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The Fort Mill Times. StotaMUlwd in 1891. FORT MILL. S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1914, Jl 25 Per Year fel, vMU'limill J -I-'L ' ' .1. ST1TE HEWS ARRANGED 4' FOR QUICK READING. Rev. W. E. Thayer* pastor of the First Baptist church of Chester; has received a call to the First church at Sumter. Chas. Walker and Sam Dooley, negroes, are in the^1 Orangeburg .iail charged with brutal murder Sunday afternoon *of Lawtbn Jackson, a young white man. Jackson was murder on the public road near the Calhoun county line. Members of the railroad commission will visit Yorkville today for a hearing into the matter of the C. & N. W. schedules. The Lancaster and Chester railway is to be inspected by the commission on Saturday. Encouraged by the demand for warehouse facilities, 18 companies for the storage of cotton in ten counties of the State have been commissioned by the secretary of Slate since August 31. These companies represent $50,700 in capital stock. Representatives of the French government visited Anderson recently and purchased about 500 horses. The animals will be shinned to Canada and from there sent to France for use in the war. (lover nor Blease Thursday issued one pardon and two paroles. The paroles were for negro manslay ers one convicted of murder. with recommendation to mercy, and the other for manslaughter. Mr. ,1. H. Riley, Union county's "potato king," which title he won last year by producing 332 bushels of sweet potatoes on A one acre of land at a net profit of $225, again comes in the limelight, and while his yield this year will hardly come up to that of 1913 because of the severe drought, his profits will total almost as much. South Carolina Banker's as sociation, through its committee on agricultural development and education, of which the chairman is' R. I. Woodside of Greenville, has issued an open letter to the farmers, advising them to "start now" toward curtailment of cotton production "by sowing all the cotton land to oats, wheat and other small grains." _ ^ ^ c In accordance with the recommendations of the war department, made in April, five companies of the National Guard have been mustered out of military service in this State, by order of the governor. The companies are: B, First infantry. Liberty Hill; E, Third infantry. Barnwell; H, Third infantry, Conway; K, Third infantry, YValterboro, and the Second company, coast artillery reserves, Lancaster. Seek Money for Farmers. The hill which members of the South Carolina delegation in conirrouu hnuo l>unn iirftt*binr* An f/\n the past week with a view of relieving the cotton situation was introduced in the house Monday, says a Washington dispatch to The State. The main provisions are for the sum of $500,000,000 in denominations of not less than $1 and not more than $100, which would he loaned either to actual producers of cotton or to those upon whose land it is grown. Solvent hanks, either State or national, could receive this money under proper supervision of the government authorities. Loans O would not exceed market value of the cotton but the value of the staple shall be equal to that of the loan. The rate of interest is placed at 4 per cent, and loans would be secured either by bill of sale or warehouse receipts after the cotton is properly graded, stores! and insured. S .. Wouid Tav Cotton Lands. Convinced by the history of the "frock Hill plan" of 1911, ' which was of his devising:, that pledges of cotton acreage reduction are practically worthless, and believing that the financing of the present crop is relatively ; a simple matter, the important thing being the restriction somehow of next year's crop. John 0. Anderson of Rock Hill has proposed that the South Carolina general assembly, called to meet in extra session October (?, take the initiative in regulating the planting of 1915 by making cotton growing subject to State license. Mr. Anderson is in Columbia io conduit win) nmuennai people regarding the feasibility of his plan. He has laid it before Senator Smith and several other members of the South Carolina delegation in congress and has asked Wade Stackhouse, M. l> . of Dillon, president of the South Carolina division. Southern Cotton congress, to present it to the cotton conference meeting Tuesday in New Orleans. Besides, he is mailing to his t radc throughout the State copies of a statement from him accompanied by the letter of VV. B. 0ruber, of Walterboro, printed recently in The State, holding such a business license law as be proposes to be constitutional. The State, Monday. Big Mills Resume Full Time. Each of the 16 cotton mills in i this State of the Barker Mills Co., operating 550,000 spindles, have resumed full-time operation and two of them arc working 46.000 spindles day and night in the effort to lill urgent orders. The average monthly consump- i tion of these mills is between' 5,000 and 6,000 bales, and em-j plo.vment is given about 5,000 The remarkable improvement , last week in the demand for cot' ton goods from domestic. South American and European sources i resulted in enormous orders bei ?*wr f IV/lill.