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THE FOOT HILL TIMES. Oanocrstk ? Puublwhsd Thursdays. B. W. BRADFORD Editor and Proprietor. #O2o^K2n"_.. '.Sl.tt 81* Mentha - ? Er* ? ' ? The Tinea ktritas contributions oe liva subjects, Mat daaa not acrw to publish mora than 200 wards n any subject. The rinht ia reserved to adit way aomninlcation submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising ran* are mmtU known to t>"iae Interasted. Btiaohorta. local and Ion* aiatance. No. 112. FORT MILL. 8. C.. OCTOBER 28. 1811. Tbo Cotton Picker. With the increasing scarcity from year to year of farm labor and the high prices which the farmers of many sections are compelled to pay for gathering the cotton crop, it looks now as if the time is not iar uuuani wnen ine mechanical cotton picker must take the place of the hand picker if cotton is to continue as the South's staple crop. For a number of years inventive genius has been at work and experiments have been made with machines designed to pick cotton, but until the present season all efforts were futile. Now it appears that a real mechanical cotton picker?one that picks the cotton and leaves the trash?has arrived. During the past week demonstrations of cotton picking by machinery have been given in a held near Charlotte and, according to those who saw the machine at work, the demonstrations were very successful. The machine which did the work is known as the Price-Campbell Cotton Picker and is th* invention jointly of Theo. H. Price, j the well known cotton factor, and his copartner in business, Mr. Campbell. The market price of the machine is $f>,000. and a number of the machines have already been purchased by farmed of Texas and other cotton-growing States of the West. "This machine," says the Charlotte Chronicle, "goes along the cotton rows at about the gait of a fast plow horse j and it picks the cotton as it goes, leaving the unopened bolls untouched. The J demonstration (near Charlotte) was ? J- ? r.,.M IIIBUt* in UI1T t'Cllbtl VI a uriu I with cotton, and one could very plainly are the result in the clean picked row as the machine went over it. Not all the cotton was caught, but we should say that ninety per cent, of the open bolls were picked clean of the staple. The picker operates something on the order of a carding machine, and the cotton is turned into receptacles comparatively clean of leaves and dirt. ?Tie machine can pick a row a quarter of a mile long In ten minutes. It works equally well in cotton four feet high' as in cotton two feet high, the (talks, as it passes over, sweeping back into an upright position uninjured, but barren of cotton." The editor of The Chronicle is favorably impressed with the machine and leeto sure that Price, or somebody else, will soon have a machince that will not only pick cotton, but will gin it as well. Among the large crowd of farmers who watched the Price-Campbell picker at work Friday were Messrs. T. H. Merritt and Edgar Jones of Fort Mill, both of whom pronounced the machine as near perfect. NOTE AND COMMENT. The Chester police are said to be looking for a white man who some days ago collected a considerable amount of money from residents of that city for - - ? L!.L L. _ iii Dscnpoons ror mspizinei wnicn ne , was not authorize to represent. We hope they will catch him. In our mind, however, this kind of thief is little worse than the agent for u picture > enlarging concern who withoi t fear of molestation comes around at this sea- j son of the year to deliver th>? picture whieh his co-|>artner in business contracted to enlarge for steen cents and, lo, and behold! the party visited is called upon to pay three dollars or more for a frame which was not mentioned when the order for the picture was taken. And the great trouble is that those with whom these picture men' deal are usually of that clasf. who are ignorant enough to believe they are compelled to accept these frames at about three times their actua' value. The has been a lot of talk in the newspapers of the State recently about the proposition to establish a race course in Charleston, and, most of them being "agin" it, therj is little likelihood that the proposition will make a go. The representatives in the Legis-1 lature generally map out the.r work in ' that body to harmonize with the senti- | ments