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9 ? . ~ . " ? ? . ? a The Fort Mill Times. 1 ii i i. i . ___________________________________ - ^ Established in 1891. FORT MILL. S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1914. si 2* P*r I r ~ J ':11 m . , ' ??? ' 4THANKS8IVIN8 LIBERTY BIVEH 101 PRISORERS (The State, Thursday.) Executive clemency .was exercised yesterday in 101 cases by the governor of South Carolina, who made use of the same power last Thanksgiving season in 105 cases, and who has to date used it in 1,430 cases. Pardons, paroles and commutations were issued yesterday. A few are to restore citizenship, but most of them will work the release of men serving sentence in the penitentiary, on the State farms and on county chaingangs. Fewer than 70 convicts will be left in the penitentiary itself. Last 1_ il 1 ' ' wetK uie numoer in ine prison and 011 the farms was less than 200. Sixteen of the men to be released today under the orders issued yesterday are serving life terms for murder, 31 are serving terms of two to 30 years each for manslaughter and 54 are held to hard labor for offenses less serious. Fifty-three are white, 46 are negroes, one is an Indian. The race of one is not set forth in the official list. Among the more notable cases are the following: W. T. Jones, white, who was convicted at Union in February, 1909", of the murder of his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary, received a parole. George Nichols, white, who was convicted in Lexington county in November, 1910, of the murder of Paul Williams, a young Columbian, and sen-1 tenced to life imprisonment in I the State penitentiary, received a parole on the condition that he depart the State. John E. Hough, white, who was convicted in Kershaw county *in March, 1933, of the murder of his father-in-law and sentenced to be electrocuted, his sentence later being commuted to life imprisonment, had his sentence reduced to five years in the State penitentiary. J. Allen' Emerson, who was convicted at the February, 1907, term of court in Anderson county of the murder of Thomas Drake and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary and who was paroled August, 1913, on the condition that he i leave the State was granted a full pardon. R. A. Richey, white, who was! convicted at the spring term of! covrt for 1910 in Abbeville j county of statutory criminal assault and sentenced to ten years in the State penitentiary and paroled in December, 1912, on j cert ain conditions, is paroled now durihg good behavior, with these conditions removed. Henry Patrick, white, convicted of murder, at the November, 1903, term of court for Marlboro county and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary and paroled in December. 1913, was given a full pardon. Krnest F. Grimsley, white, convicted at the June, 1911, f /vf " ? T* ' 3 A ici iii i'x tuuri, lor xucniana county Of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary, was paroled. Grimsley killed a woman and a man in a Columbia restaurant. Harry Dean, white, convicted at the September, 1904, term of court for Spartanburg of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary, is paroled upon the condition that he leave the State. The monotony of granting executive clemency to men was varied by Governor Blease Sat^urday, when he issued a parole to Mrs. Isham Padgett, of Walterboro a white woman who had bee n convicted on the charge of violating the dispensary law. The governor explained that this was one of the two paroles he remembered having granted white women. * v . Tax on Toilet Goods. Vnder the provisions of the war revenue act, on and after December 1 every merchant, drug store or other dealer who handles any essence, extract, toilet water, cosmetics, vaseline, petrolatum, hair oil. pomade, hair dressing, hair restorative, hair dye, tooth wash, dentifrice, j tooth paste, aromatic cachous, . or any similar substance or ar-1 tide, by whatsoever name the same heretofore have been, now are, or may hereafter be called, or known, used or applied as perfumes or as cosmetics, and sold or removed for consumption and sale, shall have affixed to each such package, box, bottle, pot, phial or other inclosure a nrnnriofomr ofo?v?r? 4.U.. fji vpi ivmii j OLaiup, wucrc IUC retail value or price does not exceed five cents, 1-8 of 1 cent; where the retail price or value exceeds 5 cents but does not exceed 10 cents, 2-8 of 1 cent; where the retail price or value exceeds 10 cents but does not exceed 15 cents, 3-8 of 1 cent; where the retail price or value exceeds 15 cents but does not exceed 25 cents, 5-8 of 1 cent; and for each additional 25 cents of retail price or value or fractional part thereof in excess of 25 cents. 