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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
HOW YORK DISTRICT VOTED
HALF A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

While looking through some
old papers of his father, the late
A. G.. Sutton, one day last week,
Mr.. S. P. Sutton discovered a
tabulated statement of the
Official Vote of York District,
October 9Th and 9th, 1861" The
statement is interesting in many
respects. Among other things,
it shows there were 2, 420 voters
who participated in the election
at the 20 precincts in York dis
trict, now York county, and that
the election consumed two days
instead of one, as is now the Gus
tom. Candidates were voted for
for the State senate, house of
representatives, ordinary and tax
collector. The candidates for the
senate were Robert G.. McCaw
and VIM. B. Wilson, the latter
the father of w. B. Wilson, Sr.,
of Rock Hill. Mr.. McCaw re-
ceived 1, 384 votes to 1,036 for
Mr.. Wilson. There were ten
candidates for the house of
representatives, four for ordi-
nary and fourteen for tax COL
lector. Probably not one of the
thirty candidates is now alive.
The largest vote polled at any
precinct in the district was at
Yorkville, where 808 electors
cast their ballots. The heavy
vote at Yorkville probably was
due to the fact that the election
laws at the time entitled the
voter to cast his ballot at any
point in the district and it was
the custom of many citizens to
go to the court house to vote.
Shiloah was the second largest
voting precinct in the county,
with a total vote of 149, while
Fort Mills was third with 143
votes. At Rock Hill there were
123 votes polled. Many of the
voting precincts of 1860 have
either been abolished or the
names have been changed, as
the following list of the pre-
cincts at that time, compared
with the precincts of today, will
show:
Yorkville, Allison's, Brattons-
Vile, Boydton, Coates Tavern,
Clinton's, Clark's Store, Clay
Hill, Ebenezerville, Feemster's
Fort Mills, Kerr's, Kings
Mountain, Loves, Moore's, Nc
Connellsville, Rock Hill, Shiloah,
Smiths, Wylie's Store.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
COLE BLEASE WINS
The GOVERNORSHIP

With over $4,000 votes out of
probably 10000 accounted for,
returns from the second Demo
cratic primary in South Carolina
Tuesday indicate the nomination
of Cole l.. Blease, of Newberry,
for governor over C. C. Feather
stone, of Laurens, by less than
5000 majority.
For railroad commissioner, Nc
Duffie Hampton has a lead of
1000 over Cansler of Tirzah.
Moore is 10000 ahead of Rich
ardson for adjutant general.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
Would Drive Mules : Washington.

If ] an = Led speaker of the
neN. house of representatives, |
will drive a team of Missouri
mules down Pennsylvania av-
enue."
The foregoing is the promise
Congressman Champ Clark, Dem
ocratic leader, made to a crowd
of visitors at the homecoming
celebration in Moberly, Mo-,
Thursday in the course of an ad-
dress: The promise pleased the
crowd and for several minutes
the speaker was unable to pro-
ceed with the speech owing to
the cheering and yelling.
Missouri has taken a back
seat too long," he said. I'VE
have done the work and the
other fellows have gotten TIE
glory. Missouri has never had
president, a vice president, a
justice Of the supreme court, or
speaker of the house. 1t is
time we had all of these officers
and I'm going to see to it that
we get one of them right away. ,"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
SHORT COTTON CROP l9O9-'lO
THE MOST PROFITABLE OF ALL

Notwithstanding the fact that
the cotton crop of 19O9-'1O was
3,216. 600 bales less than that of
1908 '09, the statement is made
IN the last report of Secretary
Hester of the New Orleans cot
ton exchange that the value of
the last crop was more than
$95, 900, 600 in excess of the crop
OF two years ago and that it far
surpassed that of any previous
crop in the history of the coun-
try. This does not include the
value of cotton seed, which. if
added, would show the actual
Wealth-producing capacity of the
Southern cotton lands for the
commercial season just closed to
have been 1902, 1914, 600, a gain
over 1908 '09 OF $127, 100, 900.
According to the report, the
grade of the crop was good,
averaging practically strict mid
ding" " bare shade under last
year. The average price of
middling cotton for the year is
placed at 14.37 cents per pound.
and the commercial value of the
bales at $73. Al, against $40. 46
last year, and $3.50 the year
before.
The report places the actual
growth at 10, $4,000 bales, and
says that as a result of the
high prices the interior has
practically been swept clean.
farmers having little or no old
cotton left over and Southern
mill stocks having been material
ly decreased.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
Pat Rogers in Trouble.

