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HHb. f The Fort Mill Times. H Eetabllshed in 1891. FORT MILL, S. 0., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915 11.25 Per Year, ?a taaasm' ' ' i , i i i i ' - ' ? KESPIOWie MOT GUILTY, SAID YORKOOURT JURY After being out two hours, i the York jury trying Ernest j Isenhower returned a verdictj Friday afternoon at 8:30 o'clock ?? :u.. > f T>I .11 I ui nut guilty. iu c unicr Isenhower cases were continued until the April term of court. Every seat in the York court " room was occupied when court convened at 9:40 Friday morning. Many persons were turned away by the bailiff because there was no place to seat them. The York county court house auditorium will seat only about 240 persons. Before former Gov. Blease concluded the argument of counsel for the defense, Judge Rice warned the audience against making any expression or indi A.! ~ a i J.v 1 canon 01 approval or uisapprovai of anything that Gov. Blease or Solicitor Henry might say in their appeals to the jury. Although the jury had been confined in the court room three days, the members of the jury appeared quite fresh when they came into the court room at 9:45. Former Gov. Blease spoke one hour and 10 minutes. He did not inject politics into his remarks, p but dealt with the fac*;!: \n the case almost wholly. In conclusion he told the jury that the State of South Carolina was watching them and waiting their verdict with interest, not because of Ernest Isenhower or the law of South Carolina, but because they w ere anxious to sec whether the 12 men would uphold the women of South Caro^ lina. "Whether or not the law of South Carolina is binding or is waste paper was the question before the jury," declared Solicitor Henry, who closed the argument of counsel for the State. "You must try this case in accordance with the statute law nnrl thp tpstimnnv " cairl Solicitor Henry. "If you disregard the law, then there is no safety in this country." Solicitor Henry spoke about one hour. In his charge to the jury, Judge Rice told that body they could not return a verdict on the grounds of the "unwritten law." The indictment was handed to the jury at 1 o'clock. After the dinner recess Thursday afternoon A. E. Hill, solicitor of the Spartanburg circuit, opened with argument for the State, and was followed by A. L. Gaston of Chester, attorney for the defense. After Mr. Gaston, T. F. McDow of York, for the State, and John R. Hart, of York, for the defense, respectively, presented their side of the case to the jury. Each side was allotted two hours in which to present its arguments. Conpcisory Law is Ftvtred. In response to a call issued by Supt. J. D. Fulp. a goodly number of the patrons of the Fort Mill graded school assembled in the auditorium Friday evening for the purpose of discussing the ; advisability of the adoption of the State's compulsory attendance law. Quite a number of % speakers addressed the assemblage, among the number being County Supt. Carroll and Representative W. R. Bradford, both of whom were most heartily in favor of seeing the district adopt the compulsory law. Several petitions asking the putting in effect of the law in this district j have been circulated since the meeting Friday night and it is understood that little opposition to the measure has been encountered by thoee presenting the petitions. DEMOCRACY'S LEADERS S WILL MEET HI ST. LOUIS; A press dispatch from Wash-j ington City says that the Demo- j 1 cratic national convention of C 1916 will be held at St Louis beginning Wednesday. July 14, at noon. The Democratic nation- d al committee chose the conven- ? tion city and adopted resolutions b calling for the renomination and re-election of Wood row Wilson . as "the trusted leader of national ^ Democracy." Chicago and Dallas contested with St. Louis for the honor of the convention, but St. Louis t easily led from the start and v won on the second ballot. When c the trend of the voting was seen, t Texas moved that the choice of St. Louis be made unanimous. Dallas held second place on the b first ballot but was displaced by V Chicago on the second roll call. ^ Dfbtfitinn tn Ns*t in BmL Mill . a -D-<uvi nwa nil I. " In a letter to The Times under date of December 11, State g Senator J. E. Beamguard says j that a meeting of the York county delegation in the Legis- j lature will be held in the city of Rock Hill the morning of Mon- ^ day, Decemher20, at 11 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to give those citizens of the county t who may have legislative mat- n ters which they would like the o delegation to pay attention to in u the