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Established 1891.
HARDSURFACE ROAD.
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Highway From Charlotte to State
Line to Be Improved.
A matter of much interest to the
people of the upper section of
York and Lancaster counties was
the joint action in Charlotte
Saturday of the North Carolina
highway commission and the i
Mecklenburg county highway |
commission in agreeing to hardsurface
the public road thmn.ri.
Pineville from Charlotte to tin*
South Carolina line, a distance of
about 16 miles. The work will '
be under the supervision of the
Mecklenburg commission, which
purposes to get it under way as
soon as possible, perhaps within
the next few weeks. The work
of improving the road will be
expensive, costing, it is estimated,
more than $100.000. as the
plans call for a road as good its
a new city street. The macadam
baRe of the old road will he used '
and a tarvia form of binding at- I
tnched.
The public road from Charlotte
to the South Carolina line runs
almost parallel with the Southern
railway as far as Pineville. a dis- ,
tuncc of 10 miles, and from there |
to the State line passes through
the Harrison neighborhood to a
point in Lancaster county, connecting
with the King's highway.
With the improvement of the
Mecklcnhurg road there will he a
first class, modern highway from '
Charlotte to Columbia, passing
through Lancaster, Kershaw and
Richland counties in South Carolina.
"Unless Kort Mill townslim
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gets busy and improves the Hailes
bridge rood from Fort Mill to the
Lancaster county line before the i
Mecklenburg county project is
completed, you may expect to see
a considerable volume of trade |
now coming to Fort Mill from the j
Pleasant Valley. Harrison. Mar ]
vin and Belair neighborhoods di- i
verted to Charlotte." a day or ,
two ago said a Pleasant Valley i
citizen upon learning of the plans
of the Mecklenburg commission
i
9 to improve the Charlotte road to |
the State line. "Citizens of Pleas
ant Valley some weeks ago went
to the expense of putting the
cross road from the King's high- I
way through Pleasant Valley to
Bailes' bridge in first class condition
by widening and top-soiling
it the entire distance of four
miles to be able to get to Fort
Mill over a better road and now
we think it is high time for Fort
Mill township to show its appreciation
of our efforts to more
readily come here and transact
our business by improving the
road to Bailes* bridge."
BUFFALO FOR SAI.F.
Canada Puts on Market One
Thousand Head.
One thousand buffalo are for
sale by the Canadian government. '
The animal* are for the hi oat part ,
brills and represent the surplus
of the herd of nearjy 5.000 in the
national part at Waiuwright. Alberta.
The park is tlie largest wild
i game preserve under fence iu tlie
world. It contains more than i
100.000 ueres and eoilhl support
25,000 buffalo readily. Hut there ,
is little winter pasturage because
of the deep snows and a vast
quantity of hay has to be eitt
every year to carry the herd
through the cold season. This
difficulty will make it necessary (
to limit the maximum si/.e of the
herd to 10.000 head.
The herd is now growing rapiau.
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luijr mi* iiuiiiiK-r oi breeding
cows increases its rate of
growth will 1?<* more rapid. Near- ;
ly a third of the animals are
bulla. So largo a proportion of
males is unnecessary, and under
the present plan they will he
sold or killed and sold for meat.
The slaughter will begin when
coll weather sets in in the fall.
The Wainwright herd has developed
from 800 huffalo bought
in Montana in 1909. The national
park is the prairie country
that was the aboriginal habitat
of the buffalo. The herd is the
largest in the world. Of th??
millions of buffalo that once
* roamed the American continent
only 9.311 remain, according to
tha Uat census
CHE F
OLD SLAVE MARKET.
Building- in Charleston Reminder
of Other Days.
In Chalmers street, Charleston,
u short, narrow thoroughfare of
picturesque tile roofed houses, the
most of them built "San Domingo
style," is a building of squat
architecture, plain almost to
grimncss. a building that is a
forceful reminder of the days
when men sold human flesh. It
stands almost beneath the shad
o\v of Charleston's one skyscraper,
tlie oltl ami the new in startling
contrast.
I'nlike other cities where the
trade was carried on. Chareston
had no general slave market.
There were two or three buildings
where the sales took place.
Most of the slave trading in
Charleston was done through
brokers, each firm having its own
mart and adjoining buddings in
which the slaves were lodged and
fed preparatory to the sales. The
<?hl mart on Chalmers street was
the principal one of these buildings.
