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FOKT MILL. S. C.. SEPTEMBER 2.
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Excuses for Mr. Hollis.
Last week The Times noted
the lack of consistency and party i
loyalty displayed by Mr. J. P, j
Hollis, elected to the Legislature '
from York county as a Demo^
crat, in seeking the office of cen.- j
pus supervisor for this congrea-:
sional district from the national
Republican administration as a
protege of a Republican official,
Now come the Columbia Record
and the Rock Hill Herald as I
apologists for Mr. Hollis, the
former being unable to under- i
ptand why a Democratic office- j
holder should subject himself to j
censure for seeking office under :
the Republican party any more
than a Democratic private citi-'
zen's party loyalty should be
questioned for the same offense.
Mr. Hollis' principal mistake
lay in hie effort to defeat the |
candidate of the Democratic con- I
gressman of this district through
the instrumentality of Republi-:
can influence, and it is begging
the question for The Record to i
undertake to excuse him upon ;
the specious plea that the Republican
influence was that of a j
> 3 r* 1 9 9
personal iriena.
But, unless our memory is at
fault, it does not lie ir. the mouth
of The Record to say much in i
Mr. Hollis' behalf, for The Rec-:
prd only a few months ago referred
sarcastically to the j
Pemocracy of ex-State Superin- |
tendent of Education Martin be-1
pause he had accepted a position !
under the national agricultural J
department.
The voters of York county will
pass upon Mr. Hollis' case should j
be again be a candidate for of-;
fice here, and they are not apt \
Jto accept the excuses offered for
him.
Tbe Stewart Road Law.
Various opinions are heard
from residents of the different
sections of the township as to !
the working m{ tha roads under
the new Stewart road law. It is
argued by some that the work
done shows little improvement
over that done under the old
system; that the work is more
expensive and that a considerable j
amount of money is being wasted '
jn paying the nine township
supervisors who are performing i
the identical work which the
county supervisor has heretofore
performed and for which '
he was elected and is at present i
receiving pay.
On the other hand there are
those who contend that the
new law is the only law that the
county has ever had under which
work that will ultimately result1
in the building of a system of
good roads can be done. The
Tiroes does not wish to take issue
with those favoring or opposing \
the law. The Stewart law.
iike most other new laws placed
A>n the statute books, doubtless
has imperfections. Granting
that it has, is it not reasonable
to suppose that our law-makers
will detect these imperfections
find remedy them when they are
i^ext in position to do so.
As to the work done in this
township, or county, under the
present law, the writer has seen
very little of it, but we do not
hesitate to say that those portions
over which we have traveled
show a decided improvement
over the same roads worked under
the old helter-skelter plan.
It is too much to expect, as some
seem to hope, that a perfect system
of roads could be built in
one year; much work is required
and it is our belief that continued
Operations under the Stewart law i
will within a few years result in !,
giving the people of York as
^ood system of roads as is to be
found in any county in the 1'iod- ;
njont section of the State which
}j;^s no more macadam. ,
There is a more or less er- i
roneous impression throughout
South Carolina that the entire <
daily press of the State is unfriendly
to Senator Tillman.
There is at least one daily paper
in the State which is not only
friendly to Senator Tillman, but
is enthusiastic in its admiration
for him and seldom allows an
opportunity to pass to strike
sledge-hammer blows in his
behalf when the other dailies
criticise him adversely. The
Anderson Mail is the paper we
have in mind. Following the
visit of Senator Tillman to the
great Red Shirt reunion which
was held in Anderson recently.
The Mail printed the following
admonition to the senator to be
careful of h}s health:
"Senator Tillman's many
friends were glad to see him in
such good form yesterday. He
stood the fatigue of the day bet-!
ter than many a younger man. j
At the same time there can be
no concealment of the fact that
Senator Tillmau is getting to be
an old man. He is not as young
as he used to be, and his illness ;
of last year drew heavily on his
vitality, although he has practU J
cally recovered from it. But ;
Senator Tillman ought to take j
the best of care of himself, if for
no other reason out of regard for j
the people who love him so well j
and who want his services for as !
long as possible."
