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T ================================= * Established in 1891. STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. The secretary of State has received the official returns from the election recently in Anderson county for the flotation of $750,000 in bonds for road improve. . _ a mi i i menc. ine issue was aecisiveiy ? defeated, the vote being 157 for and 2,459 against. The annual meeting of Group Three, of the South Carolina Bankers' Association, will be held in Rock Hill on Tuesday, April 27. The sessions will be held in the assembly hall of the Chamber of Commerce, beginning at 11 o'clock. . J. C. Robbins, guard and electrocutioner at the State penitentiary, shot Friday at Pinewood, Clarendon county, by a negro fugitive, Joel Green, died Saturday afternoon at 5:50 o'clock at a Columbia hospital, where he was taken Friday night. Plans have been completed and accepted for the remodeling of the president's and clerk's plat* form in the senate chamber at the State capitol. The desk, which will be three feet wide, will be in the shape of an arc of a circle with approximately 27 feet frontage. The acts of the regular session of the general assembly for 1915 are in the hands of the printer. Marshall P. DuBruhl, late code commissioner, who died several p- days ago, made his official report three days prior to his death and turned the proof sheets over to the printer. A chicken fight said to have been planned to be held by North ~ ^CSroifr-vsports at Mars Bluff, in Florence count v. within a few days, may be prevented because of the restrictions of the State law, which the Florence county ? sherifF has declared he will enforce, according to information from Florence county sources. The Harmony presbytery committee to which the matter was referred, reported in favor of removing Chicora college from Greenville to Columbia and consolidating it with the College for Women. Harmony presbytery met at Beaufort and the college matter was one of the most important on the calendar. The State board of health has published a bulletin on smallpox, graphically representing, by pictures, statistics and quotations from physicians and other health boards the value of vaccination. The bulletin is for free distribution and copies can be procured on application to the secretary of the State board of health. To aid in the development of dairying in the territory served by its lines in Western Carolina, the Southern railway has tendered the usp of its dairy instruction car to> Clemson college from April 14 to 24 for the purpose of holding ten all-day meet*' itigs at different points. The car will be in Rock Hill the 24th. Germany's Enormous Losses. , Two million Germans have been killed, captured, or so badly in* jured that they will be unable to yeturn to the battlefield, since the beginning of the war, according to a report Saturday of the French war office. The figures are said by French officials to have been compiled by German statisticians for the confidential use of German officials and to haye been transmitted to Paris through French agents in Benin. / % HE F School Contest Big Success. The first contest of the Catawba interscholastic oratorical contest was held at Rock Hill Friday night in the auditorium of the high school. The organization was formed some time ago by the high schools of this section. Annual contests will be held. The winners of the first prizes were awarded gold medals. Silver medals were awarded to those winning second place while honorable inpntinn i? marlo fVirwco ing third. Schools represented by the boy and girl awarded .first place are presented with silver loving cups to he held until the next meeting of the association is held when another contest will decide its possession for the next year. The contests were for boys and girls. The boys gave declamations while the girls were heard in recitations. Frank Crawford of the Rock Hill high school was first, Earl Gauluin of Yorkviile, second, and James Hicklin of Winthrop Training school, third. In the girls' contest Mary Locke Barron of Lancaster was first, Sallie Sandifer of Yorkviile second, Harriet Graham of the Winthrop Training school third. The Fort Mill school was represented by William Ardrey and Miss Sadie Young. The Confederate Reunion. Orders for the Confederate reunion to be held in Columbia this month have been issued by B. H. Teague. of Aiken, major general, commanding the South Carolina division. United Confederate Veterans. The State reunion will be held in Columbia Thursday and Fri-: day, April 22 and 23. The official ladies of the di-1 vision