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< -r*; - * 'J\ k i ' i+< ' ^ - ? -v ; y v - .^Vn /> %' - ' ' *' * * ? ^ j '** ' - ' * * '< i1 nr -> :^y. J.. - ^4ptablishcd in 1891. IN BRIEF ! . .'.?; FROM OVER THE STATE the advent of cool father the bunting of deer in the Viinterland of Charleston is corrtihg to be in -re popular than x it proved to be at the opening' of tWe? season. ? Comptroller General Jones esti-? mates that the State income tax this year will yield about $15,tWW. He said he had not decided upon a recommendation with *> reference to the enforcement of * the law. He does not think that * ' the law should be repealed be. cause, of the National income t?,\ law. *Fire losses in South Carolina for the month of October amounted to $60,034.86, as compared wjth $73,055.44 for the same month last year, according to the I . ; monthly report of State Insurance Commissioner F. H. Mc-1 Master. The total number of fires during October this year was 121, as compared with 108'j > for the same month last year. It is announced that W. C. Irby, Jr., member of the legislature from Laurens county, will ? probably be a candidate for governor in next summer's campaign. He has pot decided but it is known that be has the mat cer uiiuer serious consiueration. A verdict of $10,000 damages was returned at Sumter in the suit of Frierson, Administrator, 1 vs. the Atlantic Coast Line Railway. Damages in the amount of $100,000 had been asked on ac- ' count of the death of L. Y. Brown of Lynchburg at that! place some two years ago. Ed. Sibley has been lodged in jail in Chester charged with the murder of J. Iloss Younge. it being alleged that he chopped Younge's head open with an axe while Younge way lying on the ground in a drunken stupor. Sibley put his foot on the man's chest and deliberately chopped the prostrate man three times with an axe. l The heads of seven dogs, two goats and one eat were sent from different portions of the State last week to the Pasteur institute in Columbia to be examined for rabies. About 300 heads have been received there since the first of January, and 326 patients have been treated. W. T. Jones, serving: a life term in the penitentiary for the murder of his wife, lias been transferred to the Union county chaingang upon the request of the county board of commissioners. War days were brought to the attention of many Charleston residents by an announcement through the Charleston Clyde Line officers that relics of the bombardment have been dredged up by the powerful machinery in operation aboard the dredge which is at work on the slip between Piers 1 and 2 of the new Clyde terminals. Six large cannon balls were picked up and slung aboard the barge. Gold Hill School Progresses. Prof. J. L. Ratterree, of the ri/U/i u;n c?i?i -? v4\/iu inn ctiiuui, was ct pieasam caller at The News office last Saturday. Frof. Ratterree is one of the most promising young: educators in the county and is making good with his school, which has been enlarged to ten grades. The Gold Hill school has made an innovation in educational lines by establishing a free bus which calls each morning for the children whose homes are distant from the school, returning them in the afternoon, j This is a very popular, as well as useful feature.? York News. I r? ? , ; j i V. . - i * HE. F' The Mexican Situation. Huerta ha? dec!ined*to accede to the demands of the United States, although he has been greatly impressed with the European backing that this country has, and he endeavored to have his new congress meet, but as yet without complete success. Hehas however succeeded in expelling from his cabinet the minister of the interior, the last one of the original Hueria-Diaz cabinet, for this man, Adalpe, wished to see some concessions made to the United States. Huerta Sunday night told the j American representative in Mexico City, Mr. O'Shaunessy, that he ihost assuredly would not resign. President Wilson and Mr. Br^an held a long conference over this Sunday. in Mexico a great deal of pressure is being brought to bear on lfuerta. In the meantime, the city of Juarez, opposite ttie Texas city of El Paso, has fallen again. lluerta is not dismayed by the fall of Juarez and says that he will organize his congress Tuesday and that his part in the n??irnt"inHrtns ic r?vr?t* In M o-v-i.w. ... w?v%v>v/n>-> IW v v vi XII mv,.