The plan of settlement adopted
by the authorities of the debt in
curred in putting clown the
cement on the sidewalks recently
does not meet with the approval
of all our c'tizens. At least this
is what we have been led to believe
by listening to conversations
upon the subject on the
streets. The argument advanced
by those opposed to the present
plan is that it is unjust to collect j
from property owners along
whose premises the cement was ,
laid one-half the cost of the'
work when it is known that an I
extra tax levy will be necessary i
for the town to pay its part of
the expense and that those who j
have already paid half for the ;
work will, along with those who
are receiving the benefits of the !
paving at no cost whatever, be
compelled to bear their respective
shares of the additional tax.
There is a disposition on the part
of at least one member of council
to place the levy for this year at!
a figure high enough to enable ;
the town to bear the entire cost j
of the paving and refund to the
property owners the amounts
which they have paid out.
The killing of a prisoner by a !
police officer with his club in
Columbia a day or two ago serves '
to direct attention to a too frequent
practice which is more or j
less general throughout the j
omi.e. many ponce officers are j
too eager to use their clubs and
often, in doing so, become lawbreakers
instead of preservers of
the peace. No police officer is
justified in striking a prisoner
with his club unless he has reason
to believe that the prisoner J
is about to indict upon him great j
bodily harm. If the officer is ;
unable to take the prisoner to :
the station because of physical
inferiority, it is the duty of the '
officer to summon help, and not
become a violator of the law
which he is employed to uphold
by clubbing the prisoner into
submission. An occasional case ,
of assault and battery with intent j
to kill against this class of policeofficers
would have a salutary
effect.
The cotton buyers of Fort I
Mill should the coming season ;
pay the very highest prices for
cotton. Heretofore it has been
the cry with certain farmers of
nn 'I--1 I
iicdiu^ acLuuns mat uuyers in j
other places were paying more
for the staple than our buyers, '
and for this reason much cotton
that should have come here was j
taken elsewhere. Pay the best;
prices possible and induce the
farmers to market their cotton 1
and other products here. The
Fort Mill buyers can pay as high
prices as those of the nearby;
towns and there is no reason why 1
they should not do so.
The Rock Hill Herald very
properly accredits Senator W. H.
Stewart with the enactment of
York's present road law, instead
of giving the credit to ex-Senator
J. H. Saye, to whom the Yorkville
correspondent of the daily
press would have the people believe
w as responsible for the law. ,
It is a wc)J known fact that the <
absurdity of Dr. Saye's ideas as
to road work was partially the
cause of his political undoing.
Question for debate; "Re- |
solved, That it is a rule of pro- c
priety for Fort Mill maidens to
meet the trains," j
Tariff a Fraud, Says Judge Parker. j
Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, who
was the Democratic candidate for i ^
president in 1904, made the fol- j
lowing statement recently on the !.
new tariff bill: ; J
"The opinion widely enter-; t
tained and sometimes expressed j r
in the campaign of 1908 that the ! j
Republican platform's promise of
a revision of the tariff was intended
to deceive the people is
now fully justified.
"By bold and impudent speech j
senators and members of Con- 1
gress have asserted that the
plank promised a revision, not n ,
reduction of tariff duties. Their *
only reward is public contempt/! (
for their arguments demonstrate
that the purpose of the tariff }
plank was to cheat and defraud j
the voters. And at the same j
time the action of a majority in (
Congress makes them parties to
the fraud, in that they sought to l
consummate it.
"The president has made a.4
strong effort to secure at least1,
an appearance of party honesty,
but the little he has accomplished : j
has been at great cost, for one ,
more precedent is created of an i
executive using his great power i |
to coerce a co-ordinate and inde- , <
pendent department of govern- 1 '
ment in violation of the spirit of ,'
the constitution.
