Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 17, 1914, Image 1
The Fort Mill Times. |
Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1914. *l as T>?r v.?,
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STATE SEWS ARRANGED
FOR QUICK READING.
Wade Cooper, a young white
man who worked at the Union
Bleachery, Greenville, was run
oyer and killed about 8 o'clock
Saturday night by a belt line
traction car.
The South Carolina division of
the United Daughters of the
Confederacy created this year a
scholarship to Winthrop college
which covers board and tuition
for the full course of four years.
There were 31 contestants for
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by Miss Daisy Watson, of Beaufort.
County Chairman Dobson, of
Cherokee county was on Saturday
served with notice by N. W.
Hardin as attorney for W. L.
Settlemeyer and J. L. Jenkins
that they would contest the
recent primary election on the
grounds that the ballots all over
the. county of Cherokee were improperly
counted. Settlemeyer
and Jenkins were defeated for
office in the second primary.
Bankers and farmers of Marlboro
county have sent a petition
to Richard I. Manning, governornominate,
requesting that he call
a conference of the memberselect
of the general assembly, to
be held in Columbia, to consider
ways and means for giving relief
in the present cotton crisis.
The governor Thursday granted
four paroles. Two were dispensary
cases. Mary Woods,
_ l*e a i* r\
serving a me term irom Partington
for murder, and Billy
Williams, serving a 16 year term
^from Edgefield were the others
receiving clemency.
The need of a compulsory
school attendance law is recognized
throughout the State, according
to J. E. Swearingen,
State superintendent of education.
He has sent out a letter to
well known South Carolinians,
asking their opinion as to the
nature of the compulsory law to
be considered at the next session
of the general assembly.
He says that the only (difference
among the friends of education
is found in the terms of the
statute.
An enthusiastic and largely
attended meeting of the Sumter
county division of the Southern
Cotton congress was held at
Sumter Saturday in the court
house. Between* 350 and 400
farmer attended, of whom about
w> were negroes. There were
bankers, farmers, merchants,
manufacturers, doctors, lawyers,
and other callings represented.
A feature of the meeting was
the severe adverse and somewhat
harsh criticisms of President
Woodrow Wilson and his
cabinet officers together with
some heavy licks struck at the
South Carolina and other representatives
of Southern States
for indifference towards the dire
needs of the Southern farmers
in the present crisis.
Profits for Farm Products.
The greatest encouragement
that can be given agriculture is
profitable prices for farm products.
Crop destroying insects
have been a stubborn enemy and
Jupiter Pluvius has played many
pranks on the farmer, but there
13 no pestilence like low prices;
they will sap the life-blood of
an industry.
. It is one of the most pitiful
sights in twentieth century
civilization to see a farmer after
he has raised a crop sit helplessly
by and watch the bulls and
bears of Europe and America
trample over it, and yet if the
farmer will only organize and
cooperate he can successfully
fence out these animals that
devastate products after the
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GOVERNOR GILLS EXTRA %
SESSION OFLEQISLITORE
| Governor Blease on Thursday I
issued a proclamation calling the
Legislature in special session to
consider the question of enacting
measures to relieve conditions
brought about as a result of the
European war. The session is to
begin at noon on Tuesday, October
6.
The text of the proclamation
follows:
"Whereas it has been made to
appear to me by representations
of many of the citizens of the
State and by resolutions of organized
bodies, representing the
j cotton growers of this State that
a condit on has arisen within the
I last few weeks, whereby the
price of cotton has declined to
such an extent that it is impossible
for this staple product of
our State to be sold except at a
ruinous loss, and that there is no |
way whereby an arrangement or
combination can be made to save
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absolutely sacrificed, and many
of our citizens of this class will
become penniless and without
further means for the payment
of their debts, planting of their
crops and the support of their
families; and further that the
financial condition of the country
has become such that at present,
and in all probability will continue
to be such for some time,
that it is impossible to obtain
credit on the security of their
cotton, except at ruinous and prohibit
ive rate, if at all; that this
condition is widespread and
throughout the entire cotton
growing section of the State;
and, it being further made to
ippear that it is impossible for
the working classes of our citi-1
zens to obtain adequate means
for the support of their families,
dependent upon their labor, and
that they are unable to borrow
money on account of insufficient
collateral or security, unless it be
at a ruinous rate; that such condition
of credit as exists and
lack of confidence that there
will be any improvement of
affairs in the near future, which
is creating despair among them;
and it further appears that all
classes of our citizens are affected
by this condition, which
prevails in the State, and possibly
it appears throughout the whole
country.
"Many of the members of both
branches of the general assembly,
and representatives of
all classes of our citizens, have
urged upon me that this state
of affairs so existing is an extra
i
uruumry occasion, demanding
such state governmental relief
as can be given by the general
assembly within the constitution,
and that the exercise of every
legislative function should be
brought into action to afford a
remedy for their distress and to :
relieve our people, and especially I
should the State exercise its
power of borrowing money to
run the government, without
demanding and exacting from
the people taxes that have been
levied for the present year, or
for the next succeeding year,
whereby all of our citizens, and
especially our farmers and work-!
ingmen. should be afforded some
relief.
