SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST
to TIMES READERS.
Mrs. J. N. Atwater arid Hiss
Mary Epps are visiting.relatives
in Charlotte.
The best pfice paid for cotton ;
on this market yesterday was
14 3-4 6ents; seed 45 cents.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs^ S. l .
> I lair left Monday morning f?r a
week's visit to relatives in Blackville.
Dr. J. B. Mack is in town for
a few days from his home in
College Park, Ga.
The annual report of the State
superintendent of education will
snow uk: per capita fApeuuuure
in the York county schools for
lJ)0S-'09 to be as follows: White,
$8.40: negro, $1.12; average, j
$4.14.
W. F. Harris & Sons, enterprising
local liverymen and -vehicle
and harness dealers, have
recently distributed in the interest
of their business some of the ;
most attractive calendars ever
# seen in Fort Mill.
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Mr. J. N. Atwater has accepted
a position with the clothing
firm of McElhaney & Co* Mr.
and Mrs. Atwater have recently j
moved to Fort Mill from WinstonSalem,
N. C., and are staying
at the home of Mr. S. A. Epps.
The condition of Mrs. W. B.
Meacham, who was brought to :
her home in this place a few days ;
ago from a Chester hospital, does '
not improve as fast as her !
friends had hoped. Mrs. Meacham
has been sick several weeks.
Rev. S. J. Bethea left Tuesday <
morning to attend the State con- <
ieivnce of the Methodist church, i
which is in session in Abbeville. <
Mr. Bethea will present to the i
conference an encouraging re- j
port of his work on the Fort Mill <
circuit for the last year.
E. G. Sandifer, former editor !
of the Yorkville New Era, which
suspended publication about two
years ago. has left South Caro- ^
lina and gone to Washington^ !
city with the hope of securing a ,
government position. Mr. Sandi- .
for has been living in Columbia; ,
recently.
Mnvnr T M TTixrVioa r?f 1 .mii. !
caster, was in town Friday looking
after his farming: interests in
this community. While here Mr.
Hughes employed Mr. W. It. (
Carothcrs to superintend his farm
during the coming year and Mr. 1
Carothcrs will move with his
family to the place about January
1.
The Fort Mill football eleven
was beaten in Chester Saturday
morning by the Chester high
school team, the score being 22
to 0. The Chester Reporter says
that Fort Mill offered a game defense,
but the line was unable to
withstand the smashing of Chester's
backs, varied now and then
with an end run for a good gain.
The annual election for of- j
ficers to serve Catawba lodge, ;
No. 56, A. F. M., for the year J
beginning January 1, 1910, will'
be held in the lodge room on the !
evening of December 19. The I
present worshipful master of the
lodge is Capt. J. W. Ardrey.
Following the election of officers,
an oyster supper will be served
the members of the lodge at the
Central hotel.
A tribe of Red Men will be
instituted in Fort Mill on Saturday
night. The meeting will be j
lw.1,1 in fli/i It/TncAnin Viall nn/1
iiv.iv* 1*1 inv- muoviiiV/ nail ctuvt
about 30 applications have so far j
been received for membership.
The Red Men is a secret fraternal j
order whose sick benefit feature
appeals to many. The local tribe |
was worked up by J. J. Hardin,
of Chester, the organizer for this ;
section of the State.
There is no worry at the home
of Mr. S. C. Faris, one of Gold
Hill's prosperous farmers, over
the high, and probably higher,
prices of the meat trust. During '
the last week Mr. Faris butchered
a porker which weighed 350
pounds and yet has two hogs to
kill which he thinks will net him
an additional 700 pounds, making
a total of 1,050pounds. Mr. Faris'
hogs are about 14 months old.
In the damage suit of Dr. R. A.
Bratton against the Catawba
Power company, tried in the
court of common pleas at Yorkville
last week, the jury awarded
a verdict of .$8,000 in favor of i
Dr. Bratton. The suit was for
$22,000 for alleged damages to
lands of the plaintiff, caused by
back water from the dam of
the power company, three miles
north of Fort Mill. The lands
of Dr. Bratton are in Catawba
township.
The barn of Mr. W. J.
Caveney, a * former Fort Mill
citizen, but now sanitary inspector
of Rock Hill, was destroyed
by fire Friday night about 11
o'clock. Mr. Oaveney's loss is
about $500 with a small amount
of insurance. He succeeded in
saving his horse and buggy, but
in addition to the things that he
lost in his barn was some harness
and other things belonging
to the sanitary department of
the city.
Electra lodge, K. of P., met in
regular session Monday evening
and elected the following gentlemen
to serve the lodge as officers
during the coming year: V. B.
