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The Fort Mitt, Times. ^ Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915. ? $1.25 Per Year. - 1 1 1 ' """W If I n'l" I I I I STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. Five negro prisoners escaped from Greenwood jail last Saturday night. Governor Manning stated Saturday that he would sign She bi]l repealing the enactment of the special legislative act limiting cultivation in this State of cotton to one-third of the arable lands, which will be presented to him late this week for his signature. James H. Moore, who has been editor of the Columbia Record for about two years, is to leave Columbia this week to take charge of the editorial page of the Knoxville Sentinel. His resignation from the editorship of The Record took effect Sunday. Brooks Guin, a farmer, was killed Saturday night at 6:30 o'clock by G. A. Long, his brother-in-iaw, when they met on the Belfast road, eight miles from Newberry. The trouble between the two is of long standing. Governor Manning the last week sent a message to the senate asking for the general assembly. to appoint a committee to examine into the facfthat there were no records in the governor's office of the previous administration. * The United States supreme court has 'granted permission to T. U. Vaughn, former superintendent of an orphan's home at x Greenville, to prosecute at public expense his appeal in the supreme court from the death sentence imposed upon him in the South Carolina courts for a grave offense. Halcott P. Green of Columbia was Friday named by Gov. Richard I. Manning as a special judge for the term of the court of common pleas in York county, beginning the first Monday in February. The appointment was made upon the recomrr.enda-1 tion of the supreme court. The entire plant of the Equinox Cotton mill, at Anderson, employ in# between 450 and 500 people, has been at a standstill since Thursday morning as a result of the weaving force, con- r sisting of about 100 persons, quitting their looms when an order reducing their pay went into effect. Governor Manning has grant ed a reprieve to Tommy Grice from February 1 to March 1. Grice was convicted in Florence county in October. 1914, on the charge of criminal assault and sentenced to be electrocuted on November 20. 1914. Gov. Blease granted a reprieve until February 1. Hugh Byrd was killed on his farm in the Gilgal section of Edgefield county by a falling tree Thursday. Having some woodland that he desired to cultivate, he invited his neighbors to assist him in felling the trees. He had just cut one tree and while watching it fall another tree that was cut near him fell across his body. The Anderson Mercantile company and the Farmers' Supply company stores at Rjphburg, \ Chester county, were robbed j Friday night. An entrance was effected" from the rear. A quantity of shoes, clothing and can goods was stolen. There is no clue to the theft. It is believed | to be the same party that entered the store of W. S. Douglas atBtacbtock a few nights ago. Catawbas Visit the Governor. Chief Harris, Ben Harris and Nelson Blue, three Catawba brnvp?. were among the visitors to Governor Richard I. Manning a few days ago. They were introduced to the "great white chief" by Senator Beamguard j of York countv. "Wp nrp crlarl to meet you," said Chief Harris. "We hdVe brought you a present. Here is a 'pipe of peace/ " said Ben Harris. The pipe was made by the Indians on the Catawba reservation. "Gov. Richard I Manning, January 19, 1915," were the words carved on the peace pipe. Governor Man- j ning thanked the visitors and I gave them a hearty welcome. 1 "Here is another pipe. Smoke, this when you are alone." said j the younger Indian. Governor Manning assured the Indians that they will receive kind and fair treatment during his administration. "We are just like children, governor, and we look to you for everything," saidj Ben. The Indians were later introduced to many members of the legislature. Nolan Refused to Leave Jail. Although four men escaped from the York county jail Thursday afternoon, the fiifth white man in the prison refused to take part in the affair and remained in his cell, while his companions made a successful dash for liberty. The fifth man was Thomas Nolan, alias "Chicago Nolan," famous in many States as a yeggman and an alleged expert at blowing safes and slipping through jail bars. Noland was 1 recently paroled by Governor j tsiease while serving a term in \ the South Carolina penitentiary and was at once turned over to j federal authorities to answer to other charges. He is being held in York jail to answer to the charge of robbing the Savings i Bank of Fort Mill in 1902. Nolan said he didn't want to go j and calmly watched the four other prisoners break jail and make a getaway. When the jail delivery was discovered and a hurried investigation made, No- j lan was found in his cell writing! a letter. The four men escaping were: Jesse Willman, S. I. Rush, J. R. Wyatt, and Sam Harper. They were held on minor charges. Want to Change Name. Yorkville, county seat of York county, will change the