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SPECIAL NOTICES.' (2"> oMjhiwch insertion) For Sale?A lot of good roughedge Lumber. Also some nice Pigs. W. H. Jones. Coal and Wood?Place your orders for the winter's supply of Coal and Wood with V. B. Blankenship. No. 1 lump coal and good wood at reasonable prices. Items of Local Interest ?Mr. J. C. Cochrane, of \ Harrisburg, N. C., visited rela- , tives here the past week. ? Mrs. J. B. Mills and chil - i-iid **? T ^ 1 uicii a. re vusiung ivirs. J. rj. Bruce, of Winnsboro. Miss Ethel Pegram returned to her home in Gastonia Saturday morning after a pleasant visit to Miss Willie Hoke, of this place. ?Miss Wrenn Harris, of GafTney, and Miss Mary Harris, of Asheville, are visiting their cousin, Miss Aileen Harris, on Booth street ?Mrs. A. R. McElhaney and children, of this place, and Mrs. C. B. Magill, of Grattan, spent the past week with relatives in Kershaw. ?Mrs. Addie Query and son of Charlotte, spent several days of the past week at the home of Mr. T. D. Faulkner, in this place. ?A crowd of Gold Hillites passed through Fort Mill Monday morning en route to LamPs Ford, on Catawba river, where they are spending several days fishing and pinicing. ? Mrs. Sarah H. Stephenson j left Friday morning for Gaffney, accompanied by her son, Mr. Haile-Stephenson, with whom she will make her home in the future. ? Miss Margaret Warlick, of Charlotte, who is the milliner for the firm of Meacham & Epps, of this place, is now in the Northern markets studying the fall and winter styles and laying in a stock of millinery for her firm. ?Messrs. Philip and George < Hoover, brothers, are reported to be dangerously ill of fever at i ( their home in the village of the I, Fort Mill Mfg. Company. Mrs. ! Hoover, mother of the young , men, is also confined to her home ! by illness. < ?Contractor Z. V. Bradford 1 has contracted with the Fort ] Mill Mfg. Company for the erection of a number of new ( tenant houses in the mill village, . and the recovering of the forty- j odd old houses. About 200,000 , shingles will be used in the 1 work. j ? Mr. J. L. Kizer, of upper 1 Fort Mill, returned Saturday morning from a four week's | visit to relatives in Arkansas and ] Texas. Mr. Kizer stated that < the crops in Arkansas were fair- ? ly good, but as a whole not quite 1 up to those in this section. In < Texas the prospects for anything like a fair crop are any- j thing but encouraging. t ?There was great disappoint- J ment among the baseball fans t the past week when the Winns- r boro team notified the locals 1 that they could not come here ] for the three games which had 1 1 i - neen ajTangea. it was expected that the Fairfield boys would' be c here Wednesday, Thursday and 1 Friday, but for some reason not t stated they failed to show up. 1 ?The numerous friends of , Mrs. J. H. Thorn well will regret \ to learn that she is now under < treatment at the Presbyterian 1 Hospital in Charlotte. Mrs. j Thornwell has been in ill health for some time and her removal . to tne hospital was deemed j advissable by the attending ^ physicians. It is the hope of all , that she will soon be able to re- j turn to her home here. ( ?The Stewart-Springs Gin Company, owners of the big \ electrically-driven ginnery near i the cotton warehouse, will in a i short time begin the erection . of a big warehouse in which to < store cotton seed. The ware- house will be erected between j ~ ~ ~ J *1 ?? J ?? uic ^niiiuij auu cue ran roan, and j all seed bought will be carried , from the gins to the warehouse j by means of an air flume, which 4 will do away with the handling \ of the seed. We are told that j the company will also install < a pair of cotton scales and have \ a cotton buyer on hand during j the season to buy up the cotton } and seed as it comes from the ( gin. r-Early Monday morning the 1 Southern Power Company "rut 1 in the current from the Great 'I Falls plant and the 11,000 volts if which nave been furnished by , 1 the Catawba plant near this 11 place was increased