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Established in 1891>.
^ JHE NEWS IN BRIEF .
FROM OVER THE STATE
^ " In
the first recall election to be
held in South Carolina, Orangeburg
has retained in office Mayor
R. F. Bryant and Councilman
Henry Von Ohsen by large
I -majorities.
\ . Secretary of State R. M. Mcv
Cown in his annual report shows
\ that 442 new enterprises^'Nvere
\ chartered in South Carolina
\ during 1913, with an aggregate
\ capital of $10,482,000. Charles\
toy.heads the list with 60 new
\ concerhs with an aggregate capi^ta\bribout
$1,500,000.
jv^ It;U probable that it will be at
vJntlstP^ix months before a final
^OSVision is secured from the
?$JAitefl States Supreme court
lit jlHe case of Thurston U.
Valaghn, former superintendent
^ Fellows Orphanage
^^(weenville who was sentenced
death penalty.
^^^Qpieasure to provide for State
, ttLlUll ell J Ci cXll ft 1111 Hell
J^TOKrfipon motor vehicles operated
*;Wj55puth Carolina will be introductd
at the 1914 session of the
i'V -^wferal assembly by J. T. Lyles,
J ^^?*eaiber of the house from
1 Orangeburg county. The fees
collected under the measure will
<be used to maintain a system of
r? i patrol.
Gbvfernor Blease -closed the
year l&j; by granting five paroles
and one full p;frdon, making 953
the total "number of convicts he
has freed since entering upon
his duties as chief executive of
this State three years ago. Of
this number, 689 were paroled,
the majority of them upon conL,
dition that they be of good behavior,
and 26q were given full
pardons.
^ Henry Thompson and Albert
* Cantey, two Charleston negroes,
ft were electrocuted at the State's
prison Saturday at noon for the
murder of a prominent white
merchant of Charleston. Thompson
was the first to go and he
was quickly followed by Canted
in the death chair, it requiring
only three minutes to put both
negroes to death. Both protested
their innocence, but Cantey
admitted in his last statement
that he had been in bad
company.
Nay Run for Congress.
Considerable interest is felt in
this section over the announcement
that Victor S. Bryant Of
Durham, N. C., probably will be
a candidate in the Democratic
primary next summer in the
Fifth North Carolina congressional
district to succeed Representative
Stedman of Greensboro.
Mr. Bryant is well known
in Fort Mill, having been raised
just across the line in North
Carolina from this place. He is
now one of the leading members
of the North Carolina bar and
for several years has been considered
a likely candidate for
congress. Four years ago he
received a flattering vote in the
congressional convention of his
district without solicitation on
his part. He is a brother of
"Bob" Bryant, who lives near
here, and of H. E. C. Bryant
Washington correspondent of a
string of Southern dailies.
May Hove School to Anderson.
Of interest to a great people
of Fort Mill and vicinity is the
announcement in the last issue
of the Anderson Intelligencer
that Prof. A. R. Banks will
probably move his preparatory
school, the Banks High School,
from Hyatt Park, Columbia, to
Anderson in the near future.
The Intelligencer says that it is
Prof. Banks' wish to conduct
a school which will give manual
training in the study of agriculture
and mechanics as well as
)) in the classical branches. He
has prepared for college over
800 boys and now has a class of
about 40. Mr. Banks states that
he nay associate with himself
an Anderson county young man
who has had several years tra;n
* ing as commandant of a military
school. The piedmont country of
South Carolina is in his opinion
the ideal section for training
schools for boys.
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Former Fort Million Weds.
The Barnwell People in its last
issue carries the announcement
of the marriage in that city of
Monday evening, December 29th,
of Mr. Frank H. Huggins and
Miss Marie Rifchftrtfton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Richardson.
of Barnwell. The marriage
took place in the Barnwell Baptist
church, the Rev. J. D. Huggins,
father of the groom pronouncing
the ceremony, during
which Schuman's "Slumber
Song" was played very softly by
Miss Woodward. Mr. and N^rs.
Huggins left Barnwell immediately
after the ceremony for
a trip to Florida. Upon their
return they will reside in Barnwell.
Mr. Huggins is well known in
Fort Mill and many friends here
will wish for him future happiness
and prosperity. He was a
resident nf Mill
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ber of years, following the brief
residence here of his father. Rev.
Mr. Huggins, who was at the
time pastor of the Fort Mill
Baptist church.
A Business Change.
A business change of considerable
moment to the people
of Fort Mill and vicinity was
that made Friday whereby Mr.
S. W. Parks took over the stock,
fixtures and good will of the Fort
Mill Drug Company, at the
corner of Main and Confederate
streets. The trade had been
pending for several days, but the
fact was unknown to only a few
people and the change came as a
surprise.
The Fort Mill Drug company
has been successfully conducted
for the last four years by Mr.
