Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, June 03, 1920, Image 1
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Established 1891.
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES
Japan is proposing to Iniild tun hat lie
cruisers anil 22 other warships, beginning
with tin- next fiscal year.
The gross loss I i the gi vermncnt in
its operation of the radroads during
federal control was ITN.UOll. according
to Swager Slnrley. railroad
administration director id' tinance.
Workmen excavating for a cellar
under the house on the John t'. Hardin
farm near (Ireenshoro, I ml., dun "P :i"
earthenware jar which contained
$l.:t2f? in no Id coins that ranired in de
nomination from $n t?> $20 pieces.
That tin- president pardon all persons ,
who, while in tin* military serviee dur- (
iiiK tlie World war. were convicted by |
court mart ial of otl'enses not involving I
moral turpitude is recommended in a
joint resolution introduced hy Repre- '
sentative Schall, Uepuhlicau, of Mimic- 1
sot a.
Recent investigation has revealed
that agents of the Russian soviet j
government have perfected a plan to |
make the Hr'tish army a "hothed of:
dissension." Stern measures losmash
this organization have hem decided
U|>on, according to a report from I.on ,
don, and wholesale deportations unexpected.
The State of Montana has the hest
all-round public school system in t he
United States, according to the re
suits of a comparative study of State
school systems made public by the
Russell Satfe foundatiim. The results i
were computed from data submitted to i
the federal government by the States
themselves.
A lartfe wildcat heintf shipped from
Toledo, Tex., to Richmond. Va., broke
out of his ca>(e as the train was howling j
along ami quicKiy cnaseu me express
messengers to rover. One of the express
handlers possessed a revolver
and homharded the savage animal for
more than an hour before finally hilling
it as it tried to reach hi in.
Taking offense at an article in the |
(ioulosh (Wash.) Knterprise in which it
was stated that meat markets in that
town should he rcipiired to put up j
screens to protect the public from the
tilth of the tlies that swarmed around j
the places. Krnest Busch attacked the
editor of The Knterprise with a stick
and was shot down on the main street '
of the town.
I'raninore, t'nl.. asserts itself the
healthiest community in the State,
basing its declaration upon the fact
that the local cemetery has not had a
Krnve dug since ISit'l. tin- date of the
last funeral in ( ranmore. Since that
time several residents of the community
have died in other sections of
tin- State, but it is a remarkable fact
that not a single iieath has occurred in
the community since lsild.
Internal revenue agents have been
instructed to herein a campaign to force
the payment of admission taxes collected
by theaters ami moving picture
tmoses ItelMU-ts to the treasure de
part im-iit were suit! to reveal that
probably a,0(H) such anuist-int-ut places
hail failt'tl to turn in tin- taxes collected
front patrons. Prosecutions have
been ordered wlu-ro wilful refusal to
pay the tax was shown.
Launched at Mouliiii-in. Ilritish liulia.
in 1T1HI, tin- ohl convict ship. Success,
now touring tin- world, is ti.-d up in
Savannah, (in., for ivpnirs. The
Sllt-i't-ss, said to lie 111* * oldest ship
afloat, was tirst used as an arna-d
merchantman, enquired in Oriental
trallic, and had sovt-ral i-iii-ountfrs
with pirati- ships. Shi- was converted
into a prison shi|> in I SOL.', and refhristfiu-d
by tin- convicts as the
"Ocean I l?-ll. * *
Chit-aoo ran niakt- no headway against
tin- constantly increasing wave of
criiiu- until tin- parole law is ivpt-uh-d.
according to Slate s Attorney lloyne.
Statistics show that criminals are bein>;
poroletl taster than they can he
convicted. Notorious desperadoes, old
timers in crime, are convicted at ^reat
cost to the taxpayers and they barely
reach the penitentiary in time to re^isrter.
when they are turned loose to
be^in all over attain. according to Mr.
lloyne.
The American Federation of Labor
is preparing to "picket" both the Republican
and Democratic national conventions
in an etlort to obtain platform
planks declaring against the Kansas industrial
court law and other proposi
tions which arc objectionable t?> union
labor. It is declared that these coinmil
tees will watch very carefully the
writings of platforms and incidentally
will make known hostility and friendships
to certain candidates. The union
men, it is declared, intend to be much
more persistent in their demands than
in previous conventions as a part of
labor's general policy of entering politics
with a bang.
