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% Looal Items ?Mr. M. M. Coltharp, of Greenville, is visiting relatives in Gold Hill. Mr. W. H. Coltharp,. of Charlotte, spent Tuesday in town on business. ?Dr. J. B. Mack, of College Park, Ga., is spending a few days with relatives in this place. ?Mr. Cauthen, of Kershaw, visited at the home of Mr. B. F. Massey, in lower Fort Mill the past week. ?Mr. J. A. Withers, of Worthville, and Mr. J. M. Hoke, of Charlotte, spent Sunday with their parents in this place. ?Mr. F. Nims is spending the week at Mt. Holly, N. C., with his mother, Mrs. E. W. Rankin, who has been ill for several days. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Fite returned to Gastonia Monday morning, after a pleasant visit to their brothers, the Messrs. Kimbrell, 2 miles east of Fort Mill. ?Mr. Wm. Shannon was here the past week from Florida on a visit to his brother, Mr. Kirk Shannon. This was Mr. Shannon's first visit to this section in about 25 years. ?Miss Mary Boyd, who, for several years has been engaged as saleslady in the dry goods store of Mr. L. J. Massey, has resigned the position, and is succeded by Miss Clara Smythe. ?The new council, electee ihe 14th, was sworn into office Tuesday. A short business session was held at which Mr. V. D. Potts was re-elected chief police. Council will meet again the 28th. ?Troy Broom, a young white .man, was arrested here Saturday at the request of officers of Charlotte, where Broom was charged with a violation of the law. He was taken to Charlotte Sunday and turned over to the authorities. ?Mr. L. Y. Moore, who has for several years run conductor on the Chester "swing," has Kaon transferred to a run between Columbia and Belton. Mr. John Husbands succeeds Mr. Moore as conductor of the swing. ?County Auditor Hunter arrived yesterday morning and will remain here today and tomorrow for the purpose of listing property for taxation for 1907. Taxpayers who wish to make returns will find Mr. Hunter in the Culp restaurant room on Main street. ?The Fort Mill friends of Dr. A. M. Buchanan, formerly of this place, will be pleased to learn that there has been a great improvement in his health since his removal to New Mexico several months ago. Mrs. Buchanan is I with her husband, who is suffering with tuberculosis. ?The annual supper of the local lodge Knights of Pythias was held Friday evening in the town hall. A good crowd of 1 Knights and visitors were pres(entto partake of the bounteous sapper and listen to the several addresses, and the evening was most pleasantly spent by all pres | ent. ?Mr. Edgar Marion, a young I man who clerked in the drugstore of Dr. T. B. Meacham here until Christmas, was operated on for appendicitis at the Pryor hospital in Chester a few days ago. The | young man stood the operation exceedingly well, and has since been reihoved to his home at Richburg. ?During the present week Mr. F. G. Whitlock, who for some time has been employed in Columbia, will return to Fort Mill and assume the duties of freight and passenger agent for the Southern Railway. Mr.. J. C. ! Walker, the retiring agent, goes to Chester, his home town, to accept a similar position with the C. and N.-W. railroad. ^ ? It is a most unusal occurrence for the trees to be in bloom in .Tonilflru V?11 i a four floirn <iwa HI ?? ? * J f fc/MW ?* AVT* uaj O CA|?VS LilU \f reporter saw a number of fullbloom peach blossoms which had been plucked from the garden of a citizen of this place; The long Bpell of extremely warm weather and constant sunshine easily ex' plains why the trees are putting out so early in the year. Not , since the year 1887 has such an instance occurred. ?In its issue of the 14th inst. 1 the Industrial News announces i the granting by the Guilford Superior court, at Greensboro, N. C., of a divorce to Mrs. Azalie Hughes from Charlton Hughes. I Mrs. Hughes is a daughter of Mrs. J. R. Harris of Fort Mill, and resided here until her removal to Greensboro about two ? years ago. Mr. Hughes is still a resident of this place, residing at the home of his mother, Mrs. S. 1 M. Mills, on Confederate street. | The grounds upon which the di1 vorce was obtained were not i ' The Veterans Royally Entyt&ined. Mr. Editor: The veteftmfc of the Fort Mill camp were handsomely entertained by the noble and ever considerate Daughters of the Confederacy of this Dlace on the 19th, Gen'l Lee's anniversary, by an elegant course dinner at the hospitable home of the president, Mrs. J. H. Thorn well, which was beautifully decorated for the occasion. The veterans, 27 in number, assembled in Confederate park about 12 o'clock