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Pithy Points Gathered for the Peru:>al
of limes Readers.
Mr. A. A. Bradford, jr., has
moved with his family to Rock
Hill.
Rev. Dr Bays, presiding elder
of the Rock liill circuit, preached ;
in the Methodist church at this 1
place Saturday morning.
Mr. A. M. Townsend and Miss :
Maggie Jones, of Salisbury, X. C.,1
were married at the Catawba |
House a few days ago bv Rov. E. ,
A. Hurtsoll.
Capt. W. E. Ardrey and daughter,
Miss Emma, of Ardreye, N.C.,
spent last Thursday in Fort Mill j
with the family of his brother, Mr. I
J. W. Ardrcy. !
Mr. J. Lee Spratt left Monday
evening for Baltimore, Md., to resume
his dental studies at tlie
Univorsity of Maryland. He will
graduate iu the class of 1901.
The man who said that a sucker
is born every second was a philosopher.
Proof of the correctness
of the statement was abundant in
Fort Mill last week when scores
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oi peopie uanueu over uarcl-earnetl
I dollars to ail itinerant vendor of
alleged medicinal preparations.
Mr. W. T. Hoagland has bought
the vacant lot on Booth street opposite
the small brick store-room
of Mrs. Eliza Fulwood and will fit
once begin the erection thereon of
a fireproof livery stable. The stable
which lie is now using will be
occupied this winter by Messrs.
E. S. Nivens and W. F. Harris.
A game of baseball was played
Ion the diamond in this place Saturday
afternoon between a colored
team from Pleasant Valley and an
aggregation of coons claiming to
represent Fort Mill The game
was won by Pleasant Valley. The
uniforms worn by some of the
nlnvAro wiirij f.ifnl,;.... I.
v.u M> 11. 1.1. IV 11111^ ill IUC L'ltronie,
mid this in especially apIplicable
to the arrangement of the
pants stripes.
The New Gums Law.
Tho following item, taken from
The State of last Thursday, should
prove of interest to tho sportsmen
in this community: "The hunting
season opens on November J. Tho
now game law, which prohibits tho
sale of partridges, etc., will play
hayoo with tho 'pot hunters.' Atiy
person offering partridges for sale
will be liable to a tine and imprisonment.
Tho new law will be in
force for five years, and it is intended
to put a stop to tho wholesale
slaughter of birds bv ne.mlp
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who slay them for the ruarkot.
The 'pot hunters' have weeded out
the coveys to a great extent, and
the law will have the etfect
of checking the indiscriminate
slaughter and sale of birds."
The Alilitary Entertainment.
The entertainment which was
given in the town hall last Friday
evening for the benefit of the military
company brought out the
largest crowd of tho season, that,
too, notwithstanding the fact that
there was a free show in town at
tho same time. Tho entortaininent
began with a drill by a squad of
cloven members of tho company,
who were commanded by Lieut. T.
15. Spratt Their proficiency in the
manual of arni3 elicited frequent
applause, and a number of persons
were heard to remark that they
drilled with the precision of regulars.
After tho military feature of
the entertainment was concluded,
Dr. J. 11. Thornwell, who appeared
in his Confederate uniform, was
introduced and in an interesting
talk of half an hour related reminiscences
of a trip ho made to
Kuropo a few years ago, itev. K.
A. Yonge was next presented to
I lie audit nee. The subject of his
lecture was "The Soldier." He
told of the patriotism of the Southern
soldier in the ''late unpleasantness"
and said that the voluntoer,
and not the mercenary soldier,
could bo depended upon in time of
need. The music furnished by the
Gold Ilill orchestra, under the
leadership of Mr. (J. P. Blankenship,
added no little to the success
of the entertainment. This was
the first public appearance of the
orchestra, though one would not
have suspected it from tlio mu ic:
trade at Home.