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NORTH CAROLINA HOLDS
PRIMARY TOR GOVERNOR '
Out- of tl)<' most interesting cam- '
paigns that North Carolina has passed *
through in recent years for the Democratic
nomination for the governorship
may culminate Saturday in the primary
election. There are three candidates
for the nomination. Cameron Morrison j
of Charlotte. O. Max (Jardner of Shelby I
and Robert N. I'a ge of Itiscoe. Kach
has traveled thousands of miles over
the State speaking to the voters, t Jardner
is now lieutenant governor, Cage is
a former congressman and Morrison is I
a lawyer who has not heretofore sought j
puldic otliee.
Mecklenburg. Morrison's home county,
just across the State line from York j
county, is expected to give the Char- I
lotto man a big vote, but friends of
I'age and (Jardner who have recently
been in Fort Mill stated that at best
the Charlotte candidate v\ould not get
a majority of the Mecklenburg vote,
though they Were willing to concede him
a plurality there. Morrison's friends,
however, are counting heavily on the |
support he is said to be receiving from
the Simmons machine and are certain
lie will be in the second primary.
(Jardner is the youngest of the three '
candidates, being only .'to years of age, '
but he has lived long enough to make a
big success farming and practicing law.
Last year on his farm near Shelby he
raised lot) bales of cetton on lf>0 acres.
Mr. (Jardner has not been without his
troubles in the campaign, however, for
the labor unions have been after him.
.Mr. rages campaign extended over
most of the State ami he is said to have
made a good impression everywhere he
spoke. For several years Mr. Page
represented his district in Congress,
hot voluntarily retired at the expiration
of the term In* was serving when war *
was declared on Cermany, stating that
he could not agree with all the policies j
of the president and that he would not
stay in Congress and vote against his I
consciema or what the people consid- i
ered the interest of the country. i
If neither of the three candidates re- i
reives a majority in the primary Satur
day the two candidates with the high- f
est vote will enter the second primary,
to lie held a few days hence. The hest
informed politicians in North Carolina !
are said to have agreed that a second '
'primary will he necessary and that the '
race will then he between Morrison and 1
Page, with the chances in favor of Page j |
winning the nomination. | i
(ioNcrnor to Name Indian Commission. ' 1
Word comes from Columbia that I '
Coventor Cooper has decided to ap- j '
I point .1. S. Hri?e of York, NV. H.
Hope ol liock lini and Koss S. Stew- j
art ol Lancaster as the personnel of the i '
commission authorized by a joint rcso- I 1
lulion passed at the session of the
(ieneral Assembly last winter to in
vesicate tin- claim of the Catawba j '
| Indians against the State and report |
| its findings to the (ieneral Assembly 1
i next January, with the view of the | '
State reaching a settlement with the
i Indians. For years the (ieneral As|
soluble has made an annual appropria- 1
| tion of $7,add for the Indians.
The reservation of the Catawba Indians
is nine miles southeast of Fort
Mill and consists of <">">( acres of as
poor land as there is in York county. I :
Friends of the Indians say that if the i1
j State is to continue as the ward of the [
1 Indians better provision should be j 1
' made for their upkeep. In recent years . '
many of the Indians, finding it im-J
possible to earn a living on the reser- I
vat ion. have moved away, some Ruing
to I Jock Hill to work in the cotton
mills, others moving to Columbia and
still others finding employment as
{ laborers on nearby farms.
Ollkcrs Seize liouor
Kll'orts ??t" lliiract1 Johnson, State
constable, ami a number of other of- ,
tieers to overtake ami arrest a party
of men suspected of having liquor in ,
an autoinoliile Saturday afternoon in ,
Kort Mill township were not rewarded
with success, hut six gallons of liquor
which the men are helieved to have
left in the underbrush near the old
stockade, less than a mile from town,
was seized ami taken to York by Mr.
Johnson. It was thought that the
I liquor was transferred to another automobile
by the men and then taken to
the place where it was found.
I.ate Saturday afternoon 1'olice Officer
WugstutV made another seizure of
liquor, this time in the eor|R?rate limits
of the town, when he found 2J gallons
secreted in a honeysuckle vine in the
rear of a home near the graded school
building. The liquor was in fruit jais.
