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\i4r- C f (j T < . In the Local Field. ___ Mr. J. L. Kiser has been seriously ill for some days at his home two miles north of town. Mrs. F. G. Whitlock and children returned Thursday evening from a week's visit to relatives in Charlotte. Mr. James Potts has moved into the Pegram house, on White street, which he bought recently from Mr. A. R. McE'haney. Mr. Marvin Whitlock, of Aiken, spent several days last week at the home of his brother, Mr. F. G. Whitlock, in this place. Mrs. Darby, the mother of Mrs. Harvey Witherspoon, is snendini"' a vvhilp at- tho hnmo of the latter on Forest street. The Millfort Mill was closed the greater part of the past week on account of the burning out of a motor which drives the spinning department. Mr. B. C. Ferguson left Sunday evening for Worthville, N. C., where he will be employed for the week by the Worth Mfg. Co. Mr. W. Henry Coy, superintendent of the Lockhart Cotton Mills, spent several days of the past week with Mr. J. S. Potts. Mr. Coy was formerly with the Dover Yarn Mills, atPineviile. The condition of Miss Lulu Wolfe, who has been ill for several months at the home of her mother, Mrs. M. II. Wolfe, in Sprattville, is reported to be less hopeful than at any time during her illness. The young lady is gradually growing weaker and her relatives have grave doubts as to her recovery. State Superintendent of Education O. B. Martin will visit Fort Mill on Friday, November 2, and at 7.30 in the evening will deliver an educational lecture in the town hall. The lecture will be free of cost and the public is invited to go out and hear Mr. Martin. ? Mr. J. Q. Cousart, who went to Walterboro a few weeks ago, spent Saturday and Sunday with his family here. Mr. Cousart showed the reporter two large specimen of Japanese persimmon grown, at YYalterboro, upon an apple tree by the grafting processs. The persimmons were bright yellow in color and about the size of a baseball. Mrs. Catherine Massey, the aged mother of Mr. L. J. Massey, sustained a very painful injury Friday at her home on Booth street. Mrs. Massey, on entering the dining room, stumbled ind fell heavily upon her r'ght irm, spraining her wrist in such a manner that she has been unable to use her right hand since. Miss Alice White left several days ago for Black Mountain, N. C., where she will make her home in the future. Miss White has purchased a handsome mountain home near the Vanderbilt estate, where in a short time she will be joined by her aunt, Miss Lizzie Culp, who will resiue with her. The White homestead, two miles south of Fort Mill, is being occupied for the present by Mr. and Mrs. H. E. White. A series of meetings began r-i j i -l. _ i ii ' i v . ounuay nignv at me ivietnocnst church which will continue throughout the week, services being held each night at 7.30 o'clock. The pastor, Mr. Chandler, is being assisted by Rev. E. K. Hardin, of the Yorkville circuit. Presiding Elder Stackhouse will be present at the services Saturday and Sunday. The community is cordially invited to attend these services. All of the machinery is in place at the new ginnery of W. J. Stewart, near the coton warehouse, and the gin will >e in operation just as soon as the electric motor arrives and 'he wires can be connected. The ielay in the arrival of the motor, .vhich was shipped from New York some days ago, is proving an inconvenience for the farmars, many of whom are compelled to haul their cotton several miles to be ginned. A marriage of much importance to the people of Pleasant Valley and vicinity will take place the evening of October 23rd, when Miss Bleeker Mae Faris wili become the bride of Mr. Robert M. Cousart. The marriage will take place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Faris, and will be witnessed by a large number of relatives and friends of the contracting parties. Miss Faris and Mr. Cousart are both popular and well known young people of Pleasant Valley and their friends there and elsewhere will be interested to learn of their approaching marriage. Mrs. Jas. T. Younff visited relatives in Charlotte Thursday, i Mr. Ira G. Smythe has taken the position of cotton seed buyer for Spratt and Culp. Messrs. J. M. Spratt and FVed ; ! Nims