Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 28, 1922, Image 1
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rBrtabHihad 1891.
SOAD CONTRACT LET.
Fort Mill Township Highways to
So Improved.
The Fort Mill township bond
commission, composed of Messrs.
T. 15. Sprat t, W. 15. Meacham and
W,"H. crook, meeting Monday afternoon,
awarded the contract
tor grading and top-soiling the
Sti-ci Creek road from the northern
limits of Fort Mill to the
North Carolina line, a distance
of approximately four miles, and
for the two miles of road leading
4 from the southern section of town
ir to ttailes' bridge which is also
ttfk ha <vXiiiLiil 4 ? % T
vv vl giuui u <11111 mjJ-SUill'U, IU O.
; W llouseal of Wmusboro, the
contract price being $21,600.
: 'Ihere were a umber of biddem
foi the work and Mr. llouseal
secured the contract by* bidding
only $40 less for the entire job
than another bidder.
Following the announcement
that he had been awarded the
contract, Mr. llouseal stated that
it wus his purpose to begin wovtc
on the roads within ten duys or
T\?<A U'Anlro uml Oiul I... J ?...
ploy two construction forces, one
oil the "Steel Creek roud uml the
other on the Bailes' bridge road.
The Jaudon Engineering cotup.ii:y
of Elborton, tia., is the engineering
firm euployed by the commission
to see that the work is
done according to contract.
The announcement that these
important roads are to be improved
will be gratifying news,
especially to the eastern section
of the county, and wheii The work
is completed many people living
just across the hue in Mecklenburg
county who now go e're
where to buy their farm a??d
household supplies are expected
to coine to Fort Mill for that purpose.
The improved road to
Bailes' bridge connecting York
m and Lancaster counties also is expected
to prove of considerable
value, heretofore -unknown, in a
business w?v.
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In connection with the award
ot the contract for the improvement
of the Steel Creek road, Col.
T. B. Sprat t, chairman of 1##
coiuaOfSSthn, stated that while
there would perhaps be disappointment
that the commission
did not &*&o usk for bids for improving
the road through the
Gold Hill section, the understanding
was that the Gold Hill road
was a part of the north und
south highway to be taken care
, oi by the county authorities tinker
the provisions of the Stewart
road law.
^Candidates Two Yfears Hence.
44 Although the 1922 State Democratic
primary for State officers
is less than two weeks bel ind'us
and the next primary will not be
held until August, 1924, politi'
cians in Columbia have already
befrun to tullr of nniiBiltlo nmwli- I
dates in the next race for the
governorship and for the seat in
the United States senate now
held by Senator Dial, whose successor
will be chosen two years
hence,'* a day or two ago said a
State senator from the central
part of the State. "One of the
leaders of the Blease forces said
:lo?me within the last week."continued
the senator, "that Bleaso
htmaelf would not again be a candidate
for governor, but that he
and his friends were sure to in\
sist upon Congressman Fred Domiuick
making the race against
McLeod two years hence.
"Another thing these Columbia
politicians are saying is that
Congressman Jim Byrnes of the
Aiken district will enter the race
againat Senator Dial ;and that I
Congressman W. F. Stevenson of
th? Fifth district also is expected
^ to become a candidate to succeed'
Bene tor Dial."
da Two Hon Tax Days.
After today only two days re^
have^ no^
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WEEVIL RUINS OROP.
J. T. aFin, former editor and
publisher of the Rock Hill Evening
Herald, has just returned to
Rock Hill from an automobile
trip to points^tn Georgia, where
he gathered considerable information
concerning the growing
of cbttou under boll weevil conditions.
Speaking of his trip, Mr.
Fain said:
,1'The best cotton I saw in this
State or in Georgia was in Spartanburg,
Greenville and Anderson
counties. The crops around
tHartwell,.Ga., were the best that
I saw anywhere in Georgia. The
crops around Rock Hill look better
than the crops ill middle Geor
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giu, wnere me uou weevil uamage
appears to have reached the
maximum.