for 1915 are Miss Martha A. B* nham, Anderson, sponsor;! Misses Olive McGowan, Columbia, and Carolina S. Sinkler, i Eutawville, maids of honor, and Mrs. R. S. Ligon, Anderson, 1 nation of honor. The reunion orator is a gifted son of South Carolina, the Rev. Wm. E. Hoggs, D. I)., now of; Atlanta. For information as to board and lodging, apply to W. H. Jones, chairman of information and house committee. Those urlm find f ??ni ? IT UV uv^ouc ncc CllLCl ItllUIUf (11 should write A. J. Bethea, chairman of entertainment committee. As the time for the reunion 1 is near at hand, the camps should meet at once, elect delegates, appoint their official ladies and send in their names without delay. Maryland Man to Succeed Strait Governor Manning on Friday named Dr. Geo. F. Sargent, of Maryland, an expert in the treatment of mental diseases and care of the insane, superintendent of the State hospital for the insane and he will assume the duties on May 10. Dr. Sargent is 36 years of age and has been married two years. He graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1903, and served for two years at the Worcester. Mass., State hospital for the insane. He then went to the Northern Michigan hospital for the insane, and since his service there has been assistant physician at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt hospital for the insane at Cowson, Md. Tfte State factory inspectors are still prosecuting the violalations of the child labor laws in South Carolina. The last week convictions were secured against one overseer and one parent. ORT FORT MILL, S. C., THU BIG ELECTRIC PLANT FOR FISHING CREEK Another contract of general interest to the whole section was given a few days ago by officials of the Southern Power Company when the Hardaway Contracting Company succeeded in landing a contract for the building of a new hydro-electric power plant at Fishing Creek, the site being three miles up the river from Great Falls. The Hardaway Contracting Company, with headquarters in Columbus, Ga., is at the present time engaged on another contract for the Southern Power Company, in constructing a hydro-electric plant at Lookout Shoals on the Catawba river between Iredell and Catawba counties, thus having two big developments under way for the Southern Power Company. The latest development will call for 30,000 horsepower of electrical energy. This new plant, situated at the edge of the hills of the Piedmont country, will with the Great Falls and Rocky Creek developments, now in ODeration. constitute a group of electric plants inside a stretch of not over five* miles, producing nearly 100,000 horsepower. The last two plants referred to have a capacity approximating 32,000 horsepower each. The new Fishing Creek plant is to be started without loss of time and the development will be completed by September 1, 1916, according to present expectations. The big plant in Iredell also being built by the Hardnway Contracting Company, is to be turned over to the Southern Power Company, completed and ready for work in the frill of the present year. The new development at Fishing Creek will have a fall of 50 feet from which energy is to be generated, and the machinery and workmanship will be of the latest and best pattern and design, representing the most recent word in electrical machinery. Will Test Webb Law. Briefs were filed In the supreme court at Washington Saturday in a case to determine the constitutionality of the WebbKenyon law, applying to liquor shipments from "wet" to "dry" territory, as interpreted by the Kentucky State courts, which held that it prohibited such aiu^iiit;iiu> lor personal use as distinguished from sale. The Adams Express Company, on appeal, contends that the law is unconstitutional if it has such an application. Cases involving the interpretation of the law have arisen in Kentucky, Delaware, Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. Pellagra Has Many Victims. Forty-one of the 61 deaths occurring at the State hospital for the insane during January and February of this year were from pellagra, according to death certificates on file at. the hiirenn of vital statistics at Columbia, i Based on the federal method of I computation, the figures for Jan- i uary, 37 deaths, 22 of which i were of pellagrins, would give a i total of 436 deaths, 259 of them I resulting from pellagra, for the I year 1915, at the State asylum i alone. * l The average population at the I State hoapital for the insane is i 1,600 persons, with an average residence as an inmate of about j i two months. Mill f RSDAY, APRIL 15,1915. ANOTHER GERMAN BOAT ENTERS NEWPORT NEWS