-. inh IV V.V. l>bU KtJ tub X ail\CI xvi 111 r> and President Lewis W. Parker instructed from New York the, resumption of operation of his mills, which have been suspended or working on reduced time for several weeks. The two mills which are running night and day are the Capita! City mill in Columbia and the VV.vlie mill at Chester. The Warrior and the Peasant. A little while ago I stood by : the grave of the old Napoleon j a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead diety. I thought of the orphans and widows he had made?of the j tears that had been shed for his glory, and of the only woman who ever loved him. pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes; 1 would rather have lived in a hut witn a vine growing over the door, and the grape growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun: I would rather have been the poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky with my children upon my knees and their arms about me. I would rather have been that man ] and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder, known as Napoleon Bona parte, tsy Kobt. O. lngersoll. Bulletins for distribution in the State have been issued by the department of agriculture concerning the law in regard to condimental feeds and tonics j passed by the 1V)14 session of the legislature and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. The law will go into! effect October 1 and is designed to protect the public from de-1 c option ifev RESULT OF BIG BATTLE MAY DETERMINE VICTORS Furious fighting- continues in northern France where the Allied French and British armies are at grips with the German; forces in what is characterized as the crucial action of the battle of the Aisne. Beyond admilting this fact the official statements are vague. Few details of the struggle which may he the. turning: point ot the Western campaign have been given the waiting public. One sentence: "There is no change in the situation," epitomizes the official reports from London. Paris and Berlin. The Allies claim to have made slight advances here and t here, notably 011 the heights of the Meuse. The German official statement, however, declares that reports, concerning a victorious advance, of Ihe enemy are untrue. Both the British and the Fivneh ollicial statements reft r to the violence of the attacks! made by the Germans, who seem to have redoubled their efforts in an attempt to hurl back the Allied line. The reports indicate, however, that; the French and British have given no ground. A very rigorous censorship evidently has been imposed at virtually all points, particularly in London, regarding the operations at the front as very little news is being permitted to come through. The war officials probably hesitate to raise the hopes of the p< ople without some decisive result having been attained and fear that the publication of even the smallest details of the operations might be of aid to the Germans. Scouts Receive Lovftig Cup. Displayed in the show window j of Ardrey's drugstore is a hand-1 some silver loving cup which was ' received a few days ago by the Fort Mill troop of Boy Scouts. The cup bears this inscription: "Y. M. C. A. Swimming Meet; Pnol/ T-l ill TV! ill ITV\vi I * v\/v. i\ i i in \ o. r ui i/ i*i 111 ? tii t Mill Winner." This contest was held in Rock Hill on September 4th and the following Scouts under Assistant Scoutmaster F. M. Mack, competed for honors in i which they were successful: Joe Nims, Heath Belk, Luther Belk, j Douglas Nims, Malcolm Link, j Herbert Raker, Robert Young j and Middleton Young. Rules for the Election. Instructions and directions for commissions and managers of election for 11)14 have been com piled by R. M. McCown, secre-j tary of State. ' The election will be held November J. Managers and commissioners have been appointed by the governor. The managers are directed to provide a separate box for the amendments to the State constitution submitted to this election. The box should be plainly and distinctly labeled. The returns of the election should be made in duplicate, as in the election of State and county officers and separately attested by the managers: tickets being returned to trie county board of canvassers as in other elections. Electors qualified to vote for members of the general assembly are qualified to vote in this election. The managers for York county are: Federal, J. A. C. Love of j Clover, W. R. Ryers and G. Ret; Smith of Rock Hill; State, I. ,J. Campbell of Clover, J. Brown Neil of Filbert and Louis Grist of Yorkville. As a result of the recent advance in the price of piping it' is stated that the installing of the water mains for Fort Mill's water system will cost something like more than the p?*ice named in the contract awarded some months ago. The Day of Prayer. President Wilson's proclamation calling for a national day of prayer on October 4 for the cessation of war in Europe probably is without precedent in this or any other country. But. if so, it is the most beautiful precedent that has ever been set in any nation. There are prayers for peace in our prayerbooks. and days of prayer for the speedy termination of wars have been often fixed by official proclamation in countries engaged in them: but for a neutral nation of more than 95.000.0(H) of people to get down on its knees and pray for peace in other countries will he one of the most impressive, as well as one of the most unusual, specta ever presented on earth. We believe everybody in the United States will offer up a prayer on that day in the earnest spirit of altruism, which the President's message suggests. And it' anything can make a path for peace "where men can see none," we believe unselfish supplication from the heart of a great country can open the door of a divine compassion.?The Haiti more Sun. Thinks Lever's Chances Fair. "The Fort Mill Times picks Congressman Lever as the successor of Senator Tillman in the United States Senate. No doubt Congressman Lever will offer for Senator Tillman's seat when it becomes vacant, and doubtless a number of other gentlemen will do so. However, as Lever is a farmers' man, like Senator Smith, his chances of success would seem to he fair. The farmers outnumber the voters of all other classes in South Carolina and can elect almost any man to office."