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rat TORT KILL TIKES. DNBMMtie ? Puubtiehed Thursday*. B. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor. kHB* zTz fjt 15l f I oancurnox Ram: One Tew $1.25 Six Month* # The Times invitee con tributione on live subject*. But dean not agree to publish more than 200 word* ui any subject. The right i* reserved to edit very communication eubmitted for publication. On application to the publiaher. advertising ratae are made known to thoee interested, relsohone. local and Ion* distance. No. 112. 1 ??i rORT MILL. B. a. AUGUST 24. 1911. NOTE AND COMMENT. The Times is pleased at the favorable comment heard during 4L- -""1/ "nonf tho nanpr't sue VIIC WCCH Oil V11V Vliv W ? ? 0 gestion to issue bonds for paving Main street. Of course, there are some people in Fort Mill, as in other towns, who need the kinks combed from the moss on the;, backs and to whom a bond issue for any purpose could result only in a complete demoralization of the town. It is a happy thought, however, that only a few such individuals infest Fort Mill. A majority of our people see the need of paving Main street and The Times believes that the largest taxpayers of the town would readily agree to an extra tax levy, if necessary, for a few years to nr eet the expense v of the paving. The need now is a leader to take the matter in ?nri m'votho ufkfprfl a chance IMiiu aiiu v vmv to express themselves. Who will it be? It is becoming increasingly evident that the country press, far more than city press, creates and develops public opinion on almost any given subject To a much larger extent than most people give it credit for the country newspaper in its views on public questions is governed by principle and not by selfish interest. In this matter the city newspaper, with comparatively few exceptions, is at a disadvantage. Its utterances and policy are too often controlled by men 1 ... UL J whose soul aim is weaun, aim who for the attainment of that end are ever ready to throw principle to the winds. When, therefore, the country newspaper expresses itself on any moral or political subject, that expression is almost invariably unfettered and sincere, which fact gives it a value that is wanting in the utterances of a subsidized or controlled press. It is a rare day when scientists do not discover a new germ. If an elevated road is built, a canal excavated, a subway constructed, or a ditch dug, each enterprise is bound to produce its own special brand of germs, and the names given them are even more marvelous than the germs themselves. While recognizing the immense value to mankind scientists have conferred by their discovery of germs and how to combat those that are foes to health, one cannot but ask whether the germ business is not overdone. The national government need expect but little patronage for the postal savings banks opened lately in the South. Money id not so plentiful in these diggings that a person will deposit it in a L.?i. O nap n/jnt infoppcf posuil uaurv aw t* w??*> mmw. when a few doors distant the State and national banks stand ready to pay 4 per cent. The tendency of wealth to deaden the moral sense has to be constantly resisted. Many men in their eagerness for riches have tried to delude themselves that evil methods are pardonable and that they will not sutfer for them. It is a costly mistake which, sooner or later, will react upon them. It is devoutly to be hoped that the suits of the national government against the trusts and corporations may meet with success. Some progress has been made and the time will come when justice will triumph and a square deal in big business will become an accomplished fact. Every county in the Piedmont section of the State should follow the example of Greenville which has had about 200 signs placed along the highways of the county. The Greenville delegation to the last General Assembly made an appropriation of $500 for the u/nrlr The prohibitionists of California have succeeded in having the legislature of that State pass a local option liquor law, and say that this is the entering wedge to State-wide prohibition. * The Sumter Heraid thinks Fraser Lyon would stand the same chance of defeating Governor Blease that a snowball would to exist in the lower regions. And The Herald doubtless is correct. Don't hitch your horse in the broiling sun. Hunt a shady spot Parents. Read This. For the benefit of the par-! ents of Fort Mill, and other towns, who perchance may see it, we publish the following article which is taken from the Gaffney Ledger. Of all the lamentable things to be observed in Gaffney during t^e course of a day there is nothi ing that make^ a greater impression upon us than the fact that the very young boys of"the town, between the ages of 10 and 20 ypars of age, are rapidly becoming criminals. And this state of affairs is not so much the fault of the boys themselves, to blame, but the