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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-10-07
STATE NEWS ARRANGED
FOR QUICK READING.
The next legislature probably
will appoint an inspector of the
State printing.

dence of H. E. Wells, has con-
fessed to other thefts which have
been mystifying the Columbia
police for some time.
Twenty-nine county fairs will
be held this fall in South Caro-
lima. The State department of
agriculture and the State board
of health have arranged to send
an exhibit to practically all the
fairs.
A negro giving his name as
Will Hines and claiming Atlanta
as his home, Friday at noon
attempted to rob the safe in the
store of Sherer & Quinn at York
vile. He was frustrated in the
attempt and is now in Jail.
Denying their guilt five negro
murderers, Joe Molloy, Meek
Griffin, Tom Griffin, John Crosby
and Nelson Brice were executed
at the State penitentiary last
Wednesday morning between
IL and IL o'clock.
A statement of the condition
to September 2 of the 302 State
banks and trust companies, two
private banks and Is branch
banks of South Carolina was
issued Friday by l. M. Mauldin,
State bank examiner. The over
drafts amounted to 1896, 100. 18.
Eight negroes. in the Sumter
county Jail charged with minor
offenses, broke prison at a late
hour Saturday night. Two were
recaptured Sunday morning, and
a third, who went to his home
at Wedgefeld, was taken back
Monday by his parents.
Gov. Harris, of Georgia, has
refused to honor requisition
drawn on him by Gov. Manning
for Ed Hamilton, alias Williams,
alias Harmon, a white man
wanted in Anderson county for
obtaining goods under false pre-
tence.
After practicing for several
days at the range near Styx, in
Lexington county, the South
Carolina rifle team left Sunday
night for Jacksonville to par
ticipate in the national shoot.
The team is composed of Is men
and officers. The team will re-
turn to Columbia on October 22.
The annual fair of the Victoria
and Arcade cotton mills at Rock
Hill will be held Saturday. An
interesting program has been
prepared and the visitors wi be
invited to inspect the community
exhibits. Commissioner Watson
will deliver one of the addresses
at the fair.
There is some probability of
the town of Lowryville, Chester
county, being made the de-
fendent in a suit for damages,
as the result of an accident
sustained recently by a young
man, Mr.. r. L. Kitchens, who
. was thrown from his motorcycle
and painfully hurt when he ran
into an open ditch on one of
Lowryville's streets.
A county supervising teacher,
who would work as an assistant
to the county superintendent of
education, is strongly advocated
by Lueco Gunter, State super
visor of rural schools. The
object of such an innovation
l.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-02

lastly, at Quinn Chapel.
I Nearly $1OO,OOO.OO worth of proper
ty has been acquired by him for the
church. Properties at Boone, Iowa, at
st. Paul and at Hastings, Mimi, and
at Louisville, KY, stand as monuments
of his achievement. The church at
Louisville alone cost originally $4,000.
BY long and trying negotiations he got
it for ST. 1000, paying $4,000 cash, and
the last great effort for the church be-
fore he left Louisville was to raise
100000 on the church debt.
He came to Quinn Chapel, Chicago,
two years ago and, despite the trying
financial condition of that charge has
greatly reduced the enormous debt of
that charge; but with great personal
sacrifice.
When asked why this his home con-
ference did not elect him delegate to
the Centennial General Conference of
the A NJ E. Church, he said he re-
garded it as can unmerited humilia-
tion in which he became victim of sew
eral unfortunate influences, among
which was an ambition which to say
the least was not guided by the Gold
en- Rule
As he looks back over a career of
unstained service in the church he takes
pleasure not only in his splendid fnan-
cial success in the church but in the
hundreds upon hundreds of souls con-
verted. His ambition is to free Quinn
Chapel from debt during his admins
tration.
In conclusion we honestly and earn
estly bespeak for Rev. Anderson the
hearty cooperation and help of the
people residing in all parts of this city.
Mrs. Anderson, who has been a great
help mate to her honorable and straight
forward husband, was one of the most
popular young ladies of Rockford, Ill.
They are the parents of one son, who
is 20 years of age and they live in a
beautiful home at 1862 Calumet avenue.
Rev. Anderson is an honor to his
high calling and Mrs. Anderson is an
honor to the Afro-American woman
hood of this country.
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FOUNTAIN THEATRE.
Mr.. w. B. Clark, Prop,
Making Good East Of State st., 344
E. 35th Street.

