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THURSDAY. JAN. 2, 1919. I
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The Times extends the season^*
greeting along with the
good wish that the year 1919
n?y prove one of unbounded
v happiness and prosperity to each
e? its rentiers and friends.
The annual State Baptist Convention
will be held in Columbia
at the First Baptist church beginning
January 13. Announcement
was made to this effect
a few days ago by the executive
committee of the convention,
. after a conference with pastors
and laymen from all sections of
1 1 J n.i L ml
tne outie, nciu 111 v^uiumoia. ine
delegates to the convention will
not be entertained by the Baptists
of Columbia but will arrange
for their own entertainment.
From Union county comes a
story about good roads which
many sounties and communities
ill the State should take a heart
and act upon. A man from a
distant community went to
Union i<i answer to an advertisement
of a farm for sale.
He examined the farm, liked it,
and wanted to buy it, for it
seemed to be just what he was
looking for. But he did not buy
and what stopped the sale was
the fact that the road to Union
was very bad. So the would-be
purchaser turned elsewhere to
buy. the farm he was seeking.
One of the very first things and
one of the very wisest things
that any county can do for the
weuare 01 us citizens ana tor
the attraction of outsiders is to
improve the roads of the county.
It is trite to say that such improvement
will add to the
wealth of the county as well as
to the convenience and comfort
of the public.
As kings go, Victor Emmanual
of Italy is one of the best in the
business. There is much about
this monarch to recommend h\m
te the good will of the world, especially
that part of the world
in which democracy now has the
upper hand ? and that means
practically all the world. He had
the courage and patriotism to
spend very nearky all the four
long years of the world war
at the front with his troops and
by his presence did much to encourage
them to push forward
to one of the moat overwhelming
victories recorded in history,
when in the second battle of the
Piave the Austrian invaders of
his country were routed with a
loss of a million men. Victor
Emmanuel long ago had the
courage to tell the Pope of Rome
to keep hands off so far as the
conduct of the Italian government
was concerned, that neither
he nor the Italian people
would tolerate any intermeddling:
in their affairs by the Vatican.
This, too, notwithstanding the
faet that most Italians who claim
any religious belief at all are
members of the Church of Rome.
The chiefs of countries in which
there is a preponderating Protestant
population might do well
_to pass along similar word to the
He State would repeat its
^ [gestion made a few weeks
that it is the urgent duty of
^ the general assembly at its approaching
session to tighten the
laws permitting the carrying of
concealed deadly weapons and
regulating their sale. There is
no reason why these laws should
not be enforced. We are enJTiSorcing
other statutes which a
law years ago many people
thought would forever remain
dead letters in some of our com- '
I munities. The carrying of conI
coaled weapons is almost wholly
I confined nowadays to that elel
mat of the population that ia
bssl.cs mischief and orderly
and law abiding people are at
their mercy. If it be held that
men whose posts require them
to deal with rough Characters
and who live in localthes where
there ia no police protection,
should be permitted to carry
arms, their cases might be cov.
ered with a licensing law. At a
a time when the movement of
the population will be necessarily
much greater than usual, it would
be strange is there should not be
a few troublesome characters
going about and that will furnish
pretext for other men to carry
pistols who have no business
with them. A number of lives
would be saved in South Carolina
in the next two or three
years by the enforcement of the
laws that we have bearing on
this subject and by amending
them in some slight degree. Are
not ine nves wortn saving r~
Columbia State.
SAN JOHNSON PLEADS GUILTY;
WILL GO TO CHAIR ON JAN. 10.
Sam Johnson, negro, aged 18,
was convicted at York Monday
at a special term of court of
attempted criminal assault on a
white girl of Fort Mill township
on November 30 and sentenced
to be electrocuted January 10.
The negro pleaded guilty to
the charge, and the only question
for the jury to decide was
whether mercy should be recommended,
which was acted on
adversely. The jury was out
only a few minutes. Johnson
heard the sentence with little
indication of emotion. He ap
j *iw
(icaicu IU uc aji^un.y uciuw inc
average of intelligence for his
race.
The only testimony was by
J. M. Youngblood, chief of
police of Rock Hill, and S. P.
Wilson of Fort Mill township.
Both heard the negro in confession
shortly after the crime.
Solicitor Henry appeared for the
State and Thomas F. McDow
was appointed by Judge R. W.
Mennninger to represent Johnson,
who was without a legal
adviser.
Sheriff Fred F.. Quinn took
precautionary measures against
possible violence, a number oi
special deputies being on duty
who guarded the doors to thi
court room and searched foi
coucealed weapons every ont
who entered.
The crowd which packed th<
court room was orderly and re
frained from any outward mani
festation of feeling. Johnsor
was sent to the State penitentiary
for safe keeping follqjving hii
arrest and was brought back t<
York only in time for the trial.