In the structure to the left,
of similar though of more extensive
architecture, were the slave
quarters. The upper story of tinold
building is now used as a
lodge room of a negro fraternal
otanixation.
The first importation of slaves
into the Carolina colony was in
KJT'J, when Sir .John Veamans, an
Englishman, afterward governor
of Carolina, came from Barbadoes
bringing with him a number of
negroes who had heen accustom
t'*l to labor in tin* tropical heat
of the islands. The first ship to
enter Charleston harbor carrying
slaves for sale was a British ship.
In 17Id C^iieen Anne herself wa.->
largely interest oil in the trade.
By 1 m4 there were upwards of
8U.000 negro slaves in South Carolina
and the number rapidly jo
creased from that time on.
During the years from 1804
through 1808. 202 vessels engaged
in the slave trade entered tinport
of Charleston. From the
published reports of the harbor
nu.sier ot that period jt is shown
that till except tit of these vessds
wr.v owned in (ireut Britain and
New Kuglaiul. Kighly-six of tlieni
li.nl British owners, while more
than Bid were owned in New
l-.iigiaiul. .">}) of tliis number in
Miotic Island. None of these vessels
were Souih Carolina owned.
Of the l!l?.t?S8 slaves landed in
Charleston by these vessels during
tin1 period in -lit ioned. 20. ?27
were brought in British vessels.
for Ity tliis time the. Uoyal African
company. with James l>uk?'
of York its head. hail a monopoly
of the trade in slaves on tin*
African coast.
There is a striking fact eonnected
with the slave trade in
South Carolina which is not generally
known. At the beginning
of the Civil war there were living
in Charleston by actual count
fully JOl) negro slave owners
free negroes who not only owned
negro slaves, hut both bought
ami sold them!
That the tratlic in slaves was
carried on in South Carolina not
only against the desire of the people
of the State but in the face
of vigorous opposition is amply
shown by the records. No less
than a score of petitions were
sent, the majority of which were
legislative petitions. from t'n
South Carolina colony to the
government of Croat Britain imploring
that the slave trade be
stopped. The first of these, sent
in 1 i">l>. protested against the
evil as beimr directIv a trains! the
wish as well as the laws of the
colony. (Jrcal Britain's reply,
now among the documents carefully
preserved in the Charleston
library, was to the effect that the
petition could not he granted hecause
of the injury it would do
"the legitimate business of Knglish
merchants and skippers trading
to our colony from the coast
of Africa."
11. M. Lee recently purchased
for his brother. T. K. Lee of Birmingham.
Ala., the farm of Mrs.
*). W. McLlhaney and heirs one
mile south of Fort Mill. The
consideration was $7, U25. The
farui will be set to several vapl?
eties of pedigreed pecans.
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FORT MILL, S. C? THURfi
IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Negro Boy Charged With Attempting
to Assault Oirl.
Mann White, 15 year old negro
hoy, Wednesday afternoon was
committed to jail by Magistrate
J. H. Haile on the serions eharge
of assault with intent to ravish a
12 year old white girl in Fort
Mill township, a short distance
beyond the corporate limits of
the town. Monday afternoon. The
hoy was arrested by F. Lee.
special constable. Wednesday at
noon while he was picking cotton
in a field near town. Late yesterday
afternoon he was taken to
tlu? county jail in York by .1. H.
Patterson, constable, aiul ). P.
Lee.
The boy was represented at the
preliminary hearing by an attor|
ney from Kock Hill. Very little
' evidence was brought out at the
hearing, to which only a few were
; admitted, but enough, in the
opinion of the boy's attorney, to
warrant the magistrate in holding
him for trial without bond.
Under" the section of the criminal
code of South Carolina which
was consulted and followed at
tin* hearing the boy's offense,
should he he convicted, is a felo|
ny and he may be punished by
| death or life imprisonment, dei
pending upon the wording of the
verdict of the jury.
A number of negroes and white
men who had been attracted by
! the hearing were on Main street
, during the time the case was tinj
tier consideration in the magis!
trate's court. There was said to
i have been some talk of violence
| against the boy. but there was
| no indication of such action
| while the hearing was in progj
ress or after the constables left
i with the prisoner for jail. Tin*
I fact that the hoy did not lay his
hands on the girl will not excuse
him from severe punishment if he
j is found guilty hy a jury.
