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SPECIAL NOTICES. (24 cents each insertion) 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. Kirk Shannon is having some improvement made to his home on Confederate street. ?Master Hugh Milling of Rock Hill spent the past week at the home of Mr. 13. F. Massey near Fort Mill. ?The young people of the , town enjoyed a straw ride Mon- . day night to the home of Mr. , B. F. Massey. All report a very j pleasant evening. i ? Mrs. W. G. White of York- ; ville spent las*- Monday in the 1 city with her friend Mrs. A. 0. Jones. f ? Misses Mabel and Mary Ardrey have retuened after a ' delightful stay of a few days at Wrightsville N. C. ?Mrs. M. M. Watson is spending a tew days at Patterson Springs, S. C. ? Mrs. Jas. Grier and daughter, Miss Dora, have returned from a visit to friends and relatives in Steel Creek. ! ? Mr. and Mrs. Dedwick, of : Jacksonville, Fla., visited the family of Mr. R. F. Grier the , past week. \ ?Mrs. Eleanor Culp and ehil- s dren of Columbia spent a few 1 days the past week with Mrs, I Augusta Culp. Mrs. Culp left c Monday morning for the North- r em markets. i ?Rev. J. B. Mack, of College Park. Ga., is visiting friends and 1 relatives in this place. ?Masters Heath and Luther ] f Belk have returned from an extended visit to their grand par- v ents, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Mack of ?, College Park, Ga. \?Miss Nell Battle, of Binning- t ham, Ala., visited her aunt, Mrs. s L. J. Massey, last week. ?Miss Annie Belk, of Mt. \ Holly, is spending a few days ^ with her aunt, Mrs. VV. B. ^ Meacham. j?Miss Estelle Massey is visit- c ing her friend. Miss Cook, at11 Red Springs, in. 0. I ?Mr. Oscar Culp returned ^ Monday from a week's visit to ? Charleston and Savannah. ?Hon. W. H. Stewart, of ? Rock Hill, was here Monday on ^ business. ?Mr. S. J. Kimbrell spent a a few hours Monday in Rock Hill. ?Next Monday, September 2nd, is Labor Day and no mail will go out upon the rural routes. The jjost office will observe Sunday hours. ?Ex-Sheriff Logan and Mr. Purslev. of \ orkvillo. v.\ vn ? here Saturday afternoon on busi- \ ness. ^ ?Messrs. t\ G. Whitlock and i A. R. McElhaney returned Mon- c day from a short visit to Mon- 1 treat, N. C. c ?Mrs. W. E. Taylor returned i to her home in Lancaster Satur- j' day after a short visit to her pa- < rents in this place. ?Misses Lillie Massey, Mabel r Kirkpatrick and Lady Bird Thorn- i well returned from Mon treat \ Thursday of last week. 1 ?Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Epps j left Monday evening for a ten- ' day trip to Baltimore and New < York, where Mr. Epps will pur- * chase the fall and winter stock 1 of goods for the firm of Meacham 1 and Epps. ( Mrs. Lela Patterson and sister. Miss Minnie VVooten. of Hunters- . ville, N. C., have been here s&v- 1 eral days visiting relatives and . friends. 1 ?Mr. N. L. Carothers, our popular barber, left Monday morn- ] ing for a ten-day pleasnre trip to Asheville and the Jamestown exposition. During his absence < Mr. W. R. Carothers will have charge of his barber shop. ] ?In a private letter to one of our citizen.- Saturday, Supervisor ^ Boyd stated that the chaingang would arrive here (he present 1 week to open up the road leaning to the new Bailes bridge over Sugar creek. l ?A large crowd of Gypsy ! I horse-trau' ihove been en- ( I camped two miles below town on tne Lancaster road for the past ten days, and are said to have done quite a business in the exchange of horse-tlesh. ?The annual picnic of the I people of Steel Creek will be held today near Steel Creek j j church and a largo crowd and pleasant day is expected. This afternoon a game of ball will he < played on the picnic grounds between the Steel Creek and Fort! Mill teams. ?Mr. F. H. Hugging, who'. went to Wilmington early in I July to accept a clerical position with the A. C. L. Railway, reI turned to Fort Mill Tuesday morning and has taken his former position with Meacham & Epps. 5* j*? ?The