of the people as expressed in I their county papers and already a large majority of legislators have had the %?v fkuCO mtiHlllme tHftt i Charleston race track is one of those institutions which South Carolina does j not wish to harbor. It is somewhat amusing jo an out* aider to listen to the friendly wrangling of the Lancaster and Chester papers about which county excels in this, that and the other. Left to us, we would say that Chester seems to have gone Lancaster one the better in the Chester county fair wliich is in progress this week, this being an enterprise which we have not heard of in Lancaster county. However, this is not saying that Lancaster coakl not get up a creditable fair. Many a girl without the slightest talent for music is run ting a piano when she should be making bonnets or bread; i many a boy is studying for a learned profession whose proper sphere is the machine shop or the mill; many a man is splitting up churches who ought to be doing good service in some institution of learning, teaching or working on a farm, and many a woman is trying in vain to be a leader of s<>ciety when she should be a model housewife in her own home. ?Exchange. - .?=r= -? It is to be hoped that city council of Fort Mill will not permit the visit of a carnival company to the town this fall. No matter what license the town is able to collect from a carnival the amount does not compare with what the people surrender to the gamblers I and fakirs which accompany this class of shows. Wouldn't it be a good idea to vote bonds for waterworks for Main street to be put down before the paving is laid? It would seem a pity ifter a few years to tear up the paving to put down the mains, and the atter work should be first in hand. The Times endorses the suggestion of n citizen that the well located on Mail street be filled in before the pavutg is put down. Besides being a hindrance to traffic, the business street of a town the size of Fort Mill is no place for a weU. The ladies who contributed the funds with which the town hall piano was purchased have a perfect right to protest against th? use of the instrument by a crowd of negro roustabouts, as was allowed recently. What if occupying the minds of our farmers more now than the price of cotton is when the weather will be just right to digest 'possum and 'taters and craeklin' corn bread. * *" ? - - | On being asked the name of the Governor of South Carolina, a tot in the local graded school is .said to have replied, "Cold Grease." Save your money and go see the-tax man. DANCING. Editor Fort Mill Times: 1 am obliged to The Times for noting last wee< that the church membership of Fort Mill was numerously represented at a dance recently held in tne town hall, for the incident prompts me to an -.l.-V i :.j oDservauon or iwo wnicn i iuiidiuci timely. But I disavow any intention of directing my remarks solely to Fort Mill church members who patronize the dance any more than to Protestants generally who indulge in this form of worldlini'88. It is wrong for Protestants to c ance and they cannot justify it on any ground. In th? section of the country there are three 6trong Protestant churches. Unfortunately, each winks at dancing and as a consequence it is not only | not frowned down, as it should be, but is too olten directly and indirectly encouraged by those whose professions of Christianity call them especially to look to the moral and spiritual welfare of the community. I take it that no right-thinking man will contend that dancing exercises and promotes the nobler qualities of eitner man or woman. It means close physical contact of ':he sexes and not infrequently leads to an easy familiarity that is carried beyond the ball room. Head Lord Byron's "The Waltz" and observe what trie sensuous soul of that moral leper pi-ompted him to write of the dance. What say those of the Presbyterian faith in justification of the dance? Does the Concession of Faith teach it? Hardly. Did their English and Scotch ancestors endure unspeakable sufferings and martyrcorn that the Presbyterian church might liecome the great christianizing ana civilizing influence it has proved to be patronize this seductive form of dissipation? Why did the Presbyterians of England send Charles the Virst to the block? For his treachery to God. Mankind owes the Presbyterians of the