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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
SlxTY-F0URTH CONGRESS-
CONVENED ON MONDAY


The Sixty-Fourth u. S. con-
gress assembled and organized
Monday for the session which is
expected to be the greatest with
In the memory of the present
generation.
Four hours work in the House
saw Speaker Clark returned to
the chair; Representative Mann
returned to the leadership of
the Republican minority; the
introduction of 1000 bills and
resolutions, many of them pro-
posing measures of National
defense and many more in op-
position; the temperance of
constitutional amendments to
enfranchise women and a minia
ture rules fight.
In the Senate practically moth
ing was done except the election
of Senator Clarke of Arkansas
as president pro tempore. Vice
President Marshall was absent
because of the illness Of his wife.
Both houses then after sending
a JOINT committee to the White
House to give official notice of
the opening of Congress ad-
Journed until Tuesday. when
the real business began with
President Wilson's address to a
joint session in the hall of the
House "a !2::30 O'Clock.
The greatest budget of ex-
penditures ever placed before
any American Congress in times
of peace was brought in from
the various branches of the
Government, the total being
more than $1,000, ,00G. coo, or
Sl7O, 600, 600 more than was asked
for last year. The great part
of the proposed increased ex-
penditure is for the enlarged
army and navy programs, and
aside from working out the
problem of national defense it
Will be the business of congress-
to raise the revenue to pay for
II
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
New Mill for Clover.

Announcement is made that
plans have been completed for
the building of a 5000, 600 cotton
mill at Glover, in this county.
Clover already has one cotton
mill which is said to be very
successful. Information coming
here is that the new company
has already been organized, that
a well-known mill man of wide
experience has been selected to
have the active management of
1t, and that the machinery has
already been ordered.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
GRADED SCHOOL HONOR ROLL.
By j. d. Fulp. Supt.

The following pupils have
made an average on all studies
of over 95 and are entitled to be
placed on the honor roll:
First Grade-Doane James,
George Ross Garrison, James
Massey, Ladson Merritt, Louis
Mckibben, Thomas Spratt. Roy
Robinson, Baxter Parks, Frances
Bradford, Omie Hood, Jack
Baker, T. w. Kimbrell, Faulkner
Parks, Harvey Pittman,, Arthur
Steadman, Claude Gordon. Tom
Thompson, Adele Starnes.
Second Grade Willie Brad
ford, Elliott Bennett, Ida Louise
Carothers, Elliott Gordon, Ed
W. rd Harris, Cora Massey, John
Mclaughlin, Inez Wolfe.
Third Grade Edith Parks,
Margie Bryant, John Mckee
Spratt. William Morton. Amidas
Link, Marion Jones, Olin Hood.
Fourth Grade Elizabeth Ard
rey, Lee Carothers, William Haf-
ner, Katherine Massey, Bertha
Moore, Stephen Starnes, Ernest
Wagner.
Fifth Grade jamie Bayne.
Palmer Hudson, Frank Jones,
Pearl McKibben, Elizabeth Mills,
Anna Wolfe.
Sixth Grade Marion Parks.
Annie Parks, Elma Bradford,
Cleo Bales, John Lester Crow
der, Arthur Young,
Seventh Grade - Elizabeth Hill.
Blanche Moser, Sophie Link.
Harvey Wagner, Hattie Beik.
Eighth Grade Beatrice Parks.
Ninth Grade Ruth McLaugh-
lin, Ethel Hughes.
Tenth Grade Clarence Patter-
son, Marjorie Mills, Andrew
Hafner, William Erwin.
Total enrolment, 26S.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
Mr.. Hair is Appreciative.

We were kept busy the day
before Thanksgiving preparing
for our Bible Conference and the
coming of our guests. About
dark | heard Mrs. Hair say,
Where did all these packages
come from?' The negro dray-
man replied, ''Thays frum tHa
store, they blongs here" We
counted twenty-seven packages
filled with good things for our
table. We were no longer con-
cerned about something for our
conferences speakers to eat. Only
a few of the things W ere marked,
but we want to thank every one
who had any part in giving us
such pleasant surprise. | was
often on the street during the
day, and can not understand
how so many things were COL
iected for us, without my finding
1t out. Having been here six
years such a token of apprecia-
tlon is a source of encourage
ment and delight. | am happy
to work with such a thoughtful
and considerate people.
S. p. Hair.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
Will Wed December Is.