\iv.v City ii is believed that if Huerta does not resign at once a severance with the United States at, once is inevitable. Escapes Trom Penitentiary. John Fisher, a notorious yegg serving fifteen years for safeblowing, escaped from the penitentiary Saturday night by sawing the bars to his cell. He climbed over the wall near the old hosiery mill, let himself down by a rope and vanished. , Penitentiary officials sent out descriptions in every direction and have offered a reward of $."><) for his capture. When the prisoners were lined up for the roll',call Sunday afternoon Fisher was absent. An ! investigation disclosed the broken bars to his cell where he had cut his way to freedom. A search of the grounds and buildings was made and dangling over the wall behind the old hosiery mill was found a rope, showing how he had gotten to freedom. He had climbed over the hosiery 11 ..... 4.1. - . _ f .1- i - iii11 on cue ia?p <u Liie eignteenfoot walls which encloses the penitentiary grounds and let himself down on tne hanks of the Congaree river and van- i ished. John Fisher was sent up from ! Lancaster County, in 1905, for safecracking for 15 years.. He is wanted by the United States Government for postoffice robberies and is said to have been a member of the gang which cracked postoffice safes in all parts of the South until rounded up by Postoffice Inspector Gregory. Honor for Tort Mill Man. All the boys from York county, fourteen in number, met and organized the York County Club ol the University of South Carolina a short time ago. The club now has the largest membership it has ever had. A correspondence committee, consisting of R. E. Castles. H. M. White and R. E. Brown were appointed to correspond with the papers of York county and try to keep their friends informed as to their progress, and the progress of t he clnb. So far the members of the club have associated themselves with almost every line of i activity in college life. Officers of the club are: president, T. C. Brown; vice-president, R. L. Kerr, Jr.; secretarv H. M. White; treasurer, R. E. Brown, Jr.; corresponding secretary, Joe Leech. "Eggs is Eggs" in New York.j Eggs are so scarce in New York that dealers have put the' retail price up to 75 cents a dozen tor best quality and prospects are that they will go from three to live cents a dozen higher. The present w holesale price is 62 cents a dozen, though certain brands of Western eggs may be obtain* d for 43 cents. : -s \ . ; .. . ' */ I . ORT 1 FORT MILL, S. C., THURS] | Thoughts of The greatest least day in Am.ri thanksgiving by all the people. '1 nation gives thanks for the i>l? sst? day was first established in the I7< Plymouth, New England, r placii festival, and has been gradually country. Congress recommended during the Revolution and Waslii tion of the constitution. Other have been proclaimed and since 1." ber lias been annually proclaimed thanksgiving day. * * In many v.ays Thanksgiving conies at a time when the rigors < VVe have at our disposal all the v the time for a season of partial r One of its most delightful feature eral, is the gathering together un scattered sons and daughters on t limes four generations thus meet ble table ol the old homestead, ant ened and filial piety encouraged. 4 * The establishment of a day of t after the ingathering of the fruits feast of tabernacles held by the d< nious aft and it< ndnnlinn l\\r m.-w the general government of this bi diffusion of those religious sentim tion of the settlement of this cour * This is the harvest time for tl trials, calamities in some places, 1 rows, but taking the country ovei many and far outnumbered the da spite of many evils there has been genuine benevolence, of a cordial fellowship, we can keep our Th; scriptural admonition, "Be ye tha * To the early Puritan, Christmas when li s own festival, Thanksgiv many of the features of the Engli: voted to family reunion, to feastir Such superstitious meats as baron pudding were excluded; and turke pie were eaten instead. It is fortunate the world cannot heart. There we can store our gr lire and give to the world only th? may impart to our souls and that 1 ot than .sgiving. While sorrow n and confiding trust surround ev may Heaven bless you all this Tha ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. Second Week Jurors. The following Fort Mill men have been drawn as jurors to serve the second week of the term of York court which convenes on next Monday, the 24th: J. M. Thrower, W. E. Whitesell, C. F. Rogers, J. M. Epps, J. G. j Smith. Injured at Saw Mill. i\lr. Christy Froneberger was dangerously injured at a saw .