approaching session to let e them be known. Any who feel g interested in the manner named are cordially invited to meet the . delegation at Rock Hill on the date named above. ' Flial Crop Estimate. The 1915 cotton crop amounts to 5,338,588.000 pounds, exclusive of linters, and is equivalent to 11,161,000 500-pound bales, t the department of agriculture c announced Friday in its final es- a timate of the season. v This is 2,300,000,000 pounds a less than last year's record crop, s The value of the lint this year, however, is approximately $78,000,000 more than last year's ' great crop. ? Cotton was being sold by faro ers on December 1 at 11.3 cents 8 a pound, while last year on that 8 date they were getting 6 8 cents a pound. At the higher price this year the crop is worth $603.260,000, while last year's crop i was worth $525,324,000. a Baby Girl Deserted. $ Likely attracted by a bright i light and an open door, someone f( slipped on the piazza of a Columbia residence Saturday night and left in the front hallway a baby girl carefully tucked away f< in a market basket. The little ? - ?------ | A lady, not yet a month old, billed p and cooed and occasionally cried a< until found. Temporarily she is o! being cared for at the Door of tl Hope, while the police seek for 01 her parents. The child was al beautifully dressed, and along tl with her was left a bundle of w clothes. In the basket were powder and other articles and a 1 p ux/vtiu vi iHiuy I uou. 1 ne !Stttt6y a] Tuesday. } 811 Aatther County Added. 11 By a vote of approximately four to one, McCormick won its t< new county fight in Tuesday's; election. The name of the new county will be McCormick county. The new county embraces por- ^ tions of Abbeville, Greenwood and Edgefield counties. ; ^ Cotton slumped more than $2 c< a bale on the New York ex-j change Monday under an of- n fenaive bear movement. I a (TATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING.! Mrs. SaUie J. Wolfe was on 'uesday appointed postmaster at Isceola, Lancaster county. Charles D. Jones was on Tues- j o. ine Killing occurred near ^lion, Hut to using a shotgun ,nd emptying both charges into lie body of Love. Dr. VV. N. McPherson, one (f he oldest residents of Florence ounty, died Sunday morning it his home near Claussen. He i'as a physician before the war nd served the Confederacy as a urgeon. W. A. Barber, a former Coumbian, who is now a member f the New York bar, has recenty received a large fee for legal ervices, his firm being allowed , fee of $55,000 as compensation or services in the affairs of a irm in bankruptcy. Fire Monday night destroyed 'immonsville's Methodis church, handsome brick building which ost $12,000 and on which only 7,000 insurance was carried, 'he flames caught from a deective heating apparatus. Wrap Packages Securely. One of the prime rerjuisities ir the handling of Christmas tail is the securely wrapping of ackages. Postmaster Massey sks that the patrons of the local ffice pay particular attention to lis phase of their shipping, not L nly at the holiday season but at II times. Often packages come i irough the mails unwrapped and Plf h thniw 4 A 1 *? hiivu vuiiieiiis scauereo. The packages should be wrap- i ed in good strong paper. They i hould be tied with strong twine i nd tied securely. i Money should not be enclosed i i i packages with other articles i nless the packages are regis- i Bred. The best way to send i ioney is to secure a money 11 rder or check or send by11 egistered letter. i Another matter which is apt; i > aid in the prompt handling of i ackages is the placing of the i tinder's address in the left hand i turner of the package. I The name and address of the I scipient should be written fully I ad plainly. 1 I ay elected mayor of Lancaster ver his opponent John T. Green, y a vote of 168 to 90. The State Baptist convention, n session at Greenville, on Monay selected Newberry as the meeting place for 1916. Notable men from many secions of the country are this peek attending the Southern Commercial congress at Charleson. A. M. Salley, sheriff of Orange>urg sounty, Monday sent to the enitentiary for safe keeping a legro, McQueen McMichael, who 3 acciispd of nttomnfod nriminol assault. A reward of $50 for the arrest >nd delivery to the sheriff of Florence county of Joe Darby, vho is alleged to have killed Rosa lenry near Olanta October 25, lis been offered by Governor banning. Requisition papers for the reurn to this State of Albert Barnore have been sent the governor of Virginia. Barmore. who is inder arrest at Newport News, scaped from the Richland chaining. In Lexington county Saturlay night, Pat I-ove