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I Established in 1891. . FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26,1915. $1.25 Per Year ~
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F STATE NEWS ARRANGED
FOR QUICK READING.
Contractors who have the job (
of double-tracking the Southern 1
railway between Greenville and 1
Spartanburg have begun their J
work. J
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James B. Halfacre has been I
appointed auditor of Newberry
county to succeed Eugene S.
Werts who was recently dismissed
from office by Governor
Manning.
Miss Hattie Sammonds was instantly
killed near Greenville
Sunday morning when the automobile
in which she and two of
her brothers were riding turned
over in a ditch.
There is considerable agitation
to form a new county out of
a portion of Greenville and Anderson
counties. Should such a ,
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would very likely be the county
Beat.
The Greenville highway commission
has begun, active work
on the roads of that county. It
? will be remembered some time
ago Greenville county voted nearly
$1,000,000 bonds for road improvement.
A small cyclone visited Greenville
Friday afternoon, leaving
one man dead, 60 or more houses
wrecked or damaged, scores of
trees uprooted, wires down and
doing other damage of more or
less consequence.
Governor Manning has granted
a reprieve from September 3rd
to September 29th to Nelson
Brice, Tom Griffin, John Crosby
and Meek Griffin, negroes, who
Kquo hoon contonfprl tn Hpflth
for the murder of an aged man
in Chester county several years
ago.
Many applications for the position
of State whiskey gauger
to take the place of the late L.
M. Fouche, who died several
days, ago, are being received at
the governor's office. The appointment
is to be made about
September 1.
Agitation is being urged in educational
circles, says The State,
for the passage of a bill at the
approaching session of the Legislature
which would provide for
the appointment of a State organizer
of night schools, similar
to those conducted last winter in
Laurens and Newberry counties.
Announcement was made at
Raleigh, N. C., a few days ago
that J. B. Duke, the tobacco
manufacturer, had decided to
make a donation of $35,000 to'
the Methodist Episcopal church
in South Carolina, of which $15,- j
000 is to go to church extension;
$10,000 to home missions, and
$10,000 to aged ministers.
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Richland county's new jail '
will be ready for occupancy this
week. For many months the
county prisoners have been in-1
carcerated in the penitentiary!
and in transporting them to and j
from the penitentiary during
court added to the cares and responsibilities
of the deputies.
The jail and equipment cost
about $55,000.
On the face of almost com-1
plete returns published Wednes-!
day morning, Sam J. Nicholls,
t of Spartanburg, defeated B. A.
Morgan, of Greenville, for Congress
rfrom the Fourth South
Carolina district in the second
primary held Tuesday. Mr.
Nicholls' majority was given at
about 500, with only a few small
boxes to be heard from.
Blease Will Make Race. |
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Gov. Blease makes the positive
statement that he will be a canlidate
for governor in the cam3aign
of 1916, says the New- (
3erry Herald and News. He j
says the demands for him to do ]
so come from all parts of the (
State and that they are so strong (
le can not afford to deny this ,
lemand from his friends who
have stood by him so many 1
.imes. Personally he has no (
iesire to make the race or to be
governor, because his ambition
in that line has been satisfied (
by having served two terms. ,
But if it is the opinion of his
friends that it is his duty to lead (
the people in the fight which is I
to be made next year, he can not j
give a deaf ear to such a call and
he will respond. ,
To Help Cotton Farmers.
Plans for helping the cotton
situation in the South were discussed
by President Wilson with
W. P. G. Harding, of the federal
reserve board.
The president is preparing to
protest to Great Britain against
making cotton contraband. Mr.
Harding made recommendations
for further steps but refused to
make them public. One plan
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unuer consideration is understood
to be the sending of an
informal commission to England
to arrange for the sale of surpluscotton.
Ford Plant for Charlotte.
'Ihe Ford assembling plant is
at last a certainty for Charlotte,
Manager A. J. Langford of the
Charlotte branch of the company
authorizing The Observer
Monday to make official announcement
of the fact. The
Hagood Building on East Sixth
street will house the assembling
plant and likewise the sales
offices and all three floors and
the big basement will be utilized
from the start. The initial capacity
at the outset will be 25
complete cars a day but this
output will bo increased just as
rapidly as conditions will justify.
