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mp; ' I ILX V. !>' FORT MILL TIMES DEMOCRATIC 0, W. BRADFORD, r- - EDITOR. One y?ar Jt.GO Six iilbntlis .50 Three tnonlji*..?? On oppiUntioo to (he publisher, advertising imU-h are nmtle Uho?? to (linKe Interested. " 1.?J J m? i ?_ a Mim? IM-Sr THURSDAY APRIL 8. 1909. WATERWORKS A NECESSITY. Every day or two we read of pome wide-rawake South Carolina (town voting an issue of bonds for public improvements. So far, however, we have failed to observe that Fort Mill is one of the towns included in the list. There probably is not a citizen pf the cpTOipupitv who would not be pleased to see a number of publiy utilities installed?such, for instance, as waterworks, pewetage, an adequate number of street lights, a commodious school building, etc. But evidently these same citizens are awaiting the advent of some phili n?hropist who will provide these improvements .without, cost to the individual. It is a mop#! certainty tha* the philanthropist will nof shpw up, and that if this do-nothing policy is persisted in Fort Mill will never amount to what she should. The remedy r thy conditions which now obtain is easily within our reach if we will only grasp it. Advantageously situated physically as Fort Mill is, with a splendid backrniintrv nrwl Mia lionlfli (vm^itinno as good a$ any community in the State, the town by right ought 0 have a population today of 4.0QQ instead of 2,000. This ad.ditional 2,000 of population can be brought Jier.e within the next decade if pur people ao will. Truth for.ccs the admission, howpver, that there is comparatively little to attract the stianger to pur midst, Our people are hospitpbje and possessed of the virtues characteristic of all Southern towns, but these considerations plone are pot.suflicjent to place the town in the ranks of the State's progressive communities. What we need is to wake up, get busy and do things to provide for the Improvement of the town in a public way. Our people will have to get out of the old habit of throwing up their hands in hqlv horror every time jt is suggested that bonds be issued for municipal uplift There is not a progressive town in South Carolina whjch is not jn debt. Fort *j:ii ~ -u it? - ? - t ??. ? fjim uuuiu easily stana maeotedpess^sufficient to install a system /of waterworks as a start on an ungrade movement, and the cost jn taxation to the individual citizen would be more than offset by ti>e reduced rate at which fire insurance would be written, urging the utility from that one point Qf view alpne. The Times pome months ago pointed out the pnusual advantages which nature has provided for the town in the jriatter of a waterworks system. With a standpipe erected on the high hill overlooking Main street, no additional pressure would be necessary to force water to practically every section of the town, a consideration assuring a mjnimurp .pf cast jn the operation of the system. No argument should be necessary toponvinc.e the dullest intellect in the (community that fire protection is an urgent necessity for the; town. We would be pleased to pee other public improvements made, but .waterworks should come first. And unless water woyks are installed our people are going tp wake up some fine morning to learn that fire has destroyed half the town. ' '" ' 1 PfiOQRtSSIVE AIKEN. In the PJedmont section of filouth Carolina the average citi- j *en thinks of the low.-country j /counties of the State as npaprogressive. So far as such idea j applies to Aiken county, it is inr deed erroneous, for recently, that county has taken steps to jraproye conditions in advancepf any ojther jcoupty in the State. I In the city of Aiken there has1 just been formed an anti-tuber-1 culosis league whose efforts to i Stay the ravages of the dread disease are being enthusiastically 1 supported by the citizens generally. Thp league has employed a j trained nurse who devotes her I whole Hme to mi?iaterjng to ir.e tyh'. wants of those thus afflicted and to instructing the public in the proper mode of sanitation, etc., j( to stay the progress of the dis- p ease. Much material good is exr pected to be derived by the cit: | C and county from the work of the j r league. It is a step in the right; ^ direction and seta for the other ^ counties of the State an example ; which they should not be slow to E follow. 