Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, February 03, 1916, Image 1
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Established in 1891.
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LOCAL SCHOOL BILL
BEFORE LEGISLATURE
Below is printed the bill introduced
some days ago in the
legislature by Representative
W. R. Bradford, the passage of
which is expected to give the
Fort Mill graded school a full
nine months' term without
tuition or other fees. If the bill
should pass, and it is fully expected
that it will, it will not,
however, become effective until
1917. The bill follows:
"Section 1. After the approval
of this Act, the County
Auditor of York county shall
levy and the County Treasurer
shall collect annually one mill on
the dollar of the assessed value
of all property within Fort Mill
School District, of York county,
for the purpose of paying the
interest and retiring at maturity
the bonds of said district heretofore
issued in aid of schools
therein, and six mills annually
for the maintenance of the
schools of said district: Provided,
That if at the expiration
of ten years, it becomes apparent
that the amount accumulating,
as such sinking fund, will not be
sufficient to retire said bonds at
maturity, the said levy shall be
increased to such amount as will
prove sufficient therefo-, an 1 the
levy for the maintenance of said
schools shall be proportionately
decreased.''
Worked Hard for Winthrop.
Says a Columbia special of
Tuesday to the Rock Hill Herald:
J. T. Liles, chairman of the
ways and means committee of
the house has sent the following
telegram to Dr. D. B. Johnson,
president of Winthrop College:
"I "feel impelled to wire you
that Bradford has made a magnificent
fight for the new dormitory.''
W. R. Bradford, a member of
the ways and means committee,
made a strong fight in the committee
to have an item of $100,000
included in the general ap
propriation bill. He lost simply
because the committee had determined
upon a policy of not
attempting any large undertakings
at this session. The
way seems well paved and action
will very probably be secured at
the next session.
However. Mr. Bradford and
the other members of the York
delegation have introduced a bill
in the house, and senate to provide
for the dormitory. Just
whether this bill will pass r< mains
to be seen. The bill has
been unfavorably reported in
the House.
The News of Gold Hill.
Times Correspondence.
The writer has been quite unwell
for some weeks and. as no
one has told it on os we will tell
it ourselves. We are feeling
better at this writing.
There has been a lot of grip,
so-called, amon_c the people. Mr.
Siin Boyd is down quite sick
again. He just gets out of one
bad spell into another, it seems.
And the Fort Mill doctorsseem
to have gone on a strike. That
is too bad. Well, our advice has
not been sought in the case, hut
we give it anyway. Now, if
they are too thick to thrive, they
should be thinned out to one stalk
* in a hill, the wav we always dc
our corp on poor land.
We hear that numbers of autos
have prone to rest of late. Reckon
this is not so much the Jack ol
faith as it is the lack of fuel.
We will close hoping The Times
and its readers a happy and
prosperous year. Splinter,
i Gold Hil, Feb. 1.
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! BLEASE SEES THINGS
COMING BLEASE'S WAY
"If the primaries were held to-j
day, I am confident that I would j
be chosen the nominee of the
people of South Carolina for their!
governor by a majority ranging!
from 25,000 to 50,000." declared
former governor. Cole L. Blease, ;
to a Charlotte Observer reporter;
Thursday while spending the day
in Charlotte.
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&UV1V 10 CIUUV--vv IUC Uif>^ai ft- i
faction in South Carolina tr.ia.V;
as the result of the present Man-'
ning administration of affairs," I
declared Governo- ^,ease. "The
reCo-J- * vtie solicitors show
that in 1915 there were more
homicides in South Carolina and
more crimes of even more ag-!
gravated nature than ever be-;
fore. This is but the outcropping l
of lawlessness that has existed
and is continuing to exist under!
the present administration of affairs.
The manning reginv.
which went into power supposedly
on a law and order platform
has become a farce and the people
of the state are coming to
realize this more and more as the
days go by. I am therefore stating
nothing but the simple truth
when I declare that the dissatisfaction
is statewide and if the
primaries were held today 1
would defeat Gov Manning."
Speaking of the coming cam- i
paign Mr. Bleasesaid: " I hope
that we will be able to conduct
the campaign on a high plane
where issues and principles will
be discussed and not personalities
This is going to be my aim and I
hope that I will be permitted to
keep to this high plane. Of
course, if 1 am attacked and if
those who are opposing me indulge
in personalities, recriminations
and the like, then I shall
be compelled to answer in kind,
but it will be against my will
and wish."
Will Increase Grain Crop.
