Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 13, 1922, Image 1
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Established 1891.
THE CITY OF GOLD.
Story of Magic Rise of Johannesburg,
South Africa.
".lohmmcsburg is among cities
the 'stormy petrel' of South Africa.
just as truly as it is the 'city
of gohl.' " says a bulletin issued
by ilu National (biographic soci*
Yty in regard to the region in
whii-li striking miners and revolut
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I he iuiantry, cavalry, tanks and
airplansc of the South African
government.
"The city, was horn of the greatest
gold discovery known to the
mod? rn world," continues the
bulletin, "and rose to the stature
of a city in the space of a few
years practically 4on the diggins.'
It is almost on the crest of 4the
Hand.' the 50 mile ridge of goldbearing
conglomerate from which
the world's greatest stream of
gold has flown since 15)0(1, when
production passed that of all
North America.
" He fore the World war the annual
recovery of gold from the
Hand reached 17a million dollars
and by 120 the output had
again climbed to 108 millions,
an amount which represented
roughly half of the entire world
lil'oiioel imi in tlnil vmir In HOI
lie peak so far attained was
reached when gold valued at
1!00 million dollurs was taken from
the Kami.
"Johannesburg is situated midway
tlie ^and, with a number of
suburbs strung out on the slopes
of the Ridge. Mueh of the tremendous
wealth that lias eoiue
out of the reef has flowed abroad,
a fuel, incidentally, which is responsible
for much of the bitterness
among the white miners and
the l?oer farmers. Hut some of
a A.J the millionaires ami sub-millionaires
have spent lavishly in the
country, and these expenditures,
as well as the millions spent in
operation, have enriched Johannesburg.
Excepting three cities
near the Mediterranean, which
n.ay he considered as belonging
to a separate civilization, .Johannesburg
is the metropolis of Africa.
it has a population of more
than 250.000, ot which 150,000
arc white.
"It is a city of many substantial
buildings, some of them of
many stories, resembling more
nearly American structures than
those of Europe. Wide asphalted
streets, theaters, luxurious clubs>
and Hit' finest hotel south of tin*
equator are other features that
go to make Johannesburg an upto-date
city. In the suburbs are
many fine resiliences, and the
country elub will compare favorably
\tiih similar institutions of
any of the six continents.
"lint despite its opulence, Johannesburg
still has some of the
earmarks of a mining camp. In
the sumptuous clubs booted prospectors
are to be seen side by side
with carefully manicured financiers.
The iron-roofed shack of
the t arly days has not entirely disappeared
; gambling hells and
grog shops can be found with ease
by miners in the city to spend
their earnings in the traditional
way of the mining camp. Nor is
the city, for all its public improvements
and architecture, entirely
a 20th century white man's
community. More than 100,000
African natives live within its
limits.. Motor cars predominate in
the trathe, but the heavy Boer
wagon.has not entirely been thrust
out of the picture.
"Turbulence hqs been the lot
of Johannesburg since its birth in
1S8f>, and many of its problems
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owners ami laborers. The Boer
war really grew out of the discovery
of gold on the Rand and the
influx of thousands of Knglishmen.
The illstarred raid of .Jameson
was directed against Johannesburg,
and at the same time the
city was seized from within by
the British mine operatives. Just
before the outbreak of the World
war there was an uprising of the
white miners around Johannesi...
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the difficulties were patched up
because of the greater conflict.
"The obtaining of labor for th?
Rand rnineR has always been a
problem of considerable proportions.
With the mines working
at capacity something over 250,
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"CLEAN UP WEEK."
Town Offers Boys and Oirls Cash
Prises for Trash Piles.
Boys and girls of Fort Mill art;
in position not only to earn cash
prizes offered by the town for
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Up Week' campaign announced a
lew days ago by A. C. Lytle,
mayor, but will also have the satisfaction
of aiding materially in
the promotion of the health and
cleanliness of the community by
responding to the following proclamation
of the mayor:
"For the protection and ^preservation
of the health of the community
in general, ami for the
sake of the sightly appearance of
the streets and premises of the
citizens, 1 have designated the
week beginning Monday, April
17, as 4Clean Up Week,' and urge
upon all citizens their hearty cooperation
in the work of making
Fort Mill a clean town.
