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X ' .* -:- -sir f Pw - . X ETCy1 iWBflr \ X- ' ~ t ? # < ?c-w!V ' ' < - i\ * , .. The Fort Mill Times. ^ ? ' *?*'*.' ' *"1? '" V' . ? ? I m _ Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 191A $1.25 PPr Y r " STATE NEWS ARRANGED , FOR QUICK READING. John W. Richardson, a mem- ( ber of the detective force of the { Columbia police department, has ( been elected chief of police, sue- j ceeding W. C. Cathcart, whose ^ resignation became effective on i September 30. N. B. Dial, banker and law- j yer of Laurens who made the race for the United States senate two years ago, has ac- 1 nounced his purpose to be a J candidate to succeed Senator ' B. R. Tillman. . . . M I. Members of the Gaffney bar !' have signed a recommendation , that Mendel L. Smith of Camden ' succed the late Ernest Gary as j circuit judge. Mr. Smith's | ability fill the place creditably is recognized by the Gaffney bar, < and the recommendation was j unanimous. According to an order sent to | the office of the secretary of State, the governor has suspended C. L. Knight from the office of magistrate for Dor, Chester county. The order was J issued "for incapacity, misconduct and neglect of duty." N. A. Nicholson, charged with i the murder of J. P. McKissick I o n September 16, was convicted ' of manslaughter with recom- i mendation to mercy at Union Saturday. Motion for a new trial was made before Judge i Moore and was refused. A sentence of ten years was im- 1 posed. The convicted man is 65 years of age. There will be no dispensary election in Newberry county on November 3. Petitions asking for the election were circulated "* last spring and filed with the county board of commissioners in May. The petitions have been j found to contain about 40 names short of the required number, however, and the election will not be held. One hundred and sixty-three fires reported to the State department of insurance during September caused a loss of $91,396.89. During the same period last year 110 fires were reported with a loss of $125,126.42. Since the first of the vear 1.117 tires! have been reported by the insurance companies with a total loss of $824,517.81. Joseph J. Gentry, formerly a lawyer of Spartanburg, has been elected general superintendent j of the South Carolina Baptist | hospital, hospital, Columbia, according to a statement given out by the Rev. Louis J. Bristow, president of the board of trustees. Mr. Gentry has accepted ; the position and will move his1 family to Columbia within the I next few days. The Synod of South Carolina, ! which is the court of the Pres-, by terian church embracing the j entire State, will meet in the First church. Union, South Carolina, on the evening of October 13th. The exercises will be opened with a sermon by the moderator. Rev. Dr. George A. i Blackburn, pastor of the Arsenal! u:n rvu.i~.lv;,. illtl VIIUIL1I, VA/lUIIIUia. Sergeant Mason, in charge of the Spartanburg recruiting station for the United States army, reports extraordinarily heavy! business for the month of September. Thirty-six applicants were received for the month as compared with the report of 37 ^ applicants received in August, 1913. Seven applicants at the station are waiting authority to accept on a slight deficiency in weight. Mr. J. N. Atwater, of Spartanburg. is spending a few days with relatives ia tfcis city. Legislature in Extra Session. The extra session of the South Carolina Legislature, called by Governor Blease some weeks igo, convened at the State capi:ol Tuesday at noon. This is the irst extra session in the last 32 /ears and the 16th in the history >f the State. The primary rea:nn for fhp PYtm spasinn was to consider the cotton situation, but :he proclamation of the governor was so worded that the lawmakers may also transact any Dther business. S. T. Carter, State treasurer, says that the expense of the session will be upwards of $50,000 and that special provision for meeting it will have to be made before adjournment, since funds for the purpose are not available. Each legislator, regardless of the length of the session, will be entitled to draw mileage plus ?200 pay; there is nothing in the law, however, to prevent any member from returning this money or part of it to the treasury. Deputy Sheriff Killed. J. F. Lindsay, a deputy sheriff at the Duncan mills in Greenville was shot and instantly killed Monday morning at 4:30 o'clock by W. S. Chadwick, an itinerant mill operative, who is said at one time to have been a minister. The killing occurred when the deputy sought to protect Chadwick's wife from an attack by her enraged husband. At the appeal of the frightened woman, Deputy Lindsay went to the unaawieK nouse ana toia unaawiek to consider himself under arrest. Chadwiek, it is alleged, drew a .38 calibre revolver and without speaking a word fired a shot into the deputy's brain. Lindsay fell to the floor of the porch and Chadwiek ran into the dark mist. He had not beer captured at last reports. York County Homes. The United States Census Department at Washington has just issued a bulletin dealing with the ownership of York county homes. The important facts contained in the bulletir relating to th;s county are as follows: There are 9,365 homes in York county. Of this number 5,221 are farm homes. Eight hundred and eighty-one of the farm homes are owned by their occu pants and are free of mortgagee incumbrance. The mortgagee farm homes number 382. Renters occupy 3,942 farm homes ir this county. Out of a total oi 9,365 homes in the county 4,14^ are urban homes. There are 964 urban home owners in the county. Of this number 200 are mortgaged. Seven