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THE NEWS IN BRIEF FROM AVER THE STATE r-fat .'.y?? >(k' Announcement of. the candidacy of J. A. -Hunter, represenfflfiva fmm PtimKa?/v nnuniii f?* v ** vtll 4JC|IUUV/lg VVUIlt/ | 1U1 lieutenant gdv?mor, was made | Saturday. - He has been a mem^ ber of the lower home four years ? and is a sop of the sheriff of Bamberg county. t Up to Saturday the secretary of State had received 274 acts from the governor's office which have been passed at this session of the General Assembly. More than 1,500 bills have been introduced at this session, not more than one-third of which will get through. Commissioner Watson has appointediSidney E. Groeschel, of Chester, to the position of State factory inspector to succeed W. R. Connelly, resigned. Senator McLaurin's warehouse measure seems to have no chance of becoming a law at this session of the Legislature. There is a bill in the house to regulate the ginning, baling, inspecting, warehousing and marketing of cotton and other products, which is similar to the McLaurin bill. J. T. Lyles, of Orangeburg, who is serving his first term as a member of the house of representatives, announced Saturday that he would not make the race for lieutenant governor in the August primaries, as he had niv?r\l o t nrl LUii w^iu The State Senate Friday morning overrode the veto of Governor Blease on two matters. First was an act giving the city of Columbia authority to purchase or lease a site for a public park. The other matter was an act permitting the city of Columbia to sell certain property or buildings, and this was also overridden. r Blanket of Snow Covered South. Beginning early Wednesday night and continuing unabated for twelve hours, the entire Southeast Thursday shivered in a blanket of snow ranging in depth from six to thirteen inches. The snow extended as far south as Southern Georgia, and reached to the Gulf States, and weather bureau records for twenty years were broken. Falling temperatures accompanied the snow in many sections, the snow turning to sleet. While no serious interruptions to traffic and wire service were reported, many of the trains were behind their schedules in localities where the snow was heaviest. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina reported the heaviest snowfall. At Macon, Ga , the precipitation reached a depth of six inches, while an almost equal amount was reported at Augusta and Savannah. In Louisiana and Mississippi the snow began falling about noon Wednesday and at midnight it had been recorded from a trace in the extreme south to six inches in the northern section. Thermometers at New Orleans, Mobile and other gulf points hovered about the freezing point and the snow melted as it fell. Pineville to Get the Farm Shool. The town of Pineville seems to have won out over Derita in . the matter of securing the location of the Mecklenburg Farm Life School. The matter was several weeks ago referred to the attorney genera! of North Carolina for an opinion as to which of the places was legally entitled to the school. This opinion was rendered the last week, f an/I in tha nnininn of this official the Derita people cannot vote bonds for school buildings without a special act of the Legislature, which effectually disposes of the claims of the Derita people at present, while the Pineville district complied with all the requirements of the law to secure the school. The attorney general suggested to the Mecklenburg board that it assure the Pineville people of the establishment of the farm school at that place and that the school would receive the entire State and county appropriation for the work. 1 JU I1 1 I S .?!> ?-feSSSliB?^S^?^3KB^S^^I^^^^*-:ir Willi*..* Mack, LL. D., F< Noted Leg. As the momentous year of 1913 was drawing to a close, there made its appearance in the offices of various lawyers all over the United States a calendar? an advertisement of a law book firm?the most noticeable feature of which was the striking reproduction of a group of portraits, men evidently learned in the law. In that group were the pictures of two men whose names have become household words wherever the great science of English law is known. And there was a third, none the less scholarly and perspicacious that he is less well known. The group was the pictures of the editors of what lawyers refer to as "CYC," otherwise known as "Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure." The two pictures first referred to are those of the late Astfbciate Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court, and his colleague, "the great dissenter." the late Associate Justice Harlan. The third of the trio, in whom South Carolinians are bound to feel more than a passing interest, is the picture of William Mack, a native of this State, now editor-in-chief of "CYC." Mr. Mack, as may be gathered from a