Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, May 04, 1922, Image 1
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Established 1891. ~
DEMOCRATS IN SESSION.
County Convention at York Void
of Factionalism.
The factional feeling of other
years that sometimes cropped out
in Vnrlr tViimtv l)i'iii<u>riiti<> nnii
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that action being N taken which
was displeasing alike to delegates
and their friends and afterwards
had its effect on the fortunes of
candidates in the primary \yt\v entirely
lacking at the county convention
in \ork Monday morning.
There was an air about the
convention which led to the impression
that all of the 120-odd
delegates were bent upon the
same mission?the expeditious
transaction of the business which
had brought them together and
the desire to avoid doing or saying
anything which .nnght give
oflcnse.
For the first time women were
present as delegates to the convention
and one of the number,
Mrs. Alexander Long of Hock
Hill, whose father was the late
W. Hlackburn Wilson, Esq., was
honored by being elected to preside
over the convention, but Mrs.
Long asked to be excused, sayimr
that she was inexDerienced.
Mrs. Long was afterwards elected
a delegate to tlie State convention
to be held in Columhiu on
May 17, as was Mrs. Louis Friedhenu
of dock Hill, who was unanimously
chosen a delegutc-ailarge.
Both Mrs. Long and Mrs.
Friedheim are understood to have
slated that they, will attend .the
convention.
Other than the adoption of a
resolution indorsing the soldier
bonus proposed by the American
Legion for World war veterans,
r-^^the rejection of a resolution, sent
up iroiu Beaufort county, calling
upon the iState convention to so
modify the party rules that assessments
may be laid by the
county jjxdittuve committees on
candidates for State anil federal
offices, the establishment of five
voting precincts in Hock Hilt to
take ihe place of the two heretofore
provided in that city and
the creation of a ueV precinct at
Dccrsheba school house, the con*
volition restricted its activity
largely to the transaction of routine
business.
in the absence of J. A. Marion,
Esq., county chairman, Dr. .J. H.
Baye called the convention to order.
Dr. >Saye was then chosen
temporary chairman, with James
D. Grist of York as temporary
secretary. Later Mr. Grist was
elected permanent secretary.
The committee 011 credentials,
composed of one member from
each club in the county, lost lit- j
tie time in making up the rolls
of the convention and, the report
of the committee was adopted
without modiiication. Meanwhile
the Rev. F. W. Gregg, D. D.,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, Rock Hill, had responded
to an invitation to welcome
the women who were attending
officially their -first county convention.
In a pleasing short
speech Dr. Gregg said the women
could accotnplisn much, in purifying
the pontics of the country
and that 111 several of the larger
cities they had already brought
about better conditions by going
to the polls and casting their
ballots.
Following the declination of
\tm li(knfftnni*t>uiili>nvHr th(* I'nn
vent ion, Or. Uregg was chosen
by _ acclamation. .J. A. Marion
* was then reelected county chair*
man without opposition, after
Jttob Saye Kiddle of Bethel township
had nominated Senator J. S.
brice, who immediately said he
would not serve. Dave n. Moss of
^ y Kock Hill then secured recognition
and nominated l)r. 1. J.
Campbell of Clover for State executive
committeeman. Dr. Campbell
has heretofore served as a
member; of the State committee.
The convention elected nine pre
chid delegates aa fellows to the
&tate convention with an alternate
for eaeh, the last named being
the alternate:
Bethel?A. H. Harnett, W. P.
Ijg-W. S. Pereival, W.
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. ENCAMPMENT IN JULY.
Fort Mill Companies to Oo to 1
Camp J&eksoh.
The annual encampment of the
118th regiment, S. G. N. G., of c
which both the Fort Mill infan- i
I try company (Company G) and <
the Third battalion headquarters *
company located here are units, 1
is to be held at Camp Jackson, 1
Columbia, beginning July 16. The '
encampment will last 15 days and *
is expected to prove of great a
value to the militiamen. Last year
the encampment of the regiment c
WAN ht>lfl ut Mnnnt PlfiiKiint 1
near Charleston. On account of I
the continued raius and the wet, ?
soggy condition of the target
ranges and the drill grounds, the
encampment at Mount Pleasant
was not the success militia officers
had hoped for and at its
close the adjutant general's department
wus quoted at saying
the regiment woul^l not again be
I ordered to that place for its annual
encampment.
Conditions at Camp Juckson
are considered all that could be
desired for the encampment.
