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* - - 4 / \ The Fort Mill Times. Established in 1891. _FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1913. ? ? - - BITS OF INTERESTING NEWS THROUGHOUT THE STATE An increase of more than $6,800 over the year preceding was shown in the postal receipts at the Greenville postoffice for the fiscal year ending June 30. The petition of Mills Hunter in the mandamus proceedings against the Greenville city Democratic Executive Committee was refused in a decision filed by Associate Justice Hydrick at Spartanburg. Members of the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church, Gaffney, have set out to raise $5,000 to free their church from debt. The Baptist Home Mission Board has promised the remaining $3,000 required. > The commercial bodies of the Various cities and towns of this State have been asked to send representatives to Columbia July 29, to lay plans to send a special train to the Central and Middle Western States to advertise the resources of South Carolina. ft Senator Tillman has announced * that owing to a vacancy at West Point from the State at large there will be a competitive examination for the position to be held in Columbia at the University of South Carolina on Friday, August 9, beginning at 9 o'clock. The Charleston Greek colony is raising a fund to care for the women and children in Greece. The government and people are not able financially to help the stricken as the necessities of the case require and the Greeks of Charleston are contributing uuite liberally to the cause. Something of a surprise to the people of Georgetown was sprung when Deputy Collector A. T. Jennings of Charleston installed B. F. Jones as deputy collector of customs for the port of Georgetown, superceding the colored deputy, J. A. Baxter, who had held office under I. J. McCottrie for many years. A consignment of fish has been distributed by the government in Spartanburg and Greenville counties and the fish car has been returned to the hatchery, at Meredosio, 111., for other consignments. The varieties of fish given out are the bass, cat, sun, and small black bass. These fish are delivered in cans, which hold ten gallons of water and are provided, by apparatus on the car, with oxygen pumped into the cans containing the fish. A number of those opposed to the formation of the nronnseH new county from Spar anburg have organized a committee which is instituting a fight against the movement. At a recent meeting of this committee it was decided to fight the new county proposition and to present arguments in opposition to it through a series of letters issued each week and distributed among the voters of the district proposed to be severed from the county. A benevolent home for the aged and helpless, the epileptic, children of retarded mental development and orphans, located ( at White Rock, in Lexington j county, and a training school for : deaconesses, who shall fill the y various omces 01 the home, is the comprehensive plan of the Lutheran church of this State. The institution will be known as the Lowman Home, in honor of Mrs. Lowman, of White Rock, who presented the church with 1,000 acres of land for the establishment of such a benevolent enterprise. Don't fail to read the advertisement McElhaney& Co.?Adv. Bfev -; ? TILLMAN SAYS BLEASE "DOUBLE-SOMERSAULTED" Discussing affairs in South Carolina, Senator Tillman Friday said, in part: "Governor Blease has recently done two things about which I want to say something. I have been amused at the subtleness I and cunning he has shown in I getting out of the militia muddle. ; He double somersaulted instant- I ly, and was so anxious to comply with the requirements of the war department that he telegraphed his acquiescence to the secretary's demands. The mail was too slow for him. Another thing the governor has done f 1 \r ic tV\n lnffni* V*r\ ??>? />*-/% *-? , vvviivi.r 10 unv, IVUC1 lie n 1UIC IU the supervisors of registration ordering them peremptorily to register all white men. His exact words are: 'Let no white man be refused.' "I have examined the law carefully to see just how far the supervisors ought to go, and I take the liberty of advising them to obey the law?the strict letter of the law?and register only men qualified under the law who will take the oath required. That oath is as follows: "I do solemnly swear (or af-1 firm) that I am a male citizen of ; this State and of the United States; that I am twenty-one years of age or more; that I Jiave resided in this State for two years, and in this county for one j year, and in the polling precinct in