and marched in | a body to the home of Dr. Thorn- j well, where they were met at the j door by the Daughters and wel conr.ed with extended hands and j pleasant smiles. They were escorted to the parlor where the exercises^were opened with prayer by the chaplain. Dr. Thorn-! well. They then received a most cordial welcome in an eloquent address by Mrs. Robt. F. Grier, in behalf of the Daughters, which was responded to by Mr. J. W. Ardrey, for the veterans. We! were then entertained by appro- ; priate music by the ladies, after which the veterans were invited into the beautifully arranged din- j 1 ing room, where snch a dinner, ; Mr Editor I hate to mention it, I I might make you hungry. Gen. j Lee's mistake was in not putting such a meal on top of the works on Cemetery Ridge, at Gettysburg. His army who were not killed would have gone there and stayed, too. But, alas, the old man did not have it. After dinner Miss Susie White , recited "Father Regan's Sword of Lee" and Miss Bert Thorn-, well "Lee's Parting Address to his Army" and "Ben Hill's Trib- | ute to L?ee," both of which were i very impressive. We then had I rominiscences of war by several old soldiers. Bro. Bowman Meri ritt captured the house by telling of a fellow who turned to run out of a fight and on being stopped by one of his officers, commenced crying. The officer ordered him to stop crying like a j baby and the fellow replied, "I j wish I was a baby, and a gal baby at that." We have lost by death four members since our last annual I meeting, namely: Alex Stewart, ! Matthew Giles, W. Isaac Jones I and ex-Commander L. N. Culp. The camp adjourned singing ! the praises of the ladies and in- , 1 voking Heaven's choicest bless- J ings upon them. Vet. Incendiary at Work in Steel Creek. Excitement in Steel Creek, iust over the line from this township, has been at a high pitch for several days over what is thought, to have been the work of an incendiary, by which three citizens of that section lost their barns, live; stock, and large amounts of feedstuff by fire. The first fire was that of Tuesday night shortly after dark, in which the barn, one horse, three mules and a lot of corn and hay, of Mrs. Brown Grier was reduced to ashes. The loss was estimated at $1,500, with no insurance. Later in the night the barn of Mrs. Chas. Knox who livpc- ^ short distance south of Mrs. : Grier, was discovered on fire, 1 and despite the heroic work of | the family and neighbors, the building with its contents, a horse, two mules, five bales of i cotton, a quantity sf cotton seed, ' pea-vine hay and other roughness, valued at $1,800, was totally de-1 stroyed. Mrs. Knox carried a small amount of insurance. The third and most disastrous fire of the week was that of | Wednesday night by which Mr. Mr. W. H. Choate lost property , valued at $5,000, with but little: insurance. In Mr. Choate's barn 1 were five mules, two horses and ( several head of cattle, besides a large quantity of hay and fodder. The horses and mules burned were considered among the most valuable in the county. The citizens of Steel Creek on Thursday instituted a search of the burned premises, and to the I rear of the Grier barn discovered j on the soil the print of an iron heel on the left shoe of a man. ! The parties having this evidence , at once spotted a negro named | Castles, who lived on the farm of M. n M r1 ;. rpu- I mi. u. iu. uan imuii. lilt; nejjro ; was taken to where the tracks j were found and the indentations of his shoes were found to tally , ! exactly with those in the Grier farm. Castles was hustled off to Charlotte, and, after a hearing, was committed to jail to await trial. The negro denied all knowledge of the origin of the fires, j but the people of Steel Creek are strong in their belief that Castles had a hand in the burnings and will make him give a strict account of his whereabouts when i the next Mecklenburg court con1 venes. SPECIAL NOTICES. FOB Hi^NT? A good farm containing 200 acres; good buildings, good well wator, 4 miles east of Fort Mill, l'a miles from Harrison church, price 4 bales cotton of 500 pounds each. Apply to Alex Burber, Fort Hill. S. C. NOTICE?J have for saloone house mid lot ou 1 tooth street. Fort Mil!, known as the D. O. Potts placo; also, for rent, a good one-horse plantation in Pleasant Valley, rental price, 1,000 pounds lint cotton Apply to Osmond Barber, R. P. D. No. 2 , Fort Mill. S.C. WANTED?By a prominent monthly mngnzine, with largo, high-class circulation, local representative to look after renewals and increase subscription list, in Fort Mill, S. 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