Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 20, 1916, Image 3
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: ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Rev, VV. A. Hafner, of Gaffney, '
was a visitor to Fort Mili Friday. 1
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Mrs. J. B. Mills and children (
are visiting relatives in Winns- ,
boro. ,
Dr. W. R. FiSher, of Concord. 1
has .taken a position in the dental 1
office here of Dr. J. Lee Spratt. I
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^ Miss Mary Tarrant and Dr. ',
William Kerrigan of Summerton, <
were the guests during the past i
week of Miss Willie Hoke. i
The Rev. M. W. Gordon, of'
Summerton, formerly pastor of j
the Baptist church here, is visit- (
ing relatives in the community, j j
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mrf. x\. lj. ivici^uuueu wiui nei
children from Concord is visiting i
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. !:
A. 0. Jones.
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Mrs. L. M. Massey accom- (
panied by her little daughter has j
gone for a visit of several weeks r
to her parents in Jonesville. ;
J. Harry Foster, attorney of (
Rock Hill, is announced in this '
issue as a candidate for solicitor *
of the Sixth judicial circuit.
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Misses Joyce and Blanch3 j
Moser and Master Chas. Moser ,
leffTuesday morning for a two j
weeks' visit to relatives at j
LiiDerty, in. l,.
Mr. J. Cal. Steele, of Rock j
Hill, is the latest entrant to the i
race for county sheriff, the announcement
of his candidacy appearing
in this issue of The
Times.
The time for the enrollment of '
those who wish to vote in the j
primary next month for State (
and county officers expires on the
25th inst.. next Tuesday.
Mr. Edgar Jones, whose home 1
is near the Catawba, says that 1
at its greatest height the river (
was 42 feet above mean low wa- 1
ter. Wednesday at noon the wa- j
ter had receded so greatly that <
the stream was confined to its i
banks. i
The annual picnic of the Fort .
Mill Presbyterian church, held ,
on the church grounds Friday |
a was largely attended and en- (
joyed, despite the high winds j
and rz&i which came on in the
early afternoon. See-saws, (
swings and other devices for the ]
pleasure of the children had
l\nnr\ v\?*Ain/l a/1 n v>/1 fhn lif f In f. ?l 1/ o
uccn i/ivviucu oim me uttic iumo
especially found the occasion one :
of great pleasure. ]
The Ti mes has received notice j
that the candidates for congress j
from this district .will adderess (
the voters of Clover today. Tomorrow
the candidates will visit ,
Fort Mill and tomorrow night ;
will address the voters of Rock '
Hill. The candidates for solicitor
of this circuit will accompany ,
the congressional candidates and
will deliver addresses at each of
the above named places.
Julius White, a son of "Uncle" |
Baxter White, colored, who
drives the Fort Mill garbage
'wagon, was among the number
of workers who went do A n
when the Southern railway
bridge near Belmont, N. C., was
swept away by Catawba river
Sunday afternoon, but the negro
was later rescued from the
stream.
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A new variety of cucumber, j j
known as the "lemon," is being ,
grown for the first time in this (
section this year in the garden j
of Mr. B. H. Massey. rhe | <
cucumber has much the appear- j
^ . ance of a lemon, though when (
full grown it is about the size |
of a baseball. Mr. Massey pro- .
cured the seed from a Northern ,
seedsman. The cucumbers are
recommended especially for pick- ,
ling. ,
Supt. J. D. Fulp, of the Fort
Mill school, writing The Times j.
from Columbia University, New
York, says that there are en- jj
rolled in that institution nearly .
8,000 students, of whom 80 are:
from South Carolina. Prof, j'
Fulp- was honored a few days '
ago by being elected editor-in- j1
lip' chief of the South Carolina '
^ edition of the Columbia Specta|lflL
tor, which will come from the i ^
pressestwithin a short time.
Ladson M. Massey, until a few |
$life , days ago first lieutenant on the i
stafF of Major T. B. Spratt, is 1 j
spending a few days at his home 11
in Fort Mill recuperating from a i
|||||S slight operation which he under- ]
went one day iast week in a Rock j j
l|l|ll| Hill hospital. Mr. Massey was i
BVHpt- rejected lor service in the army <
| on account of the physical defect i
which necessitated the operation, |
but he is assured that now that <
thel operation is successful he '
| irili be accepted in the service \
with the rank he recently held, j ]
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LOCAL STORM LOSSES, i
Catawba river bridge, built .
by York county 16 years afro at
a cost approximating $10,000 ,
and only recently repaired by |
the county at an additional cost i
pf several hundred dollars, was ]
swept away Sunday at noon by
the irresistible volume of storm
water that came rolling and
plunging down the rive*- as a
result of the immense amount
pf rain that fell in the Catawba
watershed from 1 o'clock Friday
afternoon to 10 o'clock Saturday
morning. The bridge was on
the main thoroughfare between
Fort Mill township and all the
balance of the county, and its
destruction will result in great
inconvenience to the people of
this section.
