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6 i'' ? 9 | FORT MILL, S.C. GENERAL INFORMATION. CITY GOVERNMENT. I A. R. McELHANEY Mayor S. W. PARKS Clerk ,1 V. D. POTTS .. Chief of Police ( DEPARTURE OF TRAINS. j 1 No. 31 Southbound ...5:40 a. m. < No. 36 Southbound 7:12 a. m. ?? i No. 27 Southb^uiiu.. 5:12 p. in. No. 36 Northbound . .8:50 a. m. No. 28 Northbound . 6:2o p. rn. No. 32 Northbound 8:27 p. ni. , , Note?Trains 31 and 32 stop at a iFort Mill only when Hanged. 'f MAILS CLOSE. f For train No. 3u 8:30 a. rn. i For train No. 27 4:50 D. ni. I i For train No. 2# 6:U0 p. m. I 1 Note ? No mail :& despatched on f trains 31, 32 and 35. '1 rains 27 ' and 28 do not handle mail Sunday, f j POSTOFF1CE HOURS. Daily .. 7:3U a. in. to 7:80 p. m. ! ^ i Sunday 0:80 to Ida. m . 5 to5:80 ?. . j SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST to TIMES READERS. Good morning! Have you paid your street tax? Chas. W. McN"?ily is able to be out after an illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Janie Young and children are now occupying the Barber residence on East Booth street. Mrs. Fannie Culp, mother of Mrs. W. R. Bradford, of this city, is reported as being seriously sick at her home in Pineville. Mrs. J. M. Oldham, of Charlotte, spent several days of the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ardrey, in this city. The rain of Saturday put the quietus on the game of baseball that was to have been played between the Gold Hill and Fort Mill nines. n P Xlnssair T> crm nf Ml* I D. C. Hioootj, wi., uvii v? and Mrs. B. F. Massey of lower Fort Mill, has accepted a position with Bowen's drug store in Charlotte. Catawba lodge No. 5C\ A. F. M., will meet in regular monthly session this (Thursday) evening promptly at 7:30 o'clock. Work will be done in the second degree. At a meeting recently of the trustees of the Yorkville graded schools Prof. J. Harvey Witherspoon was reelected superintendent of the schools for the 1912-13 term. There was a light touch of frost Friday morning in low * places, but not enough to hurt truck gardens or fruit of any kind. The thermometers registered as low as 42 at 6 a. m. The Times acknowledges receipt of an invitation to attend the exercises of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Winthrop college to be held at Rock Hill Friday, May 3. The small grain crops in this A J 1 section are reported to nave umeu on new life during the last ten days and the indications now are that a good crop of both wheat and oats will be harvested. < Chas. W. McNealy, whose illness of pneumonia was reported in The Times of last week, continues to improve and it is now believed that he will be abb to leave his room within a short time. Notice is given in another column of the regular spring exami nation of applicants for certificates to teach in the public schools of the county. The examination will be held at the court house the morning of Friday, May 3. Great preparations have been made in Rock Hill for the entertainment of the visitors who will attend the State oratorical contest in that city Friday, April 26. Many Fort Mill people have expressed an intention of hearing these contests in oratory. The many friends in this section of Mrs. Laura A. Parks will regret to learn that she suffered a slight stroke of paralysis on Wednesday of last week. It is pleasing to note, however, that Mrs. Parks has partially recovered from the affliction. In the circuit court at Yorkville last week Robert McCoy a Fort Mill colored man was tried and acquitted upon the charge of murder. McCoy was charged with the murder of another negro at his home in the suburbs of Fort Mill one night several months ago. Great improvement has been made the past few days to that portion of Confederate street fronting the graded school by the dumping of hundreds of loads of loose dirt in the low places. The dirt is that being removed from Main street to make way for the navincr and it is believed that the amount to be removed will be sufficient almost to level the low place in Confederate street at the point mentioned. It is to be hoped that the farmers of this section will not allow Wall street to pull the wool over their eyes by raising the price of cotton to eleven cents and better at this, the planting, time. If the farmer will look backward he will find that this has been done for years in order to induce him to plant a large crop and when the harvest season comes the Wall street men sit back and laugh