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Egtablithed 1891. COMMUNITY HONORS MEMORY OF SOLDIERS This year, for the first time, joint memorial exercises were held in Fort 1 Mill Monday afternoon at the Presby- < terian church for the Confederate dead I of the community and the Fort Mill * soldiers who lost their lives in the 1 World war. The exercises, which were I uiiuci biic puopibcp vi i' iviciibc tuvur well chapter, United Daughters of the ' Confederacy, consisted of patriotic 1 songs, an address by the Rev. W. R. 1 Bauknight, pastor of St. John's Meth- ' odist church, the calling of the respec- ' tive rolls of the Confederate and World I war soldiers by K. Shannon, adjutant 1 of the local Confederate camp, and 1 / Arthur C. Lytle, adjutant of the Fort 1 Mill po\Pt, American Legion. A number PX Confederate veterans attended the ' exercises, but it was noted to the regret of all that the "thin gray line" grows thinner with each succeeding 1 year. Following the exercises at the church the audience formed a procession to the town cemetery, where the graveB ! of the Confederate soldiers were decorated with floral offerings. The following list of World war soldiers and sailors was read by Adjutant Lytle as the community's contribution of manhood to the armed forces of the country. in? psierisn ri ioiiowin|( the name of the soldier indicates that he was in the service as a member of the 30th division: Army?Thomas B.Spratt,* J. Erskine Ardrey, Samuel W. Parks,* James D. Pulp, George W. Potts,* Francis M. Mack,* Richard A. Pulp,* Allison A. TJhornwell, T. K. Lee, H. L. Merritt, Ladson M. Massey,.* Robert H. Ardrey,* Ebb ParkB, Pred Niins, Jr.,* Theodore Harris, J. Hubert Harris, John S. Blankenship, W. S. McMurray, W. B. Adrey, Jr., Robert C. Potts, Willie H. Nuns,* William R. Crane,* Arthur C. Lytle,* James T. Young, Jr., Clarence Patterson, Thomas L. L Hall,* James Ely Bailee,* Robert P. Grier, Jr.,* William S. Beik,* Joseph M. Belk,* Herbert Harris,* Thus. D. Bur rage,* Chas. C. Bennett,* Robert M. Bennett,* Robert B. Lee*, Carey T. Patterson,* Walter Wright,* John E. Cunnup,* Clyde Crane,* Joe H. McMurray, Lawrence Hpyward,* Robert White. E. B. White, Grady Hoagland, Jke Yarborough, Oscar W. Purser,* Carey Faris,* Harvey L. McManus,* Walter Howie,* Elliott S. Kimbrell,* Mack Archie,* John T. Armstrong,* Thomas W. Jones. JameB L. Honey cutt,* John S. Bayne,* William F. Long,* Gladys Hitch,* Robert L. Wright,* Grady Lemonds,* John S. Hoke, John C. McElhaney,* Herbert L. Baker,* Samuel C. James,* George A. Campbell,* Thomas S. Sanford,* J. Edwin Barber, Malcolm G. Rodgers, Leroy S. McMurray, John E. Jones, Robert E. Jones,* Walter O. Ceazer,* Clyde W. Stevens,* Grovdr C. Patterson, Eugene Ross, Paul W. Hoke, Grover C. Lemonds, Pred Ritch, Earle E. Bass, Earle Broom, George L. Hall, Steven O. Howie,* Clyde Kimbrell, Oscar Hammonds,* Fred E. Long,* Callie A. Smith,* Oscar W. Stamey,* Barron Bennett,* John J. Adkins, Lester Cunnup. J. Mason Smith, Hope Harris,* Clyde Pettus,* Benjamin Merritt, Ernest Honeycutt, Oscar Gamble,* Parks O. Boyd, Clema^n Fans, * Baxter Wright, Robert Crane, Claude Crowder, F. Frank Lewis, Zenas C. (flier, B. Haile Ferguson,* Bert Bayne, William D. Rogers, Charles Armstrong,* Samuel Warren, Herbert Parks, James ParkB, Dave C. Cannon, Lester Caskey, Ralph W. Hood, George Stallings, Knox Osborne, Elliott Therrell, John J. Cunnup. Walter Taylor, Thomas L. Wilson, John Boatriwght, Herman G. Atkins,* John A. Bond. Navy?Angus Rodgers, Brice D. Culp, Walter Banks Meacham, John Robert Harris. Killed?Thomas L. Hall, James Ely Bailee, Carey L. Faris, Oscar W. Purser, Harvey F. McManus, Walter O. Leaser, Clyde W. Stevens. Died?Grover C Patterson, Eugene Ross, George Stallings. . S. A. T.C.?Thomas H. Belk, Alfred O. Jones. Luther Belk. / TifepkoM Exchange Sold. " S. L. Meacham of Fort Mill recently i sold to S. M. Baggett of Pineville the k Pineville telephone exchange which was E built ten years ago and has since been operated in connection with the Fort E Mill telephone exchange. Mr. baggett. H who ia agent for the Southern at Pine^E viile, has already taken over the property, but arrangements have been made, Mr. Meacham states, for the HA interchange of messages to continue | OT Has in the past between the Fort Mill Wm end Pineville exchanges. The Pine- . hi; F THE FORT MILL TIMES s P BUYS HOME FOR SELF Within the next few weeks the Fort Mill Times