Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 18, 1906, Image 2
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The Fort Mill Times.
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13. W. BRADFORD, . Ed. and Prop.
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^ "OCTOBER 18. 1906~
The helpful sum of $50 is not
bad foi* a bale of stained oof-ton
The great trouble with a majority
of the young1 men in the
towns and cities nowadays is
that they receive only about
ten years of discipline, when, to
make good and useful citizens,
they need at least 21 years of
paternal control.
There is an aesthetic side to
the good roads movement that is
of no little importance. What is
drearier, what more depressing
than to drive along a country
road deep with mud and furrowed
by ruts and water standing in
pools in the roads where ditches
-ought to be.
"1
The charge by the Columbia
Street car company of ten cents
each way for passengers going
to and from the State fair
grounds is an unjust discrimination.
The Columbia papers have
it that a welcome awaits one
and all at the fair, but it appears
that in one respect, at least, a
leg-pulling awaits the visitors at
the hands of the street railway
people.
The farmer is again in the
saddle and is gradually tightening
the reins. The frost of the
past week with the coolest
-weather on record in many cotton
growing sections has cut of
the already short crop something
like half-a-million bales and
many of the producers are sitting
by watching the prices go
up in bounds. At best the farmer
gets only what he works for
and we hope that 12 1-2-cent cotton
is not far distant.
One often wonders why it is
that so few people want to move
to the country nowadays. Cities
are full of of people who live
from "hand to mouth," and
whose total wealth is represented
by the clothing they have on.
Years go by and these people
never have a home. They lose
that independence that the proud
owner pf a farm has. If there
is one needed reform it is to keep
people on the farms and away
from the cities.
Where is the man so happy as
the one who applies himself to
manual labor? . Where is the
home so happy as the one where
each member of the household
feels, at the close of the day,
that they have performed some
at least of the many duties devolving
upon them? There may
be a clash some day between capital
and labor, and should this
period ever come, the hope is that
labor, with the conquering tread
of a hero, will trample beneath
its heel the power that has, to a
considerable extent, made labor
laborious.
There is at present demands
for several store rooms in Fort
Mill, but those who own lots on
the business streets would rather
let the property lay idle and paytaxes
on something from which
there is no income whatever.
In some cases parties desiring
to build have offered fancy
prices for the lots but the
owners v/ould not sell. Such
property owners are not only
worthless citizens but are veritable
stumbling blocks to the
town's progress. It is regretted
that there is not a way. in which
the taxes on such lots could be
placed at the figure so near the
actual value of the property as
to compel the owner to either
build or sell to those who desire
to build.
There is nothing perhaps that
interferes more with effective
ficnool work than pdrties given
during the school week. If the
time actually spent at the party
alone be considered, the ill effects
on school work would possibly
^ not be so marked. But expenA
ence teaches all of us that the
mind cannot be centered on school
W work, either while anticipating a
jovial time or while the impressions
of a night of amusement
are fresh in our memories. It is
taken for granted that parents j
are as much if not more interest
children at school as are the
teachers, and no teacher takes
delight in a pupil's failure. Our
object in this matter is to call
the attention of parents to the
facts in the case and urge that
nothing be allowed to interfere
with the progress of their children
in school work.
There is a hot fight on between
the citizens of Seneca and the
Oconee Telephone Co., a line
which covers the entire county
and a part of Anderson and
Pickens counties. The Oconee
Telephone Company notified their
subscribers that there would be
a charge of 10 cents for all
messages to other towns connected
by the same line, although
there was an agreement when
the telephones were installed
that the service would include
all towns connected by this
system ana a ditlernnce in rates
was made for those who wished
purely local and those who
wanted county service. 'The
outcome will be, unless the
Oconee Telephone Company does
as the people have requested,
that the municipal government
will erect a line and give service
at cost. Should the town authorities
take a hand in running
a telephone system it is more
than likely that they will also install
an electric lighting plant.
