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The Fort Mill Times. fctabUshed in 1891. FORT MILL. S. C., THURSDAY. JUI.-T l 101V. ' ? ' lal&- $1.25 Per Tear. STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. The city of Anderson has contracted for 100,000 yards of paving to be laid in that city between now and December 1. W. P. McMeekin of Columbia, has been appointed dentist for the State Hospital for tne Insane to succeed L. L. Toole. The People's Savings Bank of Glendale and Clifton, Spartanburg county, has been commissioned ""with a capital stock of $5,000. Governor Manning has granted a ninety-day reprieve to Willie Bethune, a Clarendon county negro under sentence of death. There was no term of the court of general sessions for Darlington last week, because there were no cases to be tried. The police department and city officers of Spartanburg, have moved into the new city hall, recently completed in that city. J? 1 uiaicuuuu i:uuui> nas purchased a movable prisoner's stockade, such as has been in use in York county for several years. Governor Manning has appointed Isaac C. Hough, sheriff of Kershaw county, to succeed W. W. Huckabee, who was indefinitely suspended several weeks ago. Henry Boatwright, a young mill operative of Columbia, is in the State penitentiary charged with criminally assaulting an 8-year-old white girl. The semi-annual meeting of the South Carolina Sheriff's association will be held in Greenville, July 20. The chiefs of police of the State will be invited to meet with the sheriffs. Major Johnson Hagood, a native of South Carolina, who is now on duty in the Philippine Islands, has been ordered to Fort Washington, September 15, to take command of the cpast defenses of the Potomac. The city council of Beaufort, at a recent meeting strongly condemned the shooting of young James Carberry, son of Prof. J. L. Carberry, formerly of Rock Hill, by a policeman in that city last New Year's eve, and agreed to pay all expenses incurred in connection with the young man's wounds. Lewis W. Parker and O. K. Mauldin of Greenville, have filed a petition in the name of J. W. Little, a Greenville county citizen, asking that an injunction be granted against the Greenville county highway commission to prevent the issuance of $950,000 in bonds for road im provement. Two South Carolinians, Rear Admiral Victor Blue of Marion, 'who is chief of the bureau of navigation, and Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan of Laurens, chief of the bureau of supplies "and accounts, have been placed upon the advisory board of the secretary of the navy. Mrs. Rosanna R. Hayes uas last week awarded a verdict for $4,000 damages against the Seaboard Air Line railway, at Lexington, the plaintiff alleging that her husband was killed when he fell through a trestle of the railway company near Columbia, upon which he was walking. Pushing Work on Power Plant. The Hardaway Contracting Company is moving right ahead in getting its equipment on the site of the proposed Fishing Creek development of the Southern Power Company at Nitrolee, S. C. Here a big hydro-electric development will be made which will be "tied" in with the other stations into the general transj mission system at Great Falls, only a few miles below on the i Catawba. The clam will be 1,200 feet long by (K) feet in height. The details of the powerhouse have not yet been completed but probably will install three vertical type electric units to develop from 30.000 to 50,000 horsepower. The plant is to be finished by the middle or latter part of next summer. The Hardaway Contracting Company is just now finishing the big Southern Power Company development at Lookout Shoals on the Catawba between Iredell and Catawba Counties in this State. This is the only hydroelectrical development the company has in North Carolina, although several undeveloped power sites are to be utilized later. 1 he other developments are all in South Carolina, at Catawba near Rock Hill, Great Falls and Rocky Creek between Chester and Lancaster Counties, and at Nir.ety-Nine Islands on the Broad River. i nis rismng c reek development will give .employment to something like 1,000 men. ?Charlotte Observer. The Rock Hill Celebration. The city of Rock Hill is preparing elaborate entertainment for the thousands of people who will visit that city on next Monday. A big barbecue dinner will be served on the fair grounds at noon, so no one will have to go home during the day. Immediately after dinner the races will begin. There will be mule races, motorcycle races and two horse races. These horse races will be according to the rules of the prame?"five to enter and three to start." This will be strictly enforced and an exciting spectacle is guaranteed to all who attend. Two purses of $100 each are offered the winners, , and this fact, in addition to the ( general interest in the occasion, , has caused quite a number of 1 foreign horses to be entered. 