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Graham guardian., 1910-05-06
RATES OF LEGAL ADVERTISING
MAY 6, 1910.
MORE SUPPORT NEEDED

1t seems strange that in a place
like the Gila Valley, which is almost
totally devoid of amusements for
the people, that when an effort is
made to create a diversion for the
people, at once healthy and invigor-
ating for those who participate, and
enjoyable to those who look on,
that instead of crying it down, we
should at least help it on.
There is no more healthful sport
than the great American game of
base ball, and our young boys should
be encouraged to get into the game
for healthy exercise. 1t helps them
wonderfully in many ways, makes
them quick and active and arouses
ambition.
The boy who devotes sometime to
athletics is generally a good scholar
in school. His system is toned up
to the proper pitch, and his desire
to play an errorless game and help
his side" to win, is sure to bring
out ambitions in other directions.
There is nothing in athletics so
good and healthful as a good game
of base ball for young or old. 1t
arouses the interests of the dyspeptic
individual, and makes him forget
his stomach in roofing" for his
team. 1t makes the old man feel
like a sixteen-year-old and brings
back the memories of his younger
days.
We have here in the valley many
lovers of the sport. as well as many
who like to play the game.
At athletic park we have the
finest diamond and grand stand in
Arizona, and at the present time
the valley has been brought to the
front by being made part of a
league of clubs with a local club
composed of PLAYERS from every
part of the valley.
What we lack is good strong sup
port of the game by the people, and
if the people of the valley would
help themselves to diversion that
would drive away the blues and
send their blood coursing in glad
some way through their veins, and
bring back memories of the time
when they were young and vigor-
Gus, perhaps they would make great
er efforts to give the support their
presence and financial aid would do
so much toward reviving the game
and making many afternoons en-
joyable.
We now have good local team.
Let's support it morally and finan-
cially. If the people are against
Sunday ball playing, let the games
be played on Saturday afternoon.
Work for half-holiday on Satur-
day and let the farm worker, as well
as the store clerk, have some time
to himself for recreation and en-
joyment.
The merchants and farmers of
the valley should get together and
boost the game. The man who can
enjoy a game of ball is always a
good worker, whether he is en-
ployed in the store or on the farm.
Life is short. We are here to-
day, gone tomorrow. Let us enjoy
life spiritually and live up to the
teachings of the good book. Also
let us warm our blood and enjoy
ourselves and help others to do so,
by participating or attending the
games of baseball OF our local clubs.
The Lord won't think the less of
us if we try to be good healthy
specimens of manhood, and it is also
certain that none of us will be con-
demned if we rise in our place and
shout: "Slide, Snedden, slide!'
Everybody, now come forward
and show your pride in our local
team and help them to successfully
Graham guardian., 1910-05-06

1t may be true that man can't
understand women, but if he learns
to be afraid of them he has learned
something.
Graham guardian., 1910-05-06
NOTICE TO BISHOPS AND WARD
CLERKS

Requests for recommends must
be sent in before the close of each
month, whether there have been
any arrivals or not. Send the blank
if there is nothing to report. Don't
use initials or nicknames.
If any of the ward have ever left
it without taking recommends, send
their recommends to the P. B. 0.
Graham guardian., 1910-05-06

No man ever said a woman was
an angel who did not know better.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
York County Girls at Winthrop.

