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&***; ' ; - . ' : Established in 1891. THE NEWS IN BRIEF j FROM OVER THE STATE Insurance Commissioner McMaster has written President ^ Wilson a letter in regard to mak- i Ing insurance matters subject to interstate commerce and under j the supervision of the national government, to the end tl a' | "wften companies nave once aoi e business in a State and received large deposits from citizens they 5,. . may not withdraw from that State and deprive it of the li cense fees due on the premiums which the company continues to receive from the State through the mails." A petition bearing the signatures of practically every citizen of Lancaster, urging Congress to appropriate an additional $25,000 for the building of a modern po8toffiee at Lancaster, will in a few days be presented, probably by Mayor Hood and a committee of business men, to Congress- ( man Finley, who will take it to Washington. About a year ago an appropriation of $50,000 for a postoffiee at Lancaster was made, but it is now thought that the increased volume of business in Lancaster would justify an expenditure by the Government of I at least $75,000. Representative Hutchison, of the York delegation, is working on the commission charter for J Rock Hill and hopes to have it ready for introduction during the week. He has already introduced a bill allowing the Rock Hill city council to call a special election to vote on issuing $60,-j 000 bonds to meet the outstanding indebtedness of the city, caused by extensive paving done during the last year. It is reported from Columbia that another candidate may enter the race for Governor. Dr. 01 in Sawyer of Georgetown, a former k member of the General Assembly, who is regarded an administration man, will probably enter the race. Doctor Sawyer was a conspicuous figure in the General Assembly a few years ago, and is a strong political and personal friend ol Governor Blease. The first State hospital for the study and treatment of pellagra will be established in South Carolina, if the Legislature follows the report of the senate finance committee on a bill for such a ^^HH^^^^ospital. The committee decided j t'ounroKlu ?/* nn wv V|TVft V AWWI HVIJ VIIV. Ul I IU H ||propria to $25,000 for a hospital and $10,000 for the use of a commission to be given charge of the institution. Clothed in well-made garments of silk and cashmere, giving every indication of refined parentage, a perfectly formed, blueeyed white girl about two months old, was found in the race of White's mill pond on the outskirts of Spartanburg Saturday morning. An autopsy showed that the baby had been drowned. Frank Parrott, editor and publishorof the Cherokee News, has received his commission as deputy collector of revenue and will assume his duties as such within a few days. Marvin Smith, a newspaper man of Florence, will take charge of The News. Senator Tillman is expected to come to South Carolina during L the week, according to a letter " to Chairman Wyche, to testify in the State hospital investigation. Sentences of 14 convicts from Lee, Lexington and Union counties were reduced Saturday by the governor and the men wil be sent to the county chaingangs. County Cornier Dead. Mr. L. W. Louthian, a well ;known and highly respected cit* isen of Yorkville and for many years the county coroner, died at his home Friday night from a complication of troubles after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Louthian was about 67 years of age and is survived by a widow and several children. The funeral services were held at the late residence of the deceased Saturday afternoon and the interment was made in Rose Hill cemetery, Yorkville. k ' _ The . ir i WANTS UNCLE SAM TO BUY COUNTRY'S WIRE SYSTEMS Postmaster General Burleson on Saturday submitted to the 1 United States senate the recom mendationsof the departmental committee appointed by him to invest igate the practicability of government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines. The report declared tnat "the o- 1/ way to afford the people the complete and modern postal facilities that the constitution makes it the duty of the government to provide" is by carrying out the following suggestions: 4T?That Congress declare a government monopoly over all telegraph, tel? phone and radio communication and such other means for the transportation of intelligence, as may hereafter develop; i "2?That Congress acquire by purchase at appraised value the c >mmercial telephone network, except farmer lines; "3?That Congress authorize the postmaster general to issue, in his discretion ana under such : regulation as he may prescribe, revokable licenses for the operation, by private individuals, associations, companies and corpor- i porations, of the telegraph ser-J vice and such parts of the tele-| phone service as may not be acquired by the government." 