1 A splendid band has been employed to furnish plenty of good music all during the day, and this feature will add much to the enjoyment on the grounds. ! A Chance For Our Girls. 1 Mrs. Robt. F. Grier, president -] of the local chapter of the U. I). 1 C., has received from Miss Amida Moses, of Sumter, chairman of education. S. C. Division, U. D. |'' 0., the following self explana- ' tory notice: ( "A scholarship at Winthrop ' college, worth $100 and free tui- 1 tion, is offered by Ridge District U. D. C. to girls in the following j counties: York, Lancaster, Ches- ] ter, Fairfield, Kershaw. Richland i r ?4.? aim UCAIII^IUII. ! | "Applicants must he 1G years I of ape, unable to pay for course, 1 . able to pass the entrance exam- j i ination, must be lineal descend ants of Confederate veterans of j ' honorable records, and must have J the endorsement of a president < of a chapter of U. D. C." Competitive examination for t this scholarship will be%held at I the county seats of the counties mentioned tomorrow morning. Born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. 1 C. S. Link, a daughter. I MILLIONS OF LIVES ONE YEAR'S W?R COST ; One year ago Monday the Aus- 1 trian archduke, Ferdinand, and s his wife were shot and killed in < the little Bosnian town of Sera- i jevo by Garvio Prinzip. It was < the act of Frinzip, a poor student, ? which ultimately resulted in ten nations going to war. These na- 1 tions are, on one hand, Great 1 Britain, France, Russia. Serbia, < Japan, Belgium, Italy and Mon- 1 tenegro, and, on the other, Ger- 1 many, Austria and Turkey. The * war to date, according to conser- < vative estimates compiled from the best available reports, has caused a loss to the various bel- ' ligerents of more than 6,000,000 1 men, dead, wounded and prison- 1 oners, and more than 500 ships. 1 Of these about 120 were war ves- i sels. The outstanding results on land 1 are these: 1 Germany has been driven from 1 the Far East. 1 A part of the Dardanelles is in < the possession of the allied na- 1 tions. 1 Portions of France and Russia 1 are in the possession of German 1 troops. 1 A strip of Alsace has been i taken from Germany. < On the continent of Africa < parts of territorial possessions > have been lost by host sides. c Various island possessions of c Germany have been taken by the ? forces of the allies. > T tn linn t rnnnc arc in nnoccpomn t VI vvpu ui. v ill pvoo^ooiuil v of a strip of Austrian territory. The outstanding- results at sea are these: ? German and Austrian mercan- 1 tile shipping has been driven I from all the open seas. German and Austrian war ves- * sels having a total displacement / of approximately 275,000 tons t have been destroyed. t War vessels of the allied na- f tions having a total displacement t of approximately 102.000 tons / have been sent to the.bottom. * The greater portions of the al- / lied and German fleets in the * North Sea remain intact. t Except for communication sent * through Holland and the Scandi- f navian nations, Germany is cut f off from the rest of the world. * EfTort on the part of the Ger- * mans to place the British Isles in J a similar predicament has result- 7 ed in the sinking by submarines 7 of hundreds of vessels flying the jj flags of the allied and neutral na- J tions. S - J Well Known Resident Dead. 6 Mr. Frederick Harris, whose d illness has been several times d mentioned in The Times, passed fi away Wednesday morning at 4 4 o'clock at the home of his pa- d rents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Har- d ris on East Booth street. The d funeral service was conducted d from the home in the afternoon d at 5:30 o'clock by the Rev. E. Z. C James, of the local Methodist d church, and the interment fol- d lowed in New Unity cemeterv. d this city. w Mr. Harris had been in declin- Q ing health for more than a year. Q He was for a number of years Q before his health failed, proprie- Q tor of the Palmetto Hotel, this Q city, and was widely known and Q highly esteemed. He was 36 Q /ears of age and is survived by H bis parents, a wife and four V small children, and three hroth- Jj ?rs and two sisters. V The sympathy of all goes out V to the members of the family in S their bereavement. jj Miss Harriet Mack and broth- 6 er, Paul Mack, of Decatur, Ga., C ire guests of their grandmother, 0 Mrs. Hattie Mack, in this city. ( Hunters' License Act Effective. Today becomes effective the lunter's license act adopted by ;he general assembly at its last session, which act applies, how;ver, to but 17 of the 44 counties n the State, the other 27. York imong them, being specifically i ?xempt. i Counties in which the new aw takes effect today are: Lexington, Barnwell, Reaufort, Lalhoun, Charleston, Chester, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester. Florence, Greenville, Hampton, lasper, Laurens, Marion. Oconee, Jrangeburg?17. Section 1 of the article reads: rhat every resident of this State nuft obtain a license in order to lunt