hundred.anc thirty-five of the urban ownec homes are free of incumberance The census enumerators were unable to secure data pertaininf to the ownership of a small per centage of both the rural anc urban homes in this county. N Finley Would Help Faraers. Congressman D. E. Finley i few days ago introduced in the house a bill providing few the issue of emergency currency te aid in and facilitate the marketing of the cotton crop of the year 1914, and for other pur poses. The bill, which was re ferred to the committee oi banking and currency and or dered printed, provides for the iocninnr nf Ko if rv,;n;~~ ? wuun<5 VTA IIOI1 IIIIIIIVII UUIIA1 worth of treasury notes to be dis tributed among banks through out the South, upon request said bank or banks to give thei] note to the government to retin said notes when same have ful filled their purpose, the bank: to loan the money to producer of cotton, or owners of land 01 which cotton is produced, charg ing not over 4 per cent, interest and taking warehouse receipt o: cotton for security. YORK'S SECOND TAIR COMES NEXT WEEK News from Rock Hill is to the effect that everything is in readiness for the fair next week. The fair will continue for three days this year, October 14, 15 and 16 being the dates. The indications are that there will be a splendid array of exhibits, practically every product of the soil being represented. The premium list is quite a large one for the first fair, aggregating more than $1,500. Then there will be several hundred dollars in purses offered in the races. The management has secured for amusements ten high-class shows, including a dog and pony show, motpr dome races, ferris wheel, merry-go-round, etc. For free attractions there will be two aeroplane flights each day, the aviators illustrating methods employed by aerial craft in the TT< I i u:u c.urupeaii war, anu uvu 111^11 dive acts daily. Of the shows there will be nothing indecent allowed and parents need have no fear of their children visiting any of the attractions. No gambling devices of any nature will be allowed. For Thursday night a grand display of fireworks has been secured, the display to continue for more than an hour. Among the scenes portrayed by sheets of flame will be a naval battle and Niagara Falls. Friday of the fair will be Educational Day, when the schools of the county will take part in the grand educational pageant. Supt. Carroll has entered heartily into the move and all the schools in the county will be given a holiday in order that ' all may attend the fair. All children taking part in the ! parade will be admitted to the ! grounds free of cost. All schools 1 are urged to have on display exhibits of articles made by the pupils in connection with their work. i In view of the large amount t of interest taken by the colored people the management has decided to keep the fair open through Saturday, Saturday bei iner known as colored neonle's i day. All attractions seen on other days can be seen on Satur; day. It is hoped to arrange for i a number of races between negroes of the county, and this i will prove quite interesting. The aeroplane will fly on Saturday I also. While the colored people 1 will be admitted on other days - of the fair special inducements i are being made to have all colf orod people in the county be I present on Saturday. Estimates Crop at 15,300,000. A forecast of 15,300,000 fivehundred-pound bales of cotton as the 1914 crop was made Friday ^ by the Department of Agri" culture's crop reporting board r in the season's final reporting, ' which showed a condition on , September &3 of 73.5 per cent, of normal. That quantity of cotton makes this year's crop second in point of size ever * grown in the United States. " The record is 16,693,000 bales ~ grown in 1911. Last year 14,156,000 bales were grown and in lyiz there were 13,703,000 bales. s S. E. Boney Makes Good. Mr. S. Boney, at one time associated with The Times and who ~ is well known throughout South ^ Carolina, is making a great sucs cess for himself on the afternoon | edition of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. He is covering the ' war desk, an important assignment Mr. Boney's friends in this city are pleased to hear of ~ his good fortune.?Union Times. Mr. Boney was at one time ^ teacher of Gold Hill school in this township and is well known hereabouts. f Cotton was quoted on the Fort Mill market yesterday at 71-2c. Famishing the New Court House. \ A meeting of more or less concern to the taxpayers of the county was held in Yorkville Friday at which the matter of c providing the furnishings for the c new court house was considered t by the court house commission. the members-nominate of the General Assembly and the in- * coming board of county commissioners. The architect of the c new court house, W. A. Edwards, of Atlanta, appeared before the meeting and submitted an oral estimate of the cost of ;N, the furnishings, placing the. fig-! ures at $15,000. The estimate was objected to by Mr. Brad- J. ford of the legislative delegation as tod indefinite. The obiection . was seconded by Senator Beamguard and Mr. Cherry, also of c the legislative delegation. Prac- 1 tically nothing was done at the meeting moi*e than to call for a ^ detailed estimate of the cost of 1 the furnishings, which is to be n submitted at a second meeting .J to be held about November 1. . ^ c American Horses in Demand. c Horses, as well as men. are j required to fight a battle. This is evidenced by the fact that England alone has placed an * order with American livestock * dealers for 30,000 head of horses. * The order has been placed with 3 Atlanta, Kansas City, Cincinnati and other