5-8 of 1 cent. For instance, if an article sells for 30? cents there should be affixed twp 5-8 of 1 cent stamps. The same law imposes a tax of 4 cents upon each box, carton, jar or other Dackaire rnnt-ninincr chewing gum, of not more than $1 of actual retail value; and if exceeding $1 of retail value, for each additional dollar or fractional part thereof, 4 cents additional. Would Bind the Ginners. To further the movement to obtain a reduction in cotton acreage next year, owners of the 27,000 cotton gins in the Southern States will be asked to pledge themselves not to gin in 1915 more than half the amount of cotton handled this year. Details of the plan will be submitted to the annual convention of the Ginners' association to be held in Memphis, Tenn., January 1 and 2. As proposed the pledge would require the payment of $10 to a charitable organization for every bale ginned in excess of the stipulated amount. To partially offset the loss in revenue, a slight increase in ginning charges is proposed. Delegates from practically every county in the cotton-growing states are expected to attend the convention. Invitations have also ; been sent to the editors of more than 1,000 Southern newspapers. Parcel Post Service to Germany. T>rv??. V I [ x uaimaster oenerai rsuneson has notified postmasters throughlout the country to accept for mailing to Germany and AustriaHungary all packages which conform to the prescribed conditions J of the international parcel post service. This service between the United States and the countries named had been suspended because of the lack of transportation facilities" due to the war. Resumption of the service will make it possible to send Christmas remembrances to European countries which wonld otherwise have been im- > possible. Parcel post packages are now mailable to all countries with which the United States has parcel post convections, except ( Belgium, Turkey and the North , and Northeastern France, where ' military operations prevent resumption of the service. The two-year-old daughter of i Mr. and Mrs. John Garrison, of , Rock Hill, died Saturday night, as a result of burns received Fri- j day afternoon. The child was standing in front of an open , grate and while the mother was ' getting a bucket of water from 1 the well its clothing caught on < fire. ? GENERAL SESSIONS TERM WAS OF SHORT DURATION (Yorkville Enquirer, Frklay.) Court of general sessions adjourned Wednesday afternoon, having disposed of all cases, and Judge Efird and Solicitor Henry returned to their respective; homes immediately after adjournment. The three weeks' j common pleas court will begin Monday morning. When The Enquirer went to press at noon, Tuesday, the court j was engaged in the trial of Peter Karras, a Greek restauranter of Rock Hill, charged with manslaughter. Karras was the driver of the automobile which ran down and killed fourteenyear-old Charlie Long: in Rock Hill several weeks ago. The jury decided that the killing was purely accidental, and a verdict of "not guilty" was returned. Henry White, found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, paid a fine of $25. The jury in the case of Ike Hall, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, returned a verdict of guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and Ike was sentenced to serve four months on the public works or pay $100 to the county. Solicitor Henry nol prossed the case against A1 Williams, the charge being assault and battery with intent to kill, upon payment of $25. George Rose borough was found nrnilftr nf oooonH gunvj ?i oooaun til ill uaill'I ,V Ul high and aggravated nature. The sentence of the court was that George should serve three months or pay a fine af $05. Steve Davis, tried