The beautiful moving picture house
on 35th st. near Grand Blvd. under the
new management of one of the most
accommodating theatrical Colored men
in the moving picture show business, is
the place you should patronize.
The photo above is the very likeness
of the young man whom merit and
ability has fortunately qualified to
make good. Hence he has been given
the right of way and should succeed.
He cannot fail if we support him; he
shall not fail for the want of our sup
port. His productions are of the latest
and best movies. Remember, if we
help this young man to succeed, we
help ourselves. If he succeeds, you
will open up the way for some other
young Colored man and colored woman;
it may be your boy or your girl. Re-
member that every five cent piece you
spend with him, you are making strong
your own hands; you are accomplish.
ing four things beneficial to the race
and very encouraging to our White
friends who are willing to place their
business in the hands Of our sons and
daughters when We prove to them by
our presence; that We appreciate their
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-02

Rev. j. C. Anderson, D. D., who has
been returned for the third year as
pastor of Quinn Chapel, oath st. and
Wabash Ave-, was born in Fluvanna
Co., Va, March 1st, 1862, being the
only child born to his mother, Eliza
Ann Anderson. He was eft a total
orphan when but five years of age, and
many and varied were the trials and
hardships of his boyhood and youth.
Circumstances developed which de-
prived him of all responsible care by
parents, or other relatives or friends.
But good Christian people prayed for
and gave him wholesome advice as to
the proper way to live, and he was
heedful of their counsel. No one ever
sent him to school, but very early in
life he felt an Unsuitable thirst for
knowledge; and the first money he
earned as a boy was used to pay for
board and books to take him through
school. By diligence and indomitable
persistence he studied night and day
to grasp the great facts and principles
of life. He is a graduate of Taylor
University and of the Mccormick Theo.
College.
He wendell his way as far west as
the state of Iowa in 1881 in pursuit
of work and of knowledge. March LIST,
1888, he made the struggle against sin
and spiritual darkness and was made
sensible of salvation by the Lord
Christ. He worked unremittingly for
several years as a lay official in the
church, but being called to the ministry
after a short tutelage in the local
church, he entered the active timer
aney Dec, 1888. During these years
he has gone from the smallest mission
in little country towns to the ranking
stations in metropolitan cities, and has
received urgent calls to leading pull
pits of the church from every section
of the country, but his sense of duty
has impelled him to stay till definite
work had been done in every charge
he occupied. While he has spent but
one administration at a time in any
city, he has been called back often to
the same city. Twice he served in
st. Paul, Mimi, three times he has
been assigned to Chicago, respectively
at st. Johns, Wayman Chapel, and
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-02

His A. B. was obtained at the Uni
versity of Michigan, 1906; in 1907 he
did graduate work in Philosophy and
educated at Northwestern University.
He received his A. M. degree at Ohio
State University in 1908, and at Har-
ward in 1912; he also studied one year
in Philosophy and Theology under
Borden P Bovine of Boston Univer-
sity. While he was a scholarship man
and a protege of the late Colonel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson of Cam
bridge, Mass, and the late William T..
Harris, ex-commissioner of education of
the United States. He has been a
scholarship man at the University of
Chicago for the last year and a half
which scholarship was obtained through
the influence of Commissioner Shredder
of Mass. Mr.. Bowling is a contribut-
ing member of the American associa-
ton for the advancement of science.
The National Geographic Society of
London. He lectured on education in
Massachusetts,, Michigan and Rhode
Island. He published a volume, GA
study of Negro Education" "River-
side Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1912 and
six bulletins of Negro education while
doing graduate work at Ohio State
University, Harvard University and the
University of Chicago. He is a candi-
date for his Phi. D. at the University
of Chicago, having for his Nesis the
history of Negro Education in the
United States. Rev. Jenkins Lloyd
Jones of Lincoln Center is one of his
closest friends. He is superintendent
of the Institutional Sunday School and
was the only colored applicant who
passed the civil service examination
out of 326 candidates, ranking 20 on
the list. He is now the only colored
representative on the eensors Board in
this country.
He conducted the evening and day
school at the Y. M. C. A, 1858 Wabash
Ave., whose coriculum contained the
following courses:-Elementary, pre-
paratory and college courses.
Business Mems Course.
Special training to those who have
a desire to make up school work courses
in modern languages, special courses
in English and oratory and Civil Serv-
ice and courses in music. He is one of
the most competent educators in Am
erica, but few races have produced his
equal. He is one of our foremost
scholars.
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efforts by making their business a sue

