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! THE FORT MILL TIMES. CTjiimn.tJC ? Pvublished Thursdays. I B. W. BEDFORD - - Editor and Proprietor. VMOKirrtOM Ratd: One Tew *1.2? Six Months 66 The Times invitee contributions on live subjects, bat does not agree to publish more than 200 words an any subject. The right is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to thcee interested. Telephone, local and lore distance. No. 112. PORT MILL. S. C.. JULY 27. 1911. Good Roads. fiond roads are as necessary to the people of the commonwealth as are good houses. If the arteries are the life of the body, its highways are the life of a State. Remove its means of intercourse with the outside world and any community would become insular in all the manifold meanings of the word. Improve them, and so make material, intellectual and social breadth. Of what use are schools, churches and other institutions, which stand for the symbols of enlightenment, if they are not accessible? Good roads are the cords which bind together the mental, material and social life of the country side. Without them prosperity languishes, ad. vancement halts and the hardships of primitive conditions make narrow tne environments of the people. The increased value of property which they touch, the acceleration of business and trades of all kinds, the facilities for expansion along ail lines?these and countless other benefits prove f good roads outweigh any possible plea that might be urged against them. Buy a Home. To you, young man, you who have just started to housekeeping in a rented house, has it occurred to you that life would be much happier if, instead of paying rent, you were each month making a payment that would eventually result in the home being all your own? Just think how happy you could be and how much more pride you would take in improving the premises if you knew that at a not far distant day you could call it home! Think how much happier you could be if you were free from the monthly visits of the rent man! And after thinking how delightful all these advantages would be, don't sit down and merely wish that ycu could enjoy them. Don't fret and think they are beyond your acquiring; tlioir'ro nnt Tf VOll ran nf. IVI HIV J IV 1IVM J V*,.. ford to pay from $8 to $12 a month for rent, you can afford to buy a home and enjoy these pleasures the rest of your life. Study the matter carefully in all its phases. You owe it to yourself and your family, if you have one, to make a decided effort to buy a home. Stop paying rent each month without having anything to show for it. Stop keeping up someone else's place when, for just a trifle more, you can own and beautify a place of your own. Make up your mind now, and buy a home. The Kicker. We would like to pay our respects to the above gentleman, but seriously doubt our ability to do the subject justice. Probably there is nothing on this earth, in the heavens above, or in the waters beneath, so widely disseminated as this species of the genus homo. He lived before the time of Noah, and the big freshet which drowned so many better things did not annihilate him. He has existed for all time, and when time is no more he will probably be found doing business at the same old stand? and a bigger business on a smaller capital than any one else on earth. It is useless to try to describe him, for there is an endless .variety of him, and the things he Kicks about are more numerous than the sands of the sea. And what turns much of our "lb ta trino_ ! IlilUV Ul UUIIiail AlllUilCOO tU Tllltgar, and rubs our fur all the; wrong way, so to speak, is that the kicker very frequently gets what he kicks for, and is often better served than others who are a hundred times his superior. ! This, not because people respect him more? usually they do not respect him at all?but they give him what he asks for just to stop j his mouth. Then he accepts it as j no more than his just due. for his egotism blinds him to all sense of gratitude or appreciation. We are taught to believe that everything has its