Blankenship, C. C.; F. H. Huggins,
V. C.; J* C. Hunter, M. A.;
L. M. Bauknight, P.; L. J. Masfcey,
K. R. and S.: W. A. Roach,
M. of. W.; R, F. Grier, M. of F.
The new officers will be installed
on the evening of January 4,
when the annual supper of the
lodge will be served.
According to the statement of
a local cotton buy^r, there are
not more than 400 bales of cotton i
remaining in the hands of the!
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an.l 100 bales of Chis amount is J
stored in the cotton warehouse
at the freight depot and is not
of this year's crop. Of the cotton
stored in the warehouse 40
bales are owned by I). O. Potts
and about the same amount by
A. P. Spratt, which is three
years old^ During theJast week
not over So bales have been sold
on the local market.
R. Bogus, a veteran of the
Confederacy who formerly made
his home in this city, is now an
inmate of the soldiers' home in
Columbia, where he is well
pleased with his surroundings.
Mr. Bogtis was a member of the
Hampton Legion and enlisted j
in the Confederate army from j
Edgefield county. lie has many j
friends here will be pleased to j
to learn that he now has a good j
home and is receiving t he con-'
sideration which the State owes
all the old veterans who have be-j
come unable to provide for them-'
selves.
Water Low in the Catawba.
There probably is as little
water in Catawba river at pros
ont as there has been at any
Lime in several^ears. The low
stage of water is, of course, due
to the drouth which has obtained
in this see Hon and in the valley
of the Catawba in North Carolina
for the last few weeks. At
the Southern railroad bridge,
three miles south of town, the
hofl of rivpr i? viitililn fnv a
considerable distance on the
e?c;i fajrtf, and there probably is
not two feet of water covering
the old Nation ford at any point.
The .rocks a few hundred yards
above the railroad bridge, which
can not bcrsron when the water
stage is normal, are now visible.
New School Building in 1910.
Mr. W. B. Meacham, secretary
of the board of trustees of the
local public school, informs The
Times that he has broken off
negotiations with Kean & Co.,
the Chicago bond brokers who
bid in the $10,000 of school bonds
voted by the municipality last
April for the erection of a new
school building, and that he has
arranged to sell the bonds
through the Charlotte National
bank. The trustees have decided,
however, not to sell the
bonds at once, but to hold them
until spring with the view of
applying the interest which wiii
have accrued by that time to the
building fund, the statement being
made that, after paying for
the lot on wliich the building is
to be erected, the balance will
not be sufficient to pay for the
1, --J. : 1
Dtunui uuust; wiiicu it ib purposeu
to put up. The trustees hope
to have the building ready for
occupancy by the opening of the
session in September, 1910.
The North Carolina board of
agriculture has just passed a
regulation having for its purpose
the keeping of the boll
weevil out of the State. The
regulation forbids the importation
of cotton seed, cotton seed
hulls, loose cotton in any shape
and baled cotton, unless compressed,
from Arkansas, Louisiana,
Texas, Mississippi and
Alabama.
The best pills is DeWitt's Little Early
Risers the safe, easy, pleasant and
sure little liver pills. DeWitt's Carbolized
Witch Hazel Salve is the
original. Good for cuts, burns and
bruises, and especially for piles. Sold
by Ardrey's Drug store.
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Interest in Election.
Quite a number of citizens of
Fort Mill wont 'to Yorkvi lie Monday
and secured registration
certificates from the county board
of registration to qualify for the
municipal election to be held on
January 11. It is stated that
there was a lively scramble for
seats in the'conveyances which
were run by the liverymen to the
court house and that one or two
of the number who wished to
I qualify failing to secure transportation,
walked to Yorkville, 22
miles. It seems now that there
will be the usual contest for the
mayoralty. Monday afternoon
*jr ni i . %
i mr. rv. onannon announcea tnat
, he intended to make the race
for mayor. He will be opposed
by Mayor L. A. Harris and the
friends of the two candidates are
already at work among the
voters.
The following tickets have been
sent to The Times office with
the request that they be published:
Mayor L. A. Harris.
Aldermen?Ward 1, Lee Hall;
Ward 2, J. T. Young; Ward 3, B.
W. Bradford; Ward 4, S. L.
Meacham; at large, J. L. Spratt
and A. R. McElhaney.
Mayor?K. Shannon.
Aldermen?Ward 1, B. C. Ferguson;
Ward 2, W. A. Fisher;
Ward 3, B. W. Bradford; Ward
4, S. L. Meacham; at large, T.
5. Kirkpatrick and A. R. McEhaney.
Fite & Hoover to Open Store.
