina division, United States Confederate Veterans, 66 vetarans from this State, of the War Between the Sections, who participated in the battle of Gettysburg, will attend the semi-centennial cele oration on the battlefield, July 1 to 4. The Sunday school building of Ebenezer Lutheran church, Columbia, was dedicated last Sunday. The building, which cost $12,000, was completed about 18 months ago, but the pastor. Rev. C. A. Freed, D. D., was unwilling that it should be dedicated until all indebtedness had been removed. The Supreme court has affirmed a verdict for $40,000 secured by H. C. Huggins in the Sumter County court against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and Peter Wilson, a fireman for injuries received. The decision was by Associate Justice Hydrick and concurred in by the entire court. On the first of July the motormen and conductors employed by the Greenville Traction company V get a substantial increase in wages, and one which, it is be lifeved, will be highly satisfactory > Mo the employes of the company who not Ion# ago petitioned for an increase in wages. Commissioner Watson of the department of agriculture, announces the appointment of Dr. John W. Douglas to be the State inspector in charge of the field work under the feed, food and drug law enacted by the General Assembly at its last session. Dr. Douglass is a native of Fairfield county. Congressman Wyatt Aiken has secured the promise of the Department of the Interior to send an expert to his district to in- , quire into the possibilities of oil. It was like pulling eye teeth to . fret the Department to do anything, and for that reason Mr. ; Ailrm . U f i aii\cii nu^ca nidi tut? outcome OI i the visit will be an entire surprise to the department. As a farewell token to their colleague and friend, the members of the faculty of the University of South Carolina presented Dr. S. C. Mitchell with a beautiful silver pitcher, engraved with the inscription: "Presented to Doctor Samuel Chiles Mitchell, president of the University of South Carolina, 1908-1913, by his colleagues in the faculty as a token of affection and the appreciation of his services to the University." It is stated that the people of Lexington will use every reasonable means at their command to ; retain the territory wanted for the proposed new county of Edisto. Lexington has suffered a great deal in recent years by the formation of new counties. When Calhoun was established that county gave a goodly portion of its territory; and last year a portion of the famous Dutch Fork was annexed to Richland County. A handsome new union passenger station will be built in Spartanburg at an early date. Mr. Coapman of the Southern Rail T way company declared that the railroads entering the city will ( look after its welfare. "We are not ready yet," he said, "to announce our plans. It takes some time to draw up the prints for i such a building to meet the de| mands of a growing city. I j \ should say that by fall Spartan1 burg people will know exactly \ what they are going to get." ! The Dry Year of 1845. I A few persons remember 1845 as the dry year in this country. There was moisture enough in 1 the ground to bring corn up to a stand. Early in May the rains ceased, and there was nothing but very light showers occasionally until fall. Upland corn was a failure. Gardens amounted to nothing; small streams, the size of Chincapin, dried up. The larger streams and rivers furnished about one-fourth the normal supply of water. Frequently clouds would appear for a day or two, but they would pass without rain. The tradition is that the wind was blowing more than half the time. Many families pulled out and moved to Tennessee in the fall because corn was abundant there. Farmers in September began to look after a supply of corn for the next year. They heard that it could hp KruicrVif -frtv 57 nonto o t VVV.Q.1V AV4 W VVIIU9 a UUOHCl in Rutherford county. Perhaps the first purchasers got it at that price, but in consequence of the rush of South Carolina wagons the price soon rose to 50 cents and then mounted to 75 cents before the winter was over. No weather records were kept in those days, but it is probable tbat the drought covered only a few Piedmont counties. Crops were excellent in Western North Carolina and in the lower counties of the State. It was in the fall of that year that the famous prayer meeting for rain was called. A large crowd came from the county and met in the Methodist church. They continued in prayer for some time and when the meeting was dismissed, there were some clouds on the northwestern horizon. Many who attended the meeting from the county got drenched before they reached home. That shower was the breaking up of the drought. Others followed and put the ground in fine condition for sowing wheat. A larger acreage than usual was soon planted and the yield was excellent. In the fall of 1845 fields and nastures were the picture of desolation. There was nothing green anywhere. Many