The need of the enforcement
of the law as to criminal carelessness
was made manifest here
Thursday when three small negro
children were baked alive
as a result of having been locked
alone in a cabin. Such incidents,
horrible as they are, are not infrequent,
and in a majority of
the cases the parents seem to
deplore the calamity but for a
brief period. It was called to our
attention the past week that the
mother of the unfortunate children
after viewing the limbless
trunks of her offspring, which
were yet in the burning embers
of^ the cabin, seemed little
grieved at the occurrence and
departed for the home in which
she was engaged as cook and
quietly prepared supper. But,
:j ..I :r i.u_
its we miiu in nie uu'^ci, 11 uie
I law was enforced in such inj
stances, the burning of small
children and infants, who have
been made prisoners in their own
houses, would certainly be less
frequent. It looks to us that
parents, knowing the probable
results of imprisoning their
children in such a manner,
should in such cases as that of
the past week be indicted for
murder.
Protecting Ratcah.
Let a negro be arrested for
crap shooting or any other small
gambling game and when convicted
he has to swallow his
dose and make the most of it.
When some "no account" white
man is arrested for violating the
dispensary law or other misdemeanor
he has to accept the sentence
of the court. But let a
high toned gambler, or a respectable
retailer of drinks in a
geuueman s ciuu ue conviccea,
and friends rise up to help him
out. By new trials and appeals
and long continued pleading
your gentlemanly scoundre Igets
olf after awhile. When it is
positively known that such a
man is guilty the best legal talent
possible comes to the rescue. I
If that fails, then the "best!
people" will sign a petition to j
have the "rascal" pardoned and !
turned loose so he can pursue i
his former business. It looks i
to the ordinary, untrained mind
that laws are made to punish
! poor law breakers and to protect
those who have money. No
amount of legal whitewash will
whiten the character of a dishonest
man. It will not even
i start him out on the road of
reform, for when he is saved
one time by money and legal
technicalities he will conclude
; that it will be easier to get oir
next time.?Carolina Spartan.
Rev. Sam P. Jones Dead.
The Rev. Sam P. Jones, the
| well known evangelist of Cartersiville,
Ga., died early Monday
morninc of heart, disease in a
sleeping car on train No. 4 of
the Rock Island Railroad, near i
Perry, Ark. Mr. Jones had
been conducting a most successful
meeting at Oklahoma City,
I. T. and left there Sunday night
for his home in Georgia. He desired
to attend a family reunion
Tuesday, it being the 59th anniversary
of his birth.
A BADLY BUSHED 3IBL
or boy, man or woman, is quickly out
of pain if Bunkhm's Arnica Salvo is applied
promptly O. J. Welch, of Tokon.
gha, Mich., says: *' ? use it in my family
for cats, sores and all skin injuries, and
find it perfect." Qumkest Pile cure
known Best healiujf salve mado.. 2Gc
at all drug store* ,
What Price Shall We Get For Cotton?
We are in for another straggle.
Our leaders cannot settle this
question for us. What we want
is this: If you are making five
bales retire one; 10 bales, retire
two; 20 bales, retire four, since
four bales will bring as much as
five, eight as ten, and 16 as 20.
This is a practical way to dispose
of the surplus. Then let no
farmer sell until he either gets
his price or is forced to do so."
The buyers will certainly j
never give us 11 cents when we !
rush it to market for less. Just
let the receipts be light and it
will go up; heavy and they will
Koo i* if rlnixrn Wn m o \t foil'
k/Vi4X IV UVU II* ?T V ?"?J tu,l IV
about leaders, and we may have
them, but the power at last rests
with the people. They say the
farmers will . not stick, and
other derogatory things about
them, but we know they are
getting better informed. We
know with all their faults, they
are a good industrious and well
meaning class, who, though
they have slumbered over their
their rights for six thousand
years, are now awakening and
will make their full power felt.?
Southern Cultivator.
Another New Railroad.
