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-r * F\ The Fort Mill Times. ^ * ? ' - ' . . ... I * * ________________ _ Established iu 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915 $1.25 Per Year. NEWSY HAPPENINGS IN AND AROUND TOWN Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day on which State and county taxes for 1915 may be paid without penalty. During January a one per cent, penalty attaches to all unpaid taxes. The Fort Mill public school will reopen on next Monday morning, January 3. The patrons of the school are requested to have their children at the school building promptly at the opening hour. While operating a folding machine in theMillfort mill Monday, : John Blackwelder, young son of H. W, Blackwelder, had a finger: of his right hand so badly mashed that the attending j physician found amputation necessary. James D. Fulp, superintendent of the Fort Mill school, was on Sunday morning elected superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday school, succeeding Mr. \V. M. Carothers who is soon to re1 move to his farm near the Catawba dam. Cards announcing the marriage December 21 of Mr. 13. Lester Branson and Miss Chatherine McSween, of Newport. Tenn., were received in Fort Mill the 1 A. 1 t* mst ween. iwr. rsranson is a son 1 of Chas. H. Branson, formerly ol' Fort Mill, and has for several years been connected with a mcr- : cantile establishment at Crest- . mont, N. C. ' According to announcement from the adjutant general's office, the annual inspection of the P Fort Mill Light Infantry, Co. G.. . will be held on Friday, January ^ 14. The inspection will be made ( by an officer of the National ( Guard, accompanied by Capt. ( J. Malcolm, Nineteenth Infantry, U. S. A. The handsome new home of i Mr. W. H. Jones, one mile west; r of Fort Mill, narrowly escaped | ( destruction by fire Friday at a noon. The fire was supposed to fl have started from a spark from i the kitchen flue and was burn- [ ing briskly in the roof when dis- f - c?>"?**ed by a colored man who I was passing by. A considerable t hole was burned in the roof be- i lore the fire was extinguished. i The Rev. W. A. Hafner, who 1 recently accepted a call to the Gaffney Presbyterian church, will arrive very soon after the rv first of the year, says a Gaffney special to The State. It is probable. the despatch adds, that a v fc. recent ion will hp nrrnncrprt hv frltu *' people of the congregation for 1 Mr. Hafner and family when they arrive. 11 r The Christmas business in j Fort Mill has exceeded all previous records, according to merchants, postal authorities and the railroads. Christmas | t Eve the streets were crowded as ' y on "circus day" with belated | c shoppers who crowded the n stores. The ideal weather con- a tributed no little to the trade of ! n % l^e week, of course, but the \ general prosperity of the country y has been shown in no mistakable! q c Never before in the memory. ^ of the oldest resident has there p l>een as tiuiet Christmas in Fort c Mill as that of Jast vveek. One man said Christmas day was jj more like Sunday than Sunday' ^ itself. So far as The Times was 8 able to learn there were few n drunks, no accidents or personal j* difficulties and hut little rowdy- t The police of the town ljj)uttle in an official capacity ii m?. up. A number are due for a year or more and to these we must insist upon immedidiaie payment. It would be a pleasure to the publisher to allow further time on these subscriptions were we financially able to do so, but this we are not able to do. Beginning early next month we will from week to week drop off /1,.i; 1 u?.-i 11 n nn'i u>, mi hi ii you are in this class, we trust that your remittance will be forthcoming and that we may continue to send you the paper during the good year 1916. Publisher Times. NEXT GOVERNOR'S RAGE TO BE OF MUCK INTEREST The one chief topic of speculaion in State politics at present s who will lead the so-called Please faction next summer in he race for governor, says a Columbia despatch. Of course iovernor Manning will be a andidute to succeed himself and le maV or may not have optosition in the Democratic prinaries. The former governor, ?ole L. Please, is already an mnounced candidate against dr. Manning, but the proposition s can he rally his former clans >ehind him or are they looking or another? This later bend is leeoming more pronounced with he approach of the annual meetng of the (leneral Assembly and s just now causing speculation n political circles. Will ,lohn L. McLaurin be put orward by the opposition and vill he rally the former Bleasites? "he