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gj|-| The Fort Mill Times. S?6bli3hed in 1891r ~ FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15. 1915 ' ? ? 51.25 F$r Year. sun NEWS ARRANGED * FOR QUICK READING. Collections of fines in the police court of Greenville during : the month of June aggregated $824.30. 1 - ? ? The State board of charities and corrections proposes to appoint local boards in every county in the State. Spartanburg county has five split log drag associations, two having been recently formed. The purpose of the members of the association is to encourage the use of the split log drag. Gov. Manning has accepted an invitation to review the First Infantry, National Guard, at Charleston, July 28. He has invited his staff to participate in the review. George Massey, a negro, is a prisoner in Lancaster jail, being charged with the murder of his own child some days ago. The child's dead body was found on - the floor of its parents' home. A suit to test his right to the office of sheriff has been filed in k the Kershaw court by W. W. Huckabee, former sheriff who was dismissed from office some time ago by Gov. Manning. Isaac C. Hough was appointed sheriff by the chief executive. Announcement is made that the division headquarters of the transportation department of the Southern railway will be moved from Columbia to Spartanburg as soon as the new freight terminal at the latter place is completed. ^ Gov. Manning has granted a parole to Bertha Hopper, who was convicted in Union county of vagrancy and sentenced to serve 30 days or pay a fine of $10, on the condition that she consent to enter the Rescue home at Greenville. Joe Malloy, Jesse McNeil and John Pearson, negroes, have been sentenced to electrocution for crimes committed in Marlbory county. Malloy is be electrocuted August 18, while Pearson and McNeil will be placed in the chair September 2. Gov. Manning very probably will this week decide on petitions for clemency in several important cases. The report of the State board of pardons on 25 cases was sent to the governor Saturday. One of the most notable cases is that of Willie Be thune, the Clarendon county negro, who is asking that his death sentence be commuted to a life term in the penitentiary. That Sheriff A. D. Hood did not fire the first shot in the Winnsbors court house tragedy on June 14 was stated in the testimony of five or more witnesses at Monday's inquest held over the body of the lamented officer. By the jury's verdict the death of Sheriff Hood is charged to Clyde Isenhower, .Ernest Isenhower, Jesse Morrison and Jim Raw Is. "In all probability I will be in the race for Governor next sum"mer.M said former Governor * Cole L. Biease Saturday mornP ing when asked the question by newspaper men, who directed his attention to a story in an Atlanta paper which quoted Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin as saying that the former Governor would run again next summer. He would not make a definite statement, as he stated that it is too far off, but left very little doubt in the newspaper men's minds about the County News Item. (Yorkville Enquirer.) A portion of the chaining: has this week been engaged in assisting. at the threshing of this year's oat crop raised at the ronnty home. A total of about iXX) bushels was secured. Last year a toiai crop or anout l,4U0 bushels was raised on the poor I house farm. Mr. I. P. Boyd, superintendent j of the county home, lias moved his family into-the new building". The inmates of the present home j have not yet been transferred j from their oid quarters. It i3 said that the contractors will j have about fifty leaks to repair in the roof of the building be- 1 fore it will be formally accepted for use by the county. Coroner J. L. Strait of Rock I] Hill, who was in Yorkville Wed- i nesday, remarked to an En- ;" quirer reporter tnat tne city j | gang recently inaugurated in j that town was having a good: moral effect which could be plainly noted. According to the coroner the city recorder of Rock Hill does not hesitate to fine offenders in his court good and strong. The idea of wearing stripes in the city of Rock Hill was not pleasant to a number of ; people who had appeared in police court before. It is' rumored on the streets that there is a strong probability ( that Ernest Isenhower, James Rawls and Jesse Morrison who are charged with th# murder of Sheriff Adam Hood of Fairfield < county during the trouble at Winnsboro several