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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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-!
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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