of the forest trees had died. There are a half dozen or more people living who remember the apparently hopeless condition of the people at that time.?Spartanburg Journal. Lancaster Nan's Invention. That "Lancaster Leads" continually is again attested by the fact that Mr. A. K. Collins of this place has recently patented two devices, the like of which has never been on the market before. One is for making change and the other is a coin changing and vending machine combined. There are eight or ten different types of the machines which will sell from $15 up to $150. The machines are made to change any piece of silver from a nickel up to a dollar, and they are perfectly honest, f hey work automatically and will not take in your money unless it is ready to give you the change. And if there is a faulty piece of money put in, it is left exposed for several times before disappearing. The machine does not work on the gravity-trigger system as does the chewing gum machines and others, but on the lock system. there being no trigger or cog wheels about it to wear out. It works on a succession of locks in a disk. It can be used in street cars, trains and all other places where change is needed. The vending machine is combined with the change-making device. You can get your piece of silver changed and then buy from the machine any article it delivers without moving out of your tracks. Mr. Collins has secured patents on the machines in this country, with foreign patents pending. He has been North several times to contract for the making of his machines and to sell the county and State rights. They will be upon the market within the next four months. Mr. Collins is 31 years of age. He is the son of Mr. J. W. Collins of the Belair section of this county, where he was born and reared. He is a man of whom Lancaster feels proud.?Lancaster News. THE YORK COUNTY FAIR TO BE HELD AT WINTHROF The fair committee of the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce is hard at work rounding up the details for the York county fail which will be held this fall in connection with the Winthrop College home institute. The date of the fair which will continue for two days will be announced as soon as the committee ascertains on what dates the fairs in surrounding cities will hp hplfl Within t-Vio novt _ .. * > viiiii cn\^ 1 1V/ A L l< W L weeks work on the buildings will be commenced and it is hoped to have them completed during this month. As has already been stated the fair and institute will be held or the rear campus of Winthrop College and in the Arts and Science building, the agricultural exhibits to be placed in the latter. The cattle sheds, hog pens, dog kennels, etc., which will be erected on the rear campus will be put up in such a manner thai they can be moved to the permanent fair grounds next year. The grandstand which was used for the Pageant will remain up until after the fair and will be used to seat those who attend this magnificent agricultural exhibition. Every farmer in the c'ou'nty is : urged by the committee to begin J preparing for the fair. He can now begin to select articles for J his exhibit. He can select bunI dies of oats, alfalfa, etc., and a little later on pick out stalks o( corn, mark them in some manner and have everything ready | long before the fair opens. The boys on the farm can begin tc ! practice up their horses and mules for the races, or better still they can teach their mounts some fancy tricks and pull them otf before the thousands of ad i miring- spectators. The girls can look after their chickens more closely. They can put up several select cans of tomatoes for entry in the canning department. They can also make fancy aprons, embroidery, etc. for exhibit, and the little boys can sleek their rabbits and guinea pigs, etc., also their dogs. High Honors for Fort Mill Man. Editor The Times: Not seeing anything in your last issue about | one of our number, whom I think j we should notice, I am writing ; you now. I attended the commencement of Furman Uni| versity and one of the speakers i who acquitted himself with much I honor was our own townsman, Rev. Robt. G. Lee. He had two I honors bestowed upon him. One for a most excellent oration he delivered commencement night the subject of which was "Civilization's Debt to the Inventor." It was a masterpiece and well delivered. For it he was awarded the Durham medal, an honor which is one of the greatest one can gain in the college. Mr. Lee also won the Watson medal for having written the best piece in the college magazine. The subject of it was "The Comforter" and in it he showed himself to be a poet of no mean ability. I think it is only right to mention also a most excellent short story he wrote called "'The Mills of Grief," and I could wish that every man who has ever been guilty of immoral conduct with the opposite sex might read this splendid production of Mr. Lee's. Mr. Lee finished this year the B. A. course and expects to teach school next year, as