University of South Carolina Libraries
' ' x ' - > ' >.' r ' *" v * # ? f. ' \ The Fort Mill Times. Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1913. *1 ?* T??- v , BITS OF INTERESTING NEWS THROUGHOUT THE STATE W. S. Lee, at the invitation of the Anderson chamber of commerce directors, will appear before that body next Monday, at which time plans will be considered looking toward carrying to Anderson the main transmission lines of the Southern Power Co. Two white men, Jim and Will Garner, father and son, were on Sunday taken from Gaffney to the State hospital for the insane at Columbia. So far as is known this was the first case of the kind to transpire in Cherokee county. Comptroller General A. W. Jones has reported to Attorney General T. H. Peeples shortages in the accounts of former Treasurer J. N. Jernette and former Sheriff B. J. Sessions of Horry county. The alleged shortages will be investigated. Charlie Mears, a large truck farmer of Jasper county, was shot and fatally wounded Sunday afternoon by Willie Barnhill at Tillman, a small station on the Southern railroad eight miles from Ridgeland, the county seat. Barnhill is in the county jail. Bankers from all parts of the State will assemble in Columbia Thursday to go in a group to Lake Toxaway, N. C., for the annual meeting of the, South Carolina Bankers' association. The convention begins Thursday morning aud lasts through Saturday. Adjt. Gen. W. W. Moore has announced that, on account of a lack of funds, the three regiments of State militia will each encamp eight instead of ten days as at first planned. It is also stated that the riflle shoot fund IS not avililahlo Cftf (loiviMimr T-v.iv. ? .v., <-?"i|'inh imposes. The South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' association, which adjourned its annual meeting at Lake Toxaway, N. C., Friday, went on record as favoring legislation which would compel the attendance of children at the public schools. The association also went on record as favoring humane child labor laws. It is probable that electric cars of the G. S. & A. railway will be running between Greenville and Greer by October 1st, according to a statement of one of the officials of the interurban line. About 15 miles of track between Greenville and Spartanburg has been completed at different stretches along the line. That the nrnhihiHen nartu , Richland county will renew its efforts to hold an election on the question of voting the dispensary out is the statement of the chairman of the executive committee of the party in Richland county. After a canvas of the signatures on the several petitions by J. L. Nettles, to whom they were referred by the county supervisor, it was found that the names of the required one-third of the qualified electors had not been Becured. One of the biggest commercial propositions at Charleston for a long while is on the road to a successful conclusion. For more than six months now the half million dollar dock proposition of Clyde Line Steamship company has been steadily nearing completion day by day. and now the first pier of the three big ones to be constructed is nearly finished. Supereisor Pitts of Sumter county says that he will order an election to determine whether or not the dispensary shall be reestablished in that county. The supervisor and his clerk went over the petition asking for an election on the dispensary situation, and have found that more than a thivd of the qualified voters of the county had signed the petition. He will, therefore, order the election on the third Tuesday in August as required by law. ENCAMPMENTS OF MILITIA NOW SEEM A CERTAINPl What appears to have been i satisfactory settlement of the militia squabble in this State was reached the last week wher the following correspondence passed between Governor Blease and the war department at Washington: 'The Hon. L. M. Garrison, the Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. ? Sir: On June 28, certain military officers of South Carolina, including the brigadiei general and the three colonek commanding respectively the three regiments of the Nationa Guard of South Carolina, met and forwarded to me a communication, copy of which n attached to this letter, anc marked 'Exhibit A.' "I thereupon wrote a letter tc each of the members from South Carolina in the national house ol representatives, copy of which letter is herewith attached anc marked 'Exhibit B.' "I also wrote a letter to Gen. Wilie Jones and Col. Julius E. Cogswell, copy of which is attached to this letter and markec 'Exhibit C.' "I presume, therefore, frorr their letter, and from your communication to the representatives from this State, that yoi are willing to do the following as stated by you in said communication: "The militia of South Caro; lina will have its transportation I paid to the extent that Federal I ulH 1C "fVvV" *- - I