1 ^ We read also of another for-! p ward movement which is being j | undertaken in Aiken county that S j should be of general interest throughout the State. At Gran- j j iteville, Mr. T. I. Hickman, president of a large manufactur- a ing company, has completed ar- G rangements with the Agricul- ! C tural Department in Washington . " to reforest a 2,000-acre tract of ! q land belonging to his company ' J in thut community. The work 1 h ; of reforesting is expected to be i finished by next fall, and the only 1 j cost to which the company will K ! be put in the undertaking is the a ; actual expense of the forester j while he is engaged in the work. 1 j The liberality of th% national a i government in reforesting worn- t ' out, worthless lands is so at- f tractive that it should be taken : p i advantage of generally by our : ^ 1 people. Sjtill another commendable c j undertaking has just been u ! launched in Aiken in the forma- a tion of a Sabbath observance . league, whose purpose is to create a sentiment for the observance ^ of Sunday and also to enforce s the existing Sunday laws as they f ; now stand on the Statute books. s : r Plans for the 20th of May cele- j, bration in Charlotte are being r pushed forward and on that date / s the city will probably entertain t | the largest number of visitors in : I] its history. A large part of the : ' crowd will be there, however, more for the purpose of seeing: t the new president than to aid f 1 in celebrating the anniversary of -v ; Mecklenburg's independence dec- \ i haration, the authenticity of ^ : which is doubted by many. 11 | . I i r The people of the city of GafT- c ney are to be congratulated upon i n the good judgement displayed in I1 an election held there a few days ^ ago in voting $120,000 in bonds for installing a sewerage system, j h The vote was 366 for the bonds R, and 6 against, which shows that * Gaff ney is the abode of six! / knockers" or "dead ones." But j , in spite of the efforts of a few to hold it back, the city of GaiTney is forcing to the front. The people are alive to the town's j11 j best interests, and are pushing. [J From reports in the papers it j] appears that a great deal of in- v\ ! terest is being taken by the j ' schools of the State in the length-j a ening of the school terms. A j ^ number of applications have been j f< ' filed by the patrons of various j V schools in compliance with an; nr act passed by the Legislature ? appropriating $20,000 to be used 1 ^ | for this purpose. According to j( ; the new law, the schools that tl ! make application for a part of a 1 the money, must raise at least half as much as the amount to be received from the fund. This tc fact should be borne in mind by j aj all schools desiring to share in ^ the State school fund. ai U'i It was indeed fortunate for the i tl town of Fort Mill that the dwell- st ing destroyed by fire Saturday was located in a sparsely settled \a section of the town, for, with no n( water at hand with which to r( fight the flames and with the' tl high wind blowing at the hour, | ro jt is difficult to estimate the J ^ probable loss had the conflagration taken place in the business M district. Fort Mill needs a num- ai her of improvements and none tl greater than water to protect ^ the homes and businesses of our ^ citizens and the town could not ar spend twelve or fifteen thousand > ju dollars to better advantage than the installing of waterworks. The famous South Carolina! w dispensary case, involving the co disposition of aDout $900,000 of th dispensary funds held by the vi State dispensary commission, m was decided by the Supreme gc Court of the United States Mon- w day in favor of the commission, p the opinion being by Justice' tH White, b Up to yesterday South Can.- \\ lina's individual contributions to w< the monument for the ladies of m; the Confederacy had reached; to $2,300. ' ' jov Graced School Work For March. 1 < The following pupils were the i jaders of their grades in the ublic schools for March; 10th grade?Leon Massey, 1st; 'larenpe McMurray, 2nd; honor all, none, 9th grade?Carrje Merritt, 1st; lildred Hall, 2nd; honor roll, iarrie Merrjtt and Lucile Barber. 8th grade?Sam Lee and Julia 1 loyd, 1st; Sallie Bethea, 2nd; < onor roil, none. I: 7th grade?Lucy Merritt, 1st; i 1 'arks Boyd, 2nd; honor roll, , Ithel Armstrong. Lucy Merritt, arah Culp and Florence Bennett. 6th grade ? Ike Yarborough, : st; Joe Bdk, 2nd; honor roll, ke Yarborough. 5th grade ? Esther Meacham nd Horace Kimbrell, 1st; James laston, James Young, Zenas 1 ?rier and Mary Armstrong^ 2nd; onor roll, none. 4th grade?Marjorie Mills and I )cey Hood, 1st; Willie Sellers, 1 'auline Erwin and Fair Lee, 2nd; < onor roll, none. There are none on the honor; oil from the 3rd, 2nd and 1st ;rades. Enrollment for March, 205; verage attendance, 186. The attendance for March was j airly good, bat we fear some I re losing valuable time now, ' vhile we are endeavoring to have ' hem pass to the next grade next all. It requires nine months of j ;ood, hard work to make a grade, j >o, those who expect to be pro-1 noted must attend to the last, ind stand every examination. No | ne must expect to be promoted intil these examinations are stood j ,nd passed. While the attendance for March , s probably 60 or 70 more than i las ever been for that month, j here is no good reason why one hould be permitted to stop unless ! rom necessity. That is why the j tandard of a school is lowered so nuch. A parent sometimes thinks hat a child can attend school ive or six months and take the lext grade. That must not be. 1 til final exan i lations must be lassed before any pupil will be j iromoted. The teachers earnestly request , latroi s to vis't the school now nd see what our needs are so hat they can heartily prepare or improved conditions next > ear. The needs are many, but he greatest is room. We have 1 ust about one-half enough floor pace for security of health and he promotion of reasonable progess. There are plenty of bright hildren eager to learn. They 11 eed more attention than the!