Charlotte has been suggested
"".a probable terminal for a new
railroad extending from Augusta,
Ga., by way of Charleston and
Columbia, says the Charlotte
News. The route for this new
road has been determined so far
as the lines between Charleston,
Columbia and Augusta are concerned,
and a number of tentative
routes reaching into the
northern part of South Carolina
and a portion of North Carolina
have been suggested.
Mr. C. R. Van Ettin, representing
the South Carolina Public
Service corporation of NewYork
city, has written a letter to
Mayor S. S. McNinch asking for
some advance idea of the value
of the dilferent towns in this
section in order to make a
tUnroncrVi iniroatinrftfiriri no frv +V10
traffic value of certain communities
in connection with the railroad
development to the manufacturing
towns in the. north,
west portion of South Carolina.
Mr. Van Ettin writes that he is
coming to South Carolina with
an organization prepared to
actively progress this matter in
November at which time he will
come to Charlotte to confer with
Mayor McNinch in regard to the
manufacturing possibilities of
Charlotte and this section.
Cottcn in Bad Shape.
The Spartanburg Journal reports
that the cotton mills in
that county are having great
difficulty in spinning this year's
cotton because of the damp and
soggy condition of the cotton,
caused by the continued rains.
Much of the cotton is said to be
gin cut and it is said that some
of the mills are refusing this
year's crop as they are not able
to handle the staple.
The long spell of rainy weather
has done untold damare to the
farmers throughout the South.
For several weeks there have
been heavy rains anb very little
cotton has been gathered. W hat
cotton has been picked is wet!
and in this condition the saws
of the gins cut up the seed along
with the fibre, making it exceedingly
difficult for the mills to
t...i ~ c.?
oj;iu ?v. in imiia wnvrc it lint:
grade of cloth is spun, gin cut
cotton is practically valueless.
Farmers state the continued
rainy weather is causing com to
sprout in the shucks and cotton
is coming up in the bolls on the
stalk. One farmer stated that
in driving into the city he had
seen cotton sprouts shooting out
from a number of half open bolls
and unless the weather 'chared
the farmers in the county would
be damaged thousands and
thousands of dollars from injured
cotton. Not only has the
cotton crop been damaged but
much corn is going to ruin and
hay and peavines have gone to
waste in the fields.
Three small children of Tony
Davis, colored, met a horrible
death by burning late Thursday
afternoon at their home on the
plantation of Mr' J. M. Spratt,
near town. The parents of the
children had gone out to their
day's work and locked the children
in the cabin. In snmc way
the house caught fire and the
children, being unable to release
j themselves, were burned to
death in their home. The fire
was not discovered until the
house was enveloped ft1 flames
and it was impossible to rescue
the unfortunate little ones.
Fresh Bakers' Bread
every Saturday at JONES'.
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Lottar to L- J. MASSEY.
Fort Mill, S. C.
Dear Sir: You know diamonds don't
go by sizo. So with paint.
We make paint, oue gallon of which 1
goes as far as two of auothor and lasts
twice as long; that's four to one.
Yon know it is true in diamonds, thoy
don't, go by the gullon, do thoy?
If you're going to paint your house,
you go tirst to your painter npd say.
"I'm going to paint; do you want the
job? and what'll it cost?
If ho happeus to know, he'll say:
"Depends on the paint. lean do it
for somewhere about $100 or $200,
whichever yon like; $100 will make a
good job; $200 a poor one.
And you, if you happen to have your
wits, '11 say: "I'll take the good one.
when'U you do it?"
Painters ought, all, to know about,
paint; and jewolors onght to bo able
to get a good job. Wo do what we can
to help both.
One gallon Dovoo is better than two
of iiventire mint. ua fur?iKn? iu
your ho a so will tuko about 20 Julians
Dovoo and 40 of average pniut?ami
Devuo will wear a long time; the life of
average paint. is vory uncertain, it may
bo a year, it may bo live.
