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T I Established in 1391. kSTATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. Andrew J. Bethea. formerly private secretary to Governor Ansel and since the expiration of Governor Ansel's term of office, code commissioner, has qualified as a candidate for ^ lieutenant governor. President Wilson has nominated Charles E. Falkenstein to be postmaster at Barnwell. Mr. Falkenstein has been 1 he assistant postmaster for many years. It is said that the fourteen probable candidates for governor line up about this way: In ' favor of Blease, Irby, McLaurin, Richards, Sims. Mullailv, Timmerman. Against Blease, ('linkscales, Manning, Browning, Cooper. Non-committal, C. A. Smith, M. L. Smith and Duncan. W. P. Pollock, of Cheraw, has forwarded his pledge and assessment as a candidate for the united States senate He stands on a platform against the State administration. The supreme court in a decision the last week placed J Douschka Pickens Tillman and Sarah Starke Tillman in the custody of Senator ar.d Mrs.* It. R. Tillman during July and August. Sas petitioned. The petition was tiled with the court for the custody of the children in the absence of the father of the m children. P?. R. Tillman. Jr.. who is not in the State at present. Joseph (I. Sullivan, a young farmer of Laurens, was indicted by the grand jury Monday charged with the murder of John M. Cannon, a Laurens attorney and prominent Democrat. The killing occurred at Cray Court. May 12. At a meetinor in Snartanhnrir Monday afternoon the Piedmont Baseball League \vas definitely organized and officers elected. Gaffney decided to come into the league, provided the other three cities, Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson, would co-operate with her in getting a team started. It was decided to open the season .J une 2f?. Rev. John G. Richards, father i of Jno. G. Richards, chairman of i the State railroad commission and candidate for governor, died Friday afternoon at his home near Blenheim, aged 87 years. Mr. Richards had been a minister for more than tit) years. Reports from Columbia Tuesday told of a secret caucus Monday in that city of prominent, Bleasites from different sections of the State, among the number; being W. 1>. Grist of Yorkville, 1 who is said to be the representative of the governor in York county. What transpired in the I caucus was not given out. ^ m m There are 11 candidates announced for governor of South Carolina, and it is declared by some that this number has never been equalled in America. Indications are now that the South Carolina militia, comprising a brigade of infantry with its complement of sanitary troops, will encamp at Augusta, with one North Carolina regiment and a detachment of regulars, August I to 14, instead of August lb to 2"> as recently announced. The change will enable the South Carolina troops to vote in the primary election of August. 2o. t No Bail for Harry Thaw. Harry K. Thaw was on Monday denied release of bail pending consideration by the supreme court of his extradition from New Hampshire to New York. The court likewise declined to * frrant the auxiliary request feuThaw to be tjiken to Pittsburgh | in the custody of Sheriff Drew, of Coos county. New Hampshire. in whose custody he was placed by .Indure Aldrich when the latter held the State of New | York was not entitled to extradite Thaw to New York. *.vV 0 HE F. Commission Not to Blame. Editor The Times: I have read : i.! i.i vuur coimmiiiicauon in tne the last issue of the York News, and I must admit that you have just ground for complaint for the Fort Mill Times was the newspaper of all newspapers that deserved to be placed in the cornerstone of the new court house building. The Fort Mill Times was the only York County newspaper that advocated in the I beginning the building of a new court house, and. has consistently stood by the proposition all through the agitation and advocated its construction on the old site; and had it not been for the work done by the Fort Mill Tinn-s, and its intelligently putting before the people the necessity of a modern new court house and taking the lead in the matter, and doubtless inducing and intlu< 'u?in" one of your citizens, W. H. Windle, to strongly advocate and work for tlie proposition it i< doubtful if we would have had ati> new court house building in Yorkville, and I feel sure that tlm omission of the Fort Mill Times from the box of contents in the corner-stone was an oversight on the part of the committee that had charge of this matter. As chairman of the court house commission, I must say that neither I, nor any member of I the commission, was consulted in any