weeks ago, will be tried in York county. The rumor has it that it is practically certain that a change of venue will he secured. The prosecution for obvious reasons will not consent to the case oeing iriea in unester county and it will therefore be more 1 convenient for all parties con- cerned to come to York county i than elsewhere in the Sixth judicial circuit. Scores of South Carolina teachers are attending schools outside of the State for further training, despite the fact that Winthrop and Coker colleges, University of South Carolina and other institutions within the State are offering this same special training. Among the York county teachers who are attending summer school at the University of Tennessee or the Peabody college, the first named institution being located in Knoxville, and the second in Nashville, Tennessee, are Miss Aline Barber, Fort Mill; Miss Stell Glasscock, Catawba Junction; J. P. Coats. Fort Mill; H. L. Dickson, T. N. Faris, Clover. The York county legislative delegation has agreed to endorse Mr. D. T. Woods of Yorkville, for the position on. the York county board of registration made vacant bv the death of the late Mr. R. M. Wallace. Mr. Woods' name has been forwarded to Governor Manning and he will doubtless receive his commission in a few days. It is understood that there were about a dozen applicants for the position. The position pays a salary of $100 per annum in election years and $50 per annum in off years. Provided Mr. Woods receives his commission by the first Monday in | August, the board will elect a ' chairman. The Second regiment, South ! Carolina National Guard, is now in camp at Greenville. The First regiment goes to the ^sle of Palms on the 20th inst. ~*? York's New This handsome structure was c ate ceremonies. The building is limestone effect and is handsome out. The basement has reserve toilets, etc. The first fioor is giv ridor running north and south, floor, together with the judge's jurv rooms. The court room has ceiling tinted. Opera chairs ar building is splendidly lighted anc FORT MILL YOUNG MAN IS COUNTY CHAMPION Zenas Grier, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. F. Grier of Fort Mill, justly lays claim to the championship of York county at checkers. The series of games in which young Mr. Grier won the championship came about as a result of a challenge issued by his friends through the columns of The Times some weeks ago. On Monday, June 5, Mr. Grier met a number of the county's best players in Rock Hill, but came out second best in a contest with G. M. Carroll, of York ville, with whom he played ten games, losing four, winning three and tieing three. Dissatisfied with the result of the games with Mr. Carroll, young Grier went to Yorkville the following Wednesday for a second contest with the court house player. Ten more games were quickly arraged between them, but at the end of'the tenth game the score was a tie, 5 to 5, necessitating another game, which the Fort Mill man easily won. Preceding the games with Mr. Carroll, he met and bested S. E. Jackson, of Yorkville, who had before been looked upon as the county's best player. This was a series of 17 games, Mr. Grier winning ten of the games to seven for his elder opponent. Becker Must Pay Penalty. The last hope of Charles Becker that he might escape the electric chair is practically gone. His high card ?the application to the United States supreme court for a writ of error?was played and lost Saturday afternoon when Supreme Court Justice Hughes, at Rangely, Maine, denied the writ of error, saying he could see no basis for federal action. There is one avenue of escape yet open to him, but even the most optimistic of his friends and attorneys admit that it is a forlorn one?so much so, in fact, mat it may not ue ineu. it is the application to the United States supreme court for the re-opening of the case on a writ of habeas corpus, but in view of Justice Hughes' decision it offers little. Announcement is made that Rev, J. L. Harley, at one time pastor of the Fort Mill Methodist church, will deliver a temperence lecture at the stand in Confederate Park this (Thursday) evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Harley is president of the State Anti-Saloon League, and is considered among the most able workers for temperance in the entire South. Court House. ledicated Tuesday with appropri-1 of pressed brick with the Indian ly finished and furnished through-1 s offices and the heating