which I apply to be registered ! and in which I will offer to vote for four months; and that I have not been convicted of burglary, arson, obtaining goods or money under false pretenses, perjury, robbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy, wife beating, housebreaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegnation, larceny or crimes against the election laws." The News of Gold Hill. Fort Mill Times Correspondence. The good old "lay-by" time | has come and the straw hat boys j can now lay in the shade, but they have no cider to drink nor peaches to eat, and even the Bill Johnson fruit is dried up. Crops are failing fast for the want of rain. The family of Mr. W. H. Windle has been sorely afflicted for some time. His mother, wife and daughter all being down sick. Miss Lessie Epps is, we learn, quite sick. The infant children of W. P. Epps and Dave Gibson have been hard hit for two months with whooping cough. The infant of Sam Boyd is. we hear, lying at the point of death.* Our friend Logan Huffman and wife, of Anderson county, | Texas, are visiting relatives here. We learn that he has been quite successful sincfe he' left this section 30 years ago. and has also raised a family of 15 children, all of whom are married except two. Now, 1 while that is progress with a vengeance, he is lar behind our o:d war chum, H. F. Johnson, of Milam county, Texas, for up to three years ago he had booked 24 of them and fnaybe since that lime there are others running l/W\OA **"" A ' uiuuuu na/oc, icaciiis art! noted for doing things on a big scale. They can just do more, better, ; longer, stronger and bigger things than anyone else. And, now, brother "G. W." .when we were young like you, we went to the big end of the log and did all the lifting, but it seems from your long silence1 that you have gone to the little end and are doing all the grunting. A certain gentlemen in Fort Mill remarked to us recently that a man who wrote for a newspaper was no good for anything else. And, now, brother j "G. W." if he has any such gab to you, why you just spank him for us and we will give you a piece of candy. Today, July 21st, marks the 52nd anniversary of the first great battle of the war. J. | The Law as t Opinion of United S Rendered on B. "A usage to allow customers to < notes charged up without present fun nical disguise, the usage and practice a usage and practice to misapply the the withdrawal of same, without any persons. Such a usage and practice the duty, both of the directors and ca and in a court of justice. It could no rectors, however formal; and therefo at his own peril and upon the respons is anything but 'well ami truly execu An Act of the General As "Any person who shall draw any with which he has not at the time su shall thereby obtain from another mo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and a fine or imprisonment in the discreti Page 18.) Wants Voters to Register. The York county board of registration is anxious to give every man who is qualified under the law, the opportunity to secure a registration certificate; but after a careful canvass of the situation, is at a loss to decide whether it is worth while to make a round of the county. The fact is that York is already one of the best registered counties there is in the State, the registration list being only a few votes short of the votes actually cast in the last primary. There are, of course, a number of people who have not yet registered; but all these can be accommodated during the present year if they will only come forward on the remaining first Mondays, and attend to the matter. The registration board hopes that every registered voter will make it his business to hunt up unregistered voters and urge them to come to Yorkville on the first Monday in August.?Yorkville Enquirer. Change in Postal Cards. The McKinley postcard is soon to disappear. The features of the martyred president are to be removed to give way to those of Thomas Jefferson. Postmaster General Burleson has written to Senator Burton of Ohio that his decision is this regard is irrevocable. The Senator had protested personally against the change and had forwarded to Mr. Burleson a protest from the McKinley club of Canton, Ohio. The postmaster general replied that the people's indorsement of the author of the Declaration of Independence in the last election justified the change. He insisted that no slight to the memory of McKinley was meant. The Filbert Picnic. The annual picnic at Filbert is announced for August 1. This picnic has grown to be an institution in York county. The first one, rather an insignificant affair, was held in 1901. It has beenfteld each year since under t Ko MltOVki/l/tn 4r * b ~ 1.