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1 I J IN THE IjOCAL FIELD. I Events of tbe Fast Week In and Around ; Town Briefly Fold. (iood cotton 7.80. The infant .joti of Mr. and Mrs. t ? : * ?. .... iummi ik seriously 111. Prof. Earl Tnorawetl, of Kershaw, ?yent Friday at bis home in this place. The druggists are busy supplyplying their customers with almanacs for 1SU2. Mr. S. J. Kintbrell has had a room added to his dwelling on East Booth street. Mr. W. F. Harris shipped a car J load of select cattle and chickens to Charleston Monday. Mr. 8. L. Meachant returned Monday night from a visit to friends in North Carolina. Mr. J. J. Ormand has purchased the interest of Mr. \V I. Hull in the Patterson-Hull market. The Times would be pleased to have a letter from "Splinter," our Gold Hill correspondent. Mr. W. E. Deatoti is now conductor an up-to-date restaurant m the rear of his meat market. The work of repairing the town ball was finished Saturday morning, and the improvements are notable. After a shutdown of several weeks, the Charlotte '11 rick Company resumed work Monday morning. Mrs. 1). Harrison returned to her home iu Yorkville Saturday, after an extended visit to relatives in this township. Mr. Stemps Fletcher, r young ^ white Ulan, is snill to ha ilnnrrnr ously ill of em illpox at his home, near the upper mill. A gloat many poople were disappointed Sunday on account of there being ?o services at the Presbyterian church. Auditor Williams will be in. Fort Mill on the 2lst, 22d and 23rd j days of this mouth for the purpose j of taking tax returns. t Dr. J. B. Mack is contemplating j the building of two cottages near the old McDuflie place* on the Din kins' ferry road. J Messrs. Ed Merritt and a young; tnan named Gordon are said to be afflicted with smallpox. The cases developed last Thursday. While in Lancaster Friday, Mr.. F. T. Pegram purchased two nice | young mules and a wagon of the Lancaster Merchantile Co. Mr. H. W. Wolfe, who moved S * ? * * croni r ort Mill to Kock Hill some months a^o, lins returned and is living near the Millfort Mill. At a meeting of the town council Monday afternoon, Mr. E,P. H. Nivens was elected to succeed Mr. H. C. Culp, as chief of police. An employe of one of the mills tells of a number of other employees who were vaccinated one day and were unable (?) to work the next. A Piueville dispatch of Saturday to the Charlotte Observer says that the county physician has dis- J covered a genuine case of smallpox just outside the incorporate limits erf Pineville. Dr. J. 13. Maok." of Fort Mill, will preach at Hopewell at 11 o'clock on the morning of the j third Sunday in this month, instead of the second Sunday, as heretofore announced.?Rock Hill Herald. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Thorn well have been in Clinton, S. C? for several days at the bedside of meir son, .James, who is seriously , ill of pnuemonin. However, n message from Clinton yesterday | stated that he was improving. Mr. Kobt. White, son of Mr. A.' S. White, returned home Wednesday from Ft. Riley, Kns. Mr. I White enlisted in the 4th nrtillery corps of the United States nrmy ' i three years ago and hns since been stationed at Ft, Riloy. He has not yet decided to re-enlist. Asked as to his opinion of the suspected smallpox in Fort Mill, a young man who, while in another {State, was recently a victim of the disease, stated that there was no 1 doubt as to its being genuine smallpox. A number of our people still contend that it is merely chickenpox, but my, how shy they 1 are of chickenpox. t Selected County News. Yorkvillu Enquirer. Mr. N. A. Simril advises the re- ! porter {hat the work of hauling j rock for the Robinson hill was ..commenced Tuesday, at the rate of 150 loads a day. Mr. V. M. Plirslev of linmnlt i lost a dry kiln la?