suggestion of his candidacy l\l' irnrnvii'"' ' ' ? v/-? ^vm iii/i v\ ??:> IIItUK' 111 ft tatement given out a few days >go by a State senator in conlection with the candidacy of lepresentative John J. McMahon >f Columbia for Warehouse comnissionor. the position now held >y Senator McLaurin. Seven Die in Storm. One of the most weird storms he East has seen in many ears-rain, hail and snow, acompanied by thunder and lighting and a gale which reached maximum velocity of 90 miles n hour descended on New rork from the northwest early unday as the aftermath of a Ihristmas fog. It indirectly aused seven deaths in New rork, carried down telegraph nres. damaged shipping, cripled railroad traffic and caused onsiderable property damage. The phenomenon of thunder nd lightning in the midst of riving snow awakened New rorkers at the height of the torni about 7 o'clock Sunday lorning. A gale from the south ccompanied by rain, had heen lowing duiing the night, but he temperature dropped during he early morning hours, changig the rain to hail and then to now. The yellow label above carries (be date to which your subscription lo The Times is paid. If you are paid in advance. this paragraph is not intended for you. If you arc behind with payments for the paper, this is to again remind you that w< wish vou to nav STATE NEWS ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING.' Mayor Hyde has given instructions to the chief of police to stop all forms of gambling in | Charleston. The 191G session of the Genereral Assembly of South Carolina will be convened in the capitol at Columbia on Tuesday, .lanu-! nci' 11 ? Gov. Manning has been forced ; to decline an invitation to deliver an address at the annual banquet of the Aero Club of America, to be held in New York January 12. The cleanliness of the buildings and grounds of VVintlirop; and Clemson colleges is com-; mended in a special report to! the State board of health by a special committee. The State Tax commission, created by an act of the last General Assembly to equalize the tax : system, has completed its first | annual report which is bein^ mailed out to members of the General Assembly. Andrew J. Bethea, lieutenant i governor of South Carolina, has j j quit the Ford European peace; party and it is presumed that he i will at once return home. Per- j sonal business is given as the reason for Gov. Bethea's action. The matter of disposing of the whiskey stocks carried over after the first of the year by the county dispensaries will be left to the general assembly. Gov. Manning said that the law was plain and that he could take no action. In a fire which destroyed a boarding house at Clearwater. Aiken county, Saturday night. ! ! Charles Smith, was burned to I dentil nnrl annthor n\on V-, mc ?\ IU?M7 laws. In spite of unusual conditions, agricultural depression and business stagnation, the scholastic year 1914-15 was one of the best in the history of the public schools of the State, according to the report of ,1. K. Swearin. j?en. State superintendent of education, prepared for the general assembly. He says that the growth of the schools is the result of universal sentiment in | favor of efficient schools. * I ...U.I ...... Iicm been with Smith all Chrismas day and whose name was not learned, was missing after the tire. Huh Fou. about 23 years of age, was shot and instantly killed Saturday night at Wards, in Saluda county. Fred Kneeco, i also of Wards, is in jail charged j with the killing. Foil's body was j found on the street early Sunday and blood stains were discovered on the floor of Kneeoo's house In a fit of despondency. Geo. i C. Whitner, a liveryman of Saluda, killed himself Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock by firing a shot from a revolver through his head, the bullet entering .iust above the right eye and emerging | at the back of the head. The killing took place in the office of his stables on Main street. Holding that the legislature was without power to authorize the indefinite suspension of a sheriff for neglect of official duty, the supreme court in a unanimous decision has ordered the reinstatement of W. VV. ( Huckabee as sheriff of Kershaw , county. Mr. Huckabee was sus- ( pended several months ago by ( Gov. Manning on the charge ( that he had refused to enforce | t Ua a.. 1?. FORD QUITS PEACE PARTY AND RETURNS HOME The Norwegian liner. Bergensfjord, with Henry Ford aboard, sailed from Christ iania, Norway, Fridav mornimr tY?v Nmv Mr. Ford's departure was due to illness, it was stated. The peace i expedition, according to a statement by Mr. Ford, will continue under