in their sleeves at the hard-worked cotton farmer who is compelled to let the fruits of his labor get away at a price way below the actual value of the product Plant less. Most Repair Roads and Bridges. Postmaster B. H. Massey has received a request from the postoffice department at Washington for information concerning what action has been taken toward rebuilding Boby's bridge over Sugar creek and the repairing of the public roads in the vicinity of the bridge. It will be remembered that Dobv's bridge was washed away during the freshet some weeks ago and the roads in that vicinity have since been but little used and are said to be badly washed. The Dobv's bridge road is the highway of travel for the rural mail carrier on route 3 rom Fort Mill and for the reason that the mail service is being greatly hindered by the present condition of the road and bridge the department insists that some accion be at once taken to remedy the trouble. In a letter to Postnaster Massey the postal authoriiessay that ac tion in this matter must not be further delayed or the department probably wiil find it advisable to change the route or discontinue the service altogether. The postal authorities have also addressed letters to Supervisor Gardner of Lancaster county and Ciinni'iricnf Rftl'H f?f York POlllltV UUj^Ll t ir*iM uvj v? Vi * w .. u in regard to the road and bridge. Supervisor Boyd has replied that the work ol removing the old bridge has been awarded and as soon as the material is removed from the stream, and some idea gained as to what parts of the old structure can be used in the building of the new bridge, bids will be asked for and a contract awarded for the bridge. In the meantime it behooves the supervisors and people residing along the Doby's bridge road to get busy and put the road in passable condition if they wish to retain { the dailv mail service. The Origin of Tobacco. Here is the Indian legend of the origin of tobacco: "Ages ago, at the time when spirits considered the world yet good enough for their occasional resi-! dence, a very great and powerful spirit lay down by the side of his fire to sleep in the forest. While so lying his arch-enemy came that way and thought it would be a good chance for misrtViiof cr, front 1 v nnnroafhinc the V liivi I ^ v * 1 V J v v. 0 sleeker he rolled him over towards the fire till his head rested among the glowing embers and his hair was set ablaze. The fire roasted the good spirit, and, leaping to his feet, he rushed in a fright through the forest. As he did the wind caught his singed hair as it flew off, and, carrying it away, sowed it broadcast over the earth, into which it sank and took root and grew up tobacco." Wofford Glee Club Coming. A decided treat is in store for all the music lovers of this section in the visit to Fort Mill next Saturday evening of the Wofford College Glee Club. The club will give a concert in the auditorium of the Fort Mill school Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, under the 1 auspices of the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The Wofford club is com- j posed of the best talent of the | college and is well known to the people of South Carolina, having in past seasons appeared oefore large and appreciative audiences in many of the cities and towns of the State. This excellent musical organization visited Fort Mill about one year ago and, while the crowd attending the concert was not as large as had been hoped, so highly complimented was the entertaiment it is believed that when the curtain rises next Saturday evening the school auditorium will be well filled. The Daughters of the Confederacy were indeed fortunate in making a date with the glee club. For a Clean-up Day. The Times would be pleased to see the citizens of the town inaugurate a general cleaning up campaign, such as was so successfully carried through last spring, and we feel confident that every citizen residing within the corporate limits would readily join in the movement by (leaning their places of business and resi dence, including all surrounding grounds. The local Civic club doubtless would cooperate in such a campaign and it is not to be doubted that both the appearance arid sanitary conditions of our town would be greatly improved if the work was carried through. Promise of Good Fruit Crop. Or.e of the largest fruit growers in this section stated to The Times a day or two ago that he had never known a brighter prospect for all kinds of fruit than there is at present. The peach trees, he stated, are having an especially heavy fruitage that is already well developed and the apple trees are following suit with promises of equally as full a crop. If there is no killing frost for the remainder of the spring a record crop it is believed is assured of all kinds of fruit in this section of the State. The indications are. he says, that the danger of killing frosts is about past and if this is the case iL '- ?? ?