seventeenth century a debt of gratitude which a cycle of centuries cannot repay. And they did not tolerate dancing among | LIICII iiiciuvrip. "Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell?" These wordB of John Bunyan, author of "The Pilgrim's Progress," are yet echoing down the corridors of time as they echoed through the dark and diBmal recesses of Bedford gaol as the third greatest preacher since Christ himself lay a prisoner for 12 long years in that accursed dungeon because he refused to abstain from preaching the Word of God as the tyrants of the day demanded to interpret it for him. John Bunyan was a Baptist. What would he say could he see members of his church engagirfg in the sinful frivolity of the dance? They may answer, but 1 will sav that one would scarce expect a man who suffered the harrowing persecution which befeil John Bunyan to accommodate himself to sin of any kind. The Methodist church is close to my heart. It therefore grieves me inexpressibly to see many of its members ' violating their obligation to God by | dancing. Evidently these wayward members of the Methodist church know little- and I fear care less, more's the pity?of the teachings of John Wesley, than whom no greater man in many respects ever stood at the head of a religious revolution. May the God of our fathers inspire the hearts of all Protestants to their duty to Him and to themselves. Observer. October 23, 1911. Fatal Auto Accident at Rock Hill. K. C. Hendricks, a hack driver of! Rock Hill, lost his life Friday night about 10 o'clock as the result of his vehicle being struck by an automobile driven b^' Roddey Reid. Two occupants of the automobile. Miss Ora Lemmond, a trained nurse, and Chief of Police Partlow, were also injured when the collission occurred. Miss Lemmond suffered a fracture of her collar bone and other injuries, and Officer Partlow had both wrists badly sprained. The automobile party, consisting of Officer Partlow, Miss Lemmond, Miss Nannie Owens and the driver Roddey Reid, had gone out for a ride and on returning to the city the lights on the car went out. Hendricks was driving ! his hack in the same vicinity and it was j also without lights. At a dark point on j the road the hack and automobile col- 1 lided, and Hendricks was thrown from his vehicle, and had an arterv in his neck ruptured, it was thought, by being run over by the automobile. He died in a Rock Hill hospital. Miss Owens and Reid, the driver, escaped injury. Cole & Rice Big Show Coming. All arrangements h?ve been made for the far-famed Cole & Rice German American Railroad Shows to exhibit at Fort Mill Wednesday, November 1. These combined attractions comprise the only tented amusement enterprise of size and merit coming here this year, and all of our citizens will be given an opportunity to visit the afternoon or evening performance. Two full hours 1 will be consumed in the presentation of the imperial programme, on which appears the names of tho highest salaried arenic artists atop of all the earth. See the airship pony, the greatest feature ever seen. Every act is a feature number and a brilliant array of talent includes peerless aerialisis, gymnasts, contortionists, leapers, tumblers, acrobats, bicycle riders, jugglers and hosts of others! The college of merry clowns is directed by the king of all jesters, Harry Clark, and the $10,000 group of educated Shetland ponies are put through its paces by the renowned equine educator, Prof. Joe Berris. As a forerunner of the feast of high class pleasures, a series of free openair exhibitions will be given on the grounds at 12:30 and 6:45 p. m. The entrance to the main enclosure will be opened at 1 and 7 p. in., thus affording patrons ample opportunity to reach comfortable and roomy seats and to enjoy the symphony concert by Prof. Domonick's Royal Coronation Brass Band. Vulgarity and profanity are not countenanced and the management invites patrons to promptly report any and all acts of incivility, discourtesy and ungentlemanly conduct on the part of the employees. The Times is requested to say that the annual oyster supper in Gold Hill will be given on Friday night, October 27, at S. P. Wilson's. The proceeds will go to the Gold Hill school. The public is cordially invited. York's Taxable Values. One hundred and ninety-four thous' and and