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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-07-05
Poetic Aroentf0e.

Not long ago young man attached
to the Argentine Legation at Wash.
ington was a guest at a certain after,
noon affair. when \ young woman In
stted his attention to q couple in a
corner who were paying marked at.
tention to each other.
He is flfty-one and she thirty-nine, !"
said the young woman. and they have
been 'courting for twenty years"
The Argentine adjusted his nonacle
and glanced At the happy pair. Al.
said he. "a romance Of the Middle
Ages. eh?-Lippincotts Magazine.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-07-05
FORFEITURE NOTICE

Denver. May 2lst. 1913.
T , r. j. A Hara: -. m4S
You are hereby notified that have expended
during the year 1911 and 1912 the of 500 for
each and every year in labor and improvements
upon the Golden Jewell lode situate in the
Jackson and Ohio Mining District, County of
Clear Creek, State Of Colorado, of which the GER
tificate Of location is found of record in book II
and page ll3 o. the Recorder Of said county. In
order to hold said claim under the provision of
section 1924 Of the revised statutes OF the United
States and the amendment thereto approved
January y. 1880 concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount required to
hold said lode for the periods ending on the 3lst
day Of December A, d. 1911 and the 3lst day OF
December 1912. And If within ninety days from
the personal service OF this notice within
ninety days after the publication thereof, you
fail or refuse to contribute your proportion OF
such expenditure as co-owner, your interest in
the claim will become the property of the sub
scrlber your co-owner, who has made the
required expenditure by the terms Of said
section. ~ns MARY X. LkWiS.
Subscriber.
First Pub May Nth. 1913.
A Last Pub. .ug. 23 1913.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-07-05
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The johnson Candy 60.

For your excellent candies, delicious soft
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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Drop In Nitrate of Soda.

The following Washington
special appears in the Columbia
Record:
The department of commerce
announces today that there had
been a decrease of $13 per ton
in the price of nitrate of soda
since Senator Smith of South
Carolina, had passed in the sem
ate his resolution calling for an
investigation into the increase
in the price of fertilizers. There
has also been a decrease in the
price of other fertilizer materials
since the resolution was passed.
The investigation of the depart
ment is still under way. I'm
portant results are expected
from the investigation"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
All the Banks Want Money

Representatives Finley and
Lever few days ago called at
the Treasury Department and
submitted a proposition from the
national banks in their districts
to participate in the deposits to
be distributed by the treasury
department in the cotton growing
States to aid in moving and
marketing the cotton crop.
The plan proposed was to per-
NIT all the national banks in
Guiding the State banks, if prac-
ticable, in the congressional dis
trlct, or so many as may wish so
to do-to apply jointly to the
treasury department for a de-
posit and execute a joint note.
individually and severally guar
anteeing the payment thereof,
and placing such collateral as
will be required of banks in
designated cities under the plan
of distribution contemplated by
the Secretary of the Treasury;
and to pro rate the deposit with
each of the banks in interest
according to their capital stock.
No promise was made, but
assurance was given to the two
South Carolina Representatives
that the proposition is favored
by the Secretary of the Treas.
ury.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
A Prosperous Fort Mill Family.

Mesdames c. G. Downs and A.
w. Taylor visited their kinswo-
man, Mrs. w. H. Crawford, a
few miles out from Fort Mill last
Tuesday and Wednesday. says a
Pineville correspondent of the
Charlotte News. Acres Of fine
cotton, well fruited, fields of
corn which promise an abundant
harvest, garden vegetables,
chickens galore and delicious
WatermelonS attest the thrift
and industry of Mr.. and Mrs.
Crawford. Not the least inter-
esting feature of the pleasant
outing was a peep at the two
weeks old twin daughters of
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Crawford,
both Of whom are beauties, and
strange to say. they were exact
ly like their father.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
IS. B. X"

The beginning of the Rock
Hill Buggy company was one
room shanty that was used as a
repair shop. The proprietor
painted on one side of the shop
IS. B. X" He prospered and
put up large building; and on
it he wrote IS. b. X" He
prospered more and more, and
erected a much larger building
and the Strange device" APP
peared on that also. No doubt
on the immense plant of the
Rock Hill Buggy company today
one may find IS. B. X"
What does it mean? Started
business on ten dollars.
This great plant worth some
thing like a hundred thousand
dollars began that way not SO
many years ago. 1t has been a
great success. -Newberry OBJ
server.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
York County Progresses.