uiu iu uovvi iv/i mac JJU&C LL ! the various encampments this summer. They will have subsistence will there, paid under similar conditions. The companies which passed the last inspection will have their pay I paid under similar conditions. ] The pay for the deficient com1 panies will be retained... The deficient companies will be given another opportunity to measure up to the test, at an inspection to be held at least three months from this date. If at that time : they pass the inspection they [ will then receive their retained ; pay.' "This is all I have been asking, and it is entirely satisfactory i to me. Very respectfully, (Signed) "Cole L. Blease, "Governor." It is believed that Governor ! Blease's letter Secretary of War | Garrison is the last word in an ! incident which has been of i national interest. An Approaching Marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Blankenship, of Fort Mill township, have issued invitations tc the marriage ot' their daughter, Myrtle Arden, to Mr. Joseph Edward Norment on the evening of July 16th, at 8 o'clock. The marriage is to take place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Blankenship in upper Fort Mill. After a bridal tour of several weeks Mr. and Mrs. Norment will beat home at 435 C^shua street, Darlington, S. C. Miss Blankenship is a graduate of Winthron ?n.a d., r l*iiU AOIUVL her graduation several years ago has taught in the city schools of Rock Hid and other places. She is a young woman of charming personality and has endeared herself to a wide circle of friends throughout the upper pari of the State all of whom will be deeply interested to learn of her asproaching marriage. Mr. Norment is well known throughout South Carolina. Some years ago he was connected with the staff of the Charleston News and Courier, leaving that work to become private secretary to Governor Heyward, then State manager of the Southern States Life Insurance company, and at present he is secretary of the chamber of commerce at Darlington. In honor of Miss Blankenship, Miss Amelia Pride Beekhi.m, of Rock Hill, entertained at a miscellaneons shower Friday afternoon, at which a score or more of her friends were gathered. Throughout the alfair the ideas of the Glorious Fourth were carried out, the shower being in a huge firecracker brought in by a little girl dressed as Miss Columbia. I 1 YORK COUNTY NEWS NOTES. [- 11 A barn on Thad Clinton's j place near Clover was struck by | lightning Sunday and burned, j - Two mules, worth about $400, ; J were also destroyed. The barn i was of little value. Thursday evening Miss Eva M. j ' Good of Hickory Grove and Hoyle ' ' H. Daniel were married at the Associate Reformed parsonage in > Yorkville by the Rev. J. L. Oates. On July 1 the Loan and Savings i bank declared a dividend of 5 per cent, and the First National 5 bank declared a semi-annual ? dividend of 3 per cent. The I town of Yorkville has purchased ; two fine mules. State Agent S. H. White, in J charge of the Catawba Indian reservation, last Saturday afternoon paid out the second quarter* ly division of the State aid to 1 the members of the tribe. The payments involving a total sum j of about $1,700 were made in the director's room of the Peoples National Bank at Bock Hill. John G. Anderson, the owner ? of the Rock Hill Buggy Company I j plant, is completing his arrantre I ments to enter extensively into > the manufacture of automobiles. He has made a contract with H. F. Shaw of Cincinnati, an i expert in building automobiles r, , and other vehicles, to take com plete charge of that branch of ; the business. Mr. Anderson was not ready to say what kind i i i of a car the concern would 1 specialize in. | Miss Rachael McGill, daughter . of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander . McGill, of King's Creek, was . married Wednesday afternoon at her home to Lewis Bradwell - of Cross. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. L. . Oates of Yorkville. The young , couple left for Asheville. ^ j A marriage Thursday afternoon which greatly surprised the 1 friends of the contracting par! ties was that of Dr. J. Newton Gaston and Mrs. Rose Hoke, of Edgemoor. The Rev. R. A. Lumnus, pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church of Edgemoor, performed the ceremony, after which Dr. and Mrs. Gaston motored to Rock Hill and took the 5:30 train for a bridal trip to the isle of Palms. * Think Jacobs Was Crazy. " | That John D. Jacobs, found dead June 28 with his wife and | four children in their burned home near Peak had been of unsoupd mind for two years is the statement made by Dr. H. G. ' Eleazer, a physician of Peak. ' "John Jacobs has suffered from disorder of the brain for 1 two years or more," said Dr. Eleazer. "Fully two years ago ! he came to me for consultation, 1 after which he visited a specialist in Columbia. His