efforts by making their business a sue
cess,
LIST. We help to give employment
to Colored talent.
End. We open the doors of opportg-
nifty for others.
3rd. We get the best accommoda-
tions.
4th. You give inspiration to your
children to be business men and women
when they see what this young man is
doing.
Now, don't forget to go yourself;
send your children there; take your
friends with you, and don't forget the
place, 35th street near Grand Ave-,
number 344, Fountain Theatre.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-02

We are pleased to note the splendid
literary achievements and the activity
of a wonderful character, demonstrated
by the realization of a successful phe-
nominal career; one which may be en-
wed by the foremost thinkers of our
times, and the giant instruction. But
few lien are his equals intellectually,
and none surpass him as a teacher.
He represents the finest in culture. He
is a power for good, because the race
needs such a man. Permit me to use
at this juncture, quotation published
in the Advocate, Boston, Mass, May
%, 1909; expressed by the acting dean
of the graduate school of arts and
science of Harvard University in rec
ommending Mr.. Bowling said, $50 well
be pleased to have more specimens of
the race at Harvard if they had the
qualities this man possesses. He is in
telligent, straightforward, earnest and
clear in his statements. 1 have no
doubt he is man who will in the fu-
ture do good work in the cause of edu-
eating his race"
He was the orator of the day at
the Emancipation celebration held at
Ebenezer Church, w. Springfield St.,
Boston, Jan. 8, 1910, given under the
auspices of the Ebenezer Literary So
ciety. His subject, "The meaning of
the Emancipation Proclamation which
was said of him, he was a finished
orator. He has few equals. 1t is to
be noted that just previous to this
he had won scholarship at Harvard
which is no mean honor.
Pres. Joseph H. Hill of the State
Normal Schools said of him Feb. "a,
1909, ellis record as a student in our
school was excellent. He is one of the
strongest men of his race, if not the
strongest, that has ever been enrolled
in our student body. He graduated
sometime ago from the Kansas State
Normal School,
The Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones of
Abraham Lincoln Center is one of his
friends and warm admirers. Hon.
Cong. Martin B. Madden gives us his
biography by saying, "Mr. Bowling's
elementary training was received at
Lincoln, ILL.,, and his high school work
was completed at Kansas City and
Topeka, Kans. He was the first Negro
to finish four life State diploma course
of the Kansas State Normal College.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-02
Charles E. Stump, the
Kansas Farmer and
Would Be Newspaper
Correspondent, Visited
Chicago and Beheld
Many Things or Sights
Which Caused Him to
Open His Large Coun-
try Eyes Real Wide

