Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 15, 1915, Image 1
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The Fort Mill Times.
S?6bli3hed in 1891r ~ FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15. 1915 '
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Collections of fines in the police
court of Greenville during :
the month of June aggregated
$824.30. 1
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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.
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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.
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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,
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ui oausuury, in. Ly., were guests
Monday in the home of Jas. T.
Young, in this city.
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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.
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