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" FOHT MILL, 8. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13. 1916 ?
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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
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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
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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 -
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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.
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'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 ?
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