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Notice to Subscribers.
The Tiroes has on its subscription
lists the names of a number
of parties who up to this date
have not paid for the paper for
, 1911. It is the 'purpose of the
publisher to employ a roan to
collect the subscriptions and it is
hoped that each one will pay up
when called ipon. We cannot
afford to jend the paper longer
than one year on time and will |
drop the names of all vho fail to j
make settlement.
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SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST
to TIMES READERS.
Mrs. J. E. Bruce and children,
* of Winnsboro, are guests of Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Young, on Forest
street.
Lad. M. Massey left Fort Mill
Sunday morning for Greenwood,
where he has taken a position
with the Southern Power Co.
Mr. Z. V. Bradford and family
have moved from Grattan to
Fort Mill and are occupying a j
cottage on East Booth street.
Messrs. R. H. Ardrey and Joe
Ardrey left Fort Mill Tuesday
morning for Maryville, Tenn.,
where the young men will enter '
college.
Mr. B. C. Ferguson, who has
been with the Jones grocery for i
a number of years, has resigned, '
to accept the position of shipping j
clerk for the Fort Mill Mfg. Co. i
Miss Elizabeth Alderman, a
recent graduate of the Charlotte i
k Sanatorium, has been attending (
B Mrs. W. A. Hafner during her ,
B illness for the past three weeks, j
Mrs. S. H. Epps, Sr., and son, '
Rev. G. C. Epps, returned to 1<
their home in Gold Hill Saturday,
after a very pleasant visit of two 1
weeks to relatives in Tampa, '
Mr. and Mrs. Sam R. Harris, i
who were married December 21, ,
at Monticello, Ga. have returned s
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CO riCSSUni v uncy aim win ic- ^
side with Mrs. M. J. Harris, (
mother of the groom. i
regular monthly meeting 1
^(\lawba lodge No. 56, A. F.
M., will be held in the lodge 1
> room this Thursday evening at
the usual hour. All members 1
are requested to be present.
At a meeting the past week of
the directors of the Savings Bank
of Fort Mill the regular five per '
cent, dividend was declared,
showing that the institution had
during 1911 enjoyed its usual
prosperity.
The Fort Mill friends of Mr.
^ C. H. Belk, of Charlotte, will be
pleased to learn that he is convalescent,
after an illness of
several weeks of typhoid fever.
Mr. Belk was treated at the (
Charlotte sanatorium. ^
The following young ladies *
spent the holidays at the home
of Mrs. L. S. Nivens, three miles
north of Fort Mill: Misses Laura \
Jenkins, Fannie Boyd. May Wal- I
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lace and Bertha Boya, 01 xorK- j
ville, and Miss Lula Brown, of \
Lancaster. i
On^ of the pleasant events of
the Xmas holidays in Fort Mill j
was the family reunion of Mr. |
and Mrs. J. N. McAteer. About
fifty of the children and grand ]
children were present and all en- :
joyed the gathering most heartily.
As stated recently, the annual
banquet of the Fort Mill lodge,
VV. 0. W., will be held at the
lodge rooms on next Tuesday ;
evening. As heretofore the
wives of the members will be
expected to furnish cake and
other delicacies.
An even hundred citizens of
the town had qualified to vote
when the city registration books
were closed last Friday afternoon.
The city election, which
at this time promises to be more
than usually interesting, takes
place on next Tuesday, the 9th.
Mr. G. A. Stultz, a resident of
Garland, Texas, was killed Monday
afternoon in Rock Hill by
being thrown from a buggy. Mr.
Stultz, who was on a visit to
relatives in Rock Hill, was out
driving when his horse became
frightened at a road machine
and ran away. He was 57 years
old and leaves a family in Texas.
It is reported on the streets
that Dr. Leon Campbell and
family, of the Point section of
the county, will move to Fort
Mill within the next few days
and will occupy the Mills house
on Main street. Dr. Campbell
sold his practice in the Point
S section some time ago with the
view of moving to Fort Mill, it
is stated.