Still mother store building is
to be erected in Fort Mill and
will be delivered to the lessees
for occupancy by the 15th of
January. Yesterday morning
Mr. C. M. Fite, of Fite & Hoover,
Charlotte merchants, came to
Fort Mill and closed a trade with
Mr. W. B. Meacham to put up a
building for his firm on the Main
street lot adjoining the building
of the Parks Drug company.
Work will be commenced on the
building at once. It will be 25
feet in width and 70 feet in
length.
Mr. C. M. Fite, the junior 1
member of the firm, is well
known and popular in Fort Mill,
having been a frequent visitor to
this iJtaee in recent years. He
is a great baseball player and has
helped the local team win many
a game, as has his brother,
A. Craig Fite, who will have
charge of the business here.
Both these yourtg men are native
South Carolinians, having been
raised within eight miles of Fort
Mill.
Fite & Iloover will do a general
mercantile business, paying particular
attention to the grocery
department.
Ardrey-Tuttle.
A marriage announcement of
interest here is that of Miss
Annie Ardrey and Mr. M. M.
Tuttle, which is to occur at the
Harrison Methodist church in
Providence township, N. C., on
the evening of December 22nd.
Miss Ardrey is a daughter of the
late Capt. W. E. Ardrey and is a
sister of Mrs. J. L. Spratt, of
Fort Mill. She is a popular and
accomplished young lady, who
has many friends in both North
and South Carolina. Mr. Tuttle
now lives in Charlotte, but formerly
merchandised in the Providence
neighborhood.
Railroad Casualties.
Sixty-seven people were killed
and 758 injured on the railroads
of the State during the year ending
June 30. according to the
annual reports of the 25 companies
received by the railroad
commission. It is shown in the
last annual report of the commission
that 57 were killed and
1,097 injured. It will be seen
that the number killed on the
railroads has increased this year
while the number of injured was
less by several hundred.
The commission is now compiling
the statistical part of its
annual report on figures received
from the various lines in this
State.
. your business '
OLUTE SECUF
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EOPLES
T. L. JOHNSTON, Pr<
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Work of the D. A. R.
The regular meeting of Kanawha
chapter, D. A. R., which
was to have been held Tuesday
afternoon, was postponed till this
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, and
will be at the home of Miss
Isabel Grier. The change in the
date of the meeting is due to the
receipt of a letter from Mrs. L.
Childs, of Columbia, a prominent
Daughter who was instrumental
in organizing the chapter,
stating that she would visit Fort
Mill today. Some months ago
Mrs. Childs was a visitor here
and succeeded in locating the
graves of a number of her kins
men, veterans or the revolution, j
in old Unity cemetery, and it
was due to her work, rather than
to that of the State regent, as
was stated in The Times last
week, that Kanawha chapter was
organized. It is the purpose of
the Daughters, accompanied by,
Mrs. Childs, to visit the cemetery '
in a body tomorrow afternoon'
and inspect the progress of the1
work now being done in clearing
away the underbrush from the
cemetery and in laying out!
the walks, etc. The chapter will
also have the rock cemetery wall
repaired within a short time and !
they are being assisted by Mrs.
Childs in raising the money
necessary to do the work. Mr. 1
J. H. McMurray is also rendering
the chapter valuable assist-'
ance in the work of restoration. .
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"Meet me at
Haile's
On the corner."
Delicious and refreshing
Fountain Drinks, Cigars
and Cigarettes. All the
leading brands of Chewing
and Smoking Tobacco,
Pipes, etc.
"Bon-Tons buy Chocolate
Bon-Hons."
Fresh shipment
Headley's Chocolate Bon-Bons,
pure and delicious every
week.
We carry a full line of
Drugs, Patent, Medicines,
Stationery, Etc.
Give us a call.
Fort Mill Drug Comp'y
J. R. HAILE, Mgr.
Horses, Miili
Wagons ar
I We are now her<
ready to do busine
the best of everyth
as cheap as can be
All we ask is that
before purchasing,
we can do business
We sell the ce
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I ROCK HILL, CO
I er BUGGIES. On
is complete. Com
I S. J. Kimball
;ucces:
with the assur
IYTY and FAIR
JATIONAL
ssident.
mwammm* mmmmmm mmmmmmm
Beach-Ihrie's
We have the most up-to-date
lines of
| Jewelry,
Silverware,
Cut Gla??,
China,
Clocks,
and many other useful and ornamental
goods to be found in this
section of the country.
We shall be glad to hear from
you when in need of anything in
our line.