There the regiment will use barracks
und other buildings put up
for the National army during the
World war and will have access
to the splendid rifle ranges und
drill grounds at the cump. There
also are other features at Camp
Jackson which make it attractive
as the place for the encampment
of the regiment.
The ,Fort Mill infantry company,
known locully as the Tom
flail (iiturds, is commanded by
MCapt. Frederick Nuns, Jr., and /
is considered one of ihe most j
thoroughgoing units of the 118th j
regiment. The company was or- r
gani/.ed two years ago and now t
tins a membership of about 100; (
Both officers and men display t
much interest in the organization f
and the weekly drills are \?ell at- j
tended* ?Maak^is ItQUr.^
tenant of the company, Robert F. A
Crier, Jr., second lieutenaut,and c
Hobert Bennett first sergeant. ^
The Fort Mill section of the
Third battalfou headquarters \
company, of which W. 11. Nims, ?
first lieutenant, is commanding f
officer, although a young organi- !
zation, "having been mustered into I
the service less than six months I
ago, has in its ruuks u number of J
ex-service men who will know c
just what is expected of them t
when they go into the encamp- c
mcnt at Camp Jackson. The i
company is divided into two sec- ?
tions, hulf located in Fort Mill c
and half in Rock Hill, and has a i
membership of 40 men. ]
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Catawba?Krwin Carothers, V. 1
B. MeFadtlen. !
Ebenezer?Mrs.Alexander Long, 1
J. E. Wamsley. c
1?Wt \l ill VV W A
L. Parks.
King's Mountain?J. C. Ford, t
T.NP. Clinton. :
York?.lames D. Orist, H. E.
Neil. : j
After adopting the soldier bo- c
nns resolution, rejecting the one c
proposing un additional assessment
011 candidates for State and *
federal offices, and providing for e
new voting precincts, the convention
adjourned sine die.
Following the county convention,
the county executive com- j
mittee organized by the election j
of Dr. J. H. Saye as secretary, j
The members of the committee ^
for the various clubs in the county
arc as follows: Bethany, B. R. v
Smith; Bethel, R. S. Riddle; \
Blairsville, H. J. Sherer, Bullock's c
Creek, J. C. Kirkpatrick; Cataw- j
ba, S. W. Ferguson; Clover, J. E. j
Bcamguard; Ebenezer, J. F. "Wil- t
liams; Filbert, J. Q. Hall; Forest ,
llill, S. S. Glenn; Fort Mill>S. H. j
Epps; Tirzah, J. M. Campbell; ?
Hickory Grove, W. F. McGill; ,
Hopewell, W. I. Howell; Leaalie, j
D. P. Lesslie; McConnellsville,
8. H. Love; Newport, J. A. Mc- 1
Fadden; New Zion, A. E. Burns; |
Ogden, W. H. Dunlap; Reek Hill, j
No. 1, Krwin Carothefs; Rock f
Hill, No. 2, W. M. Dunlap; Rock
Hill, No. $, V. Brown McFadden;
Rock Hill, No. VW. B. Wikn; i
Aragon-Bluehiiekle, F. B. Col- i
ton; Sharon, J, H. Sa^e; 8myr- 1
na, C. G. Castles; York, No. t, i
W. B. Keller; York, No. 2, J. t
Frank Faulkner. I
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MZWB or TOBK COUWTY. I
Items of General Interest Found
in the Yorkrille Enquirer.
Celery can be raised in York
:ounty as well as anywhere in the
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t ui iu. iiciuin lur jniciugmi cri* i
?ry nor the Florida celery has a
hing on the York county celery.
5ut 90 per cent of the celery that
a consumed in York county is
nought in from elsewhere. Why
lo we not raise our own celery
md have it fresh and good!
"Most people are not aware
>f it but about the only wild
joats to be found in the upper
>art of the State, at least, are on
>re of the islands in the Catawba
iver at Great Falls," this mornng
said a gentleman to the ?e)orter.
Several hundred goats
f the barnyard kind were placed
>n this island by a man a number
)f years ago. Since that time
hey have been left to themselves
vith the result that they have belome
quite wild."
"Believe me," said a candidate
'or treasurer of York county the
>thor day, "the farmers of this
founty are not interested in poliics,
either county or State, just
iow. In fact, they are interested
u nothing but the weather and
ire wondering when they are gong
to be able to get to work. I've
h?en pretty nearly all over the
sounty since I announced my
candidacy and I have run across
nighty few people who appeared
c be interested in a discussion
>f politics."
