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The Fort Mill Times.
?JT. 1 4 ., - FORT MILL. S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1921. *1 "
^BK^BIiliHiin?fl lovli '
Binu. HOLD PRIMARY.
itm Democrats to Nominate !
Town Ticket..
ne town of Fort Mill will have
first Democratic primary on
&dajr, December 13, as a ret
of the organization last Fri?evening
of the Fort Mill City i
hocratic club. In the primary :
ty candidates for mayor, two <
ermen-at-large, four ward al
En and* two members of the
works commission'are to be |<
a ted. Should a second pribe
necessary, by reason of
dltire of any candidate for
rticular office to receive
jority of the votes cast
? first primary, it will be
Dn Tuesday, December 2(1.
eek after the first primary, i
'ting in the town hall Fri
F '''Hf fveiuii({, tw-omi 01 iiic mm
P' j /^Democrats who a few days ago
Cffif^ned 8 declaration of their iny#ention
to form a city club to
Splace candidates in the field for i
p municipal oftiees. perfected the
Sjprganization of the club bv eleetBng
W. R. Bradford president, .1.
Fb. Broadnax and 1). 1'. Brown
jHT Vice presidents. \V. S. IWlk seerep
tary and treasurer and \V. 11.
Martin assistant secretary and
M treasurer. A. C. Lytic was cho P
?en temporary secretary of the
P meeting on motion of .1. K. Made.
S The executive eomiuittee of the
p club is composed of (leorge Fish.
j W. B. Meaebam. K?\, R. F. Me- j
f Kibben. Dr. .1. B. Klliolt and Zeh i
Vance Clifton.
With the exception of a recall I
provision, the club rules adopted
at the meeting are practically |
the same as those of townshin
alderman-nt-larpe. $2: for ward
"* ~ tdderman. $2: for public works
commissioner no charge.
J. C. Surille. Heath Belk and
Barron Bennett were selected as
managers of the first nriinarv. j
k the polls- to open at 8 o'clock a.
j& m. and close at 4 o'clock n. in..
*P at the store of Youn?? <& Wolfe.
The committee decided not to ask
the election mannpers to serve
the clnh without eomnensation.
but will pay them for the day's
work. A meet in tr of the committee
will he held Tnesdav oveninc.
December 10. to declare the re- '
suit of the first primary.
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1 Eleven men. six white and five
negroes, are now under death
1 sentence in South Carolina. This
ia said to establish a record for
3' the Palmetto State in the man,
bar of death penalties passed up.
on criminals at any one period of
time. The fact that the whites
vj . outnumber the negroes is also
- considered a new record for the
Democratic clubs. The substance !
of the recall'rult* is that upon petition
to town council of -">0 per ;
cent of the .voters participating
in any of the club's primaries for
a particular candidate who was j
575' jmeccfisfu.1 in the general^election,
a special election shall be held to
* determine the fitness for further
service of the officer at whom the j
recall is aimed. Should a petition 1
for the recall of a ward alderman
be circulated, the club rules pro- j
vide that only persons living in j
the Ward and who participated
in the primary in which the abler. 1
man was nominated will be eligi- 1
? hie to sign the petition. In the
case of officials elected by the
vote of the entire town, the same
percentage of primary voters is j
t neeessnrv to insure :i i*lcc
"*?+ionr with ward limits not hcinp
considered.
Followinir the organization of;
the club Friday eveninar. the executive
committee held its first ,
meeting Saturday evenim*. at ;
which Georpe Fish was elected
chairman and \V. 11. Mcacham
seretarv. December Id was the
date selected bv the committee :
, for the club's first primary, at
yhich town officers to serve durinp
1922-23 are to be nominated.
Books of enrollment were ordered
opened on Monday. November 28.
Bare and to remain open through Saturday.
December 10. which also
was the time designated for can- i
didates to pay their assessments
and take the pledpe to abide by
the result of the primarv.
The entrance fees for candidates
were set by the committee '
ns frdlmvs T?\*r lilMVOl' ."t.") for
LUMBER SHED BURNS.
Fort Mill Lumber Company Suffers
Big Loss.
