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FOKT MILL. S. C.. SEPTEMBER 14. 1911.
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In the evolution of our language we
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? frequently neve oia wurus u;?ocu up
and made useful, while there is nothing
like slang as a feeder to language.
Slang often takes a good word and
brings it into common use. Perhaps
for this reason "booster" is coming to
the front, one of the meanings of which
is the citizen who leads in municipal
development. We would be pleased to
see Fort Mill become prominent in poplarizing
this old word. "Booster" don't
sound .fust right at first and we have to
become accustomed to it before we include
it in our vocabulary. Of course,
the meaning is to get behind anything
and push. Standing on the ground, we
boost the fellow who is trying to climb
a tree by giving him a boost. Community-building,
however, contemplates
two classes of workers. First of all,
capable leaders?men of originality,
resourcefulness and the nerve of a
demon. Then must follow the loyal
army of boosters, who have their shoulers
solidly to the wheel, and who feel
amply compensated for their efforts in
that reward which conies to us when
we see success crowning our efforts.
A community with such forces at work
will move on by leaps and bounds, even
in Bpite of these strenuous times when
every town is striving for new people
and new trade. Leaders alone will
fail, without the loyal Doosier 10 carry
on the work, and boosters without
leaders cannot hope to accomplish substantia!
results.
_ One of the greatest baseball players
< the game has ever known is Larry
Lajoie, second baseman 01 the Cleveland
Americans. Hard and seemingly
impossible pia.vs are ma :e with such
easeV.d grace by Lajoie that his work
is in a class by itself. Some time ago
the regular first base man of the Cleveland
L a.n met with an accident which
iiica^aciLiied him for several weeks.
Lajoie, being a finished infie.Jer and
therefore able to play any position on
the diamond, was shifted from his regular
position to the station of the in4fe
jured tirstbaseman. Alter the first
game in which Lajoie played first base
someone asked him if he found the dutiesof
the new position difficult. "Why,
no," replied the Frenchman, "it's easy
to play first base?so easy, in fact,
that I feel as if 1 ought to pay the
club for the privilege of pJaying there."
There are persons employed by the
public to perform certain duties who
are receiving compensation for their
services when in all fairness the compensation
should come the other way?
not because, like Lajoie, they are pastmasters
in their Dositions, but for the
reason that they are not giving the
public value received and should pay
for the loss occasioned by their indifferent
work.
Close observers of political conditions
are of the opinion that the country will
welcome the opportunity next year to
vote the national administration out of
power and return in its stead a Democratic
president, with a House and
Senate of the same faith. For the
Republican party matters have been
drifting from bad to worse since the
elections last fall. Today internecine
strife so besieges the citadel of the
G. O. P. '9 strength that even the more
optimistic and hopeful of its leaders admit
that there must be a quick getting
together all along the line if the situation
is to be saved next year. No one
seems to know, however, of any way
to close up the breach and the outlook
is that if the insurgents do not control
the national convention next year, a
decidedly improbable eventuality, they
will either nominate a progressive Republican
candidate for the presidency
or ostensibly acquiese in the renomination
of the stand-pat candidate, Mr.
Taft, with the purpose in mind of assisting
in the election of the Democratic
candidate.
Snmp comnlaint has been made re
garding the giving of half the road in
case of an automobile coming up behind
a team. The parties claim that when
they come up behind a fellow with a
team he stubbornly refuses to give any
of the road, no matter if there is plenty
of room to turn out. Now the law
recognizes the rights of both the man
with the lean.' and the man with the
auto, and these rights should be rerpected.
There are numbers of men
running autos who should be driving ox
teams and vice versa, but all men
should not be treated that way.
The law says that when a man is overtaken
by a faster vehicle, the man
driving the slower team shall turn out
and give half of the beaten path.
There is a habit among a number of
our people to go to some nearby town
or city to shop, believing that they can
purchase goods cheaper. We fear that
these good people are being buncoed by
their own mind. Besides your duty to
patronise home enterprise, you should
reckon jour carfare and time, if the
latter is worth anything. If your home
merchant tries to "soak" you or hasn't
the goods vou want, you are, of course,
justified in going elsewhere. Byt first
find out by getting prices and see what
your home merchant has.
