The Fort Mill Times.
Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THUF.SDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915. *1.25 P*r v?or
STATE NEWS ARRANGED
FOR QUICK READING.
The next legislature probably
will appoint an inspector of the
State printing.
Albert Lyles, colored, under
arrest for burglarizing the residence
of H. E. Wells, has confessed
to other thefts which have
been mystifying the Columbia
police for some time.
Twenty-nine county fairs will
he held this fall in South Carolina.
The State department of
agriculture and the State board
of health have arranged to send
an exhibit to practically all the
fairs.
A negro giving his name as
Will Hines and claiming Atlanta
as his home, Friday at noon
attempted to rob the safe in the
store of Sherer& Quinn at Yorkville.
He was frustrated in the
attempt and is now in jail.
Denying their guilt five negro
murderers, Joe Molloy, Meek
Griffin, Tom Griffin, John Crosby
and Nelson Brice were executed
at the State penitentiary last
Wednesday morning between
^ 11 and 12 o'clock.
A statement of the condition
to September 2 of the 302 State
bank? and trust companies, two
private banks and 15 branch
, banks of South Carolina was
issued Friday by I. M. Mauldin,
State bank examiner. The overdrafts
amounted to $390,109.18.
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Eight negroes, in the Sumter
county jail charged with minor
n offenses, broke prison at a late
hour Saturday night. Two were
recaptured Sunday morning, and
a third, who went to his home
at Wedgefield, was taken back
Monday by his parents.
Gov. Harris, of Georgia, has
refused to honor requisition
drawn on him by Gov. Manning
for Ed Hamilton, alias Williams,
alias Harmon, a white man
wanted in Anderson county for
obtaining goods under false pretence.
After practicing for several
days at the range near Styx, in
Lexington county, the South
Carolina rifle team left Sunday
night for Jacksonville to participate
in the national shoot.
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j. nc ttritm is composed or 10 men
and officers. The team will return
to Columbia on October 22.
The annual fair of the Victoria
and Arcade cotton mills at Rock
Hill will be held Saturday. An
interesting program has been
prepared and the visitors vill be
invited to inspect the community
exhibits. Commissioner Watson
will deliver one of the addresses
at the fair.
, There is some probability of
the town of Lowry ville, Chester
county, being made the defendent
in a suit for damages,
as the result of an accident
sustained recently by a young
man. Mr. R I. Rit/?Vior?c
^was thrown from his motorcycle
and painfully hurt when he ran
into an open ditch on one of
Lowryville's streets.
A county supervising teacher,
who would work as an assistant
^ to the county superintendent of
education, is strongly advocated
by Lueco Gunter, State supervisor
of rural schools. The
object of such an innovation
would be principally to standardize
the methods of instruction!
and the studies in the various I
schools in a county.
Maps of United States.
School teachers who are not
familiar with the many and various
mans published by the
United Stales Geological Survey
will be interested to learn of a
small map of the United States
that is sold by the bureau at the
nominal price of 1 cent. This
map shows rivers, lakes. State
boundaries. State capitals, and
principal cities, but not the less
important features, whose numerous
names and symbols tend
to create obscurity and confusion.
This map does not show
heights of mountain ranges. It
measures about 81-2 by 12 inches
and its scale is 260 miles to 1
inch. Five copies of the map
are sold for 3 cents if an order
tor them is included in any order
for maps amounting to $3.
Orders for the maps may be
addressed to the Director, IT. S.
Geological Survey, Washington, j
D, C.
Picks Much Cotton.
John Rowell, who lives about
four miles south of Swansea, has j
a young, son who perhaps has
eclipsed any cotton picker in the
State, says a press dispatch.
Some time ago he told his
father that he could pick (>00
pounds of cotton in one day. J
Later he picked 324 pounds be- ,
fore noon, but was so fatigued
that he could not work in the
afternoon. A few days ago after
an all-day effort he^ picked
001 pounds. This boy, Ryan,
is only 15 years old and of slight
build.
Killed4n France.