the auspices of the Women's International Peace association. Before leavingChristiania. Mr. Ford wrote out the following i statement for the press: "I am j satisfied with what has been accomplished in Christiania. Peace has been given publicity. Newspapers have power to end the war, for it is through publicity that the gospel of peace is spread. Norway is like every other country. The people are all right." In the opinion of many, how- 1 ever, Mr. Ford's departure from Europe marks the termination. in it*! ftriirinnl r ? ... V?. v/t Initial List ill, i'l U1C novel of the many movements ( which have been undertaken to bring about the ending of the war. Mr. Ford's announcement that the Women's International Peace association henceforth will conduct the expedition would seem to indicate that, so far as he is pi rsonally concerned, he has ralinquished the self-imposed task which he expressed in the phrase: "out of the trenches by! New Year's." The despatches state that Mr. Ford has put up $270,000 to li-! nance the operations of the ( peace party. J. A. Withers, of Fayettev ille. N. C., was among the Christmas ; visitors to Fort Mill. p jk M ... | Mills i i THE most j Its now closn made possit and we desi Thi SOON the 1 and will beg WF * t ' j?t 01 11411 U ? method and ? dences of yc ? \X/L wish yc ? ness and pi < I Mills & 1 In THE NEWS IN GENERAL BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED It is claimed that one out of every four Chinamen in California is a Protestant. The (tormans have sunk five hundred and eijrht vessels, the total ionna.ee of which has been triven as 917.819. A missionary from the Phillipines reports the cure of twenty-three lepers. There has hcen no sign of the return of the disease in two years. The executive committee of the State Teachers' Association has decided on Columbia as the 191(5 convention city, and March l(>th-18th as the dates. Articles of agreement have been siiilierl hinilino- Willow J to a match March 1 at New Orleans with Fred Fulton of Rochester, Minn., for the world's heavyweight championship. Brigadier General Mclntyre claims that it will take bloodshed to do away with polygamy in the Phillipines and advises congress to leave such prohibition out of the bills for the island this year. Herbert Adams, a New York designer, is making plans for a monument to be erected at the grave of the late Mrs. YYoodrow YVilson. There is nothing to mark the grave at present except a mound of earth. The State Department announces that Great Britain has consented to allow two cargoes of dye stuffs to come through to this country from Germany provided they are consigned to Secretary of Commerce Redfield. }?G 00 00 00000<S & Y our GERMANY'S NEXT MOVE A QUESTION OF DOUBT While the diplomats in Rumania and Greece are engaging in new deals which will decide the next step in the Balkan operations. there is increasing evidences that the Germans, ever 1 r restive, are preparing for new* ! strokes on both the eastern and u'Defoen f? iiunu^, v?i cu. icusi a conj centration of their forces to strike when conditions are propitious. Recent despatches from Potrograd note German activity, particularly in the Dvinsk district, which would accord with the German ambition to reach the line of the Dvina river, while all accounts from neutral countries mention a continued movement of men and guns to the west. In | the latter theatre of operation it l seems only a question of what I points the offensive is to be taken. Many believe that the Germans, having found the lines in Flanders and Artois nuts too hard to crack, contemplate moving in the Saint Mihiel region, where their line penetrates to the river Meuse, and where there has been considerable activity during the last few days. The only argument against this is that the river has been at flood and the French have been systematically destroying bridges as they were rebuilt. The annual report of the Department of Labor is out. and the report shows that the tide of immigration is lower this year than it has ever been. Of the | .'126.000 admitted to the United | Stales this year, 52,000 were 1 under fourteen years of age. i Immigrants admitted to the I country had an average of sixty ! dollars each. lg Co. I i our history ? >s has been g al support, ? 1. 1 ushered in 8 lies. g up-to-date g> further evi- ? nd support. ? [ of happi- g ^omp'y 1 ?000?06008S8( 9 successful year ir ig. T his succej >le by your loy re to ank Yov lew year will be jin our 1916 dul se every clean. . ' will appreciate : xir confidence ai )U 366 days full Dsperity. Young C i the New Store )0000 00 000000