use, and may- | be the kicker has his, but we can no more discover it than we can the usefulness of the hog which can always find the rotten rail in | the fence. Despatches Tuesday stated that the anti-prohibition majority in the Statewide prohibition election held in Texas Saturday stood at 6,104, a figure too large to be overcome by the unreported vote.' i We cannot understand why it is, but complaints are constantly reaching us about subscribers not getting their paper regularly. The Times is sent from this office every week with regularity, and if a package of papers reaches a postoffice, then every subscriber who has not been cut off for non-payment should get the paper. It frequently happens that some neighbor gets the paper and fails to deliver it, and then again the paper sometimes gets into the hands of a sucker who hangs about a postoffice to beat his reading matter. We try hard to have our paper reach those who are honestly entitled to it, but with all we can do, the dead-beat and sucker will get ahead of us sometimes. We owe it to the community in which we live to do everything we can in every way possible that will be to its advantage. Our neighbor's prosperity means a great deal more to us than someone's who lives elsewhere. We shonld bear this in mind in buying our goods. We can afford to pay our home man a firm price for his wares rather than send our money away, knowing as we do that every dollar expended with our own citizens will help in sustaining our schools and churches and public institutions. It pays richly to patronize home industry. FISHING. Ye who love the haunts of nature; love the sunshine of the meadow, love the shadow of the swamp, the wind among the branches, come and go with me and we will enjoy the odors of the swamp along the pleasant water courses; see the curling of the smoke from a camp lire. Standing by the water course we stick on our hook a wiggling worm at its end so the point of the hook will not be seen, remove the lead; pull the cork and drop it down in a dark blue hole. Then we sit down and listen to the wild fowl's song in the fenlands and hear the croak in a melancholy marsh, a new plumed bird twitters as it goes back to its nest in the reeds and rushes. The cork moves, moves, moves more; we feel our nerves jingle; we feel a fullness upstairs of our head. The cork goes down in the blue waters out of sight. We pull. A peculiar sensation is running up and down our spinal column. The fish is landed and it is a large spotted bream. Is there a person with a feeling so numb within him not to enjoy such wild innocent pleasure, not to enjoy living for the time being close-to-nature? As we bait our hook and drop it back for another bite we have time to meditate, our pipe is lighted and we sit down and ponder. A little while ago in the green, silent valley by the water course specks there was an Indian village; above the meadow was the corn field. At this same- spot may have sat a brave weary waiting with bow and arrow. But now as the shadows are minting eastward, till the sun sinking westward, we shake ourselves to realization and depart homeward with a feeling that we have expanded several inches.?Selected. No Stickers on Nail Matter. An order issued recently by the postoffice department forbids the placing of adhesive stamps or imitations of stamps of any form or design whatever, other than lawful postage stamps, to the address side of domestic mail matter, but such adhesive stamps, provided they do not in form and design resemble lawful postage stamps, and do not bear numerals, may be affixed to the reverse side of domestic mail matter. All domestic mail matter bearing on the address side adhesive stamps or imitations of stamps other than lawful postage stamps will be returned to the sender, if * -i-L ! _ Ml 1 Known, omerwise tney win oe forwarded to the division of dead letters. From the County Seat. Correspondence Fort Mill Times. Yorkville, July 25.?Ram is needed in this section \ery badly just now. It has boco ten days since any rain has. fallen in this