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V . . . :"r - / 9 J Established in 1891. STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. O Vtn??lrvnf rv m V\rtn otitrtM/1^^ f viiaiicotuu uad awcuut'u nit | contract for 25,000 square yards of creosoted wood pavement, besides 65,000 square yards of asphalt. Special agents from the bureau of the census at Washington are in South Carolina collecting statistics of various kinds which will be used in compiling bulletfns and announcements of an economic and industrial nature. The condition of municipalities and towns is being given particular study from a financial viewpoint. Fourteen fires in South Carolina during April were caused by rats and matches and occasioned I a total loss of $2,650, according to reports filed with the State insurance department by the fire! insurance companies during business in this State. During the month there were 188 fires reported, with a loss of $65,292.91. E. J. Watson, commissioner of , agriculture for South Carolina, will make an address on May 19 at Ware Shoals, where garden demonstration work is being conducted under the direction of J. | T. Carberry. Adjt. Gen. W. W. Moore is in Washington this week on official business. While in the national capital, Gen. Moore will call at the war department to learn what plans, if any, have been made by Secretary Garrison relative to calling out the South Car on nil iroopis iur servin1 111 ivie.\ico. ? ? Miss Ann Hampton, a sister of the late Gen. Wade Hampton, the famous South Carolina warrior, governor and senator, died Thursday morning at her home near Columbia. Her death occurred at about 1 o'clock. Miss Hampton was 8K years of age. Columbia's first building for the housing of young business women will be opened sometime during the present week. The building leased by the board of directors of the Woman's Building company is on the northwest corner of Hampton and Sumter streets, and has been completely overhauled. The high winds of the last week played havoc with the crops in some sections of the State, especially in the low coun try, where much cotton had been thinned out. In many places the small plants, where the chopping had removed most of the dirt from around the roots, were blown entirely away, and many acres will have to be replanted. Porter C. Nunn. one of Greenville's most progressive vonng citizens and member of Jordan & Munn, contractors, shot himself through the head with a pis1.1 ..i o .?.i l. i : ivi ai. o 11 ciuck oaturiiay min imi}; and died three hours later. The commencement exercises of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, at Clinton, will begin on Sunday, June 7. and continue through the following Wednesday. Rev. Win. Hood, of Baltimore, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, June 7. Plans for improving the con % necting link between the Nation\ al highway and the Capital-to\ Capital highway will be discussed at a meeting of the representa\ tives of the chambers of Lan\ caster, Camden and Kershaw, [ May 15. It was also announced \ that there will be a meeting at \ Rock Hill to discuss plans for \ improving the road between \ Rock Hill and Gastonia and \ Charlotte. Socialists of the State met in Columbia a few days ago and nominated a full ticket for State officers. J. H. Roberts. Charles ton, was named as a candidate for United States senator, and R. B. Britton, also of Charleston, was named for governor. Petitions have been tiled with the supervisor of Newberry county asking for an election on the dispensary question. The names on the petit ions will be checked up sua investigated, and then the supervisor will decide whether the election will be ordered. \ (L V V' & - - V * > * ' j < . r The The Mexican Situation. Reiterating his statement that there was nothing "imminent" in the Mexican situation and that no "aggressive" move was in contemplation by this government, Secretary of War Garrison has for several days continued preparations to send the balance of the second division of the army iu vera *.ru/, as u precautionary measure. Orders have gone to the fourth and sixth brigades at Texas City to be ready to reinforce General Punston, but when such an order will be issued still is undecided. War department officials have been engaging transports and so far arrangements have been made for eleven ships, including the four regular army transports now at Galveston. Anxiety was aroused at the State department over the reported capture by Mexican soldiers near Vera Cruz of Samuel Parks, a private of the 28th infantry, who rode into the Mexican lines while believed to be suffering from temporary insanity. Another report from Vera Cruz to the effect that an unidentified American had been executed by Mexican troops led the department to institute a rigid inquiry through American authorities at Vera Cruz. It was reported several days ago that the envoys of the South American republics, who hope to settle the Mexican trouble, will meet at Niagara Falls, N. Y., on Monday, May 18. Will Adjourn July 10th. In a conference last Wednesday between president Wilson and Senators Hoke Smith and Kern it was decided that a date be set for the adjournment of Congress, regardless of the state of the bill which the administra tion is pressing. As is well known, the president is very anxious for his trust legislation to