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^ ' * f-V ' -* -. The Fort Mill Tithes. > 1891. ~ FORT BOLL. 8. 0.. THP R8DAY. OCTOBER ii~l'?aiT ' . ?- ? " 1- ' \ $1.60 Per Year. L &OBEBT O. GRAHAM DEAD. Well Kofiwn Confederate Veteran Passes to Beyond. Announcement of the death ? Monday morning at tlie home of hia son, E. C. Gruhaiu, .at Rutherfordton, N. C\, of Robert G. ("Peg Leg") Graham, former 'Fort Mill township citizen and well known Confederate veteran, brought sorrow to his friends, and especially to his old army comrades, in this community. Mr. Graham had been in ill health for 1 4 1. I * a wrrrni iiiuiuii* uiiu will if 11 was known that he could not long survive the illness which had worn away his strength, the news of his death nevertheless caused universal regret among those who had known him. Mr. Graham was horn in Fort M^ill township about 7t> years ago and continued to live on his farm in this community up to about 1 > years ago. when he moved across the State line into the Sharon neighborhood in Mecklenburg county to live with his son. As a boy 17 years old he voluteered for service in the Confederate army, joining Company B. titt? South Carolina regiment, in ISG2. the captain of the company then being the late .John M. White, gallant Fort Mill soldier who afterwards became lieutenant colonel of his regiment. Mr. Graham saw bis first service as a soldier at Williamsburg, Vs.. and with his company (composed almost entirely Of Fort Mill men) and regiment participated in the battle < o* Seven Pines, the Seven Days' Fierht Around Kiehmoml. Second Manassas, Booncshoro. Sharpsburg. Fredericksburg. was willi Longstreet at Suffojk, in the battles aroniul Chattanooga ami Knoxville. and on May (?. 1S(>4, participated in the tremendous battle of tlie Wilderness and later was at Spot!syIvania. At Cold llarbor be received a wound which necessitated the amputation of his left leg, ending bis active service in a cause to which he was as devoted on the day of his death as be was when as a boy he put on bis first gray uniform. Up to the time lie was ^ wounded at Cold Harbor Mr. liraham bad taken part in many major engegaments and numerous skirmishes and relatively unimportant battles "without so much as receiving a scratch."'*' vester day said Mr. Bowman Merritt of Fort Mill, .who also was in Com pim.v B and was with Mr. Grahum during his ??i?tir*? army service. "And no finer soldier rvcr wore the Confederate uniform than Boh Graham." added Mr. Merritt. Mr. Graham's name is on tiie Confederate monument in Fort Mill. For 40-odd years following the elose of the Civil war Mr. Graham took an active interest m polities. In LSTO he \tas a "wheelhorse" in the Hampton campaign to rid tin* State of the carpetbag government. being a member of the Retl Shirts and a never tiring u nrbnf ill.. I li'im if rn I li* iisil'l \' ??%# ?? .W. ...x - I He also is said to liave been a inetuber of the Kit Klux organization, along with praetieally all the other good eiti/ens of I lie community. By nature Mr. (Jraham was genial and was always in a good humor, and when lie at tended a political meeting or other public gathering usually he was surrounded by a party of his friends anxious to have him draw on his fund of anecdotes for tbtfr entertainment. The body of Mr. (iridium was buried in the Sharon' churchyard Tuesday afternoon in his Confederate uniform, lie is survived by the following children: K. (\ Graham. Mrs. Lcona McLean ami Miss Kate Graham of Rutherford ton, N. Lester Graham of Granite Quarry. N. C.. Mrs. II. M. Strout of Broadway, N. C., am! Mrs. ,1. 1*. Beattv of Char lotte, N. C. Three brothers, Hamilton Graham and Archie Graham of Mississippi and Chas Graham qf Charlotte, and one sister, Mrs. C. Starnes of Dallas, Texas, also survive. A valuable horse belonging tc Dr. J. B. Elliott was kicked te death a few days ago by another horse. SFEAX FOR TEXTILE UNION. Fort Mill Workers Hear Organized Laboc Representatives. A crowd estimated at from 150 ti 1/00 people, made up principally of employees of the Fort Mill cotton mills. Tuesday evening at 7:45 o'clock foregathered at Confederate park and for more than an hour and a half listened to speeches by Miss Anna Neary of j lialt imore. representative of the \ mi..1*11.1... .