to 44,000 1 volts. In order to transmit the 1 additional current, a new line of t wire had to be strung and a I force of hands under charge of j Mr. B. F. Massey has been at i k. work between the India Hook < plant and Charlotte for the past 1 several months. Most of the j % . additionidi|*ower from. Great < ] :-L Falls miiia ' Mnfa. ' -il-C-" StalestKSH?vil:<'. carried to these ?Mr. O. P. Heath, of Charlotte, was a visitor to Fort Mill Monday. ?Mrs. C. F. Rodgers and son a id daughter, Mr. Fred and Miss Ella, left during the past week for a visit to the Jamestown exposition. ?Rev. W. M. Owingsand family are visiting relatives in Spartanburg county. ?Miss Lillian Caveny, of Rock Hill, is the guest of the Misses Masscy, on Booth street. ?Messrs. W. B. Ardrey and W .T Rtpwnrt nnrl Tli? t T> Elliott left Saturday evening- for a short visit to Alontreat, N. C. ?Miss Mary Young returned to Savannah Saturday, after a vverk's visit to her parents in this place. ?Mrs. J. F. Mosteller and Mrs. Nancy Crouse returned to their homes in Charlotte Monday, after a visit to relatives in lower Fort Mill township. ?Misses Ethel and Patti Frost, ' of Jacksonville, Fla., are visitors at the home of Mr. B. F. Massey in lower Fort Mill. ?Mr. D. N. Gaston contemplates the erection of several additional rooms to his home near the graded school in the near future. , ?Mrs. M. K. Moore and chil- 1 dren, of Waxhaw, N. C., are vis- 1 itinp Mrs. Moore's parents. Air. 1 and Mrs. J. W. Latham, of this > place. Mrs. F. M. Whi clock and | daughter, Miss Flossie, of Union, are visitors at the home of Mr. i F. G. Whitlock, on Clebourn < street. < Airs. O. E. Smith and two lit- ' tie daughters returned to Union Saturday morning, after a pleas- , ant visit of several weeks at the ! home of Air. and Mrs. F. G. , Whitlock, on Clebourn street. ?Air. W. H. Jones, who lives two miles west of town will in u < few days begin the erection, near 1 his present home, of a handsome i two-story residence. The construction work will be in charge if Contractor Z. V. Bradford. ?The reporter is informed I ] Lhat Mr. V. B. Blankenship and : 1 family, of lower Gold Hill, will i move to town about the first of ; < September and will occupy the < Voung house on Clebourn street. ' rhe Times extends a hearty 1 welcome to Mr. Blankenship and < his excellent family. < ?The Times has been request- ! ed to call to the attention of the authorities the condition of railroad street just below the passenger station. The sidewalk is said to be in bad shape and there is a foot bridge on the street which is much in need of repairs. ?The construction work on the new Sugar creek bridge i6 progressing niceiy. The foundation cylinders were set in position the past week and the iron j*estle-work is being put together as fast as possible. ? Summer travel is now at its might and the trains passing .hrough this place daily are :rowded with passengers. The ,rend of the travel is toward the mountains and mineral spring ?sorts and from now until cool veather the railroads will be cept'busy handling passengers. ?The annual picnic of the col- , >red people of tnis section wns 14 leld Wednesday of last week at \ die big spring, near the old White , oomestead, one mile north of ( Port Mill. The gathering this , fear was said to have been the t argest yet held, it being estima- . xod that 500 people were present, j [n the afternoon two games of t oall, between the Shopton, N. C., < ind Pleasant Valley colored nines k ind the colored teams of Fort Mill and Rock Hill, were played, the scores and winners of which the reporter failed to learn. The best of order prevailed throughjut the day. J ?Sheriff Brown has, according { to a report from Yorkvillo, put i the people of this county on no- < tice that it is his purpose to put ( ill moonshiners in his territory s out of business, and everybody < who knows the sheriff is satis- | fled that he fully intends to make 1 ?ood. The sentiment in favor of j enforcing laws of all kinds, es- j [oecially those against