will be established in its | >wn home- Tuesday afternoon the , publishers bought from W. A. Watson < sf Charlotte, N. C., and S. L. Meach- , am of Fort Mill, for the use of the l paper, the lot and garage on Confeder- ( ate ntreet adjoining the telephone exchange on the north side and the Pal- ( metto hotel on the south side. It is ( thought they paid for the lot the high- , est price, per front foot, yet recorded , in a Fort Mill real estate transfer. The { publishers* of The Times plan to have ( considerable work done on the interior ( of the building and the front remod- , t*led. It is believed that the building , will then be well adapted for the home ( of The Times. ( Some Weeks ago The Times moved from the building it had occupied on ( Clebourne street for the past ten years to the building recently erected in the rear of the postoffice on Confederate street,opposite the telephone exchange. A misunderstanding with the owner of the building the paper has occupied for the past two months, as to the ren- ( tal, coupled with the fact that the construction of the building rendered it unsuited to newspaper work, in the opinion of the publishers, caused The Times to seek new quarters. When The Times becomes established in its own building and begins the use of the modern typesetting machine it purchased some weeks ago, it is hoped to make improvements in the paper equaling those many say already have |\non iv* u.lu oiiwio " H ^ vwvn Iiiuui. oinvc wur llint Ul CI It* y t'UI . William M. Carothers Dead. William M. Carothers died Friday afternoon at his home in the India Hook community, u few miles west of Fort Mill, near the old county bridge. < Hia death waa audden and waa the i result of a stroke of apoplexy. Funeral servicea were held at the home at i 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon by the Kev. Jamea B. Black, pastor of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Carothers was a member, and interment was in Ebenezer church cemetery. Mr. Carothers was born in the community where he spent the greater part of his life and where he died. He was in the &4th year of his age, having been born on September 26, 1866 He was a resident of Fort Mill for several years, coming here in 1911, and having charge of the large farming interests of the Southern Power company. He had been a farmer during most of the years of his life. He was twice married and is sur vived by his wife and the following children: John N. Carothera of Anniston, Ala., Mra. Carl Morria and Miss Ida Louiae Carothera of India Hook and Misa Mary Carothera of Lancaster. Mr. Carothera waa a man of aturdy and unimpeachable character and waa held in the highest esteem by a large circle of friends in this and his home community. He waa interested in every forward movement, especially those which tended toward the uplift of his fellowman. He was a great friend of boys, and in 1912 organized here one of the first troops of Boy Scouts in the State. He waa prominent in Masonic circles, having served Catawba lodge No. 56, Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina, as its master for several years^and was always greatly interested in Masonic work. Presbyterian Pastor Entertains. A delightful social event of the past week was the reception given at the manae by the Kev. and Mra. James B. UU.L s. _ s-? t * ? " * ----- niBCH iu i.uf memuers 01 tne f ort Mill Presbyterian church. The beautiful new home was made even more attractive by the tasteful decorations and an evening of much pleasure was spent by the large number of people who availed themselves of the privilege of mingling together. Three-fourths of the congregation. besides a number of especially invited guests, were present during the evening. All of the rooms of the manse were thrown open for the inspection of the guests, and refreshments were served during the evening. The price of bottled coca-cola was advanced yesterday by the Fort Mill dealers from 6 cents to 7 cents, in comp.iance, it was stated, with the instructions of the bottlers. One man was heard to complain of the advance and he was reminded that there is no law in the statutes requiring one to drink the beverage. Coca-cola is still being sold at the soda fountains in Kurt Mill at ?i Cents per gla.xs. but the ORTl FORT MILLi/s. C, THUl WILSON URGES PARTY TO STAND BY TREATY A call to the Democratic party to ?o into the campaign standing foursquare in favor of the