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c 'i V . * $ v ~ The Fort Mill Times. Established in 1891. ' FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1914. $1.25 Per Year ii ' ' 1 - ?* ? STITE NEWS ARRANGED ^ FOR QUICK READING. South Carolina's death rate i from consumption is 13.5 per cent., as against a rate for the entire country of 10 per cent. Lewis W. Parker, of Green-1 ville, several days ago resigned the presidency of the Parker j Mills merger, formed about four j years ago. Luther Aldred, of Pickens county, the last week won first j prize at the Georgia State lair for the greatest yield of corn 1 per acre. Aidred produced 22? bushels. The treasury department at! Washington has granted the application of the Peoples bank of Chester to be. converted into the Peoples National Bank of Chester. dames A. Hunter of Bamberg. | has announced that he will become a candidate for superintendent of the State penitentiary. The position is to be filled in January by the general assembly. C. N. Sapp. former member of the House from Lancaster, has been appointed by the gov- ! ernor as a member of the South Carolina historical commission to take the place of Jos. A. McCullough of Greenville. Congressman D. E. Finley has accepted an invitation to deliver an address at the annual memorial service to be held in the Columbia theatre on Sunday, December G, by Columbia Lodge No. 1190, B. P. O. Elks. The United States department of agriculture has authorized the experiment station at Clemson ^College to prepare the cotton exliibit for the Panama-Pacific exposition to be held next year. This was announced in a letter sent out by J. N. Harper, of Clemson college. Contending that an increase in the number of spectators at a legal execution of a criminal in South Carolina is an added pun-! ^4. _ 14. * i i*-i I iMiuiem, uLiorneys ior jot* mui- i loy, convicted of murder in Marlboro county, have filed with the supreme court a brief calling upon the court to hold the State electrocution law unconstitutional as to Mai loy. A. B. Rabb, of Monticello, Fairfield county, committed suicide Thursday by shooting himself in the temple, from which death resulted in about two hours. He had been suffering i for some time with a severe' nervous trouble, which had lately affected his mind, and his; family had been fearing that he \ would try to do himself some1 harm. The governor has. granted a pardon to Fred Robinson, convicted in Spartanburg in May, 191 1, of simple assault and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or 30 days on the chaingang. A parole has been granted to Sam Abie, convicted in Richland in May, 1914, of larceny and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Famous War Hero Dead. Lord Roberts, hero of the South African war and retired held marshal of the British forces, died in France at 8o'clock Saturday evening- It was stated that Iiord Roberts had contracted chills while visiting the British troops in France. Ix)rd Roberts, of Kandahar, <4# Fretoria and Waterfowl, was 82 years old. His title was derived from his services in Afghanistan, especially at Kandahar and from the long connection of his family with Waterford. He was born at Cawpore, India. September HO, 1822. the son of General Sir Abraham Roberts. J. H "Young Man, Raise Hogs." I "Raise hogs and grow rich." This is the advice being handed out by packers. They know: it is their business. They are cer- j tain that big profits are to be . made in raising hogs during the , next few years. Hog prices are now dragging the depths, lower , than they have been in nearly ' two years. Never mind, they were abnormally high last year, * owing to cholera, which was j taking a toll of close to a hun- j1 dred million dollars in pork, toj1 say nothing of the loss to the future of the industry. The war- ' ring powers have only begun to buy in this country. They will j buy heavily from now or *ill the ' war closes?and at the close will 1 come the tremendous jump that the world's readjustment will bring. Recall how one of the packers laid the foundation for his great business and made more than a million dollars on barreled pork at the close of the Civil War? Look up wheat < prices and see the figure of i over $2.00 per bushel that was reaohod :>t t}n> r?ln?r> r?f flu* 11IB1- ! when the nation began building and quit burning. Raise hogs, young men; raise hogs and become independent! Use brains and business methods first, but raise hogs! Give the boy a hog. or, if he has one, give him another!?Ex. Southern Adds Automatic Signals. The Southern Railway has nearly completed the installation of a modern automatic block signal system between Amherst and Whittles. Va., 57.5 miles, and between Atlanta and New Holland, Ga., 58.46 miles, thus providing for two important double-track stretches of the Washington-Atlanta line, the same high-class protective fa cinty which is now in use on this I line between Washington and Orange, Va., 84.9. between Danville, Va.. and Pelham, 9.3 miles, and between Denim and Charlotte, 95.3 miles, a total of 189.5 miles which, when work now under way is completed, will give 300.46 miles so protected of the 049 miles between ' Atlanta and Washington. These signals will be so con-1 trolled that they will indicate to the engineer the presence of a train ahead, a broken rail, open switch, or any other obstruction to traffic. He will know continuously the condition of the track for approximately four miles in advance of his train. Army Sandwich 42 Years Old. In October, 1872, says the Waxhaw correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, the quartermaster of Company A, United States Artillery, stationed at that time at Charlotte, issuec} traveling rations to the men. Corporal John Parker, who lived