Pat Rodgers, Fort Mills clothes
cleaner, was taken to the county
Jail Thursday morning by Con-
stable Coltharp as a result of a
difficulty he had Tuesday after
noon with Truman Magill, 15-
year-old son of Mr.. G. B. Magill,
in which the boy was slightly
cut about the neck with a pocket
knife. A warrant was sworn
out before Magistrate McElhaney
by Mr.. Magill for Pats arrest
charging assault and battery of a
high and aggravated nature. Pat
was arrested at once and at the
preliminary hearing Wednesday
morning he was bound over to
the circuit court in the sum of
5000. Being unable to secure a
bondSman, Pat was taken to jail.
The difficulty between Pat and
the Magill boy seems to have
come about as a result of a
number of boys hiding Pats
coat. When he discovered the
coat, he struck at the Magill
boy with the coat and a pocket
knife which was open in one
of the pockets cut the boy about
the neck. 1t is stated that Pat
had the knife open in his pocket
expecting trouble with man
with whom he had just had a
difficulty.
But Pats tenure of a part of
the county jail was short lived.
He got out Saturday morning.
When Mr.. w. B. Meacham re-
turned to town Thursday night
from a trip to New York and
learned of Pats trouble he fur
nished the bond for Pats release
and Pat came home Saturday
morning, apparently not half
done up for the short stay in Jail.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
Finds Germ of Pellagra?

DR.. G. H. Lavinder, who spent
many weeks in South Carolina
investigating the causation of
pellagra, a disease first recog-
niZed as prevailing in America
by Drs. Watson and Babcock, of
Columbia, has written from
Europe, as he was sailing for
home, a note saying that after a
hard summers work he believes
he has made discoveries which
will enable the public health and
marine hospital service to isolate
the pellagra germ and determine
its source.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
Survey for Waterworks.

At the September meeting of
town council, held last Tuesday
evening, impetus was given the
proposed waterworks system for
Fort Mill by accepting the offer
of an Atlanta firm of civil engin-
eers to make a survey of the
town and furnish detailed
statement of the cost of the
plant. The engineers have been
Informed of the abtion of council
and it is expected that the sur
vey will be made at once.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
Winter on the Way.

There has been breath of
autumn in the air for several
mornings, and one was almost
minded to look out of the win
dow for traces of frost. Of
course, there weren't any, but
one could feel that summer was
all but ended, and the next thing
was to prepare for frosts and per-
haps SHOWS, for they are only a
few weeks off. One can hear
the solemn prediction in the
rustic of the dry leaves, in the
suntiowers growing old and in
the sparrow fledgling getting big
and saucy.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
Would Have Col. Brock Reappointed


Capt. t. B. Spratt of the Fort
Mill Light Infantry is one of a
number of South Carolina Nation
al Guard officers who have
signed letter of recommends
ton indorsing Assistant Adjutant
General w. T. Brock for re-
appointment. 1t will be recalled
that charges were preferred
against Col. Brock by Adjutant
General Boyd some months ago
and that a court of inquiry in
vestigated the charges. The
findings of the court were sub
mitted to Governor Ansel, but
he has taken no action.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
School Building Ready October S.

Work on the new building for
the Fort Mill graded school is
moving along at a rapid rate and
the building committee is hope
full that it will be finished and
ready for occupancy not later
than October 5. The present
quarters of the school, in the
old academy building, are over
crowded with 200 pupils and all
are looking forward with pleas
ure to the day when the new
building is turned over to the
trustees for the use of the school.
Aside from the fact that the
new building will be more suited
to the needs of the school, it is
more centrally located than the
old school house and in this
respect will prove a great con-
venience to a majority of the
pupils.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
In and Around Clover.
Fort Mill Times CORRESPONDENCE.


