- The Fort Mill Times.
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Published Thursday Morninjrn.
B. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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Old Times 3.75 12.75 4.00 6.00 12.00
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Apple Brandy 2.00 10.00 3.50 3.00 8.25
Apple Brandy (old) _ 4.C0 14.00 4.50 6.75 12.50
Peach Brandy... 3.00 10.00 3.50 5.00 8.25
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