^ V\n<fA o in'olrl mis StXllUU is sui c iv lia ic aj iviu as large as was ever known. Then, too, the interest in spraying and other means of improving the quality of the fruit is so increased that the record for quality also bids fair to surpass that of former years. Beginning Wednesday, May 1. the stores of Fort Mill, drug stores excepted, will close each afternoon during the summer months at 7 o'clock. The stores will remain open Saturday evenings as usual. A Strange Phenomenon. On March the 26th at 10:30 1 o'clock rocks began falling at the home of J. M. Craft's near the Savannah river, in Elbert county, Georgia, and continued for three days, falling at intervals through the day. They began falling in a field some distance from the house where Mr. Craft and a colored boy were at work. At first he thought it was some mischievous person hid in a patch of woods trying to scare them. He spoke and told them to stop it, but the rocks kept falling around them. At last he decided to go to another fi-Id removed from the woods, bur the rocks continued to fall, and one ^fell on his hoe and knocked it from his hand. By this time he began to think they were coming from some other source so he hurried to his house. After he got there the rocks began falling again. They did not fall in a shower but one here arid there. IIis wife gathered a great'many of them as they did not fall with any force. The rocks looked ? !-- .? l,? line our commuu urn., imnn >oijing in size from the small one to some as large as your fist. > The first morning they fell it was a little cloudy, but the rest of the time it was clear. Some think it was a fulfillment of the Bible, "there shall be signs and wonders before the the last days" and again in John 4-48 Christ said "except ye see signs and wonders, ye shall not believe." And we are commanded to watch and he reaJy. There is no exaggeration in this article for it was written just as it was told by my grandfather who is now 87 years and others who were present and saw them falling.?N. McG. in Abbeville Press and Banner. Except in York. Are there to be no candidates for office in Cherokee this year? What's the matter? Are those who would serve the dear people afraid to let it be known? In every other county there are already a number of candidates announced, but so far no one in Cherokee has had the temerity to come out for a single office. ? Gaffney Ledger. To Mothers?And Others. You can use Bucklen's Arnica Salve to cure children of eczema, rashes, tetter, chafings, scaly and crusted humors, as well as their accidental injuriescuts, burns, bruises, etc., with perfect safety. Nothing else heals so quickly. For boils, ulcers, old, running or fever sores or piles it has no equal. 25 cts at Ardrey's Drug Store, Parks Drug Co and Fort Mill Drug Co. ONE CENT A WORD MINIMUM CHARGE, 25C. >" FOR SALE!?Two fresh Milch Cows, also two Cocks? one Plymouth Rock and one Rhode Island Red. B. F. MASSEY, 'Phone 90. FOR SALE?Berkshire Boars, $15 up. Let us breed your sow to one of our boars, our fee, a pig. Reliable party can have one or our boars on | shares. See us if interested. L. A. HARRIS & BRO. SWEET POTATO SPROUTS-For sale, Nancy Hall, Providence and Porto Rico?April and May delivery, $1.75 per 1,000; 5,000 lots, $1.70; 10,000 lots, $1.65. Cabbage Plants, $1.00 per 1,000. F. E. HULL. Rock Hill, S. C. NOTICE OF INCREASE IN CAPITAL STOCK. Notice is hereby given that books are now open for subscription to increase capital stock of Mills & Young Co., from $25,000 to $35,000, at their office in Fort Mill, S. C. J. B. MILLS, W. D. WOLFE, President. Secretarv. Fort Mill, S.C., April 25, 1912. Attention Democrats! A meeting of the Fort Mill Democratic club is hereby called for Satur; dap, April 27, 1912, in the town hall at 3:30 o'clock, for the purpose of reorganizing and electing delegates to the county convention, which is called to ' meet, at the court house on May 6, and : for the selection bf a member of the ; county executive