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THE WET MILL TIMES. Dmocntic ? Puubluhx! Thursday*. B. W. BRADFORD EtlHoi and Proprietor. SOMCWYTiON RATES: ' One tli( Stat Months ;r .66 The Times Invites contributions on live subject*, hot does not acres to publish more than 200 words ss any subject The right to reserved to edit very communication submitted for publication. On application to tfci publisher, advertising rates are made known to those interred. Telephone, local and long distance. No. 112. FORT MILL. S. C.. OCTOBER 19. lfll. A Long Step Forward. The result of the bond election F Monday was especially gratilying to The Times. For some time this newspaper has labored for the success of the proposed issue and that the bonds carried by a good majority is, we feel, an" evidence th^t the paper's efforts were amply rewarded. The improvement to be made with the proceeds of the bonds will, after the work is completed doubtless convince any who might have opposed such an issue that the town has done the right ttySng and that the money thus expended could not have been put to a better purpose. The present condition of Main street is little short of disgraceful to the town, and to the twenty-two citipenawho by ballot on Monday willed that this condition should no longer exist The Times offers its heartiest congratulations. Too Many School Books. The Times feels that there i is entirely too much truth in the following item from the Gaffney Ledger to let it pass unnonticed: The radical trouble with the y' schools of the country today is in the text books. Not so much the books themselves but the fact tnat mere are too many oooks. It is not an uncommon occurrence to see a pale, emaciated little girl, trudging wearily to I the sciiool house, with a load of books almost as large as she is. Result: a little knowledge of ' them all and not much of any. Thirty minutes on each book when, with the old system of three or four and never more than five books, a thorough knowledge was gained of each. In this day and time the idea seems to be to teaoh the children something of everything. If a ; child learns 'reading, writing, i spelling and arithmetic, with a | little Shakespeare and the Bible j on the side, that child is far bet- j ter equipped for fighting life's battles than are many who are graduated from our present day institutions of learning. Incompetency Means Failure. - ' - - ? ' " it . -- 11 Are there too many small merchants, asks an exchange. There are if you count in the incompetent ones who start in without the requisite knowledge for success or the capital to carry them through. Regardless of what merits n\ay be in the field they occupy, whether there is population sufficient to support another! store or not, they start in, pay j for what goods they can and al-! ways find some ambitious wholesaler who is anxious to extend credit. What is the result? Their incompetency and lack of business training lead them into cutting prices below the safety mark. Their stocks are poorly assorted. Tfcey perhaps unwisely extend credits and, instead of properly marking goods so as to bring in a good percentage of profits, charge exorbitantly for one thing and too little for something else. Consumers become dissatisfied. Some turn their patronage to the order houses, others to the nearest large city. In the trrocerv line it can be seen by the careful observer that the number of stores is fully a third greater than they should be in the average town. Where there are too many stores only the well managed ones win and the others fail. In business it is the survival of the fittest as well as elsewhere. Knights of Methodism. To solve the boy problem the Methodist church proposes to organize the 4'Knights of Methodism" taking care of all the boys between the ages of 9 to 20 years of age, classifying them into three orders according to age. The ritual of each order is grouped around some striking incidents in the Book of Daniel. The Order of Loyal Princes is founded upon the refusal of the Hebrew princes to eat the king's meat and to drink the king's wine. The Order of Victors is drawn from the story of their refusal to bow down to the "goiden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up." The Order of Lion-Hearted is built around Daniel's decision to face the den of lions rather than forsake God. < Three lines of j work will be carried on in each grou?, social and literary, re-! creative and religious. The general control of the Knights of Methodism is vested in a com-j mission of nine, consisting of three representatives each from the Epworth league, the Methodist brotherhood and the board of Sunday-schools. Busy Week for School Worker#. The week beginning Friday, October 20, wiii be a red-ietter week for tjie rural schools of York county; that is, if the people of the county Uike advantage of it At the meeting in Rock Hill on Friday we hope to see all men and women interested in the subject of better schools for the county. On the. first floor of the Winthrop high school building j visit the exhibit of improved school furniture and school ap-1 paratus, take stock mentally of what is in your own home school and compare it with what is necessary in a good school room. Mr. 