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The Fort Hill Times
DEMOCRATIC.
Published Thursday Morn in as.
B. W. * W. ft. Bradford Publishrr
W. R. Bradford, Edito
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Telephone, local and long distance. No. 112.
FORT MILL. S. C.. DECEMBER 23. 1909.
I'D BE A BOY AGAIN.
I know it's folly to complain
Of whatsoe'er the Kates decree;
Yet, were not wishes all in vain,
I tell you what my wish would be;
I'd wish to be a boy again,
Back with the friends I used to know
For I was, oh! so happy then ?
But that was very long ago.
Eugene Field.
Old Santa Glaus is on the pre
gram to make his annual house
to-house visit tomorrow r.igh
and The Times hopes the goo<
^old fellow will not overlook an;
JRPbf the little boys or girls in thi
community. We wish all of then
a merry Christmas.
Our advice to John J. Hemp
hill, ex-congressman from thi
district, is that'h^ accept the ap
pointrnent as .commissioner of th<
District of Columbia which it i:
said Tai't will offer him, if he ha:
any hankering for public-office
Hemohin is all in. down and ou
in South Carolina politics an<
Pmilrl iimror "hnnn Kn
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to ary office here.
Some days ago a number o:
Rock Hill citizens were observec
boarding the train in Charlotb
for home with their arms fillec
with packages. We would sugges
to these and other citizens of Rocl
Hii! who rind in necessary to g<
away from home co supply theii
wants that it would be mor<
convenient and less expensive t(
come to Fort Mill to do then
shopping. They would find ii
profitable to read the advertising
columns of the Times.
With the single ""exception o1
Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Cook
alleged discoverer of the Nortl
Pole, appeai*s to be the most
colossal faker any living mar
has ever seen. The consistorj
of the University of Copenhagen,
to which Dr. Cook submitted the
evidence of his claim to the discovery
of the polo, says in effect
that the Brooklyn doctor is i
swindler. It is now all up with
Cook and he will do wpII to koor
out of the public view in the
future. There are few left tc
say a word in his behalf and he
can not hone ever to rehabilitate
himself in the confidence and
respect of those who have stood
by him in the midst of the doubt
and uncertainty which have
existed as to the validity of his
claim since Peary first branded
him a faker.
The second trial of the Tennessee
night riders charged with
the murder of Capt. Quentin
Rankin at Reel foot Lake has resulted
in a mistrial. There is
nothing to occasion surprise iri
the refusal of the jury to convict
these men. when one stops
to think of the highhanded, outrageous
way in which they were
"railroaded" into the shadow of
the gallows in their first trial.
This paper has no sympathy for
murder or murderers, neither
does it indorse such farcical
trials as was accorded these men
when they w^re convicted at the
bayonet's point and sentenced to
be hanged some months ago. The
supreme co n't of Tennessee very
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^accorded!
them a new Ui ll. and our prediction
is tnat they wi!i yet be
acquitted as a result of the treatment
accorded chem under their
martial law trial.
. The best grade of cotton
brought 15 cents on the Fort Mill
market yesterday. Few bales
were sold. Seed were bringing
45 cent t ho bu ;
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DRANESVILLE FIGHT RECALLED.
Three Fort Mill Soldier* Killed and
Another Lost an Arm.
8 Mr. A. H. Mefritt, Sr., is one
* of The Times' good friends who
_ was in town Monday morning
from his home in Gold Hill and
dropped in to pass the time of
day. While in the! office Mr.
Merritt recalled that 48 years ago
to the day he contributed his left
arm at Dranesville, Va., to the
j cause of the South in the War
Between the States. The battle
at Dranesville was unexpected,
being more in the nature of a
skirmish than a regular battle for
K which both sides had made prep50
aration. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart,
the gallant and much loved Vir
'* ginia cavalier, was in command
B. of the Confederate forces, cornis
posed of three or four regiments
* of infantry and a part of the
" cavalry of the Army of Northern
_ Virginia. No great loss resulted
to either side from the engage
ment, but it cost the life of three
Fort Mill men, Lieutenant Fred
MoPre, and Privates Sam Huflfman
and John Faris, all members
i of Company B, Sixth South Caro!
lina infantry. This company was
j commanded at the time by Capt.