Good Word for Weeyil.
j 1m I it or Port Mill Tillies:
Permit me to say a few vvu|'<|s
j to my brother farmers. While 1
lam not fanning now, 1 have farmed
for a long time and have
| heard so much about the hull
weevil in this section recently
that 1 want to express liiv opinion
of the weevil. 1 think it is
a great blessing to this old
Southland of ours. It will cause
, many of our farmers to raise
what tliov have been buying from
the North and West. Since the
Civil war. f>G years ago. we have
been slaves to cotton and the
I credit system. 1 know plenty of
men just as poor now ?s tjiey
! were at the close of the war oil
account of all cotton, depending
. I . I i* II A .. i' 1
upon ilit" oilier ienow io icon
j them. I luive heard some of
them say. "1 can take a hale of
cotton and huy all the horse feed
1 need," and right here is where
they make the mistake.
You can go over this country
and you can tell all-cotton farmers.
His stock and everything
around him will look had. On
the other hand, you can tell every
one that makes his living at
home. Everything is happy at
Ins home and the holl weevil is
not bothering him.
This thing of all cotton has
ruined many a man and has
caused some to commit suicide. It
has caused many a woman and
little child to go hungry and
without sullicient clothing.
So. (Sod hless the holl weevil.
J>. A- Lee.
voiui citors <i?>oi>.
In conversation yesterday with
Tint Times reporter, Albert Kant,
assistant State bank examiner,
commented oil the good crop conditions
he had recently found in
York county. In South Carolina,
l'ickens ranks first. Spartanburg
second and York third, in Mr.
Kant's opinion. In referring to
the excellent eoiulition of affairs
as shown by his examination of
the Savings Hank of Kort Mill,
Mr. Kant remarked that this
bank was one of the l(i State institutions
in South Carolina which
hail no rediscounts or bills payable
during the past year. Incidentally
he also said that the
Savings bank is also the 16th oldi
est bank in South Caroling.
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(DAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1921.
OO TO WORK ON BRIDGE.
Contractors Prepare to Begin on
York-Mecklenburg Structure.
The Hardaway Contracting
company, which has the contract
for building the brick and concrete
portions of the York-Mecklenburg
bridge across the Cataw- I
I ba river at "Buster" Boyd ferry.
12 iniles northwest of Fort Mill,
lias shipped a number of carloads
of machinery and tools to Worth,
sidetrack between (1 riff it h and
Charlotte, preparatory to beginning
actual work on the construction
of the bridge. The machinery
and tools will be hauled ut
once from Worth to the site of
the bridge.
Some surprise was expressed in
Fort Mill that the contracting
company should have decided to
make Worth the point to which
its tnaehienry and supplies were
I to be shipped instead of Fort
i Mill, as the distance to the bridge |
j site from that point is 1(> miles ;
| against a distance of 12 miles
i from Fort Mill, but the extra !
| cost of the longer haul will be
more than offset by the lower
freight rate to the North t'aro- j
linn sidetrack, according to a
statement of an employee of the '
company.
The contracts for the York- '
j Mecklenburg bridge were let a j
I few weeks ago at a joint meeting |
in Charlotte of tin* York-Mecklenburg
fountv commissioners for ,
a lit t lo loss titan $100,000, which
is said to have been about one!
fourth loss than tho bridge could
havo boon built for a yoar ago. It j
I is said to bo tho purpose of tho
contractors to rush tho construe- :
I lion of tho bridge. but at host 1
1 '
Hovcml months will ho required j
to complete tho structure.
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One Farmer Optimistic.
A Lancaster county farmer >
whoso place is a few miles north
of the town of Lancaster was in I
Kurt Mill Saturday and remark- '
od to The Times tluit the boll i
weevil was not only doing great
j damage to tlu< cotton in bis community
but also bad attacked tlie j
j pea crop ami was riddling it. "1
j do not fool discouraged over the
outlook, however." bo continued.
"Within a year or two we shall '
learn how to grow cotton under i
' boll weevil conditions as the
! farmers of other sections of tip'. ]
j South have been doing for sev- j
oral years. The crop will not be.
so large as it has been, but that j
will be to our advantage?we will
i got a better price for it and it
' will take less work and less ex^ j
! penses otherwise to produce tt, j
All along we have grown too j
much cotton. Now wo shall have
to produce more homo supplies,
j I am surprised that so many of
our farmers are ready to give up
i now that the boll weevil has
j invaded this section. That was
the way the Hessians fought in
tlie Revolutionary war."