Now that the fall season hao
begun vc wish to call the attention
of the buying public to their duty
to home merchants. A great many
people think that they can buy
cheaper of tho mail-order houses
of the largo cities than thev can at
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home. This is a mistake. The
home merchants only ask that they
be dealt with on the same basis
that you deal with the catalogue 1
houses. {Some people, however,
prefer to buy away from home because
it sounds big to be able to
say they ordered from Chicago,
1 Philadelphia or New York. The
mail-order houses demand pay- !
ment in advance, with no floods in
i sight. Treat home merchants like
I you are compelled to treat your (
J catalogue houses and you will find
i tlm former more liberal and get
| better results. The department:
( stores require you to pay express
I charges and then if the goods are
! not satisfactory it is quite a job to
, get things corrected, no matter how
| willing the concern may bo. Not
: t:., ? ;n. 1 1?<- ^
nivii im iiiuiiu me 11; ii a/i i s ; lucy
are anxious to correct ull mistakes
and do so at once. They help
pay the taxes and support homo ;
i institutions; they buy homo prod- .
ucts and employ home salesmen. ,
(The Northern mail-order houses'
do not help run our scdiools and ,
I churches, neither do they help j
| build our roads or ^ive employ- i
' ment to anyone in this sec tic n. |
i The homo merchants?those who >
I advertise in The Times?ure well,
; prepared for fall business and they '
; are entitled to your patronage.
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Monday morning Capt. W. 11. i
j Bradford received tho following
I letter from the adjutant general's
office in Columbia:
Sir: Arrangements are now be;
ing perfected to have during fair ;
, week in Columbia a grand parade j
and review of tho Slate volunteer
i troops by his excellency, the governor
and his stuff, and also u comi
petitive prize drill oontt-6t between i
I infantry companies composing the
I State volunteer sorviee. Both are ,
to bo held during tin- week of the
State fair?the drill contest on
i I
Wednesday, October 31, and the j
parade review on Thursday, No|
vembcr 1. Six hundred dollars in 1
j money prizes will be awarded by .
competent judges to the three,
companies showing the greatest
proficiency?$300 to the first. $200
! to the second and $100 to the third.'
! It is also contemplated offering a
, handsome silver souvenir, as an
individual prize, to the man showing
tho greatest proficiency of
drill in the manual of arms.
Tents will bo pitched and cnnip
made ready to receive the troops
] as thoy arrivo, and meals will be
provided for the men while in
I camp free of charge. Therefore
, the only expense to be incurred b>
the companies is the ruilway
to and from Columbia.
1 earnestly urge that captains I
i exert themselves to bring as nearly f
as possible the full strength of
their companies, not only that they
; may reap the benefits of camp rx!
pcrienco but to swell tho number |
and add to the appearance of the |
I parade and review as well. * * *
A squad of 21 men, rank rnd
file, will be required from each
company ontoring tho competitive
drill contest.
I desire to impress upon you the
necessity of assembling your cot 1pany
at once, and advising ine at!
tho earliest possible inoim nt j
whether you can and will bring
your company, and nlso about i
what will be the strength, rank >
, and file. Tho time is short and
; immediate action and report to the
, adjutant general is very earnestly
requested.
Very rcBpectfully,
J. W. Fi.oyi>,
Adjutant General.
I As yet no reply lias beon sent to !
j the foregoing letter. A special t
meeting of the Fort Mill Light
Infantry is to bo held in the town
hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
to decide definitely whether the ;
company will attend the State fair.
There seems to be no doubt, how- i
ever, that the company will attend,
as a majority of the members have
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At the N?tioital Cxpitat.
Re^nlur corros^tiukiHX.
Warhinutox, Septj 21, 11)00.?
Mr. McKinlev's follow! imperialist,
the Emperor of Gprumay, not
having a slumping political cam
pnign oti his hands,(has notitied
his American imithtor that lie
ttiust. tish, cut bait, c;r got out of
tho Chinese boat. .^Ir. McKinley
found this notification in the shape
of the demand of thf* German Emperor
that tho Chinese officials
who instigated the attack on for
signers snail De punished before
Uormnny will participate in negotiations
with China, when he paid
Washington one of his periodical
visits last week, and with it
was a communication asking in
diplomatic language what ho was
going to do about it. There was
a hurrying and scurrying, ami
with the assistance of some assistant
secretaries and those members
of the cabinet who are not on the
stump or taking things easv awav
from their olliecH a reply to Germany's
communication was concoeted
and sent off. It was not
made public, but there is little
doubt that it was a plea for delay I
enough to curry the matter bi yond
the election. It is plain enough
that Germany means to make war ;
on China, and now that Count
Waldersee, the German commander-in-chief,
is on the ground, the '
Kaiser wants to know whether Mr. \
MeKinley is going to help him or
not, and Mr. MeKinley wants to
find out whether he is going to he ;
re-elected before giving a positive
reply. If re-elected, he may consider
that an endorsement of imperialism
and conclude to add a slice
of China to his imperial domain.
