Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 15, 1902, Image 3
FORT MILL MELANGE.
Minor Happenings In anil About Town
Told in I'aragralis.
R.'s* cotton is worth L-i cents;
seed 24 cents today.
R 'member us with the amount
of your subscription when you soil
jour cotton.
The presence of the sere nn;l yellow
leaf reminds one very forcibly
that winter is approaching.
Tin1 regular monthly mectinjr of
Catawba ljodyje No. 5(5. A. F. M.,
will be held tomorrow evening.
There was an unusally n dice- j
able gmiount of drinking and dis*?r
11 c r on the streets Saturday
night and Sunday.
This section is now having more
than its share of rain and
farmers would appreciate u few
weeks of dry weather.
Tli >se of our p itrons who want
to pay their subscriptions to The
Times in wood should bring it
along before the roads get bad.
Mrs. Alice Osborne, wife of Mr,
YV esley Osborne, died Saturday at
her home in Steel Creek, X. C.,
after an illness of a few weeks.
Notwithstanding that the bird
season do -s not open until X >veinber
I, a number of hunters in this
section are reported to have already
begun killing tpiail.
The priee of eotlrm still hnngs
near the S-cent mark and it s-*ems
that those holding their cotton
and expecting to get U or 10 emits
for it are apt to be disappointed.
The famine in the poultry market
was broken Fri lay by the arrival of
t wo crates of nice frying size chickens.
These w>*re the first offered for
sale on the streets in several weeks
The rain of Friday rendered
farm work impracticable and most
of the farmers of this section were
in town Saturday. This fact, of
course, means that business was
brisk.
Do not miss the opportunity to
take your family to the State fair.
Young and old will be instructed
and entertained. All immoral, gain
bliug and questionable features
will be rigidly excluded.
Those who object to being j
dunned should call in and pay
tlicit nub-cription. We will begin
seudiug out statements in a few
days, and if you are one of th ?so
who get mad admit it, you had
better give us a call and settle up
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wiit* <u ujw largest. p nis 01 pep
per ever grown in this section was
brought to The Times otlice Saturday
ufterno m by Mr. W. 11.
Parks. The variety of the pepper
is known as "Phinese Giant," ami
the poil weighed <> ounces.
November is perhaps the best
month in which to set out fruit
trees. He sire to set out a few
this fall if yon have to ride out
amongst your neighbors and beg
some scions. Better put out any |
sort of a tree than have none at all, j
Mr. Springs Parks, the popular
caicner 01 me local uaseuiill loam,
is considering an offer to catch for
the Lexington (Ky.) team during j
the coining season. Mr. Parks
has never played professional ball,
but his friends are confident that
he could '"make good" in almost
any team.
For the benefit of the colored
people of this section. Rev. It. (i.
Elakc, pastor of St. daims church,
A. M. E. '/j., requests The Times
to siate that the next conference
of the Rock 11 ill district will be
held in his church on the 22d, 2.'kl
and 24th instant, ai which the
presiding elder, Dr. ] . lvillingBworth,
will be present.
Owing to the failure to secure a
sufficient head of water, it is said
that no attempt will he made to
run the Jones roller mill, on Catawba
river, regularly daring the
coming winter. The public, ferry
at that point, however, will he
opened in a short while, the dwelling
in which the ferryman is to
live having been completed a few
days ago.
Messrs. Hyatt & Perry, of Van i
M'yck, have completed the work
of repairing Harbor's bridge, 2
miles east of Fort Mill, and the
structure is again in first-class condition.
For some time the bridge
has been unsafe, owing to the
absence of the foundation of the
center bench, which was carried
away by high water some months
ago.
Invitations have been sent out
to the marriage of Miss Eva Parks,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Parks, to Mr. Harry llurkey, ofj
<Jhe?ter. the ceremony to be per- j
formed tins evening at S.IJO o'clock
at the home of the prospective i
bride's parents in this place. Only
the members of the family and a
few of the young lady's friends
will be present at the marriage.