"Bumble-Bee" Cotton.
There is more "bumble-bee" cotton
in Mecklenburg and Iredell than ever
in the history of these counties. "Bumble-bee"
cotton is cotton that is so
small a bumble bee can stand on his
hind legs and suck the honey from the
blossom. In some places it will take
ten acres to make a bale. ? Gaffney
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Current Comment.
Would "Come Beck"
The Parkaville correapondent of the i
Edgefield Chronicle is authurity for the
statement that ex-Congressman W. J.
Talbert will enter the race next summer
for the United States senate. In
further confirmation of the report
several citizens have told that they had
been so informed by Mr. Talbert.?People's
Advocate.
War* tha North to Sail Cotton.
Will the farmers of the South take
less than twelve and half cents for their
cotton? Change the situation and put
the cotton fields in the North, and let
the South need it and have it to buy,
and she would soon see what she would
have to pay for it. They would put a
price upon it juBt as they do other
comodities for the South, and we would
have to pay that price or do without.
Why can't the South do the same? Let
our farmers live and learn as the years
go by and they will be wiser and happier
people.?Press and Banner.
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Hurrah for the Monroe graded schools! I
Tiie old "Blue Back" spelleris going to
be taught in them. The school board
has decided that the old Blue Back speller,
the book of our daddies, shall be
taught the children in the Monroe
graded schools. GTory be to the school
board! It is coming some. It oightto
be written in the constitution of the .
State that no person shall be allowed to
marry until they have gone through I
Webster's old Blue Back speller twice. ?
Monroe Enquirer.
Business Outlook Not Bright.
Judging from interviews appearing in
the public prints with men prominent I
in business and the industries, both
those who spent the summer at home
and those who were abroad and have
returned, there is no present prospect
! of an improvement in business. There
is too much politics to expect an im- J
provement. The presidential campaign
has already begun and it will grow in
intensity until after the national election
next year, and it is expected that
Congress will take up the tariff on assembling
in December, and hence the
industries will be in an unsettled condition
until that question is out of the
way.?Savannah News.
Tbe Baptists Invade Pineville.
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ine iweniy-sixm annual session 011
the Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Baptist
association is in progress this week J
with the Baptist church at P.nevilie,
the first meeting being held Wednesday
morning. The introductory sermon was i
preached by Rev. S. N. Wastun, 01 I
Concord. W. C. Dov.d, of Chariot lc, !
is moderator, having been reelected for
.-.everal y. ars now in succ? Ssion. I) ir 1
ing the ses ions of the assor atiou re- I
ports will be received from the 26
churches within its bounds end a general
consideration f the various i ne.of
endeavor fostered by the denom n 1
tion. It whs expec ted that representatives
would be present from the Baptist
orphanage atThomasviHe, the Stab
Mission Board, Wake Forest college,
and discussions will be held on foreign,
home and State mssions, education
Sunday schools, etc.
New Comet Now Visible.
The Charlotte Observer informs its
readers that Brooke's comet, the newly
discovered heavenly wonder, which was
discovered less than three months ago,
is now visible to the naked eye. It is
not a stupendous, flaming body flashI
ing through the skies like some of its
fellow-wanderers, but is distinctly visible
and is receiving great attention
from astronomers.
The comet is moving rapidly in a
northwesterly direction. It is now
visible in the constellation Cephus,
which at 9 o'clock in the evening is
in the the northeastern sky. It appears
as a star of small magnitude.
It is now in the best position for
observation about 9 or 10 o'clock in
the evening. Because of the brightness
of the moon at present the brilliancy
of the wanderer is decreased.
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Death or mm Aooie imp.
Miss Abbie Culp, daughter of Mrs. |
A. A. Cnlp, died Friday at the home of
her mother in Charlotte, after an illness
of several months. The remains
were taken Saturday morning to Pine- |
ville, the former home of the young ;
lady, and the interment was made in
the village cemetery.