be passed at this session of Congress, as well as the bill fixing rural credits for the agricultural interests. It was agreed, however, that it would not be advisable for the party leaders to remain in session after duly 10th, as the entire House comes up for reelection and the Democrats are very anxious to capture I an increased majority if possible. How Smith Ran in 1908. In view of the contest between Senator K. I). Smith and Governor Cole L. Blease for the Senate, it is interesting to note the returns in the second primary of six years ago, when Senator Smith was victor over ex-Governor .John Gary Rvans. In that race Senator Smith carried forty out of the then fortytwo counties of the State, only Spartanburg and Union giving majorities for Governor Rvans. There were 110.001 votes cast in the second primary in 1908, of which Smith received 70,292 and Rvans 89,712. Smith's majority being 80.H80. He swept the entire State and scored one of the greatest victories ever won in the political history of | the State. It is interesting to note that the total vote received by | Senator Smith in 1908, a little over 70.(KM) is close to that polled by (lovernor Rlease in 1912, his j being about 72.0(H). These figures afford food for thought in figuring on the race between Senator Smith and (lovernor Rlease. New Issue of Postage Stamps. It is expected that the 1914 se; lies of postage stamps soon will be available to mail patrons at all offices. The postmaster general has sent advices that the 'department at Washington is prepared to issue five new denominations of ordinary postage stamps. The new stamps are the same size and shape as the present two-cent stamps and are the seven-cent, nine-cent. 12cent, 20-cent and thirty-cent denominations, black, pink,maroon, light blue ami vermilion, respectively. The new "seven" bears the head of George Washington in profile, from Houdon's bust, looking to the left. The border design is the same as that of the first six denominations of the current series. / \ I r-" ^ f Fori F0RTM1LI SENATOR E. D. SMITH OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN Senator E. D. Smith has opened his campaign for reelection to the United States Senate by distributing generously throughout the State a pamphlet which contains a summary of his work in the Senate since he was elected six years ago. There is much of interest in the , , . ... . ... i pampniet and it snows tnat Senator Smith has done what he told the farmers of the State he would do?secured legislation in behalf of the great cotton growing industry. Time out of mind the cotton farmer of the South has had to accept for his product just what the Wall street gamblers were pleased to pay him. Now all this will be changed if the legislation Senator Smith has succeeded in writing into the statute books has the result its author claims it will have. Among the resolutions and bills introduced by Senator Smith and enumerated, with short discussions, in this pamphlet are those on "Investigation of Cotton Pool," "Cotton Statistics made Available for Farmers," a resolution which resulted in "More Accurate Reports upon Cotton," another on the "Spinning Value of the different Grades of Cotton," an "Inquiry into the Causes for Advance in Prices of Ferjtilizers," "Cotton Ragging and Tires." a resolution "To Repeal ! the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution," "Extension of Credit to , Farmers" and "Regulation of Cotton Exchange." "Senator Smith has devoted all of his time and talents to his duties in the Senate. He has not been involved in factionalism; he has tried to be a senator for all the people and not for a part of the people. He has tried to serve all the people to the best of his ability; he has never stopped to inquire whether a I man was his 'friend' or hisi 'enemy' or whether a man had voted for him or not. The results he has obtained for his State have justifisd his course, for he has more and better legislation to his credit than any Senator has ever secured in the I same length of service. "Senator Smith is seeking reelection on his record. The j issue in this campaign is plain, j His record is good ?more than! that, it is a better record than i i any other Senator has ever made I : in so short a time. He and his ] ! friends are content to say that: his record entitles him to re-! ; election." White House Marriage. With a plain circlet of pure j goia, lypicai 01 tne quiet eie- j gance of the ceremony. Miss i Eleanor Randolph Wilson, young- i est daughter of the president of | the United States and Mrs. j Wood row Wilson, was married at (> o'clock Thursday evening in the White House, Washington, to William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of the treasury. The simple and impressive wedding service of the Presbyterian church was pronounced by Rev. Sylvester Peach, pastor of the church in Princeton, N. J., attended by the President and his family. The ceremony was witnessed by the smallest company that ever attended so important a function in the White House. Two Killed With Baseball Bat. Charged with the murder of two men with a home-made baseKnll l\of TKo/1 IP Tnnnov iitqo MMII MUV mm I^? A III IIVJ ?? t*'1 placed in York jail last Wednesday. .1. R. Turney, father of Thad Turney, is also being held by the authorities. The two men killed were .1. K. Wells and Pink Dover. A revolver tight was said to have preceded a hand-to-hand struggle, which occurred about 8 miles west of Yorkville near the State line. It is thought that Wells and Dover were mistaken for revenue oflicers by the j Turneys. Unsettled weather for the week with mid-spring temperatures in the Southern States was the forecast of the national [weather bureau at Washington Sunday-night. ? j liu'lfiflp iJ*"-'. . 