Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-10-19
FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
Some Of the Latest Happenings That
Are Of Interest to the People OF
the Palmetto State.

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broken arm while cranking an auto
mobile, the machine kicking" him.
Columbia.-W. F. Stieglitz, council
superintendent of waterworks, sewer
age and city hall and opera house,
submitted his report upon the va
rious departments in his care and
gave an extended report on conditions
In each.
Lancaster.4The case OF Jim Clark.
a negro, charged with killing woman
of his own race in the southeastern
part of the county October is, 1910,
ws found guilty Of carrying concealed
weapons and fined $50. The state
failed to make out case Of murder.
Washington. class postnias-
ters were announced for South Caro-
lima as follows Long Run, Fairfield
county, ]. Glider Norris, to succeed
NJ. A. Aiken, resigned; at Windsor.
Aiken county, Annie J. Toole to sue
ceed C. P. Boycott, resigned.
Charleston.-The New England So
ciety OF Charleston is already arrang-
ing for the due observance OF Fore
fathers Day, December 22. The nrin-
cipal address will be made by the Hon.
William Hodges Mann, the eloquent
governor of Virginia. The Old Do
minion's love for the Palmetto state
will find voice from the lips OF her
honored executive.
Chester-Two negroes wanted for
participating in free.for-all shooting
bee near Edgemoor some weeks ago,
were rounded UP by Constable Henry
Gibson and carried before Magistrate
Reid at Richburg and fined $40 apiece.
The two culprits were VIII Johnson
and Will Rawls. Three more negroes
wanted for participation in the same
affair are still at large.
Lancaster.-The jury in the case OF
Julius Caesar Watts, charged with
the killing of c. c. Faile, rendered
verdict OF guilty with recommendation
to mercy which means life sentence.
Watts killed Faile in Flat Creek town
ship, December "a, last. The parties
involved were white and wellto-do
farmers. Sentence has not yet been
passed.
Walterboro.-J. Rice Cooley resign
ed as a member of the county board
of education. Mr.. B. Cooley is q grad
uate of Clemson College and has serv-
ed acceptably for the past three years.
He will be succeeded by Mr.. J. VIII.
Iians Campell, graduate Of the Cita-
del and one OF the best known and
most prominent educators in Colleton
county.
Aiken.-The Baptist church Is now
perfecting plans to erect a Sunday
school building adjoining the church
building. The approximate cost will
be $4,000. The building will be mod
ern in every respect, containing Is
rooms, an auditorium and kitchen. A
committee has been appointed to soli-
cit subscriptions for the building and
Is meeting with splendid success.
Columbia. a.-Arrangements are be-
ing perfected for the third annual
conference of Charities and Correc-
tions in South Carolina. The sessions
will be held in Columbia at place
to be announced within a few days by
the executive committee. The dates
are Thursday and Friday, November
% and "a. The programme will soon
be ready, and will shortly be publish
ed in full.
Sumter-At a regular meeting Of
city council 1t was decided to pur-
chase combination motor pumping
engine and hose wagon. The fire de-
partment committee was authorized
with full power to act to select a
make OF pumping engine and hose
wagon and report for ratification at
another meeting. Mayor Jennings
cast the deciding vote in favor OF the
combination pumper and hose wagon.
About $500 will be the cost OF the
apparatus.
Orangeburg Mayor Sain has de-
clared his intention to put a stop to
vagrancy and will rigidly enforce the
ordinance. In his instructions to the
grand jury OF Orangeburg county last
September Judge J. w. DeVore OF
Edgefield, then the presiding Judge.
laid particular stress upon the state
vagrant law and pleaded with the
Grand Jury to see that magistrates,
CITY authorities and others put ban
upon vagrants by bringing them to
criminal prosecutions.
Columbia.-The city OF Columbia re-
ceived a check for s2s,2O2, this being
it's share IN the dispensary profits for
the quarter ending September l. The
county and county board OF education
| will also be sent checks. The total
profits for Richland amounted to $751;
4O4.94.
Barnwell-The cotton caterpillar Ia
doing much damage In this county.
The young cotton and the top crop
will be damaged greatly, one farmer,
who usually makes rs bales Of cotton
a year, says that the caterpillars
would cause him to lose seven OF
eight bales.
Manning-A call has been issued
for meeting at this place OF all the
merchants, bankers and business men
interested in the holding, warehous-
ing and financing OF the cotton crop
in view of the depressed state OF the
market. The s.eeting will be held In
the court house.
Johnston.-The corner stone OF the
monument to the Confederate dead,
which is being erected by the Mary
Ann Blue chapter, U. D. c., was laid
with impressive services, the Masons
assisting. After the assembling OF
the crowd at the place the Masons