-t Molality together wi 1 i about 7,o00 feet of lumber. '1 h * kiln probably caught fiotn a spark. A petition has been prepared . for the establishment of a rural j delivery 'route} to run out from Hickory Grove to the mouth of Guion Moore creek, at Smith's ford; thence to*the Howell's ferry road; thence down the Pinckney road to "Beauty1'Spot" (Thomson pJuee); then back to Hickory Grove by way of Hopewell and pyetown. An inspector has been over the route and reported it practicable. In all, the route covers about 2ft miles. Mr. T: G. Gulp, of Fort Mill, was in yorkville on Monday hav- i ihg dome through thejcountry. He ; stated that in his judgement Catiitvba river was not nearly so high during the recent freshet as .1 : ii. - ?.? " uvin(in mo uig nooa ot last spring. At different, points tin? water lms been reported as being within IS inches to two feet of the h gh \ water mark of the spring freshet. Mr. Oulp says, however, that at the bridge, the highest point reached by the water was fully 5 ; feet lower than the spring freshet. The bridge sustained no damage by the lasl flood except an almost imperceptible [ sinking; of one of i the approaches. Rock Hill Journal.H Some Rock Hill pooplo say and evidently believe that there is no 8ina\lpoX|in*Rock Hill;|thatall the smallpox here ischickonpox. Some thoroughly convince "themselves that this is a correct view of the situation us an excuse^jtoj resist vaccination. Tliev even o<? fur as to say that all the physicians do not agree that there is smallpox here. There is at least one very pronounced contluent case, that of Tom Smith, a negro living in West Alain street, which knocks this view into a very chapoaii. No physician will say that this is not a genuine blooming case of smallpox. Tom Teppus, about ii.'l years old an hmharried employe of the Vn tawba Power Co , lost) his life on Weduegthiy evening nbout f>:30 while attempting to cross Catawba river in a -small boat, which also contained his two brothers. The | father ^61 the men had warned them agninst'trving to cross neai the darn and had gone further up the river to cross, all four men being on their way home from the j dam. Th;e bdat was capsized by rhnning againstlji r> pe stretched abrosH the river from the dam. | The two other brothers were picked up from the rope. The company tired three dynamite car-1 tridgcs but failed t , recover the ; body. This community generally was surely shocked and deeply grieved this week to learn of the sad death of Williumf-JWatHon Steele, which occurred in his 35th year at the i home of of his sister, Mrs. W. M. Steele, in Hampton street Thurs- ! day morning at 11:30. The i in mediate causo of bis death was spas- j modic contract on of the nerves,' and though ho had been in bed only one week, bis illness really dated from the day after Christmas, when he become overheated while on.a hunt, the attack being facilitated by a very frail constitution. : Rock Hill Herald. Mrs. Susan ?7. Leslie, wife of Mr. 1). T. Leslie, of Leslie station, met with the misfortune, on last Sunday morning, of breaking one of her hips. The accident was the result of a fall that oecured while Mrs. Leslie was moving about in the cook room. Liitlo Miss Rosa, daughter of Mrs. Dp. W. F. Strait, of tliiH city, while at the graded school Wednesday, playing with other children, fell and broke both bones in her left arm just above the elbow. Dr. Crawford attended the sufferer and , reset the broken limb. One morning last week when John Dnnlap, a colored tenant on the farm of the late T. F. Clinton, , near Fdgemoor, went into his barn lot he found two of his cows dead. Suspecting foul play, he had an examination made of tinbodies and it was ascertained that both had been poisoned. The , poisonous substance had been placed in smnli bags and these|l)ad been swallowed by the cows. Dunlap has no idea who the person could be who would inflict upon him so much loss. -w* There is no discount ou the popularity of the Nicaragua canal hill in the HouadofRepresenatives. The Senate will be wise to act on the poiuter. r Dwath of >\r. J. A. Smith. Our towii whs tndJi-neil Moulin v ninlMlIiitr l\tr lli.