"Coweta county, Ga., situated
southwest of Atlanta, is a fair index
to conditions in middle
Georgia. Their record crop was
about 45,000 bales. In 1920 the
crop was about 00,000 bales, last
year it was 88.000 bales and this
year it will not be more "than
4.000 or 5,000 bales. 1 gathered
this information from the best
farmers and cotton men in the
county. The general conditions
brought about by this slump in
I iu cotton production are, in an
' agricultural sense, disastrous. A
number of fertilizer plunts, oil
mills, cotton buyers and cotton
warehouses have gone out of business
and the effect is being felt
iu all lines of business. This section
of Georgia is now feeling the
full force of the weevil."
In some sections of Georgia
where the weevil first put in its
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oj'l'cai unuc Kume ox uic iarmers
told Mr. Fain they find that they
can grow cotton under weevil
conditiouH by duating with calcium
arsenate according to the directions
of the United States department
of agriculture expert.
-He aw-ill otre fleTd where the
calcium arsenate was not used
not so Auch as a 10 per cent crop
l^ill be made while the fields
treated with the poison show a
normal growth.
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Town Hall Dilapidated.
"1'ossibly it is uot one of .the
really serioua matters of the day.
but 1 should like to have The
Times call attention to the dilapidated
appearance of the Main
street side of the town hall," yesterday
said a Fort Mill citizen.
"A number-of lights have been
broken out of the windows and
for the sake of the uppearance ol
the haH if for no other reason
they ought to be replaced. 1 do
not know whether the military
company, which uses the hall as
an armory, is responsible for the
missing lights or not, but 1 suspect
that it is, and if this suspicion
is well founded, the military
company should see that new
lights are put in at once."
Chicken Thief Dropped $000.
William Schrock, a farmer o!
Listie, Pa., entered hi* chicken
house one morning recently and
discovered that 30 of his best
fowls had disappeared. lie found
a large leather pocketbook under
a window where the thief evidently
had entered. Opening the
pocketbook Hchrock was amaaed
to find it packed full of bills. The
man who took the chickens >iad
left behind $91)0.
A few d^ys later a claimant
for the money communicated
with Shrock. The owner was a
...A|t I -!a m 1? ?
wc? Knowii citizen 01 ine neigoborhood.
He asked. Schrqck to
U>ke out a reasonable suui for the
chickens and send the'balance to
him. Shrock wants a, different
kj.djof settlement, however, and
the matter may get into the
cotfrts..
Hem Tested Strong Drink.
While he was in. Fort Mill
Tuesday, Governor Harvey stated
to a citizen of Jfce* town that he
htd never tasted either whiskey
or wine. "I hope I am noffanatioal
in my opposition to. strong
drink," said* the governor, "but
1 am at least -consistent uwmy. attitude
toward it, 1 have yet to
ee the. man who wvto benefited
socially, morally, financially or
?th?nrt? bjr drnktoa wWrtay."
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MEWS OP YOEK COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Pound
in Ihe Yorkville Enquirer.
i If you live in Clover and own
i a dog you must keep the dog 'tied
i up iii ihe yard somewhere* or else
take chances of having your dog
; shot by Hie police, for me town'
council has passed an ordinance,
. already eftective, that all dogs
must be tied up for a period of 1*0
i days aud the policemen have or.
ders to shoot and kill all dogs
. that are running at large.
[. Thus far few citizens of Clover
lave registered to vote irn the
. election to be held next month on
. the question of issuiug bonds to
build a sewer system for ^ "the
? town. Less than 25 people have
, registered, it is stated. There is
nothing surprising about it, however,
tor the reason that the
great majority of the citizens of
, Clover are already qualified to
, vote in the coining election.
Mrs._W. AC Steele, the oldest
white resident ot \erkvilie, ceiei
orated her SHlih birthday last Friday.
Despite her advanced year*
Mrs. St.eeie enjoys good health
and has use 01 ner mental 'and
physical iaculties to a degree
i o jtial to that which might be ex
,reeled of a much jounger person,
airs. Steele was enrolled to vote
.11 the recent primary election
and is able to attend church services
quite regularly.
Mr. S. E. Atkins of York No.
b brought to the Yorkville Enquirer
office Wednesday two
. stalks of tall corn, the tallest
measuring lb feet 4 inches from
roots to tassel. Each stalk carritd
two ears, fully developed in
, the cuse of one, and but ouiy partially
developed in the case or th ?
other. Mr. Atkius explained that
the corn was grown oil first year
new ground, but he could not account
for the unusual height of
it, which, he says, exceeds ??.tythiitg
he has ever seen.
