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T: +1 ? ^ Established in 1891. STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. L One hundred and twenty-eight young ladies expect to receive diplomas from Winthrop college next month. An election is to be held in Orangeburg May 25, for the purpose of deciding whether the city shall issue $30,000 bonds for w the erection of a school building. Major C. V. Boykin of Char...u? c? ii,? t- ix < *.?? icaiuii, wnv iui tut; MUM luttrfii years has been connected with the ordnance department of the South Carolina militia, has resigned his commission. At a meeting of citizens of Chester Monday it was decided to call an election on the question of issuing $100,000 in bonds to be used in street and sidewalk improvement. The State Democratic executive committee has ordered that a primary election he held in the Fourth congressional district on August 10, to select a successor for former Congressman ? Joseph T. Johnson. The borrowing board of the State will meet on May 21 to consider the advisability of borrowing $500,000 or $600,000 to meet the running expenses of toe State Government until taxes come in during the fall. C. Fred Williams, M. D., v superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, is in the North to visit and inspect several of the larger institutions for the treatment of the insane. He will return to Columbia during the latter part of this or week. A new primary building is to be erected at the State school for the deaf, dumb and blind, located at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg county. The building will cosr $50,000. W. A. Edwards, architect of the York county courthouse, has drawn the plans for the building. Anderson, Clinton, Newberry, Union and Spartanburg have extended invitations for the encampment of the Second regiment, South Carolina militia, to be held this summer. A committee from the regiment will decide upon the place of encampment within the next few days. Governor Mannigg has signed a bill putting railroad crossings in South Carolina under the supervision of the State railroad commission. Under the act the commission can require railroads to take up crossings, lower or heighten them and to put in proper safeguards. vf ~ ? j : a n it iTivjiiuay inuniiug a. r> nammond, who lives near Pleasant Hill, Lancaster county, shot and instantly killed a negro employe named Jim Gill. The killing took * place in Mr. Hammond's yard and it was said he acted in self defence. Mr. Hammond immediately surrendered to the coun* ? ty authorities. W. S. Jones, a prominent in' surance man of Sumter, and a deacon in the Presbyterian church in that city, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with forgery, it being alleged that he forged the names of various parties to checks issued by the Equitable Life Assurance company of which he was an agent. -j' x. ' r HE F* A Challenge. Devotees of the game in this city believe that Fort Mill has the champion checker player of of this section, and request The Times to issue^ a challenge to any white citizen of York county to meet the Fort Mill man in a series of games to be played in Rock Hill any date within the next 30 days. Any person of the county who would like to contest honors with the Fort Mill champion will please notify The Times and the games will be arranged. Big Plant Almost Finished. Many highly interesting letters have been received in Charlotte, says The Observer, from carpenters who went up to City Point. Va., last winter to accept work on the mammoth powder factory of the E. I. Dupont de Nemours Company, which is now nearing completion nine miles east of Petersburg and 30 miles from Richmond. The plant, according to those who are on the ground, will represent an investment of approximately $(>.000,000 and will give employment to more than 3,000 operative's. There are something like 12,000 men now on the work, rushing it to a finish just as quickly as possible. The company owns 1,500 or more acres of land, 700 of which 1 rp inf'IriCPf] qiw! nr? nno Jo nilf w, www WW www ?o HWImitted to enter this inclosure without a permit. Within this inclosure are the buildings of the plant,* where work is done day and night by the many thousands of laborers. The work at night is carried on by means of thousands of electric lights which the company | has had installed. Census Cotton Figures. Cotton used during A^ril was 513,610 bales, exclusive of linters, compared with 499,466 in April last year, the census bureau announced Friday. During the nine months ending April 30 cotton used was 4,091,285 bales against 4,254,856 in the same period the previous year. Cotton on hand April 30 in man11 f'ontn vtrwr *- *-? I ? 