last consulta- J ' tion with me was not quite three | ; weeks ago, when he said: 'I ' don't mind dying, but I can't leave my family behind, This thing can't last much longer ! with me.' " President's Daughter to Wed. Throughout the whole country . j and particularly in the South the I announcement of the engage;; merit of Miss Jessie Woodrow ' j Wilson, second daughter of the ' , i President and i\lrs. Woodrow . I Wilson, to Francis Bowes Savre. i of Lancaster, Pa., is of marked , interest. The wedding which is to take place in November at the ' White House, will be the most ; notable event of the season in 1 i Washington's social circles. ^ :'r ??i; a An Appeal to You. ! I The season of the year is at hnnd 9 when the average country news| paper man is put to ins wits to 9 make ends meet, in a financial way, and as the publi^icr of The Times is not blessed v* itb a smiling bank account, he finds himself facing such a condition at present, hence this appeal to you. If you are in- J 1 debted to 1 he Times for subscrip- I tion, advertising, or printing, kindly I _ bring or send the amount at once. I ( ; Every little is a help. The money I IIS needed to run the business. & J The Military Muddle. (Yorkville Enquirer, 4th.) We do not care to try to review the military muddle at length because we are lacking in knowledge of some of the facts, and we are unable to furnish proof of some of the things we strongly suspect ; but we would say that while in our judgment some impolitic and unwise things have been said and done, there has really been very little harm, and there will not be a great deal. In the first place, \yhile South Carolina's military establishment is probably as good, comparatively speaking, as most other States, it is nothing to brag on, and there is lots of room for improvement. General Moore has been really and truly doing his best to improve the condition of the military for some time past, and his administration of the adjutant general's office has probably been up to a higher standard than the State has previously known. Because, however, of dissensions in the militia itself, and because the adjutant general's office has not been working in proper harmony with the governor's office, almost any little untoward circumstance has been very well calculated to make big trouble, and this very likely accounts for most of the rumpus that has extended over the last ten days. Although there might have been a good many things leading up to the final action of the adjutant and inspector general in ask ing for the mustering out of eastern companies, the immediate basis for that action was the failure of the companies in question to come up to the plain requirements of law at inspections Inasmuch as the governor isj commander-in-chief, and as such ; has to take full responsibility,notwithstanding recommendations of the adjutant and inspector general, it is not at all surprising i that the governor should havei refused to act upon the adjutant and inspector general's recom-. mendations in this case. Of course the law is the law, 1 and the law should be obeyed;: hut those who understand the facts involved, understand that while the eleven companies in j question may be at the present time most flagrantly inefficient, j it is very doubtful as to whether there is a company in the State | ...i.: _i ? i - wnicn couia not oe mustered out with equal sanction of the law. , It is a fact that there is no: more violation of the law in what Governor Please has done i than there has been continuously all along, not only since the enactment of the Dick law; but since the establishment 01 the militia sysrem in the State. We are not inclined to criticise the adjutant and inspector Ken-! eral in this matter, certainly not j in connection with his mustering] out recommendation. The statutory regulations are mainly for, the purpose of enforcing disci-! pline, and if he could not secure i a desired standard in any other' way, it would seem to us that 1 he was fully justified in resorting j to extreme measures. Of course as to how much! politics underlies the whole matter we do not know, nor do we know the extent to which intrigue, conspiracy and trickery may have been u.