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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Still in the Hospital.

A Kansas editor recently an
nounced that he would try to tell
the truth in his paper for one
week and he is still in the hospi-
tai. He didn't get past the first
day. The following item ap-
peared in Mondays issue and now
the boys are getting out the
paper. This is what he said:
Married, Miss Sylvia Rhode to
James Cannaham, last Sunday
evening. The bride was an ordi-
nary town girl who don't know
any more than a rabbit about
cooking and never helped her
mother three days in her life.
She is not a beauty by any means
and has a gait like a duck. The
groom is an up-to-date loafer, has
been living off the old folks all
his life, and don't amount to
shucks nohow. They will have
a hard life while they live to-
gether.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Local Interest in Possible Champ.

Among the Fort Mill followers
of the prize fight game some in
terest is felt in the fortunes of
Carl Morris, the Oklahoma giant
who recently knocked out Marvin
Hart, former worlds champion,
in three rounds. Carl Morris is
first cousin of w. ]. Morris, an
operative at the Millfort mill, and
moved to Oklahoma from Ran
dolph county, N. c., about ten
years ago. He is a locomotive
fireman who decided last July
that he would fight his way to
the top of the heavyweight heap
with view to finally conquering
Jack Johnson. Morris, though
an unknown at the time, drew
1000 persons to the ringside
when he disposed OF Hart at
Sapulpa, Okla, several weeks
ago. With interest in the big
fellow now increasing by leaps
and bounds Tulsa, Okla, is pre-
pared to build an amphitheatre
capable of seating 25, specta-
tors, it being estimated that Nor
ris' next battle will net at least
$35, 600 in receipts. Morris has
physical advantages over every
other heavyweight in the world.
He is 6 feet a inches tall, has a
reach of 80 1-2 inches, and so far
he has trained down to 235
pounds. He weighed 300 last
June and is 26 years old.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Locusts Coming?

All the States east of the Allie
gheny mountains, from New
England and New York south to
South Carolina, are to be visited
this year by the 17-year locusts,
according to a bulletin issued by
the department of agriculture.
In addition to the 17-year kind,
a brood of 13-year locusts is ex-
pected this year in the lower half
of the Mississippi valley, extend
ing southwark from middle Indi-
ana and Illinois as far eastward
as central Tennessee and west
ward to Kansas and Oklahoma.
At the last appearance in 1894
careful study of the 17-year To-
Gust was made in New Jersey
and New York, but some of the
records obtained in Southern
States were doubtful, especially
in North Carolina, because of
the simultaneous appearance of a
brood of 13-year locusts, which
are mistaken in many localities
for the 17-year kind. The bulle-
tin says:
1t is therefore very desirable
that all observers in South Caro-
lima report occurrences this year
of the 17-year locusts to clear up
these doubtful records"
There seems to be some doubt
as to whether the brood will reach
as far as South Carolina, although
some scattering locusts may at
least be expected. In the past
they have been reported in large
numbers at regular periods of II
years in all the States east of the
Alleghenies as far south as South
Carolina, while scattering insects
have been reported in western
Pennsylvania, northern West Vir-
ginia, Ohio, Indiana and lower
Michigan.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
$11,925.00
Gold Hill Items.

Editor Fort Mill Times:
Our people are generally we'll,
| think, and the farmers are
quite busy preparing their lands.
hauling fertilizers, etc. Early
gardens were hard hit by the
freeze of last week and much re-
planting will have to be done.
Mr.. c. T. Crook, who has been
on an extended prospecting tour
through Georgia and Florida, re-
turned home the past week. He
gives a glowing account of the
fine country he passed through
as If there was any better place
in the world than this same Gold
Hill section.
The Misses Inez and Myrtle
Smith and May Coltharp, of Win
throp college, spent from Satur-
day evening until Monday eve
ming with their parents here.
Neighbor Sam'l Boyd has ad-
ded another little boy to his
squad, so you see our population
is increasing. The fact is we
are progressive and adhere strict
ly to the scriptural injunction
which says multiply and replen-
ish the earth.
The corn crib of Mr.. S. H.
Epps, Sr., was burned Sunday
night, together with his wagon,
harness and a lot of guano. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
S.
Gold Hill, March |.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Death of Mrs. Isabella Bell.