Clover, Sept. 13.-The young
people of Bethany gave play,
THE Deacon, at the Clover
opera house Tuesday night, Sep
tember 6, for the benefit of Beth
any high school. There was a
big crowd in attendance.
The Clover high school opened
Monday under the supervision of
Prof. Span.
The Bethany high school, of
Clover, routes l and a, opens
Wednesday with Prof w. M. Nc
Craven, of Gaffney, as principal.
Harry Neil leaves this week
for the University of Virginia to
take up his third years course
in medicine.
The road forces are now at
work sanding and claying Kings s
Mountain road.
Misses Ruth McGill and Ethel
Pearce leave tomorrow for Due
West to attend the 1901 ses-
sion of Due West Female college.
Mr.. Kirk Foster met with a
painful accident last Thursday
while saving shingles. He LEI
his hand slip, saving off one OF
his fingers and cutting several
others very badly. J. L. r.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
The Piedmont.

The greatest section of the
South is the Piedmont section Of
the Carolinas-that country lying
between Charlotte, N. c., and
Anderson, S. c., says the Spar
tanburg Herald. There is a
wonderful future before this
region and the realization of our
fondest dreams of greatness
rests entirely with the people
who are here.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
UNUSUAL RETURNS PROMISED
ON FORT MILL TOWNSHIP FARM

Two hundred bales of cotton
ons15O acres of Fort Mill town
ship land may sound exaggera-
ted to those who have not seen
the farm of Mr.. Edgar Jones,
two miles west of town, but the
cotton is there on the acreage
Indicated, in the opinion of
dozens of as good farmers as
this section boasts. Not few
Of the more enthusiastic farmers
who have visited Mr.. Jones place
during the last fortnight say he
will make more than 200 bales.
Some place the yield as high as
250 bales. Whatever the yield,
the crop prospect on Mr.. Jones
plantation is a revelation to all
who see it, and it is doubtful
whether there is another such
cotton field in South Carolina out
side the Pee Dee section. Ger
tain it is that there is not a like
field in this section of the State.
And the land which promises such
an abundant yield is not consid-
cred more fertile than thousands
of other acres in the township.
Then, what means has Mr.. Jones
adopted to make three stalks of
cotton, each averaging half a
hundred bolls, grow where one
grew before whose burden was
less than a dozen bollS? To his
foresight in the liberal use of a
high-grade fertilizer and to the
skillful work of his superintend-
ent, Mr.. T. H. Merritt, in culti-
waiting the cotton is due the
promised extraordinary yield.
This is the first year Mr.. Mer-
ritt has had charge of Mr.. Jones
farming operations. Last year
the place was in charge of a
good farmer, but different meth
DDS were pursued in cultivating
the crop and the yield was not
above the average for this sec
tion. Last spring when the farm
ing operations of the year were
about to be begun, Mr.. Jones
and Mr.. Merritt had a consulta-
ton as to the brands of fertilizer
to use on the place and the con
clusion was reached that only the
best grade of nitrate of soda, fish
scrap, potash and Thomas phos-
phate would be put in. Accord
ingly, the fertilizer was ordered
in large quantities from whole
sale dealers in Charleston anc
the mixing was done under the
direction of Mr.. Merritt. This
work completed, an average o1
600 pounds to the acre was dis
tributed upon the land, and il
any finer fertilizer has ever beer
used in this section results dc
not show it. The cost per ton o.
the fertilizer, exclusive of the
expense of mixing, was little il
excess of the price paid by othel
Fort Mill farmers for the bes
grades of fertilizers, but thos,
who have observed the efficiency
of Mr.. Jones fertilizer agre,
that it is superior to anything
they have seen.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-09-15
State Ticket.
Record Cotton Prices.

Quoting the Associated Press
story of the recent advance in
the price of August cotton to
20 cents per pound as the highest
price the South's staple had
reached since the Civil war, The
Times, along with many other
newspapers, was led into mis-
statement of fact, to which
attention has been directed by
a number of it's farmer friends.
Twenty cents is not the after-the
war record price of the South S
chief staple as little investiga-
ton proves. The New York
World Almanac for 1909 gives
the following as the maximum
prices paid for cotton in America
since 1865:
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17