he has been elected principal of the Central graded school of the city of Greenville. He will preach to his churches around Greenville also, which he has served well as pastor for the last year. Mr. Lee intends in the future to attend the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville Ky. A Friend. Fort Mill, June 14. The "measuring party" given in Coufederate Park Tuesday evening by the ladies of the local Methodist church was largely attended and a very enjoyable affair. A large quantity of cream and cake was served by the ladies and quite a nice sum of money was realized. ! PREVENTION OF DISEASE > BETTER THAN A CURE 5 The State board of health with -1 ladoratories in LeConte college of 5 the University of South Carolina, ' is distrituting immunity from ceri tain diseases by the wholesale. This immunity may be had just - for the asking. Are the people willing to pay the price? That is the question that Drs. Hayne ! and Coward would ask thp n^r?_ i pie in every community in South [ | Carolina. >1 Dr. F. A. Coward, director of I the laboratories, said Thursday: | "There is a growing demand for r the typhoid fever vaccine. In fact, the calls we have had for 5 this serum already this year i amount to the sum total of those > for the year 1912. There is the 1 same ratio of increase in the | number of microscopic examina. tions that are being made. Last year these totalled 5,880. The ? number this year will doubtless I be more than 10,000. "The most serious handicap, . however, with which the depart. ment has to deal is the lack of a record of vital statistics. The [ department simply can not tell [ what it is accomplishing. When ( there is no record whatever kept . of the births, and only a partial registration of the deaths, it is \ impossible to tell of what extent i the death rate is being lowered, i Our report for last year gives the number of deaths in the United . States as 25 per 100,000 populai tion. This would give South ' Carolina with her 1,500,000 in. habitants about 375 deaths anr I nually from typhoid fever. This > | is doubtless an underestimate in i regard to South Carolina, as the figures are made up from the registration areas of the United ( States, where the conditions are 11 much better than they are in . Soiith Carolina." i The typhoid vaccine, a serum , I for meningitis, and that used in treatment of rabies are made in i and distributed -from the local laboratores. Since August, 1911, 10,000 ampules of the typhoid vaccine have been sent out and 4,000 persons have been immunized. One hundred and fiftyj six persons, most of whom were ; children, have taken the Pasteur ; treatment since last December, i There are now 18 patients under ! the care of the officers of the State board of health. It has been only within the I last few weeks that Dr. Hayne ; has been successful in getting j the conditions in South Carolina ; treated of in the United States I public health service bulletin. This publication is issued weekly and givps a general survey of the health conditions throughout the country. Sunday Sport Must Stop. Governor Blease has ordered I the lid to be put on tight at the ! Isle of Palms. Stringent and J peremptory orders to forbid all motorcycle racing or such like ' sports on the beach Sundays and J to stop the sale of liquor and) ! beer were issued by the governor to Sheriff Martin and Chief1 Constable Stothart, of Charles-, ton. Violations of law must ' stop and desecration of the Sabbath Day must end, says the J Chief Executive of South Carolina. In his letter to Sheriff Martin the Governor calls attention to the newspaper reports of Sunday motorcycle races on the Isle of "Palms and instructs the sheriff to arrest all taking part in such sports on Sunday herearter and prosecute them to the limit of the law. In his letter to Chief Dispell sary Constable Stothart to stop the sale of liquor on the Isle of Palms, Governor Blease says: It is thought aloud here that "John P. Grace's idea in closing up everything so tight in Charleston on Sunday is to drive every one to the Isle of Palms, and that a bar room is to be run open and above-board over there. It is said also that Mr. Grace is boarding at the hotel in Charleston with the gentleman who owns the Isle of Palms business." The Isle of Palms is the playground of Charleston and excursions every Sunday take thousands of people there from I all parts of the State. Important Meeting of D. A. R. ] (Contributed.) Kanawha Chapter, D. A. R. of Fort Mill, held the last meetI ing of the year with Mrs. W. B. Ardrey. Officers for the new year were N elected as follows: Miss Susie N White, regent; Miss Helen Ar- $ drey, secretary and treasurer; ? Mrs. S. L. Meacham, vice-regent; c Mrs. W. B. Ardrey, historian. v The year book comniitte was ap- r i pointed, consisting of Mrs. E. M. Belk, chairman; Misses Bessie ( j Withers and Helen Ardrey and Mrs. S. L. Meacham. J The' secretary and treasurer 1 ! stated that the treasury contained | $60 which