vicinity. Everybody is; preparing for the big Woodnvs* picnic at Filbert next Friday. Among the speakers to be- present are Gov. Cole. L. Blwse and Hon. John Gary Evaas. The largest crowd ever attending a Filbert picnic is expected to be present Friday. A real estate deal of importance took place the last week, when J. C. Wilborn, broker, sold to W. Lee Pursley. of Smyrna No. 2, the J. C. Parrot place at Filbert, consisting of 166 acres. The urice paid was $8,300, or $50 per acre. Mr. Pursley will move to Filbert on January 1, and in connection with his farmwork, will open a mercantile business. One of the finest crops your correspondent has seen in the county is that of Jno. M. Hartness, of Filbert No. 1. Mr. Hartness has 50 acres of cotton that is now waist high and loaded with bolls and squares, and with favorable seasons through August expects to maks 40 bales on the 50 acres. He also has about 12 acres of corn t hat with good seasons shouid make 40 or 50 bushels to the acre. Next Friday afternoon the fats and leans will play a game of baseball on the local diamond. Fort Mill Won, 13 to 3. ? In a game of baseball which proved somewhat disappointing to the grandstand Fort Mill put the rollers to the Concord, N. C., team Tuesday afternoon to the tune of 13 to 3. At the outset it looked as if the home team was up against the real article, but before the game had gone three innings it was to be seen that the well dressed visitors were not in a class with the locals, The bunch of honors for Fort Mill's victory went to Pitcher Panillo and Catcher Parks, though the whole team did splendid work. Several times with two runners on bases and no outs it looked as if Concord would score, but Panillo was there with the goods in these pinches and would retire three batters in succession, while with Catcher Parks it was almost imtnnif am f a f ol/A pussiuie lur a viaiuui tv second or third on a pitched ball. Dick Fulp, who held third sack, also did some excellent work for the locals. The batteries were: Concord, Bell and Dusenbury and Patterson; Fort Mill. Panillo and Parks. Umpire, Meacham. Mrs. A. R. Banks Dead. Mrs. A. R. Banks, after an illness of more than a year, died Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, at her home atRidgewood, a suburb of Columbia. She had been confined to her bed the last time for seven weeks. Mrs. Banks was born at Pleasant Ridge, Alabama, August 25, 1850. Her father, Rev. James Porter McMullen, was a native of Abbeville, and was a martyr to the Southern cause, being killed while leading a charge of a brigade of Alabama troops, though himself an aged minister. Her uncle, Rev. Robert McMullen j was also a martyr to the Confederacy,. dying from smallpox communicated by Northern sol! diers who were using as a hos1 pital the Southwestern Presbyterian university, of which he was president. Mrs. Banks grew up among the ; influences of a Christian home and two brothers and three first cousins were given to the Presbyterian ministry. Rev. Dr. J. II. Bryson. formerly of the First church. Columbia; Rev. Dr. T. D. Witherspoon and Rev. Dr. Rob- (.J ert Fulton. One of her brothers, Rev. W. F. McMullen. was killed i ? | at his father's side. The remain- se; ; ing brothers and sisters are Jas. m; P. and P. S. McMullen of Knox- wi ville, Tennessee; Mrs. S. S. Stan- ns ton of Gordo, Alabama, and Rev. a John C. McMullen of Winona, Bi Mississippi. to In 1875 Mrs. Banks married A. R. Banks, who. with a num- cic ber of other South Carolinians, dr was proscribed as a member of es' the Ku Klux and left the State sir during Radical rule. Their |0f fathers had been classmates at m< the University of Georgia and th Presbyterian preachers in the jn< same field of labor, but it was by g-0 accident that Mr. Hanks located ha in Greene county, Alabama, with \y, his classmate. W. 11. Verner. foi Surviving Mrs. Banks are her tin husband and three children. 