Orchard Linthicum, in New York
WORLDLY
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17

movement is expected to extend rap
idly through the West and South
west Wisconsin and Illinois are al
ready we'll organized, and the "conser-
walton" work is progressing in Ohio,
Indiana and other States. Early next
month a conservation convention will
be held in Texas, and by the time
Col. Roosevelt lands in New York
in June the National Association will
have been transformed from a paper
organization in-o a militant body,
with working committees in practi-
cally every State in the great West.
Conservation policies are to be crys-
talized, the concyete expression of
which is that "the best way to OBJ
serve all the interests of all the people
is to re-elect Theodore Roosevelt
President"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17

DR.. David Paulson of the Hinsdale
Sanitarium, a large Chicago Institu-
ton, which treats a great number of
victims of alcohol, says: Every sec
ond or third home is afflicted by the
drink curse, and in the last four years
more persons have died from alcohol
ism than were sacrificed in the Civil
War" Yet in the coming municipal
campaign you will hear people talking
about the business advantages" of a
wide-open town. And there will be
others still who at prayer time and
on Sundays, and before their wives
and daughters condemn a wide-open
town, who will go to the polls and
cast their ballots for men notorious
for their wide-open ways, and who, if
elected, will run the town wide-open
just as naturally as a duck takes to
water
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17
ENDORSES DIR. DONALD.
Editor News:

Editor News:
We see Mayor Donalds name fire.
quently mentioned for Governor and
for Congressman from this District
AS to the Doctors attitude toward
such proposition we are not in
formed, but hope soon to hear from
him. We have canvassed the situa-
ton in other localities apart from
Hattiesburg, and find a growing senti-
ment In his favor for Representative
in the Lower House of Congress. The
Doctor has made good of his own bus
mess, also as mayor for two terms
considering the panic and the wonder
full growth, and the building of a city
OF $4,000 people in so short a period,
with so little to do with, and we
would be glad to see him further hon.
ored.
What say you Doctor?
The demand is insistent; let us
near from you; and If you cannot ac-
cept let's set at rest further demands.
IL favorable to you, we want to line
up for the contest VOTER.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17
dad, HERE'S TO YOU"

We happened in a home the other
night and over the parlor door saw
the legend worked in letters of red
What is Home Without a Mother?"
Across the room was another brief,
God Bless Our Home"
Now, what's the matter with God
Bless Our Dad?" He gets up early,
lights the fire, boils an egg and wipes
off the dew of the dawn with his boots
while many mother is sleeping He
makes the weekly handout for the
butcher, the grocer, the milk man and
baker, and his pile is badly worn be-
fore he has been home an hour.
If there is a noise during the night
dad is kicked in the back and made
to go down stairs to find the burglar
and kill him. Mother darns the socks,
but dad bought the socks in the first
place, and the needles and the yarn
afterward. Mother does up the fruit;
well, dad bought it all, and jars and
sugar cost like the mischief.
Dad buys the chickens for the Sun
day dinner, carves them himself and
draws the neck from the ruins after
every one else is served What is
Home Without a Mother?" Yes, that
is all right; but what is home without
father? Ten chances to one it's a
boarding house, father is under a
slab and the landlady is the widow.
Dad, here's to you-you've got your
faults-you may have lots of EN-
but you're all right, and we will miss
you when you're gone.-Pensacola Re-
view.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17

enough of their rights under these
pernicious amendments to become
dangerous. in their inability to intelli-
gently perform the functions and du-
ties attaching to their civil and po-
litical rights.
1T is admitted that the South must
sooner or later be rid of these bur-
densome amendments. If they were
never legally adopted, certainly,
there is nothing to be lost by a test
case in the supreme court
Even though Mississippi should re-
ject Vardaman at the coming prima-
ry. the South cannot too soon push
to successful elimination the single
idea, which has been the keynote of
Mr.. Vardaman's political career"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17
A FAREW ELL,