name it has borne since 1790 to York, if the qualified electors shall so decide at an election contemplated by a bill which the York county' _i _ 1 a? ? i * "? delegation nas introduced in the! general assembly. There was filed with the dele- : gation a petition bearing 190 signatures. The registration is 217, so that a majority is 109. The petition asked that the. delegation procure the passage of an act effecting the change in name, but the members of the delegation took the view that it would be more equitable and more in accordance with Democratic practice to refer the question to the people of Yorkville for decision. Spare the Birds. It was stated recently in a national convention that protection of birds from slaughter would save to the farmers of the United States a large part of their annual crop loss from insect pests. The same speaker estimated the annual loss from insect at something more than $100,000,000. This game seems well worth the candle. UNt GALLON PER SOSTH IS ALLOWANCE OF BILL The Boyd whiskey shipment bill, which has already passed the house and is likely to pass the senate, is one of the strictest measures of the kind on the statute book? of any of the States. The bill was introduced in the House by Representative Boyd, of Spartanburg:. The measure was fathered by the prohibitionists of the State, and principal, ly by the Anti-Saloon League. It was drafted in Spartanburg oy senator uarnsie, at the request of local prohibitionists. Under this bill no person will be allowed to have shipped to him in South Carolina more than one gallon per month of any beverage containing as much as 1 per cent, of alcohol. And in order to get this one gallon, he will have to go before the clerk of court of his county and pay a fee of 25 cents for a permit allowing him to have this amount shipped in. Upon getting the permit, he will have to send it to the liquor house, and the paper will have to be pasted on the outside of the package or the transportation company will not be allowed to deliver it. The clerk of court will be required to keep a record of the certificates issued, and f-n see fr? to it that no person is allowed to get more than one gallon a month. The permit will be refused should a protest be made by the wife or children of the person asking for the permit. Under the bill, the whiskjy shipment cannot be delivered to any person other than the purchaser, who must appear in person. The bill also prohibits the storing of the whiskey in any clubhouse or place of business or anywhere else except in the private home or private room of the purchaser. The measure was passed by the house last week, and now goes to the senate. The only amendment which was made by the house is on permitting dispensaries to ship whiskey to branch dispensaries in the same county. This, of course, does . not affect the measure so far as the individual consumer is concerned, and would apply only in dispensary counties. Should the prohibition referendum bill pass, this provision, of course, would automatically cease to be of value because the dispensaries would pro out of business. The bill restricts interstate liquor shipments under authority of the Webb law passed by congress a year or so ago. The Home Paper What Counts. "It is the home paper, in the smaller cities, which sells our goods," said Geo. W. Dodd, representative of a big Eastern manufacturing bouse, before a recent meeting of advertising men in Atlanta. "We sell to the merchants in these towns, and th? live ones advertise in their home papers. I can check over the sales reports right now and show you which merchants are advertising and which are not, just by the orders they send us. I've tried it. "It's a big mistake for the 'liitle merchant' to think he cannot gdvertise. Why, the merchant in a comparatively small town can reach mnr#* n/\aoiki*? customers per dollar spent on newspaper space than the big fellow in New.York or Chicago can at the heavy rates made nec'essary by the big papers' circulation. His home paper reaches nearly every every possible buyer in its territory. Can the big papers say as much?" SOME FACTS fBOUT THE WEATHER LAST YEAR The year 1914 as a whole was near normal as to temperature, although the precipitation was slightly below the average, due largely to marked deficiencies in March, May and June. Abnor mal thermal and moisture conditions during March, followed by j badly distributed rains during April, resulted in irregular seeding of spring crops, and vegeta! tion began the growing season in various stages of advancment. | The growing situation was further intensified by drought and much sunshine during May, with the result that the spring season closed 8.i)0 inches short of the usual amount of rainfall. With , continued lack of sufficient and i well distributed rains and the hottest weather on record for J June, together with desicating heat toward the close of July, vegetation advanced to midseason with irregular growth. Probably the most serious and destructive thundershowers and hailstorms that ever visited the plantations of South Carolina ocin the Piedmont section on Julv 6 