CAPT. JAMES D.^FHLP WRITES
OF EIGHTY-F1RTS IN ACTION
Capt. James D. Fulp of thi:
city, with the Three Hundrec
and Twenty-first Infantry
Eighty-first Division, which wai
trailed for overseas service a
Camp Jackson and Camp Sevier
has written from the Frenci
front, under date of Novembei
11, the following interesting
letter to Mrs. Fulp of the lasi
hours of the fighting jn France
in which his division was en
Raged:
"Le guerre finis" so tht
Frenchmen said yesterday at
11 o'clock, but from our experience
since last Friday njghi
when we went into our first bifl
battle, it is hard for us to realize
that peace has really come.
We came so near to not getting
into a real battle and then tc
have it come when peace was
already to dawn upon us seems
too hard for the poor fellows
who died for as Saturday and
Sunday. I know that the
Casualty list will be nut Innu
before you get this letter, so I
will tell you something of it.
Our boys were as brave as any
of them and we lay for two days
and one night with shells pouring
on us and machine guns
raining through us before we
got relief. We all look like old
men for the experience and so
many of our good friends have
gone. Poor old Cowell got a ten
iuchjshell straight and it was
with difficulty that we could
gather his body together. Five
men died with him in the same
burst. It was awful! Not
much German infantry opposed
us but the artillery and
| the machine gun nests were
everywhere. Our enemy, we
learned from some of the
! prisoners we captured, were the
| Fifth Prussian Guards, one of
the crack Hun oiganizations.
We are having the very unpleasant
task today of policing
the battle held and the poor
chaplain is about ail in. None
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of us got any sleep for three
nights and days. I was busy all
i the time getting up rations and
ammunition and had two casual.
ties in my company. None of
! my officers were hit. You remember
Gregory Davis, whose
mother came from Riverhead
, to New York with us. Well, he
i Nwas the first officer killed. We
lost several more but none of
them that you knew unless it
was Captain Bradt. We are
still trying to get the men buried
> and have an awful job. We
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nunvcu uii lUKin iasL mgiic ana
there is a day and night's work
i left yet to be done. We fought
i to 11 o'clock yesterday when we
had orders that hostilities would
1 cease. The Germans did the
! same and it seemed like death
i had come to all of us at 11, as
after the awful crashing fire,
i gas, popping of the machine
guns, everything was painfully
quiet, and one's nerves were
too high strung to be let down
so suddenly. The reaction was
almost as bad as the action
itstlf.
1 am still in a dugout this
morning, as I haven't any too
much faith in the Germans, and
there is no abatement in prepai
ration. The guns have ceased
i firing, that's all. and a plenty ii
[ is for us. The ground ovei
which we advanced for eight
i miles was one mass of marsh,
i woods and so much barbed wire
i that our clothes were literally
torn to pieces. We never
t stopped for anything, and while
, we wouia De neiu up lor a time
i by a machine gun nest, the
nastiest thing infantry ever had
to fight , our boys kept going and
> we took three towns the two
t days we were in. Old Joe
Jacobs got a piece torn out of
' his neck, but will get a wound
stripe for a good scare and a
painful stiff neck. You knowby
my being able to write to
you that I had my unusual good
luck and did not get a scratch
s but some awful mental anguish.
1 I was getting a train of urnmunition
off at the dump Sun
day afternoon and a Boche plane
a side car now and am going to
quit jolting myself on a horse
and blistering my heels walking.
I hear that we are to go into
Germany this week for patrol ;
duty.
THE FOOD ADMINISTRATION
8TILL FORBIDS PROFITEERING.
Columbia.?In order that no mjlsttnderrstaflding
may arias among licensees
with regard to the effect of the
armistice upon the regulations of the
Food Administration. It Is stated bji
the Food Administration and made
perfectly clear that the regulations
are not annulled by the armistice.
Modifications have been made but
of profit and regulations preventing
hoarding have not been removed, and
there is no present intention on the
part of the Food Administration of
dropping these restrictions, which will
he rigidly enforced.
The world needs at the present
time are for a larger amount of food
then before tho signing of the armistice
brought the fighting to an end.
This comer eh ends food of all kinds,
with tte possible ssoeptlon ot wheat,
of which there An reported to be
|lM?
i came down on us and peppered
us with his machine gun, but
. didn't hit a single man, but 1
. was sure my time had come.
One never knows the feeling of
' being directly shot at until he
? goes through a battle. I wasn't
- really scared, no time to think
; about fear, but when a lull would
come for a few minutes and 1
? could see dying men all about
- and shell holes as thick as they
- could be, often overlapping, I
1 wondered how I got through it.
/ I am saving my maps all
? marked to show you just what
j we went through and such
lltouf hot* QO t%t ?\ V\n/1 + '
<i vuvuvt iao nc ii*u LI IV" Illuming
at 4 o'clock when we went
over the top. It was dark as
hades, raining in torrents and
cold as 'ice. I didn't have my
5 rsbber boots of! for days. Poor
j old Strang looks like a ghost and
the colonel has been up so long
!, that he can't sleep at all. He
t held together fine, though, and
never seemed excited, even
\ when he saw some of his best
r officers torn to pieces. The
r lieutenants were particularly
I fine and many of them will get
their D. S. Cs.
