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- The Fort Mill Times. DEMOCRATIC. Published Thursday Morninjrn. B. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor Entrrnl at th?' podtufliir at Fort Mill. S. C.. si mail matter of the wnnd class. BDBflCRirTION ItATEK: One Year. $1.2f Six Months .6? The Times invites contributions on live subject*, but does not airreo to publish more than 200 words on any subject. The riitht is reserved to edit very communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher. advertiainR rates are mad*' known to those interested. Telephone, local and longdistance. No. 112. FORT MILL. S. C.. MARCH 30. 1911. Not many, perhaps, of the hundreds of readers of The Times would have noted that the present issue of the paper marks the 20th milestone in its life. Twenty years ago the first copy of The Times was published. It was a very unpretentious little paper then ?it is none too large yet ? 'and was printed on a job press. But the paper has grown some, thanks to the support of those "who recognize the fact that Fort Mill needs a newspaper. Today The Times is more firmly established and enjoys the good will of a greater number of patrons than it has at any time in the past. It has been the aim of the publishers of the paper to make each issue a little more interesting to a greater number of people than the preceding one. Friends sometimes remark that the paper has been improved. We hope they know. At any rate, we shall continue to try to give Fort Mill a live newspaper. For the moment, at least. Senator Tillman seems to have turned evangel of despair. In an interview given the press Saturday the senator predicted the breaking up of both the Democratic and Republican parties and the formation of a new party. So far as the prophecy applies to tne Democratic party, there seems nothing on which to base it. On the contrary, the future could hardly be more promising for national and State victories next year. The failure of the Democratic Legislature in NewYork to elect a United States senator to succeed Chauncey Depew is the only untoward incident which has happened to the party since the elections last fall, and no one will claim that the party has suffered materially therefrom. The Republican party, on the other hand, is admittedly in a bad way: but unfortunately for the country its recuperative power is great and it lacks a deal of being dead. Senator Tillman would seem to be entitled to another guess. Probably not one in ten of those who are familiar with the newspaper accounts of the clubbing of Booker Washington by a New York carpenter a few nights ago will accept the negro's version of the the affair and it will require more than the letter of sympathy of President Taft to restore Washington to the place he formerly held as a benefactor of his race. Washington certainly has not satisfactorily explained why he should have been at the carpenter's house in the night time peeping through the key-hole, nor have his friends been able to assure the country that his mission was of an innocent nature. From the Nort hern point of view Hooker Washington may be all that his friends claim for him: but in the South the people know that the leopard cannot change its spots that tigs do not grow of thistles. One of our experienced educators says that pupils who have access to newspapers at home, when compared with those who do not, are better readers, better spellers, better grammarians, better punctuators, and read more understandingly, and obtain a practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time it requires others. The newspaper is decidedly an important factor in modern life. I Fire at PineriQe Mill. i Seven hundred bales of long staple cotton were more or less seriously damaged by fire and water in the warehouse of the PinevMle cotton mill Tuesday afternoon, resulting in consider; able loss. No one seems to know , how the fire originated, but the supposition is that a match which had been carelessly dropped on i the floor was struck by a laborer i j trucking cotton to the spinning room. As soon as the fire became general in the wareroom ; the automatic sprinklers burst 'land these, with the aid of a number of streams of water quickly turned on the blazing I cotton, prevented a serious conflagration. ! I Graded School Honor Roll. Following is the honor roll of the Fort Mill graded school for ! the month of March: Tenth Grade. Distinction List I Aline Barber. Isabel Massey, Ola I Crowder. Ninth Grade. Distinction List Lula Haile, Lana Parks, Monroe | White. Eighth Grade, Honor Roll Lucy Merritt. Distinction list. Ethel ' Armstrong. Joe Belk. Mao White. Ike Yarborough. Seventh