greater responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the parents. There are a number of stores in the city where these boys c6llect, mostly about 15 years of age. They appear there early in the morning, in fact just after breakfast and with the exception of a few minutes intermission for dinner they may be found there until a late hour in the evening, of times eleven o'clock and probably later. They ab ^ fiHU ntir) /lirt An t'no SOI U UIUIC Illt.ll anu uii v via miv streets than their parents imagine exists. It is almost impossible for one unacquainted with the conditions to have any clear conception of the enormous amount of filth that can penetrate a boy's br-ain at some Qf their "hang-outs" in town. This condition is not at all overdrawn. A condition such as described, only probably worse, really does exist. And as has been stated, the parents are responsible. No doubt if asked, some time during the day or evening, as to the whereabouts of their boy they would be unable to say. Fighting, lying and associating with evil and immoral companions, what will their ultimate end be? That is perfectly obvious. Stealing, drinking and I then a term of years in the re formatory or penitentiary. Parents, put your boy to work. Take him off the street. If you can't find employment for him elsewhere fret him in the back yard and introduce him to the wood pile and axe. If not that, something at least that will keep him at home and away from the conditions just described. This i is a true statement of facts. You believe it. Do something about it. Commends The Times. Rock Hill Herald, Saturday. The Fort Mill Times is urjring the people of that good little town to pave Main street. This would be a good move in the right direction for nothing adds more to a town than good streets and good sidewalks. The Failure of Prohibition. However zealous the federal revenue agents may be in confiscating and arresting, their work has had no effort in di minishing either the number of "moonshiners" or the quantity of the output. In 1909, 374 illicit stills were destroyed in North Carolina, and as many "moonshiners" were either fined or sent to prison or suffered both penalties. All this punitive energy had not the slightest deterrent influence. Last year the revenue officers found 378 more illicit distilleries running industriously in North Carolina, and this year's number promises to be much greater. So enormous is the consumption of liquor in this theoretically "dry" State, and crime has so greatly increased, that Judge Denver H. Allen, when recently convening court at Wadesboro for the trial of criminal cases, pointed out to the grand jury: "I believe that you can try the criminal docket of any county county in North Carolina, and you will find that 85 per cent, of the crimes are caused by whisky. It is one of the greatest ciime-producers and causes more loss of property than any other." Scanning the batches of "moonshiners" brought into Charlotte by the federal officers, no one would say that they look like criminals. In the dockets are not only men and women, but boys and girls, many of whom : take their arrest facetiously, and are grievously astonished on beI ing informed that they have been committing a crime. The increase of "moonshining" is seriously troubling prohibition advocates. Hitherto they have contended that if congress would i pass a law forbidding the interstate transportation of liquors it would be impossible to get liquor into a prohibition State. But the great growth of illicit stills, they reluctantly admit, has given a bad blow to the force of this I omnmont unr) vi'han thp intPf ai^udiviiV) uuu ?* iivti VKV state liquor bill comes up for consideration at Washington soon the situation will call forth some pertinent questions. ? Harper's Weekly. Succumbs to Ptomaine Poisoning. j 'Mr. Benj. E. Cunningham, a well known and prosperous farmer of the Providence neighborhood of Mecklenburg county, died at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning at his home after an illness of several days of ptomaine poisoning. From the beginning of his illness grave fears were i entertained, but his death came as a great shock to the community J in which he lived as the serious1 ness of his condition was not ; generally known. He was a man of 42 years of age and is survived by a wife and four children. If the farmers will market their cotton slowly the 12-cent price may be maintained, while flooding the market may mean 3-cent cotton. The Cotton Crop. ? According to the weekly cotton ? crop review Monday of the Mem- g phis Commercial-Appeal, lack of S rainfall in the Carolinas, .part of g Georgia and in Texas and West- 3 ern Oklahoma gives rise to com- g plaints of shedding of a rather ? severe kind while in all other g States excessive rainfall is pro- ? during a very rank growth of g stalk, is retarding the proper g setting of new bolls and is rotting g a few already made. The natural maturity of the g plant is also being delayed and ? the crop will be exposed to un- 2 usual danger from frost if the g rains continue. Preceding the inauguration of jj this drought in the extreme East S .Qnnt-Kurpcf- and heavv ? (A II14 V1IV I^VWV**if vwv - - ? ^ _ rains in the central States the | plant was well fruited and com- 0 paratively early in growth, so k that although the loss has been | rather heavy during the past two | weeks the promise is still good to ! fair. On the bright side it is also worthy of note that in many localities showers have been neither excessive nor scant and the crop is extremely good. | Newsy Notes From Gold Hill. jj Correspondence Port Mill Times. 