committee, and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the club. A full attendance is desired. J. R. HAILE. B. W. BRADFORD, Presisent Sec *etary. , . - ? Teachers' Examination. The regular Spring Examination of I applicants for certificates to teach in Eublic schools will be held in the Court louse at Yorkville on Friday, May 3, next, beginning promptly at 9 o'clock a. m. The questions on Pedagogy are based on the South Carolina Manual for Elementary schools by W. K. Tate, and those on Algebra, Arithmetic, History, Grammar, Geography, Agriculture, Physiology, Civics and Current Events, are based on the State adopted text l>ooks. Manuals may be secured from the County Superintendent of Edj ucation upon request. Applicants will be required to furnish writing materials. J. W. QUINN, T. E. McMACKIN, J. HARVEY WITHERSPOON Wofforc GLEE At School i Saturday Ni; Fifteen real collge you with Chorus Solos as only colle J Adults . . . 25c. Nineteen Miles a Second without a jar, shock or disturbance, is the awful speed of our earth through space. We wonder at such ease of nature's movement, and so do those who take Dr. King's New Life Pills. No griping, no distress, just thorough I 1 work tnat brings good health and fine ' j feelinga. 25c at Parks Drug Co., Fort ? ! Mill Drug Co. and Ardrey's Drug j Ston;. s m m Temperatures this week will j average above the normal in the 'Southern and Eastern States. 1 and near or below the norma! with frosts, over the Middiu West, Rocky Mountain and plaiteau regions, according to the j weekly bulk tin issued Sunday ' night by the national weather j | bureau. Repels Attack oi Death. "Five years ug<> two doctors tud me . I had oniy two years to live." This | I startling statement was made by Still- | I man (Irecn, Malachite, Col. "They t | told me 1 would die wi'h consumption. I ; It was up to me then to try the best I j lung medicine und j began to use Dr. King's New Ditcovi ry. It was well i did, for today I arn working and beI lieve 1 owe my life to this great throat j and iung cure that has cheated tiegrave of another victim." Its folly to suffer with eouglre, colds or o.her j throat and lung troubles now. Take i the cure that's safest. Price 50 cents j and $1.00. Trial bottle free at Parks Drug Co.. Ardrey's Drug Store and j Fort Mill Drug Co. ! The best price paid for cotton ] on the local market yesterday was 111-2 cents. Glorious New3 comes from Dr. J. T. Curtiss, Dwight, Kan. He writes: "I not only have cured i bad cases of eczema in my patients with ! Electric Bitters, but also cured myself by them of the same disease. I feel sure they will benefit any case of eczema." This shows what thousands have proved, that Electric Bitters is a most effective blood purifier. Its an excellent remedy j for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, toils and running sores. It stimulates liver, kidneys ana bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength. Price 50 ct;. Satisiaction guaranteed by Fort Mill Drug Co., Parks Drug Co. and Ardrey's Drug store. Ballardville Spring Water For the Kidneys direct from the springs at Ballardville, Massachusetts. A water about which there can be no speculation as to its medicinal droperties, for its extensive sale throughout the entire United States establishes! this fact. : Ardrey's Drug Store, : For Vigor and Buoyancy in Springtime Take BECAUSE?That "tired feeling" is ~ simply |a poisoning of the brain and ? nerves by toxins carried to them in the f blood from various sources. > MILAM is a powerful tonic, without ^ an artificial stimulant, and the great- ^ est blood purifier known to medical science, but without mercury, potash j ? or other dangerous drugs. ; y If you are all run down, languid and depressed and feel the need of a tonic, + don't take chances take MILAM, it's ! L guaranteed. A dollar spent for MILAM is not spent, it's invested in good . health. $1 the bottle, six for $5. f Fort Mill Drug Co. j J. R. HAILE, Mgr. ; FOR k\m LIFE \ Those Interested, Please Read Fresh air and exercise, with proper food and a sufficient amount of sleep, 4 are the essentials. I'nder such a regime of living, . fprniR cannot rievelon. and mauv dis- ^ eases are prevented. 