2 , ; m Mi uttBTtiii iJrni ^ ?hb ^ sr \ r Mi S. C., THURSDAY, MAY Summersett in the Race. James A. Summersett, of Columbia, has announced that he will be a candidate for the office of comptroller general of South Carolina in the August primaries. Mr. Summersett is therefore seeking to become the successor of the incumbent, A. W. Jones. Mr. Summersett is well known in Columbia where he is engaged in the insurance and real estate business with George L. Dial, f fi ???v? K/\? ?*/*? c , tuc mill name: uciii^ OUllilllflsett & Dial, of 1217 Washington street. lie was candidate for railroad commissioner in 1908 and 1909 and in that capacity toured the State with the other aspirants for State offices. Many Die in Earthquake. Press dispatches Saturday from Catania, Sicily, told of a violent earthquake and volcanic eruption Friday night in which many villages were lost on the slopes of Mount Etna. The disaster caused the death of at least 100 persons. The number injured will reach several hundred. Refugees declare that the loss is as great as in the Messina disaster of 1908. Railroad tracks were torn up, churches razed to the ground, houses shaken to ruin and telegraph poles overturned over a radius of several miles around Catania. Terror stricken people rushed from the villages into Catania before baybreak, bringing stories of ruin and disaster. Interruption of railroads and telegraphs made it impossible to obtain any accurate details as to the loss of life. News Notes From Yorkviile. The governor has accepted an invitation to deliver an educational address at Bethany on May 15, the date of the closing of the school. S. H. White of Rock Hill, a delegate to the county convention. became violently ill just before the meeting. He was able, however, to return home in the evening. A mayor, six aldermen and three school trustees are to be elected for the town of Yorkville on May 27. The Rev. R. A. Lummus of Edgemmore assisted the Rev. J. L. Oates Thursday, Friday and Saturday in preparatory communion services. Bert F. Smith has received his commission from the governor as captain of Company L. 'The fire department has purchased a fine horse from Robert T. Allison in place of the one recently disabled. Yorkville will get $123.82 as its tax of 1 per cent, on the premium collections of foreign fire insurance companies. James Bros, have brought from Tennessee a 5-year-old horse which is claimed to have |i> ni l<is iv?ju o oua?ri If there is ANYTHING pay us a visit. We migli E. W. g "v falsBSBSHsasBsasBsasasasasB dna r" LL 1 14, 1914. HOMES OF , Ut'sidonce of A. K. MoE Tomato Wilt. The Times has receivod from Miss Minnie Garrison, county tomato club agent. the following article relating to tomato wilt and the remedy for same: There are two different wilt diseases in fields where tomatoes are grown. Probably the most widespread and destructive one is a bacterial wilt. Bacterial wilt is readily recognized by the way that the disease alfects the plants. The disease begins with the leaves at the top of the plant or at the ends of the branches. These leaves wilt first and the disease gradually works its way back until the entire plant wilts and dies. The bacteria which causes the disease will live in the old diseased plants and in the soil for years. They work in the water ducts and vessels of the stem and roots of the plant and plug these vessels up to such an extent that the circulation is cut olf. The disease is spread during the growing season by leaf eating insects and by bacteria being carried by the wind and water from the old diseased plants to healthy plants. When the disease first appears, the diseased plants should be pulled up and burned. As a preventive measure the tomatoes should be sprayed with arsenate of paste or one-fourth pound arsenate of lead at the rate of one-half pound of lead to twelve gallons of Bordeaux mixture. The fungus wilt also causes1 disease by plugging up the vesselsand waterducts of the stems! and roots, but in this case the disease practically always starts j in through the roots from the! soil and the lower leaves and branches show signs of the dis-j [n]5H5B5a5H5H5H5H5a5H5H5HSH5 I Unusual Pretty I We have just received ranging in price from $3 1 lace and are made up in t Special prices on White I 10c quality, 8c; 12 l-2c q RUCHING?Several nc splendid value for only 2! LAWNS?Pretty figure COLGATE'S POWDER dcr and Soaps. Special V ntTTT T\-nTTtT?C CA V U carried off 27 blue ribbons from 28 horse shows. Richard \V. Hughes, M. D., of Bluff ton will locate at Tirzah at an early date for the practice of his profession.?Correspondence The State. Essay On An Editor. We look into a cradle anil behold a male child. At the age of ten he is a noisy kid, with half the buttons off his pants and a sure eye for meanness. At 15 he is a devil in a print shop; at 33 the publisher of a country newspaper, at the head of every enterprise calculated to improve the town or enrich the business thereof; at 50 he is an emaciated and wornout man with holes in his pockets and a gray head; at the age of GO he is a corpse in a cheap coffin and his only resources left behind are two cases of long primer type, an old Taylor hand-press and a subscription book with 500 delinquent subscribers, who line up and march past the coffin saying. He was a public spirited fellow. dui ne couian t save anytmng. Rock Hill Record. Crops of the township are very much in need of rain. There was a fairly pood season in parts of the township last Thursday afternoon, but the high winds of the following day served to dry the ground and it is said by some that the rain did the growing crops iittle good. * riMES. FOR T MILL. lhum-y. Sj.iatt str?