Mr. Finley is Right.
Congressman Finley is quoted
as giving the cause of the war,
"because those people in Europe
have forgotten God." And we
believe that Mr. Finley has this
situation bown about right. It
was Dr. Pendleton Jones who
said as much in his sermon
which he preached in response
to a request from the president
that we have a peace Sunday
and all the preachers be requested
to preach peace sermons.
Dr. Jones said in substance
that it was all a farce.
That there could be no peace
until the people who were fighting
got individual righteousness
in their hearts.?Newberry Herald
and News.
Sidna Alien Estate Sold.
A despatch from Bristol, Tenn.,
Sunday to The Charlotte Observer
says that with the sale at
public auction at Hillsville, Va.,
Saturday of the Sidna Allen estate,
practically the last vestige
of property accumulations that
were once me property ot the I
"Hlllsville Aliens had passed from I
the people bearing that name.
The Sidna Allen estate consisted
of a handsome mountain mansion
and tracts of mountain land aggregating
400 acres, valued at
upwards of $50,000. Sold under
the hammer, it did not bring
much in excess of the indebtedness
protected under the deed of
trust. The amount due in court
fees, attorneys' claims and for
agreed judgments for damages
on account of the men killed
was about $15,000.
COTTON IS CONTRABAND,
SAYS GREAT BRITAIN
Announcement Saturday that
:otton had been declared absoute
contraband of war by Great
Britain came as no surprise to
official Washington, according to
despatches. Secretary Lansing
was informally advise'd by the
British Embassy some time ago
that this action had been decided
upon and that formal
announcement was delayed only
pending the arrangement of
details. This included, it is
understood, preparations to protect
the market from the effect
of the announcement and also tfn
understanding between Great
Britain and her Allies.
While officials would not discuss
the subject, it is certain
the United States will protest
against the British action, citing
the previons consistent policy of
Groat Britain in holding cotton
free of restraint. The result,
it is exDeeted. will be to draw
out a full explanation of the
reasons behind the British
change of policy. A long course
of diplomatic interchanges undoubtedly
will follow before an
agreement can be reached, or
the question possibly submitted
to arbitration.
The first direct effect of the
British announcement will be
simplify the discussion over the
orders in council now in progress.
Cotton ships have formed
a large percentage of the total
number of craft held up under
the orders, each case involving
much informal debate over arrangements
for payment by
Great Britain for three cargoes
seized. Each case, also, became
an additional factor in the formal
discussion between the two
Governments, the United States
having steadily maintained that
Great Britain was violating the
accepted rules of international
law in halting commerce between
neutrals, more especially commerce
in non-contraband goods.
It is understood the British
plan is to steady the cotton market
through actual purchases if
that becomes necessary. Probably
cotton factors will be commissioned
to keep the commodity
above a fixed minimum
price. Crop conditions this year,
it is said, will make it easier to
maintain prices because open
markets unaffected by the Allies'
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abiiuii aic iiiuic Liictn ciuit' lu ui>sorb
the entire production.
Horse Drowned in Creek.
J. M. Porter had the misfortune
to lose a valuable horse
Saturday morning by drowning.
The driver of his wagon and
another horse had a narrow
escape.
Mr. Porter had started a
wagon load of coca-cola early
for Antioch for the picknickers.
The bridge at Hoole's Fork
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recently wasueu away, since
which time people have been
using the ford. The creek was
not out of the bank and after
making inquiries the driver,
Tommy Johnson, decided it was
safe. It appeared as if the creek
had washed in the middle and
the current was so swift that
the wagon was turned downstream
and was caught in the
abutments of the former bridge.
The driver was unable to swim
and would have been drowned
had not some farm hands nearby
heard h'> cry and gone to his
assistance. They managed to
cut one of the horses loose, but
were unable to save the other
one. ? Rock Hill Herald.
Prof. Moore, of the StatesviHe
Female college, was a visitor to
FWt Mill Tuesday.