< resent number of teachers can |. ive and they are overcrowded < ntil it is a pity. i The teachers will be glad to ave you call and see the work, 1 nd we hope you may be successul in providing for the urgent < eeds by next fall. ( L. M. Bauknight, Supt. Gold Hill. I Editor Times?We have nothig special by report from this oint. The health of the comlunity is good and the farmers ; uite busy now preparing their , mds for planting. Some corn nil be planted the present week. 1 Like our old comrade Zaw, the. ' dvent of April ever brings to ur mind the mementous times 1 re were having in Virginia |: 3rty-tour years ago this week. J. /e were young then and the J lajority of Lee's army were 5 oung men, but forty-four years ' ; no short space in one's life 1 me, and of course a large ma- 1 irity of that army have crossed :1 le river. The few survivors j re old men, many of them quite i * ieble and our ranks are yearly i1 rowing thinner. We would bo \ elighted to accompany old Zaw * > the reunion at Memphis, but are and infirmity have put on I le brakes, and as we approach j le last roll call our thoughts' nd hopes are for a happy re- ; t nion beyond the grave, where c lere will be no more war and ; t rife. I t Now, as to the Stewart road ! ? .w, we have heard it discussed j c ime and cussed no little. We ! a ever read it, but if it is dirt c >ads he is going to make with i lem three dollar and two dollar P len, we want no stock in them. ! I wclve months ago, this, the T teel Creek road, was worked I 7 the chaingang from Fort u ill to the North Carolina line a id it was well ditched and 0 irown up and later on in the i ill our overseer put in several f lys work on it and when he o )t through it had the appear- t ice of having been ironed; was t 10?. L..i. * 1 tat urdun lui, uiu now nns it c ;en through the winter's wet p eather? Just ask the guano u lulers. There are some holes u itwe^n here and Fort Mill that v e believe a common sized mule t uld be buried in and not be in c e way. Now, if our super- n sor, Mr. C. P. B., succeeds in Ji aking a dirt road that will be v >od and stay good through the j inter, why then three dollars j r day will be no pay for him, v it we woi^ld dub him a public ]V tnefactor and he by all means fi ould get his road patented. ' a e don't expect to see any good n et weather roads until they ate ft acadamized, or how would it do d put a good shingle or tin root er them? If you should riecidg ! to try that experiment please cover four miles of the Steei j Creek road first, beginning at Fort Mill. But we will see what we will see and so on. * J H C Gold Hilb^prilJ), J" The New Liquor Legislation. Although the people of York county along with other "dry" counties in the State will not be affected by the results of the prohibition election next August, f/u>l 4-U?4- 4.1 r_11 ty t icci uidt Luc luiiuwuig summary, of the law to be adopted by counties voting prohibition, as given the Florence Times by an able attorney, will be read with interest by the people of this section: Any person that receives liquor calculated to intoxicate is liable to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than one year for the first offence, for subsequent offences, no fine allowed but imprisonment at hard labor from one to five years. So a guest at a dinner or a social gathering who receives a glass of wine or other liquor, is under this law liable. If he or she simply receives the glass they become criminal, as also if they accept the glass and drink it. Any person who delivers to another any of the aforementioned liquors etc., is guilty. The; servant waiting at the table, or the friend who is asked to carry to another a bottle of whiskey. Any one found with liquor in his , or her possession is guilty under this law. You can't have it in your house. ? This of course will put all I social clubs out of existence, and i prohibits the use of wine in families, or elsewhere, the mere possession of a half pint or less of liquor is a violation of this law. Neither can a farmer or his wife, make a little blackberry or grape wine for their own use, as it would be manufacturing and if thev could be acquitted as j a