Treaty of ! Versailles and against the senate's reservations was issued Sunday night by President Wilson in a telegram to * Oregon Democratic leaders as follows: . "I think it imperative that the party should at once proclaim itself the un:ompromising champion of the no 1 lion's honor and the advocate of everything that the United States can do in the service of humanity, that it should therefore indorse and support the Versailles treaty and condemn the Lodge reservations aa utterly inconsistent with the nation's honor and destructive ?f the world leadership which it had established and which all the free peoples of the world, including the great powers themselves, had shown themselves ready to welcome. "it is time that the party should proudly avow that it means to try, without flinching or turning at any time away from the path for reasons of expediency,- to apply moral and Christian principles to the problems of the world. It is trying to accomplish social, political and international reforms and is net daunted by any of the difficulties it has to contend with. Let us prove to our late associates in the war that at any rate the great majority party of the nation?the party which expresses the true hopes and purposes of the people of the country ?intends to keep faith with them in peace as well as in war. They gave their treasure, their best blood and everything: that they valued in order, not merely to beat Germany, but to effect a settlement and bring about arrangements of a peace which they have now tried to formulate in the Treaty of Versailles. They are entitled to our support in this settlement and in the arrangements for which they have Btriven. "The League of Nations is the hope of the world. As a basis for the armistice, 1 was authorized by all the great fighting nations to say to th* enemy that it was our object in proposing peace to establish a general association of nations under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and Bmall states alike, and the covenant is ratified and acted upon with vigor. We can not in honor whittle it down or weaken it as the. Republican leaders of the senate have proposed to do. If we are to exercise the kind of leadership to which the founders of the republic looked forward and which they depended upon their successors to establish, we must do this thing with courage and unalterable determination. They expected the United States to be always the leader in the defense of liberty and ordered peace throughout the world, and we are unworthy to call ourselves theit successors unless we fulfill the great purpose they entertained and proclaimed. "The true Americanism, the only true Americanism, is that which puts America at the front of free nations and redeems the great promises which we made the world when we entered the war which was fought, not for the advantage of any single nation or group of nations, but for the salvation of all. It is in this way we shall redeem the sacred blood that was shed and make America the force she Bhould be in the counsels of mankind. She can not afrord to sink into the place that nations have usually occupied and become merely one of those who scramble and look aboat for selfish advantage. "The Democratic partv has now a great opportunity to which it muat measure up. The honor of the nation is in ita hands*" Washington, May 10.?President Wilson's call to the democratic party to carry ratification issue into the campaign drew expressions today from two mem tiers of his own party, William J. Itrvan ami Senator Reed, of Missuri, and also from Senator Johnson, of California, leader of the republican irreconcilable group in the senate treaty tattle. Senator Reed, in a statement, declared auch a platform would mean for the democrats the loss of every atate north of the Mason and Dixon line and the tweaking of the "Splid" South. Senator Johnson also in a statement said he could respect the president's consistent advocacy of unreserved ratification, but had no respect for men whose views shifted "with the varying popular wind." Mr. Bryan, at hia home in Florida, reaffirmed hia declnra^ tion for immediate ratification by joint action of the republican and demtreaty friends in order "to Ipi J btiifta out of the campaign." Will ' LSD AY, MAT 13, 1980. POSTMASTER MASSEY SENDS IN RESIGNATION After serving the people of Fort Mill faithfully as postmaster for the last 26 years, B. H. Massey forwarded his