The lack of fertilizers in this
section and the high price, together
with the advanced prices
on flour, are having a wholesome
effect throughout the county
and entire sections, according to
a Mecklenburg farmer, who dei
clares that these combined
. causes not only have stimulated
interest in wheat and graingrow
nig, but that the present
year will see many more acres
planted in wheat than ever
before.
The price of flour which has
been at a high-water mark for
sorre months, and the high price
of commercial fertilizers; thus
interfering no little with cotton
: ^i?lNj: in i /v . ^
piaiimik, v% hi nave ine enect oi
bringing the attention of farmers
to wheat raising and the expected
res-u't is that there will
j be many additional acres planted
in wheat, oats and other grain.
[The spring wheat crop which
was planted last fall is said to be
a good sized one, and still greater
i increases in the acreage devoted
; to grain are looked for by farm'
ers in this section for the reasons
given above.? Charlotte News.
16,000 Bales Released.
1 The French government, after
; lengthy negotiations, has released
16,000 bales of American
cotton that had been stored at
Havre and Boulogne and which
' could not be forwarded on account
of the war. There is great
1 need in Switzerland for cotton,
1 some of the mills already having
suspended work.
! Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McMurray
I left during the last week for a
, visit to their son. Dr. Leroy
I McMurray, at Fernandina, Fla.
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FORT MILL, S. C.t TtKJ
A STARTLING GL
THE EUROI
(From Sunday's Ci
The European war will have las
The blackest eighteen months knc
What has been accomplished?
No European country has been I
ad* anced at any point, nor has an*
in any place or on any battlefield.
The net result has been 2,990.00
killed; more than 2,200,000 made j
00O wounded and maimed, many c
This measureless bloodshed ar
widows, and many more millions <
toll of the war.
Next, the money loss?10,862 m
by Germany, Austria and Hungar
war by France, England, Russia a
million dollars spent in making wt
The mind cannot grasp such stu
It means twenty-seven times the
Spates incurred in 139 years of his
It means a sum equal to the ent
tal of the entire world in ten year
It means a debt of about $300 t
countries- more than the total inc
peasant family or unskilled labore
11 lIlHUns 111V l-kll ?-<lr.nc fr?v t luo
yet unborn that will make the bu
before tor all.
In short, as Mr. Diaman, the e
last week, bankruptcy is so meniu
that "it" political economy does no
the war will make an end of politi
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED
(Yorkville Enquirer, Friday.)
Congressman Finley has reccommended
V. Brown McFadden
to be postmaster at Bock Hill.
The term of the present postmaster.
E. E. Poag, has about
expired.
The first of the spring cattle
rales to be conducted in South
Carolina under the direction of
VV. W. Long, of Clemson, is to
be held in Rock Hill on March
22. It is expected that not less i
than 700 cattle will be sold at
Rock Hill.
Ex-Sheriff John R. Logan, who
has been ill at his home in Yorkville
for several days past, is
considerably improved.
Local livestock dealers say that
bnsiness in their line has been
unusually good the past few days
and is picking up right along.
W. B. Oliver, a white man who
was recently arrested and placed
in jail charged with disposing of
property under mortgage, has
been released, pending a settlement
of the mortgage.
Mr. Baxter C. Carson, of Yorkville
No. 3, who accidentally shot
himself in the right hand and
arm recently, and who is in the
Magdalene hospital at Chester,
is improving steadily. It will be
necessary for him to remain in
the hospital a week or two longer.
Rev. W. E. Hurt, former pastor
of the Baptist church of Yorkville,
who for the past seven
years has been pastor of the
! d.: .. i- -i
I uapusi unurcii at ivinnsirep,
has resigned his charge to accept
the pastorate of the Raptist
church at Cheraw.
Senator Beamguard has intro
duced a bi'l providing for a com
plete revision of the schedule of
fees that the clerk of court of
York county may charge in connection
with the various papers
that pass through his office. The
schedule is in the nature of a
material reduction, but it cannot
go into effect until next year,
and in view of the uncertainty
of that proposition about special
laws where general laws can apply,
it is a question as to whether
the schedule can be put into effect
at all or not.
Warehouse Commissioner Jon.
L. McLaurin was reelected by
the general assembly Thursday
afternoon. He was elected on
the first ballot over F. M. Carey,
of Seneca, and John J. McMahan,
of Columbia.
Mill
ASDAT, FEBRUARY 3, 191
-ANCE AT
>EAN STRUGGLE
olumbin Record.)
ited eighteen months tomorrow.