Grade, Distinction List ? Frances Smith. Esther Meach' am. Fifth and Sixth Grades, Distinction List?Julia Armstrong, ! Alfred Jones, Agnes Link. Mary i McLaughlin. Alice Harris, Mary ! Armstrong. Lillian Potts. Kath; leen Armstrong, Willie Sellers, Annie Lou White. Third and Fourth Grades, Honor Roll- Pearl Anderson, StephI en Epps. Sadie Rodgers, Sara i White, Malcolm Link, Kula Patterson, Ruth McLaughlin, Charlie White. Distinction list. SoI phie Link. Beulah Parks, At ma ! Adcock, Grace Erwin, Emma I Epps, William Grier, Haile Ferguson, John Armstrong, Lonnie i Robertson. Mary Sprat t. | Second Grade, Honor Roll Hattie Relk, Blanche Moser. First Grade, Honor Roli Robert Armstrong. Elizabeth Mills, i Arthur Young, Vallie Johnson, i Sam Johnson. n I f i l r> " uief ciud comes frtday. The Wofford College Glee club, i which is making a tour of this , I section of the State, will make ! its initial appearance to a Fort I Mill audience Friday evening at j 8 o'clock at the auditorium of 1 the graded school. The WotTord ; Glee Club is one of the best! ' known musical organizations in I the Carolinas, and all those who 'attend the concert Friday eve| ning may expect an entertaining | programme. On the programme will be club songs, solos, gunrj tettes, octettes and readings. The ' quartette with the club this year is especially good. Prices of admission will be 35, j 25 and 20 cents. I Public Debate Commencement Week. The speakers have been named ! I for a public debate to be held at the commencement exercises of | the Fort Mill graded school in May. The query is: "Resolved, That the Tide of Immigration Turned Southward Would Pro- . mote Southern Interests." The i affirmative will be discussed by Monroe White and Miss Aline | i Barber; the negative by Miss Ola ! Crowder and Burt Patterson. . . . Dispensary Act Vetoed. Governor Blea.se has vetoed the | act creating the special committee, composed of members of the General Assembly, toinvesti- . gate the work of the winding-up I commission of the old State dispensary. The matter was settled definitely by the governor Monday when he announced that he would not sign the act. "The new dispensary commission," said he, "will do the work that the legislative investigating committee was t<? do and will save the State that much money. "The new commission will subj poena T. I>. Felder, of Atlanta. : and require him to tell everything that he knows about my record as a member of the State senate, ' as governor and private citizen." Jack Johnson in Jail. Jack Johnson, prize fighter, was committed to jail in San Francisco Tuesday, and unless some higher court comes to his , relief on a technicality, he will i serve a 25-day sentence for automobile speeding. Johnson has often been an offender of the speed laws. After 14 arrests, j , from which he escaped with light fines or dismissal, Thursday he , pleaded guilty to a charge of | | speeding and on Saturday he was : sentenced to jail. Old and New Columbia. i Columbia Record. It is a very interesting- document which The Record printed Wednesday afternoon, by which certain citizens of Columbia in the year 1869 donated to the United States government the lot upon which the present federal building stands. Manifestly the policy of the federal government at that time was very different from its policy now. Whereas at present numerous more or less public spirited Coa 1 * uimoians arc eager to sell the federal government a site for a postoftice at as high a price as the kindly government will allow, forty-two years ago thirtyseven Columbians united in contributing the $2,500 with which was purchased the splendid lot at the corner of Laurel street and what was then known as Richardson street. Not only is this document of interest as showing the change in the manner in which such things are carried on, but the difference in real estate values is most vividly brought out. A lot 104 feet on Main street and 208 feet on Laurel street, bought for $2,500, or not quite $20 a front foot on Main street! According to the price which real estate in that section of the city has recently commanded, this lot is now worth something like $50,000, or very nearly $500 a front foot on Main street. Unique Birthday Celebration. This story is credited to George Barr McCutcheon, the novelist: "Once, bicycling in Georgia, I heard a terrible hullabaloo in a cabin. Yells and shrieks, sobs and groans it was evident that a half dozen pickaninnies were getting properly whaled. 1 stopped, and eight pickaninnies came ruefully from the cabin, rubbing their eyes with one hand : and rubbing tender parts of their! small persons with the other. ! Then out bounded a little chap with loud, gleeful laughter, and, ! while his brothers and sisters wept, he threw handsprings, cart wheels and somersaults all over the garden. The father of the brood, appearing later, made things clear to me. 