Your correspondent has just
returned from trip into York
county, and was aStonished as
we'll as pleased at the evidences
of improvement which were Wis
ible in every community visited,
says a writer in the Gaffney
Ledger. The greatest improve
ment however, was in the CITY of
Rock Hill. Marion street in that
town six years ago had not a
single house on it, and it is now
lined with handsome residences
that would be a credit to anv
city. Oakland, too, where Win
throp college is located, has made
wonderful progress; handsome
residences, where a few years
ago there was nothing. Next to
Gaffney, / really believe that
Rock Hill is the best town in the
State. | was struck with the
great progress which has been
made by the farmers within the
last few years Every farm
house shows that the owners are
keeping abreast of the times.
and the manner of cultivation
shows that scientific farming is
as common now as the slip-shod
manner was in the old days.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
WILL DOUBLE CAPACITY
OF CHARLOTTE BRICK co

Of particular and pleasing in.
terest to the people of Fort Mill
and surrounding country is the
announcement given out a few
few days ago by Mr.. Sam S.
McNinch, president, that the
already big plant of the Char.
lotte Brick company, located at
Grattan, two miles south of this
city, will within a year double
it's capacity for the manufacture
of bricks. The main offices of
the Charlotte Brick company are
at Charlotte.
At the present time the output
of the plant is 10000 bricks per
day. This amounts to ten car
loads every twelve hours. 1t is
expected that the output will be
increased to 100000. The in.
stallation of additional machinery
will be undertaken at once. The
management is certain that
business conditions will remain
on the upgrade and there will
be continuously a demand for
the increase in the output of the
plant which the present con-
ditionS Justify.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Arrested a Crazy Man.

w. H. Mewbroom, a middle
aged white man, was adjudged
insane by the local authorities,
and was taken to York Jail Sun
day morning to await the
arrival from Columbia of the
papers necessary for his COM
mitment to the State Hospital
for the Insane. Mewbroom's S
home is at Peak, a small town
some twenty miles below Colum-
bia. He arrived in Fort Mill
Friday night on train No. 80,
and at once headed for the
country. reaching the home of
B. F. Bennett, two miles west of
town, about II o'clock. New
broom assured Mr.. Bennett that
a posse of men were pursuing
him intent upon taking his life
and begged protection. He was
allowed to remain at the Bennett
home until Saturday morning
when he was brought to Fort
Mill and held until Sunday when,
as stated, he was taken to York
Jail.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Mrs. Berry Brown Dead.

Information was received in
Fort Mill Monday afternoon of
the death at her home in the
Point section of York county of
Mrs. Mamie Brown, wife of Mr..
Berry Brown, a we'll known
farmer of the Point.
Mrs. Brown had been i'll but
for a short time and her death
proved a great shock to her host
of relatives and friends through
out the county. Before her
marriage to Mr.. Brown about
ten years ago. Mrs. Brown was
Miss Mamie Thompson, sister of
the late DR.. d. G.. Thompson
and with her brother and a
sister, Miss Maud Thompson
(now Mrs. Frank Erwin), re-
sided on Confederate street, this
city. Mrs. Brown was about 35
years of age and is survived by
her husband and several chill
dren, a sister, Mrs. Frank Err
win, of Steel Creek, and num-
ber of other relatives in differ
ent sections of the county.
The announcement of Mrs.
Browns death caused great sor-
row in this city, where she was
so we'll known and beloved.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
HARRY K. THAW ESCAPES;
ARRESTED IN CANADA Z?