After deliberating about 20
ninutes the jury trying the case
>f John A. Neely of Anderson,
id in in ist rat or of the estate of the
ate Miss Ella J. Neely, against
he Carolina and North-Western
alroad returned a verdict for the
lcfendant railroad late Friday
evening. The plaintiff sought
lamages in the sum of $50,000
'or the death of his sister reaultng
from the collision of an autonobtte
in* which she was riding
vith Miss Mary Williams and
ithers with a passenger train on
he morning of March 17, 1921.
Mrs. Catherine Smith, last surging
niece of Clen. George Armtrong
Custer, famous Indian
'ighter who with 1,100 United
Itates soldiers met death at the
lands of 9,000 Sioux Indiana on
kittle Big Horn river, Montana,
fune 25, 1876, died at the home
>f her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Moron
of Charlotte street, Yorkville,
>arly Monday morning, followng
along period of ill health,
die \v?8 buried in Rose Hill cem tery
Tuesday morning, followng
funeral services conducted by
itev. D. L. Hill, pastor of the
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?fBj/uuv cnurcu OI IOFKlle.
Mrs. Smith was 66 years of
tge and was born in Winchester,
renn. Her mother was a sister
>f Gen. Coster.
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Fort Mill Pensioners.
The annual appropriation of
he State for Confederate penlions
for veterans and the wid>ws
of veterans living- in the
tart Mill community has been reteived
by the First National JEmnk
?f Fort Mill and is now redely for
>ayment in two classes, A and B,
he fonpee- class receiving $T0
>ach and the latter $48.16:
Class A?J. M. Armstrong, W.
1 Armstrong, W. F. Boyd, Robert
Burns,* J. H. - Oolthrap', J. P.
Spps, A. H. Merritt, Bowman
derritt, Mrs. Cynthia Abernathy,
drs. Matilda M. Bayne, Mrs. Re>ccca
H. Mills, Mrs. D. L. Smith.
Class B?S. H. Epps, J. S. Kimwell,
C. C. Mellwaine, B. Henry
lifassey, B. A. P. Merritt, J. C.
laville, K. Shannon, Jas. Spratt,
ra G. Smythe, Dallas Stephens,
iobert S. Torrence, Mrs. Luereia
Alderson, Mrs. Mary Ardrey,
lire. Ellen Bailee, E. J? Bennett,
um. m. n. DRiureu, nun. litUfl
I. Drakeford, Mm. Octavia Felte;
A re. Sarah E. Hancock, Mrs. Al?
ce Irene Harris, Mrs. Eliza Johnoih,
Mrs. Bettie Kimbrell, Mrs.
Iiry B. McClelland, Mrs. Harriet
la nits-Mack, Mrs. M. A. Miller,
im. Alice MaU, Mrs. Susan Paterson,:
Mrs. Rebecca E. Shaw.
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Dr. and Mrs. .John M. Hatchnoon
and their children and Dr.
md Mrs. A. b Ott Aspect to
core Pert Mih Monday for a
risit of ten days to points of inerest
in Floik They will make
he trip in Dr. Hutchinson V ear:
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I; OOOD POTATO BUUHBW.
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iBoomifiiig Report.
An encouraging report of the
firat year's operations of the Fork
Potato Growers' association* organized'
by farmers of lower Fort
Mill township last spring, -has
just beta made by L. M. Massey,
DitnSat Ak?f *v ?v?% ?^ *k<\
nvvt t l.qi J. A lie purpose OX lUO
association is to grow, cure and
market, sweet potatoes, and the
report fchows that wtyile the business
was undertaken on a modes
scale it has nevertheless been
a success and an additional storage
house, larger than the original
one, is now being built to
take care of the 1922 crop. Practically
all of the sales of the associatidn
last year were made in
Fort Mill and Rock Hill. Nine
hundred bushels were marketed
to dealers in the two towns, besides
200 bushels which were sold
to seedsmen. Winthrop college
also whs a good customer of the
association. The uverage price
obtained for the potatoes was
$1.50 per bushel.
The joriginul storage house of
the association has a capacity of
2,500 bushels. In this house last
year Were cured 1,800 crates 01
potatoes, each with a capacity of
1 1-4 bushels. This year there
will be a marked increase in the
acreage the members of the association.
put to potatoes and to
cure the additional product a
second storage house, with u capacity
of 3,000 bushels, is now being
erected, with still another
house to accommodate 2,500
bushels in contemplation.