left Monday for a short j ; business trip to Black Mountain, In. C. I Mr. "Ed Broom has been ill J I for some time at his home near Sprattville. Mrs. J. L. Spratt visited her parents at Ardreys, N. C., the past week. The little son of Mrs. R. M. , Erwin who has been ill of fever j is reported to be much improved. I Hazel, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. y. Bradford, is reported I as much improved from an illness of fever. Mr. C. F. Rodgcrs, Jr., has accepted the position of bookkeeper in the store of Mr. A. O. Jones. A meeting of the stockholders of the local Cotton Warehouse will be held next Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the town hall. , Every stockholder is urged to be present. Sell your cotton and cottonseed on the Fort Mill market. The! buyers of the staple here pay the j ! highest prices, and as for seed, i each one wants all he can get, consequently there is ginger and snap in the bidding for them. The next session of the York I ; Baptist Association will convene ; with the Baptist church at Clo: ver next Tuesday, Oct. lGth, I at 11 o'clock a. m. Full delega; tions from all churches of the ! Association are expected to at| tend. | The case of J. W. Elms vs. ] the Southern Power Co., will be called in the court of general sessions at Lancaster the coming week. Mr. Elms will ask for damages in the sum of $10,000 for a broken -leg and other injuries alleged to have been received in an accident at Great I Falls last February. The latest order issued by the j the postofhce department, looking to the expeditious delivery of mails, was that providing for the ! discontinuance of the back ; stamping in large cities. It is ! probable that back stamping I of letters by the office to which i they are addressed will be universally abolished. In the presence of a distin1 guished gathering at Great Falls, ! S. C., Friday arternoon, Miss i Mary Duke, of Durham, laid the corner stone of the large power house there dedicating the plant i to "the upbuilding and uplifting I of the South, hor rw>nnlr? Vior industries and her institutions." From the Charlotte Observer : it is learned that relatives of Mr. I J. S. Huddleston, who waa killed by a train near Concord, N C., some time ago, have accepted a compromise verdict for $1,900. Mr. Huddleston and family vvere 1 residents of Fort Mill some years J ago. Dr. Louis Friedheim, a veterj inary surgeon of Rock Hill, v/as ! here several days of the past ! week examining the herd of cattle on the dairy farm of Mr. T. | B. Spratt. Each of the sixteen j cows in the herd underwent a i close medical examination, with the result that not the slightest trace of tuberculosis or other disease was discovered. Good roads are the cheapest roads. The nnnual expense growing out of the wear and tear to vehicles and the delay and sometimes failure in marketing crops would make a sum sufficient in a few years to build j and keep in order the most exi pensive system of improved highways. James Adams' Railroad shows struck the town Monday and have given performances each niirht at 8 o'clock in a hitr t nnt" ; near the head of Main street, i Those who have watched the performances speak highly of j the character of the show. A telephone message Monday from Charlotte announced the death in one of the hospitals in that city of a Mr. Erwin, a resident of the Pleasant Valley section. Mr. Erwin had been ill for several weeks. He leaves a wife and several children. The funeral and burial took place Tuesday at Six-Mile church, in Lancaster county Tuesday. The autumnal equinox has been making itself felt with much more than ordinary force J this year. The beginning was the Atlantic coast, storm which ' swept Wrightsville Beach at Pawley's Island. Since then i this section has had clouds and j | driving rains, and the result of I the hurricanes and typhoons : that have been prevailing in 1 different parts of the world, l uwiiiM. 4. 1 *i_ ^ V ' ' ^ iHT \ \ * *v I *\ 1 SPECIAL NCT1C^S7 LOST?About two weekt mro? two white piK*. niulo nuo lomalo, twol months old. Howard for ruturi t I W H .TONES. ? I Frosh Fakers' l*v*\|,1 every Saturday at JONES'. \ * *Vv <5$ "IMPERIAL' t I iLont f; ^ T _ n.v.m -.-. . 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