Harry Kendall Thaw, the slay-
er of Stanford White, the New
York architect, escaped from the
Hospital for the Criminal Insane
at Matteawan, N. Y, Sunday
morning at 7:45 o'clock. A dart
for liberty through an open gate,
a leap into the open door of a
powerful automobile that stood
quivering outside and a flight
like a rocket for the Connecticut
State line, 30 miles away, accom-
plished his escape.
Sunday night Thaw was still
at large and the hospital author
tiles felt certain that he was out
side the State. Once beyond the
boundaries of New York Thaw
is free. Only months, perhaps
years, of litigation, can bring
him back to Matteawan and then
only in one event that he be
adjudged insane in the State
to which he has fled.
Five confederates manned the
car in which Thaw escaped and
a big black limousine trailing it
passed the asylum gate. The
police obtained a description of
Thaw's confederates and the
names under which they regis
tered at Matteawan hotel Fri
day night.
The hospital authorities be-
lieve Thaw fled to the shore of
Long Island Sound and boarded
a yacht with steam up to rush
him to Europe.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Arrested in Canada.

Press ditpatches Tuesday after
noon from Coaticook, Quebec,
say that Harry Thaw, or a man
posing as Thaw, was arrested in
that city Tuesday morning. The
Canadian police did not appear
to be quite clear as to their
grounds for holding the prisoner,
but they thought they would de-
tain him until they could secure
definite instructions from the
Dominion government as to his
disposition.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Jackson Still Leading Cobb.

Joe Jackson led Ty Cobb as the
race for American league batting
honors entered the home stretch
the last week, and it begins to
look as if the Greenville lad
would maintain his advantage
right up to the wire. Cobb, how
ever. is straining every nerve to
catch his rival, and their figures,
1893 for jackson and 1856 for
Cobb, show how close the race
is.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Writes Mother a Letter.

Monday about noon Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw, mother of Harry
Thaw, received a note from
Thaw, which was postmarked
New York, Aug. II, II p. m.
station o." Inside on a long
strip of paper was Thaw's com
mnnication written in pencil.
1t read as follows.
"All well. Shall take rest
before going to Elmhurst, as
might be asked for interviews
and do not wish to refuse, yet
do not care to make any state
ments. Hope M. and G. (Mr.
and Mrs. George Lauder Car
negie arrive safe and that you
will go home together.
Have sent short note to
The Journal.
(Signed) H. X. T."
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
The Gold Hill Picnic.

The annual Gold Hill picnic
was held Thursday in the grove
at the home of Hon. S. II. Epps,
Sr., and was quite an enjoyable
occasion for the large crowd
present. The good people of
Gold Hill have been holding this
picnic for many years and the
event is looked forward to each
year with great interest. The
picnic of Thursday was no ex-
ception to the former gatherings
in the way of attendance, enter
tainment and dinner. Talks
were made by several men of
the Gold Hill and nearby sec
tions, and Mr.. d. G.. Epps, Of
Turnersville, Texas, entertained
the crowd for an hour or more
in talking of the modes of crop
cultivation, etc., in the Lone
Star State. A somewhat disap-
pointing feature of the day was
the failure to attend of Hon.
M. l.. Smith and Hon. G. R.
Rembert, who had been invited.
Mr.. Smith had a previous en-
gagement and Mr.. Rembert was
absent from Columbia and could
not be reached by invitation.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Four Mill Levy for Gold Hill,

They are holding an election
in school district No. 80 today on
the question of increasing the
special tax levy from three to
four mills, and the understands
ing is that,if the election carries
Flint Hill and Gold Hill schools
are to be consolidated at Gold
Hill, and arrangements are to be
made to haul the Flint Hill
children to and from Gold Hill in
a hack. There are twenty-five
children to be hauled, and The
Enquirer has been Informed
that an order for the necessary
hack has already been placed.
The Gold Hill school begins the
work of its next term next Mon
day. Yorkville Enquirer, 18th.
The above election resulted
in a victory for the increase of
the levy by a vote of 2l to c.
Editor Times.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
S5,OO0,OOO AUTO PLANT
FOR CITY OF ROCK HILL