It is the intention of the Fork
association to join the State Potato
Growers' association as soon
as the volume of its product is
large enough to enable it to make
carload shipments. The Porto Rico
variety is grown exclusively by
the association, and consumers
testify*^- tbe~superiority of the
"cured" potato over that which
is "banked."
C. S. Armstrong is president of
the Fork association and to him
the secretary gives much credit
for the success of the enterprise.
Mr. Armstrong says he is satisfied
that potatoes are a more
profitable. crop than cotton under
boll weevil conditions, even
should the staple sell at 20 cents.
Freight Wreck at Ogden.
One of the worst wrecks in recent
years in York county occurred
Wednesday morning at Ogden,
six miles south of Rock Hill,
when an engine and 28 freight |
cars turned over and were piled
in a tangled mass, killing the negro
fireman and seriously injuring
a negro brakeman.
The freight train was northbound
and was making about 30
miles an hour. Engineer Fickling
said he felt the engine rock and
applied the brakes. The locomotive
steadied and then plunged
from the track. The care .composing
the train piled one on the
er commodities promiscuously,
er commodities promiscucsuly.
Four tank cars of gasoline were
in the train and the impact broke
the tanks loose from the trucks.
Holes were torn in the tanks and
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iuc K?nuuue ran iroin tnein in
numerous streams. Fortunately
the wreckage did not catch fire.
Pasaeoger trains Nos. 27 and 32
transferred passengers at the
wreck Wednesday afternoon. The
track was cleared this morning
and both northbound and southbound
passenger trains passed on
time. Tan
Cant Gasoline?
The Monroe Enquirer tells of
the recent visit to that city of E.
W. Stevens of New York, who is
the ^entor of "trioxylene."
Stevens predicts, according to the
Monroe paper, that within a year
will sell for 10 bents * |
gallon' as a result of his invention.
According to his statement
a plant in Louisville is now turning
out 40,000 gallons pf "trioxt
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yieue ; a amy mad that it costs
only 3 centii a gallon to produce
it and that It ic as good as gasoline*
for Motor cars and will he.
sold; as gasoline. "All the oil refiners
will eventually, and Very,
soon, in fact, he patting oat the
new OMfter fuel," Stevens paid.
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TURK8 REGAIN THRACE.
Scourge of Tff&nkind Again Given
Foothold in Europe.
-^Return'to-Turkey of a portion
of eastern Thrace, as forecast
in recent dispatches, to be
added to Constantinople, at present
the only European territory
remaining to Turkey, recalls how
Thrace has been constantly the
shuttlecock to that city's battledore.
whether itc n?in,. t>??
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zantium, Constantinople or Stamboul,"
says a bulletin by the National
Geographic society.
"Thrace has expanded and
contracted down the ages as a
desert pool does in rainy and
dry seasons. To the ancient
Greeks it was a huge area?'the
home of the 'North Wind*?comprising
all of the eastern half of
the Turkey of pre-Balkan wa.
days and practically the whole
of Bulgaria as well. To the Romans
of the west 11 was only tin
portion south of the Balkans, an i
to the Byzantines it was once as
extensive as Greece and later a
small, intimate region stretching
westward from the capital.
"The Turks may well take
heart at regaining control of
eastern Thrace, for the replacing
of this region under their control
cannot fail to recall the happenings
of nearly GOO years ago. The
tirst Turks to live on the European
side of the straits were
brought over by one of the decadent
rulers ol^the Eastern empire
before BJ5U as mercenary
soldiers to fight against his Bulgarian
and Serbian enemies in
i hrace. Those Asiatics, through
their military operations, became
thoroughly laminar with 1 harcc
und e\eu Macedonia. in order
that he might have his hired soldiers
close at hand, Emperor
.John VI committed the filial folly
of bringing their families over
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una esiuuusmug a miiuary colony
in Thrace. They never returned
to Asia.
"Eastern Thrace?the same re.gion
which it is now pro nosed 10
return to Turkey?wus the 'inch'
which in the next few hundred
years Turks built into the 'ell'
of their great European empire,
at one time extending over the
whole Balkan peninsuiu and almost
to the gates of Vienna.
Queeerly enough, however, the
Turkish empire in Europe grew
to embrace all Thrace and Bulgaria
before it absored Constantinople.
For more than a centupv
the Byzantine empire was little
more than the city of Constantinople,
but it hung on with its imperial
luxury chiefly because of
its prestige while the Turkish
mushroom grew about it. During
this period Adriauople in
Thrace was the Turkish capital.