was shot ,nd instantly killed by Scot Hut_ mi NOTHING IN THE LAW TO STOP DELIVERIES In reply to an inquiry from Magistrate R. P. Harris, of Fort Mill, Attorney General Peeples has ruled that there is nothing in the gallon-a-month law to prohibit the shinment nn<1 Ho livery of whiskey in this State to non-residents. Unable to get hut two quarts of whiskey each 15 days in North Carolina, many residents of that State have for the last few weeks had their whiskey shipped to Fort Mill and other border towns in gallon packages and coming across the line to get it. Magistrate Harris had' been appealed to to put a stop to the delivery of the packages to the non-residents, but would take no action until determining the ruling of the attorney general in the matter. It will be recalled that the grand jury of this county and the magistrate at Clover some weeks ago held up the delivery of packages at Clover, where it was said the shipments of wliiskey to North Carolinians had grown to be enormous. However, the ruling of Attorney General Peeples as given to Magistrate Harris would seem to nullify the action of the grand jury and the Clover magistrate and there now appears nothing to hinder the people of North Carolina from ordering their whiskey shipped to points in I Lhis State and securing it. According to Special Agent J. M. Taylor, there was ginned in York county p: o to December 1, this season, 31,997 w-aioc- - ? VJI against oo,U4i bales to the same date last year. IGiveC I That ? Do your Ch fj Come, let u @ to-date Christr 1 Old g "Go to the 8 Christmas Got | Mills & TEMPERANCE LEAOERS WILL VISIT FORT MILL At the Fort Mill school auditirium next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock will be held a meeting in advocacy of national prohibition, and a cordial invitation is extended to every man. woman and child in the community to be present. The meeting will be addressed by two speakers of national reputation. One of these] is the Hon. John G. Wooley,. Arn * 1 * * t/iutvi, iclwuici , juurnsust and i reformer. The other is Rev. George W. Morrow. I). D., one of the field secretaries of the Anti-Saloon League of America. ! These gentlemen have been in South Carolina for several weeks and have already spoken in many of the chief cities, including all of the larger places. They have everywhere been received by vast audiences and their messages have made deep impressions. A large crowd of Fort Mill people doutless will go out Sunday afternoon to hear the speakers. Must Sell Stock This Month. That all the county dispensary boards go out of office on December 31st and can perform no acts after that date and that there is no provision made for disposing of whatever stock of liquors remains on hand sifte; the close of the year, is the opinion of Attorney General Peeples, given to Governor Manning at the latter s; request. The opinion is expressed that the General Assembly will have to make some provision lor disposing of the stock remaining on hand.?Columbia Record. 9008OS00O800O hristma WAT - T w i are Worth V mmmmmmmmmammmmmmammmmm iristmas shopping s show you son nas Goods. Santa ? Big, Busy Store >ds." Young C 1 the New Store 96O80880?ee00 DEED OF SUDMMINE MUST BEDISEVOWED The United States government has demanded from Austria-Hungary a disavowal of the sinking by one of that government's submarines of the Italian steamship Ancona, the punishment of the submarine commander and indemnity for the Amerirnn riti zens killed or injured. The act of the submarine is declared to be illegal and indefensible. The United States expects the dual monarchy to "accede to its demands promptly." In Washington official and diplomatic circles the communication is regarded as being the most emphatic declaration to come from the United States government since the beginning of the European war. No attempt is made to conceal the fact that unless the demands are promptly complied with diplomatic relations between the two countries will be in grave danger of being severed. Steel Creek Farmer Dead. Mr. E. W. Query, a prominent citizen of Steel Creek, died Monday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock from heart failure at his home in the county. Mr. Query, who war f>8 years of age, had been ill for the past six months. His condition had recently show?', signs of improvement until the sudden sinking spell which ended in death Monday afternoon. The deceased, who had never married, had spent practically his entire life in this county, having been prominent in its activities for many years. ? Charlotte Observer. sSf^S Vhile. | early. g le Real, Up- g Jays: 1 to buy your g ^omp'y 1