Boss Uanna and his crowd, including
Mr. MeKinley, have lost
no opportunity to humiliate fc>eua- i
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lui jl' uiuk t iur several years .
but thin "week Mr. MeKinloy sent
for Senator Foraker and bogged
him to put his shoulder to tho |
McKinloy wheel in Ohio. Nothing j
could t( 1. tho story of Mr. Mo- i
Kinloy'w iright in plainer terms.
Democrats around tho Congressional
committee headquarters are
greatly (h-lightod with thatChieago '
speech of Boss llanna, in which
ho so far lost his head as to say:
"I beli 'vo there is r.ot a trust in the
United States." They believe ,
bat this assertion 011 tho part of j
Raima will bo morth many thousands
o votes to iiryan and Steven- |
sou ai Hie Denioeraticcandidates
f Congress, because it is so manifestly
false that it will disgust intelligent
men who have heretofore
voted the Republican ticket. To
say tiat there isn't a trust in the
U. S when there isn't a family in
the country which doesn't know j
and feel by the surest test, increase
in its living expenses, of the exist>nr
of numerous trusts, is as ridiculous
us to say that black is
wlpte. The Republican platform
reiognizcd the existence of trusts,
as did the letters of acceptance of
.V r. Mclvinley and Mr. Roosevelt,
bit 1 lanna says that there arc no j
t usts. After muLing such an j
sortion, Mr. Hanna can not expect!
the people to believe anything he i
says about other issues of the campaign.
It' ITannacan only be Kept
talking in that strain, the election
of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson
can be made unanimous. Mr. McKinley
is being urged by many to
try to muzzle IJ anna.
Another Murder in Keck till I.
The Hock llill Herald of today j
publishes the following account of ;
a murder which occurred in that,
city last Thursday night:
Human blood has again been
spilled in this city, but this time
the parties to the tragedy are colored
und both the principals strangers.
The murder, for murder it. j
was, was committed at the home of
Annie Neal, on west Main street,!
at an early hour Thursday night.
The murclorer ih Will Watson and
his victim was Mary Wingate, alias
Mary Watson. Both the parties
caino hero.recently from Pineville,
X. O. They were illicit lovers !
Watson had made the woman hi*
mistress under promise of mar
ringe. They had hoen together a,!
man and wife for several :nontl3 :
? after liv'ng in Pho*t< j
'
where she received employmont \
with Annie Nenl. Watson came
to Hock Ilili soon after, hut for J
some reason not explained the'
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>. vmmii il-illSCU 10 l.VC longer with
liim. Last Fiiday night lie up-'
penrod at tlu* inane of Annie Neal i
and besought Mary Watson to return
with aim to Pineville, X. C.,
whence tlicy both had eonie. The
woman refused,reminding Watson j
of his broken promises. Watson '
continued to implore the woman :
to return to him, protesting his
love for her, and when he found
that his entreaties were in vain
he entered the house and drawing
his pistol, tired three times at the
woman. One of the balls entered
just below the left breast, pene- |
trating the heart; the other en- 1
tored the throat. The woman es- J
pired almost instantly. The mur- 1
derer, seeing his bloody work, i
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whim'u mu <u tin1 House ami clis
appeared. lie m si ill at large.
Snturdnj*. Magistrate Beckham, |
acting coroner, held an iu<|uesti
over the body of tho woman and
after hearing the testimony and
viewing the body the jury rendore 1 |
a verdict that the deceased came
to her death by a pistol ball fired (
from the hand of Will Watson,
colored.
Magistrate JJeekam has asked |
tho governor to olTer a reward for
the apprehension of the murderer, j
A protracted meeting is to begin j
at the Baptist church in this place
on the iirst Sunday in Octob< r.
Tho pastor, Kev. Mr. Finch, will
ho assisted by Kev. F. O. S. Curtis.
l)f r.llll pi lib" vnr V ( 1 \T~ ' 1 * - - '
. v in i. v. ui i!H ;
was pastor of Flint Hill church,
neor Fort Mill, a few yearn ago.
Saystho Lancaster Review: The
Yorkvillo Enquirer does not think
Frye's geography, one of the text
books recently adopted by the
State board of education, will become
popular in the Yorkville graded
school, for the reason that no
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mention is made of that town in ;
the special South Carolina supple-!
nient, along with Lancaster, ("lies- j
ter, Rock llill and Fort Mill. The ,
supplement was prepared by a
prominent Rock llill citizens, and
indignant Yorkvillians will have to
call upon tlmt gentleman for an ;
explanation.
