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TEE FORT KILL TIKES. Democratic ? Puubtished Thursdays. B. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor. ( itowcsimoM Barn: One Year 11.25 81a Month* M The Time* invitee contribution* on live subject* bat doe* not acre* to publish more thar 200 words on any subject. The right is reserved to edit aver? communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to tboee interested. Telephone, local and lona distance No. 112. Entered at the poetoAee st Fort hUll. S. C . as mail matter of the second class. L m FORT MILL. 8. C.. MAY 23. lttt With the opening of spring the commercial organization of many towns in this State are carrying out plans for the beautification and improvement of their communities. Cleanliness of premises, of homes and business buildings is being urged, together with a general improvement of back yards and alleys. Well-kept laws, gardens and shrubbery are to take the place of untidy piles of refuse and debris. Fort Mill along with the other towns of the State is well adapted by nature for beautification. The climate and soil contribute liberady to the growth of trees and flowers, and nothing in the way of attributes is lacking to carry out the making of an attractive and delightful community: provided, of course, our people show the proper spirit ?f progressiveness and civic pride. An attractive appearance is an actual business asset to a community and we would be pleased to see the peonle of our town show their pro gressiveness by carrying out the idea. The Columbia State is due at least a modicum of sympathy from the people of South Carolina. For weeks The State had put up a strenuous fight to have the South Carolina delegation to Baltimore instructed to vote for Wilson for president, and by its claims of Wilson's popularity in , this State, we doubt not that i many of The State's readers had been led to believe that the ; Wilson instruction clause would slide through the convention like J hot grease through a tin horn. , But it didn't, thanks to the good | judgment of that august body. , The delegates go to Baltimore j loose-handed, to choose the man who at that time they consider < the most available and best fitted 1 to knock the socks off the Republicans this Democratic year, j The South Carolina delegates are men of ability and sound judgement and there is every reason to believe that they will vote for the best man when they are I called on in the Baltimore convention. One of the most effective ways for local merchants to oppose encroachments of mail-order houses is to advertise liberally in their hame paper. Too many merchants sleep on their oars while the catalog-house floods the community with its literature and takes a portion of the merchant's trade. The average merchant demurs at undertaking anything like a thorough system of advertising, contending that the drift to the mail-order house is bound to come; and yet he makes free complaint when the express delivers a foreign package into his particular trade. The fact of the matter is, the trade of any ; community belongs to the merchants of that community and would come to them if they were progressive enough to invite it with good, live advertising. For the worst road in this section of the country, we believe that Lancaster county's "King's Highway," through Pleasant I Valley to the JNorth Carolina line, will take the cake. With its numerous holes and washes, the road is simply, horrible, except to one traveling by oxcart. |, The road from Baiies bridge to the King's Highway" has? j thanks to the progressiveness:: and good-will of Fort Mill citizens?been put in fairly passable shape during the last ten days. But the "King's Highway," it's a caution. We are told that the good people of Pleasant Valley , may yet hold an indignation , meeting on account of their road, j ? ?In a card in the Yorkville En- ! quirer of the 14th inst., "Voters J of Western York" suggest Hon. J. R. Haile, of Fort Mill, as a 1 man well fitted to represent York 4 county in the lower house of the State Legislature. The numer ous friends throughout the , county of Mr. Haile would be | pleased to see him enter the race j and would give him their hearty i support. Mr. Haile has the matter under consideration. ! i If such a thing be possible, ' J we would pe pleased for the \ esteemed Columbia State to pub- , lish just for once its honest ! opinion of the present political strength of the several candidates for the Democratic presi- < denti&l nomination. ; Sir jar f... Hon. T. Both Butler, mayor of Gaffney, has announced through the news columns of the Yorkville Enquirer that he will not be a candidate for Congress this year from the Pifth district of South Carolina. Every once in awhile the Chester Lantern gets gay by copying a squib from The Times and placing a foolish heading to it, thereby making an ass of itself. Jones and BletK in Joint Debate. By iong established custom for State offices Governor Blease and Judge Jones will meet in joint debate within a few weeks in the county seat of every county in the State for a tour that will take something like seven weeks to complete. The itinerary of the campaign will be fixed by a meeting of the sub-committee of the State executive committee which will be held within the next week or so, and the campaign will begin about June 15 and will continue with little interruption until the 1 1* A i laFC 01 AUgUSI,. The issue will be "Bleaseism," and "Anti-Bleaseism." Judge Jones will contend that the governor has not been the governor of the whole State, but only of his friends, that he has used the pardon power for Solitical purposes, and has therey encouraged lawlessness and anarchy, and that Bleaseism has become a reproach to the State. 