Twenty-five thousand dollar^
worth of property was reduced to
smoke and ashes in a fire which
broke out Tuesday evening at 7
o'clock in the rear of the main
shed of the Fort Mill Lumber;
company, .J. .1. Uailes proprietor, j
l lu shed .and its contents, incliul-1
ing tens of thousands of feet of |
Iressed lumber, builder's supplies
of all kinds. two motor
trucks, one a four ton Packard,
tin other a Traffic, were a total1
loss. "There was some insurance on !
the property. Mr. Bailes yesterday !
said, but not enough to cover
the loss. Only recently, he added.
large shipments of dressed
lumber had been received and
piactically all of it was stored in
the burned building.
How the fire originated. Mr.
Bailes said lie did not know. It
was a rule not to allow smoking
in any of the buildings of the
plant or on the lumber yard, but
it is possible that the rule was
overlooked and that a cigarette
or cigar stub had been thrown
down fit the building and that the
tiro sai'tcd from it. The blaze
quickly enveloped the building,
notwithstanding the efforts of
the fire company and nninerons
volunteers to cheek it. The company
was on the ground and at
work in an incredibly short time
after the alarm was sounded
and did good work in preventing
the spread of the flames to nearly
buildings and the piles of nil-,
dressed lumber in the yard. A
small lumber shed, not ten feet
from the main shed, was saved by
the efforts of the firemen, although
they were handicapped by
a shortage of water. The debris
continued to burn till through
Tuesday night. Wednesday and
Wednesday night.
When the fire was at its height
a number of electric light wires
connecting with the transformer
house a few yards away were
burned in two and the town was
in darkness for more than an
hour, necessitating the closing of
all Main street business houses.
The blaze from the rich pine
lumber was nerhans the most
spectacular Fort Mill hud ever
soon, lluiulroils of people were
attracted to tlic burning building
I?v tin* 1'liinn's as tlioy reached
high into tIn* air. At a distance I
i: lookod as if half the town was
burning up. Sparks and brands
t< II on many buildings in the
ucighhothood of the lumber yard,
luit did no damage.
Yesterday Mr. Bailcssaid he did
not know what the future of his i
lumber business would he, that
until lie eouhl settle with the insurance
companies he did jiot
know whether he would again
put in a stock of dressed lumber
and builder's supplies.
Candidates for Office. I
A. tLytic and It. Ferguson
are this week announcing in The
Times their candidacy for mayor
of Fort Mill, ifoth are business
men. the former manager of the
I
Lytic Drug company and the latter
proprietor of a Main street
grocery.
Other announcement in The
Times are those of It. \V. Brad- '
ford and das. T. Young, dr.. for
alderinen-at-large and Brice I).
Culp. who seeks a seat in town
council from Ward
The York county ehaiugaiig
netted eight recruits as a result j
of the November term of court of
ir.im.i'<i I .. I.w.l. .. .... I...1.1-1
nt iii r>\ naiuiin hi* ii ^ U?? in*ut
last week. In addition to these. >
one negro hoy wus sent to tin* re- 1
foriiuitorv tor coloKed youths at
I a.\ ington.
With the aiiiiotincement this
week of the first of the candidates
for town offices. interest in the
Deinoeratie primary to be held on
December 1:1 is expected to be
quickened. I'p to last nijfht 160
names had been placed oil the
Democratic club rolls, which were
opened Monday morniil^ at the
Lytic Drujr company's store. The
rolls are to remain open through
Saturday. December 10, and no
one w ill be allowed to vote in the
primary whose name does not appear
on the rolls.
NEWS OF YONK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest F&m
the Yorkville Enquirer.
Perry Ferguson, who for many
years was engaged in the mercantile
business at Bandana, neitr
Nanny's mountain, in Bethel
4^.. i.: :A? :n Al t
UIW IISIIjp. IS quill* HI HI I lie HOIIie
of his daughter. Mrs. J. M.
Youngbiood. in Koek llill. Mr.
Ferguson has been in bad health
for some time and his relatives
and friends are very much worried
about him.
Construction work on 12 new
houses that the Clover cotton mill
proposes to build in the mill village
has been started and it is the
intention of the management to
push the work# to conclusion as
rapidly as possible. The building
of the 12 houses means the bringing
of about HO more people to
clover. It is reported that vthe
mill may build si ill other houses.
The Koek Hill chapter, \\ I).