consideration of the importance of his work, stands at the top of the ranks of legal authorship. He is secretary of the American I^aw Book company, and is editor of its other important publication, "Cyclopedia of Forms and Precedents." Though not widely known in South Carolina, even by name, Mr. Mack is a familiar character I frn KlO Ann timn fnllnii? fnt.fn?.v.An I.V mo Ull? UIIIC JCIIUVY IUVVII9I1ICI1 in Fort M il. Here he spent his boyhood days and here his little motherless son, "Billie," is now living and learning to follow in the footsteps of his distinguished father. Born in Sumter county in 1865, William Mack was the son of the Rev. Dr. J. B. Mack, a well known Presbyterian minister, who was stationed in Columbia, and Mrs. Harriet Banks Mack. In his early youth he came to Fort Mill with his parents and here he grew up. From Fort Mill he went to Davidson college, whence he emerged in 1883, with the degree of M. A., having taken that degree along with the degree of A. B., and having ranked second in his class. The call of scholarship, combined with the independent spirit which brooked no long waiting before entering the world of service, took him toAdger college, where for a year he lent his energies to the upbuilding of the youth of the land, even as in later years he lent of his brain to the erection of a consonant and coordi naiea siruciureoi American law. The school room did not hold him long, however. For a year he studied in the law office of his uncle, W. L. Mack, in Lamar, Mo., leaving that to enter the Missouri State university. There he kept up his reputation for promise matched with performance, and completing the three year course in two years, was ; graduated first in his class. Sub' ||lJ/ For' FORT Mil ormer Fort Mill Citizen, al Author. sequently the university con ferred on him the degree o: LL. D. Lamar, which had seen his first embrace of his new mis tress, the law, soon saw hin again. For one year he prac ticed there, and then went tc the land of promise on th< Pacific coast. In San Francisc< he stayed ten years, leaving then in 1900 to accept an editoria position with the Edward Thomp son company, publishers of lav books, at North port, a suburb oi New York. In this congenia atmosphere his genius for lega authorship blossomed into flower The first fruits were the sever volumes of "Rapalje and Mack's Digest of Railway Decisions," j standard work of great repute. A short time later he agair changed his residence, going t< New York city, to join th< American Law Book company With that company he has re mained for 12 years, addinj steadily to his reputation as j clear and forceful thinker and i concise and accurate expoundei of legal truth. his service with the Americar company early brought him t( the very head of the company': corps of experts. Selected t< undertake the tremendous tasl of directing the preparation o: a comprehensive but convenien exegesis of law and procedure he entered upon his task wit! energy and zeal. The 40 vol umes of the "Cyclopedia of Lav and Procedure" already puh lished are an enduring testi monial of his skill and industry These, with the annotations which also are in his charge have assumed rank as amonj the most authoritative of lega works. The "Cyclopedia of Forms am Precedents," a like work on i different phase of the subject, i also well known among the lega folk. While he has been pursuing th< lights of legal learning, Mr Mack has not neglected othe avenues of activity. He is i member of the Sig na Alphi Epsilon fraternity, arid presidei at the national convention o that fraternity in Chattanooga He is a high rank Mason, beinj Knight Templar and a Noble o Kismet Temple of the Mysti Shrine. He is a member of th Missouri Society of New Yor and of the Southern Society o New York. Though Mr. Mack's work ha led him far afield, he has neve forgotten the home interests His alma mater has been the rc cipient of many gifts of books His home town too, and his horn folk, know him and like him a a brilliant man who can b 1.1 l_ i_- J - ? ' morougniy democratic and kmc ly. Mr. Mack's mother lives i Port Mill with his brother, Mui ray Mack, and he has anothe brother, Harry Mack, an elec trical engineer in New Yort and another in Cincinnati, th Rev. Edward Mack. D. D., pr< feasor of Lane Theological sem nary. Mr. Mack also his tw sisters in Fort Mill ?Mrs. Elizi beth Belk and Mrs. W. I Ardrey. ? The State, Thursday. f , 9 y . * **? ijC I Mi LL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCS ONLY THREE MORE DAYS nc tuc timre tamtcct VI 111b 1I1T1LJ tVlULJl Gentle reader have you eon sidered that your subscription might be the deciding factor in The Times' Great Prize Contest. Consider for one moment thai lone year's subscription to The \ Times will give you the bes weekly paper in this section ol [the State, and also entitles you I to a goodly number