1 The report says further that^? "according to the best available 1 data, the capitalization of the s long distance and toll lines rep- < resents approximately $200,000,- ? 000 and the capitalization of the entire eommen i .1 netw? rk approximately is $900,000,000 The cost to the government would be ( less than the appraised value, ? since it would be undesirable for, ( the government to purchase the t real estate holdings of the com- t panies. Exchanges would be } leased until accomodations could j t be provided in the post offices t and stations." Would Sell County Home. ( Senator J. E. Beamguard has t introduced and pushed to third t reading a bill providing for the sale of York county's "poor \ house" and for the erection of a < new home for the county's poor. 1 Sections 1 and 2 of the bill provide: J Section 1. That tho county < hoard of commissioners of York t county be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell 1 and convey to the highest bidder * for cash, or one-third cash and ^ balance in one or two years with j bond and mortgage as in their t judgment may be of the best t interest to said county, either at j Li:. 1 - puuuc auction or private sale as C in their judgment may be to the h best interest of said county, the I whole or any part of the county poor farm of-said county. Section 2. In case whole of'f said farm is sold the said board j' is hereby authorized and ? m- !c power* d to purchase lands of not 1* less than fifty acres, at some 1 suitable place in said county and * erect thereon the necessary bui:d- 1 ings for the proper protection 1 and care of the poor indigent of ' the county. Provided, That the 1 said board of commissioners may 1 retain not less than sixty acres 1 of the present farm and erect ( said buildings thereon. 1 No Tinkering With Tariff. j Representative Underwood of ( Alabama, Damocratic leader of i the House, has served notice * U _ t * I 111 - uiai ineru wouia do no tinkering ( with the new tariff law at this session of Congress. His declaration was called forth by the , introductioe of.bills in the House within the past few days which would repeal the "collection at . the source" feature of the in- j come tax act. "It is safe to { say," Mr. Underwood asserts, "that no bills affecting the new j tariff will"have consideration at this session. The income tax law is a part of the new tariff." { Representative Hull of Ten nessee, author of the income i tax law, declared that the complaints of the administration of ] the law are premature. "The j confusion now ex sting." he says, "will be removed as soon as the treasury regulations governing the administration of the tax are fully understood." Roy Spratt, of Mt. Holly, was' a Fort Mill visitor Saturday. 'For' FORT MIL] . ? Mil I O nnriTl v nnunrnurn I hullo uncAiLi uunutnntu OVER A MYSTERIOUS BILL A Rock Hill dispatch of Saturday to the Charlotte News says that there has been no little speculation there as to the motive behind the introductian of a bill in ! the Legislature requiring all cot-1 ton mills in York county to connect with sewerage. The bttl was introduced by Representative] Creech, of Barnwell, says the dispatch. Members of the Y?trk delectation had nothing t6 do with the introduction of the bill, so far as is known, and Representative Hutchison, of Rock Hill, 3aid he had never heard of the measure before its introduction. If any voters of York requested the bill it is not known, and it is strange that the matter was not presented to the York delegation if anyone desired such legislation. It is understood that the Pill is a rider to one introduced ay a representative from Spara iburg county. Wiiile the text >f the bill had not been received n R >ck Hill, it was understood ;hat under its provisions all mills JUlllllll Wo Wi.rt I ! Ull 4-U? . ./V, i v. V| J I bU IW ^UlillC^l tilt" loines of tiie operatives with jewerage. With the exception )f Yorkville and Rock Hill, there ire 110 sewerage systems in the :ounty and in the case of many >f the mills it would cost thousinds of dollars to erect and equip lewerage plants. In fact, in iome cases it would be equal to :onfiscation of property, say the iiiil owners. York Convicts Back to Gang. On Wednesday of last week jovernor Blease reduced the sentences of eight York county :onvicts so that they could be 1 ransf erred from the State jenitentiary to the county chainrang. The prisoners to whom . he governor extended clemency ire as follows: The sentence of life given jawson Simeral in 1891 on the :harge of burglary and