Repairing and En*
graving a Specialty
Hay Local Watch Inspectors for
Southern Railway.
IBeach-lhrie Jewelry Co., j
Reliable Jewelers,
Rock Hill, - - - S. C.
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,
Lumber For Sale.
When in need of Lumber
call at our mill at Watson
place, where Mr. J. T.
Cornwell will serve you,
or write me and we will
deliver it anywhere. Qual
ity first-class, original pine.
Prices reasonable.
Jim A. Barber,
Rock Hill, S. C.
The next time one of the children
catch cold, give it something that will
promptly and freely but gently move
the bowels. In that way the cold will
at once be driven out of the system.
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup
moves the bowels promptly and freely,
yet gently, and at the same time heals
irritation and stops the cough. It is
especially good for children. Sold by
Ardrey's Drug store.
es, Buggies,
id Harness.
d in our new stable
ss. We sell only
ing we handle and
bought anywhere.
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and then we know
\ with you.
lebrated STUDE1SSIN
WAGONS,
RTLAND and othr
HARNESS line
e to see ns.
& Sons, MiH^S.C.
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44 And made headqua
the past 26 yeats. Our s
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^ this year. The Christmas
44 substantial kind, sometr.iu
mental. It is needless to
know that our prices re i
j 44 Our stock of Watche
Cut Glass and China, is csj
see the goods, the piicv s ^
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7? Have a very Fine i in
interested, call and s<
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Christmas
i; Can you think of any more ae
a box of really delicious Li )\\
by a manufacturer with a
We have this candy put up i
be used as gifts for Christ o
boxes are made in several
tain assortments of cho oi;
The price range of our > ir
the box.
Also a beautiful assortment <>
tints, for holiday purpe
Parks
Big Cut m
Our first cut in prices. ('! >;
Four Ninety (jjvl.fio), former
$8.00. Now is vowr liior
Miss Hinshaw is with lis i'?o i
once if you want to sc r
Women's
The scarcest thine; on the mar
Short ones in white, garm i a
(long) Sweaters, in white an*
ClOc
If you want a long Cloak at a
will save you money.
Sviil (
A genuine unsplit cow C le. !
sold in the place. The i ice !'<
to $6.50. We made a h'g pui*
the Xmas trade at $1.00. T'li
MEACHAr
W. H. HOOVER'S
CORN W IIISK I I.S. i<:
New ( 'orn ' '
one Year Old :
Two Y i'ii r ( >I<I . . 1
Three Year < >I?I
Hoover's' (>I I Mountain ('??hi
Iloover's' I'rlvale Stock '
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HY 10 WHISK IKS.
Hoover's Choice e
lloover
Southern States Kxcelsior
Gibson 1
old Times
Old I'rentlce 1
I'ennbmok (bottled in Imnd)
Cnsciido
Green River Htot t leil in bond t ... .
< lid Taylor (bottled In bond i ... I1
Overholt
Jcfrnrxoii <"lul?
Jlil Henry ::
Old (Siiind l>:nl
I. W. Harper
Vii. Valley
NO cilAUCK i'"< >I; .11 ?:s < I: I ,\? K
cliiirKcs, deduct far I < !
$1.05; 11! ipiarts. #1 H> S| il pint i
IW. H. HOOVER &
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was ||si S
nnkMCMHIMM WJ" Stfv- ?. 1?
in our S>av
erest at the rale <
nths or longer.
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C. L. COBB, Cashier.
GLAUS!
rrtved ||
rters at Massey's, as in /
lock is a little different
presents are of a more ^
uscsul as well as orna- ++
mention prices, as you all
always the lowest. ?
4, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver, ++
^eoially attractive. Come
?vi' do the rest. ^
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i plable Christmas (lift than
NKY S CHOCOLATE, made j
cot tincnt-wide reputation?
n unusually artistic boxes to
. and other occasions. The I
:es. and many of them con- I
, caramels, etc.
di< s i from cents to .$(>.50
Decocative Paper, in many
DruCompany.
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ice of any Hat in the store,
I trie s .$(>.50, $7.50 and
anc\ leathers, one-third off.
>n!y a short time, so call at
hout a Hat. *
Sweaters,
'. :ct, iti t received by express.
liid yray. at $2.00. .'!(>-inch
1 garnet, $3.90.
iks.
bargain, come to see us. We
Tases.
.i inch Suit Case, never was
>r such a case is always $(>.00
eh e and will sell them for
eiv no nicer Xmas present.
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[TP 11ST EXPRESS CHARGES
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6 00 G 75 12.76
6.00 <1.76 1.1.26
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I loo 6.75 10.00
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600 7.00 12.25
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