.. j (afterwards Colonel) John M.
White and was recruited largely
| from the young men of this community.
Mr. Merritt was wounded early
>- in the morning and was carried
f- to a negro house some distance
t from the battlefield. There he
j remained until the afternoon of
the following day when he suc "
i ceeded in getting word to some
s | of his comrades of his condition,
t) i They responded to his request
for help and carried him to the
Confederate hospital at Centreville,
20 miles away. His wounded
arm was amputated on Christs
mas day, 1861, and the operation
- was performed in part by Dr.
e Babcock, of Chester, father of
s the present superintendent of
the State Hospital for the Insane,
s Dr. J. W. Babcock. Mr. Merritt
was a boy 17 years old at the
t time and he was so greatly dis1
tressed at the loss of his arm
I that when he awoke to learn that
it had been taken off he gave
way to tears, the superintending
surgeon of the hospital having
f assured him before administer1
incr fHp pthor fnv tto
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2 that the limb could be saved.
J Mr. Merritt is one of seven
' brothers who went from this,
I township to the firing line for
II the Confederacy, each of whom
> did his duty as a soldiei. Three j
r i of the brothers were killed in !
j battle and the four others were
~ more or less seriously wounded.
} The brothers were: Thomas,
[* James, Bowman, A. H., Henry,
t William and Newell, the last I
r three being the ones who died on
the battlefield.
j. Popular Young Man Bereaved.
J. C. Hunter, prescription clerk
' in the drug store of W. B. Ar1
drey, received a telegram Saturt
day morning from his parents at
i Owens, Laurens county, telling
r hir.i of a distressing accident
which resulted in the death of
' his 7-year-old sister Friday even;
ing. In some way the little girl's
- dress caught fire and she was so ,
t badly burned that she died a few
t hours after the accident. Mr.
' Hunter left for his home, via
Charlotte, immediately upon re1
ceipt of the telegram and reached
i home in timo tr?
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al of his sister. He is a popular
; young gentleman whose bereave|
ment will be regretted by his
j many friends in this section.
I Help the Postal Employes.
Considerable trouble is exJ
perienced, especially during the
i Christmas holidays, at the local
1 postofhce by the careless and insecure
wrapping of packages and
parcels intended for transmission
through the mails. Postmaster
' Massey wishes, therefore, to rei
quest the public to exercise more
care in the preparation of this
. class of matter before it is
, posted. It often happens that the
flimsiest kind of cotton cord is ;
1 used to tie up packages and par
eels and this cord not infrequent;
ly breaks with the most careful
, handling, necessitating work on
the part of the postal employes j
, which should be done by the
sender. It is also well for the
sender of packages or parcels to
put his name on the. outside
wrapper so that they may be returned
in the event the addresse
cannot be located.
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The express shipments of
Christmas liquor to Fort Mill
shows a marked decrease compared
with the amount received
here during the holiday season
for the last few years. The decrease
in receipts is attributed to
the delay and greater inconvenience
now experienced in procuring
liquor, since it mtist bei
ordered from ]>oints several
hundred miles farther away
than Salisbury, N. C., the city ,
which supplied most of the liquor , ;
for this place before the prohibition
law in North Carolina
went into effect the first of the
year.
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The ordinance against shooting j
fireworks in the fire limits will ,
be enforced. iv | <
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Local Building Note*.
Frank D. Lee, local ticket
agent for the Southern railway,
on Saturday bought a lot on
Spratt street from T. B. Spratt,
near the home of the latter, on
which he will at once erect a
residence, to be occupied by himself
and family. The contract
for the building, which will contain
six or seven rooms, likely
will be awarded Mr. Lee's fatherin-law,
W. T. Beamguard, a
Clover contractor. Work on the
building will commence about
the first of the new year.
Mrs. Jennie Spratt has award
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eu io v. tsracitorri the contract
for remodeling and enlarging
her residence in "Sprattville."
Contractor A. A. Bradford has
recently finished the construction
of a number of small brick cottages
at the plant of the Charlotte
Brick company, two miles
south of town. The cottages are
to be occupied by colored laborers
of the brick company.