resignation to the department in Washington one day last week, with the request that it become effective on July 1. Recently Mr. Maaeey's health has not been good and acting upon the advice of hiB physician, he decided to , give up the pos(.mastership. Mr. Massey was first appointed poet- < master of Fort Mill in November, 1893, and took charge of the office on January 1, 1894, the appointment being made by the postmaster general in President Cleveland's cabinet. The postoffice was then in a small frame building occupying a part of the Bite of The Times office. It was burned within a short time after Mr. Massey became postmaster. Since that time the postoffice has been moved a number of times During the 26 years he has served as postmaster of Fort Mill, Mr. Massey hnfl Inut milv '-HI Hnnu 1? ?- w...j -v mmjo ituui 1110 uuurouY illness and he has seen the office during these years grow from the fourth class to the second class. Once during his incumbency as postmaster, in June. 1902, the poatoffice safe was cracked by yeggmen and $25 in money and $14 worth of stamps were stolen therefrom. Mr. Massey has proved a faithful, efficient postmaster and many will regret to learn that he has given up the office. It is understood that Joseph M. Belk, World war veteran, will be an applicant for the postmastership to succeed Mr. Msssey. It is presumed that a civil service examination soon will be ordered to select a successor to Mr. Massey. Nortk Carolina Property Assessment. Winthrop Weekly News. Property is now returned for taxation in North Carolina at 100 per cent, valuation. When the revaluation law was enacted an agreement was made that ttftsre should not be more than 10 per cent, increase in taxation for all purposes in any tax units. This 10 per cent, clause has been asmiree nf?nmu I 10 per cent, increase would scarcely provide for normal growth in ordinary time?. However, a member of the finance oommittee of the Legislature Rays that the law did not contemplate plAcing limitations on what the people could raise for taxation and that there are ample provisions whereby more money may be raised for schools and other public improvements.' In this connection, there is in contemplation a law to lift the burden of securing increased taxation to maintain schools which the people have decided to maintain from the boards of education and rather make provisions for voting off taxes. This matter deserves consideration, since if the people decide to do certain things in education it is generally true that the purpose is to do it right. Therefore boards should not be so handicapped by legislation; rather place the burden upon opponents to the will of Ko ma lAtnf?? - VIIV Iiaajvuvjt McMamu-Smythe. I. Floyd Smythe, well known young Fort Mill man who recently has been employed at Ferguaon':i grocery, and Miaa Velrna McManus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. McManus, were married in Charlotte on April 80 by Walter Cobb, federal commissioner, and Mrs. Smythe left the first of the week to join her husband, who is making his home in another State. Mrs. Smythe had held a position with the Kimbrell dry goods store for sonte time and is a popular young woman whose many friends will regret that her marriage takes her away from Fort Mill. Mr. .Smythe is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira G. Smythe. f e e e Married ia Gestosis. Carl H. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones of Fort Mill township, and Miss Mary Etta Westmoreland of Grover, N. C.. were married by a Methodist minister in Gastonia, N. C., Saturday evening and are now on a visit to Mr. Jones' parents. Recently Mr. Jones has been stationed at Bridgewater, N. C., where he is employed by the Southern Public Utilities company, and he and Mrs. Jones will return to that place after a visit to his brother, Robert Jones, at Badin, N. C. ^ ^ ^ _mmmm Columbia, May II.?The state highway commission, in session here today, finds it hard to get a secretary and chief engineer. The hoard postponed actum on these two selections until a future meeting. A committee is in charge of this matter. ^ Time? INCREARE FOR TEACHERS NOW BECOMING GENERAL Columbia. May 11.?That the agitat inn in ronant mnitHiu Kot *?*?