Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, January 08, 1902, Image 3
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7 t?il? ?f 1tK fast Week la and AraJkd
*Uws Briefly Tald.
Vaccination and sore arms pjsu
tors nowadays.
Miss Effie Gulp is visiting relJc-'
atives in Rock Hill.
Mr. G. H. Thompson visited his
old home at Burlington, N. C.,
last week.
Mr. Leroy Sprinirs. of Lancss
ter, was a visitor to Fort Mill
Sunday.
Messrs. Ben Massey and James
Fulp entered the K. M. M. A- at
Vorkville last week.
Prof. J. A Boyd, of Huntereville,
N. C., spent several days in
town Christmas week.
Air. W. B. Ardrey spent a few
hours in Charlotte Monday, on
business.
Christmas passed off quietly in
Fort Mill except for the little rows
that are to be expected during the
holidays.
On Monday of Last week Catawba
river was only two feet lower
than during the memorable freshet
of last spring.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Gatling,
of Hallsboro, N. C., spent the
holidays with relatives in Fort
Mill.
Tit T *r 1 H ^ 1
iun?. at. v/aeu, 01 uoncora,
spent several days of last week at
the home of her sister, Mrs. S. E.
White.
Miss Xaunie McElbaney returned
Hundny fr<uu Charlotte,
where she visited relatives during
the past week.
Prof. Earl Tlvornwell returned
te Kershaw Friday to resume his
duties as principal of the high
school of that place.
Presiding Ekier Bays, of Rock
Hill, preached the morning and
evening sermons at the Methodist
I church Sunday.
Mr. IT. H. Johnston and family
are now occupying the Mills house
on the corner of Booth and Main
I streets.
The installation of new officers
of Electra lodge, K. of P. took
place at its meeting cu Monday
evening.
As will be observed by a notice
in another column, the town election
will be held on January 13th,
instead of the 14th, as has been
advertised.
Owing to the complete failure
of the last crop, s number of land
owners in this township are having
considerable trouble in renting out
i i_ ?i-!
uit-ir ihuun luis year.
The southbound trains were
considerably delayed during the
past week on account of the high
waters north of this place.
Miss Eunice Hall, of Fort Mill,
and Mrs. Ossie Hall of Pleasant
Valley, returned last week from
a visit to relatives in North Carolina.
The attention of the authorities
is directed to the condition of a
email bridge near the Whitesprings
ginhouee over which is
it dangerous to cross.
Mr. Thomas Parks and Miss
Daisy Culp, daughter of Mr. Wm.
Culp, were married Sunday evening
Dec. 29th, by 'Squire Bailee,
? at the home of the latter, north of
Fort Mill.
Mr. J. M. Kennett iwaivaH a
, nice reed rocking chair no a Christmas
present from the employees
of the weave room of the Millfort
Mill, of which he is overseer.
Mr. Edgar Price of Steele Creek,
visited .at the home of Mr. It. P.
Grier last week, Mr. Price was
I once a student of the Fort Mill
high school.
Married on the 28th ultimo,
Mr. Frank Johnston, Jr., and Miss
Dora Gordon. Notary J. W. McElhaney
officiated. The marriage
took place at the home of the
bride's father, Mr. John Gordon.
Several cases of smallpox are
reported to have recently developed
in a fnmily of negroes on Mr. J. M.
" Spratt's place, west of town.
There are also said to he several
new cases at the Fort Mill Mfg
Co.'s village.
Capt. T. B. Spratt, of the Fort
Mill Light Infantry, requests us
to state that a special meeting of
the company will he held tomorrow
(Thursday) night. The regular
drill will take place Saturday
.afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Through Jthje effect? of an adver- I
tisenient in The Times, Mr. S. L. |
MeaeliAiu has secured aud shipped <
9,975 tags to the R. J. Reynolds |
Tobacco Co., at Winston, N. C. j
On account of the wet weather j
during the holidays, the boys were i
allowed the privilege of shooting
fifeworks iuside the incorporate j
limits. The merchants have very J
unit iireworKs 10 carry over until
uext Christians.