In compliance with an act of
the Legislature, passed some
years ago, President D. B. john
son has just submitted to that
body the names of all students
enrolled at Winthrop college for
the present session. York county
is far in the lead of any other
county in the State in the num-
Der of students attending the
college, with a total enroll
ment of 79. The following is
list of the York county girls
attending the college:
Fort Mill-Lucile Barber, Nav
Coltharp, Annie Crook, Mildred
Hall, Inez Smith, Lula Therrell.
Rock Hill-Bennie Lee Adams.
Carrie Anderson, Harriet Ander-
son, Mary Anderson, Matte Lou
Barnette, Annis Barron, Gene
We've Beckham, Louise Black,
Sarah Lee Black, Annie Brown.
Annie Lynn Carothers, Lillian
Caveney, Lillian Cook, Julia R.
Cork, Martha Creighton, Anna
Kate Fewell, Cecil Fewell, Eva
Fewell, Isabelle Fewell, Louise
Fewell, Catherine Frew, Evelyn
Frew, Lucille Frew, Margaret
Frew, Bessie Garrison, Carrie
Garrison, Josie Ruth Greer, Josie
Hall, Rebecca Hall, Nancy ].
Heath, Mary Huey, Anne Claire
Hutchinson, Emma F. London,
Jessie Marshall, Annie Miller,
Julia PleXico, Essie May Poag,
Susie Belle Rabb, Florence NJ.
Reid, Margaret Robbins, Lille
Roddey, Maggie Lou Roddey,
Margaret Ruff, Carrie Sadler.
Tattie Sandifer, Fannie Lee
Setter, Sadelle Stewart, Rosa B.
Strait, Virginia Taylor, Emma
Thomson, Elizabeth Waters,
Mary Kate Williams, Jessie Win
gate, Maud F. Chaplin, Emily
Elms.
Yorkville-M. Elizabeth Fin
ley, Anna R. Lewis, Fredrica
Lindsay, Helen Lowry, Dorothy
Montgomery, Mamie E. Rose,
Nellie Russell, jamie E. Wray.
Leslie Lily j. Martin.
Roddey's Camie l.. Roddey,
Carrie Caldwell Roddey.
Old Point -Juanita Neely.
Leona Thomasson.
Bowling Green-Georgia Belle
Dulin.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03

Basing claim to the two chill
dren of his son, B. R. Tillman,
Jr., on the deed made to him
under the statute quoted above,
Senator B. R. Tillman appeared
before the supreme court in
Columbia Monday in answer to
the rule of the court to show
cause why Mrs. B. r. Tillman.
Jr., should not be awarded the
custody of the children.
Never before in the history of
the courts of South Carolina has
there been unfolded a story so
filled with marital unhappiness;
never before has there been seen
in this State more determined
effort to secure, on the one hand,
and to retain, on the other,
possession of children than
marked the struggle for the
custody of the two little Tillman
girls Monday. Numerous charges
and counter charges were pre-
sented in affidavits of the mother
against her husband and father
in-law and of the father and
gradfather of the little ones
against their mother.
Able counsel appeared in be-
half of both the petitioner and
respondent. The cour. room was
filled at the hearing, many
prominent men and women be-
ing in attendance to listen to the
pitiful story of the wrecked
home and the recital of the un-
successful efforts of interested
relatives and friends to bring
about a reconciliation of their
differences. But the efforts
went for nought-hence the suit
for the custody of the little girls,
one two years old, the other
five.
1t was thought that decision
in the case would be handed
down by the court Monday night
after the reading of the affidavits
and arguments were finished.
but no conclusion was reached,
nor was a decision rendered
Tuesday, much to the disap-
pointment of thousands through
out the State.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
BOYS CORN PATCH
FARMING TRIUMPH
Marlboro Lads Success Should
Make Every Carolina
Youth Proud.

There probably is nothing
more prosaic to the superficial
observer than a one-acre corn
field, unless it is another just
like it, or possibly a little more
so. 1t is merely patch of grow
ing crop, where the combined
forces of man and the favoring
sunshine are coaxing nature
more or less effectively to smile
with a harvest. From the hour
of planting, down through sue
cessive hoeings to the final pro-
cesses of cutting and husking,
the field is nothing more to the
unthinking than a commonplace
scene of human activity in which
the work is hard and the returns
uncertain.
But Bascom Usher's one-acre
cornfield was distinctly different.
1t was the theatre not only of an
exploit which charms ones
imagination, but of an agricultu-
raj triumph that should make
every South Carolina boy proud.
Bascom Usher is IL years old,
and lives in Marlboro county.
Now, every year the government
organizes a national corn con-
test for boys in which $40, 600 in
prizes is awarded for various
achievements, including one for
the largest yield from single
acre. Bascom Usher entered
last years contest. He plowed
his acre, planted it, cultivated it
as he believed it should be, and
watched and tended it as if it
were some delicate flower bed.
The work was hard = everybody
that ever hoed corn knows that
but Bascom Usher forgot his
fatigue in the sheer Joy of
watching that corn grow. In
due season it was cut and
shocked, and a little later it was
husked. Then the official COM
mittee came around, looked over
results, and decided that Bascom
Usher's acre had won first prize.
Please consider what this
victory meant to Bascom Usher
in practical way, and quite
apart from the exaltation of
pride which it must have brought
him. His one-acre field produced
1922 bushels of corn, which
sold as prize seed at 81 bushel,
making $305, and the fodder for
$50, or total of 1886. Allowing
$135 for labor, the one-acre corn
field returned net profit of
$200-a yield rich enough to
make the average grown-ur
crop grower gasp.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
Ira G. Smythe's Uncle Dead.