attemptMi criminal assault was reduced 1 o 30 years. The sentence of 30 years given 1 William Crosby on the charge of 1 ittempted criminal assault in 1 1906 was reduced to 29 years. The sentence of life given lohn Harden in 1906 on the 1 :harge of murder was reduced o 20 years. The sentenoe i\f 9H wo-ifc iriimn - - - - ? " f>"c" David Jeter in 1907 for manJaughter was reduced to 15 i rears. The sentence of life Riven Robert Johnson in 1908 on the rharge of murder was reduced o 20 years. The sentence of life Riven jeorge Webb in 1911 for murder vas reduced to 20 years. Won the Dupont Trophy. Officers of the local military )rRanization. Company K, First I. C. N. G., Friday evening' revived from the adjutant Rental's office the "S>uth Carolina < National Defense" trophy of'ered annually by the Dupont >owder people to the company in ;he State qualifyinR the greatest : lumber of marksmen, and the .refllhy is now on exhibition at hC store of the Parks Drug empany. Thirty-three members >f the company qualified as narksmen in the try-out shoot leld last summer, and the poslession of the trophy is a source >f gratification to the members; md their friends. News from "The Fork." "orrespomk'nce Fort Mill Time9. The farmers have been taking idvantage of these pretty days ?nd, therefore, have a great deal J >f their spring work done. Brevard, the little son of Mr. 1 uid Mrs J. P. Crowder, who had he misfortune as short time ago 1 >f breaking his leg, is rapidly 1 recovering. We hope to see the 1 ittle felow out soon again. Mrs. Frank Kimbrell and chil- : dren, of Charlotte, spent a few lays the last week with Mrs. Kimbrell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. ! D. G. Kimbrell. Mr. J. P. Crowder returned home the last week, after spending a few days in Shelby. N. C. Miss Eunice Belk has returned home from Parksville, Tenn., where she visited her sister, Mrs. J. L. Adkins. Miss Carrie Kimbrell is visitin relatives in Charlotte. Reader. Lower Fort Mill, Jan. 2. * r Mi L S. 0., THURSDAY, FEBRU. CLOSER AND CLOSER 6R0WS THE BI6 CONTEST The closing d ly of the contest is rapidly approaching and, inasmuch as there are several of the contestants who are equally determined to he the winner of the B v . -i # - na^asome piano, everybody in Y<?rk county is beginning to guess and wonder who will win. If you have a friend in the rare, do everything you possibly can to assist her to be the winner of the grand prize. It is no small honor to win a prize worth several hundred dollars, and the winner will be looked upon as the most popular young lady in this section. If your friend is in the race do not only give her your subscription, but get your friends to subscribe or pay their subscripti >ns, also. You are going to pay your subscription be- 1 fore long, anvwav, so why not give it to one of the contestants now, while it will give them so many votes, and may be the means of one of the c mtestants winning the piano or gold watch. Several contestants are determined to be the winner of the piano, and each of these contestants have so ue goo I friends who are also determined to see their favorite contestant win. Let the friends of the contestants get the "spirit" and see that no opportunity escapes that would turn votes to their favorite. Now, this week, is just the time to get busy. No contestant has many votes up to this time, and each of the working contestants have an equal chance. In order to win, you only have to take ad- j vantage of the opportunities that come your way. If you neglect none of the opportunities you are certain to be the winner of the grand prize. Go over to see the piano, and just think how happy you would be, and think of the pleasure you would have if this handsome piano was in your parlor where ' you could delightfully entertain your friends. There is no home j complete without a piano, and I within the next few short weeks 1 one of the popular ladies in this county will be the proud owner of the piano which will be given to the contestant securing the largest number of votes by the close of the contest. If you want this piano absolutely free, j this is the opportunity of a life time. Look carefully over the list of contestants printed below. If you find the name of your friend get busy in her behalf at once. ' Send her your subscription for i one, two or for five years. Your ' subscription now will give her more votes than at any other j time of the contest. Prove your friendship by sending your own ; subscription and by getting your 1 friends to do likewise. The contest is rapidly drawing to a close i T T 1 LL J ARY 5, 1914. CATAWBA LODGE NO. 56, A. F. M. f( Extract from paper read before annual ban- 61 quet. Friday evening. January 