No one has been arrested in connection
with the case, tail Mr. Wagstatf is
confident lie knows the name of the
man who owned the liquor.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL MITCHELL I
CRATIC NOM1NAT1C
JUNIOR ORDER GROWS
RAPIDLY IN FORT MILL
Friends of good citizenship will he
leased at the rapid growth of the Junor
Order. United American Mechanics,
11 Fort Mill. The local council of this
atriotic order. Fort Mill council No.
J.'IT, organized ahout a year ago with 40
members, has recently had accessions
to its membership until it now has 1 IN
members, counting those to be initiated
this week. The Junior Order is not a
labor organization, as might be concluded
from its name. It is a fraternal and
l?atriotic organization and draws its
membership from men in good health
itiid of good moral character between
the ages of IS and .">() years. The Junior
order stands for the American Ha*?,
the home lite of the country, its public
ichool system, its democracy, its church,
its Bible and all of its free institutions,
Out opposes the coming into this country
of diseased, ignorant, vicious and
lawless foreigners and has done much
iii influencing the restricted immigration
laws of the country.
The Junior Order is ilcmocratic and as
such draws its membership from men
in all walks of life. It is a significant
fact that no drunkard can become a
member of the order, and it is also sig- i
nilicant that SI American congressmen
lire members of the order.
The Junior Order is not "junior"
with reference to its age, for it is f>7
years old; but it is "junior" with respect
to growth and activity. The oiler
has more than JtMI.OOO members in
the United States, its only field of operations
It is comparatively young in
South t'arolina. but has more than'J,INK)
in. ?n in I In* Sitiihi : i v if I is irrnwitiir
rapidly, Its Rain in South Carolina last
yeurwasinore than2,(HMi m?'nibt*fs. The I
order lias social and fraternal features,
also a sick benefit and insurance tor its
members. Kach council legislates for
itu-lf in conformity with the laws of
the State and national councils.
The State council of South Carolina,
made up of t lit' State council officers
and representatives from all the local
councils, consists of about 2U0 members
and will hold its next meeting in Union
on the second Tuesday in August. Dr.
J. W. II. Dyches, councilor of the Fort
Mill council, is chaplain of the State
council, which ollice lie has held for tInlast
four years. A. 1,. Parks is tinrepresentative
of the Fort Mill council
to the Stat?- coun-il.
Believing in the Mag, tin- Bible and
the public school, the Junior Order delights
in placing a copy of the Bible in
the school room and an American Mug
upon the Mag pole of every public school
wherever the opportunity offers.
Interest hi Census figures.
Crowds Rather daily at the census
bureau in Washington to receive the
latest census figures, and then conies
the rush of newspaper men, congressmen
and civic organization representatives
to be the tirst to wire the
count 4"home."
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1ALMER, CANDIDATE FOR DEMO)N
FOR PRESIDENT.
BISHOP DARLINGTON WILL
PRESIDE AT CONFERENCE
Announcement has just been made
that Bishop IJ. V. W. Darlington will
pi eside over the sessions of the Rock
Hill district conference to l?e held at
St. John's Methodist church. Fort Mill,
beginning at o'clock Wednesday
evening, June 9, and continuing through
Friday, June 11. Bishop Darlington's
visit to Fort Mill is looked forward to
with much interest and pleasure by the
members of St. John's church. Ha is
one of the best loved bishops of the
Southern Methodist church and is a man
of deep piety and scholarly attainments.
During his stay in Fort Mill Bishop
Darlington will be entertained in the
lionu? of the Kev. W. K. Bauknight,
pastor of St. John's. Bishop Darlington's
home is in West Virginia. He is
now serving his third year as bishop of
the conferences of South Carolina and
North Carolina.
Besides Bishop Darlington, other distinguished
churchmen who will attend
the conference are Dr. Henry Nelson
Snyder, president of Wotford college;
Dr. John t). Willson, president of Lander
college; Dr. Rugh, president of Columbia
college; the RcV. T. C. Odell,
superintendent of Kpworth orphanage;
Dr. W. C. Kirkland, editor of The
| Southern Christian Advocate, and the
Rev. J. K. T. Major, presiding elder of
the Rock Hill district.
The opening sermon of the conference
wdl he preached by the Rev.
| M. T. Wharton of Hickory drove.
| About 11H delegates are expected to
attend the conference and they will be
entertained in the Methodist homes of
the town. All of the pastors of the
Rock Hill district ami one other delegate
from each church will compose the
membership of the conference, the work
of which will consist largely of reports
of spiritual and financial conditions
throughout the district. Sunnay school
and missionary work and the examination
of young men applying for license
I tn iirearli 'I'll.. m ..C ......
ference is the Rev. R. I.. Holroyd of
of Rock Mill.