manufacturer they would be j guilty who gave another any of the aforementioned liquors. A farmer desiring to make apple vinegar is under a strict construction of this law liable for j before it becomes vinegar it be-1 comes hard cider and as such is ' intoxicating, he could be taken for having an intoxicant in his possession. Now for medicinal purposes, only a retail druggist in an in corporated town or city, can sell j alcohol, a druggist in the country can't. The druggist must give a bond for $5,000, and is required to make monthly re-1 ports and file prescriptions, with the clerk of court monthly, can ; only sell a half pint of alcohol at or on one prescription, and that prescription must be filled the day of its date or the next, and the doctor giving it must make oath giving the name of his pa-. tient, the length of time he has ; been attending him and that he believes it is necessary to have alcohol for his use. . ^ Now as for church purposes. The minister or some officer of the church, can't sell to any one else, and only a half gallon of wine, on any one request. The minister or church officer must sign a statement giving his name and residence, the name and ocation of the church, for which such wine be purchased, and he shall certify that such wine be purchased to be used for sacranental or religious purposes, and io other. No person under this law other ;han a minister, pastor priest or egularly constituted officer can jurchase this wine and only from i licensed druggist. Charlotte's May Celebration. Tht dates for the May celebra- ! ion in Charlotte have been :hanged to May 18-20, the latter o be known as "Taft Day" and w?.*? . .. i ,ii? 111 nv hj uc ^ivtrii over to tllG governors of the thirteen original olonies who are to be extended in invitation to be present. The .pnimittee agreed to extend an I nvitation to the governors of Massachusetts, Delaware, Rhode sland, Connecticutt, New York, ^ew 'Hampshire, New Jersey, ) Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia. North and South Carolina! nd Georgia to be present on the ipening day and to form the atraction for that day. Governor Citchin, on behalf of the State I f North Carolina, will be asked j o expend an additional invitation o these chief executives and the ommittee hopes that suflicient ressure will be brought to bear pon t hem as to the appropriatecf such an event that they nil accept the invitation. In his event, the first day of the elebratiofi will become almost as ^ /-V f . 4- - i- ? ? 1 ' - ,.uv,ti vji uuiiwimi ciij inc ist day when President Taft : ,'H1 hold the hoards. i ... * . ? Mr. Tate Spencer, of Pine-. die, \yho was a visitor to Fort lilt yesterday, brought the ir.r orrjiation that the town is sorely filiated with an epidemic of, measles. The entire family of j Ir. Warwick, the liveryman, is i own with the disease. Say you sfiw it advertised. 1 We krv without hesitation that DeWitt's Kidney nnd Bladder Bills lire unequaled for weuk kidneys, backache, infiammution of the bladder and all urinary disorders. Thcv are antiseptic and net promptly io nil cases of weak back, backache, rheumatism nnd rheumatic pains. Accept no substitute. We soil and recommend them.? Arurey'a drug store. fo diTbtors and creditors! AH tiersoiis , ? vv. I.UU Mil lO UL 1 J. M. Spratt, deceased, aro hereby | notified to make payment to n* without delay. Person* having claims against the said estate will present them with| in tho time required by Injur, duly tjit* i tested, or be forever barred. ( Tlioa B Spratt. \ Jtio. L. Spratt. Ex. Eft. J. M. Spratt Deed. IF YOU WANT A Steak or Roast that is tender, sweet and juicy, I can furnish it. I have Steaks, Roasts, Chops, ! Ham and Sausage, the best that money can buy. I also handle ! Groceries and all kinds of Canned Goods. Peas, Beans, Cabbage and Potatoes on hand at all times. See me, it's my treat. W. LEE HALL. 'Phone 29. NOTICE. We Exchange MEAL FOlt CORN. Toll same as that charged by grist mills. Bring us your corn. ----The Cotton Mill Store, L. A. HARRIS & CO. Just In Headley's Candies, Easter Egg Dyes, Stationery. Leading brands Cigars and Tobbaccos, * i Popular Fountain Drinks. Fort Mill Drug Comp'y J. R. HAILE, Mgr. WANTED?To buy land in Fort; Mill township or in the Pleas-1 ant Valley section of Lancaster county. A. R. McELHANEY. I $1.75 th. | THE TRI-WEE together with the super magazine; or THE ? paper; or TALKS FRO? j; of farm wisdom, worth it (The Tri-Weeki y brightest, and biggest Souther Almost a Daily, yet at the prioo c or The Weekly Constituti The Weekly Constitution is ? The Tri-Weekly Constitution news of the country, state, nr the flfnartmpntc r\f ir^t-.v. orwi I -ry ers' Union, Rural Free Deliv appeal directly to those addr< The Weekly Constitution coi and The Tri-Weekly is that t other three times a week?! 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