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US SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST to TIMES READERS. | Miss Alice White, of Black Mountain, N. C., is visiting relatives in Fort Mill. The highest price paid for cot- , ton on the Fort Mill market i yesterday was 13 3-4 cents. Cotton seed. 39 cents per bushel. Miss Annie Crook has accepted the principalship of the public school at Wagener, Aiken county, and left Saturday morning to assume her new duties. Mrs. Mary Kimbrell, a former resident of Fort Mill, died of heart disease at her home in Rock Hill Sunday morning. The : ? a- i. i.1 TTll * i. TT 1 1 I I interment was in tne runt mil j cemetery Monday. The Southern Power company has awarded to Z. V. Bradford the contract for the erection of a six-room cottage at the company's power plant three miles from Fort Mill. The cottage will be of the bungalow style and is to be occupied by one of the company's employees. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Hair and baby are spending several days at the former home of Mr. Hair in Blackville. Next Sunday Mr. Hair's appointments at Fort Mill and Flint Hill Baptist churches will be filled by the Rev. D. W. Thomasson, of Old Point. The first killing frost of the season in this section formed Friday night and Saturday morning housetops were white with the minute particles of ice. Much of the vegetation was killed and considerable damage resulted to flower gardens and potted plants. The cotton fields now present a blackened, withered appearance. There are few idle moments for the three cotton-seed buyers in Fort Mill. They are on the job about 16 hours daily, Sunday excepted, and are always on the alert for farm wagons bringing the seed to market. Often 2 o'clock a. m. finds the buyers at the cotton platform awaiting the appearance of the first wagons of the day. A real estate transfer effected i in Fort Mill during the last week | Iwas the sale of the new five-room cottage on north Booth street, near the overhead bridge, by V. B. Blankenship to P. L. Wagner. Mr. Wagner is the overseer of the weave room for the Fort Mill Mfg. Co. and has been a resident of Fort Mill for a number of years. The cottage will be occupied by Mr. Wagner and his family within a few days. Mrs. Mary Wilson, relict of W. R. Wilson, died at her home in the Millfort mill village at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mrs. Wilson was about 60 years of age and had been a resident of Fort Mill for the last 20 years. She is survived by two sons and two daughters. The interment was in Zoar cem?tery, a few miles north of town, Wednesday at noon. The exercises of the Fort Mill graded school were suspended Monday, owing to the fact that the work of installing the heating plant of the new building, into which the school moved the first of last week, had not been 1-1. 1 -1 A i - . ? completed ana me weatner was considered too cold to have the pupils occupy the unheated rooms. The exercises of the school were resumed Tuesday morning. York county was represented by two delegates, I. H. Norris, of Yorkville, and T. G. Moser, of Fort Mill, in the so-called "lilly white" Republican State convention in Columbia last Thursday. each being elected to membership on the State executive committee. Mr. Norris is a Western man who moved to Yorkville some years ago and Mr. Moser is the weave room boss at the jyiillfort mill. Mecklenburg Farmer Kills Himself. A1 Deaton, a well known Mecklenburg farmer, whose home was a few miles east of Pineville, killed himself Tuesday afternoon by inhaling chloroform. Mr. Deaton had been to Charlotte Tuesday morning and returned 1 /?. ?? nome, alter selling some cotton, in apparently good spirits. Shortly after returning to his home, Mr. Deaton wrote a note to his wife and then went to an outhouse and saturated a quantity of cotton with chloroform, fastening the cotton over his face. He t then fay down and in a short while was dead. Mr. Deaton's family and neighbors are at a loss to assign a cause for his rash act. He is survived by his wife and four children. HI ^? MWjwuiwH mm.UK. r ' ' '..', X 4 .v ; .1 ' 11 rwu;, jfp | I^ v 11 MILLS i mmmmmmmmmmmammi BETTER CLOTH! without extra cosi A DIFFERENT KIND 01 CLOTHING STORE Different not only in the tho: oughly good and always satii factory kind of clothes w sell, but in the general spir: of the service we providi Our idea is simply this, the J _ 1 A 1? 1 ? we uo oesi ior ourselves D doing the very best for yoi You Must Be Satisfied ?your pleasure and satisfa< tion is our constant aim an our purpose. "Money chcc fully refunded" and "satii faction guaranteed" are n< nierely empty phrases wit us. They are putting tfc principles of this business i terms which deal directly ciples that protect you as the possibilities of any i In the famous . Schloss Balti we do the best we can for no more than the ordinary $12.50 t Overcoats?Shorts and longs?light and heavy ?for business or dress McELHANEY < ' w. ^^PMBnni P*- *yv? wmmmfmmmmmmmmm tig, Ovei When it comes tc Clothing' business i usually means a sa \ /* The S makes them look t ter than most othei fy come in and ex< to sell. When one Overcc of the very best m< in long blacks, hea Cravei | $5-00 | V^L / the co $ ^ styles 7 jS have j YOUNG hmb mm m mmmm 2S ? better values t?that's our motto s~ ^ '?'?> ? \ SR' SCMLOSS BRO^ * co r 1 1 r? tv<k~ u.k?. \ *dp, \ 1 l*k ?? ? ^ | with your interests, prinwell as this store against nistake or dissatisfaction. more Clothes our customers. They cost o $25.00 Cravenetted Overcoats ?that water will not penetrate. % COMPANY. MiawBiaMiti _ 9 'coats, Hats > selling the above articles we is away above our expectation: ile, and every suit we sell helps ilverman Clothe: >etter and they really do fit anc r Clothes. If you are hard to imine our line, you are the kin :e pleased you are a sure custc tats and Raincoal ikes, models of the most note vy grays, browns, at $6.00 i nette Rainproof Coats at to $16.50. We have just at you want. j i t miss seeing the new m in Hats and Shoes that we ust received. / . COMPANY, wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi || The Sma Is Welco I Do not hesitate t I because you cann sum. The Peoples 1 Hill especially wel any amount from realizing that the substantial propor? itor is encouraged tions thereto, just bank pays 4 per c< j. 1 .1 leriy, tnus providir your funds togethe The Peoples ROCK HILL, SAFE, SUCCE i and Shoes I 1 I : i are right on the job. Our J . . .> ^ fnr t"hp fiycf A 1 1- ? ^ * *a\^ ni gi o\^ciouil / V 1U(J K. S H sell another. Something about I s a | v:~ 1 wear bet- m fit or satis- I id we like fj I >mer. ^ d makers, S | M to $18.00. |^.r | FORT MILL, I _________ *? - - 3. U - - j | 11 Account I >med Here. : I I ! i I ! o open a bank account ' ot begin with a large i National Bank of Rock ! Icomes small deposits, j i one dollar upwards, jl' :se accounts grow to 1 p| P:i I :ions when the deposto make regular addi- ! as he is able. This 2 snt. compounded quar- I j ig a liberal income for jj r with absolute safety. |P* National Bank, j - SOUTH CAROLINA. SSFUL, SECURE. | , "*in> j