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I I I IN THE LOCAL EIELD. fivenlt. of tlie Past Week In and Around Tows liricfJv Tekf. Mr. Robt. Butler spent Sunday in 'Rock Hill. Magistrate J. B. Mills spent yesterday in Charlotte, on business. Messrs. ?T. L. and \V. A. Watson, of Charlotte, spent Sunday in Fort Mill. Mr.mid Mrs. Winter Parks spent several davs of last week with relatives in Union. Mr. T. (*. Culp left Monday for f^owrysville to attend a meeting of the Bethel Presbytery. Mrs. VV. A. Watson, ofdiarlotte, is a visitor at the home .of ber pareuta, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Aril rey. Mesdames T. E. and Alex J3arber left yesterday morning for Charleston to spend a few days at the exposition- j Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Butler left this week for Shop's Ford, N. C., where Mr. Butler will conduct a revival meeting. Mrs. A. II. Kimbrell and little daughter, of Rock Hill, are visiting Mrs. Kiujebrell's mother near Ha rrisou's church. Air?. S. H. Hemphill, of Chester. nud Mrs. J. B. Mack, of Fort Mr , are visitors at the home of prof. A. It. Banks.?The Herald. The Southern's "Palm Limited" which has been passing here daily I during the past three months, made its last trip of the season on {Sat u relay. A memorial service was conducted by Dr. Thorn well at the Pres byteri m church Suuday afternoon for General Hampton. The bell was tolled i5 minutes. After all, it seems that a good deal of commercial fertilizer, otherwise called guano, will be used. {Some of the farmers say it"a no use trying to farm without it. Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Mn?aey, of Rock Hill, came up Sunday to vi>it the former's mother, Mm. N. C. Massey, who is seriously ill of pneumonia at the home o? her son, Mr. L. ?1. Massey. As will be observed by notice in another column, the time for the payment of street tax begins on Saturday. Citizens liable to this tax would do well to attend to to same and avoid the penalty which attaches June 10th, Much regret was felt by a number i >f vut^rimo lw?r,? t 1 . ... .. .. .1. it) ujn lilt: ItlCl that they had no knowledge of the special arrangements and reduced railroad rales on account of General Hampton's funeral in Columbia. Several from here would have attended had it been known. Gen. M. L. Ronham. Grand Chancellor, K. of LJ., of South Carolina, will attend a meeting of Klectra Lodge at this place on Monday evening next. A full att ndauoe of members is desired Gen Bonham will visit the lo Iges of Yorkville and ltoek Hill on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Mr. W. W. Orton, a prosp rows farmer of the Clay Iiill section and one of The Times' host subscribers, j was Ji ippily married on last Wednesday evening to Miss Mollie Neely, of Charlotte. Miss Neely is a daughter of Mr. W. J. Neely and WHS 111 lfttjiiistreeo <i I t'lmr Hill I ? "" 1X..I until about a year ago, The following party of men from Gold Hill will attend the Confederate reunion at Dallas, Texas: S. P. lilnnkenship,S. H. Kppn, Sr., W. F. Boyd, '/. T. Bailee. S. C, Faris and Sylvester Colthnrp. These gentleman, all of whom have relatives in tin1 Lone Star State, will remain there for several weeks. The millinery opening of Messrs. Meachatn it Kpps on last Thursday attracted large crowds .of ladies and misses, both from the town and country. Kvery visitor seemed to be charmed with Miss Curtis'superb display of fashionable hats, bonnets and millinery novelties of ail kinds. Many of the hats displayed Thursday appeared in the churches 011 Sunday. Harold Denton, the little son of Mr. W. 10. Denton, wlj <> accident- , ally swallowed a bone collar button, which lodged in his throat, was j taken to the Charlotte hospital by Ids father last Sunday. The physicians found au operation necessary, and the little fellow is now I getting along all right. The button had la-en iri the boy's throat for something like a week, Mrs. Deaton went to Charlotte yesterday to be with her son. By far the most enjoyable dance of the season was engaged in by the young people of the town Fri- J day night. There were about twenty-live couples present, anions whom were the following visitors: blisses Hattie and Carrie Belle Poag, of Ebenejjer, Wood fin Chambers, of Charlotte, Lillian! Massey, of Tirzah, and Messrs. \V. H. McCaw, Joe Gaston and II. W, Dun lap, of liock Hill. j . Mrs. J. ?J. Nicholson is visiting relatives in Pinevill". Mr. njad Mrs. J. T. Young are spending today in Charlotte. Mr. Ben Massey, of the K. M. I M. A. at Yorkville, is ut home for a few days. So far the straw hat has been very backward Rbout putting in I 4 ? i i is appearance. j It is Bai(l Unit the attendance of scholars at the upper mill school is but a few short of fifty. Mr. Henry Maesey and daughter, Miss Lidian, ofTirzah, visitovl relatives in Fort Mill this week. !)r. T. B. Men chain h*.