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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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