eighty-nine dollars, sixty cents and si* mills. This is the amount of J taxes for which the treasurer of York county became responsible last Monday when t e signed his name to the abstract of duplicate turned over to him by the auditor. And this amount he will collect from the taxpayers "of "the county this fall and winter, barring of coursesuch amounts as .may be shown to be included in double "entries af.d* nulla bonas. The total assessed valuation of all the taxable property in the county last year was $8,909,323, and this year it is $9,113,464, an increase of $204,141. Last year the total taxes assessed aggregated $181,174, and the increase this year foots up $12,915.? Yorkville Enquirer, Friday. 0. P. Heath & Co. Fail. In the Federal court at Salisbury, N. C., late Monday afternoon, 0. r. Heath & Co., a well known Charlotte cotton brokerage firm, with branch offices in a number of Southern cities, filed a petition in bankruptcy through their attorneys,' Maxwell & Keerans. The petitioners were uromptly adjudged bankrupt and the matter was placed in the hands of a Charlotte attorney as referee in bankruptcy. The liabilities of Heath & Co., it is said are in excess of $1,000,000, while the assets will not reach one-fourth of that amount. Is the World Growing Better? Many things go to prove that it is. The ; way thousands are trying to help others is proof. Among them is Mrs. W. W. j Gould, of PittsfieTd, N. H. Finding good health by taking Electric Bitters, she j now advises other sufferers everywhere, to take them. "For years I suffered with stomach and kidney trouble," she writes. "Every medicine I used failed j till I took Electric Hitters. Hut this ?reat remedy helped me wonderfully." ; hey'11 help any woman. They'r the best tonic and finest liver and kidney remedy that's made. Try them. You'll see. 50c at Ardrey's Drug store, Parks I. Drug Co. and Fort Mill Drug Co. I Land For Sale I offer for sale 331 acres, more or less, of land five miles north of Fort Mill, one mile from Gold Hill school and from one to three miles of four churches. Land is well terraced and comparatively level, about 40 acres in original forest timber that will cut something like 200,000 feet of lumber; 20 in old-field pine; 25 or 30 acres in pasture for cattle; ten acres in pasture for hogs; ten acres in waste land and balance in cultivation. On the place is a dwelling house of six rooms; gin house, 30x35, three stories high; sawmill shed, 50x20; press shed, 35x22; barn, 50>.50, with rooms for 12 or 14 head of slock; double crib, 22x10, pea house on top; smoke house, 14x18, grainery above and buggy sheds on each side; five two- and three-room tenant houses; wagon house with tool shed, 16x20; ten stalls for cows, blacksmith shop, 12x16; 20 horse-power engine and 25 horse-power boiler; No. 4 Friction-feed sawmill, with 48-inch inserted tooth saw and 40 or 50 fi et of , track; two 60-saw Pratt gins with front feeder and condenser; one single pin, j sell'-tromping press; 26 feet of 2-inch shafting; pulleys and belting to run the outfit and one No. 44 horrizontal cane mill. Pump, tower, waterworks in house, heatthy place, and excellent water. Four small branches, four wells and five springs on the place. Price, $11,500. W. H. WINDLE, Fort Mill, S. C. Retail Chill Breaker Is a product devised especially i for the treatment of Chills and | Malaria, and we have such confidence in its remedial qualities that we offer it to you with our personal guarantee that it will prove beneficial in treating your case or we will refund the fifty cents you have paid hs for it. On November 10th there will be an advance in price of five of the leading magazines. Don't . wait until your subscription ex-; pires, and don't miss the beauti-; ful Xmas numbers. AffllTAu'c * A1 VAA VJ U? Haile's 0.' the Comer Call and inspect our superb stock of Package Candies, Salted and b Sugared Peanuts, v and Chewing Gum } in profusion. a Fort Mill Drus Co. ? J. R. HAILE, Prop. ?? ?5 TAX NOTICE 1911. !F I c i p Office of the County Treas- urer of York County. YorkvilU', S. C., Sept. 15, 1911. c Notice is hereby given that the Tax ^ Books for York county will be opened E on Monday, the lGth day of October, 1911, and remain open until the 31st day of December, 1911. for the collection of State, County. School and Local Taxes for the fiscal