Mr. Marshall Lazenby, who vras
up from Rock Hill Suudny,
brought the information that Mr.
Toiu Airedge, n young man of
Rock Hill, died of smallpox at his
home in that city Friday night.
Mr. G. P. Dobson. who has for
some time been employed as a
foreman at the Charlotte Brick ]
Company's yard eouth of town, has
accepted a position at the Ashe j
brick yard in Ri>ck Hill, and i
moved with his family to that city
Monday. . ]
Business has been quite dull j
6ince Christmas and is likely to be
for the next two weeks. Tlio mer- i
chants, owing to poor collections I
during the past fall and present
winter, are not in the humor to 1
sell goods 011 credit as yet, and
there seems to be very little cash j
in the liands of the buying public. I
Anthony Adger, a negro boy .
who has been employed as dray- ,
man for Mills A* Young, was called j
upon a few days ago to account:
for a number of articles which
had been missed from the store
recently. Adger protested inuo- j
cence, but was willing to com pro- ;
mise the case by paying the sum j
of $10.
Mr. L. E. Ligon spent several
days of last week with his family, ;
who are visiting relatives in this i
place. Mr. Ligon, who has recently
been employed as operator fur ;
the S. A. L. Railway at Elberton,
Ua., has again been transferred j
to Wake Forest, where lie was
first assigned to duty by the Seaboard.
On Sunday of last week two!
negro men, Bob McElwee and Lee j
Potta, became involved in a difficulty
about some cooking uten- (
sils, aud McElwee fired on Potts
with a pistol. The shot took effect
in Potts' back inflicting a serious
wound. The affray occurred on
Mr. L. S. Niveil's place, north of
Fort Mill, and at last accounts
McElwee had not been arrested.
Repairing tbe Town halt
At a meeting of the mnyor ntid
town council held on Monday of
last week it was decided to appropriate
$25 to the Fort Mill Light j
Infantry to be used in reflooring
and otherwise repairing the town
hall. The company will donate
a like sum aud the balance is to
be raised by a couple of our energetic
young men who will in a
few days open a dancing school
in the hall, the proceeds to-be
used in the repair work. Howevei^j
tHe contract was awarded to Mr. j
A. A. Bradford, Jr., relay afternoon
and work on t'rtHf li?H ^
gun Monday morning.
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W. 0. W. and I. 0. 0. F. Fleet office^
At a recent meeting of White
Oak Camp, No. 51, W. O. W. of
ficers for 1902 were elected as follows
:
J. Q. Cousart, C. M.
W. T. Hoagland, P. C. M.
S. W. Parks, Adv. Lieut.
L. .J. Massey, Banker.
T. A. Mills. Clerk.
A. R. McEliianey, Escort.
J. M. Willeford, O. G.
T. E. Merritt, I. G.
The Fort Mill Camp I. O. O. F.
electod the following as their otlicers
for the present year:
Geo. McMatius, V. Y.
M. J. Adcock, V. G.
J. W. Donahue, Secy.
A. II. McElhaney, Treas.
R. L. Kir by, W arden,
W. L. Hall, Conductor.
Young .Wan Dies of Appendicitis.
One of the most serious opera- |
tions performed in Fort Mill in n j
number of years was that Tues- .
day of last week when a 14-year- ]
old son of Mr. W. D. Tlierell was
operated upon for appendicitis, j
The operation was performed by
Drs. Kirkpatrick, Thompson and i
Spratt. It was thought a short
time after the operation that the '
young man was improving, but at
about 5 o'clock he grew worse
and death relieved his sutfering ut j
a few minutes before six. The j
interment was made Wednesday
at tbe Pleasant Hill cemetery.
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Prof. Dye Elected But Cannot Accept.
At the meeting of the board of
trustees of the Fort Mill graded
schools, held on Dec 17, Prof. J B.
Dye, of Chester, wag elected to
succeed Prof. S. M. Mason, as
nrincioal of the ri-Iwk.I
Pr??f. Dye whs at once notified
of his election, and inquiry was
made as to when he could come to
Port Mill. In his reply, Prof.