Orchard Linthicum, in New York
WORLDLY
Richard Linthicum in the New York
World
We're sorry. Cuhnel Gawdon, sub, to
say goodbye to you;
We have much admired to know you
and hear you talk true blue;
We reciprocate your farewell speech,
as fragrant as the breeze
That brings breath of roses or of
sweet magnolia trees;
Though VEAL fit with you-all, sub,
and like you-all, we bled,
And many time "skedaddled," sub,
as you did too, you said,
We join with you our hearts and
hands to honor Grant and Lee
immortal names now linked in peace
for all eternity.
1t grieves us, Cuhnel Gawdon, sub,
that we forsooth must part.
Well miss the simple eloouence ont
flowing from your heart;
Well miss your courtly manners, subj
Well miss your gentle ways
The salt and SAVIOR of the South of
antebellum days.
And when you're back in Dixieland
We'll often think of you
And your broad sunlit savannas, by
the banks of your bayou,
Where the fancy of the twilight hour,
to lull you to your rest,
You will hear your old black nanny
Groom the songs you loved the
best.
But IL again you kindly condescend
to come this way,
Your fathers house" is open: you'll
be welcome, night or day,
To partake, sub, of it's bounty and its
hospitality.
Where all now sit above the salt in
consanguinity,
But il this parting be the last, we
give you back your toast;
"Of all the sections of our land we
love each one the most"
And may your days outnumber far
this life's allotted span
Here's to you, Cuhnel Gawdon, sena.
tor and gentleman.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
vAuDEvILLE's MISTAKES.

There is talk that woman who has
recently come into notoriety has been
successfully solicited by vaudeville
syndicate and will "go on The STAGE
All that either the vaudeville syn
dictate or the public knows of the
woman is that she was the cause of
her husband beating and slashing and
otherwise mutilating a man with
whom during the husbands supposed
absence from the city she had been
auto riding, dining, winning and gen.
orally, as well as joivally INDUCING
animal tastes.
She has two children; they must
bear the shame of the notoriety which
she has already brought upon them,
whether her escapade was merely an
indiscretion or worse
Her husband had ordered the man
20 cease his attentions. The wife had
encouraged him to continue them.
The punishment which the husband
visited upon the guest, or host, of his
wife created, because of the great
social prominence and wealth of all
concerned, a profound sensation. The
pictures of the three parties to the
thrilling denouement are published in
the newspapers of the land, as are all
details that do not violate the canons
against decency.
1t does seem crime against moral
ity and the public sense of propriety
for a theatrical syndicate to under
take to exploit woman for no other
reason than that she has figured con-
spicuously in disgraceful episode.
1t will be worse than a crime
should the woman, wife and mother
that she is, attempt to capitalize the
vulgar notoriety she has gained, and
display ner person before audiences
which may go to see her merely to
make her display the topic of coarse
comment
II the woman is innocent, every
prompting OF such innocence would
seem to drive her to seclusion II
she loves her children, she must
spare them the humiliation of a vau-
deyille career which cannot but be
shameful.
There are doubtless many who, be-
iievlng her to have been thoughtless
nd indiscreet, are prepared to give
Ter the benefit of their sympathy and
:harity. Even all such, a step into
Vaudeville would drive into condem-
nation OF her course.-News-Sci
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17
TO TEST THE AMENDMENTS.

T. u. Sisson, congressman from
ississippi, has introduced a resolu-
on calling on the attorney general
make a. test of the legality of the
aoption of the Fourteenth and Fiji
zenith amendments to the contitu-
Jon.
Some few newspapers are dispos-
to make a sport of this resolution"
says the Meridian Dispatch, and con-
sinues: There is nothing improper
IN the resolution, and Congressman
Sisson may be sure that his people
at home will approve of his effort to
have the legality OF the adoption of
these war amendments tested"
Commenting on the above, the Gulf
port Record says:
we agree with the Dispatch in re-
gard 70 this matter There is no
aore ipsistent question before the
.southern people today than the ne
gro question
This is what has made vardaman
a tower of strength in the political
life of Mississippi, we believe; the
dea which he represents, of which
be has come to be regarded the EN-
sediment.
stBetter schools for the negroes,
more widely disseminated informa-
Ion and education in the rural dis
rfcts. where the negroes are in larg-
ut numbers, are rapidly transform
ng them from their former stage,
and ere long they will know just
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-17
AMBASSADORS BODY is
MOVED FROM VAULT.
(By Associated PresS.)

Washington, March 16.-With mill
tary and naval honors, the coffin con-
tanning the body of the late Brazilian
ambassador, Joaquin Nabuco, was re-
moved yesterday from vault in Oakhill
cemetery, and placed on the presi-
dents yacht, Maynower. 1t will be
taken to Hampton Roads and placed
on the armored cruiesr North Caro-
lima, which will transport it to Rio
Janerio, escorted by the Brazilian bat
tleship Cereas.