EFFORT TO KILL ELECTION
QUASHED BY COURT
The en banc session of the
supreme court, sitting at Columbia,
on Saturday dismissed the
appeal of John Henry Chappell,
a taxpayer of Newberry, asking
for an injunction prohibiting the
prohibition referendum election,
scheduled to be held on September
14:
"Upon hearing the argument
herein, and upon consideration
thereof, we are of the opinion
that the injunction be refused,
and it is so ordered," stated the
court.
"The immediate pendency of
the election forbids us to reduce
to writing the reasons for our
judgments; that will he done
hereafter, and as soon as the
circumstances shall permit of
it."
Former Gov. Cole L. Blease
and Frank G. Tompkins of
Columbia represented Mr. Chappell
and Thomas. H. Peeoles,
attorney general, and Fred H.
Dominick, assistant attorney
general, appeared for the reo
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o^ujiuciibo iiamcu in Lilt; huh.
By consent of the court. D. W.
Robinson of Columbia and W. B.
DeLoach of Camden filed arguments
in behalf of the prohibitionists
of the State.
Attorneys for John Henry
Chappell on August 6. this year,
appeared before Associate Justice
Watts at chambers in Laurens
and asked for a temporary
injunction restraining the respondents
from incurring any
expense, paying out any warrants,
or from issuing any tickets
of election for the purpose of
carrying out the proposed proI
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hibition referendum on September
14. this year. The relief
asked for was refused by Justice
Watts, but he issued an order,
returnable before the supreme
court on August 20, citing the
respondents to appear and show
cause why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.
Dr. Johnson Elected President.
Dr. David B. Johnson, president
of Winthrop College. Rock
Hill, was elected president of
the National Education Association
at Oakland, Cal., Thursday
by a vote of 479 to 184 for Miss
Grace C. Strachan, of Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Miss Grace C. Strachan, the
defeated candidate for the presidency,
is district superintendent
of schools for the city of New
York. She is the woman who
led and won the now famous
fight for "equal pay for equal
work."
Modern phases of the education
of the youth of this and
coming generations were discussed
at the congress. This is
the third International Congress,
Nrf E. A.
The address of Mr. C. M. Fite,
of Charlotte, at the school auditorium
Sundav afternoon woe
heard by a crowd which filled
the auditorium to the overflowing
point. Mr. Fite's talk
was for the most part a recital
of his life up to the time of his
conversion in the ChapmanAlexander
meeting in Charlotte
some time ago, and closed with
a fervent appeal to his friends
in the audience to turn from
their evil ways. Mr. Fite is well
known in Fort Mill and his talk
made a deep impression on all
who heard him.
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"runks, $2.50 to $16.
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rowels, Polish, Etc.
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lars, Ties, Shirts, 'Ker
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Stationery, Etc.
Mothers
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GOVERNMENT MONEY
WILL AIDTHE FARMERS.
Secretary McAdoo was on
Tuesday prepared to extend aid
to the Southern cotton growers
to enable them to dispose of
their product to the greatest ad
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vantage, said a Washington
dispatch.
The secretary announced that
in view of the action of the allies
in making cotton contraband he
was ready, if necessary to take
either one of two courses to help
the cotton producer. One of
these plans is to deposit $30,000,(XX)
or more in gold in the
federal reserve banks at Atlanta,
Dallas and Richmond to
enable those banks to rediscount
cotton secured by warehouse
receipts made by national and
State banks belonging to the
reserve system. No interest
would be charged on the deposits
for the present at least.
The other plan is to deposit
the gold directly with national
banks agreeing to lend the
money on cotton at a rate not to
exceed 6 per cent. The latter
will be used if the object sought
can be accomplished with arrester
efficiency thereby.
Secretary McAdoo declared
that if there was co-operation
between the bankers, the merchants
and producers the cotton
situation could be handled with
happy results.
The German ambassador at
Washington Tuesday communicated
to the State department a
message from his government
expressing sympathy if American
lives were lost on the British
ship Arabic, and asked that the
United States delay taking a definite
attitude until Germany could
be heard from.