Dye asked the Fort Mill board to
allow him a few days in which to
tender his resignation, etc., nt
Lowrysville, and promised to let
the board of trustees hear from
him as soon as this had been douo.
The next letter from Prof. Dye
stated that it would be impossible
to accept the Fort Mill position, as
the trustees of the Lowrysville
school ha I refused to release him
from his pr- sent charge.
Steps will at once he taken to;
secure a teacher as principal of i
our school, and it is hoped to have
everything arranged to open the]
Kind oi year just eios<
thing Store" of Mills <
ord has been establish
>>f customers who have
ord, is due the compli
business vision in eh
jlvhich to do business,
with obsolete ideas o
disposed to be umvilli
mauds of the hour as 1
ers. Our aim lias alw
customers better good
better treatment than
other establishment, a
of the upbuilding of tl
the reason that the ye
than the last, the last
before it and so on ba
have tried our level la
as you have wanted Hi
have been to a degree
endeavor to improve t
that we may merit to <
your patronage4 and p;i
that Dame Fortune w
ing the coming year a
prosperity on every vc
? MILLS &
scoooi oi? February 2.
Gold Hill Rural Mail Delivery.
Carrier J. R. Haile, Jr., made '
his first trip over the new Gold j
Hill rural delivery mail route Inst ;
Wednesday, Jan. 1st., leaving
Fort Mill at 10 o'clock n. in., and (
returning at dark. The route
takes a westerly direction from
Fort Mill passim; the homes of!
Messrs. Edgar Jones and S. P.!
Sutton, tlienee by Griffin's store'
into Gold Hill, and returns to town '
by the Springs old place, the dis-!
tance being about 25 miles. There j
are 25 boxes on the route und
were purchased, at ^1.25 each, by
the following parties, near whose
homes they have been located:'
W. I. Jonee, Edgar Jones, J. H.
Sutton, W. E. Griffin,O. P. Blankenship,
J. G. Smith, W. 11. Windie.
C. B. Kimbrell. W. 11. Boyd,
J. P. Stroup, C, B. Smith, W. H.
Crook, S. L.Garrison, Z. T, llailes,
S. H. Epps, Jr., J. Ii. Kimbrell.
W. It. Warren, S. P. Blankeiiship,
J. Iv. Carothers, J. It. Miller, J. B.
Nichols. W. O. Bailee, J. H. Potts,
J. P. Crowder, D. V. Biankonship.
Parties mailing drop letters at
Fort Mill for patrons of the route
will observe the fact that a 2-cent
stamp must be placed on the let
ter instead of a 1-cetit stamp as
heretofore.
Parties along the route express
themselves highly pleast-d with the
new service, and regret only one
thing?that thoy did not apply for
! it sooner.
1901a"
! 1
A year in the can
that marks some impr
some advancement in
tile in material for enl
i*i
Annual 4 Per Cent Dividend Paid Out
The stockholders of the Savings
Bank of Fort Mill held their ho- j
iiuhI meeting January 0, and
elected the following Iujuixl of di- I
rectors: S. E. White, ?T. B. Mack, j
t a f c. n ii* i? *? i 1
?. in. r:?(Hiiti, . i). lucacuaiu and
W. I. Jones. Tlio directors then
elected officers hs follows: S. K.
White, president; J. M. Spratt,
vice-president; W. 15. M enchain,
cashier. J. B. Muck and J. M.
Spratt were appointed on the ti
nance coin in it tee.
The usual semi-annual dividend i
of 4 per ct.^wus paid out t> tlie
stockholders.
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A Brilliant Christmas Affair.
One of the chief attractions of'
Christinas week in Fort Mill was |
the Christinas tree and exhibition i
by the pupils of Miss Annie Ca- i
rothera school. The exercises in
connection with the tree consisted
of songs and recitations, and all
who were presold say I hat the!
children all did their respective;
parts without even the slightest
hitch. The town hall was the
scene of the exercises and a large
crowd of people were present. |
Miss Carothera wan assisted in the
exhibition by her father, Mr. W.