of votes for | your favorite in the contest. One j yearly subscription may add just enough to give your favorite j a small majority of the votes at the closeof the contest, atid thus make them a winner and appreciative contestant. In a few short days when The Times awards their grand list of prizes the contestants who marched, fought and lost will look back to their early conquest and say: "Well, if I had only put forth greater efforts during the contest I might have been among the winners." The heights of victory may look steep and rugged, but the victory is just beyond the great obstacle. If you wish to help your friend ?do it now. If you have assisted any contestant and want to help them some more?why, UU It I1UW. For there is but three more days. Promptly at seven o'clock p. m., next Saturday, March 7th, the contest will end. This is the last call. Rally round your - candidate for each and every f candidate needs all they can get. They may have votes by the 3 scores and thousands?but some - other may have them by the i hundred thousands. No candi date should be over-confident, ) nor should any candidate's ^ friends be in the same state of > mind. Over-confidence engeni ders defeat. Whatever you do, 1 do it now. Let every contestant and her ' friends be sure to turn in their ^ reports in plenty time to be J checked over by the contest manager. Remember that nothj ing will be accepted after seven 3 o'clock, and everything that wili i be couuted in this contest must be in the box by the time the i clock strikes. Usually there are > one or two contestants who try 3 to be last in turning in their re ports, and it is very often the " case that one or two contestants I fail to get their votes counted on j. the last day, by failing to give r their reports to the Contest Manager in time to be checked. i Be on time. It is a mighty good > idea to bring in your report early 3 as possible Saturday morning, > and then work all day, and you p can bring in the remainder of t the subscriptions that you secure later in the day. It will not i hurt to make several reports - Saturday. / STANDING of PIANO CONTESTANTS Tuesday, March 3. - Miss Frances Smith 167,800 " Edna Ferguson ..664,600 " Jessie Baker 644,800 " Lessye Epps, R-l, 648,000 1 Death by Suffocation. James Barnes, colored, son of ' William and Mary Barnes, reg spected colored people of Fort I Mill township, met death by suffocation Thursday in the e plant of the South Carolina . Cotton Oil company, in Columbia, r where he was employed. Barnes a was at work in a seed house and & was smothered to death when he ^ was buried beneath an avalanche of seed. The colored man ut^ tered a cry as the mass of seed f fell upon him and several other c employees in the plant came to e his rescue, digging furiously into k the mountain of seed which f covered Barnes. In a few minutes after the accident the s rescuers reached the imprisoned ,r man, and although his body was t'_ still warm, life was extinct. That \ suffocation was the cause of e death was easily established by s the circumstances and in the opinion of a physician who was I- summoned by telephone shortly after the accident occurred. The J1 county coroner was notified of ' Barnes' death and, after hearing * from witnesses, decided that an . inquest was unnecessary. e Barnes' body was brought to >_ Fort Mill Friday morning for i- burial. # o l Reaember the Partridge Wyandottes 1. at Maney's Drag Stare, Saturday, March thv 7th.?Adv. * LL ~ 1 I :== L 6, 1V14. HOMES OF Residence of Alex. Hart Welfare Work Progresses. Welfare work amonu the mills in South Carolina is progressing well under the guidance of Prof. James L. Carberry, of Hock Hill. Professor Carberry has oeen making a trip through the mill towns of the State and giving talks to the children to ornanize them in the work. Already 13 mills have signed up for the work and 21 more are desirous of joining. Demonstrations are appointed to carry on the work. The work started a few years ago in Rock Hill among some of the mills there has made wonderful strides. Tomato clubs are organized among the girls and corn clubs among the boys. The work done by some of these children as shown in the fair in Rock Hill on October 12 of last year was indicative of the progress that has been made among the children, as their display was one of the most attractive features of the exhibit hall. Constable J. F. Jackson Dead. Yorkville people were shocked this (Thursday) morning when they learned that Mr. James F. Jackson, a well known resident of this town had died last night. Mr. Jackson was apparently in his usual health yesterday, and had spent the day in Rock Hill attending to business, returning to Yorkville in the afternoon. He was suddenly seized with sickness at about nine o'clock, and although prompt medical attention was given he grew steadily worse and died at 11:30 o'clock, death "being due to heart trouble. Mr. Jackson had been a resident of this town for a number of years and had a wide circle of friends. He was forty-two years of age, and 1191 a His l a | BUY IT NO^N I FOR [j Very best (>0c Sheik 3 at 35c per pound. 