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BP"''"' ' The Fort Mill Times. ^iu i i i. .. i ! .!_ ?. ; Established in 1<391. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 29. 1915. $1 25 Per Year STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. The Woodman picnic at Filbert, York county, takes place today. A destructive hailstorm passed over the western section of Cheryl a n_ I usee county rnaay anernoon, : doing considerable damage to the growing crops. The Sumter tobacco market opened auspiciously on Thursday, nearly 40,000 pounds of the weed being sold that day at an excellent price. When the Southern Commercial congress, commemorating 50 years of peace in the United States, convenes in Charleston December 13 for a four days' session, many notable men, including Secretary Garrison and Secretary Daniels, will be pres ent and deliver addresses. One negro was killed, another mortally wounded and an officer less seriously hurt in a battle at Nicholls, eight miles from Mullins, Friday afternoon. The shooting affray took place in front of a negro church in the centre of the town. A most enthusiastic meeting of the Rock Hill Chamber of commerce was held Friday evening, the chief feature being an address by T. G. McLeod, of Bishopville, whose subject was "Hog and Hominy." Clean, well ventilated, sanitarv and fireproof wards are to take the place of the stuffy rooms at the State Hospital for the Insane. The white males were removed from several wards Saturday and construction work was begun on Monday. St. John's Lutheran church in the Dutch Fork section of Lexr ington county was blown down by a storm which passed through that territory Thursday. Fourteen of the 112 children in the Church Home orphanage at Yorkville are from Columbia. Twenty are from Charleston. ~ r o i.? i 1 i^ikih aic Hum opartanoui K ana a like number from Graniteville. Seven are from Greenville. Chester County's treasurer, It. E. Wylie, reports that the commutation tax collected this year amounts to $4,482.50, which is 50 per cent, less than that collected in 1914. At the recent Bible conference in Greenville, representatives of the 150,000 Baptists of the State pledged themselves to work zealously to free South Carolina from whiskey in the election next September. Strong resolutions a flp rf-v /* 4- ??f A. ?1 u? kino ciLctt were auupieu. Jesse R. Robinson, a white man about 26 years of age and a lineman for. the Southern Public Utilities Company, was killed Monday afternoon in Greenville, when he came in contact with two wires carrying 2,300 volts of electricity. Wm. C. Biggers, one of York county's best known and most prosperous farmers, died Sunday night in the vicinity of Rock Hill. Mr. Biggers suffered a general breakdown some time ago and his condition gradually grew worse until .his death Sunday night Brings Fancy Price. The first bale of new crop Georgia cotton was marketed in Savannah last Wednesday. It brought 18 1-16 cents a pound on the cotton exchange. Elder Holroyd Passes. | News was received in Fort Mill Sunday morning of the death in Rock Hill of the Rev. Robert Lee Holroyd, presiding c elder of the Rock Hill district of _t the Upper South Carolina Meth- v dist conference. Rev. Mr. ^ Holroyd had been ill of pneu i J 3 t- - iiiuuia iui several uays una nis ^ death was not unexpected. g The Rev. Mr. Holroyd was 52 c years old. He was born in y Mercer county, West Virginia, c May 23, 1863, and was married c to Miss Lula E. Wiggins, daughter of the Rev. Casper E. Wiggins of South Carolina June 30, y 1886. To this union seven sons r were born, all of whom survive y with their mother. In 1913 he was appointed pre- f siding elder of the Rock Hill y I uistrict n.v oisnop a. w. Wilson, and in 1014 he was returned to that field. Yorkville's Home-Coming. All roads will lead to Yorkville on September 1, 2 and 3, when hundreds of South Carolinians will wend their way "back home" to attend Yorkville's home-coming and Chatauqua. It will be the biggest event in the history of the town and numerous entertainments are being provided. In addition to the Chatauqua programme, the best speakers in the State will be there. Gov. Richard I Manning and E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, will be the speakers on the first day; Dr. Henry N. Snyder of Wofford college and Congressman Asbury F. Lever are on the programme for the second day; while home-coming day proper, on the third day, will bring a long list of distinguished sons back to speak. On this day William Banks, editor of the Columbia Record [ and president of the South Caro lina Press association, will pre- s side and addresses will be i delivered by Col. Asbury Cow- * ard, Maj. W. F. Robertson of ^ the Greenville Chamber of Com- j merce and Robert Lathan of the r Charleston News and Courier. > All of the speakers for the last day are natives of York. Leads Fertilizer Decrease.