Now telephone Switchboard.
S. I.. Meucham, proprietor of the
Kurt Mill telephone exchange, has just
finished the installation of a new
switch board which promises much in
the way of improved service for subscribers.
The new switch board is
I provided with a number of features
' lurking in the old switch tioard which
j it supplanted and will accommodate
j :tno lines. Features of the switch
i board are the night alarm, rode alarm,
double supervision of ull cord circuits
and repeating calls on every circuit,
i It was installed with a minimum of
I inconvenience to subscribers, only two
lines being disconnected during the time
j the work was in progress. Full day
I and night service is now maintained by
the exchange, w hich has alsiut :UMi subscribers.
IVnsion money for Confederate vetel
ans is now being disbursed.
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WOOD NOW IN FRONT
OF OTHER CANDIDATES
With .June 8, the date for the Republican
national convention at Chicago,
rapidly approaching, and practically
all of the delegates* elected, the situation
shows that no candidate has
enough votes pledged to give him any
decided advantage. Campaign managers
for the three men in the lead.
Wood, Johnson and Lowden, each predict
success for their respective candidates,
with a decisive vote on the
thin! or fourth ballot.
General Wood, on the face of returns
to date, will show the most
strength 011 the first ballot. In addition,
he carried the preferential primary
in Vermont, but that State's
eight delegates have not yet been
chosen by the State's convention.
Wood's nearest competitor in the
delegations already pledget! is Senator
Hiram Johnson of California. Governor
Frank (). i.owden of Illinois is third,
while Senator Warren G. Harding of
Ohio has 39 votes from his home State.
There are, however, contests pending
in 12 States and the District of
Columbia, involving 104 delegates.
The credentials committee has been
busy iu Chicago this week threshing
out these contests.
Campaign managers at Chicago agree
that there will he no nomination on the
first ballot. The complimentary vote
for the large list of "favorite sons"
may, in fact, they say, he so large
that it will destroy the usual significance
of the first hullol as an indication
of the strength of the various
candidates.
Ho) Scouts Live Organization.
The Fort Mill troop. Hoy Scouts of
America, has made gratifying progress
since it was organized in the town
hall on March 11. Although there was
a successful troop of Hoy Scouts in Fort
Mill a few years ago and there still
were here several members of the old
organization, it was deemed best to
form a new organization. Col. T. H.
Spratt, George Fish and C. S. Link
were selected as the troop committee.
They have since rendered invaluable
service to the organization, one of their
duties being to recommend a scoutmaster.
Bruce H. Stribling was indorsed
for the place and he has since been commissioned
by national headquarters.
During the first week of his service as
scoutmaster, Mr. Stribling enrolled .'??
boys, but before these boys could be
made full-fledged scouts it was neces
sary for them to pass the "tenderfoot"
tests, which include familiarity with
lit i.wtMr.,
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for the flag and the ability to tie nine
different kinds of knots and know tlieir
uses. Twenty-five boys have passed
these tests and others are working to
perfect themselves.
The troop committee and scoutmaster
are planning for a ten-day camping trip
for the scouts during the month of
August, but the details are yet to he
worked out.
Wants Road Repaired
"I venture the assertion that the
condition of the old State road about
which The Times printed an article a
few weeks ago and in which it was
stated that tin* road was greatly in
need of repairs has nothing on the
Kurt Mill-Rock Hill highway," observed
u Fort Mill citizen yesterday.
"The public is entitled to more consideration
than is shown by the authorities
in the neglect of this road. What
becomes of the automobile license fund
and the other funds created by law for
the improvement of the public highj
ways'.' I should think the neottle mn/hi
to he given a little light on the subject.
The road between Fort Mill and tKV
Catawba river bridge could be put in
good condition with the expenditure of
a relatively small amount of money,
but for some reason the work is not
done. I am told that a few weeks ago
a citizen of this place offered to repair
the road without charging tincounty
a cent of profit for the work,
j but the authorities after promising to
'see about it' never did anything."
To Recount Michigan Vote
Under an agreement reached by counsel
in the Ford-Newberry election conI
test before the senate elections com,
mittee, all ballots now in existence will
be recounted and testimony will be ta|
ken as to the circumstances surround|
ing the election in precincts where the
ballots have not been obtained.