dealers, and according * to the brokers, the order means ? approximately $1,500,000 to j Southern farmers, $150,000 of which may be gathered in by t Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee v stock raisers if they will place ^ their surplus stock on the mar- x ket at a reasonable price. < Inquiries at the stock yards, , however, brings out the infor- \ mation that, although buyers c have scoured the entire State of . Georgia for horses, only one | carload of twenty-three head ( was shipped to Cincinnati, and ( out of the twenty-th^*ee only c eighteen passed inspection. They ] were immediately shipped to ( Toronto, Canada, and from that j point transported to England. s naiasassasasBSgsHfigsasasasasi it is r [a If your feet hurt and you ha\ K tell us about it, don't put the III t\ a in / \m tt\ JrAirc ur uuk Ne\ for Men. They're built on ft this "breaking-in" misery, w set the pace for fashion?sho measure of comfort there is i New shipment of the newe Irvi For women. Just like the C; and service and show the vei dow. Prices. $2, $2.50, $o, $ Weyc You'll find every pair of th fer with "cold feet" caused 1 Watt IfUl inii For this winter. We have th Ijul wear-proof, also the water-pi 1ISI IE. W. 1 V rORK COUNTY SCHOOLS SHOW SOME IMPROVM'NT The following: information conerning the schools of York ounty has been made public by he report of Superintendent . E. Carroll in his report to the >tate superintendent of educaion: The total enrollment of white hildren in the schools last year vas 5,470; the enrollment of legro children was 7,043. In he town schools there were last rear 2,413 boys and girls: in the ountry schools there were 3,063, Yhile there were only 1,605 iegro children in the town ichools, 5,438 attended the ountry institutions. The nurn>er of white boys in the schools >f the county was 2,833 and the lumber of white girls was 2,643. The average attendance in the vhite town schools during the >ast year was 1,785; in the :ountry schools it was 1,181. rhe average for the county was 1,666. The average attendance >f negroes for the county was 1,135. This is an improvement >ver the report of the previous rear. There is no deficit outstanding. The sum of $9,204.06 was on land on June 30, 1914. The otal revenue of the fifty-four school districts during the last rear was $109,166.35; the total expenditures was $99,962.29. The State board of education ippropriated $5,560 for high school aid in York county last rear. Receipts from the poll tax of he county, which is used for school purposes, amounted to >7,528.81 last year; the three nill constitutional tax raised >21,309.89; and the dog tax imounted to $2,114.27. Special evies raised $29,103, and the re:eipts from the dispensary fund imounted to $1,371.14. There were 151 white teachers imployed in the schools of the :ounty last fall. They received salaries amounting to $55,504.33. Minety-one negro teachers were imployed in the county, and hey received an aggregate salary of $7,710. iss sasa sasa sh 5Hsa sasHsasi tot Our ren't told us about ifc If your fe blame on this store. JUST CO v Cygoff Sh >ot-moulded forms to fit the hu liieh makes you actually dread i wing- the latest English models n CygolT Shoes. Prices, $3.50 t< st and daintiest ng Drew Sh ygolT, the famous Irving Drew S *y latest in Ladies' Footwear. 'J 3.25 and $3.50. V ** r i in berg Work ? ese as near wear-proof as shoes * from leaky shoes, you'll need a p irproof Weyenl icse in all styles, the lightweight 'oof. Ask to see them. Prices, Kimbrt fhere Quality Reign * \ NOTHING DECISIVE YET FROM EASTERN WAR Yesterday's press dispatches said that the sixty-third day of the great European war saw a repetition of what the people of all the countries concerned have forced themselves to expect, perhaps for months to come-no decisive conflict on land or sea. From Berlin to London came nothing in the way of German , claims to progress or reverses. From Petrograd came what has flowed without interruption for weeks ? consistent, claims of progress for Russian arms. From Paris, at the usual midafternoon hour was issued the usual communication, so-called, interpreting the situation along the battle line of the Western theater of war in the light of those in opposition to the German invasion. Above all stands out the presence of what was described as large masses of German cavalry near L'lle, hardly 10 minutes from the Belgian frontier, as the crow flies, and behind them German forces moving on a line between Toureoing and Armentieres, the latter point right at the Belgian border. At the same time the official communication makes it plain that the Allies have not been idle and have been extending their line on the left wing more and more widely. Blow for blow evidently is being dealt around Arras, the scene of sanguinary fighting recently. The Tax Budget. Auditor Love has completed his abstract of the taxable property of York county for the year commencing .January 1, 1914, and is ready to take the receipt of Treasurer Neil therefor. The auditor's book calls for taxes to the amount of $227,535.28, as against $22(1,377.93 last year, an increase of $1,157.31. The assessed valuation of all the taxable property in the county last year was $9.200.12(5. and this year it is $9,436,738, a decrease of $63,382. Yorkville Enquirer. Fault | iet pain you and you don't |Q ME IN AND TRY ON A B oes i man foot exactly none of iu new shoes. They not only ju WUl Ull, Wllttl <1 111*11. |? 111 pj $4.50. jjj oes I hoes are built for comfort fake a peep at our show win- jjj >hoes a ret to be. If you ever suf- jjl air of jn bergs ja as well as the heavy, the IK $2.75 to $4.00. |g n ;11 Co., I lS#" ?