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J/QP SHORT ITEMS*# INTEREST Miss Marguerite Li'r returned Sunday inornihg to ? r home in Hickory, N. C., aft*' a pleasant visit of several days it the home of her brother, C.S. Link, in From all section? the county come report^ of t'* fearful condition of the pub?c roads as the result of the rans which have j prevailed much jf the time for the past three \eeks. In places the roads are amost impassible. Considerable trouble has been I experienced vith the heating I plant at the p?t>lic school during I the past few lays, and on Mon- I day the sevnth grade pupils I were excusql from study on- I account of th/unoomfortableness I of their root.Thoae suecribers who are in arreaw wifci their subscriptions , are urgent^ requested to settle without urfcher delay. We would dis'ke to drop any sub- I briber fr>m our list, but can't irim the p.pe^?n creuu. Miss Uja Steele returned this corning from visit to Miss Cau^jeSimth, of Fort Mill. Misses Tints and Minnie Bikers went o'er to Fort Mill last night to attppd a receotion given by Mis? ^ammie Smith in honor of i oti# of the graded school teach- i or-.-?Hill Herald. Saturday. ( The Times has engaged Clarence Link. a well known young! man of Fort Mill, to present1 bills to those subscribers who: have thus far failed to pay for the paper for 1911, and it is the hope of the publisher that each one in arrears will be prepared to settle with the young man when he visiU> them within the next few days. The weather forecast, as issued fby the national weatner oureau at Washington Monday night, stated that snow and sleet and unseasonable weather throughs out the entire country would usher in the present week. A general reaction to warmer and less intolerable conditions will mark the closing of the week. The beautiful reb-breasted robin, which comes each winter in great numbers, has made its appearance. but is not as numerous j as it will be in a few weeks J hence. The audubon laws of; the State prohibit the killing of this pretty bird, the line for each robin killed being $.10. Rev. J. T. Dendy. pastor of EbjBc/.er church since shortly after the death several years ago ojf the former pastor. Dr. J. H. r Thorn well, has been tendered a formal call to Wfodlawn Pres-1 byterian church, Birmingham, {' Ala. No announcement hasten?! made as to what action Rev. Mr. rinnHv nrohabTv will take with k regard to the call. k Commissioner E. J. Watson on Saturday announced the ap- I V pointment of Mr. John G. Antler- 1 son. 'of Rock Hill, as State superintendent under the "Rock ! Hiil" plan of securing pledges 1 for the reduction of the cotton ^ acreage for 1912. Mr. Anderson l| I is the originator of the "Rock Hill" plan. Along with the ap-1 m pointment, Mr. Anderson was requested to issue a call for conU ^tributions to carry through the > Mr. R. S. McConnell, who until a short time ago conducted a boarding house at the Catawba dam, died Wednesday night of last week at the home of his 1, F son-in-law, D. A. Gaston, at Blacksburg, after poor health for several months. The body was interred at Ebenezer church. Bhis county. Saturday. Mr. ^^H^^lcConnell was born at McCon nellsville in York co mty, but resided in Rock H.il for the past 25 years, lie was about 58years old and is survived by three children. . Governor Kitchin of North Carolina on Saturday granted a pardon for Ed Caton, Mecklenburg county, who has served since December, lyuy, on an i?months sentence to the roads. Caton has been stricken with pellagra and his life is endangered. The solicitor who prosecuted recommended the pardon, as did '.he county authorities, . and the brother of the man is | anxious to take the patient into his home and do what he can for him. The parrion is conditioned on good behavior. 11 York Teachers lo Meet. A meeting of the York County Teachers' Association will be 1 held in Yorkvilie on Saturday, January 13, at which a large number of the teachers of the < county and others interested in 1 educational work wiil be present, i The association meets this time in Yorkvilie on the invitation of ? Prof. J. Harvey Witherspoon. president of the association, and free entertainment will be provided for all who attend. Secretary Lueco Gunter, of 1 Rock Hill has sent notices to the 126 school teachers in the county, : urging them to attend the meeting, if possible. Secretary Gun- ; ter also requests the statement that any person interested in the educational work of the county 1 is cordially invited to attend, j However, he asks that those who desire to attend send their names to Prof. Witherspoon not later than January 10. The program for the meeting will be both entertaining and instructive. Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, of the State University, will! make the principal address. I The Town Election. The biennial election for a mayor and six aldermen for the 1 town of Fort Mill for the years i of 1912 and 1913 came off Tues- ' day after one of the most ex- . citing campaigns in the history of local elections. There were i five candidates for the office of mayor and in each of the four i wards of the town, with the ex- i ception of one, there were op- i posing candidates. No personaii- . ties were indulged in during the i day, but the friends of each ; candidate, those for mayor in ! particular, busied themselves I throughout the day in behalf of i their choice for the office. The < votes were counted in a short I time after the polls closed at I 4 o'clock and the result of the voting was as follows: * For May on A. R. McElhaney, 36. 1 R. P. Harris, 26. C. S. Link, 21. D. A. Lee, 8. ! Fred Harris* 4. , For Alderman at Large. J. L. Spratt, 71. B. W. Bradford, 56. S. L. Meacham, 52. For Alderman, Ward 1. W. L. Hall, 8. B. C. Ferguson, 7. . For Alderman, Ward 2. I VV. P. Cray ton, 18. j J. T. Young, 17. For Alderman, Ward 3. S. W. Parks, 22. W. A. Roach,*7. For Alderman, Ward 4. j R. E. Mctfibben, 13. I From the above it will be seen ' that the next mayor of Fort Mill ? will be Mr. A. R. McElhaney. i The ne\\ board of aldermen will < be composed of J. L. Spratt, 1 B. W. Bradford, W. L. Hall,:: VV. P. Crayton, S. W. Parks and 1 R. E. McKibben. Messrs. Hall, I Spratt and McKibben are at : present members of the board of 1i aldermen. The new mayor and l council will be inducted into I office within ten days and then i will follow the election of a city ; clerk and police officers for the 1 year. i t Honor Roll, Fort Mill School. ( Following is the honor roll of < the Fort Mill public school for J the month of December, 1911: , Tenth Grade ? Mary Potts, { Lana Parks, Mamie Jack Massey, < Lula Haile. y Ninth Grade-Ethel Armstrong ( Florence Bennett, Roy Patterson, ( Mae White, Lila Hall, Sarah ( Culp, Tom Hall, Bessie Smith. , Eighth Grade?Frances Smith, < Esther Meacham, Zenas Grier, ^ Clarence Link, James Young. f Seventh Grade ?Mary Arm- ^ strong, Kathleen Armstrong, ^ Alice Bradford, Willie K. Barber, \ Leniel Enloe, Heath Belk, Hor- j ace Kimbrell, Ernest Patterson, c AHee^H^ris.^ ^ ^ Pair Lee, Agnes Link, Mary *, McLaughlin, Marjory Mills. Mary yHope Smith, William Ardrey, ^ Luther Belk, John A Boyd, Bar- f ron Bennett, Robert Erwin, Wil- v iiam Erwin, Heath Hafner, An- v drew Hafner. Alfred Jones. i, Fifth Grade?Ruth McLaughlin, Eula Patterson, Mary Spratt, Ola Crayton, Augusta Garris, John Armstrong, Lonnie Robinson, John Barry Smith, Malcolm v Link. Third Grade?Grace Erwin, 2 Emma Epps, Beulah Parks, y Beatrice Parks, Sadie Rodgers, Sara White, AtmarAdcock, Har- F ry Bradford, Joe Faile, Haile ^ Ferguson, Wiiliam Grier, Charles J Magill, Gladys Ritch. [ Tnird Grade ?Hattie Belk, ^ Sophie Link, Annie Parks, Ver- _ nie Plyler, Margaret Steele, T? rnrl P**o\rtAn JiUXUt' OllJlCIi, l I tu vyi uj VV7U, Porter Gaston, Julius MeKain, i Douglas Nims, Harvey Wagner, < Robert Youngblood. Second Grade*?Li Hie Epps, . Esther Hope, Clara Lee, Marion ^ Parks, Maud Robinson, Imogene White, Robert Armstrong, Harmon llarkev, John Robert Harris, < Frank Kimbrell, Flavor Kim- < brell, Lige Lee, Billie Mack, Lad < son Mills, Marion Mills, Carl i Murray. First Grade- Elma Bradford, 4 Gertrude Broom, Beulah Epps, < Russsell Garris, Mary Jones, * Frank Jones, Clarence Jones, < Carl Kimbrell, Bulow Massey, Willie MeKain, Ella May McEl- ' haney, Mattie Moton, Elizabeth < Mills, George Misenheimer, Ruby < Plyler, Pauline Robinson, Carrie < Watford, Anna Wolfe, May < riinmnson < December Weather. Everybody knows that De eember was a succession of dull, '! ugly days, but maybe not many i people realized that there were < only nine clear ones in the entire month. All but two of these ~ came during the first week, too, * so that the remainder of the i month was almost continuously 2 cloudy or rainy. The month-C made a brilliant start. The first i six days were bright and clear. { with shinny skies and all that ? sort of thing. The seventh day * was partly cloudy, but the eighth f was bright again. Then the J weather took a turn for the f worse. Right straight on to the jj end of the month every day, with C the exception of the 18th and the i 28th, was either partly or en- [ tirely cloudy, and there was rain ? a-plenty. The heaviest precipi- * tation was on the 15, when in 24 f hours 2.14 inches of rain fell. J The total for the month was 6.09 { inches. The highest temperature J was 72 degrees on the 11th, and ( those figures reversed give the i lowest temperature, the mercury j having dropped to 27 degrees on i the 29th. The mean tempera- * ture for the last month of 1911 J was 49 degrees, two higher than j the normal for the month of ( December. ?The State. i Mr. W. R. Howie Dies Suddenly. Mr. W. R. Howie, a well known citizen of Fort Mill, died suddenly Monday morning about 7 o'clock at the home of his son, Mr. B. M. Howie, at Concord, N. C. Acute indigestion was given as the cause of death. Mr. Howie arose Monday morning and as usual was assisting in doing the small chores about the house when he took violently ill. A physician was hurriedly summoned, but was unable to render