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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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;
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8 seen here. The \
Jo rest. Our spring s
g nients is now com
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\ Opening, by far 1
we ever had. W<
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& the many nice tl
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$ 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/
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? worth 35c, for 25c.
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x well. Our idea is
gj idea always.
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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?
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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
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important far t. .
>e the finest siik <&
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Mrs. Ella Smith ?|
r Millinery room ?
asure in showing &
nits you have ever |8
>riees will do the &
took in ail depart- 18
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lay, at our bp ring \
the largest crowd ^
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>ur presence, :u:<: 4}
lings said of our *
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motto: "To tiie ^
in all lines is com- #
what you want, ?
tiat came iri this ?
iss Curtain rods, ?
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All sizes of Pearl J
38 misses Hose 10c J
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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 ?
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, 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|
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nuur nais 111 nil jg
ish Hats from 25c ?
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:ocke<l in Ladies g|
11 21-2 to 4s. So ?
lumber come anJ. &
a sacrifice.
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