>wn to the modern world.
jenefitted, nor has human liberty
i pfreat moral principle triumphed
0 men in the very prime of life
prisoners, and more than 9.830.rippled
for life.
id suffering, making millions of
orphans, has been the heaviest
illion dollars borrowed for war
y; 16,199 millions borrowed for
ind Italy; a grand total of 27,061
ir.
pendous figures, or such wastage,
total national debt of the United
tory, including five wars,
ire savings, or increase in capis.
or every iamily in all belligerent
:ome of a year of every European I
r in Europe.
generation and for generations)
rdens of life greater than ever
xpert in foreign exchange, wrote
:ing in all the warring countries)
I soon make an end of the war, j
e il economy."
A Wonderful Operation.
M rs. Harvey Steele, of Lan-|
caster, the last week at the Rock '
Hill hospital underwent an ordeal
which would have seemed too)
much for one of less will power j
than herself. The operation consisted
of the removal of a tumor
weighing 05 pounds, and no
anaesthetics were used.
Mrs. Steele is 70 years of age.
She has borne her suffering with
patience, showing great endurance
and at last reports her
condition was regarded as satisfactory.
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APPROPRIATION BILL
GALLS FOR LESS MONEY
In keeping with a resolution
passed the first day of the
session, the ways and means
pommitfpp of fhpctnto )nrri<ln*-iifo
lias effected a considerable
saving to the people of the state
in practicing economy in making
appropriations. It is not believed,
however, that any of the
departments will be crippled by
this use of the pruning knife.
The appropriation bill was
introduced in the house Saturday
by the ways and means committee,
and it is said that the
bill will call for a state tax levy
of six and one half mills, against
a levy of seven mills last year.
All expensive undertakings were
excluded from the appropri.it ions
allowed.
The appropriation bill carries'
about $2,378,000. The various
institutions and departments of
the state government asked fori
$3,124,000. The special taxes,
raise about $400,000.
JNo provision was made in the
bill for a new dormitory at Win-'
thr??p college, all building projects
being eliminated by the com-!
millee. It was expected that
a fight would be put up in the;
house to have additional items
inserted but it was thought that
the bill would pass substantially
as it was introduced.
The House Friday morning
killed the bill by Mr. Moore, of
Abbeville, to define the liability
of various corporations to theiemployees
on a yea and nay
vote of 34 to 31. The bill was
on third reading and the motion
to recommit was carried after a
strong presentation or arguments.
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Chene, $ 1.00 qualil
:o 4 p. m., all Ladiej
i Underskirts, all new i
m. to 1 2, good 1 0c qi
>m 1 2 to 4 p. m., our
and Sweaters to go e
3 p. m. to 8, Special
1 Boys* Hats and Capj
l. to 1 2, Ladies* 25c F
"Ipswich** brands, for
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Soap (7 bars to each custor
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$1.25 Per Year.
GOODE'S DAYS NUMBERED
ET UtftTK SENTENCE
Israel Goode, a seventeen-yearold
negro boy, was Monday
found guilty of the charge of
criminally assaulting a white
girl and sentenced to die in the
electric chair in Columbia on
February 25, between the hours
of 10 a. m. and 2 p. m., says a
York despatch to the Rock Hill
Herald.
The special term, convened for
the purpose of trying the negro.
Judge Sease presiding, convened
at 9 o'clock Monday, and twenty
minutes later the grand jury
returned the hill. H. M. Dunlap
and John R. Hart were appointed
by the judge as counsel
for the defense. The work of
emnaneling the jury then began.
The following were sworn:
J. O. Robinson. J. II. Harnett.
J. B. Steele. G. C. Clybum. YV.
S. Barry. D. A. Honey. G. F.
Mitchell. S. L. Coltharp, J, S.
Laney, R. N. Whitesides. J. H.
YVitherspoon, R. S. Quinn.
The state then introduced its
evidence and the defense did not
seek to refute the testimony.
The arguments were begun and
at 1:51 the judge completed his
charge. At 2:00 the jury returned
and announced a verdict
of guilty.
After sentencing the negro,
court adjourned, the term having
been only for the purpose of disposing
of this case.
T. M. Starnes, a well known
resident of Fort Mill, on Friday
was operated on for appendicitis
at the Rock Hill hospital. Last
reports were to the effect that
Mr. Starnes condition was said
to be favorable.
Sale!
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s' $ 1.00 Colored ?
styles for only 79c ?
lality Outing, 7c.
complete line of ?
it cost. ?
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lose in "Kurson 38
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