^ed to bring j about bad feeling, and distort! and misdirect otherwise sound, judgment. We do know, however, that all of these things, have had more or less influence in the military alfairs of the j State. It is easy enough to understand, too, that if the governor had sanctioned the adjutant general's recommendation, there would have been a very con-1 siderable amount of political capital built on the incident later on. As the outcome of the whole bft'air, it would seem that, the governor is on top. If Secretary Garrison was deceived or misled, it appears that he has recovered his balance and gotten back to a basis of reason and j right, and as the result of the whole affair the militia has probably gotten a shakeup that will contribute to its future efficiency. Pay your subscription and receive 25,000 piano votes.? Adv. EXIT COTTON EXCHANGE SAY HONESTDEMOCRATS The cotton exchanges of New York and New Orleans are nearer extermination today than they have been since the crusade against cotton "gambling" began several years ago, says a Washington dispatch to the Charlotte Observer. The Democrats of the Senate have approved an amendment to the Underwood-Simmons tarilf bill which levies a tax of onetenth of a cent a pound upon all cotton represented in "future" contracts, or the kind usually dealt in on the exchanges. On purely speculative sales this tax will be prohibitive. The tax must be paid by stamps affixed to the contract. When delivery is actually made the amount of the tax will be refunded. Sometimes during the speculative season, sales of future contracts on the New York Cotton Exchange total 1,000,000 bales. At den - u~i_ vx>\> a u*ue mis would moan $500,000 in taxes to the government. The speculator who puts jup only $1 or $2 to carry a ba^? cotton could not afford to^Pry the 50 cents tax. But the actual purchaser of the $50 bale could not be taxed at all. Fr ends of the exchange insist that the purely speculative business is necessary to its existence. They also claim that a large part of the apparent speculation is really legitimate hedging by men engaged in buying and selling cot'-cp. If speculation is barred, they say the exchanges that furnish a constant market fof cotton and one that steadies prices, must go under. But the Democrats of the Senate have already approved the tax, and the House has at various times passed measures to prohibit these short sales commonly termed gambling in cotton. At the homo of T.- E. McGhee, Hazel Vera, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Ramsayt\ died July 13. The funeral services were conducted at the McGhee home tin* following morning by Dr. E. E. Gillespie, hays a Yorkviile dispatch. m S&3 K2IB jf! R M g | roe Very l | Has M ' Fancy Handbags in al match your dresses. Spei 25c and 50c each, in ligh ??$ black, numle. in fmt rnr $ ' r km wish for. Those are mad* Wi tasslo. and you will be s\ I sight.. If you can't come will seloct one for yon. SPEC Ladies' Ready-made Ginph $1 25. for this week only, Boys' Wash Suits, regular pi gg Special for Saturc T'h> 1 ,,rk'sh Bath Towe Saturday and Monday on Good 15c Towels, two for I E. W. Kin &| "The riaec Whore A A vaii BIG INCREASE IS SHOWN IN ACREAGE OF COTTON An increase of 856,000 acres in the area planted to cotton this year and an improvement of 2 7 per cent, in the condition of the crop over May 25 were the features of the deparment of agriculture's July cotton report issued Thursday which gave the first official estimate of the acreage this year and the condition on June 25. With the increased acreage and a better condition by 1.4 per cent, over last year and 1.6 per cent, over the 10-year average on June 25, indications point to a larger crop than the big crop of 1912. Texas reported an increase of 342,000 acres in area planted and the condition of the plant there improved two points over May. Georgia reported a slight decrease in acreage, but the condition improved 5 per cent, from May to June. Increases in acreage also were reported from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, ftl'lolinm'i on/I A T . ?? ? - ? v/i\iuiivina aim Y ll^llllri. A total area of 35,622.000 acres of cotton is in cultivation in the United States, accorbing to the preliminary estimate of the bureau of statistics. j Vaughn Case to U. S. Court. Having taken an appeal to the United States supreme court, on the ground that the rights of their client had been invaded by the change from hanging to electrocution as the method of capital punishment in this State since he was sentenced to death, counsel for Thurston U. Vaughn of Greenville Monday obtained a stay of the remittitur from the 'supreme court of South Carolina. The remittitur would have gone down Tuesday had it not been stayed. VaPghn was convicted of mistreating a child, who was in his care while he was superintendent of the Odd Fellows' Orphan home near Greenville, and was sentenced to be hanged. He appealed to the supreme court and that tribunal recently aflirmed judgment below and remanded the case to the lower court in order that Vaughn might be resentenced. aiest Fad | id ArriwoH 1 iui nsiifuu | & fij i the different shades to Liiftl price, while they last, &0l t blue, navy blue, pink, t t st any color you could a! 3 of Silk, with cord and t g ire to want one at first I 5 , just 'phone U3 and wo r g :ial s am Dresses, regular price S each 75c ice $1.00, now only 75c w lay and Monday. 1, Is, 22x44, a 25c value, for gj l.v, each, . _. 19c &? ribrell Co., | ; duality Counts."