Miss Culp was a young woman of ,
' unusually fine character, noted for her
j Christian graces and spotless life. She
i was a member of East Avenue Taber
nacle church, Charlotte. Surviving are j
her mother and the following brothers
and sisters: Messrs. S. D. CulpJftf
Hatfield, Ark.;M E. Culp, of Hick^-;
L. R. Culp, of Columbia, S. C.; Miss
Mattie Lee Culp, Mrs. A. C. Randall
and Mrs. W. G. Bain, of Charlotte.
Afraid of Freedom.
Here is an utterance of rare wis- |
dom. It is from a recent speech by
Senator John Sharp Williams, and is
! one of the finest and truest things ever
; said in the United States Senate: !
i "My friends, men in religion, men in
trades, men in politics, have been
afraid of freedom ever since the world
began. God Almighty seems to be the
only being anywhere who is not afraid
of freedom, and not afraid to give it
to his creatures. He gives it to such
an extent that he lets us go wrong if
we will-even to that extent. From
the beginning religious bigots have
been afraid of it, political bigots have
been afraid of it, and industrial bigots I
have been afraid of it. And yet. whenever
it comes, we find it stimulates
human enterprise, human intelligence,
human ammuon anu nuniau uiuusiry
to such an extent that it more than
compensates for what seem to be the j
plain and palpable and obvious immediate
losses by it."
Attention, Red Shirts!
At a meeting Saturday afternoon,
Aug. 9th, of Marshall's Red Shirt
Cavalry, a resolution was adopted
urging every member and honorary
member to report at Fort Mill at 6:30
o'clock on the morning of Thursday,
Sept. 28th, members regcled in ihe
| regulation red shins, and honorary
members with the red shoulder sashes,
(see B. M. Faris and D. A. Lee, committee
on uniforms) for the purpose of ;
attending the State reunion in Colum- j
bia, on the above date.
> The next meeting of the local Red
Shirts was called for Saturday after- j
noon, Sept. 23rd, when arrangements
will be completed lor the Columbia
meeting. All members are urged to be
present. J. R. Haile,
Sect'v. i
The first ginr.ers' report of the sea:on
was issued last Friday, showii g
771,415 bales ginned up t > 8eptemb r
1, almost double the amount ginned ;
up to the same date in the record year ,
, of 1905. i
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Colombia Loses the First.
The baseball fans of Fort Mill were
considerably disappointed Monday evening
when word came that Columbia
had lost to Columbus the first game of
the seven-game series for the championship
of the South Atlantic League. The
game was played if) the Georgia city
and the score was 2 to 1. No game was
played Tuesday afternoon. Caveney
was put up to catch for Columbia, but
he was declared iheligible to participate
in the series by the president of
the league and as Columbia refused to
play without him the game was declared
forfeited to Columbus. Afterwards
a meeting of the officials of the
two clubs was held and the game was
thrown out, the understanding being
that Caveney is eligible for the series.
The second and third games of the
series are to be played in Columbus
today (Wednesday) and tomorrow and
the teams will then move to Columbia
for three games, if so many are necessary
to decide the championship, the
first game in Columbia being Friday
afternoon. Quite a number of Fort
Mill fans will go to Columbia to see the
games and all are hopeful that the
South Carolina city will win the championship.
Sooth Carolina's Population.
Preliminary comparative statistics
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were issued recently by Census Director
Durand. The tabulations were made
as the result of the first count, in detail,
of the returns of the Thirteenth
Census. The figures are, therefore,
subject to possible revision but it is believed
that the changes, if any, will not
be material. The figures relate to the
State, the city of Charleston, the other
cities of 10,000 and over, and the counties.
The total population of the State
and of Charleston is distributed into
white, negro, and all other, and the percentage
portion of each is given for the
censuses of 1910, 1900 and 1890.
South Carolina's population, according
to the thirteenth census, was 1,515,400,
as against 1,340,310 in 1900. In i
1910 the State had 679,126 whites and
835,843 negroes, as compared with 557,809
whites and 782,321 negroes in 1900.
The population of York county for :
1910 is given at 47,718, of which 22,331 :
are white and 25,387 colored.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
25 Words?25c Each Insertion.
STRAYED ?From my home on Monday,
male Berkshire pig, seven weeks
old, black, with white spot in forehead.