Finally the impetuous Mohammed
11 became sultan und determined
to put an end to the fiction
of the Byzantine empire. He
captured Constantinople in 1453.
"Thrace as the term has been j
interpreted since the World war, I
is like a deformed pear with two
tapering stem ends. The central
bulge lies north of the roots of
the Uallipoli peninsula. The eastcm
narrow end lies between tiie
black sea and the Sea of Marmora;
the western end is s^ueez^d
between the Aegean .seu and
the Bulgarian border, wnic.i dips
far southward there. The Treat/
of 'Sevres, which attempted to
dispose of the Turkish empire,
gave Greece all of Thrace except
a little section across the eastern
stem, including Constantinople
and its immediate environs.
Greeec was thus to own the
whole European coast of the Sea
of Marmora and a coast line of
50 miles on the Black sea.
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the European frontier of Turkey
would run not across the narrow
peninsula near Constantinople,
but some 75 miles farther west.
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^hulge of Thrace. Turkey
would thus regain a European
territory of some 3,000 square
miles, more than half the European
coast of the Sea of Marmora,
and the entire Eropean
Black Sea coast south of the Bulgarian
border. But the alteration
of the treaty would not restore
the straits to Turkey. These
waters, as important perhaps as
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STATE GOES OVER.
Cooperative Cotton Association
- Assured for South Carolina.
Over 400.000 bales of cotton
were signed to the cotton cooperative
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1 ami the organization of the
South Carolina Cotton Growers'
Cooperative association is now
assured. Announcement to this
effect was made at the headquarters
of the association in Columbia
Monday night.
A total of 408.000 bales had
been signed by Saturday night,
April 29, and reports from over
the State indicated that between
10.000 and 15.000 bales were
signed Monday, so that approximately
425.000 bales have been
signed in all. but it will be several
days before the tabulation is
completed.
Announcement that the quota
of bales for the State had been
secured was gratifying to the
large number of workers and
farmers interested in the campaign.
There also was much interest
in the campaign in other
States and many telegrams were
received at the headquarters of
the association from North Carolina,
Georgia. Texas, Alubama,
and other States in the cotton
belt which have already either
organized for the cooperative
marketing of the staple or arc in
the process of organization.
The latest reports obtainable
indicate that there were about
17.000 bales of cotton signed up
in York county in the cooperative
campaign which closed Monday.
The quota for the county
was about 1,200 bales less than
the 17.OIK). In Fort Mill township
something like 1.000 bales, or
one-third the normal crop, was
pledged to the cooperative marketing
association.
Now Fort Mill Citizen.
Fort Mill gained a valued citizen
Tuesday when (.'apt. Elliott
White* Springs moved from Lancaster
into the old White mansion.
the home of his maternal
ancestors for the greater
part of the last century. Iiaving.
heen built by his greatgrandfather.
the late Col. Win. E. White,
in 1832. The building presents a
decidedly different appearance
today to what it did some months
ago. however, when workmen began
converting it into one of the
most modern home# to he found
in this section. When it was
occupied by ('apt. Springs for
the first time this week he found
both the interior and exterior of
the building practically complete,
although there is yet considerable
work to be done 011 the
grounds and the swimming pool,
a short distance away. The im- '
piovements recently made to the
home by Capt. Springs represent
an expenditure of several thousand
dollars.
Moore Held in Asheville?
A man thought to be Frank
Moore, who escaped from the
county chaingung two years ago ^
whilp Kprvinir >? ten vear sell
tonce for * complicity in killing
Policeman T. R. Penninger of
Sharon, has just been arrested in .
Asheville, N. (\, and is being held
pending identification. Sheriff
Quinn is in communication with
the Asheville authorities and will
send a deputy there to identify
the suspect if further facts appear
to warrant.
High School Honor Roll.
The honor roll of the Fort Mill .
high school for the month of
April is as follows:
Sixth Grade?Mary Garrison,
Pinley Lee, Garland Dyches, John
Bennett.
Seventh Grade?Faulkner Parks
Ninth Grade?Mamie Lee Phillips.
Tenth Grade?Stephen Parks,
Allan Parks. Karle Steele.
Better to be square, young
.man, than a rounder.
any in the world, would remain
under international control; the
| Gullipoli .peninsula, commanding
the Dardanelles, would continue
to be occupied by international
.forces, and international
garrisons would be placed along ?
the new and longer frontier between
Turkey and Grecoe."
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