J. R. Haile, who has had associated
with him the greater
part of that time his son, Mr.
C. C. Haile. The business was
prior to the association of the
Messrs. Haile conducted by the
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iaic ur. i. l>. ivieacnam. it is
well established and its location
at the corner of two of the town's
principal streets is ?considered
ideal for a drug establishment.
It is understood that the elder
Mr. Haile will, upon his return
from the 1914 session of the
Legislature, of which he is a
member of the lower House
from York county, devote his
time to his farm east of Fort
Mill.
Mr. S. W. Parks, the new
owner of the Fort Mill Drug
company^ is not without experience
in the drug business.
About seven years ago he established
what was afterward
known as the Parks Dcqg company,
and quite successfully ran
the business until last March
when it was taken over by Mr.
B. F. Massey, Jr. Mr. Parks
informs The Times that he will
make a number of improvements
to both the interior and
exterior of the building in which
his newly acquired business is
located. Among the improvements
to be made at once is the
erection of a glass front, and the
probable installation a iittle later
of a modern fonntairt and other
fixtures.
Watson-Patterson Nuptials.
M iss Sammie Watson and Mr. }
John M. Patterson were married
Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock, j
at the home of the bride's i
mother Mrs. T. Watson, 19 North i
Long street. The ceremony was j
performed by Rev. L. R. Pruett, i
pastor of Ninth Auprmo I
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church. The parlor was ar-1
ranged with potted plants and
holiday decorations. Mrs..L. R. I
Pruett rendered Mendelssohn's
wedding march. There were no !
attendants.
Immediately after the cere-;
mony Mr. and Mrs. Patterson
left for Fort Mill, S. C., to visit
relatives of Mr. Patterson.?
Charlotte Observer.
The books of registration of j
ti.e town of .Fort Mi.l were
closed on last Saturday, the 3rd,
and a total of 135 voters of the
town have qualified to vote in
the approaching municipal election
or other elections which may
be called during 1914-15. The
number of voters enrolled on the
books at present exceeds by x
score or more the largest number
ever enrolled before and hespeaks
the interest which the
citizens are manifesting in the
town's alfairs.
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Beautiful Palmer Gi
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FORT MILL, S. C., THUR6
SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY
HAS 600 CASES PELLAGRA
Pellagra, unknown in the
I United States seven years agoj
but now pronounced a greater
menace than leprosy, which it
closely resembles, has proven
such a baffling problem to the
public health service that Secre-,
tary of the Treasury McAdoo
will probably ask the present
1 congress to appropriate a sum to
establish a hospital for the study
of this new menace. ,
This announcement was made
by Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Newton, ile said there
are now GOO rases in a single
county of South Carolina, and if
a research hospitaj is established
it will probably tye located in that
part of the coun^jy.^.
Since the first ca'ses&f pellagra
in iiius country were discovered
in Alabama in 1907 there have
been 00,000 persons stricken,
35 per cent, of whom have died
; and many of whom are insane.
Would Save Old Court House.
The following petition is being
j circulated in different sections of
i the county and will be presented
[to tjie.York delegation in the
GenefJI Assembly:
the undersigned citizens
of York county, most earnestly |
protest against the ruthless J
destruction of the present York
county court house without due
; compensation to the taxpayers,
and wo herewith petition you
to amend existing statutes on
the subject so as to require the
court house commission to erect
the proposed new building either
on some site that can be obtained
as a free donation or in
exchange for present site and an
adequate difference in cash, the
cash difference to be paid to the
county."
The petition has not, so far as
The Times is able to learn, been
circulated in Fort Mill or the
township, and there is little
likelihood that any considerable
number of voters would sign the
petition were it circulated hereabouts.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL HONOR ROLL
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A pupil must make an average :
of 95 per cent on his studies, j
95 per cent, on deportment, and j
95 per cent, on attendance for
his name to be on the honor roll
of the Fort Mill graded school. :
The following have the honor
for December:
First Grade?Marion Jones,
Kate McLoughlin, Juanita Parks,
Alva Fennell, Tom Harris, Midas
Link, Larence Wright, Margaret
Creighton, Virginia McCorkle,
Edith Parks, Louise Patterson,
D. C. Patterson, James Ferguson.
Second Grade?Margaret McElhaney,
Katherine Massey, Edward
Kimbrell, William Hafner,
Lawrence Armstrong, Stephen
Parks, Mary Moore, Ernest Wagner.
Third Grade?Ella Mae McElhaney,
Frank Jones.
Fourth Grade?Harriet Crawford,
Billy Mack, Annie Parks,
Allen Parks, Marion Parks,
Arthur Young.
Fifth Grade?Atmar Adcock.
Sixth Grade?William Grier,
Melvin Blackmon.