ten-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Hope, who reside in the village of the Fort Mill Mfg. Company, died Friday after an illness of several weeks. The funeral service took place Saturday morning from the home after which the burial was made in the town cemetery. ? Messrs. James and Butler Nicholson, of New Decatur, Ala; Mr. Chas. Nicholson, Mrs. R. A. Beatty and Miss Lee Nicholson, of Charlotte, and Mr. Walter Nicholson, of Corbin, Ky., are visitors at the home of their father, Mr. W. H. Nicholson, in lower Gold Hill. ?The annual meetings of the Fort Mill Warehouse Comnanv and the Fort Mill Cotton Association will be held today (Thursday) at 4.30 o'clock, p. m. All members and stockholders are urged to attend these meetings as matters of importance are to be disposed of. ?The Times offers in i's advertising' columns this week the rhrice-a-YVeck Atlanta Constitution and The Times for one year and the Home Library Wall Chart all for the small sum of S2.00, This is a combination which should be taken advantage af by all. Read the big advertisement telling of the papers and :hart. ?There was considerable dis:omfort Saturday among the cold irink dealers of the town who lave been selling a bottled drink mlled "bcerine," which in taste s said to be very much the sartie is lager beer. Some weeks ago he State chemist found by analysis that beerine contained too ligh a percentage of alcohol to >e sold without tax and revenue dficers throughout the St.af e have >een busy for several day collectng this tax, the amount charged ?ach dealer depending entirely ipon the quantity of the d Tinkle had sold. The loca1 dealers '.' ere assessed amounts ranging rom $2.50 to $15. The Fort Mill grafed school., will open for the session of 100708 on Monday morning, Septem>cr 2. It is the hope of the eachers that every child of chool age will be present the irst day in order that they may c assigned to their respective grades and the regular school vork taken up promptly. The eachers lor this session are: Jrof. J. H. Witherspoon, prinipal; Misses Minnie Garrison, of hneville; Bessie Pong, of Reck Till; Bertha Massey and Louise i T-Tkir n ti * . I icm array, 01 r ort lvmi, assisimts. Miss Mattie Smilh, of Sbenezer, will be th-' instructor >f the music class. The prospect or a successful session is very >romising. The Union Picnic a Grand Success. Not in years has Fort Mill wit- J lessed a larger gathcrirg or enoyed a more pleasant occasion han the Union Picnic held Frilay on the graded school grounds. Sarly in the morning the crowd >egan to assemble and by the loon hour it was estimated that >etween 2,000 and .2,500 people vere present. The people came n carriages, buggies, wagons, >n trains and bicycles, and not a 'ew from the country nearby :ame afoot. In the crowd present were people from Rock Hill, forkville, Pineville and Charotte, while the Gold Ilill, Steel >eek, Pleasant Valley and Provdence sections were largely rep i. _ .1 T^v * csemeu. mnncr-was announced it 1 o'clock and the loug table vas well laden with good eata)lea and everyone present enoyed the least to the fullest. L'he amusement features of the lay were the various contests, n which both old and young: ;ook part, and which were earned out without a hitch. The :ontests and winners follow: Bag: race -Carl Whitesell. Shoe contest?Crawford Tschelier. Horse and man race?Tneo. Harris, riding:. Tug: of war?G. C. Epps'team. Driving nails. ? Miss Aileen Harris. Lazy mule race?George Hall. Threading needles. ? James Harrison. Backward race ? Miss Lulu Haile. English cock-fight.?Theodore Harris. Three-legged race. ? Murray Mack and Theo. Hams. r>?1 liruii. 