The advance in the price of
anthracite coal occasioned by .the
miners' strike has not affected
either o! the local mills, both of
which made contracts a few months
ago for a year's supply, to be fur j
inshed ut the price which obtained (
ft
k.=
before the stiike hoipin. Most .f
the coal consumed hy these mills
is mined iu Wot Virginia ami is
known as si mi bituminous.
A tola! ec lil nc of t lu? moon wil 1
lake place on the 11i111 of October
lOili, visibk to North ami South
America. The line of totality will
piss over this; sectional l.2o a. m.
The lirst approach of the or I ipse
is Kcholduled to he visible at t 1 I
p. in. The total eclipse will bet* in
at 12.17. and the total etTuceinnit
uf the liu'ht of the moon will oocur
;u -0111 tlieu on until -.1U
the total eclipse will ho on.
Tin' ladies of the First Presbyterian
church, of Yorkville, pur
pose to conduct a chrysanthemum
show during the First week in November,
for tho heiietit of the
church. Tho contest is open to
growers in the whole county, and
it is earnestly hoped that many
outside the town will enter for
some or all the prizes. These have
(leen donated by public spirited
men of the county. The (partial)
list of prizes and the rules governiiiLj
the contest appear in this issue
tit The Times.
Yorkville Yeoman: Mr. M.
Sprat t. of Fort Mill, was here
Thursday on important business
in the olliee of the clerk of court.
Mr. Spratt had all his real estate
titles and o her papers of value
stored in the bank. When the
safe was blown open last week by
burglars, these papers were blown
all over the room by force of the
ex plosion. It is business here was
to e?>t from the clerk of court certified
copies of such lis had been
recorded. This experience shows
anew the importance of having all
imp jrtant papers recorded.
Personal Paragraphs.
M r. T. (i. Gulp spent Thursday in
Y orkvi lie.
Mr. Mrs. J. F. Muir and children
went to Lancaster Thursday to
spend a few days at the home of
Col. Leroy Spi uios.
M r. \V. U. Stewart, of Rock Hill,
visited Fort Mill township last
week. He was here i^n t hcriiilt shi
tisties from the <4ins of the cotton
crops for October for the I'nited
Stales (io\ erniuent.
C. C. Miller has fjiven up his
|H)?ihV-a as boss ilyer for the Fort
Mill Mfo. Company to take a siui
imr place willi llio AlcUall -MIlt.
Co., McCall, S. C.
MOTHER NEGRO KILLED.
Monday morning added another
fatal accident to the already lar^e
number that have occurred in cunneetion
with tin* eonstniuliou ?.f
the (lain of the Catawba Power
Compiuy. This time .John Pelt'.is.
a youni; neirro mm who was
employed in the quarry of the
company, had the life crushed out
of him by a falling st< lie.
John Pettus was the third of
five brothers to los his life by accident
recently. Six months a?;o
Tom Pet t us. one of the thrco, f-11
from a boat vhile crossing the
Catawba and was drowned, and
only a few days a^o Krwin Pettus,
another brother. accidentally
dropped a pistol which was discharged
by the fall, the ball taking
etfeet in his boily and resulting
ill death.
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Only Seven Left.
Mr. 15. M. Spratt, of Chester,
was in our city Wednesday. Inquiry
of him reveali cl tho fact that
Col. Ij. \\ . Sl)ratt. formerlv ot
Charleston and lator a distill
gnislied citizen of Jacksonville,
Kla., is still living at Jacksonville.
It recalled tho fact that of the
many signers of tin* original Ordinance
of Secession, only seven
survive. They are:
Henry Mclver, Cheraw, S. C.
K. A. Thompson, Walhalla, S. C.
Peter Stokes Hampton, S. O.
Jos. I). Pope, Columbia, S. C.
J. II. Carlisle, Spartanburg, S.C.
It. C. IiO^an, Kint?Htro'. S. ('.