manner or had any knowl- j edge of what the contents of the box were that went in the cornerstone. The matter was entirely j in the hands of the Masonic; brethren, and just as the exer-j cises commenced the Rev. Dr. j (Jillespio handed me a copy of I the Christian Messenger, and C. L. Cobb handed me a cancelled copy of the court house bonds, requesting that they be put in the corner-stone, but upon 1 delivering these two papers to the grand secretary of the Masonic order he informed me the box was sealed containing the other articles and could not he opened, and so they had to be put outside of the box. 1 regret very much indeed that I The Times was not put in that box and hail I been consulted as chairman of the court house commission. I would have insisted i upon a copy of every paper in the county, and especially the Fort Mill Times, being placed in the corner-stone, but speaking in behalf of the court house commission. none of whom are Masons. I wish to say that we had no knowledge or information whatsoever of the contents of tlif box the Masonic brethren placed in t he corner-stone. But again, permit me to say that 1 feel sure the Masonic committee in charge of the matter forgot the grand work of the Fort Mill Times had done for the new court house; and just as Pharaoh's chief butler, when he was released from prison did not remember his good friend Joseph, but forgot him. so these Masonic brethren forgot the Fort Mill Times, and. that committee should now come forward as that chief butler afterwards did and declare "1 do remember my faults this day." J. S. Price. Yorkville, June 9. Ticket Collectors Taken off. It is reported that the Southern Railway has decided to take off its ticket collectors. Whether this applies to all lines or not is unknown but it is known pretty positively that they have been taken oif for good from branch lints and it is understood that they have also been permanently , taken off the main line. Some time back the collectors were summoned to Atlanta but it was not known at that time that they were to be relieved from duty permanently. It is said now, however, that this action has been determined upon by the officials of the road. J. D. Grandy, a Charlotte contractor, was awarded the contract Monday for the erection of the farm life school at Pineville. The building will represent an investment of approximately $20,000 and will be of brick, three stories in height. There will Ih? 12 rooms and an auditorium with a seating capacity uf 00. ^ .4 I , m IU ' t *< .. . , v Mill ' ,h ? JRSDAt, JUNE 18. 1914. Encamnifient at Andml* placed in the "Sand Hill" section, now developing so rapidly. See Acts 1911. page 3. He helped pass the law providing that hop cholera serum should be furnished to any farmer whose hops had or were threatened with disease and it was to be free to those too poor to pay for it. When understood and applied this will save thousands of dollars to the farmers of the State. See Acts 1913, page 194. He helped to established fiftyone scholarships in Clemson College, one for each county and one additional for each congressional district, to be for boys from the farm who were to i study only the agricultural course and go back to the farm when through. See Acts 1912, page G8T>. He helped to pass the bills providing that at least one scholarship in each county, in both Clemson and Winthrop, | should be set aside to be com| peted for by country boys and girls only, for the reason that I the boys and girls in the towns, | having better chances to prepare themselves, were getting all the free scholarships in those schools and the country boys, and girls were being left, because their preparatory schools were not as ^ _ i XT ? L i ciuciciu. , une Stiiuiarsni(i, ! if there are less than four in a county and two. if there are more than that, must go to a farmer's boy or girl. See Acts ! 1912, page t>8<>. He has also been persistent in his fight for good road legislation and although he has not been able to get the State as a whole to embark in this work, his own township has, by special legislation and taxes levied, made model roads to the boundaries of his township, and this plan is spreading over the entire county. So he has shown constructive genius as a legislator and it has hcen along the line of the uplift of the farming class. His leaderi ship has been acknowledged in the house and is only indicative of what he would be if in congress. As to his ability as a legislative debater, we cite a report of a great debate in the house, made by the most expert reporter of legislative debates in South Carolina, Mr. August Kohn. On .January 2d, 1912, Mr. Kohn says: i "The arguine?it of Mr. VV. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, was one of the finest, one of the most forceful and eloquent heard in a generation on the floor of the house. It was one of the best, most logical and well conceived arguments that has been heard in a legislative bod v. It went into current i>olitics, more or less, but with it all it was a masterful production and could only have come from a mind of unusual caliber." Why should he not be tfiven a chance to "put the fifth district on the map?" See next installment. Mrs. Gary S. Thompson and children, of Greensboro, N. C., are visiting relatives in this city. FnV/5=flE?BM?-JMMW lli -- - .. 9 y \w"_' ' ORT ; FORT- MILL, S. C.. THT Who is j W. F. Stevenson ? (F'olitical Advertisement.) Last week we told you who he! was up to ltK)2 in legislative success and experience?this week we will give you some of his later work as a legislator. After being out by voluntary retirement for eight years he was again elected to the house ; : ? 1()1A T T _ 1 1 1 1 1 I in i;uu. rie nau cieveiopea as a lawyer and legislator and his activities showed his bent in legislation and it tended (1st) to building up the farming interests. (and he is himself a considerable farmer his entire property outside of his home and some town lots being in farming lands; (2nd) to building up the common schools, and (3rd) to give a just proportion of the benefits of Clemson College and Winthrop to country boys and girls. H?' helped to pass the Act to provide for a crop pest commission in the State, to fight crop pests, especially the boll weevil. See Acts 11)12. page 71S. He helped provide for experimental stations, for instruction and development of farmincr nnrf cncciwfloit in irnftirwr nrio !>???? nu^wavu. The South Carolina militia will encamp at Augusta, Ga., with the militia forces of the Ninth division. Requesting that necessary orders be prepared to this effect. Governor Blease late Saturday ' addressed a communication to Adjutant General Moore advis- , ing him that the war department , had agreed to his proposals and ( that he considered it advisable 1 that the South Carolina troops ' should encamp jointly with the militia forces of North Carolina. I Georgia and Florida. In reply to Governor Blease's telegram dispatched Friday evening asking the promise of Secre- 1 tary of War Garrison that the ; troops would not be ordered to (iuty in Mexico, a message from i the war department chief was received in Columbia Saturday afternoon agreeing that "if your troops are to be placed in United : States service on account of possible difficulties with foreign nations, they will first be allowed to return to their own State for mobilization and muster into the United States service." Secretary Garrison assured Governor Blease that "you need have no fear that they will be taken out of your control while in Geor- 1 I gia." * McLaurin Not in Race. John L. McLaurin will not be | a candidate for governor of < South Carolina in the coming primary. The time for filing pledges expired Tuesday at noon and Mr. McLaurin was not included in the number who had qualified as candidates. However, there are eleven qualified candidates for the office of governor. Four candii dates are in the race for the 1 senatorship. The decision of Mr. McLaurin to withdraw from the race will probably come as a great surprise to many people and will j probably cause some shake up in the speculations as to the-probable winners. Mr. McLaurin has been counted by some people as one of the candidates who would be in the second race. Mrs. J. K. Roach and Miss Florence Thornwell of Rock Hill, i were guests at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Elliott during the i past week. i [ iSHSBsagHsasasasBszsasasHsi 1 Quit Woi 1 the H 1 M Cj You'll find our Up-to-da Ijjj the newest and coolest Su |jj all excellent values and ai jfl and make them. j{J These are beautifully m jjj liantines at special prices Si browns. Tanero shades nln jj dividual fancy. Ask to s< jj Rea< jj Just a few more left in jj special prices, $3.50 to $5. jj only $1.00 each. Pretty ( jj children, all new styles,*s a M' GOWNS?These are mu S sizes, long and short sleev UNDERSKIRTS?Trimr jj from 50c to $1.75. jj PANTS?Made in specia jj CORSET COVERS-Und ? Big assortment of Child E. W. | v T1MI J!. 1' LSI ?1?1 THE HAYOR OF SUMTER IN RACE FOR THE SENATE Mayor L. D. Jennings, of SumC?4-..?J 1 1 in, ociuurua.v announced nis candidacy for United States senator. Mayor Jennings' friends have urged him for some time to enter the race, and now that he has consented to do so. they feel that he will make a formidable !