There were three spans of
steel and iron in the bridge, the
length of each of which was
about 100 feet, and at either end :
jf the bridge was a wooden approach
about 100 feet in length. !
rhe foundations, in the stream |
and on the banks, were of con- j (
irete and steel. These were
jndisturbed, it is thought, by (
:he rush of water. The de- ^
?truetion of the bridge was due
n great measure to the congestion,
on the north side of a ; <
?reat pile of debris, the pound- .
ng of which by tons of water
finally caused the bridge to give |
way. Nothing was left tu mark
the site of the bridge so far as
the eye could see Monday morn- (
ng, but when the water re- (
zeded some of the uiers were .
found in place and the frame- j ,
work of the bridge was resting | <
on the river bottom a short j
distance below where it stood. ]
Mo one here had ever before
seen the river so hiprh.
Fort Mill peoplo are already !
speculating on the time of the j
orobabie restoration of the ,
oridge. Not a few are of the ]
a pinion that it would be unwise
to build another bridge on the ,
site of the old one, which is
considered too dangerous to
risk the loss of the $20,000 or
more which it will cost to
bridge the river at any point in 1
this township. It is certain that
the work of building another '
bridge cannot proceed further
than agreement as to cost and
location until the Legislature
meets next January and the i
county delegation acts in the I
matter.
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Great as is the county's loss j
from the destruction of the
river bridge, it by no means i
represents the major part of the 1
lamage done by the storm in
Port Mill township. Hundreds
of acres of the finest river and (
creek bottom corn seen here in ,
years have been completely <le- .
stroyed and other hundreds of i
acres of upland corn and all the i
cotton have suffered threat dam- :
age. Many farmers who have
aeen in town in the last day or
wo have been heard to remark
that they would have been better
3fF had they not run a furrow
Lhrough their places this year.
Sunday and Monday there was
constant stream of people from
town to the nearest points on
the river, but the principal objective
seems to have been
Glrattan, which is the station of
the Charlotte Brick Co., two
miles south of town. From the
lower side of the brick yard the
river resembled an inland sea.
in the midst of which was the
club house of the local military j
company. Late in the afternoon :
the water had reached the eaves
fhd tMiilrlirwr iiiUink t.wnl.nl.l.r I
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would have been swept away
earlier than Sunday night but
for the protection afforded it by
a number of nearby trees. It is
said that the highest water from
the Catawba since this building
was put up a decade or more ago
never got beyond the floor.
The Southern Railway has been
hard hit by the storm, but the
misfortune of the company which
will be most seriously felt locally
occurred about 5 o'clock Monday
morning when the first span
>f the splendid steel bridge across '
the Catawba three miles south of I
Port Mill went into the swirling
torrent below with a crash that
was heard a considerable distance
away. Then at no great internals
span after span of the
bridge continued to disappear in
the water until practically all of
it had gone down by sunset
monday evening. The last train !
to cross the bridge passed Fort
Mill going south about 1 o'clock
Monday morning. At that hour
use of the bridge was considered
extremely dangerous, but the
train, a freight detoured from
the main line between Charlotte
and Atlanta, got over safely.
The bridge was remodeled a few
/ears ago at great cost to the
Southern. To replace it will be <
THE FORT 1
a job of weeks. It is not of
course known what arrangement
the company will make to transfer
passengers, mail and baggage,
but it is suggested that a
pontoon bridge will be put in for
temporary use, as was done at
the same place by the old Charlotte,
Columbia & Augusta Railroad
Company when the bridge
was burned by Sherman's army
during the Civil war.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody
good, or words to that
effect, to employ a more or less
trite saying. While the storm
brought disaster to all of the
farmers of Fort Mill township
who had growing crops in the
bottom lands of the Catawba, at
least two of the number were
a little more fortunate than
their brother farmers similarly
situated. By hard work and at
the risk of their lives. Messrs.
W. D. Therrell and B. F. Bennett,
whose farms are a short
distance below the dam of the
Southern Power company, succeeded
in salvaging eight bales
of cotton from the river. It is
presumed that the cotton came
down the stream from some
point in North Carolina. In the I
neighborhood of Wright's ferry'
Messrs. R. N. Capps and R. A.
Torrence salvaged 14 hales and
nearby Mr. D. W. Flow was
fortunate enough to fish three I
bales out of the river.
Fort Mill has been completely
cut off from the balance of the
county since the Southern Railway
bridge went out Sunday
night. The mails over the
Southern south of here have
been at a standstill, and it has
been impossible to communicate
even with Rock Hill, eight miles
away. The telegraph and telephone
wires were put out of
commission Sundav evening and
up to Tuesday evening no mail
had been received from any
point in the county since Sunday
morning.