*? ' ? ?i i a vuilUIIUII % 111 UallMM . and Edward F. Callahan. organizer for tin* ITextile Work ers of America, urging the help ill the local mills to join the textile union. (Jood order prevailed during the meeting and there was .nothing to indicate a reeurrcnee of the turbulejit scenes which marked a visit to Fort Mill about two years ago of representatives! of organized labor who came here to hold in the iown hall a meeting to organize a 1 <?? :?"t branch of the textile union. The meeting in Fort Mill Tuesday evening was one of a series of similar meetings being held in the cotton mill towns of South Carolina and North Carolina to urge the mill workers to become afliliatcd with the union. Miss ! Neary said. In the course of her i ...i.i..! m v ? ? 1 - si ITHTH'tl M) the pleasant relations which exisled between the maim?r?'in<'iit of ! 11n* Korl Mill mills and the workers. I mi t added that there was no ' assurance that those relations j would eontinne indefinitely and for that reason. among others, she urged those of her hearers who worked in the mills and were not already members of the text ile union to join it. following the address of Miss Nearv. I'M ward l*\ Callahan spoke for about an hour, lie was given Close attention and his arguments in behalf of the union seemed to interest his audieuee. I The meeting was presided over h\ Charles llailes. president of the loeal branch of the textile I I union. Gold Hill Notes. C. T. Crook of Springfield is visiting his brother. W. II. Crook. Mr. and "Mrs. Thomas Langston of Florence are visiting Mrs. li.angston's parents. Mr. ami Mrs. S. II. Kpps. A number of Cold Hill people Monday attended the circus in Ardrey enme to Fort Mill immediately after the ceremony and wen1 served :i wedding supper at tlit* Iioiiio of Dr. .1. I<. Spratt, Mrs. Spratt being a sistor of Mr. Ardt oy. According to a recent agricultural l?nil(*tin of tlit* census buroau. there were .">,845 farms in > York county when the 1920 con? sun was taken, and 4.298 of these were operated by tenants. 9.213 of whom were negroes. ('harlot te. 1 Mr. ami Mrs. (5. T. Windle and Miss John ('rook It'll Wednesday tor ^Yndcsbkro. N. where they will teach during the current session of the public school, j S. ('. Paris left Momlay ft>i* Florida. to be nl the bedside ot bis daughter. Mrs. Wilson, who was reported critically ill. " Itoagus." Ladies Plan "Rally Day." The Woman's auxiliary of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church will observe "Rally day" Tuesday, October 18, and the several church circles will join in making the day a memorable one. Committees have been appointed on publicity, music, entertainment and dinner and much enthusiasm is being shown in the promotion of the gathering, to be a*, the church. (Jootl music promises to be a feature of the day's 'exercises and tip; addresses to be d< livcrcd arc expected to be of value to the auxiliary in its work. Blakeney-Ardrey Marriage. W. Holt Ardrey and Miss Una Khikeney, popular young people ' ot the Providence community in Mecklenburg county, who have many friends in Fort Mill, were married in Hoek lull I uesdav t?v?*ninj; at (?:"?() o'clock l?v the Kev. Alexander Martin, I). I)., pastor of Oakland Avenue l'resliv'erian elmrcli Mr :m<l Mrs NEWS OF YORK COUNTY. S i Current Items of Interest From !' the Yorkville Enquirer. There are 22 students in the , 11th grade of the Yorkville graded school this year as compared with five students in that grade 1 last year. The judges can easily put a ,, stop to the liquor business if they i, want to. York county juries gpn- ji .rally convict, but the judges are} too lenient. Some of them are 1 too fond of liquor themselves. l? the judges will hack up the juries I with the right kind of penalties, the liquor business will respond I with an immediate slowing up. A siren whistle recently installed on the fire house for alarm purposes was tested out last Wednesday night at about 1 o'clock. 1 aid ji I; hough it woke the people. 1 up quite satisfactorily, it failed to create the excitement .that i1 | starts idiots lo shooiing their pisj te?ls. for tin* reason that only a ; few people knew what it was. i I he siren whistle, however, prom. , ises lo do exactly what is desired of it. There were a good many hundreds of people at tin- wedding 1 I of .