- t South Carolina, according to a ( compilation made by the Manu- r facturer's Record Baltimore, J has led the South in reduction 1 this year of fertilizer consump- r Lion. The State ranks third in * tonnage, the leaders being v Georgia and North Carolina. The 1 proportion of purchases this i year to those of last year is given in percentages as follows: South r Carolina 55, North Carolina 75, 1 Georgia 56. Florida 68, Alabama ^ 60-65, Mississippi 74, Louisiana 1 81. A greater reduction to 30 * percent, is credited to Arkansas. ( Cotton 30 Cents at Bremen. I The American Association of i Commerce and Trade of Berlin. 1 Germany, reports that the price of raw cotton in Bremen reached 30 cents a pound on May 31 as against 20 to 22 cents before the conflict with Italy and 12 cents before the war, says The Daily Trade Record. Since the entrance of Italy into the war cotton mills have increased their prices by about 25 per cent. Finished cotton goods have increased by at least 19 per cent, and as the stocks are raDidly diminishing further * increase in price is inevitable. The Times is unable to answer < "Inquirer" as to why the authori- } ties do not use the town's street sprinkler at least on Main street | [ these hot, dry days. * 1 'RIGHTFUL DISASTER GN EXCURSION STEAMER I Hundreds of persons were I Irowned Saturday morning, when f he steamer Eastland rrowded * vith 2,500 employes of the Vestern Electric Co., capsized n the Chicago river. The " rowding of passengers to one , ide of the boat popularly is opposed to have caused the ragedy, but authorities, not iatisfied with that explanation, " rdered the arrest of the boat's >fficers. Bodies of 901 persons had >een recovered up to Sunday light, after 40 hours of search- . ng by divers. The total dead remained at ipproximately 1,000 according o estimates by Coroner Hoffman vhose reports indicated that jossibly 100 bodies were held in he mud of the river by the iteamer's superstructure. While 1 inly 1,002 of the 2,408 pas.engers of the Eastland had egistered as saved, it was hought that about 475 survivors, ncluding the crew of 72, had 'ailed to report. About three score bodies were ecovered from the wreck before 1 lark Sunday night, but after J :hat divers discovered onlv one corpse before they quit work for ;he night. There was much confusion in ;he totalling' of hodipn rppnvoroH ' >wing to duplications and re- 1 novals. As a result, all sorts of esti- ( nates were scattered about the lity with guesses from 1,300 to J 2,300, but officers in charge of 1 :learing the wreck were unable 5 :o tabulate more than 901 bodies j isted Sudday night. The morgue " ,vas cleared of all but a score of iorpses, all other victims having jeen identified. Investigations to determine reiponsibility for the calamity are inder way in a dozen quarters. Dity and county officers were manimous in declaring that some blame rested with Federal nspectors, alleging they pernitted the steamer to operate vhile unsafe. Predicts 9-Cent Cotton. The 1915 cotton crop will be he shortest in the last decade? :onsiderably under the governnent estimate made last month iccording to Veigh Cockrum, of Memphis, president and general nanager of the National Cotton linners' association, whb was a visitor in Atlanta a few days ago, ind named 9 cents as a ruling rrice for the staple next fall. Mr. Cockrum based his estinate on what he had seen on a t* ? i* our 01 virtually every cotton 11 State of the South where there { tave been held during the last ( ,wO weeks State meeting of the ( ;otton ginners. j Millions for the "Movies/' During the year 1914, up to j December 1, $20,000,000 were ( ipent in the manufacture of mo- j ;ion picture negatives. : j Ten thousand reels of negative | ( iach about 1,000 feet long, were j nade. An average of 35 posi- j :ives, according to Washington ( eports, were made from each ( legative; the positive costing ( ?17,000,000 more, totalling $37,- ( XX),000 for the manufacturing :ost of all the films that were manufactured and exhibited. At least 10,000,000 people go :o see the movies every day in ;he United States; between 850,XX) and 900,000 in New York lity and about 385,000 in Chicago. Photoplay Magazine. Miss Hazel Hardin, of Winns>oro, is the attractive guest of Miss Bessie Smith in this city. The "Dyestdff Famine." Reports received by the National Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce from dif'erent parts of the country show hat the effects of the "dyestutf amine" are becoming more and nore apparent each day. In ome insfnnp^c fovtiln .V----W-WW kVAkllV I 111 HO (11 C orced to shut down for the time >eing until new supplies of olors can be obtained. This is ^specially the case in works conmming large amounts of indigo, he lack of which has now be:ome very acute. The possibility of securing ?airly satisfactory shades by the lse of vegetable dvestuffs has jeen decisively demonstrated, ind the consumption of logwood, iustic, -quercitron, cutch, hyaernic, etc., has now