C.. has recently had the Confederate
monument of that city remodeled.
and now they are after
the city to provide a site for the
location of the monument. So fur
the city has done nothing in regard
to providing the site and to
day tin* members of tho U. D. C.
are in the position of having a
beautiful monument on their
hands with nowhere to place it.
Hut tin- city will provide a site,
and if tin- city does not. then
sonic public spirited citizen will.
Superintendent of Education
John E. Carroll is making plans
and preparations to have all the
schools of York county observe
"school week" December 5 to 30.
Mr. Carroll said Monday that he
expected to arrange a meeting for
patrons of all schools of the conn,
ty to be held in the court house
here in .connection with "school
week." At this meeting addresses
will be made by one or more
distinguished speakers. The county
superinfendehl also expects to
visit a good many of the schools.
I. S. lirice Esq.. continues to
infprove steadily at his home in
Yorkville. He gave close and serious
attention to legal papers
during Monday, lie. is not suffering
any discomfort now except
certain swelling in his ankles.
caused as the result of his
illness and from long disuse of his
limbs. He is able to walk about
the house with the help only of h I
sii?*k and then* is reason to believe
that with a little exercise in
the fresh air, the swelling in his
ankles will soon disappear. He is
looking forward hopefully to an
early return to his office.
/'I have given out 230 dog tax
tags so far." said Treasurer Neil
Monday morning, "and there is
hut one more month of it There
will he no extension as I understand
the law. Those who fail to
pay by December 31 will be in
the hands of the school trustees
and the magistrates. One reason
probably why people are slow to
pay is that a good many of them
don't seem to understand that the
dog tax receipt is separate and ;
distinct from property tax re- i
ceipts. This dog tax is due and i
payable now and can be paid at
any time before December 31."
There is much talk in Kock Hill ;
relative to the future progress .
and prosperity of the York Conn- ;
tv fair, an annual fall event in i
Hock Hill. Complaint is made
that the fair association is not >
getting the support from all sections
of York county that is nee- '
cssary to moke the fair a success I
financially and otherwise. The
fair held iveenly lost money. Exhibits
of livestock especially were
woefully lacking and although
the fair association worked most
faithfully to make the faiir a success.
they had very little support ,
from the people of the county at
large. The fair association believes
that one of the first things
necessary to make the fair a per
lnanent event is to buy the ground
where the fair is held. These
grounds belong to the estate of
the late .1. M. Cherry. The under.
standing is that they can he
bought for $500 an aere and there
are about 20 acres in the tract
that the fair association has been
using. How to finance the purchase
of the ground is one of the
big problems confronting the association.
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PLAN TO FIOHT WEEVIL.
Program Suggested to Farmers
of York County.
York county is now infested
with the boll weevil and no one
can predict with any degree of
accuracy just what year or season'
the weevil will do his worst
damage in this section._ There
fore every farmer and ousiness
man is urged to plan his farming
and business operations for 1922
on a- safe and mine basis.
At a meeting in Rock Hill u
few days ago of a number of
farmers and business men with
the county demonstration agent,
J. R. Blair, it was recommended
that the following program be
adopted by the farmers of York
county:
1. Be sure to produce enough
staple food and feedstuffs for
landlord, tenants and livestock
with some to sell.
2. Provide a good all-year home
garden and orchard.
3. Provide cows enough to produce
milk and butter for every
mi tlif i'uriii mill wiuiin in
sell.
4. Provide ut least 100 pounds
of pork per person on the furm
and some to sell.
5. Also provide an ample
amount of ponltrv with some to
sell.
To put the foregoing recommendations
into practice the acreuge
per plow should he about as follows
:
Five to eight acres of cotton
per plow, according to the size of |
the family to cultivate same; five
to eight acres of corn planted
with peas or velvet beans; four
to six acres of oats and wheat per
plow , followed by peus. velvet I
beans and cane for forage; one t
acre each of sweet potatoes, peuiiuts
and sorghum.
The meeting also recommended
t-lu* erection of at least one sweet
potato house of from 2,1)00 to
8,000 bushel capacity in each i
school district in the county.
People who have grown cotton
under boll weevil conditions say
it can be grown successfully and
profitably if the following factors
are put into operation:
1. Early fall turning under of
cotton stalks; if impossible to
turn under, cut under with disc '
narrow or stalk cutter.