R. Carothera.
IT GIRELES THE GLOBE.
The fame of Bueklon's Arnica
Salve, as the beet in the world,
extends round the earth. It's the,
one perfect healer of Chits, Corns,
Burns, Bruises, Sores. Scalds j
Boils, Ulcers, Felons. Aches. Bains
and all Skin Kruptions. Only in-i
fallible Bile cure. 25c. a box at
.Meachain's drum store.
FOR RUNT.? A good two or
three horse farm m'.rr Barbersville,
S. O. Apply to Alex Barber,
Fort Mill, S. 0.
FOR
(jlood whiskies,
wines,
brandies, etc
CALL ON OB WRITE TO
w. ii. iioovetl
otuii.o c.
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1902.
f
:er of a business house
ovement in methodsideas
is certainly ferthusiasni.
Such is the
ed with the. "Every&
Young. A new reced.
To the. thousands
5 helped us to this recunent
of clearness o|
oosing a house with
, not weighted down
f merchandising, nor
ng to hei id to the der?
voiced l>v its customays
been to give ouj
Is, better service and
they c(add get in any
nd thr.t is the secret
lis institution; that is
ar jusfi past was better
better than the year
ck to the start. We
^st t/,) do tilings .just
loin, and feel that \v#
successful. We will
he r ext. year in order
aven a greater extent
irtisanship. We trust
ill smile on you durnd
stamp her seal of
iiture.
YOUNG.
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| AT C
? ana many tiiinf
S cost.
Oh One $*25 Ladies' Coat Suit, a
^ Putt, at $U.D5. Olio $20 Man's Su
^ at $2.25. Ladies' Capes and Jack
Dlankets at $2.40. All Ladies' Di
flr Now stock of ladies' mens' an
jA Our lossog last year were so
^ only a strictly CASH business thi
opened, and floods will be eliargetl
^ have paid promptly. All goods ai
flP and all customers letting aecoui
Ufc charged credit prices, which are 1
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|R 'Phone No. 71.
* GREAT B
$ For the next fe>
^ ten* some rare barg
^ ing goods:
All Christ mas goods must go, r
d&i $1 and $l.2"i Cake Plates ami
^ 7f? and !X) cent Plates and Bowl
\ Our lino of Capos and Children
half price.
A few pieces of heavy Skirting
? $l.*J.'i, now Ui'.j and t)0 cents per i
A few pairs of lClkin 10-4 Wool
buy them now for.-$'5.
WT Bargains all through our store.
Wishing you a happy and pros
with many thanks for your patri
$ MEACHAI
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1 The Old
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0 tSmers
1 anaprc
1 New Yes
1 "We tti
I 0 friends
^ liberal
0 age dv
?| p??*.sft yc
O futnre,
^ pa!St, -X7V
. ? everyth
j X power
!g ttL? loeoi
X, Again
x' youforj
?> -w"? are
X Rcspcutf:
I Tie Dili Jt
S T. IJKIil
g "It's just as natural fo
g ers to follow."
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lR GOODS I I
rs at 1 r>cr? S I
it $7,110. Que $i5 Todies' Coat
it at $11.60, Boys' $1 Overcoats ^
ets at one-half price. Elkiu $t 5*
ess Goods at COST.
id children*' Fine Shoos just in. dw
heavy that wo are forced to do
s year. No now accounts will bo
I only to those old customers who
re marked at lowest cash prices IK
< v
its stand over 110 days will bo
0 i>or cent more. ^
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ARGA1NS |
v days wc will of- #
ains in the follow- J
rgardloss of cost.
ilad Howls, at 75 conta.
s, at 50 and 00 conta.
is' Jackets arc going almost at
: and Dross Goods, was 85 and f
Blunlu cb, were $3.75, you can ^
iVnnn anrl 8eo them, ^
l?onms new your, wo are yours
mage during 19U1.
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th.ank.ing x
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ully yours, 'J:
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