The first quarterly meeting of
the York Baptist Ministers' conference
will be he Id next Monday
with the Fort Mill Baptist church.
In the evening the Rev. VV. J.
Nelson, of the First Baptist
church of Rock Hill, will deliver
a sermon from the pulpit of the
Fort Mill church and the publicis
cordially invited to attend the
service.
The Times is requested to call
a meeting of the local farmers'
organization to be held in the
Fort Mill town hall on Wednesday,
January 10, at 1 o'clock in
the afternoon. At this meeting
a report is to be made of the
work of the committee appointed
recently to canvass the township
to secure pledges to the agreement
for a reduction of acreage
/for 1912. All farmers who have
signed the pledge and others
interested in work of the organization
are urged to attend the
Jm 1 meeting next Wednesday,
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MARRIAGES.
All things combined to make
the quiet home wedding of Mr.
William White and Miss Mary
Nims the happiest event of the
Christmas. The beautiful starry
night but enhanced the lovely
scene within the spacious home |
of the bride, and the Christmas
cheer joined hands with the true,
sweet spirit of the occasion.
The decorations were as dainty j
and pretty as loving hands could
make them, the Christmas holly
and mistletoe lending added
effectiveness to the usual greenery
and hothouse flowers. The
upper portion of the long hall
was shaded with soft red lights
which gleamed down on the j
masses of red berries in the holly j
banking the whole length of the I
stairway, and made a fitting
bower for the huge wassail bowl j
filled with ruddy punch.
In the parlor on the left the
many pretty and useful wedding
presents were displayed amid a
profusion of greenery. The parlor
just across was an artistic
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triumpn in green anu wiute. wju<
mistletoe predominating, making
a scene that would have delighted
the Druids of Eld.
At seven o'clock the first sweet
strains of Mendelssohn's Wedding
March were sounded on the
piano by Miss Julia Spratt; and I
the beautiful little flower girls, j
Floride Nims and Frances Spratt,
in dainty white dresses interlaced
with pink ribbons, came in bearing
bouquets of flowers attached
to long white streamers thus
making an aisle for the bride
and groom who entered together.
The bride's costume was an exquisite
creation of embroidered
net over satin with real Duchesse
lace, and she carried a bouquet
pf white hyacinths and asparagus
fern, the veil being looped up,
with the same flower. In juxtapositisn
to the lovely face of the
pride, the fine, strong face of
;he groom appealed to every one.
The ceremony was performed
py the pastor, Rev. W. A. Hafler,
after which there was a
short interval during w.iich many
warm congratulations were show-1
?red upon both. Then the fold-1
ng doors were thrown open and
;he two families with the pastor;
were ushered into the dining1
room. Sprays of soft ferns, with j
iases of white hyacinths and I
pink carnations, and streamers j
pf white ribbons looped up from
bows tied at the corners of the |
table to the light in the center |
were the decorations in this room. ,
The supper, which consisted of
delicious Christmas delicacies
with pink and white ice cream,
bride's cake and fruit cake was
thoroughly enjoyed by all. Favors
of pink ribbon were then pinned
on each one and all were served
with coffee from a stand in the
lower part of the hall.
At nine. Mr. and Mrs. William
White left to take the train for
Charlotte. From there they were
;o go to Mt. Holly, N. C., for a
>hort visit to relatives.
A very sweet and simple^ home
vedding was solemnized at the
lome of Mrs. E. M. Ardre.v
Thursday evening at four o'clock *
vhen her daughter, Miss Kate =
\rdrey, became the wife of Mr. , t'
lames H. Belk, the ceremony ^
jeing performed by Revs. W. S. a
dales, of Stanley, N. C., and T.J. t
White, of Fort Mill. The decora- t
dons were very pretty, the holly 1j
:ind mistletoe blending beautiful- ],
!y with the other greenery. A t
pretty idea was carried out in 1
connection with the invitations,
the first grade children of the t
previous school year, pupils of i
the bride, being the only out- *
siders invited. After the cere- 1
tnony, these little ones were ?
onmirico in fhf- >
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shape of a Christmas tree loaded 1
down with good things for them 1
whicii they found in the center j
of the dining room table. ]
These young people are popu- <
lar throughout this section and 1
a host of iritnds wish for them !
all happiness and prosperity.