AN ADVERTISEMENT
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IN THE
TIMES WOFLD
I "A \ YOU
vHANDSOMELY.
frRY IT.
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Milch tow For Sale.
A yonnK .lifrse^ milch cow, with s?-eoml
calf, i- u>ff red for sale. A;>j>ly to
Mrs. ,1. K ifj \ mas, Fort AT ill, S.
Notice to Trespassers.
All person* arc hereby warned not to '
hunt, fish, ?fut timber or otherwise tros- t
l>ass on tin,- lauds of the undersigned. |
IN rsons vit^latiiiK this wuruinj; will he ;
deal' withfuoeordin/; to law.
I F. NIMS.
I J. W. AUDREY'. j
,T. 1). WITHERS.
I 8. E. WHITE.
Honey Loaned.
,,vo r(?'^oiinte niort<;npo lonns on
"UJJIU. Jyd farms ut reasonable
rates.
\\ ITUERSPUON & SPENCER.
^'i)ek I fill nml Yorkville, S. (\
POINTERS.
gold ring can lio had by chowf'Wrigley's
Ouni."
most, comfort can be had
from "Cuban Styx" cigars.
Garwood's Cologne Extracts are
'\e best made they cost thu most.
"Looncn" is the brand and
'mine of the maker of the standard
(ooth brush of the world.
Wali-Wali" is the best smoking
tobacco. A clay pipe and stem
goes with it.
'Match It" is the name of the
new cheroots that ovorrop all the
woll-knonw brands.
I
(INK DOLLAR S
IS EQUAL TO TWO POLLA
of cur low pvica s. W hen wo make a <
We do not have to give halt' of it to a
for house rent. Wo have no partners
jo pay, so wo can make more clear mo
profit than most linns can make at 20
. Look nrouiul before % ou buy you
lure. Stoves, etc. Compare Piiees, ah
we nre euro to got your order. Wo hi
the balance of the town nil put togctli
ties, as well as a largo stock of plain
the same prices you paid v.hou cotton
We luive a full stock <>C the famot
Indies and children. Our customeri
wear twice as long us any other shoe i
We lmvo the latest styles in Lac
Jackets, Millinery, and Dress Triuii
bargains in Black and Colored Silks,
compare our prices,
L. J. MA
OUR FALL
MILLINERY OPE
To the Liulies of Fort Mill and !
cordially invited to attend our Fall ^
and Friday, September 27th and 28tli
of our Fall Millinery and we guaranti
alone; this Hue. Mian Fravor, our e:
Curtis, has been working for days getl
such a getting together of milinory si
Fort Mill has never seen before will g
Yours respectfully,
MEM
P. s. Miss Flavor received by toi
millinery from CioUlon, New Mexico, t
than 2,000 miles.
9 C t ? t C t-* Cr fr $ ft & C* < 11 e-C C-(r 6 ft fr * fr
I^^INCME
S Factory Loaded S
I "Leader" and "Repeater"
ft
* powder and "Nhw Rival" loz
$ Superior to all other brands f
: UNIFORMITY, RELIABII
$ : STRONG SH(
* Winchester Shells are for sale
ill
^ having them when you buy and y
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JOB MINTING
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RS MADE. This is the secret
dollar we are h dollar bettor oil",
paitiierand part of what is left
to divide with and no house rent
ney selling goods at 10 por cent
per cent.
ii* Fall LVy Goods, Shoea, Furni?o
Quality of gooda. If you do,
tvo more Now Dresa Goods than
or. V?*e have all the uew novelgo
da, in the no welt wonves, at
wr.a cents.
is IIAIlFvISBUIlG SHOES, for
5 who have tried them say they
it the satuo price,
lies' and Childrens' (V.pea and
nings, and home fpocially good
Call and see our new goods and
.SSEY.
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1NING.
Surroundinrr Pniml? ?? \r~?i
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lillinory Opening 011 Thursday
. This will lie the first display
?e it to surpass all other efforts
sport milliner, assisted by Miss
ing reudy for this occasion, and
tylishnoss and money saving as
root your at this opening.
3HAM & EPPS.
Jay's mail her second order for
10 wo arc shipping goods nioro
M. ?&. E.
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hotgun Shells. |
loaded with Smokeless S
ft
ided with Black powder. *
or *
T
-1TY AND v
>OTING QUALITIES. |
by all dealers. Insist upon *
ou will gut the best. ?
1*r $
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flMES OFFICE.
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