then right near this place, received his portion which inincluded a sandwich consisting of a slice of army bacon between two thick slices of the army bread. He went to the barracks to prepare to leave on an order to go West and fight Indians. Alter eating breakfast there with his wife he told her goodbye and took from his knapsack the sandwich saying that he would not need it that morning and asking her to keep it for him until he returned. Mrs. Parker took the sandwich and vowed that she would have it for him when he came home. But he was one of those who did not come back. He was killed a few months later by Indians in California. Mis widow carefully kept the sandwich until her death in 1907, when it fell into the hands of her daughter, Mrs. VV. H. Gilmore of this township, who has it now. Hard and dry as a stone and yellowed by its 42 years of age, the bread still retains its freshly-cut appearance and is remarkably well preserved, -i if COTTON LOAN FUND IS RAISED IN FULL The country-wide effort to furnish aid to cotton producers und find a bottom for the cotton market came to a successful conclusion Tuesday night when j Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo announced the completion of the $135,000,000 cotton loan fund. In making his announcement Mr. McAdoo declared the success of the plan was assured. mi r* ? i ' ine secretary s statement came at the end of a day devoted to efforts to obtain subscriptions necessary to complete the $100,000,000 portion of the fund assigned to banks in non-cotton producing States. Mr. McAdoo. Paul M. Warburg and W. P. G. Harding, members of the Federal Reserve Board in active charge of the pool plan, took active steps to gather in the remaining millions. In announcing the completion of the plan Mr. McAdoo said in part: "I am gratified to be able to announce the success of the cotton loan fund. Subscriptions for the entire $100,000,000 of class a a n - 1 *\ ceruncaies were completed Tuesday afternoon. This assures the success of the plan. To such extent as banks in the Southern States subscribe to class B certificates the $100,000,000 realized from the class A certificates will be available for loans on cotton at six cents a pound. Full details of the plan have been published and it is not necessary to repeat them here." Sell a Bale; Pay a Debt. Wisdom for the benefit of many Southern interests is condensed in the following statement by the Charlotte Observer: "It is about time the 'slogan' was being reversed. Any man who bought a bale at 10 cents, and against which bale there may be a debt, ought to sell it on the market, whatever may be the price prevailing, and pay the debt. The farmer who owes money to the merchant should sell a bale and apply the proceeds to the debt. We believe the situation could be materially relieved by the 4sell-a-bale-andpay-debts' campaign, and that the time is at hand for it. The stagnation in the cotton section j of the State is directly due to thp fnpf tliof io fUn Knoio I v??v/ AM\/V viiUb WbU/ll IO tliC uaoio of the fall business. Upon the distribution of money through its sale depends the prosperity of the people, and when cotton is not sold and the currency is not put out in payment, or partial payment, of local obligations, it blocks the circulation of money throughout the entire community. The money released from the sale of cotton passes through all the trade channels until it finally goes' back to the farmer. The only trouble in the cotton communi? 4?1 4t__4 .1 utrs tuuay is mai mere is no. cotton money moving." Effects Many Changes. Many changes in the organi- j zation of the national House of; Representatives will be made when Champ Clark and "Uncle Joe" Cannon once more face each other across the center aisle at the beginning of the next congress. The dwindling ; of the Democratic majority. I which will drop after the close of the regular session from 140 to 23, will necessitate a general shifting of the working order of the House. With their slender majority, the Democrats while able to reelect speaker Clark and retain control of the committees^ will be forced to maintain an almost perfect organization. Even with a full attendance in the House, a shift of twelve votes would throw the control to the minority side. Business- Conditions Improve. That general business conditions, both foreign and domestic, are slowly but steadily improving is evidenced by reports that are appearing in all sections of the country. Confidence is returning, money is again beginning to circulate in considerable quantities, people are paying their debts and merchants their accounts and with it nil ?... tm* price oi cotton is advancing. The latest news from the front, according to posted individuals, would indicate that the situation in the belligerent countries is gradually clarifying in so far as the final outcome is concerned, and with it all, people are beginning to look ahead. Mr. Edward Albes has con-: tributed a most interesting fullpage article to the last issue of the bulletin of the Pan-American union, -in which he discusses "The Southern States and Latin American Trade." Appearing in this article is a fine picture of a cotton marketing scene in Rock Hill. Other illustrations are of a sea island cotton field, cotton bolls unmatured and open, wilt-resistant Texas cotton, a battery of plows attacking a Mississippi cotton field, a Georgia cotton mill in the midst of a cotton C-l J ^ ueiu, /\ngus Campbell's cotton picker in operation, and the cotton docks at Mobile and Galveston. Election Was Expensive. Votes in the general election held November 3rd. in South Carolina cost more than .