murder, 1 stealing, etc., is more healthy ( than ever before and the outlook j low is that the time is not far i off when the murderer will go to :he gallows and the thief to the ( oenitentiary in this county, re-: j ?ardless of color of skin or social ] >r financial standing:. : ( ?An interesting, though some- | vhat one-sided game of ball was 1 jlayed on the local diamond J Saturday afternoon between the ' ;econd team of Fort Mill and the 1 Manchester cotton mill team of ( ftock Hill. The visitors had the ' ocal youngsters outclosed in size, ;1 jut the home boys rubbed it on : ;o them to the tune of 9 to 4. The ; Matures of the game were the ' ( bitching of Spratt, who tossed i i no-hit game and the home run ] >f Bradford for the Fort Mill 1 :eam. Pitcher Boone for the j Manchester boys allowed the , Fort Millians twelve safe hits. The Manchester team is well d with some prac-1 uhtless ma^^^gtF 1 ?Mrs. H. Q. Miller, of Ivissimmec, Fla., is spending the sunnier at the home of Mr. B. F. Massey, in lower Fort Mill. ? Mr. L. M. Dinkins, of St. Petersburg, Fla., for many years a resident of lower Fort Mill, arrived Monday night and will spend a few days with relatives here before going to the moun tains of North Carolina for a few weeks visit. ? Mrs. F. G. Hucks, who with her husband lived on the Miller place in upper Fort Mill, died early Sunday morning and was buried Monday in Flint Hill cemetery. Mrs. Hucks had been ill for several months with cancer of the breast and this affliction caused her death. ?Mr. W. T. Parks, one of our good farmer friends, has the thanks of the editor for a couple of very fine watermelons sent to this office Saturday afternoon. There may be farmers in this townsnip who grow finer melons than Mr. Parks, but we positively refuse to take their words as proof of it. ' ?Capt. M. M. Wolfe, one of the few surviving Confederate officers, is at present suffering much pain from a wound on his left leg received during the Civil war. The wound healed up soon after it was received and gave Capt. Wolfe no further trouble until a few weeks ago when it began to inflame and broke out anew. ?As The Times goes to press this (Wednesday) afternoon the Union Picnic at the graded school is in progress. A record-breaksrowd is in attendance and the day is being pleasantly spent by all. At 4.30 p. m. a game of ball will be played on the local diamond between the Fort Mill and Steel Creek teams, which will also meet again Thursday afternoon to contest honors. In next week's Times a list of the winners of the various picnic nnntocf o 4-4-V* il _ uw?ivcov/o, w(5ciucx wiLii uie victors in the ball games, will be given. ?Wednesday the home of Mr. J. Sawney Kimbrell, east of Port Mill, was the scene of a happy gathering of people who had been invited to take part in \ community picnic dinner. The j lay was an ideal one for the occasion and the Messrs. Kimbrell j were at their best in entertaining the crowd. An abundance of iinner was spread, after which ielicious refreshments were served. Among the invited oruests were Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bailes, Mr. W. B. Medlin, Mrs. Darnell and family, Mr. J. M. Gamble and family and a number of young people from this place. The day was pleasantly spent and the crowd left late in the afternosn after wishing the Vlessrs. Kimbrell continued success and thanking them for their lospitality upon this occasion. ?Mr. J. M. Spratt and sons, Dr. J. L. Spratt and Capt. T. B. 3ratt, have a force of hands at present engaged in laying a pipe ine for the installation of a private waterworks system in their lomes in Spratville. The pumpng plant, which is to be elecxically driven, will be located in ,he big meadow in Sprattville vhere a few years ago a number )f pipe wells were sunk to a iepth of several hundred feet, ind from which an abundant supply of good pure water can ? ?A * % jc ocv.uicu< i ne storage tana vill be located at the home of Dapt. Suratt, which has an elevation about 20 feet higher than he ground