aid and death followed in very short time. Mr. Howie had not been in good health for several months and had gone to the home af his son at Concord with the hope that a change would be of benefit to him. W. R. Howie had been a resident of Fort Mill for about 25 years, coming here from Union county N. C., in the early'90s. For a number of years he followed carpenter ng and was considered an expert mechanic. Mr. Howie was 64 years of age and is survived by his wife, two sons, Messrs. B. M. Howie and Claude Howie, and several daughters. The funeral service was held at the hortie in Sprattville Tuesn#fofnnnri at 3 fiVlrtplf Rev day aiai uwi. ^ v v?w?tf ? T. J. White conducting the service, after which the burial was made in the family plot in the Fort Mill cemetery. It It a 16,000,000 Bale Crop? Will the 1911 cotton crop show a total of 16,000,000 bales? That it will was the opinion expressed by a well known cotton man who visited Fort Mill a few days ago, and who based his belief upon the reports of the amount jf unpicked cotton throughout the cotton belt. This man also stated that the spinners of the world now have in round numbers 17,000,000 bales, a supply adequate for their needs for the next two years. The estimate that a 16,000,000 bale crop will be picked and ginned from the growth of 1911 seems probable, and this too in spite of the fact ihat much cotton will be plowed jnder for the lack of pickers, rhe Times was shown a letter a few days ago from a reliable man )f South Georgia in which it was stated that the farmers in his section had made a great deal more cotton than they would be able to gather and that two farm-1 fUnf ;I9 111 kliai> OVVHUll \JX I.IIV UVUW I vould each plow under 75 bales1 )f the staple. And from Texas ;ame a letter to The Times a few lays ago from a party who had ecently made the trip to that State from South Carolina in vhich we were told that the ields all along the route were vhite with cotton. This letter vas written by a man who had 'ormerly resided in the West and 'rom his statement that the last otton crop was the largest he lad ever seen, we take it that here must be a considerable tmount yet in that section to be larvested. Yet with all this alk of an enormous yield, the armers of the cotton belt are in j vorse shape financially than they rere with a much smailer crop n 1910. More Money for Rural Schools? Many people in this section, as fell as throughout the State, are f the opinion that too large an mount of State money .goes to /lemson college and entirely too ittle is allowed the country or ural schools. It will, therefore, >e of interest to note that the chool trustees' association of ..exington county is preparing a trong memorial to place before he Legislature in behalf of the I We can s than rcceh money. W money, dra or need a drop in her arrange bu: I THE F! (g 1. 5?. UKArAIIUi President. iiO*je**cs*o*;e*ic*KiC3iscK: j A TC j J-|ERE'S a toast to the loyal h I of patrons j and those to l We wish you without alloj ( in warmest s J May the bou] J of contentme i be yours in the fullest,7 J Prosperity, t< 1 be the portio \ to wish it, is J JONES, T k \ rural schools of the State. Among: other things, the Legislature will be asked to cut the fertilizer tax j now going to Clemson college, giving half of this fund to Clem1 son and the other half to the ru: ral schools This will be the | first time that the Legislature i has been appealed to directly by a committee in behalf of the; "common schools," and the Lex-1 ingtor. association hopes to make j the showing so strong that the j 1 lawmakers will not turn a deaf ear to their petition. The Legislature will also be asked to change the law now governing State' aid to the weak schools. It is claimed that as the law now stands a majority of the j people of a district can keep the minority from securing any benefit. The Lexington trustees want j the law amended so as to give any district the benefit of this' fund which may raise the necessary funds, whether the funds be raised by taxation or by pri-! vate subscription. It is pointed out by the trustees that it is im- j possible the necessary number of votes in many of the districts;, ! that there are always those who j will oppose any measure that has a tendency to raise taxes, and the amendment asked for will relieve this situation. NOTICE?The best place to have your clothes cleaned and pressed is the Fort Mill Pressing Club, upstairs in Massey Building. Phone 146. Take a Glance I At the vest pocket a traveling man or any j business man who has much writing to do and in 99 cases out of 100 you ! will find"a "Waterman's Ideal," if you see any fountain pen Jat all. If I you would say any other 1 kind to them, the name would sound strange. You might start the New Year with a cheaper pen, but you will even-! tually wind up with a! Waterman Ideal. They are $2.50 and up and" never down, if it is a genuine Waterman Ideal, for mind you there are imitations by the Waterman j name. 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