I Should the determination of the committee
be that Senator Newberry has
I not a majority of the votes cast, ac'
cording to Newberry's counsel lie will
resign at once. Should Newberry's recent
conviction for spending Uh> much
money in the election stand, he added,
"my client would have no grounds to
j stand upon in opposing expulsion."
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$1.25 Per Year
FORT MILL TEAM LOSES
AND WINS AT BASEBALL
'I'lu' Fort Mill liaseliall team met defeat,
S to <>. at tlie hands of the last
Cole Company team of Charlotte Friday
afternoon on the locals' grounds.
It was an exciting and heart-wrenching
concesi ior tin* Fort Mill fans, lot it
was anybody's game until the last man
was out. Fort Mill apparently had the
stronger team, but a series of atroeioiis
errors, due principally toovci confidence,
and lack of pep, brought the home boys
the short end of the score.
Yarborough pitched better ball for
the home team than t'arwell did for
the Cole aggrelation, but the superior
fielding of the visitors counted in the
undoing of Fort Mill. Manager i'uin
was on the job throughout tin game
and Kay, a substitute catcher, also
tried to inject some life into the home
team, but their joint eH'orts fell sb.it
of the end sought. "Whacker" Smith
was in the game as usual and Ktmhiell
also bit well. A large crowd saw tingame.
The cotton mills shut down and
many id the stores closed to permit tlie
employees to witness the contest.
Fort Mill "came back" in the game
with Aragoii mills Saturday afternoon
and in the ninth inning squeezed out a
4 to .'{ victory, thanks to the timely bit
by Ferguson. '1 hose teams will play
again in Kock Hill Saturday afternoon.
Wednesday afternoon the Standard
Oil team of Charlotte came to Fort Mid
and trimmed the home club ;> to
This afternoon Fort Mill is playing
Chadwick-lloskins mills on the home
grounds.
Soldiers lavor Bonus Legislation
The proposed withdrawal of the
South Carolina branch of the American
I.egion from the national organization
because of alleged dissatisfaction over
the attitude of the national organization
for bonus legislation by Congress
will receive no support from the Fort
Mill |>ost. in the opinion of Arthur t".
Lytle, adjutant. At a meeting ??t the
Fort Mill post a few weeks ago the
proposed bonus legislation was dis
cussed and the |K>st went on record
unanimously in favor of it.
"It is a strange thing," remarked
Mr. Lytle yesterday, "that all the
congressmen from South Carolina voted
against the bonus hill while the North
Carolina congressman voted for it.
The soldiers of tin* two States performed
like service in the World war
and why there should have been this
difference of opinion by the representatives
of the sister States as to
what the men are entitled to is a little
strange. It is beside the question to
talk of capitalizing patriotism in connection
with bonus legislation. We
went to the front and tried to do our
duty, with our lives constantly in
danger and suffering many hardships,
for all of which we received poor
financial compensation. Clerks in the
departments at Washington sat on easy
much as we got. They were in no danger
of harm from the enemy. In my
opinion an overwhelming number of
tin* South Carolina veterans favor I lie
passage of bonus legislation."
Demonstration Course at NNiiithmp.
The annual Stale home ilemons 11 at ion
short course will be held al Winthmp
college .June 4 to June II. There will
be about f>00 women and girls in attendance,
coming from every section
of the State, from the largest cities to
the smallest rural districts. These
women and girls have scholarships because
of the quality of work accomplished
during this year in various
home demonstration clubs, which in
ciuue cooking, sewing, jm?u11 r> ami
tomato clubs for tin-girls, bread and
home demonstration clubs for the
Women. Some of the la-st touchers
and demonstrators in the country hu\e
been secured to lecture at this short
course.
\ isits Old Home in llalv
.1. (!. Sassi, well known monument
dealer and |s>pular York citizen, who
is known to many people in the eastern
section of the county, will leave
soon on a trip to his old home in Italy
which he left about .'to years ago. Mr.
Sassi plans to surprise relatives and
friends in his native town and for this
reason has not notified them of his
coming. He will be accompanied on
the trip by Mrs. Sassi. The village is
in the rugged mountain country on
the Swiss frontier, being separated
from that country by a river. Since
corning to York a number of years ago
Mr. Sassi has become a successful
business man ami a public spirited
citizen who has been identified with
every movement having for its object
the welfare of the community.