1 Governor Blease, on the other hand, will contend that he has been a vigorous governor and let no one boss him, and for that reason has made enemies; that his pardon power has been in the interest of justice and mercy, and i that his program of State economy has been rigidly carried out. The campaign promises to be the .hottest fought in the State since the early days of B. R. Tillman. It bids fair to be bitter and personal from the start and the people of South Carolina are awaiting its opening with inter est For Formers to Think About. The cut worm, the boll weevil, the Hessian fly, the potato bug and miscellaneous other insects, the field mice, the shrews and the barn and house rats have no quarrel over the high cost of living. The country to them is a land flowing with milk and honey. The farmer plants for them. He provides them with shelter. He raises scare-crows to warn off their enemies. And in between times the boys go forth with rifle and shotgun, with bird lime and "sling-shots" and see to it that the insects and rodents are further protected. The department of agriculture estimates that the tax the farmers of the United States pay for the luxury of insects and rodents amounts to $1,000,000,000 a year. This is the value of food destroyed. It is that much taken from the farmers' just profits. It is that much food kept from the markets where loud cries are raised from time to time against excessive prices. When the farmers decide that they prefer this money to the food destroyers, they will stop the forays on the birds. They will encourage them to take up early residence in the countryside and to linger longer than is fUaim rtnotnm T!nnw mm 11 nlonf HiClI tUOtl/illi 1 . it j ?? ill piunv | hedges, leave a few more trees 1 standing, forbear to clear out all the underbrush, so that the birds may have nesting places and those that stay through the winter may have shelter. They will not quarrel with the whole tribe of hawks because an occasional individual loots a pullet. ; They will not try to kill off all i the crows because sprouting corn j is pulled up once in a while. Thev will codsider these some slight returns for the work of the hawks, crows and owls in pur- j suing the field mice and moles. Kill the birds and accept the insects. Spare the birds and be spared the billion-dollar insect tax. This is the choice the farmers have to make.?Toledo Blade. To Raise Half a Million. The general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church in session at Bristol, Tenn., has; voted to raise more than a half million dollars during the next fiscal year, to be applied to foreign missions. Consideration and adoption of the report of the committee on systematic beneficence and the hearing of a report from a committee of which Dr. Jas. I. Vance of Nashville is chairman, recommending the taking of steps looking to a union of the church and the United Presbyterian church, octUrt iwA?.ninrr cotcinn nf LU(J 1CU 11IC lllKJl int.- uvuuiv.. w. the general assembly. The assembly voted to raise foi work in the foreign fields $550,000, the assembly's home missions) 5190,000. for Christian education and ministerial relief $129,000, I for Sabbath school expenses and publication $30,000 and for the American Bible society $10,000. What the Candidates Claim. The situation as to how many votes in the Baltimore convention will be received by the va-: rious candidates is more or less i confusing. With the beginning of the week there seemed to be authentically named for Mr. Clark 283 votes, and upon the same basis of reas aning, Mr. Wilson had 126. Mr. Underwood had. instructed, 84; Gov. Baldwin, 14; Gov. Marshall, 30; Gov. Harmon, 2. Swat the germ-laden fly, the earlier the start the better the result Richeson Electrocuted. The young Virginia minister, Clarence V. T. Richeson, who filled the pulpit of a prominent church in Boston, Mass., in the early hours yesterday, paid the penalty with his life for foully and secretly murdering young Avis Linnef, a member of his church, whom he had betrayed and givei. a fatal dose of cyanide of potassium, in order to cover his disgrace so that he could marry another young lady of wealth to whom he had become engaged. Virginia has furnished four monsters, McCue who murdered his wife, Claverius who murdered his cousin, Beattie who murdered his wife and Richeson?but, be it said to the credit of Virginia, she required, as a forfeit, the lives of the first three who violated her laws and Massachusetts, likewise, brought the fourth to justice.?Lancaster News, Tuesday. Fnrman Students Honor Mr. Lee. Correspondence Fort Mill Tunes. Last Friday night crowned a number of honors which the college mates of Mr. Robt. G. Lee have heaped upon him. Mr. T.ee was elected to the presi dency of our progressive college Y. M. C. A. in January. Two weeks ago he was elected editorin-chief of the college magazine which is one of the highest honors the college can bestow upon man. This magazine, The Furman Echo, is recognized as one of the best in the South and we feel sure Mr. Lee will do his part in maintaining its record. Last Friday night Mr. Lee's society elected him president of that