2. General winter gleaning up 1
of all hedge8,ditches, terraces, etc.
2. Thorough and early prepara- |
lion and planting as early as dan. |
ger of frost is past, using from
1 1-2 to 2 1-2 bushels of good seed
per acre to insure stand.
4. Planting of approved varieties
only, Waunamaker, Cleveland
and Mexican big boll being
recommended for this section, to
be planted on early maturing
land.
5. The judicious and liberal use
of commercial fertilizer high in 1
phosphoric acid and in anionia to ;
insure early maturing, using fer- ,
tilir.er directly under seed, avoiding
side applications of soda.
6. Rapid, shallow cultivation"
until cotton begins to open.
7. Picking of early weevils and
punctured squares to duly 20 at
least.
M. Sowing of winter cover crops
in cotton fields to maintain soil J
fertility and to prevent weevils
hibernating through winter.
Graded School Notes.
Everyone is back at school after ,
having two days holiday for
Thanksgiving. Several of the ,
teachers spent the week-end out
of town. Miss Marie Maundy was .'
at her home in Shelby. N. C., and '
Miss Susie White visited relatives .
at Black Mountain, N. ('. Miss'^
Ethel Loft is has returned from a
stay of several weeks at her home ,
in Greenville. j
The girls' basketball team will |
play their first game of the sea- i
i/ i ' ?'
nun mini rvrrwutw m ivemnaw j
Friday. j
Miss Martha Watson. stiuh nt |
at Winthrop college, apent Turta- }
day night with Miaa Hilna Tindal.1 ,
Miaa Watson came over to coach |
the haaketball team. I;
The December meeting of the I
parent-teacher club of the school
will be held thia afternon in the I i
school auditorium at 3:15 o'clock. 11
FEW UNKNOWN DEAD.
Only 1,600 American Victims of
War Now Unidentified.
Tlie people of the United States
apparently have gievn little heed
to the wonderful work of quartermaster
eorps of the army in
identifying thousands who fell in
the World war. The casualties of
the American forces on land and
sea were roughly 310,000. Of
this number the adjutant general's
office records 77.133 as fatal
and occurring outside of the
United States.
A total of 77.048 graves are
registered by the eemeterial ilivision.
Of these 42.098 have been
transferred, all except a few hundred
distributed to countries of
Europe.being brougth to the United
States. Tlp>re are eight official
American cemeteries. However,
there are close to 500 village burial
plots in France. Belgium. Germany
ami other countries from
which soldier dead have not been
removed.
The number of unidentified
American dead is between 1,000
and 1.500. This is in striking
contrast to the tragic totals of
other countries, whose unidentified
dead runs into the hundreds I
of thousands. One reason for this
is that at the time of the American
participation the allied front
was advancing and the dead usually
were behind the American
lines.
Another reason is. that the
American expeditionary forces i
paid more attention to this sentimental
phase of war. Frequently
burial parties worked under fire. <
digging shallow graves and care- <
fully marking them that identity
would not be loVt when the body
was removed to a permanent
cemetery.
Potatoes From Storage House.
Farmers from the lower section
of Fort Mill township this week
have hauled into town for sale to
loeal merchants several loads of,
sweet potatoes taken from the
community storage house which
they built several weeks ago.
Eighteen hundred orates, each I
holding 1 1-4 bushels, were placed
in the storage house when the potatoes
were dug. Examination of
the contents of the crates indicates
that the potatoes responded
to the curing process, but each of i
the crates now contains one peek
less than it did when the potatoes
were first stored, the heat .
maintained for several weeks in
the house having caused the
shrinkage.
Tt is not expected that the Fort
Mill community, will he able to
consume all the potatoes in the
storage house. The owners of the '
potatoes therefore plan to begin
making shipments to nearby i1
citfcs within the next few days.
The potatoes are said to be supe- J
rior in flavor to those cured in :
.ld-fashioned hills and are retailing
on the Fort Mill market' at
$1.50 per bushel.
Issue Many Certificates.