8 Gold Hill, Aug. 21. ?The health fi of our neighbors is good, I think, t and the farmers have been called | from refreshment to labor, andig an. busy now pulling fodder. | It has now been 18 days since a we had any rain and the scorch- ? ing sun has cut crop prospects | short. But, to use the language ! of Josh Billings, we should be ! thankful for what we have got ! and if we haven't got anything, j i hv tVron hp thankful for what we haven't got. ? Miss Bessie Faris is visiting an old college mate at Waynesville, N. C. Misses Cammie and Annie Crook are spending a few days recreating at Asheville, N. C. Messrs. Elmore Crook and S. L. Coltharp have returned from a trip the past week to Georgia, where they had been on a pleasure and prospecting tour. A protracted meeting was begun at Philadelphia church last Sunday by Pastor White. He will be assisted by Rev. W. C. Owen. The eating of three meals per day with a melon feast between meals and six or eight smokes added just keeps a fellow hustling, but our motto has ever been to push our work and not let it push us, and if supplies, health and appetite hold out, we will De found doing busiuess at the old ; stand. S. This Road Won't Hani Whiskey, i There have been time and again bills introduced in Con-1 gress and Legislatures of various States prohibiting the transportation of whiskey, says the Greenville Piedmont. So far as we know none of these bills have ever become a law and hence the hauling of whiskey into every territory, be it wet or dry, has continued. The railroads have , never seen fit to refuse to accept these shipments and as the law has failed to act there has been naught to prevent a man from ordering his booze from another town if his own home town be : prohibition territory. South Carolina furnishes an exception to this rule. This exception is Due West and the Due West railway. 'Tis true there is nothing to prevent citizens of the former from ordering their booze but it is also true that they r cannot have it shipped to Due I West on the Due West railroad. | That company absolutely refuses I to accept shipments of that kind. I In this respect it is different from practically every other rail- j road in the country if not every ; one. When the road was first i opened for business a few years ago an attempt was made to have it haul whiskey to Due West, but it failed and to this day not a shipment has been carried into the little town over that line. I The Due West railroad is proud of another distinction. It is in the charter of the road that trains shall never be run over it on Sunday. , m m 1 ; , Parson'* Pcem A Gem. From Rev. H. StubenAoll, Allison, la., in praise of Dr. King's New Life Pills, j "They're such a health necessity, In eyery home these pills should be. If other kinds you've tried in vain, USE DR. KING'S Ane be well again. Only 25c at ArI drey's Drug store, Parks Drug Co. and I j Fort Mill Drug Co. | j . ' ' ' I I Coincident with the move started to encourage the farmers of the South to hold their cotton for a better price, the South Carolina State Farmers' Union has decided upon the erection of ; a cotton warehouse to cost from $200,000 to $500,000. This will be one of the largest cotton ware! houses in the South and will very probably be located in Columbia.?The State. Escr-ped With His Life. "Twenty-one years ago I faced an awful death," writes H. B. Martin, Port Harrelson, S. C. "Doctors said I had consumption and the dreadful cough I had looked like it, sure enough. I tried everything I could hear of for my cough, and was under the treatment of the best doctor in Georgetown, S. C.. 1 for a year, but could get no relief. A friend advised to try Dr. King's New Discovery. I did so, and was complete- j ly cured. I feel that 1 owe my life to this ^reat throat and lung cure." It's positively guaranteed for coughs, colds and all bronchial affections. 