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. ) ? - M The Fort Mill Times. Established in 1891. -n^m ~ _.. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21. 191 ft ~ ? STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING. The Baptist State convention is to be held in Greenville December 10-15. inclusive. W. P. Pollock, of Cheraw, denies the report that he will be in ( the governor's race next year. W. R. Able, a cotton seed dealer of St. Matthews, last week purchased 600 tons of seed, val ued at $25,000. It is probable that the students of Winthrop college will be allowed to spend one day at the State fair in Columbia. An ordinance has been introduced in the city council of Columbia making it a misdemeanor for any person to drink in a public place in that city. The city of Sumter has made arrangements whereby it will receive $10,000 from the Carnegie library commission for the erection of a new library in that city. / The Chester County Fair in the city of Chester opened yesterday and will continue for three days. The Dresent fair is the biggest in every way of any fair ever held in the county. Expense statements filed by John P. Grace and T. T. Hyde, ; candidates for mayor of Charleston in the election last week, showed that Grace spent $4,833,43, and Hyde $3,024.07. Although the city of Florence will lose an annual revenue of $40,000 when the dispensaries go out of business, the city council ** of Florence has decided not to ( increase the tax levy of the city < at present. According to the monthly report of the State dispensary ; auditor, the sales in the 15 dis- j pensary counties for September i amounted to $290,090.87, the : county 01 unarieston leading with $67,258.02. The Charleston Democratic J Executive Committee late Satur- j day evening declared Major Tristram T. Hyde the nominee for the office of Mayor of Char- j leston, having a majority of 128 votes over his opponent, John P. Grace, the incumbent. The death rate in this State J from pellagra based on reports , of the bureau of vital statistics, I has been 90 per 100,000 popula- I tion for the first eight months of ' this year. The death rate from j typhoid fever for the same peri- , od was 26.5. The number of < deaths from pellagra from Janu ary 1 to August 31, inclusive was 1,083. : Major B. F. Whitner, of Rock Hill, an alumnus of the University of South Carolina, has pre- ' sented the law school of the institution with a valuable law \ library, the foundations of which j were laid by his father, Judge 1 Whitner, of Anderson, a promi- ] nent ante-bellum jurist. The library consists of something like j 500 volumes. 1 Deputy Sheriff L. E. Cooper of " Greenville has been held by a ( coroner's jury, charged with the J shooting of Mrs. Millie Fuller, j The shooting occurred at the * Woodsiae mill in Greenville sev- < eral months ago. Cooper had 1 gone to the home of Mrs. Fuller < with a warrant for the arrest of ' a man who was in her home. In j the melee that followed the dep- ( uty sheriff shot several persons i and killed Mrs. Fuller. I PLEASANT VALLEY FAIR TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK Times Correspondence. Unusual and widespread interest is being manifested in Pleasant Valley's Community Fair which will be held on Friday. October 29, on the grounds and in the handsome new store building of the Hon. O. W. I Potts. This fair will be held under the auspices of the local Homemakers' Club and the Pleasant Valley Farmers' Club and these clubs have offered a long list of prizes which, lest we take too much of your valI liable space, I will not enumer- i ate. The following have also | olfered handsome prizes: Mr. W. H. Davidson of Charlotte, and the following from Fort Mill: E. W. Kimbrell Co., McElhaney Co., A. O. Jones, B. W. Bradford, W. F. Harris & Sons. Everyone residing in Indian Land Township will be entitled to compete for a prize, but all! residing outside of this township are invited and urged to bring exhibits. No entrance fee will be charged for exhibits and no admission fee of any kind will be charged. The fair is simply i for the uplift and mutual help of the best interests of our community. Exhibits must be owned by i the party entering the exhibit and no two or more persons will be allowed to combine their products to make an exhibit for a prize. Exhibits in the Household, Flower, and Farm Products Departments must be made or produced by the exhibitor. Prizes will be offered on the following. Floral Dept. Best chrysanthemum, 2nd best chrysanthemum, best collection of chrysanthemums, 2nd best collection of chrysanthemums. B.st specimen of fern, best specimen of fern grown this year, 2nd best grown this year. Best geranium, best geranium grown this year, 2nd best geranium this year. Best dahlia, 2nd best dahlia. Best collection of roses. Needlework Dept. Best embroidered centerpiece, best tatted centerpiece, best crocheted centerpiece, best collection of fancy work. L<\>r girls under 16 years: Best made child's apron, most properly worked button hole, best darning, best collection of plain and fancy work. Household Dept. Best quart of canned