%?? for teacher* in having the desired effect and i* bringing relief to the teaching profession, it* the opinion expressed by officials of the state department of education, several of whom have been interviewed on the subject. The relief however is only partial and has come at least a year late. It is stated that there is still a scarcity of teachers, and male teachers especially are leaving the profession rapidly. Both wonteu and men find better pay in other lines of work, and this explains the small supply of teachers, as compared with the heavy demand. The department of education has been waging a campaign for special levies in the school districts of the state, to provide more money for teachers* salaries and for school equipment, and it is -tated that many of the districts have reported action looking to special levies. In many cases, however, these levies) are not large enough to take care of the increased cost of living. The education department recently -rnt to all the county *lem??cratic executive committees copies of suggested reso lotions, (-ailing on school districts to vole special tax levies. In many of the ounties these resolutions were introduced and adopted unanimously, according to reports reaching the department of education and press reports. It is expected that similar resolutions will !h? introduced at the state executive committee which meets in (Columbia on Wednesday of ?next week. The demand for teachers is not expressing itself at this season of the year ?s it will n few months luter. Duriug the summer the demand for teachers will I>r felt, when (lie district hoard* begin arranging for their teaching force* for next full. It is expected that the state will thrn faca a shortage, a* ha* heen the cgse for aeveral year* recently. LODGE CHOSEN TO LEAD THE CHICAGO CONVENTION Ch'u-ajro. May Id.?Senator Henry Cabot fridge, of Massachusetts,- republican senate leader and author of the l^algc reservation* to the league of nation* covenant, will sound the keynote of the -oming presidential campaign at the republican national convention in Chicago on dune 8. The committee on arrangements today selected Senator Lodge for temporary chairmun and voted to re<-ommend to the convention that someone else be chosen permanent chairman to relieve Mr. I.*>dge of the strnin of directing the entire con vent ion. Foifr years ago Senator Warren fi. Harding, of Ohio, filled both position*. The omniittee's recommends! ion op. cording to spveral ommitteemen. prohably will pave the way for the aeleetion of former Senator Albert .1. Beveridge, of Indiana, as permanent chairman. The name of Senator Borah, candidate of the supporters of the Senator Hiram \V. Johnson campaign for permanent chairman. was not mentioned during the discussion. according to Fred l*pham. national treasurer. Chairman Will H. Hays, of the national committee, reported on conferences held last week witTT senate leaders at Washington where Senator Lodge's selection was urged by Senators Knox and Brandegee and others. AGED MACON WOMAN IS MURDERED BY ROADSIDE Macon, May 10.?With six knife wounds in hef left arm and six similar wounds in her neck, the body of Mrs. W. M. Bairman. (JO, widow of a former assistant editor of the Macon Telegraph, was found near a well traveled country road, three ami a half miles from Ma con thin morning. A coroner'* jury investigating the case thin afternoon held that she came to her death at the hand* of an unknown annuitant and thut the name i* murder. Sheriff Hick* he lirve* tliat the woman wa* stain hy a negro. i'lie entire sheriff's force of deputies is at work on the cast. Reward* have been offered for information that may lead to the rapture of the guilty person. Numerous raid* have been made during the day and again tonight of negro quarter* in variou* quarter* in variou* part* of the city in an effort to find some trace of the guilty person. Feeling is running high. REGISTERED MAIL CONSIGNMENT VALUED AT $23,000 DISAPPEARS Washington. May 9.? Postotliee department olticiata today estimated the value of the consignment of registered mail which disappeared recently in New York at $2*1,900. The mail, it wus said, disappeared while lieing transferred front the grand centra! station to a western shore ferry. Reports to the department did not indicate the nature of the lost mail. Trotsky to Froat. London. May II.?Advices received today from Moscow state that Leon Trotsky has gone to tha front to direct the action of the reda against tk? Polish- I I'kraine offensive. I ' ?