L. \V. Spratt, Jacksoville, Fla.
?Yorkville Yeoman.
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NEW CLASS OF CLAIMS.
In his annual report to the secretary
of war, Hrirj. Lien. F. C.
Ainswortb, chief of the record and
pension division, notes the fact
that a new class of claims against
the I'mted States appeared during
the last year ie the shape of applications
l>y artillery and cavalry officers
and private soldiers of the
(Confederate army or their heirs
for compensation for horses, sidearms
and bau^aire alleged to have
been taken from them by federal
trorifiu nl ruifl nflt>r (lm I.. .
nt Appomattox, in violation to tl a
terms of i lie hiiiTender. These
claims, to the number of .'102 already
filed, have been, by authority
of Congress, taken under consideration.?Washington
I'ost.
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Unless a man can see a slight
improvement in himself it's impossible
to convince him that the
I world is growing better.
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ALC3HCL.
1 l?"lii'Vo that alcohol, to a certain
dcyree. deiunrali/. *s those \vln?
make it. tIn rt;* who sell it. and
those who drink it. i believe from
tin* time it issin a from tlio coiled
and pois<minis worm ??f the distil
i lery until it cmpt os into tin* hell
of crime, death and dishonor, it
deinoraliy.es evervbod v thai touches
it. I ?t'> nut believe that itnyIm??ly
can eoiitemplate the subject with
out becoming prejudiced against
this Ihpiid crime.
All you haw to do is to think <?f
the death, of the suicide-*, of
the insanity, of the poverty, of the
ignorance, of the distress, of the
little children t uooiu:* at tin- faded
dresses of weeping and despairing
wives, asking for bread, of tin- millions
who have strubied with im
aeinary serpr* n!s produced by
this devilish tiiim*. And when
you think of the j lils. of the almshouses.
ol the prisons, and o f the
sealfolds iipm either hand. I d?t
not wotuhr that every thoughtful
man is prejudiced a<.raiiusi the
damned stuff called alcohol Kob
e.'t C*. 1 uoersoll.
TO COLONIZE LIBERIA.
Another etTort is to be made to
start a movement of nei;i\>eH t?>
Libt ria. It is announced by the
liiberian Colonization society of
I'tirmin^ham, \!a.. that a ship will
sad from .Mobile with a party of
emigrants on .lanuary 20 next for
that country. Ilishop Turner, the
senior bishop of the African .Metli
? ? 11 1 KplSCopal clllll'rll, commends |
tin' movement ??f negroes to Africa
in tlic strongest terms, aiu) has
written a letter i:i support of the
?'tr?jit of t hi' eoloz.ination Ho -ii'ty of
Iiiniiiiu;!iaui to send a paity oil
January 20. Tin' hisliop says this
country is no place for the mi;ro |
hrcansc his political rights arc denictl
11i111. Acconliui; to liis view,
there is no future for tlie people < 1
his race in the I nited States.
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Cut cf Deaths Ja^s.
"When death seemed very near
from a sever-.' stoinacli and liver
trouble, that 1 had suffered with
for years.'' writes 1'. .\lu*o, Durhaui,
N. "l)r. Kind's New Life
l'iils saved my life and j^ave per
f? ct health. ' lo st pills on earth
and only 'Joe at Meuclmm's druj^
:store.
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The State stat ist ieian of Indiana
hns|compiled tables showing the
relation between marriage and
divorce in Indina for the year
ending J une JO lust, and tinds that
jiorevery sewn mnrrnigH licenses
i issued leere is one divorce, or that
Id per cent ofninrriags are followed
by legal separation.
Gee: Like Hct Cakes.
"The fastest selling thing 1 have
in my store."' writes druggist C. T.
Smith,of Davis. Ky.,"is l)r Kino's
New Discovery for Consumption,
('oughs and Colds, hecauso it always
eures. In my six years of
sales it has never failed. 1 have
known it to save sufferers from
Throat and Bung diseases, who
could ot't no help from doctors or
any other remedy."' Mothers rely
on it. best physicians prescribe it.
and T. B. Mcuchani guarantees
satisfaction or refunds price. Trial
j bottles free. Keg. size bOo and $1.