11 \HMiiu ic I ate Ucll i VV llllt'Kt'U. Hoop race?Sarah Culp. The day as a whole was a most enjoyable one, and none who attended will fail to he present 3ii a like occasion should the opportunity occur. The following from The State will be read with interest by the ball fans here: "Manager Edward Ransick will probably go on the road as advance man ahead of his and Harry Mace's all-star South Atlantic teams that will leave this city Sunday September 8th for a trip through North Carolina and Virginia. Both teams are made up of good players and should give the North Carolina and Virginia fans some fine exhibition ball playing." Manager Ransick is endeavoring to arrange a series of games to be playejj in Charlotte and if successful a good crowd of Fort Mill people will doubtless attend. . V 'C. * | York County News X %%%%%%%% Yorkville Enquirer. ?Superintendent of Education McMackin has been notified as to the winners of the * Winthrop scholarships, competed for in the recent examination. They are Miss Kate Hunter, Yorkville; Miss Bessie L. Faris, Fort Mill; Miss Jessie Wingate, Rock Hill. ?A little son of Mr. Wni. Burns, who lives near^ Sharon, woo qui hj oenuusiy nun, last Wednesday afternoon by falling from a load of fodder. His head struck a rock and for a time it was thought that he was killed; but he is now getting along nicely, and is considered out of danger. Mr. J. W. Good, formerly of Blairsville; but since last wint r a resident of Gaffney, died at his home in that place on last Wednesday, and was buried at Woodlawn cemetery on yesterday. His death was due to typhoid fever. Mr Good was about 50 years of age and leaves a widow and five children, all daughters. ?Mr. John L. Stacy of Clover, has paid the price to learn that nitrate of soda is not good for livestock and he wants other people to know it free of charge. | *1 lost a calf a day or two a^o," J said Mr. Stacy. "The animal I took sick suddenly, swelled up to considerably more than its normal size and died within a few hours. I thought the trouble must be due to something the calf had eaten; but was considerably puzzled until Mrs. Starr Stacy remembered to have seen the calf drinking water from a kettle in which I had soaked an empty nitrate of soda sack. The calf had gotten into the yard by accident." j ? Dan Good, a deaf mute who lived with his father, Sam Good, v.'as killed by a Southern train near his home about a mile west of Sharon last Wednesday at about 12 o'clock. Good had been pulling fodder during the day and was not again seen alive. His body was found yesterday morning within about fifty yards of his father's house. Coroner Louthian held an inquest yesterday; but very little information was developed. Some negroes testified that they heard the the locomotive whistle blowing ; on olnrm uKnnf V* ru fImn I M14 141141 AAA uuauw CUV til 1 IV UIV train passed the boy's house, and others testified that there was no alarm. The boy's head was badly mashed; but the body was not otherwise injured. Rock Hill Herald. ? Mr. W. J. Caveny, Rock Hill's faithful and very efficient Health officer, has sent in his resignation, the same to take effect September 1st, or as soon thereafter as his successor can be elected. The board of health will hold a special meeting next Friday night, August 30, for the purpose of recommending a man to the Cfiy Council to succeed Mr. Caveny and that body will probably elect a man at their next meeting, the first Monday night in September. ?Mr. W. J. Caveny, and Mr. A. R. Kimbrell who for a number of years has been one of the leading salesman in the dry goods department of A. Fricdheim & Bro's store, have purchased the stock and complete outfit of the Acme Manufacturing Company -from Mr. C. W. Frew and will engage in the manufacture of susncnders. Mr Kimbrell will resign his position with Friedheim & Bro., and just as soon as Mr. Caveny is released from his office they will take charge of their new business and devote their entire time and attention to it. The Acme Manufacturing company is one of the new enterprises that have sprung up in Rock Mill and is helping to build up the city. ? A marriage which came jus surprise to many in this city was that of Miss Elma Brownlee Needy to Mr. Fred M. Hair, | which was solemnized at the home of the bride's sister. Miss Bessie Neely, at 301 East Black and Saluda