President Wilson will be mar
ried to Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait
on Saturday, December 18. The
wedding date was made official
at the White House Saturday
just as the president started on
his usual Saturday automobile
ride into the country with his
fiancee. The statement said:
The marriage of Mrs. Gait
and the president will take place
on Saturday. the eighteenth of
December.
''As previously stated, the
ceremony will be performed at
Mrs. Galt's home, No. 1908
Twentieth street, North West,
this city.
The only guests will be Mrs.
Galt's mother, her brothers and
sisters, the presidents brother
and sisters, his daughters and
the members of his immediate
household. No invitations will
be issued"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
POLITICS TO PLAY PART
IN EISENHOWER TRIAL?

A staff correspondent of the
Columbia Record writes that
paper from York under date of
Tuesday as follows:
The jury that will try Ernest
lsenhower, indicted for the mur-
der of Deputy Sheriff Rawley
bollware, was completed at
l2:l5 this afternoon after the
State had exhausted all of it's
challenges and the defense all
but four. 1t was evident from
the first that the political COM
pleXion of the veniremen were
considered by both the State and
the defense.
1t was authoritatively stated
by counsel of both sides that ten
OF the jurors were Blease and
two anti-Blease men.
1t seems as if the case will be
fought from a political angle.
The jury is as follows: B. B.
Brandon, farmer; Jesse M.
Moore, farmer; j. E. Armstrong.
farmer; S. A. Mitchell, farmer:
j. 7. McAbee, farmer; ]. w.
McSwain, farmer; j. F. Bookout,
farmer; r. M. Mitchell, farmer:
j. M. Poag, farmer; w. l..
Baker, plumber; d. l.. Moss,
clerk; w. H. Jackson, black
smith.
The jrry is evenly divided be-
tween young and middle aged
men.
To prevent any possible trouble
10 extra deputies were sworn in
and stationed in and around the
court room. Witnesses and
spectators were searched for
weapons before allowed to enter
the courtroom. Judge Hayne
F. Rice is presiding. The court
adjourned at 12:40 o'clock until
tomorrow morning.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
House Officials Named.

The appointments for the house
of representatives for the 1916
session of the General Assembly
have been announced by the
speaker, James A. Hoyt, as
follows:
Secretary to the speaker, Miss
Kate Cantwell, Columbia.
General desk clerk, Ralph
Arnold, Spartanburg.
Journal clerk, R. E. Carwile,
Columbia.
Bill clerk, John A. Hammer,
Columbia.
Pages. James T. Bacon Sharp
ton, Edgefeld; Lindsay Odom,
Chesterfield; John Radcliffe, Co.
lumbia; Ernest Gary Sharpe,
Lexington.
Doorkeepers, w. N. Austin,
Greenville: ]. w. McCreight.
Columbia; B. G. Hoover. Orange
burg.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
IMP 0RTANT PLACES
FOR Representatives

The South Carolina delegation
Jared exceptionally we'll in COM
mittee assignments this year,
the list for the Sixty-fourth con-
gress being made public Satur-
day. says a Washington special
to The State.
Representative Finley, dean of
the delegation. retains his place
as ranking Democrat on the
powerful committee on post
offices and post roads.
Mr.. Lever retains his place as
chairman of the committee on
agriculture.
Mr.. Aiken continues ranking
Democrat on the committee of
District of Columbia together
with places on the census and on
expenditures in the navy de-
partment.
Mr.. Byrnes retains his place
on the committee on roads and
war claims and is made chair
man of the committee on mileage
and in addition is assigned to
the strong committee on mer-
chant. marine and fisheries,
which is charged with handling
the administrators important
shipping bill.
Mr.. Ragsdale goes to the COM
mittee on foreign affairs, Dis
trict Of Columbia, and arts and
eXpositions. His change from
the banking and currency COM
mittee was made at his request.
Mr.. Whaley goes or the
Judiciary committee.
Mr.. Nichols goes on the
military affairs committee, which
will handle one end of the pre-
paredness program.
With two chairmanships and
assignments for each member
on influential working COM
mittees, the delegation starts
the session with fine prospects
for effective work.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
Breaking Squire Bales Record.

DIR. Joe Cabell Davis rounded
out his third year as Judge of
Probate for Dillon last Tuesday,
and in looking over his records
Doc" finds that during that
time ne has married $50 couples
and issued 1882 marriage Ii
censes. This record supasses that
of the late Squire Bales so far
that Doc" deserves, and. we
heraby confer upon him, the
title of The Marrying Judge. !"
Dillon Herald.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09
STATE NEWS ARRANGED
f0R 9u!GK READING.