year 1911, without penalty; after which day one per cent, penalty will be added to all payments made In the month of January, 1912, and two per cent, penalty for all payments made in the month of February, 1912, and seven per cent, penalty will be added on all payments made from the first day of March, to the 15th day of March, 1912, and after this date ail unpaid taxes will go into execution and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, 1 will attend at the following places on the days named: At Clover, Thursday and Friday, October 26 and 27. At Yorkville from Saturday, October 28, to Tuesday October 31. At Coates's Tavern, from 12 o'clock Wednesday, November 1, until 12 m., j Thursday, November 2. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4. At Rock Hill from Monday, Novem6. to Saturday, November 11. And at Yorkville from Monday, November 13, until the 31st day of December, 1911, after which day the penalties will attach as stated above. HARRY E. NEIL, Treasurer of York County. j Schloss Are made f< and satisfact they can?i good clothes and social lil They cost no i We have absolul Clothing gives m Style Is what yo your money vice is exact Schloss Bros $1 McELl The Store o! I The SAVIN I WHY Does Both i Require BANKi I WHY? Simply e We Hav | Besides our $25,0 | handle and will ap] I small, call and talk I The SAVIN LEROY SPRINGS President. Averts Awful Tragedy. ^ Timely advice given Mrs. C. Wilough- 1 iy, of Marengo, Wis., (R. No. 1) pre- . ented a dreadful tragedy and saved < wo lives. Doctors had said her fright- 1 ul cough was a "consumption" cough ;nd could do little to help her. After < nany remedies failed, her aunt urged ^ ler to take Dr. King's New Discovery. 'I have been usinc- it for some time." < he wrote "and the awful cough has ^ lmost gone. It also saved my little oy when taken with a severe bronchial < rouble." * This matchless medicine has J o equal for throat and lung trouble. < 'rice 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. < luaranteed by Ardrey's Drug store, 2 'arks Drug Co. and Fort Mill Drug Co. NOTICE?The best place to have your * lothes cleaned and pressed is the Fort m fill Pressing Club, upstairs in Massey luilding. Phone 146. I N1 Every Fort Mi * *Vift fe - " , \ Baltimore Qlol r men who find pleas ion in dressing as well men who appreciate w ; mean to them in busin fe. more than the ordinary 'ely proven that Schloss Bros. 6 ost for the Money invested. i n ana servi 11 want when you in\ in clothes. Style and ? ly what you get in ev & Company suit you b L O to $25 iANEY &( Style and Quality "Just Across the Street." GS BANK of Fort The OLD RELIABLE ; the GOVERNMI State and National, 3 to accumulate a SURPLUS F is a protection to their DEPOS1 e $11,300.00 Surplus, >00.00 Capital and are in posi Dreciate your business. Be it L it over with us. GS BANK of Fort 1 W. B. MEACHi Cashier. ; Painting, Tinting, Etc I am doing a lot of first-class painting for the good pe / munity, but I am always ready and eager for more worl Besides painting your house inside and out, I can do ti ing, staining, glazing, etc., in a manner unsurpassed in t I take especial care of carpets, matting, floors and ' painting inside. Let me figure with you on painting y work is sure to please you. Reasonable prices. Satisfa I FRANK WHITE, The Painter, Fort M T You Want to Sell It, Advertise It in EED Ll ?SEE Bi thing in the wa; ??PHONE 11 Agency for FORD J 0 i' ALL EARTH'S BEST. thes COLE& GERMAN cmnui AMERICAN Am III ure RAILROAD VIIU1I WILL POSITIVELY EX hat Fort M teSS AFTERNOON AND El I Wednesday, ^ kind. __ . , .ce )er- * i . Presenting all that is Newest, uy. I al, Novel, Moral and Pleasin alists, Amazing Acrobats, M Daring Wire Artists, Dcath-< Boneless Wonders, Educatei TINY MITE ZZ -*Q See the AIRSHIP The Greatest Feature ever se< THE SIGHT OF A LI f " lr^ ^oft_pl/krt SH?#^ Wr . Mill j MI TF 01 BEAUTIFUL HORSES ":=::5S=^r=--- ? " ? H |? ,J ACQ GORGEOUS TRAPPINGS ft ) AOBANP ilflMT.-i^l TW JI I j I MOST EXPENSIVE ARENIC FEATUR I PROF. JOE BERRIS And S $10,000 GROUP OF TR HARRY CLARK f j" DARBY" Ti? S 32 BIG AC ition to I DON'T FAIL 1 arge or I iir ^.1 j_ TheMan-Aper | Wnghto jrassi j Grand Free Display of Chines Mill j REMEMBER THE - ' WEDNESDAY, NOV MB*! WANTFrV WORKING MEN. 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