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i The Fort Mill Times. i '"Wt *?.? -.. i ? . . I r. in >1 II L 1 ? . ' ' , I > ?? , . ? I- ,A SstablUhed in 1991. . TOST MILL, S. C? THURSDAY, JANUARY 26. 1915. . $1.25 Per Year. . . "." ' STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. Improvements, not to cost in excess of $60,000, are to be made on the Greenville county court house. Mrs. B. B. Valentine, of Richmond, president of the Equal Suffrage league of Virginia, was k invited to address the General Assembly last night on Woman Suffrage. u:u n tt me 11111 ixtTKciiii nuuse, S. S. Plexico proprietor, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The concern's liabilities are given at $4,297, with assets of $4,606. Gov. R. I. Manning has approved an order, signed by Adjt. Gen. Moore, for inspection of the 31 companies of the National Guard of South Carolina. The inspections will begin February 8 at Edgefield. The commissions of all State constables, special deputies, law agents and detectives were ref voked through a commission issued Thursday afternoon by Governor Manning. According to the report of State Dispensary Auditor Mobley, the dispensaries in fifteen counties of the State made a profit $850,968.09 in 1914. Richland county lead all others with a profit of $187,729.39. ?* * * Curtailment of the pardoning power of the governor was proposed in a bill introduced in the lower house by Representatives King and Bolt. A proposed measure of this nature was reported unfavorably in the senate. The contract has been let and work started on the Chester sanitarium. The large and handsome residence recently occupied by L. D. Childs was purchased and will be enlarged and made into a commodious institution. After considering the matter for some time, Governor Manning announced his plan for a 1 ??i : UIU1VUKII CM 1U UIIUIilHCU lllVCbUgation of the State Hospital for the Insane. The investigation will be made by -a personal representative of?the governor. James C. Hardin will be the mayor of Rock Hill for the next two years. He was selected by the three commissioners under the new charter. Mr. Hardin is regarded as a strong man and no doubt will reflect credit on his city as mayor. Favorable report was made . Friday upon the legislative bill providing a State-wide referendum upon the prohibition question, without the local option feature. This bill contains a provision preventing shipment into this State of intoxicants, as provided by the Webb federal law. The petition circulated among the qualified voters of Yorkville, i in an effort to change the name of the town of Yorkville to that of "York," has the required number of names on it and this with a copy of the proposed act will be forwarded to the York delegation m the Ilegislature. Clyde Clement, the Spartanburg youth, Monday went to the Spartanburg county gang to be gin His ten-vear sentence for the drowning of his infant daughter just one year ago this week. He was convicted last April and seni fenced to life imprisonment, but k hud his acntccce commuted by \T ' Death of A. T. Nedy. A. T. Neely died at his home at Ebenezer Friday morning: at j 4 o'clock, after an illness of sev-! eral months. He was 58 years j of age and was wide and favorably known throughout the county. For a number of years Mr. ! Neely was engaged in merehan- j dising at Newport and he was, also a member of the firm of i Neely Bros. & Smith, at Tirzah. He moved from Newport to Ebenezer several years ago and retired from active business on account of his failing health. He had long been a member of Ebenezer Presbyterian church, holding the office of deacon, and was always active in church affairs. Mr. Neely is survived by his wife and two children, Miss Vivian Neely and Dr. A. T. Neely. of Fort Mill; one brother, J. B. j Neely of Ebenezer, and two sisters, Mrs. M. B. Massey and Mrs. M. A. Thompson, both of Rock Hill. Funeral services were conducted at Ebenezer church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock by Rev. J. T. Dendy and the interment was in the church cemetery.?York News. ~ ' | "Ned" Gets Seven Years. James Johnson, alias "Port land Nod." who was pardoned from the South Carolina penitentiary by Governor Blease, and who is said to have escaped from the Govepner's office while federal officers were waiting to return him to North Carolina on a charge of robbing the pcstoffice at Plymouth in 1898, Friday was found guilty in the Federal court at Raleigh of robbing the postoffice at Siler City, N. C., in April, 1918, and sentenced to seven years in the federal penitentiary. Asks Damages for Girl's Death. A suit asking $10,000 damages j on account of the death of Mary Phagan, for whose murder Leon M. Frank has been sentenced to die. has been filed in Fulton county, Ga., supreme court against the National Pencil Company, of Atlanta, by Mts. J. W. Coleman, the fHrl's methpr Mary Phagan was employed in the company's factory where she was killed in April, 1913. The mother's complaint charges the girl was slain by Frank, who was superintendent of the factory, and by James Conley, a negro sweeper, who is serving a year's sentence upon conviction as an accessory after the fact in connection with the murder. r M :?H uuvcuiur rianuing I riMSIgC. A summary of Governor Manning's recommendations in his message to the General Assembly follow: Enactment into law for primary elections such provisions as controlled_the last Democratic primary. Aid to public schools. Development of mill schools. Compulsory school law with local option feature. Child labor law with age limit of 14 years. Oreation of a tax commission and revision of tax laws. Repeal of income tax law. , Enactnjent ?f land registration act giving guaranteed titles and giving boundary lines. Revision of fertilizer laws by commission to be created. Examination of State institutions and audit of accounts. ?Inspection of pupils in the public schools. Creation of charities board. Adequate appropriations for National Guard. WORTH MiLUOMS MORE THEN OH NOVEMBER I Notable improvement in business conditions in the South within the last few weeks is indicated in reports from merchants, cotton factors and bankers from all over the section. The last month in particular business men assert has developed the recuperative power of the cotton States. In all these States cotton, which was sell in cr n few mnnthe orrn f/\?