50c and $1. Trial bottle free at Ardrey's Drug ! store, Parks Drug Co. and Fort Mill Drug Co. 1 I J. HARRY FOSTER, ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW. Yorkville - S. C. I MCNEILL BUILDING. \ VswfiTJv' i*WjV'fifrlY msmwmsmmmmmmm I Phone i 1 am now handling 1 * !5 Brick Company here, at any time, just come ) save the long haul fro | CHEAP I AO ODD nf X 11UYV, W W, W W W w. | feet of Ceiling at from 60c \ \\ ) | For anything in the builc | before you buy. J. J. BAIL! mmm/mmwrnm/mm I A , If all the timber in York staffs, and all the water in all the people were scribes, to express how clean we 1 our store into cash within tl We won't quote the pric< and see us. t McELHAr The Store of Style and Qu I The SAVINGS B The OLD i _ I WHY Does the | Both State Require BANKS to acci I WHY ? Simply as a prot< . We Have $11, | Besides our $25,00.00 G (handle and will appreciate small, call and talk it over t I The SAVINGS R LEROY SPRINGS, President. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmawm ' 0 * ' ' A No. 72 Brick for tne Charlotte |j and if in need of brick | i to town for them and i m the plant. I LUMBER. ^eatherboarding and 40,000 r<? B jp. ^ 1 1 mo (fli ling line dc suic lu oct ^ Fort Mill, S. C. | i S a?i msmmmmmmmsssmmi *1 S ; county was made into pen Catawba river was ink, and it would be difficult for them want to sweep everything in le next two weeks. % all we ask is that you come SJEY & CO. ality "Just Across the Street," ANK of Fort Mill S ? RELIABLE GOVERNMENT, | and National, mulate a SURPLUS FUND ? I sction to their DEPOSITORS. ,300.00 Surplus, \ ipital and are in position to | your business. Be it large or z^ith us. ANK of Fort Mill, j W. B. MEACHAM, | Cashier. I V-T ; \" - . - - ....Mr;. j=][=3[=31 11 |[=1G Special Reduc Summer Go = In order to make room for ou of Fall and Winter Goods which we offer you the following sacri $1.25 a?d $1 Ladies' White Shirt \ Few Ladies' good Gingham Unddr: Few Ladies' ffood white Underski Boys' good quality Knickerbocker Ladies' Colored Shirt Waists (Spt $1.50 and $2 nice Dresses, few lei Boys' Blouse, all specials, only 25 Childrens' Colored Dresses, good We have a nice assortment White Goods, cut up in differdn a reduction in price that we a have no trouble in finding some a 1 E. W. KIMBRE "The Place Where Qualii ~ i"""?if-"? "i l 51 JCE IE | Always Sonthi o and FRES 8 SWe not only strive to get the I get the best money can buy. fl We keep up with the markel 0* appears it always comes to our st 9 We are always willing to do on your wants. Old customers tre W customers treated as old. 8 8 ? JONES, 15; MG$00000^00!t0C Toll It To The Town Thr If You Order Whis Do Not Overlook T1 All Goods GUARANTEED Under t HIGH GRADE CORN 1 Gal 4 Hunting Creek $3.00 $i 7-11 Corn 2.75 I Rocky Creek .. 2.25 i Old Times 3.75 1 Pure 1(H) Proof (white or yellow) 2.00 HIGH GRADE RYE Old Reserve (bottled in bond) Mellwood (bottled in bond) 3.75 1 Jefferson Club 3.75 Orland Rye 3.00 1 Virginia Valley ,. 2.50 HIGH GRADE BRANDIES i Apple Brandy 2.50 j Apple Brandy . .. 3.00 Apple Brandy (old) 4.00 1 Peach Brandy. ... 3.00 I Peach Brandy (old) ... . 4.00 Other brands of Corn. Rye. Brandy, Gin, W'iru 1 pit te price list free on request. Remit bv P. ()., Express M. O. or registered I< C. S. COUCH, IV P. O. Box 718 = , ! ' / ~iP|t ;?-v-i. "~*p" ROCKH Proof of the Pudding J of Chewing th< L; Rock Hill Buggy Co.. Rock Hill, S. C. Gentlemen: Knowing that you are interes garding your buggies, 1 deem it my duty to writ buggy 1 am now running. This buggy was bought in Hawkinsville, ( been in constant use since. During this time it five or six times?a distance of 2U0 miles each tr! this job until last year. Your "Long Distance" axle lasted througl gy, and the springs did likewise. It has always been the lightest running an ever ridden in, and the wheels you use can't be L I gladly volunteer this testimonial as I making what I honestly believe to be the best bi Your buggies are "A Little Higher In Pri I have ever used. Wishing you continued success, and assur booster from conviction, I am, MILLS & YOUNG ( mum a jifijfe&iitt jSKSKjattini mwKattioflHiajHHHBi *A (ions on ods. r r immense stock v is arriving daily fice reductions: \ iVaists at 75c skirts only 35c rts only 35c Suits for. 35c ?cial) 35c ft, only $1.15 \ c and 50c quality, for 35c of Remnants in t lengths, at such re sure you will thing to suit you. ILL CO., ty Counts." ?I ing NEW j ;H. i best goods, but we jj If anything new F ore. ir best in satisfying j ated as new. New J Q j s i Grocer. $ 5 * ough The Times 3 ;kev Bv Mail lese Prices. he Pure Food Laws. Gal 4 yts 6 Qts 12 Qts 0.00 $3.25 $5.00 $8.25 9.50 3.00 4.20 8.00 7.50 2.50 3.60 7.00 2.75 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 , ?'tc., furnished in our com^ - A J.l flier. /\uurw?lanager, RICHMOND, Va. W t j <1 igp Vw \fter 18 Years j Bag. ake Park, Ga., Feb. 10, 1911. ted in hearing praises sung ree you relative to a Rock Hill ja., 15 years ago, and it has has been run to Hawkinsville p. 1 never had any repairs on l the whole service of the bugd easiest riding buggy I have teat. am confident you merit it by iggy made. ce But-" far superior to any ing you I am a "Rock Hill" Very truly yours, E. W. MASON. COMPANY.