Of sniM'iul intoroat 1a tho >>... 11 _
oers oi the Presbyterian denwidiu-uou
throughout the couu'y is
ihe announcement that the fciynou
ol' the Presbyterian church ot
south Carolina la to couveue 111
t'urity Presbyterian church, Chester,
on 'iussday, October 3, and
wilt remain in session through
October b. Approximately 2<?u
nmisters and eiucrs are expected
o attend the meeting. The open.11
g sermon is to be delivered b>
tie v. .Jus, H. Green L*. L>., of tlte
chair of: theology ot i olumbia
seminary, Columbia. '
The Clover section oi the couu
try is perfectly safe, 111 the opinion
oi M. Lt. h'ord, venerable
'foage of Clover." According to
Mr. rortl, "about the oniy inuig
wrong ia that a lot of people who
are not working ought to go to
work. The cotton crop is going
to be a little short, but still it is
going to be a pretty good crop.
i'in selling my crop as fast as 1.
pick it, as 1 usually do. 1 notice
that a lot of farmers are coming
to town, selling their cotton,
Mopping at a hot dog stand and
gciung a hot dog or two and a
*ott drmk and whistling as they
return home. Things could be a
, tot worse and I've seen 'em a lot
worse." c
Charged with the abandonment
of his wife;-Mrs. Essie Boone, C.
A. Boone, a textile machinist Of
Rock Hill, was arrested in that
I town Monday and later released
on bond of $1,000 after he he'd
been brought to Yorkville to be
committed to jail. The -abandoned
wife, Mrs. Essie Boone, a rather
attractive looking young woman,
was in Yorkville Tuesday to
eenanlt an attorney in connection
with the warrant against her hus[
-band. She is said to have stated
ttyttlltibe expected to prosecute
h4r husband to- the full extent of
the law# It- is charged that Boone
has been living in Iloek Hill with
a n ... . ? m ?_!- 'M -
a frvuiiui^n^M^OI QUI W1W.
Anderson Production Increased.
Continued prosperity in the automobile
industry is forecast by
an announcement just issued , by
[ Anderson, president of ihe<
Anderson .Motor eonpny. Rock
liill, to the effect that,the pro
duetion schedule on the new An{
derson ear will be.increased to
10,000 cars during the next IS
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- CUTIOTBES FABMBBS.
B.-M. In ' Thinks Tbay Show
l*oor Business Judgment.
Editor Fort Mill Times:
For all the good it will do, the 1
writer- may as well sign his name
io .three blau* pages. Nevertheless,
1 shall state a tact or two lor
the ^people to think over, especially
the farmers. On every hand
1 hear it being discussed as to
whether the farmers are blind,
meah or just plain fools. They j
certainly have little business abil
lty or they would change the or- i
del of world affairs promptly.
The writer does not mean anything
personal, and the world
fcilows and acknowledges that the
great ineu of the ages have, as a
rule, come from the farms, and
even today a few of the best and
braihinest men of the country
were born and country bred. 1
am speaking of the agricultural
population as a class.
Tfcfe men of money never cease
to wonder why, with the world
for his field, that the farmer does
not take better care of himself.
Why, for instance, will he persist
in raising too much of one thing
and not euough of another, anu
then permit New York robbers to
icll him what he shall have for
his products?
Tlje Southern cotton farmer in
particular is the laughing stock
of the nation. When he swears,
day after day, that his cotton has
a ?a ft J . 4 a
oven ournea up or eaten up oy
weeyils, or some other calamity
overtakes it, New York ami the
cotton mills give him the horse
augh ami call him a liar and
sell the market. They have the
cotton planter's record before
them for the last 40 yeurs, and i
that record is not sincere and
honorable. They know the cotton
farmer's brain works back* |
ward. They know that when he
swear* Lb a-acreage will be re- {
dnced it will be increased. They'
ki.ow that a cotton farmsr's signature
to certain reduction pledges
is not worth the paper it is
written 011. '
Wall street never can understand
why that if and when a
farmer breaks his word to one
pledge he will keep it on another.
