Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 24, 1907, Image 3
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^ chances on losing your
> merchandise that you do n<
5: We guarantee everything
? here to make good anythir
> satisfactory. We have be
? New Home Se
$ for 23 years, and know the;
? lots of other makes also, i
* Have been selling
5 for 17 years, and have n
? customer. Our 27 years es
> money, but is worth all it c
6 by experience, and there is
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Items of Local Interest
?Miss Ida Clarke, of Charlotte,
is the guest of her cousins,
Misses Addie and Dovie Harris.
?Mrs. R. F. Grier and little
sons Zenus and William returned
Saturday from a visit to relatives
in Charlotte.
? Messrs. J. A. Withers and
J. M. Hoke, of Worthville and
Spencer, N. C., respectively,
spent Sunday at their homes in
this place.
?Mr. J. M. Spratt will in a
short while begin the erection
of a number of cottages and
tenant houses in the big grove in
Sprattville. Mr. A. A. Bradford
has the contract to build the
houses
? Mr. T. H. Merritt had his
left hand badly lacerated Saturday
at the local ginnery. Mr.
Merritt lost his footing- and fell
upon a piece of sheet iron, the
sharp edge struck his left hand
and inflicted an ugly gash.
?The many friends of Mr. T.
B. Belk will be pleased to know
that he is slovvly but steadily improving
from the recent operation
at St. Peters' hospital, Charlotte.
It is hoped that Mr. Belk will
soon be able to return to his 1
home here. ;
?Mr. V. B. Blankenship, the
wood and coal dealer, has bought
a portable gas engine and saw
and proposes to relieve our people
of the difficulty experienced
in getting the winter's supply :
of stove and heater wood chopped.
?Mr. Geo. VV. Merritt, a well
known farmer of the Harrison
(N. C.) neighborhood, decided j
the past week to again try the 1
Fort Mill market and was here !
Saturday shopping. Mr. Merritt
also very wisely decided to read
The Times during 1908 and we
are going to do our best to make :
the paper interesting for him, j
as well as our manv other read- I
ers.
?Messrs. Mills & Young, the
furniture men, will in a few
days begin the erection of a
large warehouse in the rear of
their furniture store. The
business of this firm has grown
so in the past few months that
they haven't room to carry the 1
large stock necessary to supply
their trade and the big warehouse
is a necessity.
?So far as as we know, not a
drop of rain has fallen in this
section this month. The weather
has been ideal for harvesting
the corn and cotton crops and the
farmers have taken advantage of
the opportunity. The cotton has ;
opened rapidly and the farmers (
generally have kept abreast of ,
their woork. In this section the (
top crop is very short and if the (
i present dry weather continues
ten days longer almost all of the j
cotton will have been gathered. (
? There is general complaint '
among our people of a disease
in chickens known as sorc-head,
I and the lack of a remedy to prevent
and cure the disease. We
have been told that a mixture of
sulphur and lard applied to the
affected parts will work a cure '
and this remedy is perhaps worth
a trial. If, however, there are
those who know of a different i
and sure cure for sore-head, we
will gladly publish it for the
benefit of our readers.
?John McAuley, a young
white man who has been working
in one of the mills here, was
before Mayor Hall Friday upon
the charge of drunk and disorderly
conduct and was given
a sentence of $10 or ten days on
the roads. McAuley was taken
to the gang Friday at noon and
at first it seemed that he was in
for the term, but late in the
afternoon his friends raised the
fine and he was liberated Saturday
morning. McAuley has
been before the officials hero and
at other places a number of
times, and it is hoped that his
experience of last week on the
gang will put a stop to his reckless
manner of living.
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orse race, so why take ' &
money by investing in V
at know the real value of. g
we sell, and are right X I
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iK tnat is not periectiy ?
sen selling g
wing Machines 5
y are the best. Have sold y
and know the difference. *
Harrisburg shoes '
ever had a dissatisfied ?
:perience cost us lots of 5
ost. We know our goods *
1 no guess work in our ?
d-beats too, so when you ?
2 to help pay the other /
ies' Cloaks and Suits, Ed- &
>rds just arrived. Com- *
1 wonder how we can af
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Miss Ardrey to Wed.
The engagement of Miss Mary |
Ardrey, youngest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ardrey, and
Mr. Jessie M. Oldham, was announced
Thursday at a pretty
luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs.