* put lis soda fountain, etc, in good order' and will be ready f >r tho summer season Messrs Frank Mas-ey and J. B. Mills, of Fort Mill, were the, quests of Mr. T. M, Hughes re- i cently.?Lancaster Enterprise, The crowd in town Saturday was ! not so lartje but a great deal of i business vMrcs done. The farmers are taking the advantage of every ' good day to work their places. The Harber bridire over Sutrar 1 Creek has been repaired and is j again open to the public*. The | bridge, it is thought, is now more substantial than it has been for several y<ear?. Some fellow upon whose hands time has doubtless hunt; heavily has figured it out that Easter will not a on in occur iu March until lt)75. This is too far ahead, however, to cause general interest. By the time "ihe "full moon in April" rolls around it is to ho hoped that the fruit will he sufHciently advanced to stand considerable cold. And its not coming until the 22nd, renders it. less like- ' ly to be a severe snap, anyway. It is about tiiue those who ex - ] pect to come before the people this year as candidates for office were making themselves known to the people through the newspapers. I The Times is now ready to make ilit* Huuouueemeni roryou lor ifrJ.oU anil no questions asked. A freight car was dismvered on tin* at the depot on Friday, and but for the fact that the water tank was near there would probably have been a considerable blaze. It is supposed that/a spark from a passing train set the roof on tire. The car was run' up to the tank and the tire was sfon extinguished. The train witty President Roosevelt and party on their roturn trip from Charleston passed through Fort Mill Thursday night at 8:05. The train was made up of six Pullman cars and was undoubtedly the the hands >mest train that ever passed through here. It did not ' stop. As was expected, cotton is on ! the rise, but it is hoped that the farmers will not allow themselves to be fooled into planting a big crop of cotton at the expense of a provision crop. The way to keep j prices up is to plant an average : crop of cotton otdy and make plenty of hog and hominy. M.% Thos. Ross, who lives about i 8 miles east of of Fort Mill in the Providence section, had the mis. fortune of losing his harn by tire Saturday night. The horses and i cattle in the building were saved, but everything else in the barn ' was burned, the loss being about $1,000, with only $200 insurance The origin of the tire is unknown. Grady, 11??? little roii of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. HOakland, had his hand painfully injured at his father's livery stable last Saturday. The little fellow was standing near a door feeding a cutting machine, when KOtneone pushed the door which struck his arm and the blades of the machine caught his hand, tearing most of the tlesh from one of his thumbs. Dr. Kirkpatrick dressed the wound. The State campaign is near at hand and it is time for voters to begin thinking about what shall be done. The clubs must meet on the fourth Saturday in April, the con 11y convention of delegates on the first Monday in May. and the State convention on the third Wednesday in May. Clubs are entitled to one delegate in the county convention for every 2.*> members, or majority faction thereof. Mr. Herbert Merritt,a Fort Mill young limn who Home time ago, enlisted in the army, and who has , been in the Philippine Islands, is to return to the United Statos during the present month. The troops now under order to return to this country are the Ninth Infantry, of which Mr. Merritt is a member, Twenty first, Thirteenth and a batallion of the Seventeenth Infantry. These troops will come in the order named as fast as trans- j portation oan be provided. Now than we have rural mail boxes, it will be ditKeiilt for those bent on deviltry to keep from depredating upon them. It will be great sport for the prevertod to WW'^WSKM-V ;? -; -V ' I * . j butter tliein up, but we'll uivo ' such a pointer. Tho United States [ (iovenitnent assumes the protect I tion of these boxes nnd if the perpetrators are caught somebody . will be' ^oinp to a Federal Court a/k'J probably takS-n^ an appren- : uurejllip >\IUI blllJM'h uu UL ptiy very heavily for tin* fun. It now looks .as if Fort Mill is to be withobt a base ball team, or rather a base ball ground, this year. There is probably no small town in the State with a better amateur team then Fort Mill, ami yet they are to be deprived of this most, enjoyable sport. A practiee ground is all that is wanted. ' but so far they have been unable to secure one. This seetns strange when it is known that large tracks I of land in and near the incorporate limits of tin' town are now, and have been for a number of of years, uncultivated. The young men luul gone to work and raised a Kutlicient sum of money to purchase nice uniforms, etc., for the entire team, and it. is too bad to