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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
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! 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.,
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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.
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YORK COUNTY NEWS NOTES.
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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.
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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. ^
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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match your dresses. Spei
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km wish for. Those are mad*
Wi tasslo. and you will be s\
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will seloct one for yon.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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