"And after all what shall this i (
unseemingly struggle to gain or t
retain largess avail the tariff
barons in the end? Only a little,
for it will be found that this
tariff act does not, like its
predecessors, close the subject {
for a period of years, but, instead,
it and the circumstances (
surrounding its making will but J
serve to open again the fight. ,
The final outcome will wipe out I
the unjust results if not the '
stain of the fraud."
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Rural Delivery in South Carolina. j
On March 1, 1899, the rural j \
delivery mail system was first (
introduced into the State of (
South Carolina. On that day
two routes were established out
of Cope, one out of Orangeburg
and two out of St. George post- j
offices the rniitec haui??r
, - ? _
average length of 23.8 miles. 1
During that fiscal year a total of
10 routes covering 921 miles of
roads were established, and during
the next fiscal year this number
was increased by but 10 f
routes. In 1901 the number of :
routes was more than doubled, I
there being 103 in operation on j
December 2. The increase in the i
number of routes established j
continued in about the same
ratio until 1908 when there was
a marked falling off. due to the
fact that most of the territory
available for rural delivery had
been covered.
On August 2 of this year South
Carolina had in operation 750 .
rural routes, 12 of which were *
tri-weekly and the remainder i
daily, except Sundays and holidays.
These routes cover about
17,542 miles of roads, with an
average of 23.39 miles to the i
route, serving approximately
300,000 people, with an annual rate
of cost of $068,790 main- 4
tain.
Up to the present time the!
service has been reorganized on j
a county basis in 16 counties in
the State and others will follow j
as rapidly as practitable. i
That the people of the State j
fully appreciate the advantages
of this service is evidenced by
the fact that since the introduction
there has been a steady
and large increase in the amount I
ol mail matter delivered and collected
and in the number of
subscriptions to periodicals and
daily newspapers.
L?t Future Delivery Alone.
There is a disposition with j
many of our farmers to be tempted
by the price offered for future
delivery cotton. It is not our
purpose, says an exchange, to
run other people's business, but
we do think it well to caution
against that which we believe to !
be injurious to their interests. |
The indications are for cotton to
bring a splendid price, every- j
thing points that way. The mills
are bare, and the demand for :
manuiacturecl goodB is the great- j fl
est ever known. Cotton goods, ?
in anticipation of the high price, is
advancing daily, the manufac- !
turers have their agents in the j
field to make contracts for fall
delivery, and with this condition
it does strike us that the growers
of cotton can atTord to wait
for the markets to open and not j
tie themselves to speculators.
Every hale of cotton sold for
future delivery aids in keeping
the price from reaching the value
that supply and demand creates, c
and those who make these con- j tracts
hurt themselves a well as c
their fellow farmers. VVe therefore
take the liberty to advise
against selling future delivery ^
cotton. i
Will Remodel York Jail.
J, J. Kellar & Copipanv, archiects
and contractors of Rock
dill, hare been awarded the contact
for remodeling the York
:ounty jail at Yorkville,
The entire upper tloor of the
ail will be torn away and the
luilding converted into a modern
orison with steel cells and other
levices for keeping prisoners
lomfortably and safely inside..
Arrangemnts have been made
vith the Chester county authorties
to take charge of the York
irisoners while work on the later's
jail is in progress, and
;he prisoners, eight or ten in
lumber, will this week be transferred
to Chester jail.
Keep toe Money at Home.
Here is a sensible suggestion
'rom the Abbeville Press and
manner:
"Our two lar^"*- " , ?v?iurn*
)ia and Charleston, have retained
he dispensary. What objection
:ould there be on the part of the
prohibitionists to those who will
pave their liquor ordering it
?rom these places?
"It will make them rich, of
course, but we would rather
nake Columbia and Charleston
"ich than to enrich Chattanooga
md Cincinnati.
"A certain amount of liquor
,vill be had, if it is possible to
?et it home without confiscation,
ind why not make a law that
.vill allow those who want it to
?et it in Columbia and Charles;on.
Those places are near.