Interest attaches throughout i
the State to the announcement
of the death of Montague Nicholls,
of Spartanburg, who was
killed several days ago on the
firing line in France. As a lieu|
tenant in the English army, the
Spartanburg hoy had seen constant
service since the outbreak
of the war and had only recently
recuperated from a severe
wound. In addition to being
personally known here, the deceased
is well remembered by
many others as the star quarterback
of the Annapolis team for
several seasons, being rated as
among the best gridiron performers
of the country. It was
last year rumored that he would
enter Carolina, following his
decision not to return to An-1
napolis.
Germany Offers 16 Cents.
The group of German firms ;
which recently offered to buy
1,000,000 bales of American
cotton at 15 cents a pound if :
delivered in Bremen, has cabled 1
Senator Hoke Smith they now
are willing to pav 16 cents. The
firms have deposited securities
with the American Consulate in
Berlin to cover the purchase
price and guarantee that the 1
cotton will not be put to military J
or naval uses. Delivery at
Bremen will be impossible, however,
unle&s some modification
of the British orders-in-council 1
and contraband orders can be 1
secured.
Ford Will Work on Motors.
Henry Ford, of Detroit, has
arranged to make a trip in a
government submarine, with the
view of studying the management
of the machinery and the
subsequent development of a
new motor that will be be more
suitable in maneuvering the,,
craft. Mr. Ford promises to aid
the navy officials in devising suitable
motors for aeroplanes and
hydroplanes. He says that he
believes wireless control of aeroplanes
is possible.
ESTIMATE OF CROP
SHOWS GREAT SHORTAGE
A heavy decline in the condition
of the growing- cotton
crop almost double the average
decline of the last 10 years,
during September, has decreased
the production prospects forecast
earlier in the season by
almost a million bales.. The
Department of Agriculture Monday
estimated the crop at 10,950,000
equivalent 500 pound
bales, which would be the smallest
crop since 1909.
In announcing the condition
report and production estimate,
the crop reporting board made
this slatpinonl
"The cotton crop condition
declined 8.4 points during the
month of August 25 to September
2f> which compared with
an average decline in the same
period in the past 10 years of
4.5 points. The estimated condition
of 60.8 per cent of normal
on September 25 forecasts a
yield per acre of about 168
pounds and a total production
(allowing a reduction of one per
cent from planted area for
abandonment) of about 10,950,000
bales. Last year's production
was 16,1.'15,000 bales and
the 1913 crop 14,156,000. A
crop less than 11,000,000 bales
would be smaller than any crop
since 1909.
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the season, compiled from reports
of census bureau correspondents
and agents throughout
the cotton belt and issued at
10 a. m. Monday, announced that
2,900,007 bales of cotton, counting
round as half bales, of the
growth of 1915 has been ginned
prior to September 25. This
compared with 3,393,752 bales,
21.3 per cent of the entire crop,
ginned prior to September 25
last year.
As a result of the above reports
spot cotton in Fort Mill
immediately jumped back to 12
cents, having stood at 111-2
cents since Friday.
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inaigo nam lor kock tlill.
Mill men and others throughout
this section will be interested
to learn that Hamilton Carhartt,
a well known manufacturer of
overalls with big plants at various
points throughout the country,
is preparing to install, in
connection with his mill at Rock
Hill, an indigo plant.
It will be perhaps the only
plant of its kind in this country,
and will go far toward solving
the vexed dye situation which
the European war has brought
about. The Rock Hill plant will
operate to grind the vegetable
indigo as grown in India, arrangements
for which has been
made for shipping to this country.
The cost of the vegetable
product will be about $3 a pound, |
as against a cheaper rate formerly
paid for Germany's dyes,
but it is going to demonstrate
that indigo dyes can be made in
this country just as good if not
cjuite as cheap, perhaps, at first
as in any country.
Blease Outlines Platform.
In declaring at Greenville!
Saturday that he would he a
candidate for re-election for
Governor of South Carolina next
summer, for Gov. Cole L. Blease
defended his pardon record, declared
he favored local option,
opposed the open saloon, advocated
lynching of the ravisher,
condemned the Tax Commission,
stating that it was not giving
the corporations a square deal,
and stated that the ministers
should stay in the pulpit and
cease mixing in politics.