Steaming her way at full speed, passing four Allied warships off the Virginia capes in the early hours of Sunday morning, the German converted cruiser Kronprinz Wilheim. another of the remarkable merchant raiders of the South Seas, arrived in Newport News. Va., Sunday and asked for fuel and supplies. The Kronprinz Wilhelm, many times reported destroyed, made the Virginia port in almost helpless condition, with less than 25 tons of coal and only scanty provisions for her crew of 500 men and 61 prisoners from British merchant ships sunk in the South Atlantic. The 15,000ton cruiser came with a record of 15 merchant ships of the enemy captured, 14 of them sunk, nine British, four French and one Norwegian. The British ship Chasehill, captured, was allowed to proceed, taking to shore more than 300 prisoners from previous raids. The value of the ships and cargoes destroyed officers of the Wilhelm estimated at $7,000,000. Following in the wake of the interned Prinz Eitel Friedrich which arrived at Newport News a month ago aftet similar thrilling and effective war operations for the German arms, the Kronprinz Wilhelm came dashing bravely through a lane of enemy warships and her commander Lieutenant Captain Paul Thierfelder,' formerly navigating officer of the German cruiser Karlsruhe, said "we got in withJ It's 1 99 I get tl ? money, and v ? want. We 1" ? _i j vs ciecui ana new g will find it a J ? store often anc ? right goods at 09 i tt r <| We strive tc 1 Mills & TIM] ! I out being seen by the enemy and we can go out the same way." In her raid of the seas since she slipped out of New York harbor August 3 last the German cruiser never touched land and took 960 prisoners from various vessels destroyed. Sudden Death in Yorkville. Mrs. Fannie Meacham Willis, ,?;f? a# M p \xr:n:~ j:?i -i. 1 wuc vji mx. \j. vviiiis, uitru at ner home in Yorkville last night at 10 o'clock. Her death was very sudden and was due to an attack of apoplexy. She was 54 years of age, and before her marriage was Miss Fannie Meacham. Mrs. Willis was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd and was always actively associated in any work pertaining to the church. She was a most estimable woman and had many friends throughout the county who will be saddened to learn of her death. The deceased is survived by her husband and the following children: W. S. Willis and Miss Henley Willis, of Yorkville; M. C. Willis, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., and Aubrey Willis, of New York City. Funeral services will be conducted at the Church of the Good Shepherd tomorrow morning by Rev. T. T. Walsh, and the interment will be in Rose Hill cemetery. ? York News, Monday. ^ DmL U;ll U/? r:..i u? nutn urn n un i 11si iiuiiurs. The Rock Hill high school team won first honors in the athletic meet Saturday afternoon in Rock Hill, in which teams form the Fort Mill, Lancaster, Yorkville, Chester, Winnsboro and Winthrop training schools participated. ?K?XS0000000000 Up x le most and best ve are sure that lave the goods r always ready fc Daying propositio i traae witn us the right prices. ) satisfy you in Young C 9800000000000 ? s ES. 11.26 Per Tear. WAR NEWS OF THE DAT BRIEFLYJWMQRAPHED From Russian sources late reports say that the invasion of Hungary has begun. A dispatch from Lemberg says the Russians are advancing successfully along a wide front between Bartfeld and Uzsok, descending the south I* a l r? ?* cm siope or me uarpatnians and pressing back the Austrians. In the Dukla region also the Russians are said to have routed the Austrians, forcing them to abandon stores and transports in their retreat. The Meuse-Moselle region still is the scene of the principal contest in the west. Although the French attacks have been made with increasing vigor, Berlin reports that virtually nothing has been accomplished by these tactics. An official review of these operations contains the statement that the Germans have regained all the positions lost earlier in the fighting, with a few unimportant exceptions, and tnat tne French have sustained extremely heavy losses, London heard rumors of another naval engagement off the English coast. It was said heavy firing was under way off Scarborough, one of the east coast towns attacked by the German squadron in its raid of several months ago. The bare announcement was received in London that the British steamer Wayfarer had been sunk by a German submarine. Mrs. W. A. Hafner left Monday evening for a short visit to her parents in Winnsboro. o U! for vourerood f is what you ? that are nice, ? >r you. You 0 n to visit our g and get the ? rery particular g Homp'yj