The Charlotte papers of Mon
day conveyed the information
that a rumor was current in that
city to the effect that a $5,OOO.-
600 automobile manufacturing
plant is soon to be established in
Rock Hill. The news was not
given out by persons who are
directly interesting in the matter
but nevertheless from good au-
thority and from parties who
are close to the promoters of the
plans that are said to be in the
making for a big plant.
According to the report, Mr..
j. G. Anderson of Rock Hill, the
we'll known buggy manufactures,
it the moving spirit in the enter
prise in this territory, while,
according to further statement,
j. P. Morgan & Co. are interested
parties and will furnish some of
the capital for the contemplated
enterprise. 1t is also stated that
the final details of the enterprise
will not be consummated until
the pending currency bill is dis
posed of by Congress, though it
is not said just what those be-
hind the movement are expect
ing from the disposition of the
currency bill.
Definite announcement in re-
gard to the matter will be awaited
in this vicinity with interest,
since the sum, said to be in
volved, is so large and the enter
prise will mean a great impetus
to the Industrial life of this sec
ton generally.
The plans, it is said, will pro-
vide for the erection of a plant
and the installation of equip
ment for the manufacture OF
every bolt, nut, tap and fixture
of the automobile with all its
accessories. There is at present
not an automobile factory in the
South which manufactures every
part of an automobile, though
there are several which construct
motor vehicles and manufacture
the most important parts.
1t will be seen at once that the
establishment of such a plant as
could be built and operated with
five million dollars would be an
immense addition to the already
active Industrial life of Rock Hill
and to this general section of the
country. With the financial
backing implied in the sum
named. Rock Hill might be ex-
pected, say those who have con-
sidered the reported plans. to
become in a short while the
Detroit of the South in the way
of automobile manufacture.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Miss Bayne Weds Mr.. Klutz.

Miss Lille Bayne, sister of our
townsman }. G.. Bayne, was hap
PLY married on Wednesday, the
18th, to Mr.. j. A. Klutz, of
Harrisburg, N. C.. The cere-
mony was performed by Magis-
trate r. p. Harris. Mr.. and
Mrs. Klutz will reside at Harris
burg.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21

Miss Maggie Mauney, Of Shell
by, n. c., is visiting relatives in
this city.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
BITS OF INTERESTING NEWS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE

Rooiuo w. ASHLEY, tuS well
Known political leader of Ander-
son county, was stricken with
Paralysis Saturday and is in a
very serious condition.
The first bale of the 1913 cot
ton crop in South Carolina was
sold on the Barnwell market on
August 18th by R. H. Lutz, a
farmer who has several times
carried off first bale honors. The
cotton was shipped by express
to F. w. Wagener & Co., of
Charleston.
John M. Jones, a well known
business man, of Chester, will
lose his right eye as a result of
injuries received in the wreck on
the L. & N. railroad week before
last. Mr.. Jones has been in the
Chester hospital for treatment
and but for surgical treatment
would have lost both eyes.
The Greenville exhibit at the
Knoxville Conservation Expo
sition will cost in round figures,
approximately 81, 500. The thous-
and square feet of space which
has been taken by the Greenville
Chamber of Commerce, in behalf
of the various local manu-
? faSsurers, has been signed for at
a price of oha. dollar per square
foot, decorating, care-taking, etc.
There will be no election this
year ON the proposition Of
creating a new county from por-
tions of Laurens and Greenville
counties, with Fountain Inn as
the new county seat. This has
been definitely decided by citi-
Szens who are behind the propo-
sition, in the neighborhood of
Fountain Inn, although no for
NAL meeting of citizens to discuss
the Raatter has been held.
That the State will be forced
to borrow something like $3.50
900 within the next few weeks
seems certain, as is indicated in
a letter from State Treasurer
Carter to Governor Blease, in
reply to a communication. Mr..
Carter states that very little
money comes in before the mid
die of December and approxi-
mately $270,00O will be needed
to pay the,eXpenses of the State
government until that time.
+. In regard to the Zachry case
Governor Blease gives out a
statement in which he says the
decision of the Supreme Court
of Georgia in reversing Judge
Hammond confirms the opinion
of Attorney General Peoples and
himself that j. j. Zachry violat-
ed the laws of South Carolina.
He holds that Zachry had no
right to take the child out of
South Carolina, and that when
he crossed the border he became
a kidnapper.
The next session of Winthrop
begins September II, and will
probably have the largest en-
rollment in it's history. Prof.
j. Thompson Brown, of Char
lottesville, Va, has been ap-
pointed to succeed DR.. J. P.
Kinard, who goes to the Citadel.
Miss Jennie Y. Fleming, of
Raleigh, N. c., has been ap-
pointed as head of the physical
training department, succeeding
Miss Mary G. Claiming, re-
signed.
Governor Slaton, of Georgia,
has refused, very politely of
course, to honor Gov. Blease's
requisition for a Mr.. Julian
Zacahry, attorney of Augusta,
who had carried away from
Columbia his little daughter.
His wife, who had been divorced
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21
Joshua w. Ashley, the well
Known political leader of Ander-
son county, was stricken with
Paralysis Saturday and is in a
very serious condition.