"Citizens are urged to collect
all unsightly trash and garbage
on their premises and place it
near the street in order that the
town's wagons may remove it. 'Hie
wagons will begin to reuiov?* such
trash on Monday following 'Clean
Up Week,' April 24.
"Prizes wjll be given to boys
and giris collecting the largest
piles of trash as follows:
"First principal prize foi^ town,
ikfi ml iipiiKMitnl nri'/u f nr ,
town, $2.50; Ward 1 prize, $2.50;
Ward 2 prize, $2.50; Ward 3 prize.
$2.50; Ward 4 prize, $2.50.
"1 have appointed the following
committee to inspect the piles
of trash collected and award the
prizes: Mrs. A. (). Jones, F. M.
Mack. Mrs. J. L. Spratt, Miss
Minnie tlarrison. N. L. CarothJ
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Not Strong for de Valera.
Pat Rogers, native Irishman,
who has made his home in Fori
Mill for many years, says a little
of ile Valera. leader of the south
ireiand forces opposing the free
state government, goes a long
way with him. Pat says he thinks
the best thing for Ireland to do
is to accept the leadership of Michael
Collins, whom lie regards
a good man, and thut the eouit^
try should be satisfied for the
present with the concessions recently
made her by Knglaud. It
would be a fine piece of work for
Ireland, Pat added, if somebody
humped off de Valera.
War Medal for Doxier.
According to the Rook ilill Herald,
the Portuguese government
hus awarded a war cross to Maj.
.). C. Dozier, along with a diploma
containing the citation of the
war department. The presentation
was to have been made at
Fort McPherson recently, hut Maj.
Dozier was unable to attend. The
medal and diploma were therefore
mailed to him in Kock llill.
Maj. Dozier was awarded the
American congressional medal of
honor for conspicuous service he
rendered in France while a member
of the Fort Mill company.
The Rev. J. C. McMullen Dead.
Many of the older citizens of
I Fort Mill learned with regret a
few days ago of the death of the
Rev. John Calvin McMullen, pastor
of the Presbyterian church at
Winona, Miss. Mr. McMullen was
a brottfer of the late Mrs. A. R.
Hanks and was a frequent visitor
to Fort Mill about 40 years ago
while he was pastor of a church
in Chester county. He is survived
by a number of children, three of
whom, two daughters and a son.
are missionaries of the Southern
Presbyterian church in China.
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vaju worKers are needed. The local
negroes preferred work on die
farms and among the livestock of
the Boers. White men in sufficient
numbers could not be obtained,
nor coidd the owners afford
to pay . exclusively white
men's wages. At one time 50.000
Chinese coolies were imported, but
their presence caused much trouble
and in 1910 the last of them
hail been hnnlr Knmj f.. p?.
cent years tens of thousands of
npgroeR from Portuguese Err* Africa
have been brought in to sup*
piement the local negroes that
could be induced to work and the
25,000 more or less skilled white
workers."
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FORT MILL, S. 0., THU,
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Found
in the Yorkrille Enquirer.
With the exception of the Helen
all the cotton mills of Hock Hill
ure now running on full day time,
it was stated Saturday, and the
indications were they would be
able to keep the puce indefinitely.
At the cooperative marketing
meeting in the court house Friday
Dr. *1. B. Johnson made graceful
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otiviiun irugflllflll UI llll' UTOUU
liberality that wan exhibited by
the York county banks in agreeing
to put up the money that enabled
the pushing of the cooperative
marketing work in the county
and his statement was received
with applause.
J. H- Rector, white man, who
has been in jail for some time
past charged with disposing of
mortgaged property, abandoning
his wife, carrying a pistol and violation
of the compulsory school
attendance law, was released last
week when a brother who lives in
Gastonia. N. l\, came to his aid.
Rector paid $100 fine in disponing
of the mortgaged 'property case,
$20 in the pistol case, $10 in the
violation of the compulsory attendance
law matter and gave
bond to support his wife.