*- I t- * khv. auo)jiv.co ui tut; r uuert Camp W. O. W. On several occasions the crowd has been estimated from three to five thousand people. It is understood that this year Governor Blease. the Hon. John L. McLaurin, the Hon. M. L*. Smith, the Hon. Chas. A. Smith and the Hon. George K. Rembert have been invited to be present and deliver addresses, and it is believed that several of the number, including the Governor and Mr. Mcl.aurin, will be present. Filbert is a flag station on the Carolina and Noothwestern Railway, about four miles north of Yorkville. Epps and Andrew Merritt were two from this section who were on the battlefield after the fight was over. Splinter. Gold Hill, July 21. v , o Overdrafts. tates Supreme Court ank Overdrafts. uverdraw and have their checks and ds in the hank, stripped of all tech, thus attempted to he sanctioned, is funds of the hank; and to connive at security, in favor of certain privileged is surely a manifest departure from ishier, as cannot receive any countenit be supported by any vote of the dire, whenever done by the cashier, is ibility of himself and his sureties. It ting his duties as cashier.' " sembly of South Carolina. ' check, draft or order upon a bank ttlcient funds to meet the same and ney or other thing of value shall be upon conviction shall be punished by on of the court." (Acts 1909, Vol. 1, Fine Crop of Oats. A Yorkville dispatch says that Latham Brothers, of Hoodtown, this county, recently threshed 928 bushels of oats raised on nine acres of land. It is estimated that the product of several of the nine acres was not less than 125 bushels to the acre. Moderately Cool Weather. No hot wave is looked for this week by the national bureau. "The high pressure distribution over the northern hemisphere," said the weekly bulletin Sunday, "appears favorable for for the j prevalence of moderate, or, at least, not unusually high temperatures over the greater portion of the country during the coming week. Over the South and j Sniithivncf tomniimt"""" 1 - .. 1VI>I|IIIIUUU'.> J)?UI>U" bly will be high at times, but' not so high as during the week just closed." Generally fair weather is expected over alj sections except j the South Atlantic and East , Gulf States where occasional thunder showers are likely to occur. Jackson Holds Batting Record. There continues to be nothing 1 to the race in the American league for batting honors save Joe Jackson. This boy leads in just about every other end of j the game as well as the individual j hitting and unless he suffers a slump or Cobb begins that expected spurt there is nothing to it but a Jackson year. Through the games on July 16 Jackson had an average of 412. This included in 82 games 289 at bats, 66 runs and 119 hits for | a total of 185 bases. This is more hits and a total of more bags than any other American leaguer and at the present clip Jackson will improve upon these figures within a short time. Extending the Parcel Post. (Charlotte Chronicle.) | The postoffice department has j ; begun to make good its promise j to extend the parcel post service. ! This service has proven popular1 apd successful even beyond the hopes of its advocates and the announcemeut from Postmaster General Burleson that the weight limit will be increased to 20 pounds and the rates reduced within the first two zones will be heartily welcomed by merchants and the people generally. And while these charges are to apply now, after August 15, only to the first and second zones, they are significant because they mark the beginning of an extension of the service in its entirety. "It is my expectation and belief," said Postmaster General Burleson, "that eventually ?and it may be 15 or 20 years?the postal service will handle pracfi?.U.. -II - " n?.aii.y an ui me smaii package transportation business in Liie United States. The maximum weight limit, extended now from 11 to 20 pounds, I expect to see increased to 100 pounds and experience may demonstrate the practicability of handling the parcel business at even lower r^tes than we now propose.'' TWO FARMERS' INSTITUTES I FOR COUNTY OF YORK Prof. \V. W. Long, State agent in charge of farm demonstration 1 work, announces that there will ' be no state farmers' institute at * Clemson collepe this year, and 1 the county institutes will be ] preatly changed in form and J scope. The kitchen at Clemson is underpoing needed repairs 1 and enlargement, and that is one 1 reason that there will be no farmers' institute at the collepe. ' The demonstration work in 1 