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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
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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
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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 ?
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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.
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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
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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.
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staffs, and all the water in
all the people were scribes,
to express how clean we 1
our store into cash within tl
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and see us.
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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
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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
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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
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get the best money can buy.
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We keep up with the markel
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your wants. Old customers tre
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If You Order Whis
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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
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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,
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skirts only 35c
rts only 35c
Suits for. 35c
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ft, only $1.15
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quality, for 35c
of Remnants in
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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
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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.