People of Tirzali plan to hold
another large agricultural picnic
hi Gates' grove this summer and
they plan to have something on
a much larger scale; than they
had lust summer. Receipts from
the picnic were more than sufficient
to pay all expenses and it is
uiulerstood that there is still some
money in the treasury of the picnic
association, lion. J. Skottowe
Wannamaker of St. Matthews,
president of the American Cotton
association, has written; that he
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hold tin* agricultural rally this
summer as usual and that he hopes
to be present.
Request that the South Carolina
tax commission reduce real estate
values in York county 20 per
cent in the assessment for 1922
is made by J. T. Crawford of McConnellsville,
chairman of the
York county board of equalization.
in a letter to the State tax
commission in Columbia. The request
to the commission follows a
resolution passed by the county
board last Friday when the members
of the board were unanimously
in favor of such a reduction.
Un his letter the chairman
of the county bourd points out
that while a good many of the
counties will make reductions
themselves the York county board
decided to leave the matter up to
the State commission.
Dr. llaydeu of the State board
of health inspected the children
in the white and colored schools
of Yorkville for vaccination. It
was said that Dr. llaydeu found
a number of children in the 10th
Ullil 1 1 t li rvru/litL< nf tliu ti'liilv
school who had not been vacciuatcd
and about 100 children in
the negro school. An inspection
of the school at the Cannon mill
showed that all children there
were vaccinated. Dr. Hayden tol^l
the school authorities that he
would give them until Monday to
have all children vaccinated. He
insisted that town council pass a
special ordinance requiring vaccination
of all school children, and
this the council proceeded to do,
although the rules of the local
board of health already provided
for vaccination.
Although 50 working days'time
has already been lost on the
Boyd's Ferry bridge project oil
the Catawba river between York
and Mecklenburg counties because
of the .unfavorable weather
conditions, employees of the Hardaway
Construction company, ill
charge of the undertaking, are
quite confident that it will be
completed within the 150 days'
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them. They admit, however, that
it is largely a matter of how the
river behaves. Five times already
has*! the stream overflown the
banks and filled up the great
shafts being sunk in order to provide
a foundation for the mighty
piers that are to be the toain support
of the 1,300 foot bridge.
Several times it has been necessary
to take several feet of river
mud and debris out of those shafts
with great suction pumps.
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R8DAY, APRIL 13, 1922.
OLD FORT SUMTER.
Famous Civil War Fortification
Now Lighthouse Station.
Yesterday, April 12, was the
61st anniversary of that*day when
in the early morning hours in a
small room in Montgomery. Ala.,
un operator flashed a message the
disastrous consequences of which
were felt around the world. It
was an order from President Jefferson
Davis of the Southern Con
federacy to Gen. Beauregard, in
command of the Confederate forces
at- Charleston, to fire upon
Fort Sumter.
The decision to fire upon Fort
Sumter came after the refusal of
the Washington government to
withdraw the troops stationed
there, under the command of Maj.
Anderson. At daybreak of April
12, 1861, from a battery stationed
on James island was fired the
shot that ushered in the four years
of strife of brother against brother.
So well was the shot aimed
that it burst directly above the
fort, but did little harm. For two
hours the shelling of the fort continued,
the fire of the battery at
Fort Moultrie across the mouth
of the hurbor from Sumter having
joined that of the battery 011
James island; but through all this
time there had come no response
from Sumter. Maj. Anderson afterwards
stated that he was saving
his ammunition.
At exactly 7 o'clock Sumter began
firing and kept it up during
the entire day. the shots alternately
directed upon the James
island battery and that of Fort
Moultrie. The engagement is said
to have been the first of its kind
011 record of two forts so nvar
together buttling with each other.
In the city of Charleston the excitement
was intense and along
the waterfront crowds were gathered
anxiously watching the conflict.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon
word came that 110 one was
reven v hurt. NTo battle ever so
fiercely waged' ever hail such
hiirmtdsK results so far us life was
concerned. Old Fort Sumter is
now a lighthouse station.
Baseball Team Organised.