Pete Hamilton, negro, is in
the penitentiary for safe keep
ing, charged with criminal as
sault upon a white woman, in
Pickens county.
Governor Manning has COM
missioned w. c. Cathcart, former
chief of police of Columbia, as
special constable, to act for the
Southern railway in Columbia.
The Brogon cotton mills of
Anderson has resumed operations
after remaining idle for eleven
weeks, due to strike among
the help. About 575 operatives
are again employed at the mill.
Aaron P. Prioleau, a negro,
who for 16 years has contested
all elections to congress from
the Charleston district, Monday
filed contest against the seat
ing of Richard C. Whaley.
Senator E. D. Smith has asked
President Wilson to have the
government assist in getting pot
ash from Germany for Southern
farmers for use in fertilizer.
The president said the state de-
partment would do everything
possible.
Gov. Manning has ordered a
special term of court for Pickens
county to try Pete Hamilton, a
negro held in the State peni-
tentiary on the charge of at
tempted assault. The trial will
begin December 27.
In the sessions court at Spar
tanburg John Horn and Leila
Horn entered pleas of guilty to
. an indictment charging supply
ing cigarettes and tobacco to
minors. They were sentenced
to serve four months or $50 fine
and three months or $25 fine.
Schools in South Carolina show
ing the greatest improvement
during the year will be awarded
cash prizes worth So, 300 at a
meeting of the South Carolina
School Improvement association,
to be held in Columbia Decem-
ber 16.
Fifty persons were arrested
in Anderson last week on the
charge of selling liquor. A num-
ber of them plead guilty. The
cases were worked up by de-
tectives of a national detective
agency who were brought to
Anderson by the mayor of that
city.
Secretary William McAdoo has
accepted an invitation to address
the Southern Commercial con-
gress at Charleston, December
16. The secretary probably will
choose this occasion for his first
discussion of the new admins
tration merchant marine bill
before representative body of
bu> mess men.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-12-09

Only 13 more shopping days
before Christmas. Buy it now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26

no one more interested in getting ~
the bottom Of this situation than IS
the department at Washington
Architect Condemns Boat.
Copy Of letter from n naval hrchl .
tect condemninC the construction OF
the Eastland will be used by state $
Attorney lIoyne in his investigation OF
the disaster, it was learned to-day. Inc
letter was written by John DevereauX
York, of Chicago, TO the United states
Harbor Inspectors here August J., 1918
81 stated in that letter" said Mr..
York, chat the Eastland was not a sale
boat Every naval architect who knew
the construction will tell you she was
extremely dangerous. She had 3s-foot
beam. for which all laws of steamboat
construction require at least 4O-inch
keel. The Eastland had no keel at all
There was no cal passer in the mold
who was not aware of the danger. me
fact that none of them was found IN
the glory hold after she turned over
showed that. There was narrow seal,
ing ladder leading up from that hold
and twenty men worked there. IL would
take twenty men at least twenty min
utes to get out, climbing this narrow
ladder But they were all out when the
ship listed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
PROOF OF CRIME
FOUND DECLARES
CHEF OF POLICE
eNo Doubt of Criminal
Negligence" in EaStIand
Disaster, He Says.

chicago. July 25.-Three investiga-
.:,,s were in full swing here to-day to
certain the cause of the Eastland
'D;cterson y. Hoover. government
..tsr,boat inspector, and Charles West
~. Federal supervisor. arrived from
Wilmington and Detroit. and conferred
IN. the local inspectors, who began to
~ facts for the Federal grand
go ordered cmpanelled Tuesday.
'-Vselav HoyDc, States Attorney. had
srii force of men locating witnesses
% before the county grand jury,
sIisb will be emnanelled tomorrow.
ire entire Police Department was
tive That evidence Of criminal neg
t.snce IT, connection with the wreck
- bsen obtained by them was limited
H. G {. Hca,cy. chief Of police. He
va valuable information was found
- tto Inspection papers seized yester-
s.v IN Captain Harry Pcdersen's cabin.
Twcuty-uiue Arrests Made.
Two documents we're taken, and the
,,ntair and twcGty-eiGht officers and
.,lrbers of Che crew arrested. These
,eDers. according 10 the meagre in
;,rrrs.;on that could be obtained about
,5er,. showed that following inspec-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26