'Y;ls, sah,' he said, 'hit wuz Kastus' birfday today, sah, an' Ah hadn't no cash ter buy him nuffin', an' hit made me so mad ter see his lil bruddern an' sistern all jes' as gay as he wuz dut I jes' natcherly guv 'em all a good trouncin' while Rastus looked on. Yo' see how pleased he is, sah jes' as pleased as if yo'd guv him ti' cents ter celebrate de dav, sah!' " Carbartt Mill Resumes Operations. The Hamilton Carhartt cotton mill at Hock Hill has resumed full time operations, altera shutdown of several months. Since closing the machinery of the mill has been rearranged and thoroughly overhauled. The Carhartt mill, with its 8,000 spindles and 251 looms, produces a good grade of denim. COT\T< I have jus a solid car which I am attractive p me before J. J. B counnri n rum OOnUNLLU tnui ??? "Have Stood th< They have no superior in |x>int of 1)1 fur Saw Mills, Oil Mills, Cotton required. Write for j BOILERS. We ca T?iMliiiTib' Constructed Boilers, S*?U VSuTklT4 Write today HFjwJt** *- S. SCMOf(ELD'S SONS Brndi Office, 307 m "Haile's on the Corner" l We are distributors I Reach's Baseballs, H Bats, II 1| Gloves, Masks and fl I Uniforms. Get your Baseball $3 supplies from? Fort Mill Drug Comp'y J. R. HAILE, Prop. 0 MULLEN'S o 9 HORNET'S NEST? 0 LINIMENT | jj Is the Old Reliable jjj jj Remedy. * jj When it's an ache or jj jj pain, it is the medicine. jj jj For bowel complaints, jj jj it can't be beat. jj jj For sprains, bruises, jj ft bites or stings, it is the jj jj proper thing jj 8 Ardrey's Drug Store, 9 5? Fort Mill, S. C. 9 ootoiotno?oi+ WHITE LEGHORN EGGS. I have for sale for hatching purposes pure Wycoff strain White Leghorn Eggs at one dollar for 15. D. A. LEE. Fort Mill, S. C. GLES it received of Shingles offering at >rices. See you buy. AILES. INES < BOILERS e Test of Time" ??? URABILITY and are lUst Adapted Gins; in fact, where Heavy Ihity is rices on Saw Mills, Shingle Mills,etc. rry for immediate shipment the Best ranging from 12 H. P. to 160 H. P. for our illustrated catalog. CO., Wirls Mtf Heal Offiei, MACM fi/L West Trade Street, Ckarlette, M. C. r Exclusive Spring and Summer Styles frfT\ You will soon need your Spring M[ Suit, and you might as well come to headquarters for it. Here you ' will be sure to get all wool ma- ^ terials, exclusive styles and new- \ est patterns. ST , ,> /.'A Every Suit from $10 Up Guaranteed To fit and wear equal to any ^ tailored work. \ f | We have styles to fit the regu- i?">n- \ k\ 1 SCHLOVS BKO... ?CP1 lars. stouts and slims. \ WK\ 1 McElhaney & Cornp'y <?2^^ 3^ "Just across the street." ' ? j NEW ACCOUNTS EVERY DAY It is surprising, even to us. to note the new business M 2 which comes to us daily, proving First. That our efforts to please are appreciated. Second. That we have the confidence of the people. | Third. That the masses think well of us. Fourth. That we are conveniently located. Fifth. That the public likes 4 per cent, interest. Sixth. That the public also likes quarterly interest. I A warm welcome awaits your account, no matter how | small. Come to spm iib ? _ V14I l,? UIH4 W1 11"! |. The Pineville Loan and Savings Bank, , 1 PINEVILLE, - - - N. C. J Proof of the Pudding After 18 Years of Chewing the Bag. | Lake Park, Ga., Feb. 10, 1911. | Hock Hill Buggy Co., Buck Hill, S. C. Gentlemen: Knowing that you are interested in hearing praises sung regarding your buggies, 1 deem it my duty to write you relative to a Bock Hill buggy 1 am now running. This buggy was bought in Hawkinaville, Ga., 1 f? years ago, and it has been in constant use since. During this time it has been run to Hawkinsville live or six times a distance of 200 miles each trip. I never had any repairs on this job until last year. Your "Long Distance" axle lasted through the whole service of the buggy, and the springs did likewise. It has always been the lightest running and easiest riding buggy I have ever riilit.n in ..n,i ?v... ...i. >- ? ?..... .... ?im ni?- wiicum you use can i oe beat. 1 >^i;ully volunteer this testimonial as 1 am confident you merit it by I making what 1 honestly believe to be the best buggy made. Your buggies are "A Little Higher In Price But " far superior to any ! I have ever used. Wishing you continued success, and assuring you I am a "Kock Hill" booster from conviction, I am, Verv truly yours, E. W. MASON. MILLS & YOUNG COMPANY. If You Order Whiskey By Mail Do Not Overlook These Prices. All Goods GUARANTEED Under the Pure Food Laws. 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