-.,,11 ..i?? -i ?i < 1" mil tiuuui. tnree anu one-nail miles north of Bethany last, Wednesday by being caught in a belt. He has been unconscious | since the accident and there is little hope for his recovery.? ; Chester Lantern. Meet Next lit Rock Hill. Rock Hill has been selected for j the 1914 Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the meeting will be held the week commencing November 15. Bennettsville and Greenville extended invitations, also, but Rock Hill won out. The invitation from that city was presented by Mrs. T. L. Jackson. Temporary Quarter* for York Court. The Court House Commission has leased the old Rose Hotel building to be used while the present court house building is being torn down. The county officers will move their offices into the hotel building, where they will be located during the rnn. struction of the new court house. ? York News. Loaea Ginhouae by Fire. Relatives and friends in this section of Mr. Burton Massey 1 will regret to learn that he had 1 the misfortune last Wednesday night to lose hisginhouse, located on his farm about tv\o miles < south of Rock Hill, with its i entire contents, entailing a loss I of $3,000. No insurance. In ' addition to the building and machinery there w?,re two bales . of eot ton and a carload of cotton j seed in the building. . j / tk. / 1 Hk M~rir TT LVXlJULv OAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1913. Thanksgiving ) k c;i should he one of rejoicing anil nis is the time when the whole lgs of the year. Thanksgiving iitcd Stales hy the Pilgrims at ig Christmas, the great family adopted in other parts of 11 days of thanksgiving annualh ngton, in 1779, after the adupdays of national thanksgiving ?;> the last Thursday in Novenihy the president as a national * is a most delightful event. It of winter are not yet at hand, aried products of the soil, and vst for the farmer is at hand, s, which has become <piite gender the old roof-tree of all the his day. Two. three and somcaround the festive and hospita I thus fraternal ties are strength hanksgiving in the late autumn, 5, was made in imitation of the ewisii nation. It was a wise and it of the States and at length by road land is an evidence of the ents which were at the foundaitry. * hanks. True, there have been lomes destroyed, losses and sor our blessings have been very irk, appalling things of life. In i as much of true sympathy, of spirit, of brotherly love and good inksgiving in the spirit of the nkful." smelt to heaven of idolatry; so ing. became annual, it took on sh Christmas. It was a day deig and to the giving of presents, of beef, bear's head, and plum y, Indian pudding and pumpkin * discern the hidden things of the ief to ponder over it in our leisi smile a beneficent Providence k\ iil strengthen us to sing a hymn lay reign within, yet may peace ery reader of this column ?ml mksgiving day. York's Cotton. Mr. Joseph M. Taylor, special an;ent of the census department, reports tlm amount of cotton ginned in York county up to November 1, 1913, at 21.641 bales against 22,826 bales up to November 1, 1912. Conference Next Week. Methodist ministers throughout the State are preparing for the annual South Carolina Conference, which meets in Rock Hill, November 25, with Bishop A. W. Wilson of Baltimore, presiding. What Waterworks Will Bring' One good feature of the proposed waterworks system of the town is that it will enable the authorities to keep the paved portion of Main street clean without the sweeping process! now employed and which scatters dust to all things in close proximity to the street. Thanksgiving Day. There will he a general suspension of business in Fort Mill next Thursday in observance of Thanksgiving. The local schools will be closed, the business houses closed, and the postoffice 1 will observe Sunday hours. It i is presumed that the two local cotton mills v. ill also cease operations for the day. There will be no mail collected or delivered on the several mail routes Thanksgiving Day and patrons of the routes should arrange their affairs accordingly. Save the Birds. The bird season is now open in most States and the hunter is out with his gun and dog. Every farmer should post signs, not allowing hunting on his land. It is estimated that every quail on the farm is worth $50 