plant, j en over to the main offices, a cor-1 The court room occupies the top and lawyers' retiring rooms and \ \ light grey side walls, with curved j 0 in f Ho Qiiflitnrinm Tho nnlii-o I I ventilated. Vaughn Will be Resentenced. The State supreme court lias handed down an order remanding the case of T. U. Vaughn, a white man in the State peni-! tentiary convicted of statutory assault upon a 16-year-old charge in a fraternal orphanage at Greenville, of which he was superintendent, to the Greenville county court for resentence, which will be death by electrocution under the State law. According to this order it appears" that Vaughn has lost his last chance in the courts to obtain a prison sentence or acquittal, after fighting his case through the courts of the State and the federal supreme court since his first trial at Greenville in 1912. J?he crime for which he was convicted was alleged to have been committed in 1908. 1 If Yoi I Wh I Call No. 1 2. We ? Dry Goods and C ? With New Goo ? clean line of Groc ? afford our customs ? dise obtainable. Qg Also, if thereis ? need, call No. I 4Z ? you with any info & We thank you g of your patronage I Mills & ? "Buy i Farmers More Hopeful. I Several weeks ago there wa3 1 feeling prevalent throughout this immediate section that there was a verv poor prospect I for the growing crops. A long, 1 almost continuous spell of cool, t wet weather kept farmers out \ of their fields and the weeds and t "General Green." as crrnc? i? v generally called hereabouts, was t about to take possession of the ? cotton and corn and no farmer s that was consulted on the crop t cutlook seemed to be optimistic. ( This was the second attitude the mind of the farmers had t assumed, for before the long i wet spell, when the weeds and t joint grass begun to flourish, ? they were exceedingly hopeful 3 for a big crop for the year at a < much reduced cost over pre- I ceding years on account of a i reduction in the amount of com- 1 mereial fertilizer used. Within : the last ten days or two weeks I the third attitude of the farmer i in this vicinity is like unto the i the first. The recent warm weather with occasional showers i has brought all growing crops | nearly up to the average at this I season. Cotton whtch ten days i ago was thought to be about : 70 per cent, of a crop has jumped to something like 80 per cent. kand the same is said of corn. The grain crop of this section was satisfactory, it is said, and has all been harvested; and many of the farmers this week are busy "laving by" their corn. Mr. Chas. M. Brown and little son and Mrs. Sarah Barrier, o.. i: -i XT r* ui oausuury, in. Ly., were guests Monday in the home of Jas. T. Young, in this city. 000 0? 0?000000 1 Don't 1 iat You W< i will supply you with Grocery lines. ds coming in each we eries at all times, we ? *rs the very best mar anything in the Furnit 1, and our salesmen w rmation in that line th; for past favors and sol 1 Young C and Sell Everytl DYESTUFFS SITUATION SEEMS MORE HOPEFUL A Washington despatch of Monday stated that negotiations lad bc:en begun through the rade advisors in the State Dejartment and the bureau of oreign and domestic commerce 'or co-operation between dye nanufacturers of the United states and Switzerland to meet .erious scarcity of dyestuiTs reailting from the cutting off of German coal-tar dves. American manufacturers seek ;o utilize the Swiss dye ** .*ks lending thr ..w ? viv; pment of he industry in the United States. The Swiss plants have received from Germany supplies if so-called "intermediate" coaltar products to be converted nto the finished dyes. Germany now threatens to cut off this supply on the ground that the finished products were being exported by Switzerland to France and England. The new American dyestuff industry fostered by the Department of Commerce since the beginning of the European war is now in a position to furnish substantial quantities of "intermediates" and the plan is to have this product shipped to Switzerland for the finishing process. A statement of the situation issued by the Bureau of foreign and Domestic Commerce Monday asserts that the effects of the dyestuff famine are becoming more and more apparent. Mr. ana Mrs. k. j. Downs, of Pineville, spent Sunday with relatives in Fort Mill. Know | *111*9 8 everything in the g *ek, and a good, ? ire in position to 8 ketable merchan- ? ure line that you ? rill gladly furnish ? it you may desire. ? icit a continuance ^omp'y 1 liing." I %