Eighth Grade?Marjorie Mills,
Robert Erwin.
Ninth Grade?Kathleen Armstrong,
Bloeker Patterson, Ernest
Patterson. Fred Part^r?<?n I
Tenth Grade?Margaret Spratt,
Francis Smith, Esther Meacham,
Sadie Yongue, James Young,
Zenas Grier.
Dime in Chicken's Craw.
Mrs. Nannie Phillips, wife of
Mr. E. H. Pnillips who lives at
the old Spratt homestead ea&t of
town, was surprised a few days
ago while dressing a hying-size
chicken to extract from the
fowl's craw a silver ten-centj
piece. The chicken had evidently
eaten the coin several weeks
before it was killed, as the coin
was very thin and the opinion
ot those to whom it was shown
was that had it remained in ihe
Ciiicken's craw it would have
been entirely assimilated within
a snort time. i
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Mill
DAY, JANUARY 8, 1914
WELLJHEY'RE OFF NOW, SURE
LIST OF COffifESTANTS IN THE
TIMES' PRIZE CONTEST
BEGINS TODAY.
"Booster Period" Begins Today,
January 8, and Those Who
Have b?en 1 hinking of
Entering the Contest
Should Do So
At Once.
"Well, they're ofT." The first list
of candidates in ^he Fort Mill Times'
Groat Piano voting contest is published
today. Everybody was anxious to know
| who t>e candidates are. Now it behooves
the candidates to make ih*.
best of the few short weeks they havO'
to win the valuable prizes. It is none"
j too late for jk v contestants.
Li?t of Contestants.
Miss Frances Smith, Miss Lessyo
Epps, Mrs. S. P. Wilson, Miss Mable
Smith, Miss Emma Epps, Miss Myrtle
Patterson, Mrs. W. S Darnall, Mrs. J.
| J. Bailes, Mrs. W. W. Patterson, Mrs.
R. P. Harris, Miss Marjorie Mills. Miss
j Sarah Culp, Mrs. Fred Harris, Mrs. S.
I P. Hair, MUs Mary McLaughlin, Miss
| Annie Patterson, Mrs. W. J. Steele,
| Mrs. Fred Rogers, Mrs. A. B. Sheppard,
Miss Blanche Moser, Miss Grace Erwin,
Miss Mary Carothers, Miss Bertie
Coltharp, Miss Ola Crayton, Miss Daisy
Robinson, Miss Bessie Armstrong, Mrs.
.1. C. Bayne, Mrs. Thos. Bailey, Mrs.
M. .1. Adcock, Miss Beatrice Parks,
Miss Edna Ferguson, Miss Ocie Hood,
Mrs. Thos. Lytle, Miss Nannie McElhaney,
Mrs. C. W. McNealy, Mrs. Sargent
Kimbrell, Miss Sadie Rogers, Mrs.
Elhe Thompson, Miss Eula Patterson,
Mrs. G. W. Wilkerson, Miss Blackwelder,
R. No. 2., Miss Nannie Stroup.
"Boo?ter Period."
Today marks the beginning of the
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?v/^vv . I vuvu III * uc I III It.-r* L'UIItest,
which means that friends of the
contestants in the great race can
"boost" for their favorite by subscribing
for tlie paper, or if already a subscriber,
by paying one or two years'
subscription and secure for them more
votes now than at any other time in
the contest. "Booster" period means !
that it positively is the best |>eriod in !
the contest for readers of The Times to
subscribe and pay their subscriptions
ami "boost" their favorite. "Booster" j
period means that every yearly subscription
turned in by January 24th
Vill count 5,000 votes. This means 1
that a subscriber who pays a yearly
subscription during this period will
count a total of 5,000 votes for some
contestant in the race or some person
who wishes to enter. A two years' '
subscription will count 12,000 votes and
a three, four or five years' subscription
will count for votes as indicated by the
scale of votes printed below. From
this it will be seen that it is to the advantage
of every candidate to insist
upon their friends giving them a twoyear
subscription or more now, while
it counts so much. Remember that the
"Booster" Period ends Saturday, January
24th, and that never again during
the entire contest will so many votes
be given on a single subscription, , Below
is given the scale of votes that
will prevail during the "Booster" Period
for subscriptions to The Times:
For 1 yearn" subscription 1 6.000 votea
" 2 " " 12.000 " j
" 3 " lX.OUt "
" 4 " " 25.000 "
" 5 " 30,(MI0 "
Now is Your Time.
It will require a little time and energy
to secure one of the prizes, but
think of the fine reward if you enter
today and do win one of the prizes. It
is not so had to secure a prize just by
asking your friends to subscribe to the
Fort Mill Times or to give you the free
voting coupons. Their votes will put .
you at the head of the list if you neg
lect none of your opportunities, but ap- j
peal to each one, who may take an in- :
terest in your success. Many are ready
to subscribe or renew their subseri|i- |
tions at this time, and thev would Had
ly give you the benefit of their votes
for the mere asking.