\i iss Susie tlariness and .lames ! I), (irist of Yorkville at Sharon , last WednesdA night. All parts | of tlit* county were represented, ami tlie church was not half big enough to accommodate the crowd that was in attendance, much to the disappointment of all concerned. I hose who saw the cere- ! moiiy. however, wen enthusiastic with the heautv and completeness i ol it all. " Judging^from the real estate j crop and ciiaitct mortgages th?? , are nemo salislicd in in,* ollice, said Clerk ol Court McMackui a ': few days ago. "I would say thai ,i la large portion of the cotton croo , llial has hcen sold?up to tlustimc , is going to the litpndation of indebtedness. I really do not know j how the volume of liquidation | that is now going on eoiupap*a I I with other years, hut really i am j 'surprised at the number of mor?! iriifji's that are being paid off.". Hundreds of people of York-i ville and vicinity heard (lipsy Smith. Jr.. famous evangelist .who preached Sunday afternoon a! j i die Kirst I'rcshvteriau Sunday i school auditorium. The large hall v as crowded to overi'ti.wing and J '.he evangelist preached an inspiring sermon front t! e t> \l. "Ye! j must 'lie horn again." Most of ! ! his auditors were people who Ilea til the evangelist for the first jiime ami tuaiiv id' them were so impressed thai they drove ov"r ie Uoek Hill to hear him again 8?uuday evening. Kcpreseiitat ives of York count,* j Pi eshyteriau ehurehes are in t?reeiiviIle this week attending | the annual meeting of the Synod 1 i of South < arolina. meeting in the ! Kirst Preshy.erian eluirch of that eity. Last year showed fine gains 1 i*i all departments of the ehureh. The total of gifts to benevolent ! causes was s{?4r?t?.87(>. or $13.87 per memher. Membership showed j a gain of 1.49!). which is the larg- j ; est gain reported iie several years, j 'I he Sunday school also showed ;j good gain. The present membership is "Jtl.which is a gain of 1 J.tn3 over the previous year, i '! I ere are 80 enrolled in the Sab- I hath schools of the synod to every 100 church members. This is ' much below the average of the ! cut ire church and many members I feel that the synod is not giving the attention to the Sabbath I schools that they deserve, accord: ing to a prominent layman. Seed for the Asking. I Congressman W. K. Stevenson has written The Times to say that those of his constituents wishing flower or vegetable seed for delivery next spring should **rite him now. "I also have a few packages of lawn grass that I will distribute as long as they Mr. Stevenson adds, with the statement that the 1920 "A{J, rieultural Year Book" is i|(^w r? adv ami will he sent out on request. lie alsft lias farmers' i bulletins on almost any subject which will he mailed to those ro| questing copies. \ GRADED SCHOOL NOTES. | reaching Corps for Year's Ses- ! sion Now Complete. . With u full corps of teachers, I I he Fort Mill graded school is ! running along as smoothly ;;s could be expected. The high ! school especially welcomes toe J addition of Alfred O. Jones to the faculty. Mr. .(ones will take up his work as principal of t*fe school next Monday and will teach history and the Knglish classes. Glee club work was started I this week, with Miss Kdna T111dal director. The members are selected from the pupils of the high school and practices are held Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The girls i^f the high school have organized a basketball team and are taking a good deal of interest in this fine game. Games are being arranged with the Kock Hill schools to he played early in November. Last Monday was "circus dav'' and it was fittingly observed by the school?not more than eight \ or ten pupils were absent from1 school for the day's work. A photographer has been ?*oeured to make pictures of each grade in the school. It is expected that thv pictures will he ready for delivery within a few days, 'rii.... ...... ?.*. .--i ' m y ?n r i u in- i1i?V|| II i t~? I ifii rum* ' hoard and will sell for - "> cents-, each. All who want pietures of , any particular grade may secure them from the teaeher of that grade. PEOPLE AND" THINGS. Hon. W. II. Stewart, former State senator from York county, 1 who is making his home with his son. Paul Stewart, near Charlotte, spent yesterday in Port Mill with friends. * I Mr. and Mrs. (leorge Fish 1 ad as their guest last week John Perkins of Cohocs, N. Y., who was returning to his home from the recent meeting of cotton mill men in Greenville. Work was resumed Monday morning at Carhartt mill. No. 2. t'arhiirtt. between Fort Mill and Hock Mill. The mill, which employs about 1"?0 operatives, had iicon closed since April. 1920. '1 lie parent-teacher association which was recently organized for tin Pleasant Valley school, locat il ln.ir I * I i-:i sii 111 1 111 . 11111 - < -11 h:iv begun work with a lull complement of officers ami promises to do much to promote the interests o 1 l lie school. j Last Friday one of the cottages in the village of mil No. 1, Fort .Mill Manufacturing coiupanv, was destroyed hy tire, the alarm being sounded about 10 o'clock in the morning. The house was occupied by Paul .lackson. Most of bis household eficet were saved. 