birds or animals within the ^orders of this State, except andlords and tenants and their espective children on their free-i lolds and leaseholds, respective-] y, for which- license he shall jay $1.10 each year, said license :o be known as a 'county hunger's license,' and it shall entitle ,he owner and holder thereof to junt, in accordance with the aws of this State, anywhere in ;he county in which he resides: Provided, however. That any andlord may give written pernission to any resident of the :ounty in which he lives to hunt \n KIc -* ?l- i mo jjit-mises, wnicn said i vritten permit shall be exhibited ; )n demand of any game warden j >r officer, and failure to do so; .hall be prima facie evidence of dotation of the provisions of his act. Mrs J. C. Hunter and little ion, of Liberty, are guests in the lome of Mrs. Hunter's parents, dr. and Mrs. L. J. Massey. Sumi w r^ll enp ^ V/Ull IJ V | mer Dress G< | new lot of eac S* In the pretty Ne | also Rice Voile in 5 Crystal Voile in 5 New "Seashore < for a Summer Ski \) only 25c yard. Our line of Hos | and prices. We 1 | New lot Ladies' S sand and Palm Be 5 wKlfp at 1 Or* trv 1 ^ t t iinv/ ui v/ v> ivy <4/ 1 | Newlaces and | our lot of 5c Lace* Mills & I "Buy e MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM OVER THE COUNTY j (Yorkville Enquirer.) Mr. J. S. Jones, carrier on Yorkville No. 5. reports that Mr. J. R. Fish who lives on his route has more than an acre of buckwheat sown this year. Buckwheat ripens much slower than ordinary wheat and that on the farm of Mr. Fish is just now in Dioom. Rock Hill Record: Oran S. Roe is apparently farming the right] way. He has just finished harvesting 2.2(H) bushels of oats, 350 bushels of wheat and 45 bushels of rye. He is now preparing to plant 50 acres in alfalfa. Now, that surely is farming along proper lines. Not a word about cotton, you see. Mr. Poe is going in for feedstutTs and his .land is producing bountifully. ' Rock Hill Herald: It is rumored on the streets that with the completion of the improvement on the street leading to the AragonManchester village, a jitney bus line will be inaugurated, thus putting the business centre of the city in close touch with the village and vice versa. It is more than probable that such a line will be started as soon as there is a good deal of travel between the villages and the city, a distance of more than a mile. The Southern railway, for sat rrosiery. iery can t be beat. Cc mow you will be plea Hose in pink, light :ach at 25 and 50c. .00, Velvet Ribbons in e1 >. Young C md Sell Everytl good condition. A local section master said recently that five men would likely be assigned to each section in the near future. * Sheriff Brown on last Monday, closed the automobile garage of Roddey Reid, which is located in Rock Hill, in exe2ution of a judgment of $5. IKK) secured against Reid by Canie Hen aricKs as administratrix of the estate of the late R. C. Hendricks at the November term of the court of common pleas. Hendricks died several years ago of injuries received when a carriage- in which he was riding, collided with an automobile driven by Reid. His widow, Mrs. Carrie Hendricks, sued Reid for $15,000 damages and secured a verdict of $5,000. Dr. P. B. Wells, pastor of St. John's Methodist church of Rock Hill, recently appeared before the city council of Rock Hill as a representative of the chamber of commerce, requesting that the shackles be removed from prisoners serving on the Rock Hill city gang, stating that the chains looked bad, their rattle did not sound good and that the nitrht li!?l '111 IHI'I oo ! v?.?KI? w.D..v .imvi uu uuuv oiirtiMC CILCLl upon tho youth of the city. Dr. Wells was informed in effect that if the streets were to be worked by convicts* it was absolutely necessary to attach chains to the workmen, lest they grow tired of their job and leave it. It has been announced that the aunual convention of the York Connty Sunday School association will be held in Rock Hill this year, the dates having been fixed as Thursday and Friday. July 29 and 30. As is well known, the township associations are now having their annual meetings, the King's Mountain township meeting having already been held and the York township meeting being advertised in another column of The Enquirer for next Sunday. :ials. I ?ur New Sum- ? Hosiery. A ? black and blue; nde, only 25c. ? only 1 5c yd. g )th, just the thing q n white and tan x )mpare our goods S blue, navy blue, g 1 an, black and g very week. See gj "omp'y I ling." 11 isfactory reasons, has cut its section forces lately. Where formerly four men composed a section crew, only three are now used. As a result, the condition of the track cannot be kept up to its usual standard. In York county, however, the track is in pretty SO? 0? ?? ?@??@? trier Spec cial attention to o Dods, Laces and h. New Voiles. w Awning Stripes in white, all 40 inches v light pink, 27 inches, and Palm Beach Clc rt or Coat Suit, both i ? ? *