?Rock Hill Evening Herald. The protracted services at the Fort Mill Presbyterian church which began on the 20th under the Rev. J. A. Smith closed Sunday night. All the services were largely attended and it is he-; lieved that much good was ac-; complished. Inlacaci?n??r? *??"?????? ? ? ? " ( Fall Mi ? ii r 1 Iw ecu You'll find our the newest creatic g to show the hands $ brought to Fort IV! Sj We extend a m jj] the city and surroi Ion Opening Day ; have to offer. K I M ? "V 9 WILL USE n SOXES IN GENERAL ELECTION Seventeen boxes will be used at each precinct in tbe general < election which will be held in South Carolina, November 3d. Ten of these boxes will be used ( for voting proposed amendments to the constitution, while the seven remaining boxes will be 1 ior tne votes on the officers, either nominated in the primaries ; of the Democratic party or placed in nomination by the , other political parties in the State. The constitutional amendments to be submitted are mostly of local interest only. The only change in the ballots to the Democratic party is the provision made for the election of United States senator. His name will be placed on the ballot for congressman, according to an act passed by the general assembly of 1914. This will be the first year in which the United States senator shall be elected by the direct vote of the people. He has been elected heretofore by the general assembly. There will be separate tickets made for the following officers: Governor and lieutenant governor. other State officers, circuit solicitor. State senator, members of the house of representatives. county officers. The law also provider for a ticket for presidential electors, but such will not be necessary this year. Twenty-Third Sob. The Ford is my auto, I shall not want. It maketh me to lie down-under it in green pastures: It leadeth me into much trouble and draweth on my purse. I go into t he shadow of death for its sake; yea, though 1 fear much evil for the radius rod on the axle might break. It has a blow-out in the presence of mine enemies. I anointed its cylinders with oil. The radiator hnilpth nv?*r* 5n?*olu ?Kic will not follow me thru life or I will dwell in the house of the poor forever. I equippeth my Ford with a cuckoo clock and when it reacheth the speed of 20 miles per hour, the bird cometh out andsingeth, "Nearer My God to Thee." ?Exchange. rasa gaga sasa sh sasa sasasasa DUR BIC llinery C 1 __ /^v . nesaay vjct Mil! inery Department >ns in Hats. I n fact, iomest line of Milliner [ill. lost cordial invitation uncling communities I and see the SPEC1A1 BREL Vhere Quality Reign: ^^asiasggasaga ?? Plans For York Fair. jjfcfci The editor of The Times has received a copy of the premium list of the York County Fair association. A perusal of this < ? ' booklet shows that around $1,500 t j* ^ is being offered to the farmers of York county for exhibits to be placed at the fair, which will be held on October 14. 15 and 16. The premium lists cover every nrodlirt of flip QTkit ?irwt ni-ominn"' are also offered on live stock, t he judging of which will he one of the features of the fair. In the woman's department there are premiums offered on practically every article that can he made in the home, both in the culinary and art department. In a letter accompanying the premium list, the management of the Fair Association states that the prospects are fair for a most successful fair. Hundreds of farmers through the county will have exhibits and several hundred horses and mules are being entered. The grounds of the association are new. having been recently completed. In addition to the exhibits, one of the fastest one-half mile race tracks in the State has been built to a standard grade. There will be quite a number of racing events each day. The amusements will be varied, and the management states in the premium list that only high-class amusements have been secured. There are a number of free attractions, including two aeroplane flights and two high dive acts. It would seem that every effort is being made to give everyone who attends the fair more than their "money's worth" of entertainment, and it is expected that the attendance jTi 11 I \y inoti Tt Uo *??? ? ill 1 UIIJ j 14 o l/l l jr tilt tlll/l t 11 (.4 I forth by the fair management. Beginning next Sunday the Fort Mill Methodist church will begin a series of meetings which will continue for a week or longer, the services to be conducted by the Rev. J. B. Attaway, of Oswego, who is expected to reach Fort Mill Monday. Services will be held twice daily, at 10 a. m and 7:45 p. m. ^ ? M B )p,ning I . 7th. I : brimming full of ft ve are now ready ft y we have ever Kjj| to every lady in ft to pay us a visit Cj L VALUES we | "L's