0. J. Kern, the successful county superintendent of Winnebago county, Illinois, will show us by means of his lantern slides what is possible in the way of good schools in purely rural districts. At the afternoon session we want to discuss some plan for improvement of conditions in our own county. We hope that every patron, teacher, trustee i and interested friend of the rural | schools will be thinking of what the County School Improvement associntion can do for the better- j ment of these schools. What j can the association do toward placing more children in the schools, keeping them there long- j er, and making school life hap-: pier and more effective than it j has been? Because one has a good school now is no reason why he should be satisfied. It! should be better this coming session than ever before. Every school, no matter how good, has its needs. Let us study those needs and see how they can be supplied. It is earnestly hoped that every trustee will attend this meeting. Mr. Lesslie, the chairman of the Trustees' association, has called a meeting of this body for Friday, the 20th. Questions of interest to all trustees will be discussed. Certainly all teachers should honor School | Improvement Day with their presence. On Saturday we trust every teacher in York county will be in Rock Hill for the Teachers' Association, which convenes at that time. The Home Institute, which has been held at Winthrop college every fall for the past three years, will also hold its session on this day. All farmers, their wives, and sons and daughters interested in the Corn Clubs and the Boys' and Girls' Club of the county are ivited to attend this institute. The program for this day is full of interest. Agriculture is required in our schools now, and teachers who have very limited knowledge of the subject will enjoy the practical suggestions for school-room work along this line. Another feature of the program is the talk by Supt. Luceo Gunter, of the Rock Hill city schools, on the use of the handbook prepared by Mr. W. K. Tate and issued by the State dedepartment of education. All teachers, except those in the city schools, are going to be required to use this hand-book. We shall have them on hand for distribution. Mr. Kern will lecture again on Saturday. Among the most widely read books on country schools and.j country life is "Among Country Schools." by 0. J. Kern. Hej has done much to secure for the j boys and girls of the rural sec- j tions of our country as good euu eational advantages as the boys and girls of the cities have. It is not only instructive, but it is an inspiration to hear him lecture and to see his beautiful pictures. He lectures at Lesslie at 2:30 Monday afternoon, October 23. At 8 o'clock that night he will lecture at the Fort Mill graded school. On Tuesday afternoon, October 24, at 3 o'clock he will j be a Clover. Tuesday night he will lecture at Yorkville. Wednesday afternoon, October 25, at 2:30 o'clock he will lecture at Bullock's Creek and that night at 8 o'clock he will be at Hickory Grove. A glance at this itinerary will show that it takes Mr. i Kern into the northerh, southern. ! eastern and western sections of our county. Let every one avail himself of the opportunity to hear Mr. Kern. 1 A T-k 11 JLeiia a. rtussen, Co. Supt. of Rural Schools. Rock Hill, Oct. 16. York Fanners Hdlding Cotton. While there have been no public meetings held at any point in this county for the ostensible purpose of urging the farmers to hold their cotton for higher prices, still it is not likely that | there is any county in the State where less cotton has been passed out of the hands of the producers than in York since the price dropped below ten cents, and it is doubtful if there is any county in which so large a proportion of the farmers are able to hold their cotton until they are entirely ready to sell than in this county, says a correspondent of the News and Courier. Many of them for years have been practicing the "live at home" method of farming and as a result their supply bills, outside of fertilizers, are comparatively small, and besides all of the nine banks doing business in the various towns in the county are well supplied with cash and each of them is ready and anxious to advance all the money that is needed by those who care to store their cotton in any of the four or five bonded warehouses and turn in the certificates as collateral, and besides there are still others who can get the cash to meet any pressing obligations on their plain notes. If all the white cotton producers in the South were in as good shape as York's, and as thoroughly appreciated the true value of 1 the present cotton crop, it \s ould) be certain to sell at an average price of not less than 12 cents. It is estimated that about 90 per cent of the early cotton is open and that not less than 70 per cent, has been picked and ginned, but much of it did not come up until about the middle of June and this is just now beginning to open. ?? Good Roads add Prosperity. Quite a number of the leading railroads of the country, notably the Southern Railway Company and the Frisco lines, are now engaged in movements that are reaching to the fundamental causes of the prosperity of the United States, says