After an illness of several
months, Mrs. Isabella Bell, widow
of Chas. Bell, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. w. E.
Younts, in Charlotte. Wednesday
night. She is survived by num-
ber of sons and daughters. Mrs.
Bell was rs years of age and had
spent most of her long life at the
family home in the Steel Creek
section of Mecklenburg county.
She was related to many of the
prominent families of Mecklen-
burg county and had been a de-
voted member of Ebenezer A. r.
P. church for years. The funeral
of Mrs. Bell was held Friday
morning and was attended by
many friends and relatives of the
good woman. DR.. J. B. Elliott,
a nephew of Mrs. Bell, went from
Fort Mill to be present at the
funeral.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
DEMOCRATS WILL NOT HESITATE
TO TACKLE TARIFF PROBLEM

Word comes from Washington
that President Taft, in calling an
extra session of the Sixty-second
congress, to convene shortly after
the adjournment of the present
session at noon Saturday, may
not limit the purpose for which
he calls the special session to a
consideration of the bill carrying
into effect the reciprocity agree
ment with Canada. In addition
he may suggest that congress
proceed at once to the revision of
certain of the schedules of the
Payne Aldrich tariff law, notably
those schedules affecting food
stutfs and clothing which have a
direct bearing on the cost of
living.
1t is known that the president
is being advised to take the
initiative in inviting tariff re-
vision, instead of leaving it to the
Democrats, who will be in control
of the house. to proceed with
their revision program without
any suggestion from the execu-
tive.
The Democrats, through Chair
man Underwood, of the the new
ways and means committee, and
Speaker-to-be Champ Clark, have
served notice that they will take
up the tariff question if an extra
session is called. They did this
in answer to the report that they
were far from ready to under
take any tariff tinkering, and
that if a special session was con-
vened they would content them
selves with passing the Canadian
reciprocity agreement bill again,
and would do nothing with the
tariff.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
FORT MILLS OLDEST CITIZEN.

Saturday. February 25. was the
87th birthday of Mr.. JOS. Parks,
the oldest citizen of the Fort Mill
community. Mr.. Parks was born
a few miles north of Fort Mill on
February 25, 1924. and except
the years he was in the Con-
federate army has spent all of
his long life in this section. He
is still in good health and is a
familiar figure on the streets of
the town, his physical vigor being
less impaired by advancing years
than that of many men 60 years
of age. Mr.. Parks was a private
in Company B, Sixth South Caro-
lima regiment, G.. S. A., and is
one Of the few soldiers of the
Confederacy living in this section
who was with Gen. Lee at Appo-
mattox. Monday morning Mr..
Parks remarked to The Times
that he saw more men at Apo
mattox on the fated 9th of April,
1865, than he had ever seen be-
fore or ever expected to see
again. Mr.. Parks not only saw
service in the Confederate army
himself, but is one of the very
few surviving participants of the
titanic struggle between the sec
tions who also sent son to the
firing lines for the South, the
son being the late Ledbetter
Parks, who died in Illinois in
1891. Mr.. Parks has been mar
ried four times and is the father
Of "a children, IL of whom are
living. His father, the late VIM.
Parks died in 1852. He had an
uncle. JOS. Parks, for whom he
was named, who was a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. This
uncle was a few years younger
than Mr.. Parks father. though
his death occurred many years
before the latter's. Many of Mr..
Parks friends congratulated him
upon reaching the 87th milepost
in his life and all hope that many
years will yet be spared him.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
MAJ. JOHN BLACK MAY PAY FINE
INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE PEN

Governor Blease commuted,
Monday, the sentence of Major
John Black, of Columbia, former
director of the State dispensary,
to five years in the penitentiary
or a fine of $1,000. Major Black
was tried at Chester in the fall
of 1910, on the charge of con-
spiracy to defraud the State, and
upon conviction-the co-defend-
ants, Jodie M. Rawlinson and j.
Lee Solomons being acquitted
was sentenced to serve five years
in the penitentiary. Governor
Blease's action of Monday effect
ed the communication of this SEN
tence by allowing the alternative
of a fine.
Acceptance of communication by
Major Black terminates, auto
matically, his pending appeal to
the supreme court. The law
books say also that acceptance
of a pardon has the same legal
effect as a confession of guilt or
of the existence of a state of
facts from which judgment of
guilt would follow" and the same
authority says: Since the ac-
ceptance of a pardon admits the
recipients guilt, when a pardon
is accepted, pending an appeal,
its acceptance operates as an ad-
mission that the criminal was
rightly convicted and therefore
constitutes ipso facto a waiver of
exceptions taken at the trial. "
Pardon and communication are
classed as of a piece. In this
case the appeal had not been
perfected and thus the practice
outlined for dismissal of the ap-
peal need not be followed: 80
where a pardon is granted, ac-
cepted and brought to the atten-
ton Of the court, pending an
appeal, the appeal will be dis
missed. " The criminal" says
the law books, cannot be forced
to accept pardon.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
FOR WEEVIL-PROOF COTTON
GEORGIA HOLDS OUT HANDS