Ira G. Smythe, of this city, re-
ceived word a few days ago of
the death in Alexandria, Va,
last Tuesday, of his uncle, Capt.
Kosciusco Kemper, distinguish
ed citizen of that State. Capt.
Kemper was "a years old at the
time of his death. He was three
times mayor of Alexandria, was
past grand master of the Ma
sonic fraternity of his State and
was one of the most prominent
members of the Virginia bar.
He was a graduate of the
University of Virginia. In early
life he conducted a seminary for
young women in Alexandria. At
the beginning of the Civil war
he was teaching in Beaufort,
S. c., where he enlisted in the
Confederate service, becoming
in time the captain of a battery
of artillery. After the war
Capt. Kemper returned to
Alexandria, where, besides en-
gaging in the practice of law, he
was elected mayor of the city,
was subsequently corporation
attorney, and for a number of
years superintendent of the
public schools.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
Keep Coins Out of Mail Boxes.

The postoffice department has
just issued a notice to rural letter
carriers that they will not be re-
quired to collect coin with which
to stamp letters when the coin or
coins are left loose in the mail
boxes. Heretofore the patrons
along the route were allowed to
drop their letters in with a
sufficient amount of money to
buy the stamps and the carriers
would see that the stamps were
put on. The carrier is greatly
inconvenienced by this and often
cannot pick up the coin when
he passes along with his gloves
on and his hands cold.
The patrons will hereafter
wrap the stamp money in a
paper or seal it in an envelope so
the carrier can pick it up easily.
This will work no hardship on
the patrons and at the same
time be a great convenience to
the carriers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
Mrs. Dora nj. Grier Dead.

Mrs. Dora Mcdowell Grier.
wife of Mr.. James Nj. Grier, died
at her home in this city Saturday
morning at Q o'clock, after a
serious illness of several weeks.
The funeral services were con-
Quoted from the home Sunday
morning by Rev. w. A. Hafner,
of the Presbyterian church, and
the remains were inferred in the
churchyard Of Steel Creek
church Sunday afternoon.
The announcement of the
death of Mrs. Grier aroused
deep sorrow throughout this
section, for she was widely
known and admired both in the
town and county. She was a
woman of the highest type of
Christian character, pure in
heart, bright in intelligence.
amiable, gentle and kind.
Mrs. Grier was a daughter of
the late Robt. w. Mcdowell, of
Steel Creek. Her mother was
MISS ElVlrd Neal, a daughter of
General w. Fl. Neal, one of
Mecklenburg's No distinguish
ed men. She was born and
reared in Steel Creek, and
educated at Salem Academy, of
which she was a graduate.
After her marriage she made
her home in Charlotte for a
number of years. From there
she came to Fort Mill after Mr..
Grier engaged in business here.
Mrs. Grier was a lifelong Pres
byterian, having come from a
long line of distinguished Presby-
terian ancestry. She took an
active part in church work. Mrs.
Grier was AZ years of age. She
leaves besides a husband, one
daughter, Miss Dora Grier.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
Yesterday, February 2, was
Ground Hog day.

that it will require parents to
pay more attention to their duty
in rearing and training their
children, and not shift this
responsibility to the shoulders
of the school teachers. After
all, the home is the place to
teach courtesy and decorum and
if these are not taught there it is
of little avail to try to instill these
virtues in the school room or
elsewhere. If children who are
inclined to be disobedient and
not observant of the rules of the
school are denied it's privileges
on that account the parent would
be compelled to take action.
This would result in greatly i'm
proved demeanor on the part of
the children, both at school and
elsewhere. Besides it would re-
lieve the teacher of a very dis
agreeable duty. Mex.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
CATAWBAS' STATUS
MAY BE CHANGED
Resolution in General Assembly
Proposing Citizenship for
9ork's Indians.

