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Dl I The Fort Mill Times. H ^EstabU^ed^nJ89L^ FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1915^ SI 25 STATE NEWS ARRANGED P FOR QUICK READING. m Bill Bolin, who was shot by S Police Chief Duncan of BlacksI burg three weeks ago. died at | his home in that city Sunday. I Capt. Wm. E. Gonzales, of ; Columbia, United States minister to Cuba, is spending some time at his home in this State. h A number of citizens of Greenville have petitioned the adjutant general to allow the organization of a company of artillery in that city. The contract for Orangeburg's new school building has been let to an Orangeburg contractor, the building to cost $21,000, exclus. .iveof the heating plant and lighting system. Gov. Manning has issued requisition papers on the governor of North Carolina for the return of Johnson Benson, who is wanted in Lancaster on the charge of larceny from the field. f Jim Hayes, a resident of the 'Cotton Beit section of York county, is in jail charged with firing upon a passing automobile some % nights ago near Sharon. The occupants of the car were slightly peppered with shot. The attendance at Winthrop college lor the term which be^ gan yesterday is given at 1,003, the largest in the history of the college. The students will hereafter take Saturday, instead of Monday, as the week-day holiday. Gov, Manning Monday grant? ed a parole during good behavior to Robert Kennells, a young white man convicted at the October, 1914, term of court in Greenwood county, before Judge Sease, and sentenced to serve 15 months on the public works. No Chance for Peace? Peace proposals, even though they come through the United States as intermediary, have absolutely no better chance in f * ? .3 . . . . . 1 ,1 uivnt ill luilll Itilld) liUlll I I IL'y had six months or even a year ago. That is the universal opinion in ofhcial circles at London. according to a special dis?patch to the Now York World. Although no member of the government would be quoted in a discussion of the possibility of peace terms, one responsible official, in a position to speak "* with authority, gave the correspondent a statement of Great Britain's position. In the first place, he denied explicitly and categorically that peace rumors have any foundation in any O of ?/\n f V* n rvnwl * U /\ avuun on me [JUI t ui tut; unu.sii government or in any statement from responsible sources. , How Long Will it Continue? United States troops in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas were held ready for instant action Monday night as a result of a carefully planned attack by 30 Mexicans early Monday on the camp of a cavalry patrol near the river. Although surprised and surrounded, the 10 troopers of Troop A. Twelfth United States Cavalry, made a spectacular defense and forced their assailants to retire. i The American soldiers lost two killed and two slightly wounded. Two Mexicans seen to fall during the battle were carried off by their comrades. The Americans killed were Private Anthony Kraft of Detroit and Harold B. j Forney. Watertown, N. Y. I v i ^ - REV. MR. HAIR WRITES OF HIS LONG TRIP WEST Prof. J. P. Coats and I left at 10 p. m.. August 10th. We made fine progress and saw little of special interest until 8 a. m., Saturday. August 14, when we arrived at the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Here the Colorado river has cut for itself a bed one mile deep, thirteen miles wide at the top. The figures given represent the maximum width and depth. The entire Canyon is over eighty miles long. There are three trails leading down the | bank to the waters of the river. The shortest trail is eight miles | long. Tourists usually go down and 11n trail r?n l.nrrno TliorQ | are hundreds of these little animals kept busy going up and down the trails daily. But, ! since the burro ride costs five dollars, some people make the ; trip on foot, only to regret it i afterwards, on account of a i weary body, aching limbs and ! blistered feet. The trip from the Canyon to Los Angeles was through the ! Mojave desert. A portion of the | desert is entirely destitute of i vegetation, the rest has a variety of vegetation, which is always scant. The weather is intensely hot, the temperature often stands for weeks above one hundred and twenty. In the midst of this desert the "Valley of Death" was pointed out to us. j It is so-named because many men lost their lives there when gold was first discovered in California. Our trio thmnah this desert country prepared us for a visit to the ostrich farm of five hundred and the alligator farm of sixteen hundred when we reached Los Angeles, for we had already decided that any form dependent upon the soil for nourishment would not be profitable. However, we found that g?.od resultt could be obtained by means of irrigation, which is expensive. We found everybody here seemed to be