1 th' William Hanks and John M. jss Banks of Columbia and Mrs. Jas. ; Th Allen Long of Abbeville. For over 35 years Col. Banks has j it been engaged in preparing young m< ; men for college and in that time j VV Mrs. Banks by her example of fe I gentleness and piety has inspired by many young men. To them the . kn news of her death will hring sor- th row. dr The remains were brought to ve Fort Mill Monday morning and and interred in the town cerne- be tery in the presence of many sor- th rowing friends from the neigh- ta? borhood and from a distance. Gt Sen-ices at the grave were con- st< ducted by Rev. J. 0. Reavis, of wj I Columbia, assisted by Rev. Dr. | J. B. Mack and Rev. W. A. Haf- Gt ner, pastor of the Fort Mill Pres-: an j byterian church. th The grave was beautifully dec- er 1 orated by the local chapter of the th Daughters of the Confederacy. fij< Many and beautiful were the Horal offerings from Columbia, Rock Hill, Yorkvitle. Lancaster | M and other places. y The Cotton Crop. b> The Memphis Commercial-Ap-: ba : peal on Monday said: wi The cotton crop grew and de- Ft j veloped in a normal way during si( the week in the two Carolinas, an Georgia and all States west of bu the Mississippi river and in Tennessee. In Alabama there has been excessive rainfall, but this has caused little or no damage to growing crops. In Texas the , '- i rainfall might continue for some ; in days without damage. Ideal M1' j weather has prevailed east of the ' I Mississippi river. : r'jn General rains have caused a Fo i revival in the plant in Texas and | Oklahoma, and the stock is decidedly more promising. Sufficient rain for the present has.11 fallen in these States. ' by da Newsy Notes From Gold Hill. j Correspondence Fort Mill Times. O-IJ TI:ii 1..1..01 AT '1 US uoiu mil, <jui\ ? iuir>. oam i Blankenship is lying critically ill ' with pellagra. She is attended j1 by Dr. Kirkpatrick. Otherwise,^' the health of this section is good. Miss Cammie Crook has just , returned from a trip to Wilmington, N. C. |aw The farmers are about done j Poi laying-by their crops and can now sit in the shade, eat melons, etc. | tri( There is no cider this year, and ' Coij the other liquids are a long way j the over the border. : *or The prospect for cotton is fair- j ly good in our opinion. The \y \ present corn crop has been hurt t'hi worse by being left too thick on j iK,;i the ground than it was by the ^ drought. Had it been properly . Blo thinned, like it was worked, the Dn 1\???^n m men d air Odd Pants We offer a 20 pe mentioned. These can buy knowing th affords. Ladies' Lc We are cu . empl pay you to buy a si be alright for anothe all the popular gooc can suit the boys. LISTEN! TE We cannot afford anything sold and n McELIasons we have had would have ide a lot more corn than we |Q 11 make. We say this at the ik of being called an old fogy, | jS back number, out of date, etc. 1 jo it we said it and we will stick Qs it. (SJ This brings to my mind an in-j?> lent of the war. In '(>4 we a ew some of the toughest, hard- X t meat we ever saw before or 05 ice. An old soldier who has lg since answered the last sum- j g >ns said he would swear that e skin on that meat was four x :hes thick. We jeered him a od deal about it, but he said he 03 d said it and would stick to it. ^ ell the meat was measured and Q and to be four inches thick and <> en he said it was all skin; that e officers had eat the meat and ^ ;ued the skin to the privates. ? lat settled it. 1 @ It is dry at this writing and if qj doesn't rain soon we'll have ire skin than corn this year. ith plenty of rain and plenty of jg rtilizer we can raise more corn ? leaving it thick, but we all @ iow that it is the rule rather Q an the exception to have a ought some time during the ar. j The Steele Creek boulevard has ? en dressed up nicely of late and e aristocrats, auto folks, town ckies, etc.. just go flying by us. ?ntlemen, don't hurry so, but' jp with us long enough to get irm anyway. Mr. Clod Hopper says that ?orgia has a tumblebug lawyer d the tumblebug lawyer says at South Carolina has a plundbund governor. Now which of e two States is the worst af:ted? S. A telephone message to Fort; ill Thursday morning from the tn