the Washington Post. President Finley of the Southern and Chairman Yoakum of the Frisco lines have been taking a leading part in all movements designed to increase the products of the farm or aid the farmers, and in doing so they have been performing more useful service than they would by donating public libraries. There is a great deal of buncombe about the farmer, but there can be no denial of the fact that without him the United States could not live. The more prosperous the farmer the more prosperous the country. The railroad men, going lurther, Deneve mat me more prosperous the country the more prosperous the railroad business. Were all business men to take the same view, and work toward the same end, there would be no doubt about the results that would be achieved. In the South and West the railroad men have taken the ground that the improvement of public roads will aid the farmer as no other movement ever I has aided him. Better roads will make possible the hauling of crops at all I seasons of the year, and there will be ! no period when roads are impassable. The kind of roads the railroad men have in mind will know no seasons of the year. ^ ^ It's Equal Don't Exist. No one has ever made a salve, ointment or balm to compare with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It s the one perfect healer of Cuts, Corns, Burns, Bruises, Sores, Scalds, Boils, Ulcers, Eczema, Salt Rheum. For Sore Eyes, Cold Sores, Chapped Hands or Sprains its i supreme. Unrivaled for Piles. Try it. Only 25c at Ardrey's Drug store, Parks Drug Co. and Fort Mill Drug Co. TAX LEVIES FOR 1911 Office of the County Treasurer of York County. Yorkville, S. C., October 13. 1911. In compliance with the law, I hereby give notice of the several levies on the property of York County, for the k/.fyir?n5nfr T QnilQrV leaf llbcai ycai, , 1911, to wit: For State purposes, 5J mills on the dollar. For ordinary county purposes, 4? mills on the dollar. For Constitutional schools, 3 mills on the dollar. For Roads, 2 mills on the dollar. For Catawba River Bridge, ? mill on the dollar. For County Bridge Fund, ? mill on the dollar. . Aggregating 1G mills on all the property of the cotinty, and in addition to this the following special levies for townships and local schools, viz: Catawba township, 1J mills for interest on township bonds; ? of 1 mill for a sinking fund for said township. Ebenezer township, 2 of 1 mill for interest on*township bonds, and J of 1 mill for a sinking fund for ?aid township. York township, 3 mills for interest on township bonds, and ? of 1 mill for a sinking fund for said township. Local School Levies: District No. 2, 3 mills, making a total levy of 19 mills in said district. District No. 6, 3 mills, making a total levy of 19 mills in said district. District No. 7, 2 mills, making a total levy of 19? mills in said district. District No. 9, 4 mills, -making a total levy of 20 mills in said district. District No. LI, 5 mills for graded j school, 1 mill for high school, ar.d 1 mill for interest on graded school bonds, making a total levy of 2G? mills in said distr.ct. District No. 12, 2 mills, making a total levy of 21? mil s on the property of 1 OOl .'! 1,. I otnu.l.a rjuenezer, iuiu imuo ujj v?tu?? township part of said district. District No. 13, 3 nnlis, making a total lavy of 18 mills in said district. District No. 14, 2 mills, making a total levy of 18 mills in said district. District No. 15, 3 mills, making a total levy of 13 miils in said district. District No. 20, 2$ mills, special tax. 2 mills for interest on bonds, 1 mill to retire bonds, making a total levy of 21J mills on the. property of Bullock's Creek and Broad Kiver townships' part and 25 mills on the York township part of said district. District No. 22, 3 mills, making a total of 19 mills in said district. District No. 23, 3 mills, making a total of 19 mills in said district. District No. 20, 3 mills, making a total of 19 mills in said district. District No. 27, 3 mills, making a total of 19 mills in said district. District No. 28, 2 mills for special levy, 1J mills interest on school bonds and 1J mills for sinking fund, making a total of 21 mills in said district. District No. 29, 2 mills, making a total levy of 18 mills in said district. District No. 32, 2 mills, special tax, making a total levy of I9f mills ior said district. District No. 33, 2 mills, making a total levy of 18 mills on Bethesda's part, and 21 j mills on the York part of said district. District No. 35, 2J mills making a total levy of 19j| mills on Ebenezer's part, and 22 mills on York part of said district. District No. 36. 