They see what they represent,
md the buyer knows what he is
setting. It can be delivered
"rom Columbia sooner than from
>ther places, so why not get it
here."
News Items from Gold Hill.
Gold Hill, Aug. 30.?The coton
crop of this section is in a
leplorable condition as a result
)f the two weeks drought. Pracically
all the young fruit has
Fallen off, the bolls are falling,
md, in short, the crop is going
.o be bad. It has been quite a
lumber of years since there has
*een so good a time to save the
'odder crop. It has ripened
apidly and the most of the crop
las been harvested. Watermel>ns
are about out and we are, of
:ourse, saddened at the thought.
Shoe Sale!
We have placed on 8ale o
ords at a tremendous reduct
Edwin Cl^pp's $6.00 Oxfort
Bostonian $5.00 Oxfords at
4,00
3 50
" 3 00 "
Cxfcrds worth $2.50 at
2.25 at ....
This is certainly your chan
ow class prices. You can,
tear Xmas, so come on at on
MEACHAN
The Co
Of the town is under t
handsome Soda Founta
| for suffering from heat v
tion and we serve you
Ice Cream,
and Crus
to be had anywhere. )
refreshing drinks and se
to-date manner. Our F
and sanitary in every res
Try "Fi
The popular new drinl
I Parks Dru
I
CAR LOAD REC
We have all kinds of Bug
iide or End Spring, Open or
in a Buggy. Come and see I
Our livery is complete and
iV. F. HARRIS & S
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We are much elated, however, ^
after attending a melon feast Cj
Kfiven Thursday flight by Mr.
Porter Caiies and Miss Rosa a5
Bailes at their home in the Flint' X
Hill community. j *
Mr. S. P. Wilson deserves Jo
credit for the splendid roads he 6
is providing. ?
Mrs. S. P. Blankenship spent ^
last week with hpr nyother. Mrs. S
T. M. Faris. ? Miss Eloise Smith, Jfi
of Union, spent the past week Qj
with Miss Maude Windle. ? Mrs. G<
Tillie Anderson has been spend- ' ?
ing a few days wjth her sister,
! Mrs. J. Z. Bai'es, of Pleasant X
Valley.?Mrs. T. Epps, of ymar Jfi
tilla, Fla., arJ Mrs. Edna Ed-lji
na Edwards, of Braidentowp, j
Fla., who have been visiting rel- ' &
ativps in this community, left ^
Monday afternoon for their re- ft
spectjv. homes.? Mr. Elmore >
Croo1 spent Saturday in Rock jc
F{a on business.
. Many of the good old soldiers ft
)f our community attended the $
reunion at Charlotte last week. 1 5
The Times' Advertisements. 5
The advertising columns of ; (g
The Times should not be over- i J
looked by any of the paper's j ft
readers. As the fall and winter ft
season approaches, the wide- ( S
awake merchants of the town (c
are making preparations to sup- ^
ply the wants of the people and j ft
1 are making the fact known J
through these columns. You 5
. will tind it a great deal less. J
trouble to watch your paper and
learn where you can find certain ! (J
articles yoit desire than to at- ft
tempt to look them up after you ft
i reach town. Then, too, you 5
should patronize those mer- j >
chants who have prepared for Q
your coming and extend you an Qj
invitation through The Times to ft
visit them. Tell the merchant ft
you saw his wares advertised. 5
You will pleasC him and do your t ?
paper a service. j Qj
FARMERS !||
When you need any kind of Black- (/
smithing. Painting, Wheelwrighting ; ft
or Repairing, give me a trial. My ft
work gives satisfaction and my ' 5
prices are reasonable. I *4
Horseshoeing is my specialty. j C
Fred. B. Kimbrell. |
Shoe Sale! |
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ur entire line of Mens' Ox
ion. Note the following:
4
Is at $4.90 I y
3.90 IS
.. 2.90 #
... 250 \U
2.35 iS
1.75 |S
1.50 jf
ce to get high class goods at y
and do, wear Oxfords until y
ce before sizes are broken. y
\ & EPPS. \
>ol Spot f
wmrmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmKammaammmmmmmmmammma
he big Electric Fan at our
in. There is no excuse
fhen the big fan is in mowith
the most delicious
Cream Soda
bed Fruits
Ne serve all the popular
rve them in the most up:ountain
is handsome, new |
pect. I i
in Taz,"
'
c of the baseball fans. I
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtaamammma I
ig Comp'y.!