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The Thornwell Orphanage at
j Clinton has al> >ut 2A0 b >ys and
'girls, ranging in ag' from three
years to twenty.
Time is money to the man who
i has a government job.
If you are not satisfied with the
world you should hire a balloon
and get out.
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His Life in Peril.
"I just seemed to have gone all
to pieces." writes Alfred Bee, of
Welfare, Tex., "biliousness and a
lame back bad made life a burden.
I couldn't eat or sleep and felt al
most too worn out to work when i
began to use Klectrio Bitters, but
they worked wonders. Now I sleep
like a top, can eat anything, have
gained in strength and enjoy hard
work." They give vigorous health
ami new life to weak, aickly. rundown
people. Try t lie in. Only oOe
al MeHcliain'R druiz stole.
NEWS AND OPINIONS
op
NATIONAL IMPORTANCE.
THE - SUN
ALONE
CONTAINS HOTII.
Daily, by mall, $6a year.
Dally and Sunday by mail, $8 a year.
The Sunday Sun
IS TUK (IKKATKST RTHDAY NKWSl'AUKK IX
THK WOI'.I.D.
> Price 5c. a copy. By ma?', $2 a year.
1 Address THE SL'N, New York.
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FLORAL SHOW.
Advance I'muiiui Li>(
?OP T1IK?
Ladies' Flora! Society of the First Presbyterian
Church of Yorkviile. 8 C.
FIRST 'WEEK IN NOVEMBER.
t'i. \ss A Chrysanthemums.
Best collection of cut flowers, not lota t-ian
ton varieties. First prize, ?.6.00 111 gold, donated
by directors of Loan and Savings Bank;
second prize. J-.-2.50.
Best ten white blooms; lamp, donated by Dr.
John B. Uowcu, of York Drug Siore.
B? it ten pink blooms; pair of Queeu Quality
Slices, donated by A. Friodlicitn, Kock Hill.
Best ten yellow blooms. JP2.50; second prize,
to be docnlcd.
Best single bloom, any variety; salad bowl.
donated by Mr. W. Adickos.
(.'i, vss 1??Koscs.
Best collectiou cut flowers. handsome rug.
donated by Smith Fcwell Co.. second best collection.
picture, given by Mr. Walter Mooro.
Best cOilectiOn any single variety, $1.00.
llll.Ks.
All liowers must ln> grown liy exibit<>r.
All bowers must be exhibited ?m
their uwu slums. All stems ??f ehrysantiiemums
must heat least twelve inehi'S
long. None hut amateurs allowed to
exhibit, l or detailed informal ion up
ply to Mrs. K. T. Stkimikxson, I rest.,
or Mrs. S. M. McKki i., Secretary, York- I
ville, S. t\
Oetober l.~? -It c
ITizie Photog^aplis
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111*11 yuti l;i? kj v unrlotto
don't fail to pay a
visit to
RAkJER'S P"CT0. GALLERY.
We make all tin* latest
styles and si/ ?, at reasonable
prices.
I \Y. Filth SI., (harlolcc, N. C.
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KINDS OF ?
/-r 4 o?id nr\ o
Chill = I omc
Y\ e carry in stork and this is
i the season for Chills. (droves
Chronic Chill (hire is the new otic.
II is very strong and is espocially
ndapteil tf> eases which are hard
to shake otV.
Let ns serve you when you are
I in need of chill cures.
ftrdrov'c Ilriirr 5tnrc
ii.lU.lUV u t!l UllTiU.
P. S.?You 1 ind bettor ^ot your
spices for your screen toiiuito pickle
. while others lire.
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LOW RATES TO STATE FAIR,
I/i\v rutis to tlu> Annual Slate* Fair,
Columbia, S. t\, via Soul horn Railway.