** / /? ; t - ' * . ^ >1.25 Per Year CONGRESS PASSES BILL FOR NATIONAL BUDGET A iA * - " mwr *u years or congressional discussion of the advantages of a budget system, the United States senate has passed Senator McCormick's budget bill. The house also has passed a budget bill and with it the McCormick bill will go to conference. There is considerable difference between the two measures, but it is believed these can be adjusted without much delay. The action of the senate marks the end of years of agitation, in and out of Congress, for reform in the method of preparing estimates for the federal government's expenditures. When the measure becomes effective it is the belief of its authors that it will eliminate much waste and extravagance in appropriations and enable Congress to legislate far more intelligently in providing revenue and fixing taxation. The McCormick bill establishes a budget bureau in the treasury department instead of in the president's office, as provided in the house bill. It was considered that this change was advisable for the reason that the treasury department actually would prepare estimates. The McCormick bill, however, in no way relieves the president from responsibility for the total amount of the estimates. INTEREST IN THE MEMORIAL APPEARS ON THE INCREASE t'olunibiu, May 10.?The people of Marlboro county are becoming enthusiastic over the campaign to raise $4tMi,tHMi for h memorial building, according ... .. ; ?? ? iridium r?ri * t-t? ill I III- ll?-4?lll|IIII I torn III (lit! Smith Carolina Memorial commission here from J. \V. ladirund. county I'huirmnn. ami tin* pointy ask* inorr time .in which to complete it* t|until. Mr. I.eliraml \va< iiotitieil that. at the request of various counties who *} itiil not want to he left from the *honor roll.' the cumpaign hail been extended. "People of Marlboro becoming enthusiastic over state memorial for South Carolinians who gave their lives ill world war. 1 urge that campaign lie continued until Marllairo ami other counties can secure allotment*. We must not be left out of this great tin-, dertaking." Telegrams of similar ini|x>rt previously were received from other counties which do not want it said that they failed to give full appreciation to those young ernsa'ders who saved democracy to tilt* world. That was why, on tha first of May. tin* ( oniinission derided t<* extend the campaign. en that every political division would have a chance to do it a part. Reports arc coming from every part of the state that the counties intend to llhseribe their quotas to the limit. OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE ALLEGED SUGAR HOARDING Columbia. May IL^?Considerable interest throughout the state is manifested in the agreement reached between l\ 8. District Attorney Weston, of the t eastern district, and H. C. Booker, state fair price commissioner, regarding the profit to he allowed on sugar. These federal officials are making investigations in several parts of the state regarding reported hoardings of sugar and also regarding profiteering, and it is announced that prosecutions will be pushed vigorously. if evidence bears out the reports, The food officials have agreud that a profit of one and a half cents per |M>nnd wholesale is the limit, and all wholesalers who sell for more thun that will be prosecuted, and the officials ask th:it persons hearing <?f violation* report to them. The*e nfiicial* are uIm? keeping h lookout for overchsrging l?v retailer*. Report* have reached Columbia of Miliar scarcity in miiiiv part* of the ?tate. Mr. Palatr Advcrtiwi. For the first time perhaps in the hi; tory of American politics a candidate for the nomination of one of the great national parties for the presidency has thought it worth while to advertise in the weekly press. The Times this week carrying the announcement of A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney general of the United States, which was wired into this office from Washington Tuesday morning. Mr. Palmer is seeking the Democratic nomination at San Francisco and seems to have learned one thing many other public men do kot know?that the weekly press is a power in politics and is in more intimate touch with the great mans of the people than any other medium of put licity. Owing to the partial destruction by fire Sunday of the Southern railway's bridge acrosa the Catawba at Belmont, N. C., the passenger trains whose runs were on the main line between Charlotte and Blacksburg were detoured Monday through Fort Mill and Rock Hill and