A baseball team to represent
Fort Mill this seasou was organized
u few nights ago with Alfred
O. Jones as manager. A. (\ Lytic,
15. \V. McKenzie, IS. K. Cook,
1). 1*. Brown and T. N. Reeves
compose the finance committee of
the club. As yet no games ha^e
been arranged for the team, as it
was found necessary to do considerable
work on the grounds,
thereby delaying the opening of
the season. New uniforms for
the players have arrived and it
is expected that the team will not
only make a natty appearance
when it goes 011 the diamond for
its first contest, but that it will
furnish lovers of the game the
same grade of high class amateur
ball to which they have been accustomed
for several years.
Faces 1 Serious Charge.
Walter Reid, negro track worker
for the Southern railway, was
bound over to court u few days
ago by Magistrate J. R. Uaile to
answer to an indictment charging
hiin. with assault and battery
with intent to kill. He is charged
with shooting a negro girl on the
farm of Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrick, a
few miles from town. Reid ran
away following the shooting, but
was arrested by officers in Charlotte,
N. C., who held him for the
Fort Mill authorities.
Bryan Not Senate Candidate.
In a statement issued ill Miami,
Fla., Tuesday William Jennings
Bryan announced finally that he
.would not be a candidate for the
United States senate from Florida,
saying that at his age he could
not turn from the "enjoyable"
work of fighting for Democratic
principles and policies as a commoner
to "personal politics."
Boll Weevil Bulletin.
Congressman W. F. Stevenson
writes The Times from Washington
that\he has for distribution
among the farmers oftthis section
a number of copies of farmers'
bulletin No. 1262, "The Boll
Weevil Problem," which can be
had by writing )iim. The bulletin
is said to contain much valuable
information on the subject.
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HAPPY OVER RASCALITY.
.Young Man Steals From Negro
Woman and Leaves Whistling.
"Let me tell you how a smart
young rascal beat an old negro
woman out of .t2.f>0 in Fort Mill
some years ago," yesterday said
a citizen of the town to The Times.
"The young fellow came here
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of work. It did not take liiiu long
to find a job and a boarding
house and in a few days lie employed
an old negro woman to do
liis washing. At tile end of the
week she brought in his elothes
and he pretended to be so well
pleased with the quality of the
work that he agreed to give the
old woman $2.50 if she could
change a $5 bill. IS he got together
the $2.50 in change, most of it in
quarters and dimes, and handed
it to the apparently generous
young man. lie then gave her a
$5 Confederate note, which she
accepted with many thanks, not
knowing that it was worthless.
The young man tucked the bundle
of clothes under his arm and
the last seen of him in Fort Mill
was a few minutes later when he
passed out of sight going toward
the North Carolina line whistling.
"lie seemed happy over having
beaten the old woman out of
the $2.50 and the worth of her
work; but in addition to that lie
had conveniently forgot to pay
his board bill.
"Later in the evening the family
with whom he had been staying
discovered that he had stolen
frmo the home three smoothing
irons, a rooster and a wash tub.
which inquiry developed had been
sold to a negro woman in the
neighborhood for 65 cents. 'I he
smoothing irons were recovered
by the owner, but the womufi had
eaten the rooster and had accidentally
knocked the bottom out of
the washtub. 1 have often wondered
what penitentiary finally
becume the permanent residence
of that young rascal."
Plenty of Civil Business.
There is very little doing these
days on the criminal side of Mug:..A
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isiraie ,j. rv. nunc s conn, nui nc
has numerous civil eases to be attended
to, according to a statement
he was heard to make yesterday.
Recently he has served
attachment papers on a number
of persons who were attempting
to move their household goods
Out of the Stute and he finds
much'other civil business to he
transacted for merchants and
farmers of the community.
Lost Fine Cow.
Frank Shaw, farmer, who lives
On the place of Senator S. E.
Hailcs in Lancaster county, three
miles from Fort Mill, had the
misfortune to lose Sunday afternoon
a fine cow which fell into a
branch and was drowned in less
than six inches of water. The
cow fell headforemost into the little
stream, the banks of which
were steep and about four feet
high, and was unable to get out.
Death oi Baby.
Junie Lee, year old daughter of
Mr. And Mrs. Walter Archie of
Pinevillc, N. C<died at the Archie
home Thursday, April t>. following
a week's ilbiess. The little
body' was brought to Fort Mill
and after services conducted .at
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the Rev. ?I. W. II. Dyehes. was interred
Friday afternoon in the
city cemetery.