"In view of these representations,
and of my own investigation
into the condition of affairs,
I now declare that such an extraordinary
occasion exists in
the State as require and warrant
the exercise of the constitutional
power vested in me, in convening j
the general assembly in extra
session, to consider the present
condition and state of our commonwealth.
and to pass such
laws as it may, within the exercises
of its legislative power, as
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wui ctiioru a remeay ana reiiet
to all citizens from the present
situation, and which will probably
continue for some time.
"Now, therefore, I, Coleman
Livingston Blease, governor of
the State of South Carolina, in !
pursuance of the power conferred
upon me by the constitution of
the State of South Carolina, and
on account of the extraordinary
occasion which has occurred, and
which is contemplated by the
constitution of this State, article
4, section 16, do hereby convene
the general assembly of the
State of South Carolina ia extra
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MR. 8. E. BAILES NOMINATED i f
FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Among the recent nominees
of the Democratic party for I
membership in the next Legis- f
lature, which convenes in Janu- j r
ary, is Mr. S. E. Baiies, whose t
home is in the Pleasant Valley t
section of Lancaster county, s
al>out three miles from Fort f
Mill. Mr. Baiies has the (lis-11
tinction of having won his f
nomination in the first primary, N
the occupant of the second seat t
I to which Lancaster county is en- r
entitled in the House of Repre-1
sentatives having been selected
in the second primary last Tues- I
day. He is a progressive, well- 1
to-do young farmer who gradu- c
| ated a few years ago from
Clemson college and has since *
employed profitably on his place ;(
monir r\F t U ^ a J..nM aa J J- V
tii uir illlVilllCCU IllfLllUUS
of farming which are taught at '
I the State's great agricultural *
and mechanical college. Mr. 1
Bailes is well known and popular 1
in Fort Mill. He is a brother of i
Mr. J. J. Bailes of this piace. x
He is less than 80 years of age, J ?
but is well informed and intelli-! t
gent and his% friends are ex- 1
pecting to hear favorable reports <
of his service as a legislator.
No Bread Famine This Year. |
There will be no bread famine ,
in the United States this year. (
The largest wheat crop in history 1
has just been harvested and ac- s
I cording to the United States de- (
> partment of agriculture, the total (
production is approximately 911,- (
000,000 bushels; nearly 150,000,- I
000 bushels more than any previous
crop produced in this country.
We have at least two and a '
halt' million bushels of wheat j
which are not needed for con- |
sumption at home or for seed, c
The surplus production of the ^
United States usually goes to
Europe, but under present conditions,
caused by the European
war, this cereal cannot cross the
ocean. About 75,000,000 bushels
have been taken for export, but
most of it is being held at ports
of departure.
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York's Storage Capacity.
Commissioner Watson has com
piled a statement which shows
that the warehouse capacity of
South Carolina is close to one
million bales. The warehouses
of York county with the storage
Pnnopitv nf nonK lo ?-t?v?a%?of
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as follows: "Latta Bros., Yorkville,
2,500 hales; W. R. Carroll.
Yorkville, S00 bales; B. N.
Moore. Yorkville. 1.500 hales;
Patrick Bros, and Smith. Bowling
Green. 200 hales; Mills &
Young: company. Fort Mill, 1.000
bales; cotton mill at Fort Mill
3,000 to 4,000 bales; John T.
Roddey, Rock Hill, 5.000 bales;
Fewell warehouse. Rock Hilk
3,700 hales; T. L. Johnson 300
bales. All textile plants in the
county are equipped with warehouse
facilities. Total independent
storage capacity 15,100
bales."?Yorkville Enquirer.
Returns From Spain.
Mr. John E. Jones, a son of
Mr. W. H. Jones of this town-i
ship, who left here on the 0th of
July, 1013, for Barcelona, Spain, ,
to engage in the development of
an electric power plant in the
Pyrenees Mountains, returned
home Friday having left Barcelona
August 21. The company
by whom he was employed has
been obliged to suspend operations
owing to war conditions
in Europe and the inabilitv to
r. -r ai
?ccurc luiiusj ior i.ne prosecution
of the work. Mr. Jones says
that news of the progress of the i
war was almost impossible to obtain
owing to the strict censorship.
session at 12 o'clock m. on the
6th day of October, in the year
of Our Lord, 1914, at the capital,
in the city of Columbia, for the .
consideration of matters herein i
above stated, and to pass such
laws as in their good judgment
may be necessary and proper for,
the relief of the citizens of ourSUt*."
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ORMER EDITOR OF THE TIMES
ELECTEO TO THE LEGISLATURE
The Fort .Mill friends of VV. R.