body. These honors are an expression of the boys' appreciation of Mr. Lee's ability to be a leader of men. His record in college, which is one of the highest, proves his ability as a student, and Fort Mill truly has a reason to be proud of her son. P. M. B. Greenville, May 19. Some Items From Flint Hill. Correspondence Fort Mill Timeii As our community has not been represented in your paper in a great while, I am anxious to have something in The Times about it. The farmers of this section are very busy trying to finish rdontincr tlipir rrons On appount of the recent rains they are badly benind. There has been but little corn planted in this section up to the present. Mr. Lewis Capps, of Dobyville, Ark., is visiting his uncle, Mr. Tom Davis, in this community. Mr. John Blankenship, of Wake Forest college, returned home the last week for the summer holidays. Miss John Miller, who has been teaching school in Charlotte, has returned to her home in this section. Mrs. May McCoy, who was operated on at one o* the Charlotte hospitals recently, is get ting along nicely. Mrs. Rob Miller Watts, of Miami, Fla., is expected here within a few weeks to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. M. A. Miller. Z. T. B. Flint Hill, May 21. Local Militiamen in Charleston. The annual rifle practice of the National Guard of South Carolina began Monday morning at the Charleston range and will continue until May 29. Over 250 officers and men are engaging in the practice, details of one officer and six men being present from each company in the Stat.e. Col. 0. W. Babb, assistant adjutant general, is acting as chief range officer, the practice being under the direction of Maj. T. T. Hyde, executive officer. The following men from the Fort Mill company left Sunday morning for Charleston to take part in the practice: Lieut. S. W. Parks. Sergt. Belk, Corporal Potts, Privates Belk, Thrower, Hall and Moser. Think They Have Perry. A man whose description tallies closely with that of W. E. Perry, has been arrested in McAlister, Okla. at the instance of J. B. Gardner, formerly of Chester. Photographs of the suspect received from Oklahoma bear a certain amount of resemblance to the picture of Perry on the reward circular, when due allowance is made for the fact, the pictures were taken nine years apart and in different lights and under different circumstances. Chester Lantern. Perry is wanted at Chester for the murder several years ago of a man named Boozer. The larger railway lines of the State were a few days ago requested by the railroad commission to sell mileage good for transportation over the smaller lines owned or controlled by them. The request will apply to the Atlantic Coast Line, which is Su'd to control the Charleston i J i.L ana Western Carolina, anu uie i South rn, which is alleged by the co amission to control the Blue Rk re. TEACt ERS' SCHOLARSHIPS in the j UNIVERSH ' of SOUTH CAROLINA. The Univei ity of South Caroling of- i fers a teacl ts' scholarship to one ] young man in ach county. The schol- . arship is wort $100 in money and exemption from ees. < The examination for entrance to the University as well as teachers' scholarship will be held at the county seat on Friday, July 12th., at 9 o'clock. , Besides regular college work, the University offers courses in Law, En- ( gineering, and Commerce and Finance. , The health and morals of the students are the first care. 1 Enrollment, 443 students. I Many improvements next session. For catalog write to S. C. MITCHELL, President, Columbia, S. C. YOU 0\ J To yourself to ir I j most itir >i*ui iin/ij I j important questioj 1 j readily admit that I; full dollar's worth 1 j lar you spend. T I will see that you f p | York's latest in st II strong and lasting I [ of patterns to sele? I These are the choicet II can't do better than to s< | [ new Spring styles are on i] j but that we have a suit P without greatly decreasii | M'EL To Mothers?And Others. You can use Bucklen's Amica 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. The best price paid for cotton on the local market yesterday was 12 cents. 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 work tnat brings good health and fine feelings. 25c at Parks Drug Co., Fort Mill Drug Co. and Ardrey's Drug Store. Floyd Allen is Guilty. Floyd Allen, the mountaineer on trial at Wytheville, Va., for the murder of State's Attorney W. M. Foster, who was killed in a raid on Hillsville court in March;1; was Friday declared guilty o? murder in first degree. Th { jury was out all night. Sentence was not pronounced! upon Allen Friday as he may be called to testify in other cases; When the verdict was announced Allen relapsed into despair. Repels Attack of Death. "Five years ago two doctors told me I had only two years to live." This startling statement was made by Stillman Green, Malachite, Col. "They told me I would die with consumption. It was up to me then to try the best lung medicine and I began to use Dr. King's New Discovery. It was well I did, for today I am working and believe I owe my life to this great throat and lung cure that has cheated the grave of another victim." Its folly to suffer with coughs, colds or other throat and lung troubles now. Take the cure that's safest. Price 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottle free at Parks Drug Co., Ardrey's Drug Store and Fort Mill Drug Co. DON'T SAY YOU'RE OLD You Only Feel Old Digestive organs are weak?don't assimilate food as they