'I he work ot enlarging the Majestic theater, to which reference \. as made in a news item in Tkt I noes two weeks ago, was beguu Monday morning. The addition to the theater will include part j of the room to the rear of the building on Confederate street. 'I lie work is being done by a t barlotte contractor. Twenty-odd members of Ca- j tawba lodge. No. f>6, Kort Mill, i i nesuay evening \v*?nt to tvack Jtill to heur a special sermon tie- j livered by Gypsy Smith, evangelist. to I In* Masons of York inn adjoining comities. The sermon was heard by several hundred members of the order, many oi them being Knights Templar who wore their uniforms. Mrs. Crawford Dun lap of Hook Hill, elected truant officer fori York county a few days ago by the county board of education, arrived in Fort Mill yesteriay morning ami will spend the balance of the week here assisting the local school authorities in lo-( eating and putting into seUoui children coining within the provisions of the compulsory school attendance law who are not en rolled as pupils. During her stay in Fort Mill Mrs. Dunlap. with | assistance to be supplied her bv the school hoard, also will take a census of the children of school age in the local school district. | vVIN CLOSE GAME. Fort Mill Boys Defeat Rock Hill High School. The Fori Mill hi?rli school team Friday afternoon won an inter- i esiing football game from Kock iIul liieii on lite hock lltll tielit 1 by the close score of li to 0. Kock Hill started the first quarter witlf a rush, taking Fort Mill by sur- < prise, but in the second uuarter i'ori .Mill braced up. took the bull ^ away Irom their opponents ami < cieurly outplayed ilinn during < the rest ot the game. 1 Douglas Nmis scored the only touchdown of the game in the < second quarter, making a long nm around left end and passing i practically every man on the i iiock Hill team, lie also kicked I a cU'un gold, but this was barred 'i on account of a technicality. it Fast end runs by l'utterson and j: Tiius, the line bucking of Mike ' I.mk und the line defensive work i of Kimbrell and Nuns were feat- ? tiros of tin- game. The whole Fort 1 Till team played good football 1 after the first quarter. The lineup for Fort Mill was as I follows: Kiglit end, Leo t'aroth- ; ers; right tackle, .Jack Mills;!, right guard. Dixon Phillips; cen- i tor, Eilward Kimbreh; loll guard. j i Elliott vllarris ami Elmore Alex- I under; loft tackle, Allan Parks; : left end. Pal Drown; right half,1 Tom Harris; fullback. Douglas j, Aims, captain; left half, Mike,, Lilik. quarterback. Luther Pat- I tcrson. I Misplaced Kindness. , "1 was pleased to read a day . or two ago." yesterday said a , fort Mill citizen, "that in, one , St.itc at h ast the authorities have | learned that there is nothing to , be trained by convict coddling. ; The New York State prison coin-1 mission has ainiionnci-d that while p; issuers subject to ilu;ir juris- ( diction will get fair ircutiucul ( and good care, there is to tie an , end of t lie slush\ .sent iinental st ul f ( which has made of convicts in that State guests instead of pris- , oners and tliut tliev are to he , made to work as hard as men , outside the prison. The eight , nour day is to sueeeed the sis ( hour day inside tin- prison walls. , This is souse. In many prisons | in rveent years law violators have , Lci'u treated as distinguished 11 visitors. The result was inevitn- , hh?. The el ass of men whose dis- i ( regitni for law led them to earn- | mit erimes and he sentenced to | prison have just as little regard ( for what is provided for them in \ prison. Many of them soon turn , unwise liberty into unwarranted , liecusc. The soft-hearted hoard , of charities and eorreetious in , South Carolina has done much to j interfere with the proper conduct of the penitentiary in Co- ( Inmhia. Some time ago 1 was a visitor at the penitentiary ami :iaw a number of the convicts shooting craps inside the prison , walls. An otlieial of the peniteu- | tiury said he could do nothing to prevent the prisoners gambling." Interested in Pecan Industry. B. M. Lee of Fort Mill left Monday afternoon for Mobile, Ala., j , i . i i ? ? 