I haven't heard a word from
Dick (Capt. Richard Fulp,
Thirtieth Division) since their
? last fight and do hope that he is
I as lucky as I have been. I
- lived between fires with shells
bursting overhead from both
: sides for days and nights. They
certainly put up a stiff fight and
nobody thought about peace. I
: do houe this thing is over, but
i you never know what he can
i stand until he gets into it.
i The colonel has just stopped
1 by to tell me something else to
do and I will have to cut this
shorter than T eYnppfpil T howo
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UOAR LIMITATIONS OFF;
NO FURTHER RATIONING
Columbia.?The limitation of four
foadi of sugar per month per per on
hn* been removed by the Food
Administration and the rale requiring
restaurants, hotels and public eating
places to limit their sugar consumption
to four pounds tor each 90 meals
served, has been rescinded by the
Food Administration. The sugar
shortage is over. The Food Ad minis
xratton, However, expect* mat wkh
Ike removal of the restrictions the
public will not exceed the normal reulrements,
but will continue to use
surer with discretion. Manufacturers
using sugar may likewise secure tbelr
normal sugar requirements, without
tho further use of sugar certificates.
Patriot's Plenty
Bi|y less - Serve less
Eat only 3 meals a d^y
Waste nothing
\bur guests will cheerfugy
share simple fare
Be Proud to be
a. food saver
VME CHlLOktEN I.IUH IX
KENNEDY'S LAXATIVE
COUGH SYRUP
Can You (
This Plot?
Under what circumslatu
man force a croolc to m;
Can You Guess?
How would the crook
would he do if asked to
Can You Guess?
If in love with one ma
with another?and com
which would come to n
Can You Guess?
Would an office-holder
on surveillance, to rifle I
Can You Guess?
What would you do il
line, you got a faithless
ing politician in your p
Can You Guess?
Then see this amazing
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Best Pat Flour $
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B. C. FEE
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Annual Meeting to be Held oe Thursday,
January 9, 1919.
Pursuant to Statute, notice is hereby
given to whotn it may concern, that
the Annual Meeting of the County
Board of Ct ramisaioners of York County,
will be held in the office of the
i County Supervisor in the courthouse on
'Thursday, January 9th, 1919, commencing
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Under Section 993 of the Civil Code,
all claims against the county not previously
presented, must be filed with
the Clerk of the Board on or before
January 1, 1919, and holders of claims
will take notice that if the same are
not presented and filed during the year
in which they are contracted, or the
year following, such claims will be forever
barred.
All claims i gainst York county must
be itemized, and they must be uccompunied
by affidavits ?f the claimants
setting forth thae the several amounts
claimed are just, true, due and owing,
and 1 hat no part thereof has been paid
liy discount or otherwise.
All persons authorized by law to administer
oaths, are requir# to probate
claims against the county free of
charge.
THOMAS W. BOYD.
Supervisor. '
Annie L. Wallace, Clerk.
Dec. 7, 1918.
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DR. A. L_. OTT ,
D^TIST
Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
(Dr. Spratt's office)
Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C.
Old newspapers for sale at The
Times office.
jiiess
ii ill
ces would a reputable business
arry a girl he had never seen?
act towards the girl? What
? turn a trick in her behalf?
n?forced into an engagement
pelled to marry still another?
lean the most in the girl's life?
knowingly employ a crook out
the District Attorney's office?
, double-crossed all down the
woman, or a crook, or a thievower?
What would you do?
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sioiy unravelled at tne?
:stic TO-DAY
Friends |
atrons! j
ust that you liave
dus 1918 and that t
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to bestow blessings f
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ierves Best"
?Let him serve you. Perhaps
you have tried many
others?now try me and
then select the one who
serves you best.
Good Service?Good Groceries?and
Reasonasle Pri- i
cos, plus a sincere appreciation
of your trade is what
you get here.
6.00 per 100 lbs.
paid for Pork
tGUSON.
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I their liberal patronage and help during the year I
1918. We wish for each and every one a Happy H
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Effective October 1st, 1918, the subscription
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MULES! MULES! *
Come to see me at Harris' Livery Stable
in Fort Mill if you want a mule or two for
your next crop. I have about twenty-five
of as nice animals as you will find and 1
know I can please you. Also a few Nice
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Prices Right and everything guaranteed.
Burton H. Massey,
The ltock IIill Livestock Man.
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I Union Central I
* Life Insurance Co., i
t All limitations with respect to military, naval or ?
7. relief service are withdrawn from policies issued &
t and containing war clauses. No war clauses will ,t
f be inserted in policies issued hereafter. Such ex- Z
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? funded. I
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