> o ?T KVXVIIO ngv 1V1 CI little more than six cents a pound, now is finding a comparatively ready market at above eight cents. Since the Government report November 1, the increase of two cents a pound in the selling price of cotton, with the corresponding advance in the price of cotton seed, according to figures of the estimates of experts, has resulted in a net increase during this period of approximately $120,000,000 in the cash value of cotton. The effect of this enhanced value, it is stated, has been felt in every line of business in the South. Conservative observers of the situation say that never has there been sucti a holding move ment in the South as that noted since the opening of the present cotton season. At the outbreak of the European war, fall deliveries of cotton ranged from 12 to 13 cents a pound, which with a crop estimated at more than 16,000,000 bales, forecast a season of remarkable activity. With the European markets suddenly closed and the exchanges suspended, the price abruptly decreased about onehalf. When the mills entered the market for their usual fall supply they found the market closed. Farmers refused to sell and ! Southern business, which depends so largely upon moying of the cotton crop, marked time I awaiting readjustment of conditions. About Decomber 1 improvement began, owing, it is said, to the resumption of foreign shipments and the adjustment and reopening of the exchange markets both at homp and abroad. Today throughout j the South the movement of 'cotton from farm to market is I steadily progressing, and as a result, according to reliable reports, the farmers are paying their debts to the merchants for supplies, the merchants are meeting their obligations to the small banks and they in turn are settling their account with larger banks. The general business tone is declared optimistic. A Unique Advertisement. The American Trust Company of Charlotte, carried the following in a large display advertisement in a recent issue of The Observer: | "EX-GOVERNOR BLEASE pardoned and set free something over 1,500 criminals from the State penitentiary at Columbia, S. C. These criminals are free to travel in any direction they choose. Some of them are sure to be headed this way. How are you prepared to receive them ? Ordinary precautions? locking up ; valuables, barring the doors, etc., are not sufficient for professional crooks?you had better see or write us TODAY about our Burglary Insurance Policies. "And another thing?in most instances a burglar sets fire after pillaging." There was a light fall of sleet (throughout this section Sunday [night. HARRY THAW TAKEN BACK TO NEW YORK PRISON i Harry K. Thaw is again in I prison in New York city. Taken there Sunday morning from Boston, his only stop-over on the way from New Hampshire, he was locked up in the prison from j which he was transferred almost seven ytears ago to the State; Asylum for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan, after his acquittal of the murder of Stanford ; White on the ground of insanity, i Tf wns t-V>of Uo ..-W v^Kvvwu tuat It^ >vuuiu I be arranged Monday to plead to the indictment charging conspiracy, based $p his sensational escape from Matteawan seventeen months ago. When the train drew into the New York station Thaw greeted the newspaper men genially, but refused to discuss his plans, i Wrn. T. Jerome, special counsel for the State, and Deputy Attor- i ney General Kennedy arrived on the same train. Thaw and his guard went to a hotel for breakfast and then the prisoner was taken to the tombs. Later he attended religious ser-' vices in the prison chapel. Efforts by Thaw's counsel to | see their client were fruitless. They were fcold that if they desired to consult with him they mnot n?-? ""J"" C-. _ I iiiviov t nil HIUCI II'IIIII a SUpreme court justice. Blease to Oppose Manning? Tha? Gov. Blease now intends to be a candidate for governor in the summer of 1916 is the inference derived from several of;his recent utterances. An Anderson citizen was in a barber shop in Columbia yesterday and while being waited on the late governor came in. The governor was -served and was on point of departing when some one spoke up and asked him if he had time enough to listen to him a minute or so. The governor replied that he. had all sorts of time; that he wasn't doing anything especially nowf, that his busy time would commence on the 17th day of May, 1916, when he was "going to put his name on the club roll and start again making history for the State of South Carolina." He has stated on more than one occasion since the recent election that he would oppose Governor Manning when the latter seeks re-election in 1916.