Three thousand people heard
Blease speak. '
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GRADED SCHOOL HONOR ROLL.
Ity J. D. Kulp Supt
The following pupils havei
made an average on all studies
of over '.>5 and are entitled to be
placed on the honor roll:
Second Grade?-Franklin Arm-1
strong, Willie Bradford. B. W.I
Bradford, Jr., Elliott Bennett,
Cora Massey, John Me Laughiin,
Hattie Parks. Inez Wolfe.
Third Grade?Mary Kite, Edith
Parks, Lula Mae Parks, Amidas
Link. John McKee Spratt. Thurlo
Pittman.
Fourth Grade Elizabeth Ard
rcy, Katherine Massey, Bertha
Moore.
Fifth Grade?None.
Sixth Grade?Annie Parks,
El ma Bradford, Marion Parks,
Cleo Bailes.
Seventh Grade Blanch Moser.
Eighth Grade?Emma Epps.
Ninth Grade?Ethel Hughes,
Barron Bennett.
Tenth Grade?Marjorie Mills,
Clarence Patterson, John A.
Boyd. Agnes Link, Bernice Mills.
Robert Potts, Robert Erwin,
William Erwin.
The tenth grade, lti pupils,
had a perfect attendance record
the past month. The total enrollment
of the school is 250 and
the average daily attendance
was 223.
Parents are urged to examine
carefully, noting any remarks
upon their children's reports,
and to assist the teachers in
correcting these defects.
The Port Mill high school football
team will play the Chester
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York County Fair.
It is hard to realize that scarcely
one week from now the great
York County Fair throws open
its doors to the thousands of
[citizens of York, and the five or
J six surrounding counties.
! The management calls attention
to the fact that the entr;es
of all exhibits must be
made next Monday and Tuesday.
The entry books will close Tuesday
night. The secretary and j
his assistants will move their]
offices to the fair grounds next i
Mondav morning and all exhibitors
will report to them with
their entry blanks either filled
out or ready to be filled out.
When possible it is desired that
these be filled out beforehand.
If it is possible for you to
bring your exhibits to the fair
grounds Monday or Tuesday,
send or mail them, or get them
there some way and they will
; be taken care of by Manager
| B. II. Massey and his careful
and efficient helpers.
Everything is in excellent I
shape and the motto "something
doing every minute" is 'nuf ced.
A Card from Mr. Spratt.
Editor Times: I believe there
were more than ten righteous
in the number of readers of the
Fort Mill Times whose prayers
were asked a year ago and who
prayed and have continued to
pray God to give us a living
price for our cotton. "Before
the mountains were brought
forth or ever Thou hadst formed
the earth and the world, even
from ovprlnstin<r tn ovoi-loctinir
Thou art God." Oh, that "King
Cotton" could stay in his place
and let the Lord Jesus Christ
alone at the helm on the throne.
James Spratt.
Fort Mill, Sept. 21).
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GREECE NEXT TO JOIN
THE ENTENTE ALLIES
All doubt as to the entrance
of Greece in the European war
on the side of the entente allies
has apparently now been disposed
of. The official organ of
the government says that the
landing of French troops the
last week at Saloniki is for the
purpose of assisting Greece.
In regard to the landing of
the French troops the govern4.1
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menial Buys iiiui 11 ior me
present the government considers
the assistance of the allies
as premature, it is none the less
to aid and support Greece that
the allies are at Saloniki.
France and England enter the
Balkans as traditional friends
of Greece and not otherwise.
The Greek government has
seized the Macedonia railroads
of which two were Austrian and
one French.
Be Ye Not Deceived.
There is absolutely nothing to
! that little story which has been
whispered around to the effect
that since Judge Gary declared
the "gallon-a-month" law unconstitutional,
a fellow can order
a whole barrel of beer now as
often as he chooses instead of
the measly little eight bottles
which have heretofore constituted
a gallon. A reporter mentioned
the rumor to Deputy
Sheriff Quinn yesterday and
that official replied: "Well. I
don't know whether any one
can have a barrel of beer delivered
to them or not; but I tell
you if we hear of any one receiving
a barrel we will seize
tne shipment and test the matter
in the courts." ?Enquirer.
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