Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, November 03, 1910, Image 5
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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