Work was begun several days
ago on the Main street building
i which is to be used as a store
room by Fite & Hoover, the
Charlotte merchants who are to
engage in business here as soon
: as the building is finished. Work
on the building has necessarily
been slow on account of the
rainy weather of the last few
days, but the contractor hopes to
finish the building by the 1st of
February, next year.
Two cottages for the use of
tenants are being erected on the
plantations of W. J. Stewart and
T. M. Hughes, respectively, near
town. The work is in the hands
of Contractor Z. V. Bradford.
' tems of Local Interest.
Appreciated visitors to Fort
Mill for the holidays are Rev.
and Mrs. J. B. Masseyand child.
They are guests at the home of
Mr. Massey's father, Mr. B. H.
j Massey. Mrr Massey is a former
j Fort Mill boy* who some years
! ago graduated for the Presbyi
fprian minic<Mr nf TT^.w.%-. ?
..... at u mull 1 lieu- j
logical seminary in Richmond, |
Va. He is at present located at
Mossy Creek, Va., where he is
pastor of the Presbyterian
church. Mr. Massey delivered
an excellent sermon in the Fort
Mill Presbyterian church last
Sunday morning and will again
preach to thai congregation next
Sunday.
W. S. McClellan, game warden
for this section under the Audubon
laws of liie State, gave
strenuous chase to a party of
North Caiolii i hunters in the
upper part of the township last
Friday. Mr. McClellan succeeded
in overhauling the hunters just
across the State line only to
learn that all but one member of
the prrty had secured the license
| necessary to hunt in this State.
This man was told of his violation
of the South Carolina law
and warned not to come in this
township to hunt again without
paying the $10 license fee.
When Bird Hunters Meet?
Two bird hunters, whose homes I
are in different sections of the
township and who do not hunt
over the same territory, met in a
Main street drug store yesterday
and began to tell of the luck they
had had with gun and dog since
the bird season opened on November
15 and naturally inquired
of each other whether there
seemed to be as many birds this
fall as heretofore.
"I do not think there are as
many birds in our section this
year- as there was last year,"
said hunter No. 1. "I attribute
this to the unusual number
of hunters this fall. There
may have been as many birds
when the season opened as there
ordinarily is, but-they are scarce
now. I have often wondered
why our Legislature does not
follow the example of the North
Carolina Legislature and prohibit
the shooting of birds for a few
years. Then they would multiply
and become plentiful enough to
afford a day's real sport to the j
gunner."
"I deplore as much as anybody
the useless slaughter of our
partridges," said hunter No. 2,
"and I wish seme way could be
devised to prevent any one man
from killing in excess of, say, ]
half a dozen birds in a day, for i
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uus mimoer is surncient to altord
a mess for almost any family, but
I cannot agree with you that the
number of birds would materially
increase by the passage of such
a law. Cock partridges are
ferocious little fowls and delight
in fighting the same sex of their
species. When two cock partridges
engage in a fight it is
nearly always to the death unless
their 'scrap' is interrupted |
by man. I have while hunting
found many dead partridges
whose bodies were badly cut to
pieces, the injury apparently
having been done by another
bird in a fight. For this reason
I am convinced that the passage
of such a law would not prove
as beneficial as you think."
F ROFESSIONAL.
Dr. S. Kugene Massey has returned '
to Port Mill to resume the practice of j
nedicine. Calls for Dr. Massey may
ye left at either of the drug stores or !
tt the residence of Mr. B. H. Massey
>n Booth street. i
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SUITS?That fit, an.
from start to finish.
UNDERWEAR?Of tl
today.
SUIT CASES?In mor
we can name.
NECKWEAR?In inn
Xmas boxes.
SUSPENDERS-Of all
boxes.
FANCY VESTS?Wea
SWEATERS?All colo
GLOVES?In every kr
Many other articles ap
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5 With a very short time for Chr
your sake and our sake, "do it n<
X by delay. Last minute buying m
vexation for you.