used to. Other organs act more slowly and less effectually. Blood is thin and sluggish. Renewal of strength does not equal the wear and tear of your system. That's what makes you feel old. Nothing in the world will tone up and invigorate those weak, hack-sliding organs, make rich blood and create strength so quickly as Vinol. , Vino] is not a secret nostrum, simply the medicinal elements o; the cods' livers, with the useless nauseating oil eliminated, and tonic iron added. Try a bottle of Vinol with the understanding that your money will he returned if it does not make yon stronger, feel younger and give you an added interest in life. ARDREY'S DRUG STORE, FORT MILL, S. C. m "r if- r- - bej*? TO CARRY LUMBER that wiil please all customers and meet the demands and requirements of the most exacting builders is no small undertaking. You cannot find a Lumber yard stocked with BETTER LUMBER and Building material, that will :ome nearer to meeting all demands than our yard. Do not make a purchase without first obtaining our estimates. It will be money in your pocket J. J. BAILES. ' t i VE IT lake sure of getting the ey. Think over the all * . a of Clothes. You will you are looking for a of wear for every dol* hen come to see us, we jet full measure of New yle and fabrics that are with a wide variety * et from. A garments in town, and you elect YOUR SUIT now. Our i display and there is no doubt that will fit and please you [ig your bank account HANEY & Store of Style and Quality. 1SECREC ? The officers of th pledged to impart no ? cerning the dealings and customers have that their banking bi as confidential. This ^ aim to protect their i legitimate manner. <V =========== | THE FIRST NATION/ $ T. S. KJRKPATRICK, 4 President. F I ?? When You ' INSUR Think of Bail< : We are HERE and ha in every policy we wri i man's proposition, but i cation until you have li will not spend the comi which do not pav divide ; I . Bailes & i LIFE, HEALTH, ACCIDENT, FIRI Office is Savings Bank Bui SAVINGS THE OLD R] Capital Surplus and Profits . Liability of Stockholc I Total I Your account will be ap] and your interests will alwa If you are not a patror bank in Fort Mill, let this become one. LEROY SPRINGS, Pr W. B. ME I AN ORDINANCE. Be it ordained by the mayor and wardens of the town of Fort Mill, S. C. 1 C? now sitting in open council and by the ^ authority of the same: Sec. 1. That all able bodied male res- 0I idents of the town of Fort Mill, S. C., pi between the ages of 21 and 55 years, 0f and who are not exempt by the State af law, shall, between the 15th dav of th April, 1912, and the 15th day of May, tE 1912, pay unto the town treasurer com- th mutation street tax in the sum of $3.00, A or perform five days' labor on the to streets of said town. n? Sec. 2. That after the 15th day of bl May, 1912, all delinquents will be punished as providad by law in such cases, tu Done and ratified this 1st day of S4 April, 1912. fc A. R. McELHANEY, Mayor. D ^ i c^hctalt ib bf \ gr" scxlo&s bjios a co Y:>?gk v #ij p j rhiaihm.. #&r ' mim? m4 * ? y?* CO>? J s**+ . . . . . . . * f. j is institution are . i i information con of its customers, ^ a right to expect isine8s be treated ^ we do and we also interests in every ^ I $ . 1L BANK, ml r I T. B. SPRATT, Cashier. ? Think of ANCE j es & Link. I 4 ive a lasting interest 4 te. Take the other 1 lo not sign his appli- ? lad ours. Then you ng years in regrets i aids. I : Link, 3, LIVE STOCK INSURANCE, ilding, Fort Mill, S. C. I > BANK, j| ELI ABLE. 11 I $25,000.00 12,569.36 iers 25,000.00 $62,569.36 predated by this Bank iys be carefully guarded. 1 i of this, the strongest 2 i bt I i I esident 1ACHAM, Cashier. | Winthrop College SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of va-1 int scholarships in Winthrop College id for the admission of new students ; ill be held at the County Court House i Friday, July 5, at 9 a. m. Apieants must not be less than 15 years ' age. When scholarships are vacant ter July 5 they will be awarded to lose making the highest average at lis examination, provided they meet le conditions governing the award, pplicants for scholarships should write i President Johnson before the examittion for scholarship examination anks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free lition. The next session will open jptember 18, 1912. For further in>rmation and catalogue, address Pres. . B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. MEACHAM tl The New Summer Style Book P tl Two thousand illustrations ^ 32 full page fashion pictures ^ A pattern free with each book ? . e At the pattern counter >ur Style Book, you'll find in the C lundreds of suggestions for Graduation Gowns, Bridal Cc We'll be glad to show you the ne Patterns in stock. MEACHAM Excellent Sun THAT WILL IN To appreciate these values yoi 32-inch Gingham, the yard,.. 30-inch Kimono Crepe, the ya Pretty assortment Gauze Vesi Big lot of Bady Caps, special 72-inch Pure Linen Damask, yard Doilies to match the latter. Another big lot of Children's Children's Play Suits, of stro Fancy Plaid Dresses at E. W. Kin "The Place Where | Did Your Horse Then if he die^ you lose mon We will insure Horses, Mules s > * low rates, and give you absc * SHOW YOU. We issue specia ering foaling period and operal BAILES * >> * Real Estate and Insurance Offi ' ^5Z5HSa5Z5Z55EE?ES?5Z55Z5Z j| E I Parks Grc g If you Lr I Good Thinj E I 'Phone i Parks Grocer | E. S. 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