From the Pleasant Valley correspondent
of the Lancaster
News it is learned that Miss Mary : i
Culp was married to Mr. W. W. 1
Patterson on Sunday, December
24, the ceremony having been i,
performed by the Rev. Mr.
Thomasson, of Rock Hill, at the
home of the bride in Pleasant
Valley.
Figure 1 Unlucky.
While it is true that optimism
is more profitable than pessimism
and that it is better to look to
the future with hope and courage
than to turn ones eyes to the unpleasant
conditions of the past,
there is no denying the fact that
the year 1911 was ono ot tne
hardest years this section of the
country has experienced in a
longtime. Notwithstanding the
fact that the largest cotton crop
ever grown in South Carolina in
a single year was that of 1911,
the low price of the staple has
more than otfset the enormous
yield. Comparing the conditions
of the present with the conditions
of the early days of January
of last year, it is seen that
the price of cotton today is just
half what it was one year ago.
All of which recalls an article
which appeared in The Times of
January 5, 1911, in which a citizen
of this section said that the
figure 1 had been synonymous
with disaster for the South for
half a century. The article is as
follows:
Reading in The News and Courier of
Sunday, *'1910 a great year; 1911 a
greater one," a Fort Mill citizen recalled
that for the last 50 years every
year ending with the figure 1 had
proved disastrous to the country, especially
to the South. The year 1861,
the opening year of the War Between
the States, was the most disastrous
of all for this section. Ten year* later, 1
j or in 1871, President Grant suspended
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I grateful ro
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before to s
ance of yo
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he writ of habeas corpus in many
tate3 of the South, in which he used
Jnited States troops to hound down
i;d persecute the Ku Klux clans and
heir sympathizers, forcing many of
he best citizens of this section to flee
heir homes, at the same time placing
he negroes one rung higher on the
adder of political ascendency which
hey presently climbed to the top. !
'oor crops were the rule in 1871, many !
legroes refusing to work the fields as
hey had formerly done. Eighteen
ighty-one was a notoriously dry year,
hi rain of consequence falling in some
lections from May to September.
Jery poor crops were harvested as a
esuit of the drought. Less than
1,000,000 bales of cotton were grown
n the South in 1891. Nineteen one
,\ as another short crop year, the rainfall
of the entire sprng and summer
;i ii g so excessive that farmers were
ible to give their fields little attention.
It is to be hoped, concludes The Times'
authority, that history will not repeat
,n 1911 and that The News and Courier's
roseate forecast for the year will
pan out.
CARD OF THANKS.
On behalf of my family and mysblf,
I employ this means to thank you, the
good people of Fort Mill, for your
recent kindness to us. You have been
very kind to us ever since we came
into your midst, but you have been
especially kind during the last three
weeks, a time when kindness meant
most. Many nice thin gs were received,
and all of them are appreciated, but
we appreciate most of all your sympathy,
help and prayers during our days
of anxiety. I don't know how any
people could be more thoughtful, helpful
and sympathetic than you have
been. For all these expressions of
your confidence, love and esteem, we
most heartily thank you; and it shall
be our prayer that God, who is rich
in blessings, may bless you richly in all
good things. W. A. HAFNEft.
The best price paid for cotton
on the local market yesterday
was 8. 5 cents.
NOTICE?The best place to have your
clothes cleaned and pressed is the Fort
Mill Pressing Club, upstairs in Massey
Building, rnone no.