Enter the Contest Now.
Look carefully again at the offer of
prizes. While the contest is vet young
is the most favorable time to send in
your nomination. We want your name
in our next published list of candidates.
For your ownsake it is best that from
the very start you should be known to
be in the race. Those who would rather
help you than anyone else might
promise their assistance to the first
candidate who approached them if they
did not know that you were interested
in winning one of the prizes. You
want all acquaintances to realize from
the first that you mean to win and that
you count on them to help you to do so.
Who May Enter.
Any white man, woman, boy or girl,
married or single, is eligible to compete j
in the contest. Candidates may nominate
themselves. It costs nothing to i
enroll; it costs nothing to win. There i
are no strings to the offer. It is not
necessary that condidates be subscribers.
The rules of the contest are situ- j
pie and the work to get votes is not
nurd. Get an earlv start and ask vnnr
friends to help you. They will gludly
do so. begin now.
Beginning with last Sunday
there was a slight change in the
running time of the Southern's
two through passenger trains.
Nos. 31 and 32. Under the new
schedule train No. 31, formerly ';
due at Fort Mill at 5:35 a. m.,
now passes here at 6 a. m. No.
32. formerly due at Fort Mill at
9:27 p. rn.. is due lo arrive here
at 9:07. Both of these trains
stop at Fort Mill only ot tlag.
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Legislature Convenes Tuesday.
For many reasons the next
session of the General Assembly
for South Carolina, which convenes
Tuesday January 13, is regarded
the most important' in
recent years. Issues of vital importance
to the State are to be
met and questions of policy that
mean much to the future welfare
of the citizenship are to be
settled.
The personnel of the approaching
Legislature is, therefore, a
matter of m^re than passing
interest. Those who will under- '
take to discuss and vote upon
: the grave measures that are to
.qome before them have the eyes
*bf a State upon them and, in
'feome of the questions involved, j
the eyes of the entirn nation.
From the Senate not one of |
' the men who served last session
i will be replaced at this s^s
this session on account of death I
or resignation, for all members
of last year's upper branch, if
nothing happens between now
and January 13, will turn to
Columbia to take their places in
the Senate chamber.
Lieut. Gov. Charles A. Smith
of Timmonsville, by virtue of
his office, is the presiding officer
of the State Senate. This is the
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Special New 1
In Ladies' ?
Coats and
Beautiful $12.50 Black Broadcl
Beautiful $10.00 Black Broadcl
Beautiful $15.00 Black Chinchi
Beautiful $11.00 Black Chinchi
Heavy Fancy Coats, were $12.1
Heavy Fancy Coats, were $11.
Beautisul $18 and $15 Black PI
Pretty $5 Coats, nicely trimme
Childrens' Coats, $5 values, nc
Childrens' Coats, $3 values, nc
Childrens' $4.00 Reefers, now
Childrens' pretty$4.00 and $3.f
Special $22 and $20 Coat Suits,
Beautiful $20 and $18 Suits noi
Beautiful Suits worth $15 and
Beautiful Suits worth $12.50 ai
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fourth session in the Opacity
and will be his last except for
the opening week of the 1815
session, when at tjfte IjwPguratbTO
exercises he*%?lll 'tuTh^ttB ' "
official position in* the Senate
over to his successor. The
Lieutenant Governor is a candidate
for promotion. He is running
for governor. V .
The president pro tem of the \
Senate is Senator P. L. Hardin . \
of Chester, a legislator of many , \
years experience. He was also * \
named chairman of Finance \
Committee of the Senate, a position
which vies with that of
I the chairmanship of the Judiciary
I Committee. By many it is regarded
the most important committee
chairmanship.
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David E. Messick and Miss
Mamie Bailey, a young couple
! from Rock Hill, were married m
: this city Monday evening by
| Magistrate R. P. Harris.
Mr. T. G. Moser is announced
this week as a candidate for alderman-at-large.
Mr. John Windle, of Yonkers,
N. Y., has been a visitor for
several days at the home of his
brother, Mr. W. H. Windle, in
Gold Hill.
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Peace of Mind,
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icai udi&dlllb
ind Misses'
Coat Suits.
loth Coats now $ 8.75
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oth Coats now 7.50
ilia Coats now 9.98
ilia Coats now 8.25
SO, now only... 8.75
00 and $10, now 6.98
ush Coats, now 9.75
:d, in black, now 3.25
)W only 3.48
?w only 1.98
only 2.69
>0 coats, now only 2.69
now only 14.98
iV only 13.98
over, now only 10.98
nd over, now only 8.98
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ility Reigns."