Why is it that painters don't know
about paint? Do jewelers know about
| diamonds? They know more than they
tell sometimes. There are painters
j and painters; so there are jewelrrs;
j so there is paint, and the least-gallons
paint is Dovoe.
You's truly
! 5 F W DEVOE & CO
New York
P. 3: W. B. -Ardrcy & Co. soli our paint
| BaBY AND FLORAL SHOW.
A Baby and Flower Show is
j scheduled for next Thursday,
' the 25th inst. It will be under
1 the management of the Ladies'
i Improvement Society, who have
heretofore successfully conducted
several entertainments, the proceeds
of which were judiciously
bestowed upon public benefits
and benevolent causes. The show
will be held in the town hall from
10 a. m. until 10 p. m. Admission
will be 10 cents. All friends
of the society from the country
as well as the town are earnestly
requested to contribute babies
'and plants for the exhibiton.
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1 A \J [JI l/.VJD v\ III uc UlLC! t'U 111
the baby show, one lor tbe prettiest
baby not over one year old,
and the other for the prettiest
baby from one to three years of
age. An admission of 10 cents
will be charged for each entry
for the purpose of purchasing
the prizes. All those entering
babies will report to Mrs. L. J.
Massey, Secretary, before 10
o'clock Thursday 25th inst. The
babies will be placed on exhibition
at 3 p. m.
A prize will be offered for the
prettiest collection of plants and
one for the finest plant. Those
entering plants will send them
to the town hall the day before
where they will be received and
properly taken care of.
! Refreshments and lunches
I will be served during tne day.
| Mighty Few
Cents Higher
AndIf
you were to go anywhere in
the IJnited States and were asked
what paint you used on your
house and you say Devoc, you
wouia dp toia tnat you were alright.
The name would he recognized
in a great many foreign
j countries and you would be con1
gratulated on your judgement,
for it is the oldest and has the
best reputation of any paint on
the market.
Do you examine the paint that
goes on your house? Are you
capable of judging? No. Then
j buy by name. You don't have
1 to pay but 5 to 10 cents more
than for the best of other Paints,
i That's only 30 or 50 or. 75 cents
i on the job. Ain't the satisfac1
tion worth that? That little bit
just makes it a safe proposition
for you.
So much for appearances; now
; for realities. You get it all back,
; the 30, 50 or 75 cents an ! several
j times as much for it takes less
| Devoe. We guarantee this.
Mr. A. R. McElhaney has just
J painted with 51-2 gallons. Eight
: was ordered for the job.
j Mr. W. E. Cunningham bought
110 gallons for first coat?just to
! try?on a big two-story house
that had not been painted for
; twenty years, lie put on TWO
j coats, and sent back two gallons.
Specify Devoe to your painter.
W. B Ardrey 8: Cg.
TAXES, 1906.
For the convenience of the Taxjsiyors
of Fort Mill township, I will attend at
Fort Mil! on Friday, the nth, and Saturday,
the 10th, days of November.
At Rook llill Monday, the 12th, to
Saturday, the 17th, days of November.
And at Yorkvillo from the loth day
of November until the 81st day of December,
after which date the penalties
will bo added.
, II.'A.D.NEELY,
Couuty Treasurer.
Oct. 18, It
DAN9SB FROM THE PLAQUE.
There's grave danger from tho plague
of Coughs and Colds that are so prevalent,
unless you take Dr. King's Now
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. Mrs. Geo. Walls, of Forest City.
1 Me., writes: 'It's a Godsend to people
living in climates where coughs and ,
colds prevail. 1 tind it quickly ends them.
It prevents Pneumonia, cures LaGrippe, 1
ves wonderful relief in Asthma audi
Hay Fever, and makes weak lungs 1
strong enough to ward of Consumption, i
Coughs and Colds. 50c and $1.00. i
Guaranteed by all bruggists. Trial '
bottle free.