For the* above extension the Semth'in
Railway will sell from pointk in S'eiui h
Camlina, inetlueliiiK Asjie*ville*. Charlotte;
Augusta anel Savannah ami all interineeliate*
|M>iuts, tie*ke*ts te? thee {AtIt Annual
State* Fair, Ce>lumbia, S. C., at thee
rate* of e?ne first class fare* tor tin* remnel
trip, pius 50c aelmission i'e*e*.
Ttcke'ts te> lie* se?lel I )e*te?be*r VJl?th to 111 st
inclusive*, with final limit te> return
Ne?veinber 2nel, 11102.
The Senithern Railway will opcrsito on
Oeletber ll'.ttli anel :50th spuria I trains in
ami out e>f Columbia in artelitien tei their
regular trains.
Call njMtn any aj;ent e>f thee Southern
Railway fe>r detailed infeirnmtion, e?r
R W. ilUNT, W. 11. TAYLOK,
D. P. A. A. IF R. A.
Charleston, S. C, Atlanta, (la.
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Mrs. Joe Person's
Wash.
Tlu> healing property of my Wash is
not generally known. It will euro poison
mil; every time. It is fine for inflammation
of I he eyes, being per feel ly painless
and very .soothing and healing. It
will heal any surface sore or eruption,
but if the trouble coiues from blood iinI
parity, the Remedy should be taken in
connection with the Wash. It would
pay any one interested in the subject to
send for one of my pamphlets and circulars.
I am, very truly,
MRS. JOE PERSON.
Kittrell, N. C? Aug. 20, P.K)2.
i To whom it may concern:
I have been sulfering for ten years
with an eating corn between iny toes.
At times you could see the bono in my
toes. Mrs. Joe Person's Wash was reo|
ommended to me. I tried it for two
I weeks and am entirely cured of my
I corn. I would recommend it to all
I suffering with like troubles.
A. II. GARNER.
Burlington, N. C\, Aug. P.), PJ02*
?GOQ00Q3? <5? ?6
I Gloti
O
Men's Suits
v> Wmi I li s Suits
I li>\ H Suits
l\lkin IjIkiikots
\V Latins .1 uuki'ts
V?/ Sewing Miniums
( Viukin^ Stoves
X llt-ulin^ Stoves
jg? Oak 1 ?uil Knout Suits
QP t'huiis
Qy liiu-kui^ ('liuirs
All tlm best luuiuls of L'uli
)?{[ Tlif lilt est i-t v lt*s 11T Millimi
millinery prim.
Gp Special bargains in Wall 1',
paper your mum w hile Mr. ,
?1 ).'ii l fail to see our stock <
Caps. Me have the latest s!\
^ have the best Shoes in town r
Call and .-roj'or y urself.
3L?. T. JMKJ*
Cv {'Phone
Aoenl for Strauss l?ro.s\ tai
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Great Rush at Mi
Yes, we are having the bi^est
iness. New ".roods arriving weekly.
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BUCK SKIRTS.
A fresh lot pniiff for 50e, 7.1c, St.
$1.25. $1.50 ami $t .75.
waisuns SKiitTS.
.Tnst arrived. f ?r bXc, $1.5:) $1.75
ami $:t.50. These j^oods are nicely made
ami bargains at the price.
JACKETS, CAPES.
I Sold more jackets and eapes tip to
this time t nan we did the whole of last
season. A nice line for misses, women
ami children.
.^DFRWEaS.
We will KhovrMon the largest and
lo st assort ever carried. Women's
vest a of heavy cotton
for 2le^M^nim-n's \est and {units
1-Swool, woffli 15c, for 5t)c. Women's
vest and pants 2-!{ wool for HXe. Hov'r
Call and make your selections '
3VE e a,clia.ii
('Phone
TOUHAVE THE
WE e??VE Ts
T.iS't'S r
There's an abundance of excell
rare things at rare jiriees. We wat
the business, and Ihe satisfaction t
what wo have to soil.