have them balked, when there are i 8ucii excellent prospects r??r some good ball this season. Won't some land owner "open his heart'1 and give, or rent, the hoys a ground? We hope, and believe, they will. -* ? Mayor's Court. The following rases onine up for trial before the mayor during tinweek : John Smith and Zeb Gordon, white boys, engaging in an alter- > ration, tilled $5.50 each. Geo. Bradshaw, white, interfering with an ntlieer while in tiie discharge of his duty, lined $5. S.iin Mobloy. colore 1. using profane language 011 the streets, lined $2 50. Ii. F. Bell, white, drunk and disorderly, lined $5. That April Snow. Some persons wish to know when the bin snow of April came.! It was Sunday, April 15, 1811'. There had been live or six weeks i of spring weather. Forest leaves were about half grown. Field crops and gardens were luxuriant. Early lots of wheat were beginning to head. The snow began ! in this county 7 to it o'clock in the ! morning and fell six to eight hours. The general estimate nvhs Unit it was a (>-iuch snow. Next morn- , in^ there was a haul freeze. All vegetation was killed. The dead peaches made the ground beneath the trees black when they fell. It remained cold several days after: the snow. That was before the days ' of weather bureaus and records of temperature. Rock Hill Herald. Major Micali Jenkins. A dispatch says .Micah Jenkins, , of South Curoliha, famous as the principal tiipire in the South (' rolina episode, is likely to b appointed a retired captain, with pay, in the regular army by a special ! act of congress, the favor to he i 'bestowed at the it < pi est of his j friend. President Roasevelt. Major Jenkins appeared before the house eoinmittue on military affairs to ask the appointment and the committee will rep >rt in his favor. He will draw eighteen hundred per annum for the balance of his life, if he lauds. Major Jenkins was in Roosevelt's rou^li riders and made a dintin^uished record. Roosevelt asked McKinley to put him in the regular army, as , eapt .in, but the request was not granted for some leason. Tlieo- i (lore Roo-evelt, when he became president, j^ave his approval to a plan to have congress pass a special bill to put the major on the retired list, disabilities sustained in the Cuban campaign rendering him until for active service. ? Starving in TcxflS. A dispatch from Laredo, Texas, says Jud^e .MeLane and l)istrict Attorney Hamilton who have returned from ('ari/.zo, where they went to hold a term of t'ie district court tor Zapata county, arc reported to have deelnred that the residents of that county are in a most deplorable condition and some relief must he given to henelit their situation. Judge McLnin is (pioted as having Haul: "There in no fodder for the horses and corn was 5 cents a pound (Mexican money.) The stock are nearly all dead and what is living are ho poor they can scarcely walk. The water ) holes are nearly all dried up will last but a few weeks longer and when the water fails what is left will not live a week." \Ve traveled 110 miles," said the judge, "and in that distance, did not see enough grass to till one's hat nothing has been grown in the county for two years. Those who have a few cattle are unable to even pay their taxes. The people have planted nothing this year and are Utterly without hope," Negro Brule in Jail at Chester. A Rock Hill despatch of Mon- j day <o the Charlotte Observer says that Green Blake, the negro man i who atteillllte.l natnnlt olv yenr-old fluid of Mc\ Nolan Clio, tou Sunday afternoon, near Edgemore, in Chester county, was raptured several hours later and was lodged in Chester jail, where the trial will be held at once. The child was badly bruised about the neck and face, but the fiend did not accomplish his purpose. Blake has s nee confessed to the crime. TIS EAST TO FEEL GOOD. Countless thouaands have found a blessing to the body in Dr. Kind's New Life Pills, which positively cure Constipation. Sick Headache, Dizziness. .Jaundice. .Malaria, Fever and Ague and all Liver and Stomach troubles. Purely vegetable; never gripe or weaken. Only 2~>c at Meacham's druu store. The Atlantic Const Line has purchased the Plant Syst< m of railroads and will assume control on duly 1. The Southern will then have trackage rights over the Plant System for all of its trains. Ho Hop: His LegTwelve years ago d. \Y. Sullivan, of llaitfmd. Conn., scratched his leg with a rusty wire. lntlaiuination and and hlood poisoning set in. For two years he suffered intensely. Then the best doctors urged amputation, "but." he writes, " I used one bottle of Electric Hitters and I 1-2 boxes of Duckies Arnica Salve and my leg was sound and well a-ever." For Fruptious. Feze ma, Tetter, Salt Jvhetim. Sores and mi mood (1 isorders Klectric Hitters lias ii<> rival on earth. Tiy tliein. Titos. B. Menehani will ^uurantee satisfaelion or refund money. ( hily 50 