- 4 J ' 11 llllllU'HltCUU'lIt that Mr. Joseph A. Smith, aged 27 yen s, had died Sunday night at 11 o'clock at the home of his father-in-law. Mr. A. A. Youug Decesnsed had been ill for several months of consumption, ami consequently {gradually grew worse until death relieved his suffering*. Mr. Smith came to Fort Mill from Rockingham, N. C.. in 1S94, mill with his brother, Mr. Henry Smith, enquired in tin* newspaper business, publishing the Fort Mill News. Rater he sold his in'erist in The News and returned to his former home iu Rockingham. Dining his stay here, Mr. Smith wooed ami won the hand of one of it Mill's most popular young ladies. Miss lSlla Young, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Young, the marriage taking place in lbSR). To them was born two daughters. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Smith moved to Raleigh, N. V. where thyy lived until a short timo'ago, when he was compelled to resign his position on account of failing health. He returned to Fort Mill about two months ago and spent his remaining days here. Deceased was a member of the Methodist church and was always an honorable and upright young mini. Ho was a member ?f Rockingham lodge, \V. O. \\\, in which lie was insured for ?1.000, and also a member of tinTypographical Union of Raleigh, from which he received a weekly - f c*- i 1 ifcut-ui in o-? uurm^ uits sickness. The funeral services were conducted by Kev. \V. A. Wright from the Methodist church, and the interment was made at the Fort Mill cemetery Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. White Oak Camp, \V. O. W., turned out in a body to pay its ' last sad writes to the the remains ' of its deceased brother. TRY TilF City Barber Shop For a tirst-class HAIRCUT, SIIAVE, SHAMPOO, or HAIR SINGE. ; Carothers & Son. Proprietors, i Third door Rank building. 1901 A year in the ear that marks some impi some advaneement in tile in material for en kind of year just olos tiling Store" of Mills ord lias been establish of customers who hav< ord, is due the compb business vision in eli which to do business with obsolete ideas o disposed to be nnwilli mands of the hour as ors. Our aim has alw customers better good better treatment than other establishment, a of the upbuilding of tl the reason that the ve * than the last, the last before it and so on ba have tried our level hi as you have wanted tli have been to a degree endeavor to improve 1 that we mav merit to < your patronage and pn that Dame Fortune \\ ing the coming year a prosperity on every vc MILLS & Tliowe members of Coiiuitkr who are interested in the movement to , curtail (Southern Congressional \ representation are sadly discouraged. They had counted on the ! im.ti.w.ci ..f . 1." 1? : * ?- * ? I 'i i vji i no i i esioeill 1)111, IIO : 11UK decl iihm! to be a party to the ; a.Tair. Ilo lias not condenied tlie movement nor would he, it is be- i lieved, refuBe ts sign a bill carrysng the purpose into otleet if he received it from Congress, but he i declines to take any leadership or to lend his intluenee in Congress, i WANTKD.?Agents todo pleasant home work. Salary $20 to $10 per month. No fake. Address, Miss j M. Dye, Rock llill. S. C. FOR RENT.?A good two or' three horse farm near Barbers-! ville, S. C. Apply to Alex Barber, Fort Mill. S. 0. FOR GOOD WHISKIES,; WINES, BRANDIES, ETC