in the immediate vicinity, and from this tank pipe ines will lead off to the homes of he elder Mr. Spratt and Dr. Spratt, several hundred yards iway. Death of Mr. John Gordon. Mr. John Gordon, whose illicss has been noted in these columns, died Monday morning tt 7 o'clock, the cause of death being paralysis, by which he was stricken August 3rd. Mr. Gor:lon had been dangerously ill ?ince he was attacked by the lisease and it was realized from he start that he could not possibly recover. His death, therefore, was not unexpected. The funeral was conducted from the iome Tuesday morning at 10 b'clock by Rev. J. H. Lhornwell, D. D., after which the burial Aras made in the town cemetery. Mr. Gordon was about 77 years >f age and is survived by a wife and several sons and daughters. Hie was a native of Lancaster county, having been reared in he Relaire section. He moved to Fort Mill about 12years ago. Mr. jordon was a man who was well iked by all who knew him. He was upright and honest and his loath causes profound sorrow to lis many friends here and elsewhere. _ ? - - ? ENDORSED BY THE C3T.JT7"The most popular romodv in Otsego bounty, and the best friend of my family," writes Wm. M. Diet7., editor and publisher of the Ostego Journal, Giloertsvillfy N. Y., "is Dr. King's New Discovery. It has proved to be an infallible cure for coughs and colds, making short work of the worst of them. Wo always keep a bottle in the house [ believe it to be the most valuable prescription known for Lunj and Throat ^eu|^^^^^arantoed to never <lis .. .. -1.. - . 'J.-. . \ 11 Lucky Purchase Sale i I i Beginning today, August 1st, we i will sell our Summer Clothing i for Men and Boys at 20 per j i cent discount, or one^fifth off. [ i Also Odd Pants, Mens and La^ J < dies' low^cut Shoes and lights { ( weight Hats# At these prices 1 mwe must insist upon having tlic \ I Cash, as we can't charge any- \ tiling at the discount prices. 4 ! s> j 4 McElhaney & Comp'y j 4 ? 4 ? > r ., [&[p?\afrtil&im&z ?afR?.ffcr^isrerer&n^&ti&p\ ' 2 I JOB PRINTING 111 l bs * II NEATLY EXECUTED AT* ? j J 1 THE TIMES OFFICE. A ^ J ? I . S3 5 TtLi Letterheads, Noetheads Billheads, Statements, Handbills, Posters, ^ * Fai Circulars, Envelopes, Etc. at tho lowest prices consistent with go<> 1 gjl * work. Send us your orders and wo will please you m)j i | Tlie f o mm si m r!T] i^i sTr^Hi"; ^J?j ri??Q???0?0?9?0?????@?5 4 T.w a Yfl an & XJL JLJ T T XX .L KJ VJ! \J I - TO BEL I Harvesting Machin; | Plows, Etc. g McCormick Mowers, ltakcs, 0 tacliments. ? Chattanooga Plows. .... I I II V (IllVi J_ V. 11V il!i^ different heights. Bagging and Ties of* all kirn received, enough for 1,000 hale Chattanooga IIill-side Blows. Chattanooga Two-liorse Blows, jej Chattanooga Middle-buster Blc j? The Middle-buster Plow has ^ fine seller. As it has the subs ? taehmcnt to it, it has a great a< ? over other plows. I The Oid Reliable S H T. B. 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On account of t'nc vacation of the schools through tise Summer, is making aspecial of er fur a titrce months course in their school, in which the course can he completed in this time by proper effort on the part of the student- lor iau DO tlte entire course can be easily taken, including board and expenses for $100.00- Wc guarantee all oar pupils a position when the> are competent. Write us and make application for a scholarship. L.J.F'RINK, Mgr. Sou. Railroad Training School, 1206 I 2 Main St.. Columbia. S. C. SHOOT ^ gB| You v i' t ? HIT u Jj.if you are aiming at 3yl 1" it 1 ir I, bra.'t or t Make y? nr mi sli- t? t m:i t l?y s}u?ot:rr tlie SThVKNS. Kf 1 r 41 yr.?.s S'lhYF.NS AKMS hr?vc K1 i trv .? < i I'MIl " lliVv'f f \# CURACY. Our line: fj Rifles, Shotguns, Pisicls Q A > r } r- | j li t 4 ' Jo Mn ;?s jft I I y Lien' Tiit!:i?r ' ; M r,... 11 vo^rr will i r i rwarcietl lor 10 cents in : tamps. j J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., P. O. Box *G5>C I CIUCOPFE KAM ... V.Ai;3., V. 3 A. 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