$1 each. Reports filed with the State board of canvassers by the commissioners show that the total vote was approximately 35,500. The legislature appropriated $3,000 for the expense of the general election. An additional appropriation of from $5,000 to $7,000 will have to be made to meet Uie printing bills. Incomplete returns filed with the State board of canvassers inrlinnfn thnt oil nf tUn 1 1 vv iiiuv uai vi tUC X X lullstitutional amendments were carried in the general election. Tabulation of the vote will be completed this week. ? The State. [asassasasasBsasBsasasasB; | ? - Are !Are you ready for Thanksgiving Values to < Gj Wearing Apparel at extr p] Several pieces of the " jfl and purple. Beautiful v Cj Pretty White Shirt Wa |fl Splindid Wool Ssrge D Qj prices only $6.50 to $7.5 Gj than you can make therr I KURZON-One of the K) black and white. Also I; I Beautiful patterns Fle< Plaid and Persian Silk price $1.50, now $1.00 tl New shipment white, 1 jfl To see our preetty lin< g have better values and p n! and we are now offering ^You are always welcor E. W. "V THE CHRISTMAS SKIP FOR EUROPEAN POOR With more than 1.200 tons of Christmas gifts from the people of America, a Santa Clans ship, the naval collier Jason, sailed Saturday from New York for Europe. A message of Godspeed from President Wilson was received by the commander of the boaf shortly before sailing time. The docks as the ship cast loose her lines were thronged with thousands of school children. The fifts: tJint tVir? Q<nUo Clo..c 0 . - %..v?v v < a v. k'tinui UIUUO ship carried were gathered from every State in the Union. They included almost everything from toys and dolls to clothing and food. So heavy was the rain of Christmas presents for the children of Europe that a force of 90 soldiers and 60 sailors from the navy yard was required to receive and classify the gifts as they arrived and repack them so that an equal distribution might be made in the several countries for which they were intended. A summary of the cargo made shortly before the sailing showed the following items: Fourteen carloads of children's clothing, five carloads women's clothing, one carload of men's clothing, five carloads of toys and 57 carloads of miscellaneous nrPQPnfc f A/'vrl ctnfTo K/vrvfo " ^ K. VUV1IVU, 1UWUOIUIIC, IIV/HIA, etc., a total of 82 carloads. War to End in 1917. The London Daily Mail giver prominence to a statement by a distinguished French officer whose name it can not divulge, but who it declares is in position to make such an estimate, that the Germans will not be driven back over the Rhine until February 191G, and that peace will not be concluded before 1917. Big Lot Dyestuffs Received. More than $1,000,000 worth of dyestuffs from Gernjany were brought into the port of New York Saturday by the American steamer Matanzas. The cargo Viorl Konn t1' nn L?* *-? -AJ j >iuu uvtn i/ancii i.??? Idll LU rVOlllT" dam, Holland, where it was received by the Matanzas. 5H5a 5BSE gj 5H5H SESHSHg You Re Thanksgiving? We have hi sffer you. Big new shipment emely iow prices. Different" Ratine. Somethir ? ? aiues, only bUc the yard, lists, daintily made up, regula resses in Copenhagen, navy 0. These are special values 1. t best $1.00 Kid Gloves made arge assortment Gloves in wo ece lined Kimono Cloth, 15c c Shirt Waist patterns, only rie yard. )lack and Persian Rushing, on DON'T FAIL 5 of Long Coats, Coat Suits ai retties garments in this depar everything in this departmen 4 ^ ?t ai uui siuic. v-ome 10 see Kimbrc Vhere Quality Reign saSH ^R5HAS2S9BI USES - - ? - ~ *f*-*' - * Federal Reserve Banks Open. After months of preparation by the Federal Reserve hoard and by the country's bankers, the 12 reserve banks opened for business Monday, marking the first great change in the bnkning system of this country in the last 50 years. The 12 banks, designed to take care of the commercial needs of the entire nation are located in n ? x? * " Dusion, inew York, Philadelphia, I Richmond, Atlanta. Cleveland. Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Ix>uis, Dallas and San Francisco. For the present their duties are limited largely to rediscounting of notes, drafts and bills of ! exghange, but as experience is gained, steps to have them air their other functions under the currency act will be taken. Col. Springs Optimistic. The following item appeared in the last issue of the Chester Semi-Weekly News: "Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaster is in the city today. He is optimistic and soon looks for a change for the better in the present day gloomy commercial conditions. He is uncertain as to the tinm tVinl ko ?kl.. - - ? .w v?>uv iiv iv 111 uu auir to start work again at the Springstein mill, but the Eureka mill, which is running night and day, is caring for the former mill's employes. " 'The fact is.' he said, 'we need more help in the spinning department at the Eureka and can give employment to quite a number of additional people.' He stated that he had orders considerably ahead on the white goods at the Eureka mill." A Hint to Delinquents. The fellow who thinks that the newspaper is able to carry subscription accounts until after the war closes has certainly gotten the thing sized up wrong. Printers and paper houses expect their pay when it is due, and the newspaper man certainly cannot pay his debts unless his subscribers pay theirs. Moral: Make an effort to pay your subscription today, if it is due. Ex. ssasasaresasasagasHSHsasaBi I Sill ady - ? I jndreds of New Special |uj| of the Newest Ladies' JJjjj ig new. In white, cream {fijl r $1.25 value, only $1.00. 1ml and black, sizes 16 to 40. lull and are much cheaper |jjj| New shipment in tan, |Cj| oi and cotton. tjjjl luality, special at 12 l-2c [S| few pieces left, regular |{jj ily 25c the yard. jG|| * in) nd Children's Coats. We In iment than ever before, ?J it at "Hard-time" prices. 9 us. N 11 P 1 ill V_,0., 8