because the law does not 90 into ef-
feet until after the present season
closes.
Secretary Praises Bill.
Speaking candidly, it seems to the
writer personally and without criti-
cism Of your present course, which Is
permitted by the lawful authorities,
that the existing conditions permit
greater risk Of serious loss of life
and less protection against same,
either for you or for the public, and
that requirements of the seamen's law,
however temporarily difficult, are in
the interests Of public policy and OF
public safety.
$50 far as the suggested increase in
the number of your crew is concerned.
among the present crew of seventy
there are possibly six or eight licensed
officers and probably seventeen or eigh-
teen able seamen who would have to
be provided for the command OF the
lifeboats and life RATS and about thirty
certified lifeboat men, making about
fifty seamen and lifeboat men.
"These, however, need not be ih ad-
dition TO the crew of seventy already
carried, for among the crew, exclusive
of licensed officers. there should now
be sufficient able seamen and llfeboat
men to meet tho requirements. The law
does not necessarily increase your crew,
provided able seamen and lifeboat men
are now contained therein. II may
operate to improve its quality. This
also is in the interest of public safety.
81 am interested to know how many
trips during the season you carried in
excess of 1,542 persons. including pas
sengers and crew, and as to whether
YOU think it practicable to increase the
earning capacity by operating during a
longer season"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
TO SIFT AIGRETTE
SMUGGLING TO n. 7,
Department of Justice Takes
Up Report of Audubon Soci-
ties of Law Violation.
From The Tribune Bureaul

Washington, July 25.-Acting on in
formation furnished by T. Gilbert
Pearson, Of New York, secretary OF the
National Association of Audubon So
cieties, the Department of Justice has
begun an investigation into the charges
that aigrettes are being smuggled
through the parcel post TO New York
and Florida. The report 10 the depart
ment has not been made public, but
officials say that IL is the first viola
tion Of the kind reported 10 them.
The large number OF aigrettes worn
By New York society women" said DR..
Pearson, land the abundance of this
plumage on fall millinery would indi-
cate that aigrettes are being struggled
into New York in large quantities.
They are sent from several parts OF
Florida. and are sent out mostly
through the parcel post. Sometimes
they are concealed in shipments OF
alligator hides Many are sold 10 tour
lists TO Florida We are starting a
rigid investigation
The smuggling Of aigrettes through
the parcel POS; is In violation Of the
postal laws, rs under the Tracy act il
is illegal TO ship from one state to an
other birds illegally Killed in that
state,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
OLD WOMAN HIT
BY AUTO; GUNS
USED In CHASE
Motor Party Escapes Al
ter Mrs. GonZaleS'S
Mother Is Hurt.

Two men and two women sped down
Manhattan Avenue yesterday alter
noon in a touring car. They shouted
and laughed and paid little attention
10 the erratic course their car pursued.
In front of 800 Manhattan Avenue two
women were crossing the street. One
was Mrs. Rose Lowenstein, sixty-eight
years old; the other was her daughter
Mrs. Manuel Gonzales, wife of the
Costa Rican Consul General.
Needless Of the car that was bearing
down upon them, the cider woman kept
on her way, and was dragged almost
from beneath the wheels of the vehicle
by her daughter. A mudguard struck
her and knocked her to the pavement
Policemen who had seen the acci-
dent called to driver of the car to halt.
He paid no attention TO them, and they
climbed into another car and gave
chase. The hilarious party IN the hrst
car had the heels of their pursuers ana
drew away from them.
above the heads OF their quarry. The
only answer was an increase in speed,
the two women covering in their seats
at every shot. The chase led across
18th Street to Morningside Avenue
and west on Cathedral Parkway
Through a maze of traffic the fleeing
automobile lodged, losing its pursuers
at Broadway.
With the help of by-passers, Mrs
Gonzales carried her mother into her
home. at 800 Manhattan Avenue. Dr.
X. K. Cuimore, a neighbor, found that
she was internally injured and had
fracture of the nose. She refused to
90 to the hospital.
The number of the offending auto
mobile was sent to Headquarters and
detectives were sent to trace it.
The police are looking for the driver
of the auto truck of Eymer c. Brown,
of 159 West 103d Street, who made
his escape after probably MORALLY in
turing Harry Neville, an actor. at FIJI
tieth Street and Broadway last night
At the Polytechnic Hospital 1t was
found that Neville had a broken leg
and a fracture of the skull. The driver
iumped from the truck before 1t had
stopped and disappeared.
While crossing Third Avenue at
173d Street, The Bronx, Miss Pauline
Katz. nineteen, of Jersey City, stepped
in front of an automobile driven by
Walter J. Monr, of Stratford, Conn.
Nohr. whose wife and two children
we're in the car, rushed the injured
woman to the Fordham Hospital, where
il is thought she will die. Mohr is to
appear tomorrow at an investigation.
Robert j. Saunders, twenty-six. a
chauffeur, of 237 West Forty-slxth
Street. is in Flower Hospital with a
fractured skull, the result of driving
his taxicab against an IL" pillar at
Fortv-ffth Street and Third Avenue:
Saunders is prisoner on a charge OF
driving while intoxicated.
James Ruder, driving a Jitney 'ous'
killed Michael Yeoman, nine. Of 80 n
Johnson Street, Newark, at New. Jer-
soy Railroad Avenue and ilchenor
street.. He will answer a charge oil
granddaughter this morning.
Bessie Kramer, seven, daughter OF q
Long Branch automobile man, was run
down in front of the Grand Theatre
on Broadway, Long Branch, by an
automobile driven by Ernest bailiiy'
of BROOKLYN. She died while on the
way to a hospital. Bailly was held IN
$4,000 bail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
CANADIAN BORDER
HAS SPY ALARM
Aeroplane Makes Night Visits
Wireless Plant in Woods
Near German Camp.