streets on Thursday ! afternoon. The marriage was a very quiet home affair, only a I few of the bride's relatives and friends being present to witness the ceremony. ?Mr. W. B. Fewell, formerly of this city, but now of Chester, was exhibiting an eel on the street; here Thursday, which he caught in Rocky Creek, n^ar Chester, a few days ago, r.nu is Lh. largest we have ever seen. Vv'li.ii first caught it measured | forty-one inches in length, seven and one-eighth inches in circumference and weighed four and one-half pounds. It was caught in a seine. ?The R. F. D. carriers are complaining of having numerous requests from patrons of their routes to carry small packages to and from town, simply as a favor when the parcels should be stamped and sent through the mail. This Is strictly against the rules of the postoffice department and all packages that are mailable should be stamped and sent through the regular ipajl, , ..yjil * . -? ' JT "i?? 1 ; * ' 1 v yo'.^y\ Lucky Purchase Sale Beginning today, August 1st, we will sell our Summer Clothing \ for Men and Boys at 20 per cent discount, or one^fifth off. Also Odd Pants, Men's and La^ dies' lowvcut Shoes and lights weight Hats, At these prices WO lllllst". lflfilfif lllliill liui'5 m? tl?,v w , ^ ?aa??Krv AXKV7&UV 1 t 1 I (I ) illi^ 1'I II." Cash, as we can't charge anything at the discount prices. McElhaney & Comp'y I \ W. F. HARRIS & SONS, Liverymen $ FORT MILL, S. C. 5 ^ Sober Service day and night. Rates for teams reasonable. For moving in wagons any place in the city, 50c. ^ ! Jk per load. Passengers to and from depot, 25c. Trunks ^ ! ^ each 25c. Surry on street or at Railway Depot at all ^ ^ hours. If you need a nice Trap for your friends call ^ $ for it, rate $1.00 per hour, 4 passengers. ^ & Here for business. 0 0 W F" HARR,S ^ 0808088O0G0O600008880?8?< ? ? < g i I ALWAYS GO I TO BE. s h M r\ r\ It ^ * g nai veiling iUclUiui I Plows, Etc. McCormick Mowers, ltakes x taehments. g Chattanooga Plows. g Barbed Wire and Fencing ? different heights. 8 Bagging and Ties of all ki 0 received, enough for b ? Chattanooga Hill-side Plows ? Chattanooga Two-horse Plo\ ? Chattanooga Middle-buster ] x The Middle-buster Plow li g fine seller. As it has the su 6a Itachment to it, it has a groat over other plows. The Old Reliable T. B. BELK, PROPRIETOR. 1 T " " * ?00????????S IMetteliam are maki duet ion < mer Gooi Plenty of .summer Buy wlii ge.t them ?. ? 1 PARKS C || I S T ? II And get a coo ^ ing drink an a; a 1 lee Cream to the wife and 11 _______ I PARKS D Dr.King's New Life Pills The best In the world. 3??O?0??03? ? @ > 0 LK'S. I lery, ? S ami At- g l? Wire of <g inds. Just ales. ? Plows. $ ins boon a x ibsoilor at- ^ ; advantage 8 Store. | ???@???? O? t l Jinn 0 ng a big re- S [)ii all Sum- (2 lis on hand. & time to wear 3 goods yet. 2 le yon cn?* ? d???? 0???? 0? 0 > ???????>???????????????? RUG CO. I ?? ??? 03P' I ? 1 and refresh- ?? >> d a basket of if take home to || little ones. RUG CO. jN Sy Electric i bitter8 AN1> KIDXEYflL f I THE SOUTHERN RftlLROA* TRAINING SCHOOL Oa account of the vacation of the schools through the Summer. Is making* special offer for a three months course in their school, in which the course 061 he completed in this ttme by plroper- effort on the part of the student. For $50 00 the entire course can be casjtty taken, including board and expease^ fy $100.00 We guarantee all our pupils a position when they are competent-/Write us and make application for a scholarship. L.J.FRINK, / Mgr. Sou. Railro&d Training School, 1206 i 2 Main St.. Columbia. S. Q. ilSTEVENSl J B? "KHEHYOU SHOOT jC jra| You *ul to HIT what yoh arc aiming at HI ?be it bird. heaM or target. Make your Hf ihdtt to mi t by shooting the STEVENS. , K/ For 41 years STEVENS ARMS have I carritdcd PREMIER HONORS lor AC 1 CURACY: Our hoc: U Rifles, Shotguns, Pistols H 1 Aftk y?uf Dcalrt?!? I I Sead I ?i?i <? the STavaNS. |(ut Cualw 1 II -, 1 oltiln, I of cm' .irt. txumit. 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