told that there was going to be an
cold Aunt Dolly Time" there, and
thought that 1 would just go to see
it since L was acquainted with Aunt
Dolly. I knew her when I was knee
high to a grasshopper. This was in
keeping with the spirit, for there
seemed to be the right kind of spirit
in the opening of that big convention.
But after all that song and prayer
and big religious talks, for a few min
utes could not tell where was, and
it was several days before really did
find out what was going on.
1 heard long before the meeting that
there was going to be a split in the
convention, and it was there too, be-
lieve me. They were ripe for it and
all plans were made. They waged the
fight on charter, but after the charter
was not adopted, then they went on
at any rate. Mississippi" Jones, of
Odd Fellow fame was at the head of
the split crowd. AS he led out the
National Baptist convention crowd, he
would lead out the Odd Fellows if he
had any show, and thought that they
would not expell him from the order.
He started a grand lodge of his own,
and of course, he had right to kill
it and did kill it. 1t was his own
child, and the "Reformers" have
passed out of life, and DR.. Jones
well he is past Supreme Master of it.
But he is not past Supreme Grand Mas
ter of Odd Fellows, and 1 doubt
whether he will ever be in this world.
1 went over to see that great big
lake. 1 could not see across it, but
1 suppose there is another side to it.
1 have seen only one side of the big
lake, and saw some big boats on it.
Some of them were as large as store
buildings 1 have seen. was delighted
with all this.
Then 1 went way up stairs to ride
on street cars, and then some on the
them people crowded in the cars and
tried to go home. 1 went in there
with them.
You have been told all about the Ex-
position there in Chicago. 1t was just
fine. L had the pleasure of meeting
Major R. R. Jackson, a member of the
Legislature, Hon. S. B. Turner, also
member; Lawyer F. L. Barnett; Law
yer B. F. Moseley; Lawyer w. G. An
derson, w. L. Martin, Lawyer H. NJ.
Porter.
Speaking of Porter, have been hear
ing of Hon. James Hale Porter, but
I have had the pleasure of shaking
his hands, also DIR. A. ]. Carey. L will
have to tell you ali know about these
things when I write to you. 1 must
not say too much because want to
get my letter in.
1 expect to travel a little, and will
tell you about how 1 left Chicago and
what 1 saw in my next letter.
CHARLES E. STUMP.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-02

Kansas City, Kans.-For a long time
1 have been hearing about reporters
! and have been seeing them and have
had a desire to get my name in the
paper or get something in it that
have written. 1 have been discouraged
by editors who have told me that they
did not think that was born to write
for papers, and I just accepted what
they said about it and went on. 1
have thought that would never get
to see anything in print that I had
written.
1 have been a follower of the Ma
tional Baptist convention for years,
and have had no reason to change. 1
went to the session in Chicago, and
made sure that 1 was going to make
good there and have me one more good
time. 1 met people after people.
While there was a big time there in
trying to keep things going, yet there
was a desire on my part to keep up
with the convention and see what was
going on there.
My heart was filed with joy, and
could hardly believe myself when 1
was invited by Editor Taylor to write
for his paper. To me it seemed like
a dream, but 1 am going to try my
hand.
If do not come up to your idea of
newspaper writing remember that 1
am green, and 1 am just getting off
of farm down here in Kansas. You
will remember when the people were
all leaving Kentucky and coming to
Kansas, perhaps 1 was in that num-
Der, hence the farmer is not up to the
city life.
1t seemed to me that was going to
look my eyes out in Chicago. 1 never
saw so many well dressed young men
in all the days of my life. 1 took
stroll down the streets of Chicago
especially a long street. 1 think it
was called State street and 1 saw so
many people there on that street.
went to the churches, the Y. M. G. A.
1 did not think that L would live to
see my people owning such big fine
building as that, but 1 have and 1
just felt like shouting on the street.
I was there several days before the
meeting and stopped on Aberdeen
street. 1 had a good stopping place
and the people out there took good
care of my head, hence 1 did not have
any head disease. 1 had the pleasure
of meeting the pastor of Ebenezer
Baptist church, Rev. J. F. Thomas, D..
D., and was delighted to meet him.
He is a fine man. also met Rev. E.
P. Martin, pastor of Bethesda Baptist
church; DR.. Prince, of some other
church. Rev. Harris told me that his
church was on the North Side and
there was another Harris who told me
that he had a church in Englewood.
Wednesday morning was the time set
for the convention to meet. 1 was
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-10-02
A. J. NIMRoD.