PLEASANT VALLEY NEWS.
Interesting Items From Progressive
Community.
Mrs. J. A. Younts of Pineville,
N. ('.. is spending some time with <
' Mr. and Mrs. .1. \V. Elms.
Mrs. Crawford Heath and chil!
droit. Mrs. .). M. Hutchinson and
| children and Miss Roberts motored
over from Fort Mill last
Tuesday and spent the aft"rnoon
with Mrs. F. 1*. Stephenson.
Miss Thelma l'otts entertain* d
the Young Ladies' Missionary so- '
j ciety of the Pleasant Valev Hap!
list church at her homo Wednev
: day evening, rrogresive eonvcrs.ition
and refreshments were enjoyed
during the evening?.
Mr. and Mrs. <). \V. Potts and
K. Patterson spent last Thurx?.iy
in Kershaw.
Tlio hot dry weaMier of tite
last two weeks has horn broken
by a number of refreshing showers
and farmers of this eon'irunity
are busy sowing clover and
, other cover crops.
Mrs. B. .1. Alexander was taken
to a Rock Hill hospital last
i week where she was operated
1 upon for appendicitis. Her eonI
dition is reported satisfactory
and it is hoped that she will continue
to improve rapidly.
"Spinner."
Time:
FROM GUTTER TO PULPIT.
Rev. Baxter McLendon Tells Audience
of His Conversion.
Standing on a high chair and
holding his hands in the air before
an audience of 10.000 people
in Spencer. N. last Thursday
night. Rev. Baxter McLendon
declared that he was just us
much called to preach as ever
was St. Paul. John Wesley or any
man in historv.
He pave the story of his life in
such a vivid maimer that the
great uudienee was thrilled with
his address. He said that 14 years
ago he was a blear-eyed, whiskeysoaked,
godless professional gambler
and a periodical drunkard,
and that today he may be classed
as a gentleman and preacher of
tin* gospel.
He was reared in a pious home
ami at the age of 14 felt the call
to preach, but he spurned this
call, reveled in sin of the lowest
type until his home was a veritable
wreck on account of his
degradation. He drank to the
dregs and spent his time as a
fugitive from justice. He told
how he loved gambling and how
In operated one of the biggest
gambling places in his home
town, patronized the bucket j
shops and spent much time aiul j
money fighting game cocks ami
bull dogs.
lie told of many instances of
bow be evaded the courts, hoboed
from his home in South Car-1
olios to the coal mines, worked
as a miner, bad many close calls
fur hi? tif?? ? ?.I
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way to get away from (Jod. how
lie was led haek home, eame under
the influeiiee of a sermon by
a devout minister, fought eonvietion
for days and weeks. got
into serious shooting sera pes. was
sought by the oflieers for weeks
and months, how his wife nod
parents tried to save him from
ruin and how the devil and his
associates polled him haek. Then
he spent several days at the
mourners' bench, though he carried
two pistols there with him.
Finally be was converted, but
resisted a call to preach until tlmi
very last. Since taking up the
ministry he has seen most of his
old associates converted, lie asked
the andienec to tell him why
and how it wys that one day he
was a professional gambler and
the nest a preacher of the gos-,
pel; how that one day he was
carrying two pistols and the next
day a Ilihle. NVhy was it that he i
was selling blind tiger liquor one
day and the next day he was
trying to destroy it?
lie recommended Jesus t<? everv
vile it in I sinful mail in his hearing
and mailt; a powerful appeal
tr tlicin. In response to his appeal
several hundred, mostly
voting men and young women,
professed allegiance to their
Maker.
Baptist Association Meeting.
The York Baptist assoeiation is
meeting this week in its 53d annual
session with the First Baptist
ehurcli of Koek Hill. A number
of delegates from the Fort
.Mill Baptist ehurch are attending
the meeting. The assoeiation
is composed of representatives
of 18 churches with a combined
membership of about 2.500. A
number of prominent speakers
are present to idseuss missions,
benevolence, education and other
topics of importance in the work
of the church.
Many Loan Applications.
A recent report of the secretary
of the Federal Land bunk of
Columbia showed that during the
month of August applications for
loans under the federal farm
loan act were received aggregating
approximately $7,500.00, and
loans to the amount of about
$1,500,000 were made.