W. K. Ardrey, at which quite a
number of invited guests were
present. The marriage will take ;
place about the middle of next
month.
Mr. Oldham is a prominent
young business man of Charlotte, j
The bride-to-be is a young lady ,
of high accomplishments and !
charming personality. Many !
friends of the young couple will 1
be interested in the news of
their engagement.
A New Hotel aud Lodging House.
For several years the town of !
Fort Mill has felt the need of a
first-class boarding house. It is
not infrequent that people coming
to town are compelled, by a ;
lack of accomodations at t he j
local hotel, to appeal to our pri- I
vate homes for board and lodging i
during their stay in our midst. |
But the town is to be hampered ;
in this respect only a short while ,
longer. Mr. Al. Williamson, who
for the past year or more has
conducted the big boarding house
at the Catawba power dam, will
move here in a few weeks and
will open a first-class board and
lodging house. Mr. Williamson j
has leased the big three-story
Ardrey building, to the rear of
the bank buildinir. and the house
is now being repainted and put
in repair for the opening of the i
business not later than Decern-1
her 1. This buiding was for
many years used as a hotel and
is well located for such. While
the house will be open to transients,
it is understood that the
principal business to be sought
is that of regular boarders. Mr. i
Williamson has had a number of |
years experience in the business, '
and that he will meet with success
here is not to be doubted.
Peters Pays the Penalty.
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The press dispatches of Friday
told of the hanging at Hills- ;
ville, Va., of George A. Peters^!
a former resident of this county
who was convicted of the murder
of a Dunkard preacher in
Carroll county, Va., last spring.
Peters was for several years a
dispensary constable in this i
county and later engaged in
business at Tirzah. He has a
brother, who is well-to-do, now '
living near Yorkville. Im- '
mediately after his conviction, ?
the relatives and friends of i
Peters sought to save the man, :
but his crime was such as to
cause the governor of Virginia i
to ignore all aupeals. The exe- j
cution took place at 10.10 Friday
morning and the only state- 1
ment made by the condemned
man was that, "This is the end 1
of a man who violates the law
of the land and of God."
Another Veteran Passes Away.
A 'phone message Tuesday
morning brought the news of the
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John H. Osborne, who passed
away Monday night, after an
illness of two weeks. The 1
funeral was held at the home, 1
Rev. E. S. Reaves conducting 1
the service. The remains were 1
laid away in Flint Hill cemetery,
old soldier comrades of the com-:
munity acting as pallbearers.
John H. Osborne was well
known in this section. He was
82 years of age, having been
born in September 1825. He was
a Confederate veteran,* having
served through the war as a
member of Co. F, 49th N. C.
regiment, and was once wounded.
He was a member of the Fort |
Mill Camp of Veterans and was
a regular attendant at the meetings
of the camp.
Mr. Osborne was for many
years a devout member of
Pleasant Hid Presbyterian
church. He was liked by all who
knew him and his death was the
cause of much sorrow to his
friends. [
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Buy a
Kodak
Keep it loaded in your
home.
Picture your children ev-.
ery day. Snap them any-1
where, any time, running,
standing or sitting.
Take scenes and views.
They will be interesting today.
Valuable in after years, i
From $1.00 up,
and anybody can work them, I
and your pictures cost you
mighty little.
Ardrey's
3Di-u.g Store.
Death From an Electric Shock.
Robert Iledgepath, a young
white man whose home was at
Newport, this county, and who
had been in the employ of the
Southern Power company as
lineman for some time, met j
death Sunday morning while at I
work on the company's lines near
the power plant 3 miles west of
this place. The young man had
climbed a pole to make some repairs
and its is thought that he
placed himself in such position
that the current jumped from
the wire to his body and formed
a circuit with the ground. It is
also said the deceased suffered
from weak heart and this was
partially responsible for his death. !
He lingered about an hour after
the accident.
An inquest was held over the
body Sunday afternoon by Magistrate
McElhaney, of this place,
the verdict of the jury being in
accordance with the facts as
stated above.
The State Penitentiary.
There are about 700 convicts
in the State prison, inclusive of
the SO juvenile prisoners at the
reformatory farm in Lexington
county. About one-third of the j
prisoners, except those in the
hospitals, accused on the farms,
the remainder in the hosiery
mills or as helpers about the'
prison. The grounds of the
penitentiary cover about ten j
acres.