4 Should the system require a tonic, I ! take only such as you know their m gredients?such is VInol, which is a * delicious combination of the health- 4 giving properties of the cods' livers I with all the useless grease eliminated I ana tome iron added, happily blended ~ In a mild, medicinal wine. j * For this reason VInol is regarded 4 as one of the greatest body builders and invigorators for aged people. It . Invigorates and builds them up, and < keeps them up. 4 We sell Vinol with the understand lng that if it does not give satlsfac- ; I tion the price will be returned. . < ARDREY'S DRUG STORE, * FORT MILL, S. C. 1 I College i club! 4 Auditorium i ght at 8:30. j boys will entertain ies, Quartettes and ge boys can - - Children ... 15c g - 1 v Mills < Get the Don't waste your money buyin We have been selling NEW chines for the past 27 years, ai far the best machines on the n Have also sold VVALTHAM W Ask anybody that has a Walth; rect time and he can tell you. Have sold HARRISBURG SI They fit vour feet and wear ab Have sold BUTTERICK PA Do not waste your cloth trying uncertain pattern. YVe do no! fade. We know by experience and what brands not to buy. Spring Goods and compare c body's GUT prices. L.J.MA! Everythi FURNI1 > _____ ??????? Our storeroom is now cr j> newest in the way of Home F > you to call and take a look at ^ Our goods are of the late* ' right, and we'll make the term > Get your boy a bicycle frc ; Harris Furnitur > ''First on the S SEND ORDERS FOR JOB PF TO Before the Roads it coi times as much anc ten times as long t 1a letter from Ball to Chicago. It's done better toda tenth of the time an Progress Dear Sir?prof Men's clothing has ma< strides in the past few Ready-to-wear is no * "just as good" as custor ?it's better. Tailoring Fit Finish Materials Economy in every step f wool to the sewing on of button. Wc, as well as the maker [ back of American Clothes Our gent's furnii ready with the go< all the leading strictly new sty lei cool Shirts, Silk S< Suits, shirts and d LAI Have von seen om %> lin Underwear? very fine materii Princess Slips, ( Drawers, Corset garment guaranty vmir monev back. J x? J Sc. Youi Dry Goods, Clothi Best. I g uncertain qualities. f HOME Sewing Ma- f id know they are by f market. ,f atches for 28 years. am watch for the cor- ? f HOES for 14 years, out twice as long. ? TTERNS 14 years. to cut a dress by an t sell wash goods that ? what brands to buy Come see our New ur prices with anyI ? + aecrv $ ^ EL ? | ng in rURE.j owded with all that's T urnishings, and we ask the stock. ^ it style; our prices are r s to suit YOU. >m our stock. | r- i e company, * quare." | UNTING THE TIMES. ,f| LADIES st ten 2 GENT! y at a Alike find it d cost. well as profit a ie great ,lm>* years. undergarment, longer n-made meilt, fool pice you have the of knowing tl duel in the v rom the s all OX|>OI1S< the last little less thai *, stand been paying ' cornmon stuff. shing department is )ds, New Straws in shapes, Neckwear, s, Comfortable and a ox, B. V. D. Union ^ rawers separate. ^ )IES! r new line of MusAll well made of ll. Gowns, Skirts, Combination Suits, covers, etc. Every 1 J. ? ? 1 ? ?"MI M LHI IU pieust* ><JU UI ng Comp ng and Shoe Store. I When the Call is for I thing for D [ Good Extracts are a wonder jj know how much the success the dessert. 1 We can give you the Vanilla jj in pint bottles, the best and 9 Mint, Peach and Bananna ir 9 Dessert Peaches, Pie Peach< ries, Mince Meat, Peeled A 0 apple, Grated Pineapple, D ^ Apples, and Grapes. f ? t*-i r* TUP junh5, 1 S Phones 14 and 8. K)0i0(0()0()0i0( U 0(KXMX I Garden Even the children can use it. and over again in a little rj ?ro ^"/ . Furnished with the itlxbofois shov.n in and Wrench. All (arts are iiiiefchajt??able, i can do the work ol two people with hoes or r?Sn handles can be lowered bo that they can be rrai that can he done with a hoe or a rake?and do Uuie hacks resulting from its use. B?0P50l CANTON PLOWS CANTON PLOWS C McElhanej Headquarter AO Kinds of i icrrzwr? ? K vc-; ?I and j LEMEN | pleasant as fl t ?le trading f er it-he an $ , ontergar. i ? e or top lul, satisfaction | !iat you are ery best at | really, a 11 you have others for ||^?' | til any, 3HC* ?*Ot*OHOUO*?)f . . ' 8 Extracts or Some- fi lessen. 5 ful help to those who Q of a meal depends on jj and Lemon Extracts * cheapest way to buy. j] i the 10c bottles. ^ js, Apples, Blackberpricots. Sliced Pine- jj ried reacnes, unea g GROCER. 0 o?oo??? i i li i ? Sow It will pay for itself over L : vegetable garden. {he cot P) ' *. Shovel, NVredi-r, Rake n this trinL-n cultivator r?k It weigh* only ib pound*, and the ihedhva boy. It will do everything i it better and easier. There are no P^fcO iNTON PLOWS CANTON PLOWS j & Co., i for 3 Farm Machinery 31 II ! I V