BUGGIES,
Surries, Wagons and
Harness.
EIVED TO-DAY. * j
[gies Rubber or Steel Tire,
Top. We can save you $10
them.
prices reasonable.
'/^VXJC TELEPHONE NO. 28,
FORT MILL, S. C.
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| The Peop
) The Fastest Growing S
SOME"
| NI
J Is 50 Cents Worth j
? We give you a c
S cash purchase and i
Z worth of coupons 1
| 50 Cents
y (Wholesale bills
t Tliis includes e
2 Dry Goods and Gn
5 except Feed Stuff,
^ oats. If the pu
| you get coupon; i
> get a coupon, and
5 alike. Come in an
2 the big cash registi
| the trade checks w<
5 The Best goods a
S Highest prices
| produce. Come to
I The Peop
I MILLS & YOU1
Economy
for all t
August is the long, dr
the grocer sells the chi
Canning Time is Her<
We sell the best Frui
at the lowest prices.
Absolute cleanliness ij
part of our Meat Mar
nice Steak or Roast.
JONES
"Everythin
That Lame
Kidney
And to Relieve the La
You Must First Re
There Is no question about that |
nt all?for the lame and aching
hack Is caused by a diseased condition
of the kidneys and bladder.
It Is only common sense, any way
?that you must cure a condition
by removing the cause of the condition.
And lame and aching back
are not by any meuns the only
symptoms of derangement of the
kidneys and bladder. There are a
multitude of well-known and unmistakable
Indications of a more or
less dangerous condition. Some of
these are, for instance: Extreme
and unnatural lassitude and weariness,
nervous Irritability, heart irregularity,
"nerves on edge," sleeplessness
and inability to secure
rest, scalding sensation and sediment
In the urine, inflammation of
the bladder and passages, etc.
DeWitt'a Kidney and Bladder
Pills are an exceptionally meritorious
remedy for any and a'l affections
or diseased conditions of
these organs. Theso Pills operate
directly and promptly?and their
beneficial results are at once felt.
They regulate, purify, and effec
tually heal and restoro the VId- j
lioys, bladder und liver, to perfect
and healthy condition?even In,
some of the most advanced cases.',
Sold by Ardrey
I N S U R
LIFE, HEALTH
I represent only the
Give me a share
B. W. BRADF
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le's Store 11
itore in York County 3
rHING 1 ]
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biything To You ? 1 I
ionpon with each ? |
Alien you get &20 ?J I
we give you free ? I
in Trade 11
being excepted) ? I
verytliing in our ? H
jcery Department, ? I
such as corn and g 1
rchase is 1 cent g I
f it is $50.00 you ? I
everybody shares ?? I
d let us show you g 1
>r and explain how g I
ork. @ I
t Lowest prices. gj I
paid for country ? I
see us. ?
>le's Store 1 I
MG, Proprietors. A 1
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Month |
he Folks. 1
y, dull month when
eapest.
t#
f \
t jars and Rubbers flR|m
} demanded in every
ket. rry us for a ^R V|
the: qroceir, 5 ,]
rhone; no. s
g to Eat." * 1
~'X*MI(%VX&X*?&KK
Back Means
Disease .j
me and Aching Back, '
lieve the Kidheys
want every man and woman who
have the least simpleton that they
nro afflicted with kidney and bladder
diseases to at onc.e write them,
and a trial box of those rills will be
sent free by return mall postpaid.,
*s Drug Store.
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A N C E,
and ACCIDENT
best Companies,
of your business.
ORD, Agent.