A. ]. Nimrod, sturdy young man of
Mantua, Ala, who's ambition as a
country school teacher in Southern
fields was not achieved-making good
in Chicago, holding a clerical position
in the U. s. Government promises to
be heard from again in future. Sue
ceeds himself as president of st. Mark
M. E. Church Literary Club, 50th St.
and Wabash Ave, under the pastorate
of the Rev. DR.. John W. Robinson,
requests the presence of his many
friends at the re-opening of st. Mark
Lyceum, Sunday, Oct. srd at 400
P. NJ, q splendid program is promised.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
CHINA AND JAPAN

TAPAN doubtless will win imme-
diate advantages from China. The
wasp of the east has the- helpless
giant at its mercy. For the present,
Japan may do pretty much as she
likes with China, If the United States
sits as supine as President Wilson ap-
parently intends. but the time will
come when conditions will be vastly
changed.
China is just beginning to get awake
to her powers and resources. By and
by, when European civilization and
European methods have been adopt
ed generally by China, when her mines
are turning out coal and iron, her
rivers are teeming with commerce
and better educated than they are at
present, Japan may want to let go and
find herself unable to do so without
paying a proportionately far greater
price than she is now attempting to
exact from her over-grown but help
less neighbor.
Japan can no more hope to subju-
gate China than England could to
maintain permanent domination over
Germany. In the end China will be-
come aroused by the indignities heap
ed upon her and when the propitious
moment arrives, as it is bound to do
in the natural course of events, Japan
will find that she has been fooling
with a buzz saw of gigantic proper
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
Tests Demonstrate Value
of Electrical Propulsion

Washington. D. c.. May Lieu
tenant Bryson r. Bruce, a graduate
of the United States Naval Academy,
who completed last year a post
graduate course in the Graduate En-
gineering School of Columbia Univer-
sity, has been appointed by the Naval
Department to the important post of
chief engineer in charge of the United
States collier Jupiter. This vessel is
the first electrically propelled ship
used by the United States govern
ment and important tests are being
carried out with it. The success of
these tests has induced the govern
ment to install similar electrical pro-
pulsion apparatus in the new battle
ship California. This will be the
largest installation of its kind in the
world.
BY the recent tests which have
been made with the collier Jupiter,
under the direct supervision of Lieu
tenant Bruce, it has been demon
strated that the electrical propulsion
apparatus increases the speed of a
ship with less weight of machinery
and reduces the consumption of coal
by one-quarter as compared with re-
ciprocating engines. Skill in maneu-
vering a ship is also enhanced by rea-
son of the fact that the navigating
officer standing on the bridge, can
regulate the entire apparatus by but
tons at the wheel without any inter-
mediate signalling.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
JUSTICE HUGHEg DEoLINATIoN

TIME announcement of Justice
Hughes that he will not be
candidate for the Presidency
opens the way for political discussion
that will follow as a result of the
grooming of other favorite sons for
the Republican nomination. The self
elimination of Judge Hughes takes
good man from the race, but there
is so much strong timber in the party
that his withdrawal is causing no ex-
citement.
1t is early for any man to make
such a decision, but Justice Hughes
feels most probably that 1t is better
not to permit his name to be drawn
into a contest from which a later
withdrawal might be misunderstood
with possible loss of prestige to him
self. No Supreme Court justice ever
has been elected to the Presidency,
although a number have sought the
honor and Justice Hughes is apparent
ly not to be drawn from a station he
occupies with distinction, and for
which he is admirably fitted, to seek
a bright bauble of political preferment
that may suddenly develop all the elu-
sive qualities of a will o. the wisp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
THE SMOKY CITY" NO MORE

ITO, you who have been calling
Pittsburgh the Smoky City,"
hearken to this. DIR. Schlesigner,
of the Allegheny University. at a re-
cent luncheon of the Pittsburgh Cham
ber of Commerce, pronounced Pitts
burgh to be one of the best spots in
the world for an observatory because
of the steadiness of the atmosphere.
With his big telescopes, he says, he is
enabled to get almost perfect read
ings from the heavens.
A little smoke, says the observer, is
good for astronomical observations
and he adds, Pittsburgh has very little
smoke now.
This is interesting. But what we
would like to know is this--is the pres
ent clarity of Pittsburgh's atmosphere
due to smoke prevention devices or to
the operations of the Underwood law?
We have been looking for some bene-
fit to be derived from the factories
closed by this new tariff. Perhaps we
have discovered one. If so, the DEM
ocratic campaign orators are at per-
feet liberty to use 1t. We shall not
seek to copyright the idea.