CALL ON OR WRITE TO W. IT. HOOVER, CHIRLOTTK, N. C. ^ Tho saddest of the year," ^ ' i W IIKN the cold winds whistle ^ | K *T in,t he'chimney* and Jack ^ 5 Frost catches the people with x \ their wood piles^short. Elicit i 4 you feel that tickling, in .your 5 ? throat and a pain catches you ^ ^ between your shoulder-blades, m J Then is the time J J for you to get ^ * CHEKItY BALSAM i 2 t | ^ I tracts pleasantly upon^tlio f ^ throat and luii^s; it is harinless> & T soothing and agreeable to take. J J Don't tritle with a cold 011 J # voui* lungs. Remember that ^ 4 Consumption kills Jmoro , men ^ 4 than bullets. ^ I 5 AUDREY'S DRUE STORE * r I ; f' 1902. eer of a business house oveinent in methods ideas is certainlv fert husiasm. Such is the ed with the "Every& Youn^. A new roe-' ted. To the thousands l* helped us to t his recenient of clearness of tonsillar a lit>11?#> wHI? n *" ,f 11 11 | , not weighted down f merchandising, 1101* ng to bond to tlio devoiced by its custom-! ays been to give our Is, bettor service and they could get in any nd that is the secret lis institution; that is ar just past was better bettor'than the year ok to the start. We est to do things just loin, and feel that wei successful. Wo will he next year in order %< even a greater extent irt isanship. We trust ill smile on you durnd stamp her seal of nture. YOUNG. 5 AI I WIMTC 1AT G< and many thing: cost. One $25 Ladies' Coat. Suit, at Suit, at $U.95. One $20 Man's Suit at $2.25. Ladies' Capos and Jacket Blankets at $.'.10. All Winter Drc.? ?\v stack of ladies' mens' and Oar losses last year were so h< only a strictly CASH business this opened, and goods will be charged < have paid promptly. All goods are and all customers letting account charged credit prices, which aro 10 L.iJ.IMA 'Phono No. 71. ^ A j Prices Tell We^hnvg some Children's ^ that must he closed out. Jack $1.75. Automobiles that were A) at prices from 35 cents up. T ^ NOW $1.<10. l'ou know at tin ^ to sell. ^ As all our winter ^oods m gb following nice line of white po A. Lawns, 10, 121-2, 102-3 ai & 12 1-2. 15 and 20 cents. Hun gA cry in short lengths, worth dot see the Embroidery we can s< tf* It's the kind you*are bound t \ 1 1a - r isii ? * nm now mi ui r innnei * \ navy and gumett. at 25 centt Sr A full lino of^Gloves^nnc 5 MEACHAM (# ' Phono * i I The Old I Reliable 8 ~ , I Store | "Wislie a tomers | ancipi'o | New Yea: | Wo tJcxt 0 friends | liberal g age dn | p ast yet ? fu.tn.ro, i ? -r-ijc* ?=*-# 1?-^- msj v v v. ?very ttii power 1 tire "o?o*p Again you. forp. we are Respectful Tie OLD BEL g ? T..B. 15 ELK, S "It's jnst as natural fo: i g . ers to follow." 00?@?0?00?Q0? -^!F a : a m ' > i '1 ^. 1 ?? n ? stxxxxxxxx* e out | rgoods | )st, | s at less than ^ $7.90. One $15 Ladies' Coat at $11.50. Boys' $1 Overcoats ? s at one-half price. Elkiu $4 JB is Goods at COST. childrens' Fine Shoes just in. savy that wo are forced to do ^ year. No now accounts will be inly to tho.it> old customers who ^5 marked at lowest cash prices W s stand over 30 days will bo per cent more. tSSEY, | ft News. I nnd Missea Jackets left ^ ets that were $*2.25, NOW ^ $11.50, NOW $'2.75. Cnpes ^ liree Furs only, were $2, ^ ese jtriees they are kbaand ^ list go, we'are offering [the ^ oils lor your early sewing: id 20(cent8, Dimities. 10, ^ dreds of yards of Embroid- (0 tble the price. Come and ^ II f _ O 1 1 rv - :o please @ 1 o. ^ ttieLnlsiing & astfavors <?> lly yours, IABLE Slorc I Proprietor. J? is to lead as it is Sr oft- ?? -it you icii" o ana iu ct'Ull. "V 0 have from now .on. 0 VaiHtin^H in light blue, ^ 1 Ear Mu tie. P l&EPPS. | ~ " T I T -J :S ilS CUS- ? a liappy | sperous ? arils, our ? for tlieir | patron | ring tlae | ir. Iirtlae ? as in tire ? 5 shall do | ne in our |j!