The first bale of the 1913 cot
ton crop in South Carolina was
sold on the Barnwell market on
August 18th by R. H. Lutz, a
farmer who has several times
carried off first bale honors. The
cotton was shipped by express
to F. w. Wagener & Co., of
Charleston.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-08-21

Governor Slaton, of Georgia,
has refused, very politely of
course, to honor Gov. Blease's
requisition for a Mr.. Julian
Zacahry, attorney of Augusta,
who had carried away from
Columbia his little daughter.
His wife, who had been divorced
from him, ran away from Au-
gusta after the courts there had
given the two children to the
father. She stopped In Columbia
and Mr.. Zacahry invoked the
aid of the South Carolina courts,
Judge Ernest Gary, and got the
children back. He took only
one, the oldest.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-14
THE BEST STORY EVER.

1t was in East Texas that the rural
correspondent write News are very
scarce this week, SO will stop for this
time. San Antonio Express.
Which reminds us of rural CORE
spondent in an Illinois town. There
was a mine disaster. Wives of the
victims and a preacher stood at the
head of the shaft, the preacher com
forting them The correspondent wired
his story to New York paper, be-
ginning. God is near the shaft to-
night" In a short time he received
wire from the papers managing
editor saying: Drop disaster story.
Rush 5000 words interview with God.
l-Hornish's Monthly.
Reminds me of that time | was re-
porting for Texas daily State Dem
ocratic convention held in San An
tonic. was younger and gayer then
and among other smart things | wired
my paper that Cullen Thomas stood
on a lemon and sucked table"
soon got the following: Come home
Lemon waiting for you here"
But, speaking of best stories, here's
one ! heard in Mobile on my recent
trip there. If it has ever been printed
it will bear more of it:
A man approached boy who sal
on a railroad station truck and in
quired: "B-b-bud, when is n-n-nex
tut-tu-train-neXt train due?"
The boy paid no attention to hin
and the man repeated his request witt
the same result. Someone standing
near gave the desired information ant
the stranger walked away.
The person who had furnished tn,
information asked Young fellel
why didn't you give the gentleman
a civil answer"
He got this reply:
Odd you think w-w-want t
g-g-g-want to get my durned-durne
fool head knocked off ?"-Alpine Guide
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-14

But il the Legislature needs the de-
mands that will be made, the account
will be something like THIS:
For the University. .$2,0O0,000
For the penitentiary. ....... 100000
For other institutions. ...... 1,060,OO0
Or a grand total OF s6,0OO.O00. In
addition to this, the Legislature Will
be called upon to appropriate $4,000
900 to pay the debts of the peniten-
L iary system for the reason that un"
der the terms of the amendment the
proceeds of the penitentiary bonds can
only be used for buildings and perma-
nent improvements. The Legislature
struck from the amendment tl9t part
which authorized the use of the bond
money to pay the .penitentiary debts
A. M. KENNEDY
Kerrville, Texas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-14
LIVING ON AN ACRE FARM.

The Waco Times-Herald mirates
about fellow named Higginbotham
making a living on his one acre
Mountain Home" in Arkansas, and
adds:
"If George Higginbotham can thrive
on an acre of Arkansas mountain land
Mountain Home is in the mount
aims, isn't it?-what ought one to do
on an acre of McLennan County dirt
near a great city like Waco?"
Well, we can answer that right off
the bat. He could not do anything.
No man can make living from one
acre and live close to a big town. The
reason the Arkansas fellow did it was
because he lived way back in the
Ozarks where there are no towns and
he just had to make what he lived on.
Bet If the truth was known he does
not come out into the clearings more
than once year, and all he buys then
is a caddy of tobacco and new suit
OF overalls.