Goods well tjoug
We 1 >uy ri^ht hoeause we know
, profit because we sell only on short
loet. Our lim-H are complete: i
dents I ndorwi'iir, Mens' Shirts an
and notions of every description,
a regular customer.
Our Line o!
This lino consists of everytliinj
goods are always fresh. A prize ce
MILLS O YO
HOUSE FUI
E. M. ANDREWS,
| Everything for liome
comfort, sold here, on
Hi1 LOWEST C
I
Everything favors credit hnyin
j prices elsewhere. Our qualities ar
i hility. Our terms are practically
mont and the balance in weekly or
your convenience. Our stock .com
PARLOR and REDROO!
SION TABLES. ||ALL II
V V \ \l W I ir l i iti.'l w CI
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Dl NI N(r-lt()()M OKA IKS.
CARTS, liAI'.V OAKKIA(
Our Block represents nothing bul
very latest output of the bent fact*
profits just to advertise the fact tlui
of House Furnishings.
E. M. A1NDRI
| J. S. LYNCI
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X Ji. XXjS^- @
ve O <U- v^,'
... 51.90, 0.50, 8 no, 9.50 up.
$ 1.50. 0 no and 1 >) cy
75c to So j 5 \.
... .$2.50, 2.75, 3 25 ami ?1.50 ?
$1.50 to o.75 ^
$10.50, 22.50, ami 27.50 v, -v
$5.50 to 10.50
$1.75, 2 50 and 3.00 , ^
$15.00 U 37.50 Vt
45c t<> $1.50 ^
75c to $4.50
Co 5c ?f?
ry at about half the regular
.tper. Now iH 1 ho lime to VJ*'
\ loxanclor in here to put it on. (li
if MfiiVuiul Hoy's llutB and fvh
* Ins at wholesale prices. We 2>
it the lowest prices.
LS3^352^5T, &
No. 71.)
tor-made dolliing.
5 55? @??0??O??r
Bachsm & Epps',
trade of the four years of our bus
This week we offer the f- dowii,
heavy floored eottou vest unci puut* for
Uric. All sizes. A complete li o ot
men's underwear in cotton and ?void ?
25c, Hoc, 4i> , 50ct, and '.kSc. Ihv.vy cotton
tiaunul drawers, elastic scans, 70a.
SHAWLS.
A ni. o assortment of Silk and Zephyr
shawls at 25c to $2.50.
DRESS GOODS
Of all kinds and colors in prices from
25c to $1.25. A full line of dress linings
in the lutost styles.
SPEGEAL SALE OCT. IS.
7 S Fruit of the Loom Wenching at Cc.
Only It) yards to the customer.
Two packages of good envelopes for
.5 rents.
Motion's Talcum Powdwr at 13c. Ouo
box to the customer.
while our lines are complete.
1 tSQ HIS]P]pS,
No. 01 )
I CONFIDENCE,
HE GQ3DS,
X'r'stcie
enee here for the one who want0
ch the buying ami selling en?l < I
otnea from taking advantages of
;ht are halt sold.
i how; we sell for a low margin of
time and have no fall debts to colJry
Goods, Clothing, Ladies and
d Neckwear, Suspenders, Overalls
Buy of us once and you will become
1 Groceries.
4 good for the inner man, and our
iupon free with each 50c purchase.
'LING. ,ftea.
FISHINGS.
ROCK HILL, S. G.
CREDIT,!
AS1I PRICES.
i^. Our credit prices are CASK
v personally guaranteed for limaYOUR
terniH. A stnall first paylnoutlily
amounts, arranged to,-u<t.
lists of an excellent aasoitui ut ot
d FURNITURE. EXTENTacks.
itKass and WHITE
11 ff()n1 e ks, c( )uci \ es,
, pouch rockeu{s~7j()i
es, fa n cy k< ICKEKS.
t the newest styles of furniture, 'lie
?ries. We are selling it ht suer
it wo carry a full and complete UUv>
EWS,??CKH4Lk