1 * <?l-? ^ i-. - uiavtuiniK COl/tlLUlOIUllCIl LS WcIS 1,831,035 bales, against 1,572,058 last year, and in independent warehouses 2,850,189 bales, as compared with 1,353,295 last year. Exports in April were 672,008 bales, against 398,233 last year and for the nine months 7,361,621 bales, against 8,334,249 in last year's period. Strange Pranks of the Wind. Senator John L. McLaurin has arrived in the city from Bennettsvilie. He stopped over at Elliott, where he delivered an address at the graded school commencement, and, in the hall of the Woodmen of the World, to the farmers. He said yesterday, speaking of the cyclone in Marlboro, that it was difficult for people who had never seen a cyclone to believe some of the things that actually happened. The storm crossed the river at Egypt plantation, belonging to Kenneth Matheson, tearing down the house of the overseer. Mr. Tart, killing Mr. Tart's daughter, a young woman of about 17 years of age, who was blown out into the woods, also killing a two-year-old child which she had in her arms. A three-months-old baby was blown otr and was found not badly hurt. Mr. Tart and his wife and every member of the family were more or less injured and are in the sanitarium at Bennettsville. They said they saw the storm coming, and that it picked up the barn and twisted it around, tore it all to pieces and then struck the house.? Columbia Record. ORT ; FORT MILL, S. C., THU: WINTHROP'S FOOD BILL IS NO SMALL ITEM Only those who have visited many times the culinary department of Winthrop college realize the magnitude of the work done in the dining room and kitchen. It is interesting to note that the thirty-three young women to whom tuition and board are given do only about two and one-half hours' work per day in the dinintr room and vpt it issnsvstpm atized that they carry on regular college work almost as other students do. Mrs. Bell, head housekeeper, and ,two lady assistants and the thirty-three din-! ing room students, with the assistance of a baker and with twenty colored servants, carry on the various duties that are there to perform. It is interesting to note that in one ctoy at Winthrop college three barrels of flour are consumed?540 loaves of bnead are necessary for the day-between fifty and sixty pounds of butter for table use per day; 125 pounds of sugar per day. For breakfast, 1,000 eggs must be scrambled to give each student a good helping; six bushels of potatoes are peeled in the "patent" peeler for each meal that has potatoes on the menu card; 240 pounds of ham are boiled and sliced for one meal; 125 nice fat hens have to be brought from the college poultry plant, dressed and baked for Sunday dinner each week; 250 pounds of tender steak from cattle bought by the superintendent of the college farm, fattened and butchered there and brought in to the college, is consumed at one breakfast; 50 pecks of green peas are consumed at one dinner. From 175 to 200 quarts of strawberries from the Winthrop college farm are eaten at one meal in the dining room, and it takes fifty gallons of ice cream made by the electric freezer to serve the Winthrop college students one time. This is for 870 people who eat three times per day in the Winthrop college dining hall. | Many Ask Clemency for Frank. A petition asking that the sentence of death, which was pronounced against Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, be commuted to life imprisonment and signed by 15,000 residents of Cincinnati and Washington, has been presented at Governor Slaton's office in Atlanta by Miss Eleanor Black, a representative of the Cincinnati newspapers. It was filed with the other petitions for clemency, numbering about 25,000. The Georgia Prison commission has set Monday, May 31, as the date for beginning a hearing on Frank's petition asking that the sentence of death pronounced on him be commuted to life imprisonment. Shortage in Dyes. The stock of dyes of German origin in the United States, it is stated, probably will disappear before the end of July. Two cargoes for which Great Britain granted free passage permits, are being held up for export; parmission from the German , government. Those cargoes! would be a sufficient supply for two or three months. The American government is exerting every possible effort to reach an understanding with the belligerent nations for the exportation of more dyes from Germany. In the meantime domestic dye manufacturers are trying to increase their output. Carl Jones, of Great Falls, was a visitor to Fort Mill Monday. Mill RSDAY, MAY 20, 1915. ITALY STANDS READY TO ENTER EASTERN WAR Monday's press dispatches said that the king of Italy had refused to accept the resignation of Sig. Salandra and the premier and whole war cabinet retain office. This, it is believed, foreshadows the almost immediate entrance of Italy into the circle of Belligerents on the side of the allies. It was thought, however, that action would be delayed until the meeting the meeting of the chamber of deputies to be held today, when the premier is expected to announce his policy, which will receive the