*i?t. ease first. The lower leaves will turn yellow and usually wilt more gradually than where the plant is alFeeted with bacterial wilt. Fundus which causes this wilt remains alive in the soil for a number of years so that it will be necessary to leave tomatoes oil* the land for five or six years. Spraying does not seem to help iii controlling the fungus wilt. The diseased plants should he pulled up and burned, and the succeeding crop should be planted on land where tomatoes have not been grown before. There are several other destructive diseases of tomatoes which occur on the leaves and young stems. These are known as leaf spots or leaf blights and can be controlled by the application of Bordeaux mixture. Where these occur, it is well to spray the tomatoes one time while they are still in the bed. After transplanting they should be sprayed every two or three weeks until the majority of the tomatoes are ripe. This same spray will prevent the fruit rots, and if the arsenate of lead is added, it will tend to prevent the snrpjid ??f hnetru-i-il wilf P\?i? this purpose we would use Bor-1 deaux mixture one-pound copper sulphate or blue stone and one pound of quick lime to twelve gallons of water. Charlotte News Buys Chronicle. By far the most important newspaper deal in this section in a number of years was that made Friday, when the Charlotte News Publishing company bought the Charlotte Fveiling Chronicle from The Observer, company. The last issue of Thej Chronicle, carrying the announcement of the sale, appeared Friday afternoon. H5E 5HSa S^Sa SB SHS'cLSHgg EAD TH Values thi ieady-to-wear ] a new shipment of those bcaul to $6, in all sizes. These are he very latest styles. Be su White Ribbon Sale ; Ribbon this week?all widths uality, 10c; 25c quality, 20c. w pieces of Ruching in whi 5c the yard. All the new wid d Lawns, special price 5c and ?Fresh shipment of the newe 'rices this week?25c Powder, .u.. T> 1 ~ : -1 rp C' 1 A. 4 c - - eiiy r luiti iu[i oox, lur, ioc a MILLINERY r injLadies', Misses' or Chiltlrei it save you 50c, $1, or maybe Kimbre Vhere Quality Reign 5m lIHH HH SBSBSBSi ** w* ifl^S ^ ar^^B I $1.25 Per Year. THE STATE CONVENTION I WILL BE ANTI-BLEASE I Complete returns from the H countv conventions lu M th?? Ihke week show that the forces op- H nosed to Governor Rlease will be I in control of the State Democrat- H ic convention. Of the 338 dele- I ?tates to the State convention from the 44 counties, nearly 300 I are opposed to the administra- V I More than a score of eonven- I vent ions adopted resolutions call- 1 ing upon the State convention to I pass some sort of primary reform. I In Richland county a resolution was adopted asking that the rules for the general election he placed about the primary system. The voters in every county of the State were reported as favoring some action to protect the primary and place it above suspicion. The report from Newberry probably was the most significant of all, the delegation from that county being solidly opposed to the governor. The convention refused to send Governor Blease as a candidate to the State con vention, while Fred H. Dominich, strong personal supporter of the governor, was ousted from the county chairmanship. The report from Lee county was to the effect that Senator E. I) Smith would be one of the delegates to the State convention. Ira B. Jones will head a delegation from Lancaster. A general summary of the result of the conventions follow: Resolutions calling for primary reform wore adopted in many of the conventions. An anti-administration State executive committee was named. The administration of President Y\ ilson was endorsed in the strongest terms in many resolutions. A fight will be made on the county-to-county campaign. Practically all administration leaders failed of election as delegates to the State convention. There will be two delegations sent from Charleston, and the contest will be decided by the State convention. Tnere will be a split delegation from Georgetown, there being six delegetes from each faction with one-half vote each. A jolly crowd of young people from the Pleasant Valley neighborhood passed through Fort Mill Friday morninir enroute to to Catawba river where the day was sp^nt in picnicing and fishing. isasESEsasnsHsasasHSHsasain | IS is Week i Dresses ffi jj tiful White Voile Dresses jj daintily trimmed with [} re and ask to sec these K K K nl in Taffeta and Satin. Di i tc, cream and black, a C Iths. {] \oc. a at in Colgate's Face Ponv- 0 20c. Soap, 25c box. 3 nd 25c. C] a a u s Hats that you need, v $2, on your hat. [J i ill Co., \ \ asasasasaaassaBasasasasalc ... ? ";i