attained igures far beyond any record! jutput of the past. In the meantime the few \merican manufacturers of coal :ar colors are steadily expanding .heir plants and are producing iyestuffs in quantities hitherto jnknown. John M. Fewell Dead. John May Fewell died at the family residence in Ebenezer, ^his county, Saturday morning it 1 o'clock. Mr. Fewell was a prominent farmer and cotton buyer and was held in highest esteem by ill. He was born and reared n Ebenezer and was known by i large majority of the citizens >f eastern York. The deceased was 37 years of age last May. His illness had extended over i period of four months and for ?everal weeks his recovery was regarded as uncertain. It'o T A/ I 11 O 1U< |j Come in and lei g Wear Garments. Nice lot of House Dresse X New lot of White Wash & Woolen Skirts in Cream ? only $2.98. g Other Skirts in Serges, P gy Ladies' and Children's IV * only 50c snd $ I. f? Cnildren's Dresses in wh ? Boys' "Oliver f wist" Suit ^ Boysr White Blouse Suits 3 Call on us for anything i 1 s ^ We still have a few Men PRICE. Just think of buy * for only Half Price! Come f? be sold, as we mast have r< g famous "Star Brand" and y S Call on us for ai ? ware or Furniture. 5 thing you may nee I Mills & I "Buy c NUMEROUS ROBBERIES OF SOUTHERN CARS What appears to have been a; wholesale robbery of freight cars ! has been going on for several j weeks between Charlotte and i Chester on the Southern freight trains K nnvvloftrro nf 1 Aktivifivu^ VI LUC OlC'Cll" j ing did not reach Fort Mill, however. until a few days ago when a conductor on a northbound train noticed a suspicious looking package in the vines near the tracks in the deep cut just north of the local freight station. The discovery was made known to the police and an investigation revealed the fact that the package was quite bulky, containing several caddies of chewing tobacco and a couple of cases of smoking tobacco, the entire lot being consigned to a merchant in Jacksonville. Fla. Since this discovery it is learned that numerous robberies of the freight trains have been made during the last few weeks between Charlotte and Chester. It is stated that some three weeks ago the greater part of n box of meat was thrown from a car a short distance below the railroad pumping station south of town, a number of small pieces of the meat being left on the ground where the theft was committed. It is further said that the railroad people have a pretty strong clue as to the guilty parties and that arrests may follow any day. Born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Sheppard, a daughter. James T. Young. Jr.. is spending the week in Charlotte with his cousin, Richard Young. 3?? ?? ?? ?????? o Hot t< : us show you our s, made of Amoskeag Cingham, Skirts, made of good Suiting, on Serge with black Stripe, a specia oplins, Etc., at $2.75 to $4.50. Ilflrlv RlnilOAO - ^ WMUVOi 1 IKtUV. Ul ^UUU lite and colors, 50c and $1.00. ts, sizes 2 to 6, only 25 cents the i, sizes 2 to 6, only 50 cents the i n Ready-to-Wear Goods. PECIAL s and Boys' Low Cut Shoes the ing a pair of good "Star Brand" : and get yours before they are ? )om for our Fall Shoes, which i ou know "Star Brand Shoes are nything in Dry Goods In fact, we can furr id. Young C md Sell Everytl 90060 Q0 O 00Q00 Sinks American Steamer. The American freight steamer Leelenaw bound from Archangel. Russia, for Belfast, Ireland, with a cargo of flax, was torpedoed and sunk Sunday by a German submarine off the Northwest coast of Scotland. Captain Belk and the crew were saved, landing at Kirkwall in their own boats. Plust Not Use Motorcycles. Postmaster General Burleson has issued an order, which becomes effective January 1, prohibiting the use of bicycles and motorcycles by rural delivery carriers in the discharge of their duty. A conservative estimate places the number of routes now covered by this class of vehicle at 8.000. In addition to the bicycle and the motorcycle being inadequate to handle the large amount of mail which is now carried because of the parcel post, Mr. Burleson declares it is very dangerous for carriers to use this mode of travel. Most Perfectly Printed Paper. /vmong tne visitors in Columbia yesterday was W. D. Grist, editor of the Yorkville Enquirer. His paper is unique in that it has not changed owners since the day it was established by John E. Grist in 1855. It has been a family-owned proposition ever since. The Enquirer is known far and wide as the most perfectly printed paper in the United States. That is not the only good quality claimed for it by the many friends of The Enquirer.?Columbia Record, Sunday. d Sew. 1 Imp of R A* AV> w A X \.V^tAV4 jr LW for only 51.00 each. * ly $ 1.00. g I that we are running at Suiting and Galatea, for 09 suit. X sui\ fig it we are selling at HALF @ Shoes, or Excelsior Shoes, 09 ill gone. Every pair must Jc *ve can give you in the )8[ Groceries, Hard- J? lish you with any- @ ^omp'y I ling." 1