\nd aggressive opponent. Mr. Jennings gained considerable prestige in the recent State convention by an eloquent and fearless speech advocating primary reform. As mayor of Sumter under the old political form of city government. as a leader in the fight for the present combination of the "modified commission citv manager plan," and as the first mayor under this new form of city government, he has distinguished himself by his progressive leadership for municipal progress and fearless enforcement of law. Mr. Jennings is prominently identified with all movements for the development and progress of the city of Sumter and his county, and was for two terms president of the Sumter chamber of commerce. He is president of the People's bank, a lifelong farmer and is also identified with general business interests. He is a church. Y. M. C. A. and Sunday school worker, and is one of the leading and successful attorneys of the State. He is a forceful and tireless debater with a "from Missouri" inquisitiveness, and his opponents will find themselves compelled to prove everything they say upon the hustings with Mayor .lennings. May Put on New Trains. At a conference of officials of the Southern Railway at the Isle of Palms last week the matter of additional passenger service was discussed, and it is possible that a through train between Augusta and New York will shortly be put on. This train will pass Chester going south about two o'clock in the afternoon, and going north about four-thirty, it is stated, and will to some extent at least meet the demand of the Chester public for better and more convenient accommodations and schedule on the Southern ?Chester Reporter. asm sasa saga sfi sasa sasasas "rying Abo ot Weathe /ear Coole te Ready-to-wear Department mmer Garments made up ret re much cheaper than you cai Ladies' Skirts ade up in Voiles, Panamas, S of from $3.50 to $6.00. A1 ids, black and white. You'll 5e our Ladies Skirts, SURE. dy-to-wear Dre White Voile and Rice Cloth. 00. New shipment of thes Gringham and Percale Dresses plendid values, at 25c to $2.2 uslin Underwe? ch better values than we hav cs, in Crepe and Nainsook, 5C ned with best quality lace an il Crepe and Mainsook. 25c, 5< 'sually pretty at 25c and 50c. ren's Muslin Underwear. Kimbrc ^here Quality Reign * / u ' + % t IS. $1.25 Per Year. Campaign Opened Yesterday. Candidates in the State and the senatorial campaign had their initial innings Wednesday, the former at Sumter and the latter at St. Matthews. Fifty-three candidates had entered the lists when the time limit for filing pledges had, expired Tuesday. In spite of this | avalanche of political aspirants, four State officers, ono onn. ! pressman and one solicitor are without opposition. These are i R. M. McCown. secretary of ' State; J. E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education; S. T. Carter. State treasurer; E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries; A. F. Lever, congressman from the Seventh district, and L. M. Casque, solicitor for the Twelfth judicial circuit. Interest will focus chiefly in the senatorial and the gubernatorial races. In the former there are four competitors. L. I). Jennings of Sumter and W. P. Pollock of Cheraw, the governor and Senator E. D. Smith. In the race for governor there are 11 ; candidates, as follows: Lowndes J. Browning, Jno. G. Ciinkscales, R. A. Cooper, Jno. T. Duncan. Wm. C. Irby. Jr.. Richard I. Manning, Jno. B. A. Mullally, Jno. G. Richards, Chas. Carroll Simms, Chas. A. Smith and Mendel L. Smith. . . Trouble at the Dam. Only about half of the Catawba Power Co's plant is now in operation, due to several of the water wheels being broken down. The plant is borrowing power from Great Falls and other plants. Additional help has been secured, and the whole force is quite busy. It will take some time to complete the repairs. ?York ville Enquirer. Death in Providence. Mrs. Rebecca Cooper, the aunt of Mr. J. O! Hall and Mrs. J. W. Hall, died at the home of the latter in Providence community Friday afternoon, and her remains were interred the next day at the Harrison Methodist church, after funeral services conducted by her pastor, tne Rev. W. A. Hafner, of Fort . Mill. Mrs. Cooper resided in J Fort Mill for a number of years and many friends here learned j with reprret of her death. a5a5H5HgB^SgmB5gSH5gSE[B nit I r and J r^j-i I I V/IUU1CS g Lrj ; fully equipped with ail }j idy to put on. These are rj a possibly buy the goods jj >erges, Poplins and Bril- S 1 sizes in blues, grays, j{J find one to suit your in- j{] sses I beautifully trimmed at K e pretty Fancy Waists, C i for ladies, misses and C 5. K s *r c e ever had before. All G )c to SI.75 & :? . . fl d ribbon, ranging in price "] a Oc and 75c. jjj ill Co., I 8 " | jg I