BRETON Woods. \. H.. July 70
Residents of Northern Vermont and
New Hampshire are becoming alarmed
AZ the presence of what are believed
10 be German spies. An aeroplane
with searchlights has been seen near
the Canadian border and IS thought
30 no the one whose night vistations
are alarming Montreal and Quebec.
Fishermen who have penetrated into
tho Maine woods near the Canadian
border report coming upon wire
less apparatus connected with camp
owned by Germans.
Two Germans claiming 20 be solicit
ing orders for a business house In Bos-
ton are in Colebrook. One OF them
takes a carriage or motor daily and
makes a canvass Of the network Of
roads which Eun northwsrd and over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
SING SING DEAN DEAD
Vanderlip Radium Failed to
Save Murderer Prisoner.

Henry Moehler, aged sixty-seven, the
oldest inmate in Sing Sing prison, died
there yesterday from cancer. lie had
served eighteen years Of a twenty
year sentence for murder in the second
degree.
Radium furnished by Frank A. Van
derlip, the banker, which was used by
Dr. Squier. failed to save him. He
was sentenced from Richmond. Staten
Island. He had no relatives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26

ton the boat was permitted to carry
two thousand passengers and crew
OF seventy. Chief Healey refused TO
discuss the papers other than to admit
he had them and that he would turn
them over to States Attorney Hoyne.
Has there been criminal negli-
gence? the chief was asked.
There is no doubt of that" Chief
Healcy answered.
Coroner Hoffman issued the follow
ing statement to-day:
Il intend TO use every effort within
my power to punish every person, di-
rectly or indirectly responsible for this
disaster. None shall escape.
II am ready 70 cooperate with any
official, city, state or national, in fixing
the responsibility for this disaster"
Cause Still a Mystery.
Numerous theories were advanced TO
account for the accident, but evidence
thus far obtained made no single one
more probable than another.
One theory given credence by many
was that the water ballast had been
pumped out TO tighten the boat and the
weight Of the large number of passen-
gers, crowded to one side, naturally
turned her that way.
Another theory was that the boat
was simply overcrowded, while third
was that the bow of the boat had be-
come Embedded in the mud and that
when her engines were started and she
did not release herself, the boat ca
reened and the weight of the passen-
gers carried her over. Faulty con-
struction, alleged by some as the cause,
was denied by both owners and inspec-
tors alike.
Dickerson n. Hoover, who IS acting
Supervising Inspector General of the
Steamboat Inspection Service, on his
arrival said:
"All am here for is to impress upon
the local inspectors the grave impor.
lance of a thorough investigation. If
it is true that an inspector is 70 blame
| want to know it. If il is some other
cause l want TO know that. There is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26

the Canadian line eight miles distant
Residents along the Maine Central
Railroad. fear that Germans would
sweep through townships 70 seize the
seaport Of Quebec as base in event
Of any trouble between the United
States and Germany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26

beaches at Coney Island from early
yesterday morning until late in the
evening. Az o'clock yesterday morn
ing five thousand more or less patient
swimmers were waiting in line before
the municipal baths. The doors opened
at o'clock. Several bathers were res
cued
Nurses at the White Cross tent on
the beach treated more than three hun
dred persons for minor injuries. Many
of them were children whSe feet were
GU. By broken glass in the saSA