Wyck section of Lancaster unty told of the destruction ' fire Wednesday night of the rn of Mr. J. S. McKibben, ho moved to that section from ' >rt Mill early in the year. Be-' ies the barn, a young mule d a quantity of feedstuff was :rned. n i /~? Parson s roem /\ upm. From Rev. H. StubenAoil, Allison, la., praise of Or. Kind's New Life Fills, hey're such a he;:..'ii necessity, eyery home these pill- should lie. other kinds you've tried in vain, USE DR. KING'S le be well again. Only 25c at Army's Drug store. I'arks Drug Co. and rt Mill Drug Co. ? The highest price ever paid for baseball player was that given - the Pittsburg Pirates Satur,y for Pitcher Marty O'Toole, St. Paul. The price was 2.500, more than twice as much was given by the New York ants for Marquard, which was e record up to the time O'Toole is purchased. t t t Escaped With His Life. 'Twenty-one years ago 1 faced arL ful death," writes H. B. Martin, |~* rt Harrelson, S. C. "Doctors said I I ? 1 consumption and the dreadful cough ad looked like it, sure enough. 1 ?d everything I could hear of for my igh, and was under the treatment of J best doctor in Georgetown, S. C\, a year, but could get no relief. A end advised to try Dr. King's New icovery. I did so, and was completeL-ured. I feel that 1 owe my life to s great throat and lung cure." It's litively guaranteed for coughs, colds 1 all bronchial affections. 5uc and $1. al bottle free at Ardrey's Drug re. Parks Drug Co. and Fort Mill JLg Co. r / BIG SAL d Boy's > and Low-< r cent reduction in are all this season iat you are getting t >w-cut Shoes at th< ating a change in o lit whether you nee *r season. We haA Is, sizes 34 to 42, a These goods are g prices. It will pay RMS, CAS] to charge goods at ot satisfactory, cash [ANEY f?5??9@?0 @? @?? ! Summer I 25c Hats now I 50c Hats now i $2.00 Hats now $4.00 Hats now ' $3.50 Oxfords now I $3.00 Ox fords now.. I 10c Rleach Domestic now... , 10c Ginghams now... 10c Lawns, Duck, Etc., now Best Calico at. .. ' 50c Silks now ? $1.00 Silks now ) 10c Embroidery now , 30c Jap. Hups now. 50c Jap. Rugs now . 75c Jap. Rugs now I All Summer Goods must j | L. J. Mi AUTOP FOR What"? Yes sir! It' mean to say you've got i sell at a second-class ] honest with you! Just < you'll see she's a daisy. You might buy this ca you'd have to fork over i lars. When you see it a it's new, but I'll be fair, with red wheels and brai er seats in front and a bi when you want it, and her in or take her off. where oacK seat goes, and makes car look fine, ies. Engine in fine shap can learn everything abc new tires all around, Goi can buy?cost $60. Ext pump. In fact, everyth anywhere. Will work t Don't wait a minute, s like this don't stay unsc selves. Yours for a ride J. J. B END ORDER FOR JOB 1 Clothing, ;ut Shoes prices on the lines 's goods and you *_/ ? he best the market 5 same reduction. ur lines and it will d it or not. It will re suits for men in nd we are sure we oing to go at these you to come early. f-L : these prices, but will be refunded. n rv & LU. 500?0?0???G0?^ Bargains. f 10c & 25c q .... 50c a __ $1.90 > $2.60 < $2.25 6 7 l-2c i 7 l-2c 5 r 7 l-2c 5 5c J . . 25c Q . . ... . 75c Q _. 5c 19c J 20c 5 ...... 45c ^ lo regardless of cos:. ^ A S S E Y. j 5000000?????? MOBILE SALE. s a fact, no joking! You i first-class Automobile to price? You're right! I'm some over and take a spin; tr new today but if you did 3ix hundred good, hard dolmd ride in it you'll think it's been run some. Black ss trimmings. Nice leathick seat for the homefolks when you don't just fold Also package box to fit Good top that folds back Brass lamps, new battere, and so simple any fellow nit it in 10 minutes. Bran adrich, the best that money a-.V. T> ra inner uiue. x>iuii new ing a fellow wants to go o plows or anywhere, ee me quick, good things >ld long, they sell themand then a decision. AILESs PRINTING fO THE TIMES Live to E? Eat to I But Carry Neither to When you feel that, you wa: GOOD to eat call us over phoi fJ-rnooripQ wp hnnrtlp nrp nnt n 11 - 0 are FRESH. Right now we have the nice things to eat: New shipment fresh andjui Kingan's new style Breakfa Nice, fresh Dried Beef, cut A keg of the choicest sv just receivrd. Big variety of Heinz's Pick Do you always get fresh H A sack of "OUR BEST" F1 the household. We have jui car load: How about it? There's 110 long waits for g Quick delivery service is perf E. W. KIMBR "The Place Where Qui L r==^ i ii 1 i=ii i x*o*?Oi*o**o$*cx*o*K?ot*os j: ?