The Fort Mill Farm Loan association
has received, since the
opening for business of the land
hank in Columbia last spring, applications
aggregating $74,000. of
which $12,000 has been granted.
The family of the U?*v. .J. B.
Black, who some weeks ago re
signet) the pastorate of the Fort
Mill Presbyterian church, is this
week moving to Morganton, N. C.
s.
$1.50 Per Year.
1 ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR TRIO.
! Fox, Kirby and Gappins to Die
I for Murder of Young Brazell.
(.'. O. Fox. S. J. Kirby aiul
Jesse Gappins. convicted murderers
of William Brazed. li> year
old Columbia transfer driver. at
5:25 Tuesday afternoon were senI
> > ** *
I nnci-u i)y uiulge Tlios. S. Scaso.
I presiding in tlie Lexington eoiiuty
court, to die in the eleetria
chair at the State penitentiary
on Friday. October 11\ between
the hours of 10 o'clock in tlte
morning and 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
The jury in the trial of the
Kirby ease, the trial of which was
begun at 3:30 o'clock Monday
afternoon, reached a verdict of
guilty at 10:50 o'clock Tuesday
morning, after deliberating 35
minutes, while Fox and (tappins.
who were tried jointly, were convicted
at 5:14 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, the jury having been
closeted exactly 40 minutes.
The entire trial of the three
men, begun with the swearing of
witnesses for the grand jury at
10:15 o'clock Monday mouring.
occupied only about ton hours of
actual time ot the court during
the two days. The grand jury
returned a true bill against tinthree
men at 11:45 Monday morn
ing and a few minutes later the
prisoners, defended by counsel
appointed by the court, were arraigned.
At 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
the trial of Kirby was begun.
the case going to the jury at
10:24 Tuesday morning. Thirtyfive
minutes later the verdict of
guilty had been returned and the
trial of Fox and tiappius was begun.
At 12:45 the State rested
its ease against the two men and
at 5:14 o'clock the second jury
had agreed that Fox and (!jiihoh?
I
i were guilty.
I Tlu? tlirrc 111**11 were arraigned
to receive their sentences and at
5:25 o'clock each of the three
had heard his doom solemnly
pronounced, and each then knew
that there was only a few hours
over 37 days of life remaining
for him.
It was early oil the morning of
Moiiduv. August s. exact lv 37
days from the time the men
wore sentenced to death, that
| young l>ra/.ell was killed by the
I three men near Lecsville. Lexington
county, after luiving been
lured into a supposedly bona
I fide trip t?? "get some girls."
As a boy S. ,1. Kirby lived with
I his family near the dam of the
Southern power company in I'ort
' Mill township. After staying in
the Fort Mill community a few
years the Kirby family moved to
Hock Hill, wiiere S. .1. Kirby
earned for himself an unsavory
reputation by acts of lawlessness.
He served a term on the York
I county chaingaug and was sen
teneed to the penitentiary for a
I year or two. but was pardoned
before completing his term.
i GOLD HILL NOTES.
News Items From the Upper Section
of Fort Mill Township.
C. I*. I>hi11k *11s11ij> is in York
jthis wci'k attending cniii'i.
| Mrs. (1*. ItlanUi'iiship ami
I Mrs. S. 1*. Wilson aiv visit iny
) Mrs. Tom Lanyston in Kloiviiro.
j Missos Cleo ami Carrie Hlark
Welder of Charlotte spoilt last
week-end as quests of Miss Wiiiiiit
Crook,
Sutton Kpps ami Hanks Patter
son visitimI Tom lllarkwelder in
('harlotto several days lasi work.
S. \V. Kimhrell and his family
|and W. II. Crook last Snnd.iv at
tened ipiarterly eonferenee of
Pleasant Hill Methodist elmfeli
in Pleasant Valley eomninnity.
Walter Peltns of the P?elair
eonunnnity Sunday evening filled
the pulpit of Philadelphia Methodist
< 11 II -< 11 f/it1 tin. ' - I"" tl...
i Rev. \V. |{. liaukniffht. Mr. IVttiis'
message was short, hut was
! enjoyeil hy all who lieanl it.
Miss Marie Kpps has relurnetl
to her home, after visitin?r relu
fives in ICbenezer township.
J. \V. Kvans of Kingstree is on
S a short. visit to Willanl Wilson.
" lloagus."
Cotton Twenty CentM.
Cotton Is .h<> 11111 k for -0 cents on
the Kurt Mill market today.