SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST
to TIMES READERS.
Mra. A. W. Fravor, of Tacoma,
Wash., is on a visit to her daughter,
Mrs. E. W. Kimbrell.
The highest price paid for cotton
on the Fort Mill market
yesterday was 14 cents. Cotton
seed. 45 cents per bushel.
The teachers of the Gold Hill
school are hoping that the oyster
supper which is to be given at
the home of Mr. S. P. Wilson
Saturday night for the benefit of
the school will be liberally pat..
. * ronized.
The jury list for the third
week of the York county circuit
court, which begins on the 27th
inst., includes the names of the
following Fort Mill citizens: J. R.
Merritt, J. E. Armstrong and
S. A. Boyd.
Mrs. A. V. Martin, of Clinton,
was the guest of Mrs. W. B.
Ardrey for a few days during I
the last week. Mrs. Martin and
Mrs. Ardrey were classmates at
Agnes Scott institute, in Georgia,
some years ago.
Reliable thermometers indicated
that Sunday was the coldest
day of the season in this section.
At 7 a. m. the temperature was
down to 28 degrees, which was
one degree colder than the lowest
point previously reached this
fall.
One of the driving horses of
Dr. J. B. Elliott ran away Thursday
afternoon and broke to pieces
the buggy to which it was hitched,
besides ruining a set of practically
new harness. The loss to Dr.
Elliott from the runaway was
about $150.
The ladies of the Foreign Missionary
society of the Fort Mill
Methodist church are arranging
for an oyster supper in the town
hall Saturday evening. After
the supper, a box party will be
given. The money taken in will
be used in the mission work.
The cotton receipts in Fort Mill
have fallen off materially during
the last ten days, indicating that
the bulk of the crop that comes
to the local market has been sold.
Cotton picking is still in progress
on many farms, however, and
there are yet a number of fields
white with the fleecy staple.
Laban Riser, a well known
farmer who resides across the
State line in North Carolina, a
few miles from Fort Mill, was
seriously hurt Friday morning by
falling from his wagon while
attempting to drive across a
drain and has since been confined
to his home.
A number of Fort Mill sportsmen
were afield bright and early
Tuesday morning with dog and
gun to take advantage of the first
day of the open season for partridge
shooting. Fair bags were
reported by a number of the
hunters, though not a few of the
birds appeared to be little more
than half grown.
There were a number of arrests
in town Saturday night for disorderly
conduct and other pettv
offenses, from which fines to the
amount of about $50 were collected.
Sunday afternoon a negro
man was arrested on the charge
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ui transporting uiinu uger wniskey
in violation of the dispensary
law. Monday morning he was
fined $10.
The ginhouse on the plantation
of F. C. and VV. C. Whitner, in
Ebenezer township, four miles
northwest of Fort Mill, was destroyed
by fire early Saturday
morning. A lot of farm machinery
and several bales of
cotton were also destroyed in the
conflagration. There was no
insurance on the property and the
loss amounts to about $5,000.
Saturday a number of the merchants
of Fort Mill did a rushing
business from the time their
doors opened early in the morning
until late that night. All
Saturday afternoon Main street
was a scene of activity, in the
crowds being many country people
who had come to town to buy
winter supplies. A merchant
who has been in business here
for years is of the opinion that
ornnHc in PnW
Saturday than in any other day
in the town's existence.
Aggregate value of all taxable
property in York county in 1890,
$5,037,690, and a total tax levy
of 7 3-4 mills. Aggregate value
of all taxable property in 1900,
$6,000,183 and tax levy of 9 1-2
mills. Aggregate value of all
taxable property in 1910, $8,909,323,
and total general levy of
151-4. That is considerable
growth all right, but it will be
observed that the tax levy has
been growing much more rapidly
than has the aggregate value of
property.?Yorkville Enquirer.
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11 DO YOD CAR!
I We are sure that it will pay
I Shoes, Dress Goods, Hats, ' Is*
buyer. We are not in busines
permanent customer. Ask th<
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Every visitor to our
# Star Brand Shoes.
Every day since we opened the new fall Shoes
we've had evidence of the appreciation of customers
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I or ine vaiue to mem or sucn rine Shoes as we otter.
You want shoes to fit well, of course; and you want
good style in them, too; we add to these things some
I exceptional quality. We can do unusually well in
Shoes at $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00; all the leading
styles and best leathers.
11 MILLS & YOUNG
I At Fite's This Week |j
jj|j 17 pounds of Granulated Sugar . $1.00 gg
Best Patent Flour $2.90 |||
0. K. Patent Flour $2.65 lf;.
Nice Straight Flour $2.40 rg*
?| Good Cream Cheese, per pound 20
|j| Cotton Seed Meal, per sack $1.55
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^ Cottton Seed Hulls, hundred pound sack, . . .60 &&
Best Shipped Stuff $1.35 |i
| C. M. Fite Comp'y ?
School Building For Sale. ?
The t ustees o the Fort Mill Graded I
I School will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash the old Academy
building and lot at 1 1 oVlnrlc on I
Saturday, November 26, in front of I
I the Savings Bank of Fort Mill.
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Phone 112 for Job Printing.!
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