Kvery year at harvest time the
"fool farmer" brings -his cotton
to town and fusses und cusses if
ihe market is 25 cents, but he
will sell it just the same at 15
cents. He made up hi6 mind
(.what little he has) before he left
noine that the cotton was to be
sold?and he knows as his old
ir.ule gets in sight 6f town that
the cotton is same as sojd. And
eotton mefi know it, and New
York knows it, and England
knows it. To' fay mind it is one
of the myterles of the ages.
Why fight the boll weevil!
Had it not beeu for the weevif
last year, and this, from the Rio
Grande river to the Atlantic ocean
cotton today could hardly have
been sold for 5 cents per pound.
Think over that fact aud see
if you can figure out where the
far mors have any brains as a
class. He knows what he ought
to do, but each farmer mistrusts
the other?eaeh tries to "put
something ovef" on the other,
with the result that they all wind
up euming Wall street and every,
thing in general when they themselves
have palled down their
own heu&e.
But ^what's the use! It is to
ltngh. The "fool, cotton farmer"
wet shall hate with us always.
What's, the use of the world beinn
. urru "
ww*? j avi ovsuc uuc n uu
haan'iisenoe enough to help himself
?nd who won't stand by his
written of spoken word f . How
long would a merchant or a cotton
-buyer or a mill man stay in
business if he forgot his written
pledges, or notes, or spoken
woodsT So don't ask him to hold
hk'jottoit or to reduce his sereage?4ie
thinks there'a a trick in
it. -Bother let hw| stand in the
dgasaMgra and on the corners and
?gfs%*kis pipe and get kia eottPn]
aayshsap 0 yen ean. That'a what
he'dde to you if he eonld. Ho la
easy to outwit, and he is never
happy ?aleas he ia having a' hard
thy
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I Willkun H. Armstrong Dead.
I Another of the few Confederate
veterans of the Fort Mill
community passed to his reward
{shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday
! morning when William II. Armstrong
died at the home of his
'son/J. E. Armstrong, with whom
he had made his home for the
last 20. years. Mr. Armstrong
had been ill for only a few days.
His death was caused by an attack
of influenza. As late as Saturday
morning he was about the
house and ate breakfast apparently
in his usual health. Mr.
Armstrong was in his 87th year
and had spent all his long life
in the Fort M>U community except
the years he was in the Confederate
army as a member of the
Sixth South Carolina regiment.
He had been a member of the
Methodist church for more than
half a century and the funeral
services were conducted from St.
John's church Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock by his pastor,
the Rev. W. R. Bouknight, interment
following in the city
cemetery.
Mr. Armstrong is survived by
three sons, W. C. Armstrong, J.
11 Armatrntior on/1 .1 V. A rill
strong. He was a brother of the
late J. M. Armstrong, who died a
few months ago. - Mr. Armstrong
had many friends who will regret
to learn of his death.
Fort Mill Boys Defeat C. U. 8.
The football team of the Fort
Mill high school went to Charlotte
Tuesday .afternoon for its"
iirst game ot the season with the
charlotte University school and
o.v superior playing defeated the
city boys, 18 to 0. The Charlotte
Observer of Wednesday morning
printed the following account oi
ilie game: i
"doe Median's C. S. U. eleven
took its second licking of the season
yesterday at the hands of the
Fort Mill iirglm, 18" to (1, though
.lit* I ncil I nrMn iiDhnnI Imlu nnt iin
- ?- f - v I' MVMWK auvta j/ui ?ij?
a .far better exhibition of footoali
ihun 011 their first appearance.
A large crowd saw the
game at Independence park.
'" l lie visiting lads played u
better brand of ball, having more
experienced material and thereoy
better team work, and managed
to stave off a touchdown on
ihe one-yard line.
"With the ball in their possession
and four downs to go, the. locals
met a stiff opposition 011 the
part of the visitors and lost the
ball 011 downs under _ the goal'
posts. While there were other op*
pot unities to score, this was the
oest that presented itself."
Age of St. John's Church.
Doubt has arisen in the minds
of a number of the older citizens
of Fort Mill as to the accuracy of
(he date 011 the cornerstone of
St. John's Methodist churcn
which bears the figures "1882"
as the year in which the church
was organized. Asked yesterday
about the matter, an officer of
the church said the records of
the church" in possession of the
congregation did not go farther
back thaif 1882 and that it was
from these records the date of the
organization of the church was
taken.
