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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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
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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
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crew of 885 were saved.
Time for Odd Jobs.
The wet days of winter are the
time for odd jobs about the farm :
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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
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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 ^
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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.
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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
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Are coming in now.
good Shoes arid Dry C
selling at less than whoi<
you well to see the barfi
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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.
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