Bradford were very much gratiied
upon receipt of the election
eturns from Yorkvilie to learn
hat he had been nominated in
he Democratic primary for a
leat in the General Assembly
rom York county. In the first
>rimary held three weeks ago.
ill*. Bradford lacked less than 50
rotes of being nominated. In
he second primary he was nomilated
by a majority of more than
100, receiving 2,000 votes.
Mr. Bradford's home is in Fort
dill. Formerly he was editor of
The Times and in the estimation
>f brother members of the fourth
state he is considered a strong
vriter who is well informed upon
iurrent matters. While never
laving been a member of a legisative
body, he has had opportunity
to study and observe the projesses
of legislation by reason of
its connection in a clerical capacity
with the State Senate and
vith the Senate of the United
States. He is therefore expected
o make a useful member of the
douse of Representatives.
Big Slump in Cotton Exports.
The extent to which the
European war affected the
American cotton industry was
lisclosed Monday in the Census
Bureau's August cotton consumption
report showing that
luring August only 21.210 bales
>f cotton was exported, while
luring August last year 257,172
>ales went abroad.
The Sutton school, of which
Vliss Alice Armstrong is teacher,
dosed a very successful term on
ast Friday. Miss Armstrong
eft yesterday for her home at
5pencer, N. C.
If it 's a surface to
be painted, enameled,
stained, varnished or finished
in any way, there's
an Acme Quality Kind
to tit the purpose.
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The York Farmers' Meeting. |
Pursuant to a call issued the
last week by the Yorkville Board
of Trade,'-.a-.'large number of
farmers and .business fnen from, i
all parts of the countyassembledi
at Yorkville Thursday to discuss c
the cotton situation, and formu- *
late, if possible, plans by which *
the cotton crop may be market- |
ed without a sacrifice in price. 11
J. C. Wilborn, president of the *
Board of Trade, stated the object
of the meeting and suggested
that an organization be formed (
to be known as the York County
Cotton Growers' association, *
and the association was organ- .
iy.pH with 1 T* fV-iti-friK/t 1V.T*,
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Connellsvillc. president, and M. 1
C. Willis of Yorkville. secretary }
and treasurer.
After a thorough discussion of ,
the cotton situation it was de- '
cided to ask Col. E. J. Watson to
call a meeting of the cotton (
growers from all parts of the '
the State to convene in Colum- (
bia at once. In accordance with *
this plan, delegates from each |
township in the county appoint- 1
ed to attend this convention.
A resolution indorsing the "buy {
a bale" plan and urging all nonproducers
of cotton to buy a bale
at that price and hold it until the *
market reached 10 cents was (
unanimously adopted, as was one :
urging all the cotton growers to
hold their cotton for this price. 1
Mrs. Rachael Culp Dead. 1
Information was received in '
Fort Mill Friday of the death at 1
Mooresville, N. C., Thursday '
evening of Mrs. Rachael C. '
Culp. The deceased was the '
widow of Michael Culp. and was j
75 years of age. Among those
surviving is a large number of ,
relatives in Fort Mill and vicinity.
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home, because
time your hom<
A little money
paints and finis
the home bri^
more attractive
I some, all winte
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refinish shabby si
cost. Expert ad1
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House Painting.
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FARMERS ARE NOW SURE
OF AVERAGE YIELDS
While the farmers were bowing
back yonder in July and
\ugust that there would he no
:otton made, they have turned
ill of their present concern to
he availability of a market for
hat which will he made. And
t is not going to be any sorry
'rop that is turned in this fall,
iccording to the opinions of a
lumber of leading growers of
he county. The prospects for
rotton have been increasingly
?ood since the middle of August
vhen the weather was ideal for
ts rapid and uniform development,
a condition on which the
production of even a half crop
was then predicted. The stalks
have been growing splendidly
ind the fact that the stands are
rather spotted throughout the
county has tended to give the
plants room for extension and
ievelopment. There are in the
county some fields of cotton as
fine as any that have been seen
it this period of the year and
the chance is that a much better
crop is going to be made than
the farmers anticipated.
The planters speak in encouraged
tones, too, as to the
corn crop. While this plant
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blight from the intense heat and
Irought that prevailed in June
and July and has more or less
continued up until September,
farmers availed themselves of
the opportunity of planting late
?orn when they got their grain
3 IT of the fields and it is the late
?orn that has now such a line
prospect. With continued favorable
weather, a corn production
equal to that of last year or
equal, as a matter of fact, to anyaverage
year, will be turned out.
linting
ins
Comfort
time to touch
rfaces in the '
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: winter is the
e is used most, jj
spent now for
?hes will make
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;hter, cleaner, \
more whole- r
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D FINISHES
jrfaces at trifling
vice at our store,
ail. NLet us tell *
Reasons for Fall
_ Fort Mill,
S.C.