Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 15, 1915, Image 1
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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,
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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.
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WAR NEWS OF THE DAT
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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
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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.
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