Democrats to Meet.
The various Democratic clubs
of York 'county will meet Saturday,
April 2'J, to reorganize for
the campaign this year. New club
officers will be elected, along
with delegates to the county convention
and each club will select
a member of the county executive
committee. The present officers
of the Fort Mill club are
Frederick Nims, dr.. president,
and J. R. Haile, secretary and
treasurer.
Doctors Meet in Rock Hill.
Rock Hill is preparing to entertain
the annual session of the
South Carolina Medical assoeia
tion Which meets in that city on
Tuesday evening, April 18, and
lasts for three days. Between 300
and 400 physicians are expected
to attend the meeting.
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TAKES CASE TO OOUKT.
A. M. Cohen to Seek Redress for
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A. M. Cohen was able to return
to his home in Fort Mill Sunday
after spending two weeks at a
Koek llill hospital as a result of
a wound he received in his right
leg Sunday morning, March 23,
when he was shot by a party of
officers, in charge of Sheriff Fred
K. Quiun. who were in the upper
section of Fort Mill township
in wait for a liquor automobile
they expected to pass that way
en route to Fort Mill and Rock ,
llill from Charlotte, N. C. Mr.
Cohen was returning to Fort Mill
from tiustonia, N. C.. in his car
and refused to stop when the officers
hailed him. Then the shot
which struck hiiu in the leg was
fired. lie is able to get about
only on crutches and yesterday
said he thought it would he some
time before he would he able to
use his leg.
According to a statement Mr.
Cohen made to The Times Wednesday
afternoon, it is Ids intention
to bring both criminal and
civil actions against the officers
who were in the sheriff's party
at the time he was shot and also
to enter suit for damages aguinst
the county. He said lie had engaged
.Judge Mendel ft. Smith to
represent bun in the prosecutions
and that lie expected to swear
out warrants in a few days, probably
next week, for the arrest of
each of the officers, charging assault
and battery with intent to
kill. The officers compositor the
sheritV's party were: Sheriff Fred
K. i.^11 inii. Magistrate Black of
York township. State Constable
lloraee Johnson. Police Officer V.
i>. Potts of Fort Mill and Magistrate's
Constable .1. 11. Patterson
of Fort Mill.
Interested in Fort Mill Road.
Chester antoists and the public
in general will be glad when that
stretch of road in Fort Mill township.
York county, from Catawbu
river to the North Carolina line
is placed in first class conditio!!,
says the Chester News. Parties
being en route to Charlotte always
take the "quivers" when
they see a cloud because they well
know that if a rain catches them
between Pineville and Fort Mill
that it means serious trouble. Last
week during tfie heavy storm it is
said that a score or more of automobiles
got stuck between Fort
Mill and Pineville. If this stretch
cf something like ton miles was
in good condition no one would
have any fear of a trip to Charlotte
in a rain or immediately folic
wing one.
Chock Written by Cox.
A check drawn by James M.
Cox. former governor of Ohio
and Democratic nominee for the
presidency in 11)20, proved an object
of interest to many Fort Mill
people at the First National bank.
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iiu* cucck was drawn in lavor ol
llic Southern railway and was fur
$57.75. It was sent to tlu* Fort
Mill bank for collection by F. K.
Artlrcy, ticket agent for the
Southern at Aiken, and is supposed
to have been in payment
for passenger transportation for
(Sovcrnor Cox and bis family
from Aiken to their home in Dayton,
Ohio.
Cantata at Methodist Church.
The congregation of St. .John's
Methodist church is anticipating
with much pleasure the Faster
cantata to be given by the choir
Sunday evening at 7 :U0. An invitation
is extended the public to
l>< present for the exercises, which
will be the most elaborate yet undertaken
at St. .John's in celebration
of Easter.
The Fort Mill colored graded
school, of wlliell I*. I- A u?i* \r umiu
principal, closed Wednesday evening
for the summer months. The
session ended with public exercises
which began Sunday.
One nice thing, about bobbed
hair is that there are no rats in it.
Another trouble about trying
to run down a lie is thut sometimes
it turns'out to be true.
The man who lets the hypocrites
keep him out of church
may wake up some day to find
himself in a place where everybody
is a hypocrite.
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