a year, to kill insects and eat noxious i?rass seed. Think what that means! Every time a quail is killed you lose $50. It is pretty expensive sport. If we will keep i good supply of birds on the farm it will cut the cost of poison for insects. ? Exchange. * * I Cocaine Dealer Jumps Bond. Of interest in this city will he the statement made in Stturday's issue of the Charlotte News that Dr. J. W. Perry. colored vctciinarian. convicted of selling cocaine and sentenced to 12 months hy Recorder .Jones on tf ptember 2'.), and wh.o was granted an ai peal upon in; iiunishing a ?100 bond, has laned this week to appear before the present term o! criminal court and the local police say that Perry has left for parts unknown. It will be recalled by readers of The Times that the capture and conviction ol Perry was effected through a well planned scheme of Oliieer Colt harp of Fort Mill. A local dealer in the drug was convicted before Mayor McKilianey and was given a light line on condition that he divulge the name of the party lrom whom he obtained the cocaine and also that he act as decoy for the otheers in an ctfort to capture the wholesaler. This the negro did with the result that Perry was arrested and convicted, but was later given his freedom under a ?-100 bond Tb? I | Many of thes | Hats gc 1 a rxi t a i r an ?~iv A vyz^.JL-i V i Get Your? 1 E. W. Kin < $? "Where Qu li wmmmmssBssmssii % bond is, of course, forfeited to i the city of Charlotte. Just Pay the Postmaster. Christmas gift givers this year will not be forced to lick their own stamps when they afHx the proper postage to their parcels for mailing unless they wish to, for the postoffite department, has announced that its post-1 masters and their assistants would stand to that duty if requested. The innovation is put in force in the interest of better mail service during the holiday rush. Orders have been issued to postmasters to allix postage, when requested, on mail matter i of the second, third and fourth class, the latter being parcel post matter. The stamps will , he pro-canceled and the plan is expected to prevent the great waste of time experienced by postoflice patrons while waiting inline to buy post ige and mail their nackaires Price of Cotton. The best price paid for cotton oji the local market yesterday was l.'tj conts. Seed sold for lit cents. H i Are the Price I on All c m SB V- " v s * i A - vO? $1.25 Per Year. PETITION IS CIRCULATED FUR 'CITY WATER SYSTEM Following: a survey of Fort Mil! recently and an estimate by * an engineering firm as to the c* oi a waterw >rks system for the town, a petition asking the mayor to call an election upon the question oi a bond issue for >r>.000 for the purpose specitied iias been in circulation among the property owners during the last week. It is the purpose of those behind the movement, if plans carry successfully, to have a large reservoir or tank erected, probably on Ardrey hill overlooking the busines section of the town, and troin tins tank an ;.?.w i; ; > > ^ij;111-11iv11 |M,iv line win do earned through Main street and out two blocks either way on liailroad, (Jonfederate, ljooth, Clebourn and W lute -streets, with hydrants at the corners of cross streets. It is estimated that the cost of the tank and pipe line to ~ cover the area described will hardly reach the $15,000 mark, and the pipe, at its extremities, will be reduced to the 0-inch size and extended still another block along the streets named. As previously stated in these columns. the Fort Mill Mfg. company has offered to furnish the water for the system free of charge. V ??rv lift In I-? ? . v.j i.wiv u|'|.v>oinuii iias uet'll met at the hands of the property owners to whom the petition has been presented, and it is expected by the end of the present week the requisite number of names will have been secured and the mayor will then order the election. Col. Leroy Springs, the largest property owner of the town, was first to place his name on the petition. Pel lap ra caused more deaths in Spartanburg the past, year than any other disease, according to statistics made public by the board of health. Tuberculosis formerly was the most deadly malady. The virulence of pellapra is decreasing with the approach of cold weather. ji s Just Placed j? >f Our | m jg mS V3TJ ? 1 1 ? ^ llinery. | ~ U 3 i >c a lauuauiue i )ing at X)ST to us. if 5 To - day. jj ?bre!l Co., 1 7 i*y Reigns " ^ 3 ?0MB^E?.iS?g:gS . i