Solicitor Geo. B. Timmcrman
! is much gratified at the decision j
by Judge Memminger, which i
ruled that the bond of H. G. j
Miller belonged to the county, |
as the amount involved was i
$1,500.
A Y0UN3- MOTHER AT 70"My
mother 1ms suddenly been made
young at 70, Twenty years of intense
! sntTeriiur from ilvitniMisin lmcl rntirnlv
j disabled hor, until six mout lis ago, whuti I
; rIii' began taking Elect ric Bitters, which I
! have completely cured her and restored
the strength and activity she had in the i
1 prime of life," writes Mrs. \Y. L>. Gilpati
rick, of Danforth, Me, Greatest restoraj
live uiedicine 011 the globe Sots Stom!
ach, Liver and Kiduoys right; purifies
the blood, and cures Malaria Billionsncssand
Weakness, Wonderful Nerve
Tonic. Price 00c. Guaranteed by all
druggists.
The rectifying1 plant at the
; dispensary will be installed in a
i few days and after that the
; dispensary will blend its own
goods with bonded whiskey purj
chased from government ware!
houses.
BLOOD POISONING
results from chronic constipation which
' is quickly cured bv Dr. Kitig'i Now Life j
Pills. They remove all poisonous germs
from the flJT8teninndinfr.se UGW life and j
j vigor; cure sour stomach, nausea, head- !
; ache, dizziness and colic, wit hout grip- j
I ping or discomfort. 23c Guaranteed by !
1 all druggists.
....
Since tho public school library !
law was enacted about two
years and a half ago, nearly j
800 libraries have been establish-!
ed in places where none had j
existed before.
IT you have lost your boyhood spirits, 1
courage and conlidenro of youth, wo of- I
, for YOU lleW life, fresll ronvnm nr.rl 1
j freedom from ill health in Hollistor's
Rock.v Mountain Tea. 3.1 cents Tea or
j Tablets.?Parks Drug Co.
Capt. and Mrs. T. P>. Spratt
sncnt Saturday in Charlotte.
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This is the season of decay and weakened
vitality. Nature is being shorn
of its beauty and bloom. If yon would
retain yours, fortify your system with
Ilollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 36
' cents, Tea or Tablets.?Parks Drug Co.
jPHOTOG
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Commencing nexl
and continning until <
day, Oct 27tli, Mr. Z. ~
to serve all wishing P
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tion at moderate prici
photographs, from the
25 els, four different
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largest and higher da:
dozen. The small ph<
Pongs, 4 different posi
lwk ilolhr-.en/l uovf .!<?
*?\ uiuuiru nv-vi) tut
w ()rk g i ia rn nte cd. A1
previous work, I svill
Saturday aft-ernoo
will be reserved exeus
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I "IMPERIAL' |
$ FLOUR |j
^ Is tlio UKST FLOUR on the J
^ market. Givo it a tAil and yon ^
f will always have Good Bread, <P |
j ^ You can always find it at ^ j
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CLOTHING.
A more complete stool. >t lothing
would be bard to fihd. We
can fit the boys, the y -iit - men,
the middle aged man. ai d the
settled man. Consid? ; a quality
of goods, we can't iersold.
Here are the weapo K we
fight competition vv; I'hey
have been conquero he
past half century, : in u air
treatment and hon <! tingwill
accomplish an\ ; hey
will continue to lead
Schloss Bros, and ( i r md
Clothes.
Jno. B. Stetson ; ilow ,rd
Hats.
Hanan and Crawf( ?*.
Sweet, Orr, and J i ns.
Trousers. Bull Dog ' irts .eid
ntVipr nnniilrr linr>Q rd' h
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Our motto: "The ?> .-1 i cons
for the least money."'
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mcl including
E. Scott will 1 C fly
hotos of any *U or p3S.
M ill mat e -? <;
smallest size, 2 i for
positions, 11 p < no
ss work at 81 o* -0 per
)tos, known as kin? itions,
24 for 2?* . H
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