Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, February 05, 1914, Image 1
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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.
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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:
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. ''
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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.
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[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
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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.
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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
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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!
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here Quality Reigns
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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|
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re you buy. We'll save jjj I
all points and repairs. jv
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