2 mills, making a total levy of 19| mills for said district. District No. 37. special levy of 2 mills for school, 1* mills for interest on school building bonds, 1 mill for sinking fund, making a total of 20* mills for said district. District No. 39, 3 mills, making a total levy of 19 mills in said district. District No. 40, 3 mills, making a total levy of 19 nulls in said district. District No. 41, 3 mills, making a total of 19 mills for said district. District No. 42, 2 mills, making a total of 21J mills in said district. District No. 43, 2 mills, making a total of 18 mills in Bethesda's part of said district, a total of 19J mills in Ebenezer's part of said district, and 21 i mills in York's part of said district. District No. 44, 2 mills, making a total levy of 18 mills in said district. District No. 45, 2J mills, making a total of 20j mills in said district. District No. 46, 2 mills, making a total of 20i mills in said district. District No. 47, 2j mills,'making a total of 22 mills in said district. District No. 48, 2$ mills, making a total of 18J mills in Bullock's Creek township's part of said district, and a total of 22 mills in York township's part of said district District No. 49, 3 mills, making a total levy of 19 mills in the King's Monntain township part of said district, and 22$ mills in the York township part of said district. Also $1.00 on all taxable polls. Also 50 cents each on all dogs. HARRY E. 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Guaranteed by Ardrey's Drug store, 4 Parks Drug Co. and Fort Mill Drug Co. < = | NOTICE The best place to have your . clothes cleaned and pressed is the Fort, m Mill Pressing Club, upstairs in Massey J Building. Phone 146. 11 N1 ! Every l ! ! Fort Mi - . - - . . V , . f+ ' ,, trninj me to us to buy yoi Winter Shoes, unle ! your mind made i le best shoe you ev< We have all the styl nd work shoes for ma nd child. Better tal though! They are tl t don't wear out tl] t?some time later.:: haney & Cc ?^ GS BANK of For The OLD RELIABLE I the GOVERNM r State and National, ) to accumulate a SURPLUS s a protection to their DEPOi e $11,300.00 Surplus 00.00 Capital and are in pc 1 _ D ^ .-i. )reciate your Dusiness. uc u it over with us. GS BANK of Fori W. B. MEAC Cashier wmammmmmmmmmmmmmm Painting, Tinting, E I am doing a lot of first-class painting for the gooc munity, but I am always ready and eager for more \ Besides painting your house inside and out, I can d ing, staining, glazing, etc., in a manner unsurpassed ? I take especial care of carpeta, matting, floors ar painting inside. Let me figure with you on paintir work is sure to please you. Reasonable prices. Sal ; FRANK WHITE, The Painter, Fort f You Want to Sell It, Advertise It EEDL ??=SEE E 'thing in the w. PHON r ill Agency for FORD V . ' " ? - - - - r* ^r' . ) t R A L S Hold T1 5 [ It isn't much of a kna< but when it comes to style, comfort and serv STONS do, it is another nr Because of their unu Shoes are deservedly poj ss and snugl.v and yet they is no strain on any part ip Ralston's hold their shai er Ralston and Fellowcra Prices $3.50 to $4.50. es td Our snappy line of IR x ; will certainly catch your rtnA t.Aii nnn / cv ex y iuul, auu jvu can your taste. Come in an ie n Fit your children's : 10 shoes like our LENOX our shoes because they f Qg they put them on. 11 We can save you some SEE US. E. W. KIT I- J | "The Place W1 n ; H==i? "ii !t= i $$Si t Mill I Retui 2 Gal.G m b Rc^ IB amfm per sing o H 'Wll y?u 030 THESI FUND "> 1 9 N0T GOOD AFT SITORS 1 C-S-COU 01 1 UKJ, ; I j. A. McDonougH C 8 rmy I Anderson's "L t Mill. I Has a record of 2,035 measure ' I Absolutely dust and sand prof HAM, any other axle without re-oilii I out of box. Oiled "while yoi B 2 8'C# an(^ ^?eS n0t C0St E C6nt 1 A Convincing Test?2 'i "It being important to m I made a thorough comparatr l people of this com- ^ t^e Anderson 'Long Winded,' vork- other three 'ran dry' within r o the tinting, grain- f the the 'Rock HiU' was n in taete and quality. reoil- m-v odometer showing a >d woodwork when "R's the best sPiniRe ma ig your home. My 7 :isfactory work. * Rock Hill, S. C., Janua a"!'! ! w J MILLS & Y0 ? Fort Mill Agents in The Times.1 IAILES! ? ay of building m; ENO. 72 Automobiles and Acc =11 ll~ ll==H==jj > T O N S ] teir Shape :k to buy good looking Shoes; getting shoes which combine L ice to the degree that RALstory. sual fitting qualities, Ralston Dulan They fit the foot trimly do not bind nor pinch. There L and that's the reason that )e until they are worn out. ft Shoes require no breaking in. VING DREW Shoes for Ladies eye. We have a shape for fit your pocketbook as well as j u see. * feet properly with good solid brand. Children love to wear eel good from the very moment i money on your Fall Shoe bill. L WBRELL CO., [ lere Quality Counts." =11 IE H IE ... I I This offer good AVlD I unt^ Novem1 b e r 15, 1911. n This Ad. With $5.00 vill ship you prepaid in jug or keg, two ons of either of the following brands. en. Old Hunting Creek Corn Whiskey j flrhnrl Rvfi WhiskfiV " " AppleYrandy ilar selling price of these brands, $3.00 le gallon prepaid. If you use whiskey ,'t afford to miss this opportunity. e: goods not sold in bottles at thesc special prices. er nov"tiviber 15, 1911. CK, Manager, O. RICHMOND. VA. HHHflHHHflHHHHHHHHIHHHHHHHB TUft'in J . ii ' Ji ^ T fJ3 * i i HT.i-1'i^lr. i 1TT IttfTtrW ang Distance" Axle ?d miles with one oiling. Patented. )f. Will run twice as long as any ig and not half try. Oil cannot get i wait." Used on all Rock Hill Bug 3xtra. !,035 Miles With One Oiling. e to get the very best buggy spindle, ve test of four of the best, one being used on 'Roek Hill' Buggies. The linetv davs. At the end of a year to jnning smoothly without opening to record of 2,035 miles, de. "W. G. STEVENS, M. D. ry 6, 1911." UNG COMPANY. for "Rock Hill" Buggies. R? iterial. :essories I