Please notify E. S. Parks at McElh
aiiey's.
LOST?On streets of Fort Mill Sunday
night Lurch or rune keys on he; rt- '
shaped key ling. Please return r.amt
to '1 he 'I imts office.
FOR SALE?50,000 l*et standing
Pine Timber at 3:?c | er hu:i red. A.so
several hundred cok.s 1 me Woo-; at
."0c per curd, f or lurther information
apply to OSMOND BARBER.
J-OK SALE?Two fancy, pure-bref
Bern shire boars, r< gis'er-.vl, .$2>.
:uh, gruiidsons of a Sl.lUo boar. Bu
on" of th-'S" hogs and improve you
lieni. Younger bonis for ?!*. t $10. j
L. A. HAKKi.v & tik\J
NOTICE The best place to havt your
oi..thes clean. <1 arid pressed is the f or
Mill Pressing Club, upstairs in Masse.'
Budding. I'Tione 14H.
A Dreadful Sight
to H. J. Karnutn, of Freeville, N. Y.,
was the fever-sore that had plagued
his life for years in spite of many
remedies he tried. At last he useo
Bucklen's Arnica Salvt and wrote: "it
has entirely healed with scarcely a scai
left." Heals Burns, Boils, Eczema.
Cuts, Bruises, Swellings, Corns ano
Piles like magic. Only 25c at Ardroy's
Drug store, Parks Drug Co. and Fort
Mill Drug Co.
Report comes from Charlotte that
Theo. H. Price, well known in cotton
circles, is expected there in a few days
to superintend the demonstration of
PomnKoll r?/ tfnn nipl'intr !
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machine, several of which have beer
shipped to that city for that purpose.
The machines will be taken to representative
farms and it is believed that
a large number of farmers will witness
the work of the picker. The PriceCampbell
machine will, it is claimed,
pick 90 per cent, of the open cotton
without injury to the plant.
Not a Word of Scandal
marred the call of a neighbor on Mrs.
W. P. Sprangh, of Manville, VVyo.,
who said: "she told me Dr. King's NewLife
Pills had cured her of obstinate
kidney trouble, and made her feel like
a new woman." Easy, but sure remedy
for stomach, liver and kidney troubles.
Only 25c at Ardrey'sDrug store, Parks
Drug Co. and Fort Mill Drug Co.
Down at Chester a few days ago
J. F. Williams, an employe of the
Springstein mill, was arrested on a
warrant sworn out by Superintendent
Adams, the charge being theft of cloth
from the mill. Williams' home was
searched and about 150 yards of cloth
were found. Williams is reported to
have admitted taking the cloth and was.
placed under a bond of ?25 for trial at
the next term of court.
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Ever}' year a large number of j>oor
sufferers, whose lungs are sore and
racked with coughs, are urged to go to
another climate. Hut this is costly and
not always sure. There's a better way.
Let Dr. King's New Discovery cure \ou
at home. It cured me of lung trouble,"
writes W. R. Nelson, of Calamine,
Ark., "when all else failed and I gained
47 pounds in weight. Its surely the
king of all cough and lung cures."
Thousands owe their lives and health
to it. It's positively guaranteed for
Coughs, Colds, I.aGrippe. Asthma,
Croup all Throat and Lung troubles.
50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free at
Ardrey's Drug store, I'arks Drug Co.
and Fort Mill Drug Co.
The old street car line, which for
twenty-one years has given Rock Hill
faithfal and efficient service, is being
torn up to make way for the new
electric line. It is stated that the
work of grading and laying the track,
under the supervision of an experienced
trackman, will begin as soon as the
rails arrive. It is also stated that two
Edison storage battery cars with trailers
have been ordered and will r-ach
Rock Hill by the time the track is completed.
No Need to Stop Work.
