Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 21, 1915, Image 1
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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.
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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.
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I REMEMBER
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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