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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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rhia is "HOOSIER BEAUTY'
The National Step Saver
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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
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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..
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