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t Established in 1891. - ' wrrt ? J. 1 * " FOHT MILL, 8. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13. 1916 ? ? ? . _ $1.25 Per Year. > __ STATE NEWS ARRAN8ED FOR QUICK READING. Gov. Manning has honored extradition papers for Harley O. Beetley, who is wanted in Ohio on the charge of abandonment of his child. Beetley is at Port r>? i 1*1. i a1 : nuyui, emisieu 111 uic murine corps. The total fees collected by the secretary of state daring the past year amounted to $16,320.31, according to a statement prepared by R. M. McCown, secretary of State. A large amount of new caDital was Dut into new enterprises during the year. Qong *? .sman Lever has recomi.^ to President Wilson the apj??.htment of William H. Colemar. as postmaster at Columbia. He was a soldier in Hampton's Legion during the war. A South Carolina farmer is growing colored cotton. He has grown, hy careful seed-breeding, white, cream, tan, yellow, green, light brown, yellow green, olive green and bronze cotton?and believes it possible to attain black! His name is A. E. Brabham. of Bamberg county. The results of the campaign carried on by the state board of health against smallpox by vaccination are gratifying to health officials. Only 328 cases were reported to the office between January 1 and November 1 of last year, which is a large decrease over 1914. The Greenville Trust company has purchased the grounds and buildings in Greenville formerly occupied by Chicora college. The purchase price was $125,000. The Chester county board of county commissioners has given notice that they will discontinue their appropriation of funds for the support of special deputies for the sheriff's office. The body of Felix Martin, a well known farmer of Anderson county, was found in the woods near his home Friday afternoon, death having resulted from heart disease while he was returning from a visit to a neighbor. Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Desportes, of Winnsboro, both died last week in a Chicago hospital, the former on Tuesday and the latter on Friday. Marriage in Steel Creek. A marriage of interest to their many friends was that Sunday afternoon of Mr. W. H. Windle of the township and Mrs. Grace Kjng Hipp, the ceremony taking place at the home of a brother of the bride, Mr. J. I. King, in the Steel Creek section of Mecklenburg. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. O. Ervin, pastor of Dilworth church, Charlotte. Immediately after the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Windle left for a visit to relatives and friends in the lower part of the State. Upon their return they will reside in the Gold Hill section of the township, where Mr. Windle operates a large farm. For National Prohibition. Representative E. Y. Webb has introduced in congress his resolution calling for national; prohibition, and the act marked formally the beginning of the fight around this subject before congress. With the introduction of a bill for prohibition in the' District of Columbia is expected to come immediate interest, since discussion of such a proposal has created concern throughout the entire country. I HOW CITIES AND STATES I HANDLE LIQUOR TRAFFIC Prohibition by 9tate law pre-' vails in 17 cities of 30,000 and ; over?4 each in Georgia and! Tennessee, 3 in Kansas, 2 each! in Oklahoma and West Virginia, 1 and 1 each in Maine and North r* ii ? ..... Carolina. Municipal pronibition j is in effect in 15 cities?8 in | Massachusetts, 2 each in Illinois j and California, and 1 each in j Pennsylvania, Iowa and Wash-1 ington. County prohibition has J closed the saloons in 2 Michigan 1 cities and parish prohibition has closed them in 1 Louisiana city. There are thus 35 cities in which total prohibition prevails. In addition, there are 8?4 in Ohio, 2 in Colorado, and 1 each in Pennsylvania and Illinois ?in which partial prohibition is in effect through the operation of wuut is Known as tne district" I system, under which certain districts or sections of the city may by popular vote, abolish j their saloons, while other sec- J tions retain them. The largest city which has adopted prohibition independently of state or county action in the matter is Cambridge, Mass., whose population is estimated at 110,000. The largest city in which the saloons have been closed by state enactment is Atlanta, Ga., with approximately 180,000 inhabitants. In 124 of the 169 cities in which saloons are licensed, they are limited as to number, and in 91 as to location; and in28cities, 16 of which are in Pennsylvania, there are no restrictions as to either number or location. In some cities the limitation as to number is definitely stated; in others it takes the form of a provision to the effect that the number of saloons shall not exceed 1 to every 250, 500, 750, 1,000, 3,000 or 5,000 inhabitants. The 250-inhabitant limit is em ployed in the five Wisconsin cities of Milwaukee, Racine, Superior, Oshkosh