Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 13, 1921, Image 1
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The Fort Mill Tithes.
> 1891. ~ FORT BOLL. 8. 0.. THP R8DAY. OCTOBER ii~l'?aiT ' .
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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