3 Fine 15c Canned Ton 3 only l()c per can. 3 Fancy Fie Peaches i 1' SPEC ^New Barrel Best C< ghum. Big lot Fine Countn Shoulders. Best Sliced Cook II< Seed and Fating Iris Phone No. 7 E. W. sasasasB-^asBgasasasHsi Jp < " riMES r* t? i #ri r ' tun I MILL,. >er, Confederate street. was a member of the Yorkville Baptist Church. He was appointed a dispensary constable in May 11)11, and had made a reputation for being a faithful, efficient officer. He was a member of the local camp W. 0. W., [and an Odd Fellow. The deceased is survived by his wife and one child.?York News, rjM 1 i nursuay. Bank Has New Officers. At a meeting last Wednesday afternoon of the directors of the Savings Bank of Fort Mill, W. B. Meacham was elected president of the bank, succeeding Col. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster, and W. B. Meacham, Jr., was elected cashier to succeed his father. In tendering his resignation as president. Col. Springs explained this action was necessary because of the constantly increasing demands upon his time from his other business. Col. Springs had been president of the Savings Bank since the death of Capt. S. E. White, some three years ago. Mr. Meacham, the new President of the bank, became its cashier in 1897, succeeding the late J. M. Spratt, and has held the position continuously since. Under his supervision the instihas afforded the people of Fort Mill and vicinity a great convenience in the transaction of business and has paid uniformly good dividends to its stockholders. It has suffered only one serious reverse, that of a robbery in 1908 when the safe was blown open by professional cracksmen who were then operating in this State and about $4,500 stolen. W. B. Meacham, Jr., the new cashier, has been assistant cashier ct the bank for about two years. rare sasa sesz EE salsa sasasasi ro* V! SPECIAL R THIS WEEK C ;d Almonds Nice Dese lar 25 c natoes now ISc per i Try our ] >e can. Peaches IAL! NEW ARRI\ >untry Sor- Fine Veil and (Tib / Hams and Fresh car If you h mi. Fine. cedent Fl i. tt A - ii ruuuucN ^ampic. when you want goo< Kimbn iVhere Quality Reigi isasBsOasBSBSBsasasasasBi $1.26 Per Tear. | THIRD MAN MAY ENTER RAGE FOR THE SENATE It is rumored in Columbia that John Gary Evans of Spartan burg, who succeeded Governor Tillman in the executive mansion back in the nineties, and who was perhaps the youngest man who ever held that office, will make the race for United States senator next summer before the primaries, in opposition to Governor Please and Senator E. D. Smith, who will also be candidates for that place. Former Governor Evans was in the capital city several days ago and paid a visit to the legislature v. hile in' session. He was asked concerning his intentions as to the senatorial race, but responded only with an enigmatic smile. He has been closely identified with South Carolina politics since his election as governor, and has made the race for United States senate. Though unsuccessful in each efFort, his races have always been hard fought and only by a small margin has he been defeated. He was in the second race for this office with Senator E. D. Smith in 1908, the latter winning by a small margin. Mr. Evans is rhnirmnn r?f State Democratic committee, and enjoys the friendship of President Wilson, Secretary of State Bryan, and other men of national notes closely associated with the present Democratic administration. Attesting to the friendship for him held by Mr. Bryan was the honor the secretary of State paid him by having him at dinner at his home when Mr. Evans was recently in Washington. Mr. Evans is an able and courageous campaigner and his entry into the race would mean a spirited.political fight this summer with the victory one of considerable speculation. Judge Gary's Son[Drowned. Ernest Gary, the 17-year-old son of Chief Justice* Eugene B. Gary of the State supreme court, was drowned Sunday while testing ice on a pond, one mile from Lexington, Va. Gary ventured too far on the ice and iwas precipitated into 12 feet of water. Cadet Smith, a classmate, made a brave effort to^rescue young Gary by'pushing a plank^to him over the ice, but the unfortunate young man was too weak to grasp the plank and'sank. The body | was recovered and shipped to I Abbevillejlor burial. g5H5a5H5H5a5TS5Egasa5aSa5glEl( ty=\ .EDUCTIONS | >NLY- 1 rt Peaches, the regu- 51 :ent kind, now only 3| can. - SI Fancy Sliced Desert SI at Sc the can. 91 /ALS: I low Sweet Potatoes jjn bage. raj Grimes' Pest Flour. H aven't tried this ex- 8j| Olir, ask US for h^lrino Bnl 1 things to eat. || ill Co., I is." M j igHgsasgmggassBsasgsasasgfel