cents. The price of corn is not so h>f<h as it was a short while after Christiiins. It is now rotailinu; for 85 j cents per bushel, and timls a ready sale. I A Raging. Roaring Flood Washed down a telegraph lino which (.'has. C. Kllis of Lisbon, la. had to repair. "Standing waist , deep in icy water," he writes, "Vave i me a terrible cold and cou^h. It j ?rew worse daily. Finally the best doctors in Oakland, Sioux City and Omaha said I had Consumption and could not live. Then 1 be.) ^'anusino I)r Kind's Now I)ise.?very and was wholly cured by six bottles." Positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Luiijj troubles by Th?.s. B. Meach- , am. Price 5()e and $1.00. Valuablo Land for Sale or Rent. One tract eontaininr; I' 0 acres. ()ne tract containing acres. Well timbered, located near Bar- i bersville. S. C. Terms reasonable, i Apply to Alex. Barber, Fort Mill. S. C. No ice <o Overseers. All overseers are hereby notified to j rail out t heir hands and work and repair Iheir respective sections at once. All male persons able to work between the ayes of IS and >(> years are renuired to work not less than three days of ton hours each on I ho puldie highway to which they belong. Ministers of the (ios|xkl| school trustees, students of schools and colleges and all old soldiers are exempted from road duty. Pursuits on sections that have 110overseer, or on sections where the hands have paid their commutation tax, will please notify the Supervisor and reconi- j mend some suitable person for overseer Jiy ordes of County Commissioners. ( M A KY J. Ill XTI'.K Clerk of Hoard. i Marque Vellum 1h the name of the now Writing Paper. We have three different 1 1 snapes and shades, white and azure blue. I'iiI up in pound packages, price 25 cents per pound or 10 cents per quire. Envelopes 10 cents per package or 3 for 2") cents. Butter Color Price 15 cents per bottle. It keeps your butter from looking like tallow and keeps people from buying other people's butter in preference to yours. It is perfectly harmless. Roofing Paint "Magnolia Black Elastic" is one of the best and cheapest paints on the market for tin and paper roofs. The manufacturers guarantee it for five years. It costs sixty cents a gallon. Oct some and paint your roof valleys before they begin to leak or paint afterwards and it will stop leaks. Ardrey7s Drugstore, i 'V 5 3XT?"VC IV^l ? If you want to I jg HAT is the most & \ our dress may I ? and the latest styl ? Ls out of style,, if 3 Compare our hat 3 fashion sheets, ai 3 very low prices* W has charge of ou jg and will take pie; J you the prettiest 1 8 seen here. The \ Jo rest. Our spring s g nients is now com g what we have. J? _ ? # - U . m 'Phone 71. $ OurGrea ^ Was last Thursc \ Opening, by far 1 we ever had. W< ^ one and all for v< & the many nice tl ? goods and displa; $ hold to onr first # front." Our stock # plete. Just call for # we have it. ^ A few things tl ? week: Single I3n t worth 2;m*- tVw 1/ _ x \ / 1 1..*. ? worth 35c, for 25c. J lluttonsSc. All size 5 MEACHAIt ^ %' g?0??0??????6 | Clothing, Cloth ? If well, stay w x well. Our idea is gj idea always. ? Our stock of CI ?? ^ood health to voi I*-' depression in pri pointment in quali have an up-to-date ing in Knee Pants, old, also a similar 1 from 15 to 20 ye; Clothing to beat styles, sizes and pi heretofore been bn tor towns or patrol eontinne to do so ; q we ean save you g dollars per suit ji X same fit? I Hals. Hal @ We have recei x Spring and Sum 0 styles. Mens' Cri V lip. ? Shoes, Sho 1 >v<> are overs! Shoes in sizes Iron ?if you wear this 11 get first choice at 1 OLD RELIA3 H T. B. BELK. ?00S>???9???0 f ^ Lllinei*ir & ? jdt >e up-to-date \ x v important far t. . >e the finest siik <& e, but if your hat S : gives you away. 3 s with the lai est ^ ul then note our 5 Mrs. Ella Smith ?| r Millinery room ? asure in showing & nits you have ever |8 >riees will do the & took in ail depart- 18 iplete. Come see 18 assey. 3 itest Bay $ I r- 1? lay, at our bp ring \ the largest crowd ^ b want to thank ^ >ur presence, :u:<: 4} lings said of our * y. Yes, we btili ^ motto: "To tiie ^ in all lines is com- # what you want, ? tiat came iri this ? iss Curtain rods, ? >c. Double roils J All sizes of Pearl J 38 misses Hose 10c J #l Cl th'Hb. # -JJI L J 1 1 . I 111 )0??????&?0O0 ling, Clothing. 1 ell. If sick, get > to give the best >| othing will mean xf lr pocket book. A (J, Jg ce and no disap- ^ ity and styles. \Ve ? i l ine of Hoy Cloth- g , from 3 to 16 years g ine in Long Pants, x ars old, and Men ? the Hand in all & rices. If you have x tying from our sis^ lizing a tailor, why g any longer, when ? from two to five S| ind give you the g ts, Hats. | ved our stock of g TT - J- " ^ nuur nais 111 nil jg ish Hats from 25c ? >g{ es, Shoes. | :ocke<l in Ladies g| 11 21-2 to 4s. So ? lumber come anJ. & a sacrifice. BLE STOKE. ? , Proprietor. ? \ ????????????l>di