The boil weevil will be forced
to get flying machines if it ex-
poets to do any damage to a new
species of cotton which is on it's
way to Atlanta for examination
by the State department of agri-
culture.
A letter has just been received
by an Atlanta citizen from a man
named Billow in Guatemala. Cen
tral America, proclaiming the
wonderful qualities of new
species of cotton which grows
from Is to 30 feet high and bears
bolls z inches long and 5 to 8
inches in diameter.
In the letter from Senor Billow
the writer requests the State
agricultural department of Geor-
gia to supply him with one of
their recent publications on the
subject of cotton as it is grown
in that State. He also mentioned
the fact that great success had
been made in Central America
by DR.. Thomates, an Italian
scientist, who has produced new
species of cotton called the cara
vonica" by hybridizing a variety
of cotton found in Mexico with
another variety which fourishes
along the tributaries of the upper
Amazon, in South America.
The hybrid plant, according to
the statement Of Senor Billow,
has been raised with great sue
cess in both countries and the
plant grows to height of Is to
80 feet, bearing bolls of enormous
size which are filled with clear
lint.
The writer also called atten-
ton to the fact that the floss of
the hybrid plant was very silky
and that the plant itself had
proved to be a prolific yielder.
From experiments conducted in
the section of Central America
around Guatemala it was stated
that from LOO to l,60O pounds
per acre of clear lint had been
grown, which amounts to two
and a half or three bales to the
acre. Also that the ratio of the
product was 48 to So per cent
lint to the seed cotton, which is a
much higher ratio than the cotton
now being grown in Georgia and
the other cotton States.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Graded School Honor Roll.

The honor roll of the Fort Mil
graded school for the month OF
February is as follows:
Tenth Grade, Distinction List -
Aline Barber, Isabel Massey.
Ninth Grade, Distinction List -
Mamie Jack Massey, Lula Halle,
Ruth Meacham, Monroe White,
Lana Parks.
Eighth Grade, Honor Roll =
Mae White. Distinction list,
Lucy Merritt, Joe Belk, Ike Var
borough.
Seventh Grade, Honor Roll i
Zenas Grier, Frances Smith.
Distinguished list, Esther Meach-
am, Margaret Spratt, Katie Will.
liams.
Fifth Grade, Distinction List =
William Erwin, Andrew Hafner,
Agnes Link, John A. Boyd, Mary
Mclaughlin.
Fourth Grade, Honor Roll
Marjory Blankenship, Malcolm
Link, Ruth Mclaughlin, Charlie
White.
Third Grade, Honor Roll-At-
mar Adcock, Harry Bradford,
Stephen Epps, Beulah Parks,
Sadie Rodgers. Distinction list,
Grace Erwin, Pearl Anderson,
William Grier, Halle Ferguson,
Sarah White.
Second Grade, Honor Roll =
Hattie Belk, Pettus Blankenship,
Florence Fleming, Ollie Hood,
Blanche Moser.
First Grade, Honor Roll-Ar-
thur Young, Maude Robinson,
Halle Griggs, Bessie Crayton,
Fravor Kimbrell, Hope Harris.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Fort Mill Robbery Recalled.

Within the last few weeks safe
crackers have again become ac-
tive in various parts of the South.
The latest bank robbery reported
in the South Atlantic States oc-
Cured at Clover, Va, 40 miles
east of Danville, Monday morn
ing and the robbers escaped with
between $1,000 and $4,000, all
the money in the building. The
Clover robbery was in some re-
spects similar to the robbery of
the Savings Bank of Fort Mill, in
November, 1901. an incident in
the towns history which is now
seldom thought of in the busy
life of the place. 1t will be re-
called that the safe in the local
bank was cracked by a party of
expert yeggmen one November
morning nearly ten years ago and
that every dollar of the $4, 500 on
deposit in the institution was
carried away by the robbers. A
few silver coins believed to have
belonged to the bank were after
wards found in a field near town
where the cracksmen had evi-
dently divided the swag, but
practically the entire amount was
lost to the bank. Several months
after the Fort Mill robbery a
number of safe-crackers were
tried in South Carolina and sent
to the penitentiary and it is be-
lieved that they were the men
who robbed the Savings bank,
but no one has ever been hailed
into court charged with the crime.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Grab Your Shot gun!