Here Are a Fei
y Best Seeded Raisins, 1 pound
8 packages j 10c
Best Cleaned Currants, 1 pound
Q packages 10c
Best Citron, free from sugar,
Q per pound * 30c
Finest Dried Figs, per lb. .?.20c
Q Best Dates, 1 -lb package 10c
?4X Powdered Sugar, per lb... 10c
3-Crown California London Lay9er
Raisins, per lb 12Jc
Choice Cranberries, per qt. ..121c
9 New Almonds, per lb 20c
New Walnuts, per lb 20c
Q New Butternuts, per lb 15c
g S. C. Pecans, per lb. ..^.20c
5 We are prepared to take care o
but we want to do it smoothly, ca
y cannot visit our store in person,
given prompt and careful attentic
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Death of a Young Man.
David I. Kimball, youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kimball,
died suddenly at the home of his
parents in Rock Hill Sunday
night of heart failure. Mr.
Kimball was about 20 years of
age and was a member of the
firm of S. J. Kimball & Sons,
who conduct large sale and feed
stables in Rock Hill and Fort
Mill. His remains were buried
in Laurel wood cemetery Monday
afternoon after funeral services
at the home by Rev. Alex
Martin of the First Presbyterian
church.
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d are stylish and correct
le best kinds on the market
e sizes and varieties than
umerable colors in fancy
colors and kinds in Xmas
Table with any suit,
rs and grades,
town style.
>propriate for holiday gifts
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RISTMAS. J
istmas buying, let us urge you, for Q
Jw!" There is nothing to be gained ?|
leans rushing over things for us and *
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v Thing* for You: ^
Best Mixed Nuts, containing only JR
the newest and best of Nuts, fl|
per lb ,20c JR
Mince Meat, per lb 15c
Sweet Florida Oranges, per doz.
20 and 25c
Finest Celery, stalk. .10c Xj
, Apples, per peck .35 to 60c V
Fine Assortment French Candy, jjj
per lb 10c
Peanut Brittle, per lb 20c Q
Crystalized Pineapple, per lb. .50c 5
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' MISTLETOE" HAMS and {j
"MELROSE" FLOUR.
f any and all patronage given us, w
irefully and as you want it. If you
phone your orders. They will be ^
1 Telephone
LUP> Number 15. V
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Lumber For Sale.
We have moved our mill
across the river, 1-2 mile
below the ferry. Ferriage
free to persons buying lumber.
Lumber on yard, $1.00
for ordinary bills, or delivered
on Fort Mill side of
river for $1.10.
Barber Lumber Co.,
Jim A. Barber, Mgr.
iristmas
NNER in the mal
man who gets
he money he spe
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5 sort ot winner >
for an overcoat.
ros. and Griffon
in more value in
anship than any
d.
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AN INEXPENSIVE AND PLE.<
CHRISTMAS
Four pairs of famous
ShleiwtM
TOE-HEEI
MEN'S HOSE, put up in a spec
box, $1.00. These socks are
Fine texture, snug fitting, perm;
with a world-wide reputation fc
PRESENTATION BOX. contair
& Comp;
KIOTHnnHMBBHi
Books for all Agt
Bibles and 1
WATERMAN'S IDEAL $2.!
FOUNTAIN PENS. Uf
Kodaks
Box Sta
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Th<> hnn/loAm^af rfl ?21 1 /1
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Shop early and pet choice. We ha
ARDREY'S D1
J Special Bi
\ in La
^ We have just received i
^ show room a job lot of 50 Lap
next 30 days offer at attractiv
X are all of pretty design and w
I ^ noiiuay gift.
^ We are also offering for 2
^ all kinds of horse accessories
^ Whip Crackers, Collars, Br
J Pads, Brushes, Combs, etc., e
I W. F. HARP
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Store. 1
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tter of rlftthpc i 1
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the greatest I
nds. | I
^ou'll be if you j I
i Brand over- | I
style, quality I
other clothes ! I
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the genuine Interwoven,
anent silk-lisle colors and ^
>r wear.
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is four pairs of sox, $1.00
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any,
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r estaments I
A MOTTO
t. FOUNTAIN PEN j
Albums
tionery
$3.00 1
s ever in Fort Mill, 2~>c t<> $.r>.00.
ve the goods that satisfy.
RUG STORE.
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ip Robes, j
tnd have on display at our ^
Robes that we will for the ^
e prices. These Lap Robes ^
ould make amost acceptable \ ^
!() days special bargains in j
Robes, Blankets, Whips, j
idles, Check Reins, Itoots, ^ ']
tc. A
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