Senator Stewart has introduced
In the State senate and Mr.. Glas-
cock will introduce in the house
OF representatives an important
concurrent resolution which, if
adopted, may have an important
bearing upon the future of the
Catawba Indians, whose reserva-
ton of 600 acres is Is miles below
Fort Mill on the Catawba river.
The resolution is in response to a
petition signed by 81 of the In
dlans requesting that they be
made citizens of the State. "Our
present condition." says the pc
tition, is deplorable, it being
impossible for us to make a sup
port on our present reservation.
We believe if made citizens and
additional lands furnished us 5y
the State upon which we can
settle our condition will be great
ly improved and we can take care
OF ourselves in the future"
The concurrent resolution
authorizes the governor to ap-
point three commissioners. neith-
er of whom shall be a member of
the General Assembly, to investi-
gate the condition of the Indians.
with the view of purchasing ad-
ditional lands contiguous TO their
reservation to assist them to be-
come self-supporting and useful
citizens, if the plan is considered
feasible. Should such action be
taken it will mean that the Ca
tawba Indians will no longer be
wards of the State but will be
thrown upon their own resources
to earn a livelihood. 1t is esti-
mated that it would require an
appropriation of between SIS, 900
and $50, 600 to purchase the lands
which the Catawbas think neces-
sary to relieve their present con-
dition. The State now appro-
PIRATES annually to these Indians
So, 200, So, 600 of which is divided
pro rata among them, the re-
naming 5000 being used for
school purposes.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
WILL ASK CANDIDATES
TO DEFINE POSITION
Movement For "Catawba County
Deferred Till the August Pri-
mary Opens.


The leading business men of
Rock Hill seem to have walked
up during the last week to the
fact that if the agitation for a
new county in this section is to
be successful it will be necessary
for them to push the proposal
earnestly and enthusiastically.
Up to a few days ago the agita-
tion for the new county had
been confined principally to
Fort Mill township, but the
matter has now been taken hold
of in Rock Hill by men who can
be depended upon to give the
undertaking the thought and
work necessary to bring sue
cess-if success be possible, for,
be it understood, the question of
territory bobs up always and
hedges "Catawba county" round
about with a great deal more
doubt than is comfortable. But
now it is certain that if the new
county movement fails, it will
not be due to a lack of determi-
nation to push the matter by the
Rock Hill men who do thingse
Saturday afternoon a con-
ference of the officials of the
Club of Rock Hill
and other leading citizens of that
city was held to consider the
best plan of putting the move
ment on foot and it was decided
to send delegation to Columbia
Monday with the view of enlist
ing the support of the York
delegation in the General Assem-
bly, in behalf of constitutional
amendment making it possible
to organize the county with less
than the 400 square miles of
territory now necessary. A
communication was sent to Fort
Mill as a result of the conference
requesting that this section also
be represented at the hearing
before the legislative delegation
and several leading citizens here
arranged to go to Columbia. But
the hearing was abandoned at
the suggestion of Representative
w. B. Wilson, Jr., who expressed
the opinion that the undertaking
had been delayed too long to be
successful at the present session
OF the Legislature. Mr.. Wilson
also stated that there was a
moral obligation resting upon
the York members of the
General Assembly not to advo-
cate the dismembering of the
old county now, as nothing had
been said during the campaign
in which they were elected about
the formation of a new county.
This position of the members
was accepted as reasonable and
it was decided not to press fol
a constitutional amendment al
present.
1t now seems probable that
little more will be done in behalf
of the new county Until the
campaign opens next August,
when each candidate for the
Legislature probably will be
asked to declare himself for OF
against "Catawba county," with
the view of electing a delegation
in sympathy with the constitu-
tional amendment.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03
NO DECISION YET
IN TILLMAN CASE
Supreme Court Still Deliberatine
on Proper Custodian of
Little Girls.