Messrs. Clinton and (Jwinn.
members of the York county ,
board of registration, did not find j
many idle moments at their dis- ,
posal during last Friday, which ,
Qnalit b' ? ?.* \-fHl
m dmuiimi) 111 run .M III. ||
When the ?1hv's work laid ended |i
for them a total of 285 new reg-j i
titration certificates had been is- I
>'.ied to citizens of the town. Of j
the number. 70 were to women, i
who thus took advantage of the |
opportunity given them by the <
national and State, governments i
some months ago to qualify as ' |
voters. Not one of the women 11
lo whom the board issued cert if-,|
icates had ever voted and it was |
with reluctance that several asked \
for the little slip of paper which
would enable them to take part
in elections. Beside the new eer-j!
if icates. the board issued a nura-/
ier of renewal certificates to cit-11
i/'-ns who had lost or mislaid '
their old ones. As a result of '
fhe county's board's visit to Fort ^
Mill there are approximately 450 1
registered voters in town, more *
t>y about 200 than there has been 4
it any time in the past.
The best grade of cotton is sell- t
ng at 18 cents on the Fort Mill jj
market today. I
f*>uv r? x cur.
COUNTY SHOULD AID.
Bock Hill Paper Favors Work
Under Stewart Road Law.
Says the Rock Hill Kecoril:
"Fort Mill township has ' sold
$75.IKK) worth of road bonds and
will hnild a hard surface road
from the river to the town of
Fort Mill, anil thence from Fort
Mill to the road leading to the
new bridge across the Catawba
at Wright's terry, and also to*
Railes' bridge over Fishinei Stool t
urei'k, between Fort Mill mul '
Lancaster.
"This news will ho very pleasing
and these roads very hem tieial.
hut there is still a very important
road that is to he luiilt.
ami it strikes us that while Fort
Mill township is lining up to do
this work on its own hook the
county commissioners of York
might-get together with them and
so plan tin road that is to he
huilt from the North Carolina
line, as provided for hv the Stewart
road luw, running aeross the
county hy Fort Mill, or approximately
to the present bridge between
here and Fort Mill, leading
on toward Bcthcsdu and the
Chester county line. It looks to
us as if this would he good business
to get together on this and
each side save some money and
at least build more roads, or
more mileage of road, or build it
better."
(The only hard surface road
the Fort Mill township road commission
proposes to build, according
to a statement printed in The
Times last week from a member
of the commission, is between the
I'OUntv bridge across the Catawba
river ami the town of Fort Mill.
Federal aid for road building always
is somewhat uncertain and
the plans of the township commission
cannot he worked out
fully, as this paper understands
the situation, until the commission
knows definitely how much
assistance it will receive from the
national treasury.? Editor The
Times.)
News of Pleasant Valley.
Miss Mary Bailes. student at
Winthrop college, spent Thanks,
riving with her parents. .Mr. and
Mrs. .1. Z. Hailes.
Mrs. Robert Hickett * ami her
children of <'heater spent Thanksgiving
with relatives in this community.
Miss Nancy (iraham. teacher in
the local school, spent Thanksgiving
at her home in Lancaster.
Cadet dames Italics of ' 'leinson
college spent Thanksgiving with
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. d. '/.
Hailes.
Miss Sallie Wheeler, who is one
of the teachers in the Pleasant
Vallcv school si???nt Tliu.ib-i"?>
ing with her brother in ('harlotte,
N. C.
Misses Kthel and Mabel Fatterson
spent Thanksgiving with feint
ives in the (Sold Hill emiimiinitv.
"Spinner."
Wasting Money on Roads.
"The trouble with the roads of
this community." said a farmer
a ho had just driven through the
mud to Fort Mill from his home
ir. the upper section of the township.
"is not so much a lack of
work as it is the character of the
red elav. All the dragging and
nther work that might he done on
the roads of hort Mill township
For the next century would not put
them in condition to withstand
the rains unless they were resurfaced.
The roads cut up into
leep ruts and holes eoine in them
where the water stands for any
ength of time following every
'ain that lasts for a few hours or
.v.. lit
linger. ? e lire Wasting IIIOIley
rying to make good ml clay
'ohiIN.
F. E. Ardrey. inavor of Fort
Mill, has stated that lie would not
tsk to he reelected. .Mr. Ardery
vjis elected without opposition
wo years ago and has many
'riends who will regret that they
vill not again have the opportulity
of voting for liiin. lie has
served the town without financial
'ompensation. agreeing early in
lis administration to give the sultry
to which he was entitled to
he recorder to escape the undeasautness
of presiding over the
>olice court.
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