for the murder of Jim Berry, both parties being negroes, was found guilty of manslaughter and recommended to mercy. He was sentenced to serve two years on the public works or in the penitentiary. Davis is the negro who voluntarily surrendered to Sheriff Brown a short time ago. C. M. Turney plead guilty to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. He was sentenced to serve three months on the public works or pay a fine of $65. The fine was paid. Beattie Wright was declared | not guilty of assault and battery with intent to kill. The case against B. R. Small, charged with violation of the dispensary law, was nol prossed, and the case against Roof Rolins. the charge being larceny, of live stock, was also nol prossed. There being: no witnesses against Andy Hood, charged with assault and battery with intent to kiM, the case was stricken from the records. James Miller, whose alleged offense was the same as the foregoing, paid a fine of $25 to the court, and the solicitor dropped the matter. Enoch Byers, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, and carrying concealed weapons, paid $15, and his case was nol prossed. The case of Dan Davis, charged with violation of the dispensary law, was nol prossed on payment of $50. All other indictments upon which the grand jury found "true bills," were continued until the spring term of court. New Pardon Record. The pardon record, for one day, previously held by the governor of South Carolina, has been excelled by Gov. Colquitt of Texas. A dispatch from Austin the day before Thanksgiving announced that the chief executive of the Lone Star State had liberated 158 prisoners. The South Carolina governer's best ic IftK ?oooo ? -i? . v. .u iuu vuocn in v/uc uay. Since assuming office the governor of this State has extended , clemency in 1,4321 cases. The State. \ Conference Appointmeuts. J The final Methodist Conference for South Carolina, the State having been divided into two conferences, closed at Sumter i Monday afternoon with the read- ? ing of the appointments by e Iiishop Denny. The ministers % and delegates began leaving on the afternoon trains for their respective homes. t The appointments for the Rock d Hill district follow: 0 Presiding Elder R. L. Hoi- b royd. 1 Blacksburg?H. C. Mouzon. Blackstock W. M. Harden. Chester Circuit? \V. T. Dun- f can. t Chester Station?J. C. Roper, c Clover-F. VV. Dibble. * East Chester?J. V. Davis. v East Lancaster?W. C. Kelley. I Fort Mill?K. Z. James. s Hickory Grove?H. B. Hardy. Lancaster Circuit?VV. C. Burgess. ? Lancaster Station?E. T. Hod- c ges. t North Rock Hill ?D. H. Atta- * way. ? Richburg?W. S. Goodwin. 1 St. Johns-P. B. Wells. < West Main street?W. H. Polk. N Rock Hill Circuit?J. I. Spinks. Van Wyck ?J. H. Montgomery. Winnsboro J. B. Tray wick. Yorkville?Henry Stokes. Methodist Conference Divided. *ni ? ' mere are now two Methodist j Conferences in South Carolina? J the South Carolina and Upper South Carolina. This question was settled Saturday afternoon ^ in the annual conference at Sum- t ter. after a vigorous fight, which j has gone on for a year. The 1915 session of the Metho- j dist Conference will be held in Trinity chnrch, Charleston, , while the Upper South Carolina j Conference will meet next year in Bethel Church, Spartanburg. Rev. W. C. Kirkland was f named as editor of the Southern j Christian Advocate by the board ( of managers of that publication. ( The Rev. S. P. Hair and family * left Tuesday morning for Black- 1 villo where they will spend two 1 weeks with relatives of the 1 former. c { fa5E55a5H5H5a5aSE5a5HSB5a5i S A Mil lj| g CAUSED BY THE COTT [jj low price of cotton has cr< We are, therefore, forced uj than manufacturers' cost. JjT Special SACRIFICE RE |u Loner Coats. Skirts, and M Ladies Coat S Our $25.00 Suits, sacrifice p 44 22.50 44 44 18.00 44 44 15. (X) 44 Long Coat Our $25.00 ('oats, sacrifice p 44 20.00 44 44 18.00 44 44 15.00 44 44 12.50 44 10.00 44 7.40 Misses IiOng C'oa 44 5.00 Ski nj Our beautiful stock of I KJ We have these in all sizes jm Don't fail to visit our CI 'jjj will go fast at these specia E. W. ILhmmZ \ HATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. With the ?Jose of the last week 2 cotton warehouses within this >tate, operated by private inter'sts. had been added to the State varehouse system. In the case at Sumter of Duton against the A. C. L. Railway lamages to the amount of $12. 