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Be it ordained by the mayor and aldermen
of the city ol Fort Mill, S. C.,
now sitting in open council and by
authority of the same:
Section 1. That an election for mayor
and six aldermen for the city of Fort
Mill for the years 19i.2 and 1913 is hereby
ordered to be held in the town hal
in said city on Tuesday, January 9,
1912, the polls to open at 8 a. m. anc
remain open until 4 p. m., during which
time all qualified voters shall be en
titled to vote.
Sec. 2. That each qualified vote]
shall be entitled to cast one ballot foi
mayor and one ballet for alderman ir
the ward in which said voter resides
and one ballot each for two aldermei
at large.
Sec. 3. That A. A. Bradford, T. D
Faulkner and J. H. Patterson are here
by appointed managers of said election
Done and ratified this 26th day o
December, 1911.
L. A. HARRIS,
Attest: Mayor.
J. L. SPRATT, Clerk.
iends and Patrons:
alone for the increasec
year that is now clos
t for that which we
and good will. We
lethods, and to always
id the support which
le forced us to seek m
squiring four large stor
vith our thanks we des
i the gr eetings of the i
1912, may be to you
lso hope that all have
rust that not one of th<
is. If we have done
nas joy of our friends
r the opportunity.
ir 1912 will find us m<
satisfactorily serve you
ur patronage and good
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LEROY SPRINGS
President.
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TAX NOTICE lyii. |
Office of the County Treas- j
urer of York County. j
Yorkviile, S. ('., Sept. 15, 1911. '
Notice is hereby given that the Tax 1
Books for York county will be opened
on Monday, the 16th (lav of Otober,
1911. and remain open until the 31st
day of December, lull, tor the coliec
tion of State, County. School and Local
; Thxes for the tiscal year 3911, without
penalty; after which day one per cent.
1 penalty will be added to all payrrn nts
made in the montn of January, 1912,
I and two per cent, penalty for all payl
merits made in the month of February, 1912,
and seven per cent, penalty will
! be added on all payments made from
r; the first day of March, to the 15th day
r of March, 1912, and after this dale ail
i unpaid taxes will go into execution and
. all unpaid Singie Polls will be turned
i over to the several Magistrates for
prosecution in accordance with law.
For the convenience of taxpayers,
-' will attend at the following places o ,
. the days named:
f At Yorkville from Monday, Novem-1
ber 13, until the 31st day of December,
1911, after which day the
penalties will attach as stated above.
HARRY E. NEIL.
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sing that we desire t
prize even more higi
have sought to folio1
take our patrons into
they have given us
ore room and now w<
erooms.
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season and the hope
a year of peace and
had a merry Christ)
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something that contr
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and patrons, we re<
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and thereby merit a
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We have on hand several I
worth up to $8.00, and you can 1
Shape in the house at HALF PR]
Chiidrens' Hats that will go the i
All Coat Suits and Long Coal
Statuary
We have the following pieces of
One each Cherry Boy and Gi
The Seed Sower, worth $4.0C
One Rebekah, worth $1.50, a
One large bust of Beethoven
Two of Dickens, worth $1.25
One Secret, worth $1.25, at I
Two Pedestals, 24 inch, worl
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has indeed been
year with us, and 1
our customers heai
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nineteen and twe
much happiness
We have resolved ti
our banner year, ar
operation we will
to see us often. W
to see you.
Again thankii
tending to you our
beg to remain, youi
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Painting, Til
I can save you money and materii
proper selections and use of paints ar
your home. For all kinds of Brush W
be Painted, Enameled, Stained or Var
in quality and taste.
y 1 am doing a lot of first-class painti
y munity, but I am always ready and ei
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beautifully Trimmed Hats,
3uy any Trimmed Hat or
[CE. We also have several
same way.
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Goods
Statuary to close out:
rl, worth $2.50, at $1.75.
>, at $2.85.
t 95c. '
, worth $4.00, at $2.75. i
i, at 79c.
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th $2.50, tor $1.75.
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and prosYear.
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a very pleasant
we wish to thank tU
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have given us
he ensuing year,
lve, bring you ^
and prosperity,
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best wishes, we
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