support of a majority of the deputies. Should the expected action of Italy materialize, the allies will be in a better position than ever to launch their big ofiTensive movement against Austria and Germany, which is being preceded on the western front by a series of attacks, furnishing a foretaste of what is to come. a n* - n ?i * a Dig aetDack. At the recent spring elections, John Barleycorn received many a setback. Michigan added fourteen counties to its prohibition territory. In Illinois one hundred saloons were abolished and all dry towns remained dry. South Dakota held all but two of four hundred towns and cities heretofore dry, and put seventeen wet cities into the dry list, which success it is claimed insures victory for State-wide prohibition next year. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and other States added their strength to the attack on the home destroyer. pAKE ? Why? Because feel at home. W 0 lines. Don't miss I ? your money. Alw ? know the price is @ Our line of Fnri ? you, and everythir @ comfortable. 0 Groceries that a @ can please you in | SPECIAL?3 a Qy If it" Q orr^rirl fhinr I** aw v j vy vy V4 llllllf Dl We want every "Madam Grace" ( Ei will be satisfi ice" catalog, sh ir figure and be )ther Good Coi lills & "Buy i 00000?0?0( Tim: Still After Charleston Tigers. Governor Manning on Saturday night wrote the following letter to Mayor Grace of Charleston: "In regard to the report >f Chief of Police^ Cantwcll, dated April, 1915, to you and by you transmitted to me, this says, 'I beg to report the following parties and places have discontinued business.' I, like you. received this report in good i\.:a lii iit11n anti iook 11 10 mean that these parties had discontinued business as a result of the activities of the police squad. On looking into this, however, I find that the statement of Chief Cantwell is erroneous and misleading and I will mention but two instances: L. Williams, who died some months ago, and M. H. Aikett, who was burned out. Many of the places said to be closed are selling liquor. This seems so serious to me that it should demand an investigation and I suggest that you investigate this report. I have not received any subsequent reports." Escaped From Gang. Bunk Huff, a white man, serving a ninety day sentence on the chaingang, made his escape from that institution last Saturday morning. Huff is suffering from tuberculosis and acting under instructions from the county physician, had been placed in quarters separate from those of the other prisoners. He was unable to work and little attention was paid him. although he wore shackles. He took French leave Saturday morning shackles and all. HutF is the first convict who has escaped from the county chaingang in several years?Yorkville Enquirer. 3?? ?? ?? ?????? OUR i OUR STOR we want you to alv e offer you some unu :he opportunity of ge ays consider the qual right. niture is complete. E\ ig to make your hoi re fresh and clean a this line and apprecia ans good Corn for 25 js to eat, call No. 1 2. RY GOOD: larlv frail anrl . k? V . J v, l ? i l U11U OUVy Corsets?best yet. Try ed with no other, i owing you just the st ; comfortable. Prices rsets for only 50c. ? Young < ind Sell Everytl ; -ill KS. $1.25 Per Tear. CAN KEEP LIQUOR ELSEWHERE THAN HOME A law, known as the Hampton act, passed by the Kentucky general assembly of 1914, making it unlawful "for any person to keep, store or possess anv liquor in any room, building or structure other than the private residence of such person, and which is not used as a place of N pnblic resort," has^been found to be unconstitutional in an opinion of Commissioner Clat, of the State of Kentucky, affirming the Warren county circuit court, of the same State, in the case of the commonwealth vs. Harry Smith. The opinion stated that personal liberty was infringed by Section 4 of the act which attempted to exercise police power. The opinion is of interest and of probable importance, in that the recent "gallon-a-month" law passed oy tne south Carolina general assembly prohibits the keeping or storing of liquor in any place other than a man's residence or the room he sleeps in. Because of this section in the South Carolina law the various clubs throughout the State that desire to obey the law have torn out their lockers and have prohibited the keeping of intoxicating lipuors in such clubs. Official Washington does not believe that Germany's reply to the note of the United States concerning the Americans who lost their lives on the British ship Lusitania will be made before the coming week. It is though that the Austro-Italian situation will so absorb the atten tion of Germany that the reply will be delayad for possibly?a week. STORE I ^ays visit us and ? sual values in a11 i tting the best for g ity first?then we 'erything to please ? vie attractive and it all times. 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