-Anderson Mail. Sank German Vessel. An attempt by a German cruiser squadron to repeat the recent attack on Scarborough, the Hartlepools and other British coast towns, was frustrated Sunbay by the British patrolling squadron, and in a running fight the German armored cruiser Bluecher was sunk and two German battle cruisers seriously damaged. The British ships suffered only slight injury. So far as is A?l,. lOO ~f 1-1 Til 1 ? nnun ii vuijr ILO U1 lilt? DllttJCIlCr S crew of 885 were saved. Time for Odd Jobs. The wet days of winter are the time for odd jobs about the farm : l A.1 i * ? I ana me iarmnouse. A new shelf needed here, or a hinge there; making the henhouse snugger, or cleaning a piece of machinery, and a hundred more small jobs can be found by any farmer on any wet day when nothing can be done in the fields. The wise' man will take advantage of these spare hours to do the odd tasks. He who does not generally finds them pressing upon him at a time when he is busy with more important work. Col. Banks* New School. 1 The following iterp. from Southern School News, will be read with interest by the people of this section, Colonel Banks \ having taught the old Fort Mill t Academy, and having a number > of relatives in this city: t Col. A. R. Banks has just 1 opened a school for boys in ? Columbia. Col. Banks formerly conducted a very successful t preparatory school for hoys at ? Hyatt Park, one of Columbia's l suburbs. He made a specialty t of preparing boys for college and for examinations for West Point \ and Annapolis. Along this line s he was remarkably successful, t His new school is to be of like i nature, though adapted to boys t who wish to go into business as ( well as those who are preparing i for college. Col. Banks is one 1 of the best known teachers in this State. 1 ? ? ( Care of Farm Implements. < It is unfortunate if any farmer ^ has put away his implements * e. it * ror me winter without having cleaned and oiled them thoroughly, and that they are now well housed. The farm machinery man at Clemson college states that a considerable profit of the American farmer is eaten up by neglect of farm machinery. When going over a piece of machinery, note if any parts are missing, mark down the names of these parts on tags and attach the tags to fthe places on the machine from which the parts are missing. This often will prove very helpful. Organized Militia Intact. (lovpvnnr Miinninnr'c m>nftl.,??<i ^ ? - - w mam?KIIU5 O uciaiiia" tion declaring General Order No. 2, recently issued by his predecessor, purporting to disband the organized militia of the State, 1 "void and of no effect," because ' of illegality, being beyond the ( power of kthe Governor, makes 1 the status of the organized mi- 5 litia and national guard of the ( State intact as if General Order 1 No. 2 had never been issued, ( says the Columbia Record. - i Cotton Made Slight Gain. Cotton made important arl- ; vances on the New Orleans ox- j change the last week, rising to new high levels for the season i and showing strength of its own in the face of continued talk of > wide reaction. While reactions ' did occur towards the end of the ! week, they were not well sustained. The net result of the week's trading was an advance 1 of 13 to 15 points. At the high- 1 est the trading months were 52 ' to 55 points over the preceding week's close. r LAST For Fire S? i - I A ^ A.I Are coming in now. good Shoes arid Dry C selling at less than whoi< you well to see the barfi v ' . ' '1 # L. J. M * Now in the Jones Building. rUESDAY WAS BUSY DAY WITH STATE LAW MAKERS After spirited debate, a bill prohibiting the shipment into his State of alcoholic liquors vas passed Tuesday through hird reading in the House of Representatives and sent to the senate. The House will resume Thursday consideration of a bill o submit to the voters of this State the question of State-wide prohibition, a companion measure ;o the bill passed Tuesday. By unanimous vote, the Senate massed through third reading and sent to the House of Representa;ives the bill introduced by Senitor Sinkler proposing to repeal ;he State income tax law, from mforcement of which the State mnualty derives about $15,000 in evenue. The joint resolution of Senator MIcholson proposing to extend ;ime for payment of taxes with)ut penalty until April 1, 1915, ,vas adopted in the Senate and ?ent to the House, after being ;he center of snirited dehnt-p pv. ending through parts of two lays. The House of Representatives aassed through third reading the Dill introduced by Representative Moore which would repeal the ict of the extraordinary session >f the General Assembly last October providing penalty fijjjultivation in cotton of more ;han one-third of the arable ands of the State during 1915. This measure was sent to the Senate. By a vote of 86 to 26 ;he House refused to recommit ;he bill, and quickly passed it ihrough third reading by a viva /oce vote, Eclipses Scarce This Year. During the year 1915 there ivill be almost a dearth of ecipses, which means a minimum )f regular astronomical phenomena. There are to be two nnnulur eclipses of the sun, first nf which occurs February 13 and [he second on August 10. Neither nf these will have much interest for American observers because neither will be visible in the United States or Canada. Both ire visible in the southern Pacific and Indian oceans. Of the five comets discovered in. 1914, the third discovered (Neugmin), will he very faint at the beginning of 1915, and being in the same part of the sky as the sun will hardly be visible. The remaining two. Encke's and Campbell's, may still be seen in the far South and rather faint for any but the largest telescopes. Old newspapers for sale at The ?. Times office. CALL ale Prices. rig Goods , Wc still have a few ioods loft thnt we are esale cost. It will pay rains we are offering. lassey. I