fruit, best quart preserves, best quart pickles, best quart catsup, best collection of jelly, 2nd best collection of jelly. Best plain cake, best layer cake, best pie, best custard, best six biscuits, best light bread, best pound of butter, best pound of honey, best collection of pantry supplies, best, collection of corn meal dishes. Baby Show. Most perfect baby under two /ears, 2nd m st perfect baby inder two years. Live Stock Dept. Best dairy cow, best dairy bull, oest beef cow, best beef bull. Best pure bred sow, best grade sow, best boar. Best home raised colt under three years of ige, best mule, best horse shown to buggy. Beat display Rhode Island Reds, best display White Wyandottes, best display Black Ylinorcas, best display of poultry n the show, best pair turkeys, 2nd best nair tnrknve Farm Products Dept. Best peck wheat, best peck 1 >ats, best peck peas, best peck iweet potatoes, best peck Irish potatoes, best ten ears of corn, Dest single ear of corn, best live stalks of corn, best stalk of :otton, best bunch of turnips, 3est quart sorghum syrup, best ] ixhibit of peanuts on vines (not ess than three vines.) In conclusion, we extend the Editor and all others a very : :ordial invitation to attend Pleas- 1 int Valley's first community, fair. S. EL Bailes. i \ YORK COUNTY'S FAIR WAS GRAND SUCCESS The York County fair closed Saturday night, and while all of the hills for expenses incurred for this fair are not at hand nor the premium list been figured out. from the figures available at this time the managers are sure that the fair this year has heen a financial success, which is most gratifying under the conditions that have existed for the past year. The exhibits were the best that have been shown here, or at any other fair. Parties who have attended fairs all over the country say they never saw better ones. The stock exhibit was the finest ever held in the State, f* f h A x i win tuc iciv.i, ui<u mcif were more fine thoroughbred stock there. The exhibit building was filled to overflowing and a large tent had to be provided for a part of the farm products. The stook was so great that it could scarcely be accommodated. This, of course, will be remedied by another year by the stock pens to be erected there. The chicken exhibit was very fine, indeed. Prof. Hare of Clernson College stated he was very much surprised to see such a fine exhibit, and it is suggested that a fine winter show could be held here by the poultry producers and expert advice in regard to chickens can be obtained from Mr. Cleveland, State Agent for South Carolina, who is WOrkJrvrr In ui^, in v-umn,LLIUll Willi TTlIllllIUp College. Profs. Cleveland, Whitfield and Willie Poag, we understand, are due credit for this good exhibit at the fair. Miss Marie Fewell and Miss Alice Mitchell, assisted by others, are at work on the premium list and checks will be mailed the prize-winners in about two weeks.? Rock Hill Record. Will Wed December 20. President Wilson and Mrs. | Norman Gait will be married in Washington, December 20th, if information that was given out Saturday is correct. The honeymoon trip will be to Panama and the canal zone, it is said, and the president and his bride will return to Washington in time for the New Year's recention. The trio to the canal zone will be on the presidential i yacht Mayflower. ( Will Double Big Mill. According to press despatches, arrangements have been completed by the Republic Cotton Mills, of Great Falls, to double their plant, capacity, output and number of employes. At a meeting of stockholders in New York a few days ago, all details were arranged for increasing the capital stock from $600,000 to $1,200,000, all paid-in spot cash and all common stock. The new plant will be handsome and modern and will have 40,000 spindles and 1,000 looms. Three hundred residences for operatives will be provided, together with a welfare house. Every home will be equipped with interior sewerage, hot and cold running water, electric lights, and all the other appurtenances of a modern dwelling. Each house will have from I four to six rooms. They will be I rented to the operatives at a I nominal price. I Mrs. W. A. Hafner returned I Monday from a visit to relatives ( in Winnsboro. I Carl Jones, of Great Fails, was ( k visitor to Fort Mill this week. 1 PATTERSON IS MAYOR BY SMALL MAJORITY In the special election held in Fort Mill to nominate a mayor to fill the unexpired term of A. R. McElhaney, resigned, 171 votes were cast, of which W. M. Carothers received 82 and B. E. Patterson 89, the latter being elected by a majority of seven votes. Considerable interest was taken in the election as indicated by the large vote cast, the largest in the history of the town. Mr. Patterson has the honor of being the youngest mayor that Fort Mill has ever had, having only recently attained his majority and casting his first ballot in this election. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Patterson and is very highly esteemed vuiuu^nuui me luwn and community. Mr. Patterson took the oath of office at a special meeting of council Thursday evening. Canal Closed Rest of Year. A careful survey of the recent slide area in the Gailliard Cut reveals that there probably are ten million cubic yards of earth in motion, which must be taken out by bredging before permanent channel is possible. This is the conclusion reached by the Panama canal engineers, who concede there now is little hope of opening the waterway, even for the temporary use of shipping, much before the first of the year. The present rate of wet excavation is a million yards a month and at this rate it would require not less than ten months to remove the mass now sliding into the canal considerably faster than the dredges can take it out. ? Something I ? S) A 1 1 I @ nandsome Li I given Free every 1 00-Piece Limcg given Free the 27 T1 With each 25-cent purct them all. 1 hey are valual One Set of Tableware w To the person holding tl the number which is undei sent Absolutely f ree at the jg t orty-1 6$ We will continue giving ? Saturday of the 1 wenty-Se GP holding the corresponding g play dard in our store, a he | One Hui X It will be necessary for y a in order to secure one of tl If you are not fortunate ( ^ your coupons and bring th< 3 ing the entire twenty-sever I REMEMBER I Mills & ONE MAN SHOT DEAO; FOUR OTHERS INJURED Bitterness, arising out of the Charleston municipal campaign which ended in a primary election Tuesday of last week with the apparent nomination for mayor of Tristram T. Hyde over the incumbent, .John P. Grace, by a majority of 19 votes, flamed J into bloodshed when the Charleston Democratic executive committee met at noon Friday to canvass the returns. Hardly had the chairman. .Tospnh A r, Black, a Hyde man, declared the meeting open before a shot struck down Sidney J. Cohen, a young reporter of the Charleston Evening Post, and in the more or less general exchange of shots which followed four men, all of the Grace faction, were wounded two of them seriously. During the affray two or three ballot boxes and several club books were hurled out through windows and in the ensuing scramble in the street two men were clubbed. W. A. Turner received a bullet in his right lung, VV. E. Wmgate was wounded in the hip and has a scalp confusion. Harry L. Wilensky was shot in the arm and Jeremiah O'Brien was shot in the ankle. Max Goldman and Tristram T. Hyde, Jr., sufferred minor bruises. Several men were arrested and afterward released on bail, but of these none was charged with actual participation in the affray. Some of them are held for carrying concealed weapons, the others being merely detained. Stories of the clash differ widely and no dependable account in detail as to just how or by whom the shooting was done has been procured. 90? 0?00 000000 g's Happene RE IT imoges China Dinner week for 26 weeks, es China Dinner Se th week. he Condition lase at our store we will issue a ole. ill be awarded each Saturday aft le coupon bearing the number c r the Seal on Large Display Care : hour specified, one of these be? -? n? rx wo riece LJinm one these sets each week for I v ven th week, we will present Ab: or nearest number to the one ur autiful ndred Piece Din ou to be in our store each Satur lese beautiful Dinner Sets, enough to secure one of these j em each Saturday at the time st? i weeks. [--One Coupon With Each 25c Young < 1 the New Store 91.20 rer Year. _ ??? CONGRESSMAN HEFLIN SEES 20-CENT COTTON That cotton will sell at $100 a bale before Christmas and seed at $65 a ton was the confident prediction of Congressman Heflin of Alabama in Washington Saturday. In a statement urging that Southern cotton growers stick to the plan of holding their staple for a price Heflin said the mills of this country will demand three fifths of the entire crop this year. T,.,., ; n: i i? ...in . 1U1 mill lull OUICS Will CUI1SMtute the entire cotton production of the country this year, according to Heflin. Of this the mills will take six million, he says, leaving only four million to be divided between export and munitions manufacture. Heflin points out that since August last year, we have exported almost as much as the entire crop this year will aggregate. "The European nations are already paying fabulous prices . for secondary products of cotton, such as dry batteries and picric acid, used in making explosives," says the statement. "And cotton for smokeless powder and other explosives will be in greater demand than ever before. "Cotton prices are bound to be higher, higher than at any time since the war between the States. The European natibns are going to pay and ought to pay 20 cents a pound for cotton before long. Germany is already in the Southern market, buying and storing cotton." Miss Bessie Withers has returned to her home here, after a visit with relatives in Virginia. I0030080080O00 d? ? ? I Set, worth $ 1 2.00 0 ana a complete * t, worth S30.00, & lS* ? numbered Coupon. Save Cy ernoon at 3 o'clock. * crresponding to or nearest a 1 in our store, we will pre- gS lutiful 0 jr Sets. ? venty-Six Weeks, and on ^ solutely I rce to the person ? tder the Gold Seal on dis iner Set. g day at the hour mentioned ?c sets the first week, hold Q ated, as they are good dur- ^ : Purchase. g Zomp'y 1