in a great hurry. Our hotel bus had a collision with a street car injuring three of our party, the worst sufferer was a little boy, | who lost two front teeth. We ! expected to have to appear in i court as all our names and ad- j uresses were immediately se- I cured, but heard nothing more from it. We next visited San Ihego, where we found an ideal climate the entire year. It is beyond i doubt the most ddfightful city we have ever visited. We next visited Tia Juan, Mexico. We ; found all forms of gambling and j many other vices unrestricted. General Villa has a fort here I containing about two hundred soldiers. We visited the ring where the bull fights are held every Sunday. We saw alien and a bull that were advertised to fight th; following Sunday, j Our ride from here to San Francisco along the shore of the! I Pacific ocean was delightful. I We looked for hours that night; out on the Pacific under the light! | of a full moon. When we arrived at San i ~* i - ~ ~ 11 -i i'luncmcu hiltu was a cum damp wind blowing, which continned the entire four days of our visit. Mr. Coats said that it was raining all the time, but the people; who live there said that it was; only fog. We did not see the sun while there or until we were; more than a hundred miles from the city. The exposition was very much like the other four great expositions we have attended, except it was constructed j on a far more elaborate and ex-1 : pensive scale. The exposition cost more than fifty million dollars, but the managers are already out or debt. The attendance has exceeded all expectations. We could give but two days to the exposition and : we could not have done it justice . in less than two weeks. It would require a week to examine all the exhibits in the five main buildings. One thing I must mention, as it was considered the greatest single attraction at the exposition. We I paid fifty cents to see a reproj duction of the Panama Canal. We were told to take a seat and put the telephone receivers to EIGHT FORT MILL MEN SELECTED FOR TERM The Fort Mill Light Infantry, Co. G, First regiment, is to be represented by eight men in the i State rifle contest which is to be held at Styx, just outside of Columbia, September 20th to 24th, inclusive, according to a list received by Capt. S. W. ! Parks Monday from the adjutant general's office of the 75 men selected upon their records to make up the State team. To say that the officers and men of the local company are proud of their records in the preliminary shooting which closed August 31, is a mild ex ~ ? i.i i* i \T a pression ui meir ieenngs. ixot only did the men maintain their high standard of marksmanship, but in two instances Fort Mill men ranked ahead of the best shots in the State. Sergt Geo. W. Potts, of Fort Mill, who two years ago established the highest score for the State, has again won that distinction, and Capt. S. W. Parks, who is considered among the best shots in the State's national guard, this year takes third place, being beaten only by Sergt. Potts and Capt. E. B. Cantey, the instructor of small arms practice of the national guard. It is also worthy of note that each of the eight men of the Fort Mill company whose records were submitted to the adjutant general's office were given places in the coming contest from which will be selected the fifteen men to represent South Carolina in the national shoot in Jacksonville, Fla., early next month. Members of the local cortipany are confident that their organization will not be without representation in the Jacksonville contest. The Fort Mill men who will enter the State shoot at Styx (are: Sergt. Geo. W. Potts, Capt. S. W. Parks, Private Wm. Belk, Sergt. F. M. Mack, Sergt. Her- 1 bert Harris, Corp. R. H. Ardrey, 1 Sergt. J. L. Black welder. Pri- 1 vale Hugh Wisher. These men 1 will leave Fort Mill on the afternoon train next Sunday, the 19th, in order to report at Styx early J the following morning. Selection of a Wife. In France, Germany, China, Japan and many other countries, wives are selected for the man by the parents, with the assumption that the parents being older and having larger experience with life, are better capable of selecting a wife than the inexperienced youth. It is not yet proved that this is an unwise course. John Hari, Esq.. of Yorkville, was a visitor to Fort Mill Monday. our ears. Then we began to move anu to near a lecture di - \ scribing in detail the progress , of a ship that had just entered the canal directly before us. 1 Every thing along the canal of < interest was numbered and we I were told to look at the number ( while a full explanation was , given. This lecture was divided into fifteeTi sections which enabled each one on the little train to hear the portion of the lecture 1 which explained the numbers di- | rectly in front just as the ship < in the canal reached that point. , These connections were made ' and broken