and La Crosse; and the 5,000-inhabitant limit prevails in Chicago and Danville, 111. Will Fill These Vacancies. The present session of the general assembly will be called upon to elect the following officers : Carlton W. Sawyer's election to the position of comptroller general will come up, Mr. Sawyer having been appointed to the place upon the resignation of A. W. Jones. The four year temrs of Judges James W. DeVore and S. W. G. Shipp of the Eleventh and Twelfth circuits, respectively, will expire this SDrinc. Thpa*? I vacancies will also be filled by the general assembly. John L. McLaurin, warehouse j commissioner, will probably be i opposed for reelection by John J. ! McMahon of Columbia, member of the Richland county delegation. Owing to the death of M. P. DeBruhl the office of code com-1 missioner will be vacant. Rion | McKissick of Greenville will be 1 one of the candidates for the j position. /I /NM/v. lU- -i.1 _/*? A i-miunK me umer omces to De filled are: state librarian, Mrs. Virginia Moody, incumbent; two trustees of Winthrtp college, the terms of B. R. Tillman and D. W. McLaurin expiring; two directors of the state penitentiary, the terms of W. H. Glenn of Anderson and A. H. Hawkins of Prosperity expiring. B. E. Patterson on Monday assumed the clerkship of the W. O. W. lodge. j NEWS OF YORK COUNTY BRIEFLY MRRBRIPNED The president Friday sent to the senate the nomination of 1 Martha E. Nichols to be post- ( master at York. ] Major W. B. Moore, of York, j has sent his resignation to Gov. Mannintr. after h aviricr coi<va<l Oft I - ITT T > ?> UVl T VU years continuously with the First regiment of the State National Guard. Two new teachers have been added to the faculty at Winthrop. Miss Byers succeeds Miss Steele in the manual training department. Miss Ruth L. Myers, lately of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, succeeds Miss Siddall, resigned. Governor Manning has ordered a special term of York court, to begin Monday, January 31, for purpose of trying Israel Goode, a 16-year-old negro who is held in York iail on a charge of criminal assault. the negro attacked Mr. Smith in Rock Hill Thursday morning and inflicted painful and dangerous wounds with a knife. VV. C. Thompson and Mrs. M. I E. Thompson, of the Bullock's] Creek section of the county, will I bring suit at the February term j f?f WMirf r?f I w. ? V/4 Kvilcl<>l SCB3Il)l!? . against the Lock hart Power company for $60,000 damages, al- . leged to have been caused their . lands by backwater from the de- , fendant company's power dam. . The plaintiffs have refused to;. compromise the case for $36,000* j ^ That it is not as easy to get I ( married in this county as it was ( some years ago was proven at ( York a few days ago when a ( young couple arrived there from ( Concord, N. C., and were arrest- ( ed at the request of the father of ( the would-be bride. The parent ( came in on the next train and ( stated that his daughter was lit- ( tie more than 13 years of age. I Tho young man in the case ap- I peared to be aLout 16. There I was no marriage and the girl, 1 accompanied by her father, was ( last seen on her way to her home ( in the North Carolina town. ( During the month of Decern- j: ber Probate Judge L. R. Williams j issued 111 marriage licenses, this * breaking all previous monthly 1 records. Since the marriage li- 1 cense law became effective on ' July 11, 1911, Judge Williams has issued 2,206 licenses. Congressman D. E. Finley and family will leave York this week for Washington, where Mr. ' Finley will resume his duties as representative of the Fifth congressional district. They expect to remain in Washington ; until summer. i The consideration of claims against the county was the chief j matter to engage the attention of the county board of com- : missioners at its meeting held ( in York Thursday. Each Janu- ( ary sees a great deal of routine ( work along this line to be done ( by the commissioners. | A discussion of road laws and the best way to work roads occupied almost the entire attention of the joint meeting held at York Thursday by the county delegation in the general assembly and the county board of commissioners. All members of the legislative delegation attended. Will Smith, a negro, has been committed to York jail to await trial on a charge of having made a murderous assault upon Mr. James Smith, a highly respected white farmer of the Bethesda community. It is understood that TALKING OF NEW SITE F FOR IVY'S MILL BRIDGE The last issue of the Rock Hill Record carried the following c jommunication, signed "Fair f Play," which will be read with h nterest by the people of Fort p Mill and the township: v We hear a good deal of dis- ^ Mission on the matter of moving :he bridge from the River Bend t toctinn tn Pnffltn"'" L i vuiKiviii c? i-crry, ueiow p Catawba, and what Lancaster will do, etc. We hope that if ^ inything further is done on a v matter of this kind in which p Lancaster is interested that it ^ will be put in a business shape. r so that Lancaster will not be allowed to hand York another c ieal like she did at the River c Bend bridge. We do not know jc what advantages could or would p be derived from a bridge at j p Cureton's Ferry or thereabouts. It is stated by Engineer Miller that it wiil cost at least $(>.000 to move the River Bend bridge to the other location. If I.an caster is to be depended o i to pav part we are afraid th? y will F come up lacking-, as we under- c stand that county is very heavily i involved. As stated above, we j know nothing of the merits of of the case and are not in po- " sition at this time to express an ;1 opinion on it, hut we do know of 1 a proposition that was put to i the writer some time ago that I in our mind is a fine thing for both Rock Hill and Fort Mill and r other communities above Fort ( Mill, where its citizens want to c visit Rock Hill and York, and s that is for a bridge to be put a between Fort Mill and Rock Hill r at the end of J. M. Cherry's road on the Catawba. At the r time this matter was discussed I a prominent F^rt Mill citizen t and business man said that if v this bridge could be had he was f sure he could raise $2,500 or s ?3,000 for it; that it would take t very little work to put a good \ [An I C? We extend to ev I special invitation tc Jai of Laces, Embroid* we offer Pour Hun broideries that wer prices. Also Naii Bleaching, Etc. C our new stock. Laces and Embr See window disj Special foi 7 Bars Octagon S g Arbuckle's Coffee I Mills & :OUR MEN WERE KILLED IN YOUNGSTOWN RIOT In a riot Friday night between ity oflicials and a drunken mob. our men were shot to death, a irge number were wounded and roperty estimated at $800,000 alue was destroyed at East foungstown, Ohio. The trouble was the culminaion of a strike of laborers which egan at the plant of the Re ublie Iron & Steel company a ireek ago and spread to the ilar.ts of the tube company, the foungstown Iron & Steel com>any and the Brier Hill Steel ompany, all "independent" oncerns. The men demand 25 ents an hour while the coinlanies offer an increase from i) 1-2 cents to 22 cents per hour. Kirby's Appeal Pending. Sam Kirby, white, who was entenced to two years in the >enitentiary at the last term of ourt ui?on conviction of assaultng and robbing Jesse Jerrell in i lock Hill several weeks ago, is j till in the county jail pending an ' ippeal for a new trial. He hopes o gain his liberty on bond withit the next few days.?Yorkvilie inquirer. oad into Fort Mill, and if Mr. Cherry would agree to the use >f his road (which we undertand he will) there would be no idditional expense for building a oad on this side. As the county has to begin a oad in the l<ort Mill section and mild directly across the county oward the Chester county line, ve think it would be a pood idea or the Chamber of Commerce or orne of our business people to ake this matter up and in-estipate it. )?0 0? 0? 000000 'nvita ery lady in the town > attend our big luary Si ^ries and White Goo dred Dollars* worth < e bought before the isook, Long Cloth, orne and see the ma j : i._ cb i nn icr?>, JKL- IU ?p I .UW slay of 5c and I Oc L r Saturday and ioap (7 bars to each custor (1 pound to customer) for Young C the New Store PATTERSON REELECTED; THREE NEW GOUNCILMEN Mr. B. E. Patterson, who early last September was elected to serve the unexpired term of mayor of Fort Mill to succeed Mr. A. R. McElhaney. resigned, fTI 1 ? . * * - 1 was on 1 uesaay reelected tor tne two year term ending in January, 1918. Mayor Patterson v/as opposed by Mr. W. B. Meacham, whose candidacy was announced on last Saturday. Much interest was manifested in Tuesday's election, the friends of the various candidates putting forth every effort to turn votes to the men of their choice. The day passed, however, without any personal difficulties, with little drinking and disorder. As a result of the election the following will serve as councilmen for the ensuing term: Alderrnen-at-Large, A. C. Lvtle, B. C. Ferguson; Alderman, Ward 1, W. J. Steele; Alderman, Ward 2, M. J. Adcock; Alderman, Ward 3, W. A. Roach; Alderman Ward 4. J. B. Elliott. Messrs. Adcock, Lytle and Steele have been members of council during the last term. In the race for member of the Public Works Commission, W. B. Ardrey defeated A. L. Parks for a six-year term. The election for trustees for the Fort Mill i i u i : ? i? 1 ? ? sciivui rcMJiteu in nit* reelection of W. J. Kimbrell and W. D. Wolfe, and the election of a new member. H. I). Harkey. It is presumed that the new council will be inducted into office during the week, and among the first duties will be the election of a city clerk and a chief of police. It is understood that there will be several applications for the latter position. itionl i and township a ? lie I ds. In this Sale x af Laces and Em- <2 recent advance in ? Paj ama Checks, g ny new things in X the yard. SS .aces. ? Monday. g tier) for - - 25c x 15c the pound ? Domp'y 1