When your doctor orders you to stop
work, it staggers you. "I can't" you
say. You know you are weak, rundown
and failing in health, day by day,
but you must work as long as you can
stand. What you need is Electric Bitters
to give tone, strength and vigor to
vour system, to prevent breakdown and
build you up. Don't be weak, sickly
or ailing when Electric Bitters will
benefit you from the first dose. Thousands
bless them for their glorious health
and strength. Every bottle guaranteed
to satisfy. Only 50c at Ardrey's Drug
store. Parks Drug Co. and Fort Mill
Drug Co.
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(Builders' Supplies
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If all the timber in York cou
staffs, and all the water in Cata'
all the people were scribes, it w<
to express how clean we want
our store into cash within the ne
We won't quote the prices, al
and see us.
McELHANI
The Store ot Style and Quality "J
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small, call and talk it over with i
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(ft glance at the accompanyI
ing cut will give you a
correct impression of the
trend of shoe fashions this
fall and an inspection of the
"IRVING DREW"
Shoes we have just received
will certainly interest and
more than please you. We
cordially invite you to come
inland see them without feel
J. ing the slightest oblication to
buy. Come now, while our
assortment is at its best.
There is one time when the
woman who hates to walk
U has to admit that she enjoys
it. All
"IRVING DREWS"
fit perfectly. Why suffer any
longer with corns, callouses
or blisters?
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"The Place Where Quality Counts."
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Q plentiful than at the present time. A
8 many things just in from the country are:
Q tatoes, Irish Potatoes, Beans, Cabbage, T
9 Onions. A fresh shipment of Dan Valle
9 rial Flour just in. Call to see us, our pri<
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If You Order Whiskey
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All Goods GUARANTEED Under the Pure
HIGH GRADE CORN 1 Gal 4 Gal 4 (
Hunting Creek $3.00 $10.00 $3
7-11 Corn 2.75 9.50 3
! Rockv Creek 2.25 7.50 2
Old Times.. 3.75 12.75 4
Pure 100 Proof (white or yellow) 2.60 8.75 2
HIGH GRADE RYE
1 Old Reserve (bottled in bond) 4
I Mellwood (bottled in bond) . 3.75 13.00 4
! Jefferson Club 3.75 13.00 4
I Orland Rye 3.00 1U.0U 3
I Virginia Valley 2.50 8.50 2
HIGH GRADE BRANDIES
Apple Brandy 2.50
i Apple Brandy 3.00 10.00 3
I Apple Brandy (old) ... 4.00 14.00 4
Peach Brandy 3.00 10.00 S
Peach Brandy (old) 4.00 14.00 4
Other brands of Corn. Rye, Brandy, Gin, Wine, etc., fu
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Remit by P. O., Express M. O. or registered letter. Adi
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| Rock Hill Buggy Co., Rock Hill, S. C.
Gentlemen: Knowing that you are interested in hea
garding your buggies, J deem it my duty to write you rela
I am now running.
This buggy was bought in Hawkinsville, Ga., 15 ye
beer, in constant use since. During this time it has been
five or six times?a distance of 200 miles each trip. I nevei
this job until last year.
Your "Long Distance" axle lasted through the wholt
gy, and the springs did likewise.
It has always been the lightest running and easiest i
ever ridden in, and the wheels you use can't be beat.
I gladly volunteer this testimonial as I am confid*
making what I honestly believe to be the best buggy made
Your buggies are "A Little Higher In Price But?"
I have ever used.
Wishing you continued success, and assuring you I
booster from conviction, I am, Very t
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'rices.
Food Laws.
3ts 6 Qts 12 Qts
.25 $5.00 $8.25
.00 4.20 8.00
.50 3.00 7.00
.00 6.00 12.00
.75 4.25 7.75
.50 6.75 12.00
.75 6.75 12.50
.00 5.80 10.00
.25 5.00 8.25
.75 4.50 7.50
.50 3.00 8.25
1.50 6.75 12.50
{.50 5.00 8.25
1.50 6.75 12.50
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Ga., Feb. 10, 1911.
ring praises sung retive
to a Rock Hill
ars ago, and it has
run to Hawkinsville
r had any repairs on
; service of the bug iding
buggy I have
ent you merit it by
far superior to any
am a "Rock Hill"
ruly yours,
E. W. MASPN.
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