The first buildings of the
prison were erected during the
Reconstruction period, about \
18(58, but owing to their uninhabitable
condition have since j
been abandoned and in 1901 one ;
building was remodeled into its
present form which makes it one :
of the most modern and most!
sanitary prisons in the United !
States.
Under the management of the I
superintendent, Capt. D. J.
Griffith, during the past eight:
years, the institution has not
only been self-sustaining, but j
out of its income there have been J
erected new administration and
prison buildings costing $18,000. j
There has also been built a j
modern tuberculosis hospital i
costing $15,000 and there has
been an expenditure of $27,000'
in improving the old farms and (
purchasing new farming lands;
for the penitentiary. In ad- !
dition to these amounts there j
has been paid into the State
treasury a surplus of $70,000.
The penitentiary also furnishes
Clemson college with a^out 33
convicts per year and feeds and
clothes these and the convicts are
sometimes loaned to institutions
by act of legislatures for other
special purposes.
Pleasant Valley.
The Pleasant Valley school
opened Monday, with Prof.
Koon as teacher. Mr. D. ().
Potts has been sick for the past
few days. Dr. R. M. Potts
and Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Potts
have returned from the exposition,
having had a grand time.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pickett,
of Charlotte, spent Sunday in
this place. Mr. F. P. Therrell
recently lost a line cow from
eating a small quantity of
sorghum cane. Mrs. S. I?
Patterson has been quite ill for'
the past few weeks. Miss
Helen Harris, of this place, has
accepted a position with Mr. L.
J. Massey at Fort Mill..
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Saturday came near losing his
dwelling by fire. In one of the
rooms was stored four bales of
seed cotton. The fire was started
by n small child. Had it not
been for heroic work of both
white and black called by 'phone,
the house and cotton would have
been in ashes.
A Card.
I wish to show my gratitude
by thanking the people, both!
white and colored, who during
my absence, saved from fire my i
dwelling in which were stored
4 bales of seed cotton.
James 0, Hall.
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"Coming Events Cast:
Their h adows Before'y |
Chilly nights and morn- "
ings foretell the speedy
approach of Autumn the
immediate need of
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TYCUL1UVI VlIUlUlU^i
is the time to prepare jpf
for Fall?and now is the (Wr p$|y' c y - 0
time when our stock of j !Mv
Men's Clothing and Fur- \
nishings is at its best. 1 ^
\Ve want you !r , ' ' ' ^
early in the season. If *'' l *
vou do not wish to pay / * '
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for them now we will sauoss B?os. * to.
gladly reserve your se- Wlection
until later. I
Brown is the prevailing color this Fall, with
Gray and Blue Mixtures tied for second place.
Besides these splendid garments shown in man.*
models and styles, is a host of less expensive
Suits and Overcoats?every one of them well
made and stylish. We cordially invite your inspection
of these new Fall Models.
McELHANEY and
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szu.uuu wortii of Upto-date
Merchandise I
at a Sweeping Reduction
in Pr: iO u?
Mr. T. 15. Belk, who is sick in a hospital,
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has ordered the managers of liis big
mercantile establishment here to offer
his entire stock of up-to-date Merchant
disc, consisting of Dry Goods, Notions,
Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Crocker}', Wood
and Willow Ware, Furniture, Ftc., at
?0 Per G<entl
Above Actual cost for cash
This is no fake offer, but is bona fide.
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and will be carried out to the letter.
This rule does not apply to lines of
.
goods not mentioned above.
Now is your timQ
to secure REAL BARGAINS.
See us before selling 30111* Cotton and
Cotton Seed.
Very truly yours,
The Old Reliable Store
T. B. BELK, Proprietor,
Fort Mill, ... South Carolina.
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x Last week's sales broke all records in our busifte^. * Jflfll
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~j A new and beautiful line of Bear Skin Caps in
jg white, red and grey, at 50c, 75c, and $i.50. Silk Caps jK .S||9
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0 White and Red Bear Skin, 2 to 6 years $2.50
^ White curly Bear Skin Cloaks $1.00 u&Jg
^ A new line for women and children just in. Women's,
$d to $0; children's, $1 to $5.
We have tlie best made. Children's Shoes, 60c to
A SI. 25; misses Shoes, $1.25 to $2.00- ladies' Shoes, $1.25 H HI
X to $-4.00; men's Shoes, $1.50 to $5.00. Two things about . .-^s;
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