A citizen of the town who has
lived here many years said he
remembered distinctly attending
a3 a little boy - the Sunday school
of St. John's church as far back
as 1879 and that he was confident
the original church building of
the congregation in which the
Sunday school was then held,
and which occupied the site of
the home on Clebourne street in
which T. F. Lytle and his family
now live, was erected not later
than 1875 of 1876.
Fourth Mill for Clover?
With Clover's third cotton mill,
the Hampshire, now under construction,
there is talk of still an.iL
iii a ai a rpu ~ aaII.
uuicr liuii lor me tuwit. inc iai?
is that the fdurth. mill will be
built by the same company that
is bulding the Hampshire and
that it will occupy a site where
the Hawthorn mill baseball park
now' is.
pray God bleas him, for "all-cotton
farmers" are.in a. fix.
B. M. Lee.
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I QOVXKNOK HARVBY-HMUS.
IState's Executive Visits Fort Mill
Tuesday Morning.
Fort Mill had the honor of entertaining
for about an hour
Tuesday morning Governor Wilson
G. Harvey and Mrs. Harvey,
who were returning to Columbia
from the Made-in-Carolinas exposition
in Charlotte. During their
stay in Fort Mill, Governor Harvey
made a fehort address to the '
pupils of the graded school. He
was introduced by Arthur C. Ly i~
? -* -
m-, mnvur 01 ine town ana also
a member of the governor's staff.
In his remarks to the school
children Governor Harvey stressed
the opportunities they have to
secure an education and urged
them to look to the future by .
making their school days count
for something material in the life
before them as citizens of the
State. Even the smaller school
children seemed to appreciate the
' fact thut an unusual honor was
being paid the school by the presence
ami address of the governor
and the closest attention was paid
to what he said. Both at the outset
and at the conclusion of his re*
marks. Governor Harvey was libeially
applauded.
At the conclusion of Governor
Harvey's address, Mrs. Harvey
was introduced by Mrs. J. B. Elliott
and in a few words she expressed
her appreciation of the
reception tendered the governor
and herself.
f ollowing tne visit of Uovernor
and Mrs. Havey to t lie
and Mrs. Harvey to the the
school, they were entertained for
a few minutes by Dr.. J. B. Elliott
and Mrs. Elliott at their home.
Governor Harvey there recalled
to Mrs. Elliott that he and her
father, the late Rev. J. H. Thoruwell,
1). L)., had been closely-associated
some years ago as officers
of the grand lodge, Knights
of Pythias of South Carolina, and
said that he and Mrs. Harvey
frund peculiar pleasure in visiting.
if only for a short time,, at
tlie home of the daughter of his
e. teemed friend of former days.
Already known and admired in
Tort Mill for the reputatiou he is
making as one of the best goveirors
the State has had in years,
many citizens of the town welcomed
the opportunity Goyeror
Harvey's visit here gave them to
become acquainted with him and
Ik was kept busy during much
of his stay here shaking hands.
Governor and Mrs. Harvey left
in their car for Columbia at 12
o'clock Tuesday, going by way of
Camden.
The Condition of Cotton.
The report of J. W. Jay & Co., .
New York cotton merchants, up
to September 17 shows an average
percentage condition for the
Cnited States of 49.5. The condition
for South Carolina is put at
140.3, which is next to the lowest
(on the list, that of Georgia being
40.2. The average indicated yield
per acre is 137.8 pounds. The
yield in 1914 ran "as high as 209.2
per acre.
The report carries the following
additional information as to
the crop in South Carolina:
"One week early to one week
late. Weather hot and dry, causing
premature ppening. No top
crop expected. Lint yield per
sere light. Expect completion of
picking November 1, while in
many counties picking will be
completed by October 15. Frost
on average date will have no
marked effect. Yield disappointing
compared with original expectations.
Weevil has been very
destructive. General prospect
bad."
Corn Crop Also Short.
York county farmers are much
concerned over the shortness of
the corn crop which is almost M
M i a _ - _ ?
iiar ufiow me average as'.M ine
I cotton crop. The corn trpp of *
the county this year will be only
60 per cent of normal, in the opinion
of John B. Blair, county demonstration
agent who is conversant
with the outlook.
The decreased corn yield man*
that hundreds of Ysfk county
farmers will be forced-to buy *
corn next year. And buying corn *
from boll weevil cotton is poor *
business, say many farmers.
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