and 7. covering large portions of Anderson. Laurens, Spartanburg. Cherokee and York counties and entailing a general loss conservatively estimated at nearly a million dollars on 51,000 acres of land. Of this amount York county is estimated to have lost about $730,000 on about <10,000 acres. In this district, the hail belt embraced an area of five by 25 miles northward of Rock Hill. Vetoed Immigration Bill. President Wilson voted the immigration bill Thursday because of the literacy test for admission of aliens. His message was referred to the house immigration committee whose chairman, Representative Bur nett, will move next that the measure be passed over the veto. Much informal discussion among members of the house followed receipt of the veto, and there were many who believed the two-thirds majority required to repass the bill could not be procured. Immigration bills containing literacy tests were vetoed by President Cleveland and by Presfdent Taft, but both times failed of repassage. Sank Five Vessels. Thp tr>ll tnkpn tw tVm ritirnmn submarine U-21 in its raid late Saturday in the Irish Sea in the | vicinity of Liverpool, still stands 'at three ships?the steamers 1 Ben Cruachen, Linda Blanche and the Kilcoan, the last a small vessel. The Kilcoan's crew was landed Sunday on the Isle of Man by a coastwise steamer. In addition a German submarine also torpedoed two British j steamers in the English Channel near Havre? the Tokomaru and the Icarian. The Irish Sea raider escaped and shipping interests, confident she had returned to her base, ! i i* * i oruereu a resumption or normal traffic Sunday. Gets Important Appointments. Yorkville people are interested in learning that W. R. Bradford, one of the representatives from this county, is beinc olaced on a number of very important committees. Mr. Bradford has been named as a member of the committee to investigate the disappearance of certain records from the office of the governor and to arrange for suitable filing devices to be placed in the office. He is also a member of several , other important committees. I York News. Revenue Collections Fall Short. Revenue collections by the Government in January failed by $8. 166,427 to meet the month's disbursement. Receipts usually are low at this time of the yoar. but in January 1914, the excess of disbursements, was only $4,512,262. Neither customs nor internal revenue brought in the expected returns. Customs receipts were $10,558. 1 93, compared with $23.528,080 in January, 1914, and $14,890,982 in December. Internal revenue receipts including returns from the war tax were $27,096,155, less by i $5,0(10,000 than in December, and only about $2,500,000 more than in January, 1914. The estimate of Government revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30 next contemplated internal revenue receipts of $32,500 a month. Officials are hopeful of ' an increase in the next few months. Next Meet at Yorkville. The committee on arrangeI ment has decided to hold the next school day program at Yorkville on Saturday. April 3. The exercises will consist of mental and athletic contests. The pupils will he entered according to grade in the mental contests and only one from each jschool can enter the contest. In the athletic contests the students will he grouped according to size. This will give the small school an equal chance with the large schools. - Rock Mill Herald. I New Spri I Prices on cotton thanthev have years. We hav< lot of new good I Come and see w i?et posted on Li. %J j\ Now in the Jones Building i Let Us V i Fire In; We repre of the stro parties in Rates too to take th< Bailes District LEGISLATURE ACTS IN PROHIBITION MOVEMENT General assembly last week passed the referendum bill and the bill placing stringent restrictions around the shipment of liquor into the State. It was believed that the prohibition bills would precipitate long debates, but the Webb law bill went through the house practically without opposition and not more than five hours were spent in discussing the prohibition referendum bill. Having disposed of the prohibition question, the house has before it this week the vital matter of compulsory education. There is not the slightest doubt about the passage of some form of compulsory education law by the house. The only point in contest is whether the members will agree to send to the senate a Statewide measure or one containing the local option feature. The Hawkins bill, a Statewide measure, and the Harper bill, have both been made special orders for debate on Wednesday. The house will have to choose between them. The Hawkins bill was the first choice of educators and legislators who held a i * ? * I l oiiii'i encc on compulsory education in Columbia in January. The Chester Semi-Weekly News was offered for saie Tuesday morning1 and was bought by the mortgagees, S. E. McFaddenand C. C. Edwards. The price paid was $1,000. ng Goods i ?<H>ds arc lower hccn in several C I U?l IW'tClVt'U il Is at new prices, hat we have, and the new prices. lassey. ^rite Your surance. ?5Pnf cnm<i UVIIIV ngest comthe world, low for you e risk. : : & Link, Agents. i