23. by Dr. J. r, L. Spratt. Faat Master. '' s. The lodge was organized in 1858 with Ig&ac Spencer as the it first master. The charter which r< now hangs on the wall of the lodge room is a most dignified S document, and was issued Nov. a' 18th, 1859. the lodge having ? worked under dispensation for about one year. The charter . is signed by Henry 3uist, 33rd / degree, Grand Master; R. P. Campbell, 33rd degree. Deputy ' Grand Master; A. Ramsey, * Senior Grand Warden; Thos. A. ^ Slider, Junior Grand Warden, and Albert G. Mackey, Grand P Secretary. It names as the j principal officers. John M. White. Worshipful Muster; B. M. Cobb, Senior Warden, andB. F. Powell, c| Junior Warden. Of these three, ^ Brother Poweil alone survives, j now in his 83rd year, and pres- c( ent with us tonight. The meetings of the lodge ^ were held in a school building on ^ the corner of what is now Booth and Monroe White streets, the ^ location being now owned and occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Withers. It was a one story building, but as this was not satisfactory to the Masons they | built themselves a second story To it. Some years later this building becoming inadequate, a movement was started to erect a new one. The result was what we now know as the Old Academy on Academy street. The masons used the second lloor of this building for a number of years as a lodge room. In 1888 they ?? went in partnership with L. J. | Massey and ereqte'd the building now occupied by Stewart & Culp j and used the second floor as a n lodge room until 1890, when the j"* corner stone of the present build- . ing was laid with full Masonic 11 ceremonies and the lodge has a title to the property now oc cupied by it. Si in the study of these old minutes we find many interesting tacts: In the minutes of May 15th 1860, we find thatS. E. While was initiated; in the minutes of March 29ih, 1866, we [ ' ntia mat Ihos. 15. Meacham of the Chester Lodge No. 18, was a Sl visitor; in the minutes of April al 14th, 1870, we find that Prof. tc Alex R. Banks was initiated; on " March 1st, 1866, a petition for the formation of a lodge at Rock Hill was read and referred to a ni committee consisting of B. F. Powell, John M. White and R. H. (Continued on Page 2.) Si isgsasasBsasggasasagHsasasa PHai [q Our Hardware will stand jjj especially adapted to "hard 3 oughly equipped with almc Cj ing Implements. 5} Below we give you a list the next tew days. Figure you some money: The best Vulcan, Chattanc Plow Shares of every desc Big lot of the very best H< Complete assortment of Li McCormick Stalk Cutters. Cole's New Model Oat Dr Shovels, Spades. Rakes, H The best Barb, Poultry an And many other things tha out your crop. Just see ui E. W. "W sasHsgsasasasasasBsgsasBsa ( and if you want to share in the i honor of being one to assist a contestant to be the winner, you will have to act quick. See the list of contestants below: STANDING of PIANO CONTESTANTS Tuesday, February 3. Miss Frances Smith 123,800 ' Lessye Epps, R-l, 148,000 " Miss Emma Epps. 89,300 " Lizzie Black welder, R-2 lu,0t>0 j Mrs. G. W. Wilkerson 117,200 Miss Edna Ferguson 118,200 " Ocie Hood . - 53,750 " Jessie Baker lf>3,7f?0 " Bleeker Parks, Piomlle 10,000 2nd Period -Jan. 24th to Feb. 7th. For 1 years' subscription 4.000 votes " 2 '* " 10,000 " " 3 " " 16,000 " "4 " " 22.500 " " & " " 27.000 " No Escape From Taxes. There is to be no escape f rom ; income tax this year, it seems. < Even those taxpayers who have figured they could earn a comfortable income and still come: under the income tax law will be disheartened over the announcement that Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has ruled that $2,500 and not $3,000 will be the minimum income tax for the year 1914. It appears that Secretary McAdoo, after examining the new law, discovered that Uncle Sam had a right to levy on incomes for the present year. There are only ten months in a taxable sense, to the year 1914. A. J. Griffin, a Confederate soldier and one of the last survivors of the Merrimac-Monitor fight, died Saturday at his home in Greenvil.e, N. C. i : " r V ? * ^IMES, State Coavicts Back to Roads. | In discussing the bill now be}re the Legislature with roferrence to the sale of the State irms, Governor Blease Saturday lid in part: ( "Yes; my record, as cited in ly annual message, as a rep- 1 jsentative and as senator, h: s een in favor of the sale of th?