automatically by ' means of a very fine wire under I the little train. The lecture was | produced by means of forty-five , phonographs that were in a room near by. Fifteen were held in ' reserve for use when anything ' I went wrong with one in use. I This very real exhibit of the | canal cost four hundred thous- ( and dollars. | I now leave you to study this great canal until I have time to ' I write again. S. P. Hair. I WORK DAY SEPT. 25; REMEMBER_THE ORPHANS There are nearly 1.000 orphan children in the church orphanapes of the State: 300 at Thornwell Orphanage, Clinton: 250 at Connie Maxwell, Greenwood: 240 at Epworth Orphanage, at Columbia and 122 at the Church Home, Yorkville. The daily bread for all these children comes from the gifts of the people. They have nothing except what is given them. These children are being trained ^ _ ft ~ - - vu maKe usetul, healthy, intelligent citizens, and many boys and girls reared in these orphanages are succeeding in life. All these institutions are crowded and their needs are pressing. By appointment. Saturday. Sept. 25, has been designated as "Labor Day" and all who are interested in orphan children are asked to give to one of these orphanages what they earn on Saturday, Sept. 25. Let all who will earn some money that day, the busy man at his desk, the merchant and the farmer, housewives and school children, all wage earners?everybody; let all make a gift, large or small, that day to one of the orphanages named above. This has been a hard year for all these institutions and a gift, some large, some small, from everybody, is sorely needed just now. Charley Logan, a negro, who was convicted last week of murder in Abbeville, has been taken to the State penitentiary. He was sentenced to electrocution on October 15 for killing a Mrs. Scott near Lowndesville. 1 U* 1 1 | riaKe t I -BP iSeE IffoCt wide cupboard fcr-31 space?uncluttered f j* by partitions or | Mills & PROHIBITION CARRIES BY TWO TO ONE VOTE Statewide prohibition will take effect in South Carolina January 1. 191G. At the polls Tuesday the people of the State, by a majority of more than two to one, voted to substitute Statewide prohibition for the uresent system of local option between the county dispensary and prohibition. The vote as far as could be se-1 cured up to yesterday mornir.fr' stood: For prohibition, 33, 4G*?r against prohibition, 14,345. It was thought that the vote would probably reach 00,000. Of all the counties, Charleston voted decisively against Statewide prohibition, incomplete re-1 turns showing that the vote was about ten to one against prohibition. With 17 out of 1!) boxes heard from, York county's vote was: For prohibition, 757; against prohibition, 153. To Restore Passenger Trains. Of interest to the general traveling public is the information that beginning October 3 the Southern Railway company will restore trains Nos. 31 and 32 between New York and Augusta, Ga., and that they will be operated as high class trains with dining cars, Pullmans and coaches. While the definite schedule has not been announced it is understood that No. 31 southbound will pass through Charlotte ahead of No. 37 and that No. 32 will pass through Charlotte northbound about the same schedule as that of the first section of No. 28, reaching Washington about 6:30 the next morning. vw XJ'XJ' owy^y^yvy1 he Wife II ?-. ~ 5*' -4* rhia is "HOOSIER BEAUTY' The National Step Saver Young( i the New Store DOMINICK AND TILLMAN AFTER AIKEN'S PLACE According to a Columbia despatch. Fred II. Dominick, assistant attorney general, on Monday authorized the statement that he is a candidate for Congress from the third district and will make $ the race for the Democratic primaries next summer. Mr. Dominick has served his native county of Newberry in the general assembly, served several terms as county chairman of Newberry Tfounty. Last year he ran for congress in the third district and was in the second race with Congressman Wyatt Aiken. He is well Known in the district and is waging an active canvass. Henry C. Tillman, of Greenwood. son of United States Senator B. It. Tillman, said Monrlnir ? tU-l I * ' ' uuji iiiui iiin^ kiicti ne was in tne race for congress from the third district. Mr. Tillman is a member of the Greenwood bar and has represented his county several times in the Democratic State conventions. He is a member of the board of prrdons. Congressman Wyatt Aiken, . who has served the third district several terms, will undoubtedly run for re-election. It is thought that there may be other candidates in the race and that a warm fight is in progress for the democratic nomination in the third in 1916. Employees of the Columbia street railway company on Saturday went on strike, following the dismissal of two employees of the company. The strikers demanded that the two men discharged be re-instated and this the company refused.. Happy 1 i Homp'y |