the State has been divided into 1 three districts for the summer institute work, and these institutes will not be held at the court houses, but on the farms where the demonstration work is in progress. "You will notice," says Mr. Long, "that wherever we could we are holding these institutes on some farm. This is the first time in the history of this work that institutes have been taken to the very door of the farmer. There are several pood reasons for doing this. First, we can utilize the farm animals in demonstrating our talk on live stock. We can also utilize the growing field crops to demonstrate our field crop talks. Second, the farmers that attend these meetings will be men who are deeply interested and are seekintr inf'nr.l mation and they will not be distracted by attractions usually found in the towns. These institutes are going to be made as practical as possible." YV. H. Barton, of Simpsonville, will be in charge of the Piedmont district institutes, and will be assisted by J. 1). YV. YVnlts, who will talk on live stock, and YV. P. .Stewart, who will discuss cover crops. Mr. Barton's subject is soil building and he is unexcelled in this. i Two faamers' institutes are to 1 beheld in York county, the first on YY'. T. YVilkerson's farm on Monday, July 28. and the second; on Tuesday, July 21). on the farm i of Dr. T N. I)ulun. sss iHAVE YOI | ABOUT THE B I8^ WE OFFER FOR Many things at half price big reductions. We havei about each article, but the give you some idoa ns 1 slaughtering prices on all All Ladies' RadHiffo Oxfords, niwps ProtEv 25c, n?>w only 18c per yard. hS Several pit ees of splendid < Checked White floods regu yard, now at a big sacrifice Only twelve T'immed Summe fig pretty indeed Will sell alii 2g $1.25 Children's Drosses, now I g 50c ami 60c Children's Dresse j 3 $1 00 and $1.15 Children's Drt $1 50 Children's Dresses, now Jtg Children's 50c Rompers, now SB Children's 25c Rompers, now $1.00 Wash Suits for hoys, spc 50c and 60c Wash Suits for ho jSp $1.35 Ladies' Ready-to-wear I Ladies' 25c Dressing Sacques Ladies' 50c Dressing Sacques toi Ladies' 50c Middy Blouse for < All our Ladies' Pretty Skirts t (n We need the CASH- you i S today before the bargains are | E. W. Kin J "The Place Where n.zo rer Year. FOR THE COMMON GOOD CONFERENCES/ILL BE HELD The first meeting: of the Conference for the Common Good will be held in Columbia, August 3th and 7th. For this meeting the railroads entering Columbia have granted special rates and a large attendance is expected. The purpose of this conference is to offer an opportunity for men and women who have at heart the best interests of the State to come together and discuss vital significant things and endeavor to arrive at a remedy for the evils which exist, and to assist each other in all elforts for the common good. The movement is non-political and the conference will discuss principles and not personalities. It is hoped that its conclusions may deserve the support of all lovers of the State regardless of political affiliations. The conference is intended to be merely a preliminary to county conferences to be held later in the summer or in connection with the county fairs in the fall. It will be noted by reading: the program that it is not made up of long: papers. Men have been asked to state their conclusions in a few minutes and then the subject will be open to general discussion. The committee extends a cordial invitation to everybody to attend this conference and to unite in a resolve to think and talk about the things that are worth while. Soldier Boys Off to Anderson. The members of Company K, better known as the Fort Mill Light infantry, li ft Fort Mill yesterday morning at 7:15 over the Southern for Anderson, and for the next eight days they will be in camp with the other companies of the first regiment. Capt. T. H. Spratt and Lieutenants S. VV. Parks and J. M. White were in charge. There were about 50 men who made the trip from Fort Mill yesterday morning. SB? y heard! IG BARGAINS | I THIS WEEK? I and oceans of things at ftg Tt room here to toll you Sra lunuwiiig snon list will Lo the way we are now Summer Goods: $3 and $2.50, now $1.18. ?R I>ress yroods, regular price &? luality Fancy Stripe, and jag lar price 12 l-2c to 30c per Wa r Hats left. These are very BR lost at your own price. SB only 98c. s, now only 39c. : ?sses, now only 79c. ;?j only 98c. xSfp only 39c. only 19c. M ?cial, at 75c. ?5 vs. special, at 39c. uv: )resses, now only 75c. for only 19c. for only 34c. 9m only 34c. S it a bitf reduction. SI need the GOODS?drop in j8| all sold. ^ ibrell Co., 1 Quality Counts."