* tate farms and the placing of j II convicts upon the public roads ^ nd I am in hopes that the Lej ilature will prompilv pass this * ill. However. I have a more * nportant reason for asking it | lan my own opinion. I have dopted a system which will soon * f itself do away with the State j arms, that is, as each county ^ lakes the application and files j roper affidavit that it is proper- t r able to handle its own convicts, am commuting all sentences of ble bodied male prisoners from ae penitentiary to the county ^ daingang. Within the last few ays 64 have been returned, and ^ now have on hand three other ( aunties' applications, which will e granted as soon as one or two ttle points which they omitted ave been filled in. "Consequently, it will be seen f lat the probabilities are that all 1 rnvicts will be back in their re- t jective counties within the next ) or 60 days. Then the State irms would be depleted, the md would be on hand with no ne to cultivate it, and the mules 1 nd stock would be on hand with o one to use them." Wins Safety Nedal. In competition with all the ;eam railways of the United tates, the Southern Pacific >mpany has been awarded the 'arriman memorial safety medI, founded by Mrs. Mary Averill arriman. widow of the late nlmad builder, for the best icord in accident prevention and ygiene affecting: the public and s personnel during: the current ear 1913. The award was made y the American museum of ifety, under the auspices of hich the competition was connoted. Asylum Investigation is On. The investigation of affairs at te State Hospital for the Insane egan Tuesday afternoon in the ipreme court room in Columbia i id the public is being admitted i > the hearings. It is expected | lat Senator Tillman and other 1 len prominent in official life of 1 le State will be called as wit- 1 esses during the investigation. s M i J. A1 Withers, of Worthville, ( C., was a visitor to Fort Mill ( unday. 1 rdw< t the roughest, hardest use an [wear." You'll find our Hard ?st everything you ever need of the things, Mr Farmer, yoi 5 with us on these things befo >oga and Oliver Chill Plows, with ription. Backhands, Plow Lin< orse Collars, in both leather and < ght and Heavy Wagon Bridles an ills. 'oes. Pitchforks, Picks, Axes and d Lot Wire, in all the different h( it you arc sure to need in pre] 3 before you buy, is all we as! Kimbre here Quality Reigns SBSH5B sagasasgga sasgsasg r '* $1.25 Per Tear. L-!_ ii-JJ- wm???ga FORTY-THFEE DROWN WHEN BOATGOES DOWN"The story of how 43 souls went iown to death in the cniii waters # the Atlantic when the liner Nantucket rammed and sank the steamer Monroe Friday morning c it 2:30 o'clock, was brought to Norfolk Friday night hy 91 survivors of the sunken ship's passengers, rescued and brought to | shore by the Nantucket. It was J i story of awful and sudden .. J ieath, sweeping out of the dark Jj ind dense fog, and taking una- ^ wares the sleep still upon them. v ^ [t told how the stricken Monroe, . with her side gored deep by the tnife-like steel prow of the Nan;ucket, filled rapidly, rolled over )n her side, and in less than ten ninutes turned completely over . ind plunged to the bottom, car- M ying with her the ill-fated pas- ^ sengers and members of the crew who had failed to get clear of .he wreck. The revised list prepared by Captain Johnson, who survived he sunken vessel, showed: Lost: Passengers, 19; crew, 14: total 43. Saved: Passengers, 36; crew, >5: total, 91. School Conditions Displeasing. J In conversation Saturday with i resident of Upper Fort Mill, rhe Times was informed that here is all kinds of dissatis"action in the Flint Hill comnunity over the present arrangenent of the children of that vicinity attending school at Gold dill. In fact, it is said, that :ertain of the Flint Hill people ire so displeased that they are letermined to reopen the school it that point even if they find it necessary to pay for the services >f a teacher out of their own private funds. The main obections to the present arrangenent are, it is stated, the very )oor service which the translocation hack affords the chil- 1 Iren. In certain instances the I :hildren walk several miles each wl norning, regardless of the ifl veather, to the point where they I ?xpect to catch the hack, and at I ,imes when they are a few ninutes late, the hack is gone I md they are thus deprived of J !he day's schooling. Then again, " t is said, the children who make he long walks to the hack line, ogether with the ride of several niles in this slow conveyance, Wt suffer a great deal from the cold ^ *1 1 * 1 _ . " (veamtT, anu me parents are M letermined to remedy this con- M lition by reopening the Flint fl dill school. ' ~~JH| iZ5a5BEa5Bga5H5aSg5H5a5alBl 11 I I d is made of materials Bj I ware Department thor- H i 1 in Hardware andFarm- 3 a are apt to need within jjj 1 J re you buy. We'll save jjj I all points and repairs. jv es and Trace Chains. gj JM :anvas. Qj id Riding Bridles. K Handles. n l fights. H paring for and working Igl H k. jgl H