sum was to be used to ; buy the marker for the old * ; cemetery. It was again decided , ; to offer the five dollar gold piece ' to the student in the graded * i l i ' - - - ! scnooi making the highest aver- ' age in American history during the coming season. This prize has proved a great incentive to [ the children in the study of his- k tory but it seems hardly fair to [ the other branches and to a great \ niany of the scholars who excel in them?mathematics, English j ; and spelling, for instance. What ; ! more important branches are ' there than these? In the nearI by school of Winnsboro there is \ , a medal given to the best speller 1 ! in school. Several of those mak- ( I ing the highest averages engage ( in a spelling contest at the end 1 x I of school. This proves one of [ the most interesting and enter- j l taining features of the commencement exercises. In some | schools there is also a trustees' j medal given to the scholar mak- ^ : ing the highest average in all of I the sudies. How much better it would be ^ if some of the good people who are continually disparaging the school and its work should give . , the small sum of 5 or $10 towaid , medals or prizes for good work [ j in these other branches, their attitude toward the school would 4 soon change to that of friendly ! interest. One noble-hearted pa. troness of education in Rock Hill gives $100 in prizes annually, f Can you compute the far-reaching t effect of such liberality. 1 FOR SALE. A quantity of eight ^ and ten foot oak and hickory wood at.' ? 1 tiOc per cord on ground. Also mixed j j, wood at 60c per cord. !\ (>. BARKER. || j 1 FOR JUNE! ;| ? WE 01 H The following SPECIAL B &ja est and coolest fabrics. A1 our stock of these pretty p; SB hausted. Buy today and g * u lf?c Figured Lawns, the yard, || 6c Figured Lawn?, the yard, n I g 18c and 20c White Striped Kla: rk* 2T?c best French Gingham, spet Big assortment White Suitings toy See our counter of Colored'Sui tiki The best White Klaxon only Wu Hp Good ?c Gingham, splendid va Large assort ment Checked Ma dg EXTRA SPECIAL - Cotton Vo White Linens, beautiful cjuali Pr< tty Silk-Finished Foulards NAINSOOK- Special value, th 8 JUST ARR New shipment of those superi* very newest shapes. They a proof and Wear-proof. Don't | Only a few Ladies' Hats left gg Watch our center counters v&t .lidy and August something n | E. V/. Kim ''The Place Where wwmmmmwm m ?i.?w rer sear. RECENT COOL WEATHER HURT GROWING CROP That the chilling rainy weather vhich prevailed during the past veek over portions of the cotton growing belt will curtail the crop it least a million bal s, is the opinion in quarters where the veather map is studied in conleetion with the effects of the veather on the various crops, Cotton in the growing state is peculiarly sensitive to cold, alhough it bears up well under he sun and will not be affected mless the drouth is unusually jxeessive. The unusual weather conditions "or June, usually one of the softest and mildest of the sumner months, were prevalent nroughout South Carolina, where he growing of cotton is the trincipal agricultural pursuit. Some of the students of weather onditions and crop prospects ire of the opinion that the staple las suffered to a considerable ?xtent as the result of the chiling rains that have fallen. The lir, too, was heavy with moisture 'or three days and the vitality >f the growing crops was put to i severe test. Early fruit was lrooping, though that which had ieveloped firmly withstood fairly veil the ordeal which the elenents had assigned to the Sunny iouth, which did not seem to >e living up to its name during he recent conditions. Cotton is the leading financial :rop of the State and any inluence which tends to prevent i full maturity of the planted itaple is viewed with anxiety by he planters. Mr. J. L. Lyles has bought he Crescent Cafe from Mr. C. Jones and will continue the tusiness in the Belk building on Jain street. Wonderful Skin Salve. Bucklen'a Arnica Salve is known very whore as the best remedy made or all diseases ot the skin, and also for mrns, bruises and boils. Reduces iniammation and is soothing and healing. . T. Sossaman, publisher of News, of lornelius, N. C., writes that one box elped his serious skin ailment after ther remedies failed. Only 25 cents, tecommended by Fort Mill Drug Co., tlassey's Drug Store and Ardreys )rug Store. iJW V3 W W* J 7^ VTW CM WW ?33U CW SHOPPERS I _ _ ^ FFER ~~ 1 ARGAINS in the daintit these SPECIAL prices Ilj atterns will soon be exet the choicest. only 10c 3} ow only 31-2c xon at 15c ?ial price, . 15c Ml , .10c, 15c, 25c W tilers at 10c, 15c, 25c. m .. 15c, 17 l-2c, 25c Sj lue, the yard. 3 l-2c rquisette, yard ..12 1-2c bA ilos, now only 15c, 25c I y. 30c, 50c at 25c jg i ie yard, only. 12 l-2c 1IVED? I or Warner Corsets in the re all Rust-proof, Water- Sft fail to try one of these. Sfe , Going at Halt Price. 1 for bargains during June, *? e\v almost every day. ibrell Co., 1 duality Counts." tfcPU WBITSW mJ viyf rR