11 i" ui i? in i int- annual inrriin^ im the National Niii (Jrowers' asso- 1 ciation. now in session in thai eity. Mr. Lee is interested in tliej pecan industry. On his farm I wo i miles south of town he has sev- ; eral thousand trees which are now In arinjr as line nuts as are to he, found anywhere. "Then* is an ever inereasiti}; demand for first class pecans at ffood prices," said Mr, Lee a dav or two ago, "and i " i if 1 do not make more out of the' "i c.m business ilnin I eouhl linve 1 t made out of cotton, even ha<l the hull weevil not appeared in this community. I shall he greatly dis- ( appointed. IVean trees begin to hear in a tew years and one docs not have to wait a lifetime to have inns for sale, as some people mistakenly think. The soil of 1 this sort ion seems adapted to the pecan industry as my own grove 1 ftuds me to believe and I should 1 like to see others in this eomrminity enter the business of growing pecans for market." -Mas i>r. J. I,. Spratt is in Greenwood this week attending federal ( court. |i REINDEER IN ALASKA. Uncle Sam Meets With Success in Raising Animals lor fc'ood. The announcement that a shipment ol ;to.OwO pounds ui Ala.?K.?n reindeer meat has just been r?'rt i\c?l .il f>ail t ralieisen i-.ii.v i.i lent ion. says The Trade Htvonl. issued by the National i il\ i??i.ik of New York, to ihe ivmakab.e suei-t-sM of our reindeer experiment in Alaska, where the \atue el itie reindeer herus. esiabisne.l i? lew \ ears ago. is iu?w eouiue.t liy millions of tlollai's. In the any pari ??i* this eotiutry's owni-rship of Alaska, it seems, tne Kskiliios were ehiel'ly dependent upon the whale, walrus, earihoit iiimI seal for their annual i??? i. but with rapid destruction of ihese by the white mail's rifle. Ihe supply of annual food, an absolute essential in that elimate. i\ as great ly retlueetl and ihe ?ssteiiee ot ihe natives i litis threat lletl. Tills etlllllilion was hl'ougllt to the attention of the puhiie ot Lite I'liited States in the early POs hv I )r Sbelib?.i *? '?-? ^ Hid been sent io Alaska by ilit* ifovernment to establish schools moiljjt the natives, ami lie eon eived the idea of lurrodueiug I lie reindeer, then unknown in Alaska but proving extremely nseiul u Siberia and Luplaud. "Personal appeals by Dr. .laekion." says The Trade Heeord's tfliele. "to the public in the In bed States resulted in eoiurin;tioiis of yJ. 148, and lb head of cindcer from Siberia were laiid'd in Alaska in Ib'Jl, followed l>.\ ibout 150.in later shipments during the year. 1'ongress then ui.ele <a veral small contributions, and i>\ 11HKJ the total number of reinieer imported into Alaska from Siberia had aggregated "about t ,-ini. Import at ion was then suspended and a eolony of 'reiuib'er masters' was brought from Lapland to instruct the Kskmoiill the care of the 1.1100 animals thus supplied to them. "As a eonsequeiiee of this establishment of the reindeer in lustry in Alaska a quarter eeuury ago. the number of reiiuleer low scattered through that territory is about 140.t)dd ami their /ante between :i ami 4 million dollars. So liberally are the reinleer herds now supplying the natives. their owners, with meat, nilk. butter ami elieese that their owners are now able to spare large quantities for the white ,.r 'ii.,oi.,i .....i i IW I I |M *111*1 lllllll* ? I ipiautities for shipment to tlx* I'acillc coast cities ii||*1 llieiiee to I lie great trade centers of the ountry, so tliat 'reindeer steaks' may be had in the markets of the great cities as far east as the Atlantic coast. "'I lie special value of the reindeer enterprise in Alaska was found in the fact that it turned into food form a natural growth formerly untilili/.ed. and at the same time encouraged a fixed habitation and a domestical ion of i i ?111 s t i*y on the part of a population formerly nomadic through its depi iidcitcc upon the ocean s Ironiage for its supply of uniin.il food. The reindeer, which thrives upon the formerly uutit ili/.ed mosses and lichens of the Arctic tundra,' which he digs from beneath the snow in winter, serves not only sis a food supply hut ill so as a draft and pack animal in transporting mails and merchandise. while his skins furnish clothing and shelter for the natives." J. II. McMurray and his daughcr. Miss Ksiher McMurray. have gone to li'.acksburg. where they i\tll spend several weeks visiting Mr. and Mrs. .loc McMurray. af i? i ?* ii i ii? ? r.\|MTi iii ?iii in [ircensboro. N. t'., ami thence i< I'Tniuiidinu. Kla.. to spend ill*' winter. Tow ii council lias authorized lis s.reet committee In proceed. at its discretion. In lav a suit-walk from tin* concrete paving in front ut i lie S.ewan huildui*; on t un federate Htl'eet to the enrner of tile School grounds. 'I m com mitte also was instructed to r*'pair the concrete sidewalk in 11 on t of St. John's Methodist ehureli on Hall street and to extend the sidewalk to the church