00 was awarded. Dutton was :illecl while coupling cars about 8 months ago. One of the most disastrous ires that have visited Orange>urg county in several months ccurred at Cope Thursday night >etween twelve and one o'clock, ] vhen fire started in the store of ] E. Ritter. and swept away , several other business buildings. ] Attorney General Peeples has ? riven an opinion that magistrates :annot serve as registrars under ] he vital statistics act. He says ] hat a magistrate in accepting ;uch a position would be violat- i ng the constitution and under lecisions of the supreme court vould vacate his ofhce. The North Carolina conference >f the Wesleyan Methodists will ie held this week at Rock Hill, beginning on Wednesday mornng and continuing through Sunlay. About 100 ministers and 4- * - i cxy ucicf;ait-s are lJX[HTK'll lO flt- 1 ;end the sessions. The governor Saturday saved W. Langford from the elec:ric chair, when he commuted Langford's sentence to 15 years n the State penitentiary. Langford was convicted in Hampton iounty in October of murder and vas sentenced to be electrocuted December 14. In its presentment last week :o the Newberry court, the grand ury of Newberry county made complaint of the "deplorable" ondition in which it found the jooks of the county auditor, and eported the magistrate at VVhitnire for dereliction of duty in ceeping records of matters which ( :ome before him. ?55 5555 5555 55 5555 555555551 jhty Sa< ON PANIC. The critical mc sated a condition which we hi to sacrifice a great deal of oi DUCTIONS on our entire sto isses' and Children's Coats. >uits. Child ice $14.98 (10 A..- iT?rr r/\ n i<?. ?.? vur <n.oui/oais i " 11.45 " 6.00 9.98 ' 5.00 44 8.75 44 rice. $12.52 Child: 4 11.42 (5 < 10.48 Our $4.50 Coats, 4 0.1)8 44 3.25 44 7.55 Many at 98 cen ts. only 3.48 You should s 2.IK) of anything in I rts! Skirts! Skir .adies' Skirts all now going a and colors, beautifully made othing Department today. 1 SACRIFICE PRICES. Kimbre rhere Quality Reigns GRADED SCHOOL HONOR ROLL. Ity .1 P. Coat ? Supt Following is tho honor roll of he Fort Mill public school for ;he month of November: First Grade John McLaughin. Elliot Bennett.Charlie Steele, damie Robinson. Ada Armstrong V/alie Harkey, Inez Wolfe. Ida .ouise Carothers. 11 at tie Eam)eth, Cora Massey. John Jones, J. W. Bradford. Willie Bradford. Florence Misenheimer. B. f). Ferguson. Alma McElhaney. Second Grade Edith Parks, ' > iMur mi-ijuugiiiin, raigene McKibben. Willie Morton, Floride Minis. Nannie Lee Phillips, John McKee Spratt, Carl Thompson, Julia. Mae Parish, Eflie Ritch, Marion Jones. Third Grade?Elizabeth ArJrey, Katherine Massey. Mary Kimbrell. Mary Moore, Bertha Moore, Mattie Morton. Margaret McElhaney, Martha Thompson. Hazel Carter. William Hafner, Cleo Wright, Ernest Wagner. Fourth Grade Janie Bayne, Anna Wolfe, Willie Bennett. Frank Jones. Fifth Grade-Annie Parks, Marion Parks, Elnia Bradford. Seventh Grade?William Grier. Grace Erxvin. Beatrice Parks. Beulah Parks Sadie Rogers. Ninth Grade Marjorie Mills. Grade 11 Frances Smith. Germans Have Silent Gun. A silent gun is the latest weapon to be brought forward by the German army in France. ^ A " 1 ^ * mi wining ?> a narrative ny vol. E. I). Swinton, British eyewitness at the front. The narrative, dated November 2.'{. was given out by the official press bureau. It says: "In our centre the enemy employed a silent gun which may be pneumatic or worked by some mechanical contrivance. There is no report of discharge, the projectile travels through the air without any of the warning made by an ordinary shell, and the first notice of its arrival is the detonation. So far the weapon has done no damage." 5H5ESH5a5cl5g5H5g5Z5a5BSEfB orifice I >ment has arrived. The GJ ive never faced before }jj jr stock at prices less n] ck of Liidies' Coat Suits, G| ren's Coats, jjj to 14 years) ju now only $4.50 }fl ren's Coats, jjj to 8 years.) 0 now only . .. $2.71 _ 1.85 jjj ee the above if in need Ifl these lines. n] ts! 1 t SACRIFICE PRICES. S up in new tunic effects. C TL c I nese pretty garments qJ l II Co., i r|