< The Swine or the " )j| Ah me! I saw a huge and loath . k Wherein a drove of wallowing s ~ i jj| Whose banquet shocked the nosi ^ o Then spoke a voice, "Behold th? y W I fled, and saw a field that seem X M One glistening mass of roses pui ? | y With dewy buds 'mid dark gree y X And, as I lingered o'er the lovel > jj| The summer breeze, that cooled ^ i g Whispered, "Behold the source * j jj It is a step in the right direction / jjj wife beginning to make a study of J 2 purity of food she sets upon her t? > 0 foundation of good health in her cl J jjj time enabling both her husband a > X work in the building up and mainte J ? "Cottolene Means Health H 6 \ 0 JONES, II 2 0 Ij'iYll It To The Town T1 | If You Order Whi 5) Do Not Overlook 1 Ail Goods GUARANTEED Unde HIGH GRADE CORN 1 Gal Hunting Creek ... $3.00 7-11 Corn 2.75 Rocky Creek . 2.25 1 Old Times . 3.75 Pure I'm Proof (white or yellow) 2.60 HIGH GRADE RYE Old Reserve (bottled in bond) M.-llwoou (oouieu in oonu) . >. t.? Jefferson Club ...... ........ 3.75 Orland Rye 3.0b Virginia Valley . . 2.50 HIGH GRADE BRANDIES Apple Brandy. . 2.50 Apple Brandy 3.00 Apple Brandy (old) .. 4.IHJ Beach Brand\ 3.00 Peach Brandy (old) 4.00 Other brands of Corn. Rye, Brandy, Gin, \V fiiete j>r if. iist free on requestRemit by 1'. ()., Express M. 0. or registerei C. S. COUCH, P. O. Box 718 .jg (< |gpp v/ "onrifJ 1 * Proof of the Pudding of Chewing tl Hock Hill Buggy Co., Hock Hill, S. C. Gentlemen: Knowing that you are intei garding your buggies, 1 deem it my duty to w buggy 1 am now running. ? This buggy was bought in Hawkinsville _ been in constant use since. During this time five or six times?a distance of 200 miles each this job until last year. Your "Long Distance" axle lasted throi gy, and the springs did likewise. It has always been the lightest running ever ridden in, and the wheels you use can't b I gladly volunteer this testimonial as making what I honestly believe to be the best Your buggies are "A Little Higher In 1 I have ever used. Wishing you continued success, and ass booster from conviction, I am, MILLS & YOUNG 31 IE lt= at and -ive, the Extreme. at something REAL le No..7-a. All the nly real good?they ^ I following specially icy Virginia Hams, ist Bacon in strips. to order. reet mixed Pickles les and Relishes, ominy? Try ours, our is a delight to st received a fresh oods to come. Our ect. ELL CO., ilitv Counts." O OOOOOXXJ Flower? 8 some sty, M wine were barred, ft tril and the eye. Jg ; source of lard!" M ed at first, re and white, Q n fioliage nursed; X y sight, ft that Southern scene, V of COTTOLENE!" a when we find a house- Q the great subject of the jj ^ ible. She is laying the S lildren and at the same Q nd herself to do better J mance of a home. ' i." 8 o he Grocer. Q s trough The Times. iskey By Mail fhese Prices. r the Pure Food Laws. 4 Gal 4 Qts 6Qts 12Qts $10.00 $o.uu $n.zo 9.50 3.00 4.20 8.00 7.50 2.50 3.60 7.00 12.75 4.00 6.00 12.00 8.75 2.75 4.25 7.75 4.50 6.75 12.00 13.00 4.75 6.75 12.50 13.00 4.00 5.80 10.00 10.00 3.25 5.00 8.25 8.50 2.75 4.50 7.50 10.00 3.50 3.00 8.25 14.00 4.50 6.75 12.50 10.00 3.50 5.00 8.25 14.00 4.50 6.75 12.50 inc. etc., furnished in our comi letter. Address ? Manager, RICHMOND, Va. tr After 18 Years ie Bag. Lake Park. Ga.f Feb. 10, 1911. rested in hearing praises sung rerite you relative to a Rock Hill , Ga., 15 years ago, and it has it has been run to Hawkinsville trip. I never had any repairs on lgh the whole service of the bugand easiest riding buggy I have e beat. I am confident you merit it by buggy made. Price But?" far superior to any ;uring you I am a "Rock Hill" Very truly yours, E. W. MASON. COMPANY.