It is certain that if there is to
be any communication between
Fort Mill and the balance of the
county through the country, some
means must be provided for
crossing the Catawba- There
isn't a ferry on the river within
miles of this place. It might be
feasible to open the old Nation
ford at the Southern Railway
river bridge site, but the undertaking
would require a deal of
work to put the road leading to
the ford on either side of the
river in passable condition. The
ford was abandoned years ago
and if it should again be opened
to the public only horse drawn
vehicles could use it.
The last building destroyed in
this section Monday by the
dojd water in Catawba river was,
so far as has been reported,
the abandoned Carhartt roller
mill, some distance un th*> riow
f om Grattan.
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MILL TIMES, FORT MILL, SOI
Mr. W. F. Stevenson for Congress.
Champ Clark, in his speoeh to ,
the "Baby Congressman." being <
circulated in this District, says
that if a congressman has the 1
necessary qualities and you keep
him there he is as certain to vise
"as the sparks are to fly upward."
Hear him!
"It is an unwise performance
for any District to change Representatives
at short intervals.
A new Congressman must begin
at the foot of the class and spell
up. Of course, the more tact,
energy, courage, and industry he
has the quicker he will get up.
If he possesses these qualities
and his constituents will keep
him in the House, he is as certain
to rise as the sparks are to
fly upward. No human power
can keep him down. It is only
fair and rational to assume that
every Representative's constituents
desire to see him among the
"topnotchers."
Let us take the present House
and see how long the men who >
hold the high places have served.
I cannot name all, but will cite a
few as samples.
Mr. Speaker Cannon is serving
his fortieth year. He holds the
record, or. in pugilistic parlance,
'he holds the belt,' for length of)
service in the House in our entire ;
history. In several Congresses
he was chairman of the great
Committee on Appropriations'
and then was speaker eight years,
only one man. Henry Clay, having
been Speaker longer.
I am serving my twenty-second
year. Minority Leader Mann is j
serving his twentieth year; Mr.
Kitchin, chairman of Ways and
Means his sixteenth; Mr. Fitzgerald.
chairman of Appropriations,
his eighteenth; Mr. Moon,
chairman of the postotf.ee and
post roads, his twentieth; Mr.
Jones, chairman of the Insular
Affairs and "father of the
House," his twenty-sixth; M>\
Flood, chairman of Foreign
Affairs, his sixteenth; Mr. Hay,
chairman of Military Affairs, his
twentieth; Mr. Glass, chairman
of Banking and Currency, his
his sixteenth; Mr. Webb, chairman
of the Judiciary, his fourteenth;
Mr. Adamson, chairman
of Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
his twentieth; Mr. Stephens,
chairman of Indian Affairs,
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iiia LwtMiLieLii, i. oayuen, cuairman
of the Library, his twentieth;
Mr. Henry, chairman of
Rules, his twentieth; Mr. Lever,
chairman of Agriculture, his
sixteenth; Mr. Padgett, chairman
of the Navy, his sixteenth;
Mr. Burnett, chairman of Committee
on Immigration, his
eighteenth; Mr. Lloyd, chairman
of Accounts, his twentieth; and
Mr. Sparknian of Rivers and
Harbors, his twenty-second.
There are other big chairmanships,
but these will suffice to
show that as a rule the big
places go to old and experienced
members, for most of the men
who rank close to chairmen are
old timers*"
^ The Congressman from the
Fifth District who has bc* n there
for eighteen years is not named
as a "topnoicher." Surely, he
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has been given time enough by
the District.! The only other requisite,
according to his friend
Clark, is capacity. Has he furnished
it? If so, why has he
not risen?
(Advertisement.)
Schedule of Services
Fort Mill Circuit of M. E. Church, South.
for the Year 1916.
Fort Mill Church?1st and 3rd Sundays
at 11 a. m., and 4th Sunnay at
night. . Sunday school every Sunday
morning. Worn ana' Missionary society
every 1st Sunday afternoon.
Pleasant Hill Church ?1st ant! 3rd
Sundays at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school
every Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
I'h'ladelphia Church?2nd Sunday at
11 a. m.; 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Sunday
school every Sunday morning. (4th
Sunday at 3:30 p. m.)
India Hook Church?4th Sunday at 11
a. rn.; 2nd Sunday at 3:30 p. in. Sunday
school every Sunday afternoon,
(4th Sunday 10:00 a. m.)
E. Z. JAMES. Pastor.
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Now is the Time
to do your repairing. You will
need
LUMBER
for your fences, road bridges,
repairs on your house, barn and
outbuildings. We are in position
to offer special inducements to
early comers, giving you the best
possible material, at prices that
defy competition.
Fort Mill Lumber Company
Phone No. 72.
$1,000.00
or $500.00
"I can carry double the amount
of life insurance in the Union
Central Life for the same premium
that I am now paying," is
what a man told us this week
when he asked for the premium
rate.
I)o you not think it would pay
you to ask us for the rate at
your age?
Safety - Saving - Service
Thai is the Union Central.
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