1.-The father of any child un-
der the age of 81 and not married
may by his deed executed
and recorded according to law, or
by his last will and testament,
made and probated according to
law, dispose of the custody and
tuition of such child or children
for and during such time as he,
she or they respectively remain
under the age of 81 years, to any
person or persons, in possession or
remainder.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1910-02-03

E. w. Kimbrell is confined to
his home with la grippe.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-03
HEDRIck.

The Hedrick schools gave an. enter
tainment at the auditorium Saturday
evening and were greeted by g crowd
ed house Everyone was, well pleased.
with the program. 'rsta
Miss Blanche Roop of Packwood Wis
tied relatives and friends In Hedrick
Thursday and Friday. Miss Roop is
assistant cashier Of the Packwood
bank.
Miss Goldie Stops Of Ottumwa is in
the city, the guest Of Mrs. P. E. Wan
erus
Sam White and family Of Fremont
visited Mrs. Stella Cox Sunday.
Henry Bohlman was an Ottumwa
visitor over Sunday.
G. T. Holcomb visited at his home
in the city over Sunday
Mrs. M. Beck was in Ottumwa Sat
urday, called there by the illness Of
her brother, Clinton Stroud.
Little Dian Wanerus is improving,
after a weeks illness.
A. R. Reed of Morning Sun visited
rfic1da In Hedrick last week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-03
, Chicago Stock Yard Personals.

Stock Yards. Chicago, March Wv.
2: o'Connor, generally called Good
Natured BILL" from Danbury. Iowa,
was on Mondays market with two
which sold at 81.
J.. w. Holden of Scranton Ia, had
shipment Of cattle on Mondays
market. Twenty-three steers sold at
$3.50, averaging 1892 lbs, and 35 sold
at 1915, averaging 1852 lbs.
Henry Groth one Of the young feed
ers Of Battle Greek Ia. was on yes
tie which sold at 1855. He reports
lots Of corn still in the fields.
J. G. Shea of Cherokee, Ia, was on
yesterdays market with three loads Of
cattle.
Jerry Thede, Laporte City, Iowa,
was here yesterday with cattle of his
own feeding.
Cruise & Egan. regular dealers at
Massena, Ia, had hogs Jon Mondays
market.
Robert Gracey Of Cherokee, Ia, was
on the market yesterday with load Of
hogs.
James Gracey OF Cherokee, Ia, was
on the market yesterday with load Of
hogs.
6. E. Nickerson Of Beaman, Iowa,
marketed Monday 244 head Of 96-lb
ewes at $3.50.
j. Ewing a regular shipper Of Green
field, Ia, had a load of'steers on Mon
days market.
Mike Burke extensive dealer at Dam
vile, Ia. sent in a double-de Of hogs
Monday.
Geo. Thatcher, Of Kingsley, Ia, was
on the market YESTERDAY with two
loads of hogs.
H. F. Johansen Of Charter Oak, Ia,
marketed Monday one load Of $935-lb
yearlings at $7.35.
Ehler & Reinking. big dealers at
Schleswig, Ia, had two cars Of cattle
on Mondays market.
A. C. Petermeyer, regular dealer at
Odebolt, Ia. had three cars of hogs on
Mondays market.
Oscar Selwald, from Schaller, Ia,
had load of light cattle on yester-
days market which sold at $3.50.
Martin lessen Of Holstein, Ia, mar
keted Monday two loads Of 137a-lb
steers Of his own feeding at 1905.
Riddlesburger and Harris, Nevada,
Ia, marketed yesterday SO hogs. which
averaged sol lbs and sold at $40.
Synder and Helper. regular dealers
at Stanhope. Ia had three loads of
cattle and hogs on Mondays market.
Albert Silkett of Red Oak, Ia. had
one load Of steers on MONDAYS mar