Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, May 13, 1920, Image 1
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- .
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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>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
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? 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