When some vaccination fanatic
comes prowling around, to inject
tester into the pure blood of your
self, your wife or your child,
don't waste breath arguing with
him, urges Tom Watson's Jeffer-
sonian. No fact or argument
could penetrate head like his.
To impress such a lunatic as that,
physical force is indispensable.
Just grab your revolver or shot
gun; and tell him that if he dares
to enter your door, you will blow
his crazy brains out.
If municipalities would spend,
in cleaning up and staying clean,
the money they lavish on graft
ing doctors and poisonous pus,
smallpox would entirely disap-
pear.
Compulsory vaccination is one
of the most heinouS crimes
against humanity. 1t is simply a
survival of medieval ignorance.
The idea of stabbing healthy
child, and injecting a deadly
foreign substance is worthy of a
mad-house. There isn't a man
on this earth who can demon
strate that vaccination ever pre-
vented smallpox. The whole
rotten system is based on ira
dition, and nurtured by graft.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
SCHOOL BOARDS STATEMENT
AS TO COST OF NEW BUILDING

At a meeting of the board of
trustees of the Fort Mill graded
school held about two months ago
a resolution was introduced in
structing the chairman to appoint
a committee of members of the
board to make public a statement
of the cost of the new school
building. The resolution was
adopted and the committee, COM
posed of A. 0. Jones, S. A. Epps
and r. P. Harris, was appointed
to prepare the statement. The
Times is pleased to comply with
the request of the committee
that the following statement of
the cost of the new school build
ing be published in its columns:
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Organizing Farmers Union Locals.

j. B. O'Neal Holiday, State
organizer for the South Carolina
Farmers union, is spending the
week in York county reinstating
the local unions which have
ceased to exist during the last
few years through lack of inter-
est in the organization and work.
ing up new locals. Mr.. Holiday
does not hope to conclue the work
in York county before Friday of
next week and he is said to have
met with considerable success
thus far. The meeting for the
reorganization of the Fort Mill
union will be held at Gold Hill
academy Thursday, March 2, and
the farmers who are interested
in again putting the local on it's
feet are requested to bear in
mind the date. 1t is said that
before Mr.. Holiday came to the
county the first of the week there
existed only two of the score and
more local unions which were
organized several years ago.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Gold Hill, March /.
Negro Assistant Attorney General.

Tuesday President Taft nomi-
mated William H. Lewis, of Bos-
ton, a negro, to be assistant
attorney general to the depart
ment of justice. This is the first
time that a negro has been named
for such a prominent position in
the department.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02
Auction Sale.

On Saturday, March 4, 1911, at 4
p. m, will sell at public auction to
the highest bidder the Bales Lot at
the head Of Main street. Lot contains
3-4 acre and has blacksmith shop on
it. This lot is suitably located for
business or residential purposes.
j. j. BALES, Broker.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-03-02

BY four votes the proposal for
the direct election of United
States senator's failed Tuesday.
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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-09-16

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-20
NEW DYE DISCOVERED.
Now Bradford city Council IL wonder
ing How 10 Dispose of II.

London. July l6.-The Bradford city
council Is in the enviable position of be-
ing the owner of n new process OF dyelng.
which is expected to be OF the greatest
commercial value.
Three years ago the Bradford Technical
College appointed Or. II. II. IIodgson as
lecturer on chemistry, with the specific
duty OF carrying on Investigations in APP
Piled chemistry which should keep Brad
ford as an industrial community abreast
Z modern development.
Professor IIodgson is understood to have
discovered new dyestuE, which has been
Professionally protected under the patent
laws and meanwhile the city council has
lcen called upon 10 decide what shall be
done with this new municipal asset.
Three suggestions have been made one
Is to sell the patent rights outright, an
ether Is to have the discovery worked on
= royalty principle, and the third Is that
It be worked directly by the corporation.
The last-named suggestion has been de-
clared impracticable. a subcommittee
opposed Of men prominently connected
with the bradford trade, has been APP
l.ointed, with power to deal with the mat
ter.
Having regard to tho financial ard COM
:ncrcial Importance OF previous Giscov-
,cs, such as anlline dyes. Bradford
n tepaycr3 are looking forward with eager
!n'.rcst to further developments
Professor EodEson was q poor scholar
OF Bradford clomcntory school. and won
u scholarship vaich took him to the sec
ondacy school, anG thence to Cambridge
University.