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yif*i ' BB a> ; : ^m I FORT MILL, S. C. OENERAL INFORMATION. CITY GOVERNMENT. A. R. McELHANEY Mayor j S. W. PARKS Clerk V. D. POTTS....Chief of Police ' DEPARTURE OF TRAINS. No. 31 Southbound 5:40 a. m. <? No. 35 Southbound 7:12 a. m. * > i No. 27 Southbound 5:12 p. m. |' No. 36 Northbound 8:50 a. m. No. 28 Northbound 6:25 p. m. No. 32 Northbound 9:27 p. m. i < ? Note--Trains 31 and 32 stop at . , Fort Mill only when flagged. ! MAILS CLOSE. For train No. 36 8:30 a. m. j For train No. 27 4:50 p. m. For train No. 28 6:00 p. m. Note?No mail is despatched on trains 31, 32 and 35. Trains 27 I i and 28 do not handle mail Sunday. POSTOFFICE HOURS, riaiiv 7-an ? m. to 7:30 d. m. I i Sunday 9:30 to 10 a. 5 to5:30 p. . | ^ ?i ^ n ^ n ^ i? ^ i|f * ' ? SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST to TIMES READERS. . ________________i W. T. Sellers and family have ', moved to Monroe, N. C., where during the fall and winter Mr. Sellers will buy cotton. Mrs. Herbert Patterson and sister, Mrs. Ernest Miller, returned Saturday from a visit to relatives in Columbia. j A report reached Fort Mill ! several days ago that Mrs. Boyd, widow of the late T. V. Boyd, was extremely ill at her home in ; the Flint Hill section of the ; township. The second primary election i will take place on Tuesday, I September 10. All those who voted in the first primary are 1 entitled to participate in the < election next Tuesday. < Bethel Presbytery will meet j with the Fort Mill Presbyterian . church the evening of Tuesday, ;, September 24, at 8 o'clock. The , program for the meeting will be j published in The Times later. { Miss Carrie Culp went over to 1 Rock Hill Monday evening for 1 the purpose, it is understood, of 1 undergoing an operation at the ( Rock Hill hospital for appendi- 1 citis. Many of the young college ! ladies and men who have spent < the summer vacation at their 1 homes in this city are making < preparations to reenter school i within the next few days. < Last Monday, September 2, ; being Labor Day and a national ' holiday, no mail was delivered or collected by the rural carriers on the several routes from this city. The local postoffice observed the day by keeping open as on Sundays. 4 The regular September meet- ] ing at the Fort Mill Presbyterian , church will begin next Friday ? morning at 11 o'clock and con tinue through Sunday with two g sermons each day, at 11 a. m. J and 8 p. m. The pastor, Rev. W. A. Hafner will be assisted in t ?w.'nn Kir Dou T R Swan r IUC IllCCllII^ UJ ivvf VI V. W"~?I I The public is cordially invited to g attend the services. John Jones, the little 5-year-old 8 son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jones, 1 was taken to the Rock Hill hos- 8 pital Thursday afternoon for r treatment for an injury to one of c his legs which he sustained ( about two weeks ago. The 1 little fellow is said to be im- \ proving at present and probably ' will be able to return to his J home in this city within a few < days. The Fort Mill graded school ! opened for the 1912-'13 term J Monday mornjng with Prof. F. W. Moore in charge. The opening exercises were held in the auditorium, the principal feature being the educational talk by Hon. J. K. Henry, of Chester. The attendance was somewhat larger than that of last year and everything indicates that the present session will be one of much profit. School Feet Increased. The Times calls especial attention to the advertisement in another column of the Fort Mill I IB graded and high school, in which ^^B a report of the receipts and disibursements of the school for the last, or 1911-'12. term is given, as well as the fees to be charged the pupils of the different grades 4r\* oossinn of 1912-'13. Bv comparison of the receipts and disbursements of the last term, it will be seen that there was a deficit of $519.00, brought about by the reassessment and consequent reduction in the taxable values of the'properties of the Southern Power company and the Fort Mill Mfg. company in this school district. But the school board, by reason of having on hand a surplus at the beginning of the September, 1911, term of $629.95, was able to tide over the term without any increase in the fees of the scholars. At the beginning of the present term, however, the board has on hand a surplus of only about $150.00, ana this coupled with the fact that the salary of one of the teachers was raised $5.00 per month, makes it necessary to slightly increase the tuition fees. Barsett-Rodgers. Mr. C. F. Rodgers, Jr., a popular young salesman of Fort Mill, was married Thursday evening to Mkss Nina Barnett, whose home was in the Ebenezer section of the county. The marriage took place at the parsonage of the North Rock Hill .Circuit the Rev. J. A. White ( r, performing the ceremony. A large party of relatives and friends were present. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. F. E. Barnett, and her father was the late Dr. David Barnett. Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers are exoected to return to Fort Mill Friday, after a visit to relatives at Lesslie and Lancaster. Heavy Fines for Cocaine Dealers. There was quite a stir among the colored residents of the town and vicinity Monday when Officer Potts rounded up a dozen or more male members of the race and locked them in on the charge of dealing in cocaine. It developed later that a number of those arrested had been held only as witnesses. At the trial Monday afternoon before Mayor . McElhane, Will Roddey submitted to the charge of selling the drug and was taxed $50. John Davis, another alleged dealer, concluded that he could vindicate himself by trial, but therein John failed and he was likewise fined $50. Both negroes paid their fines. /\^ oa!linnr tirnra nfpfpr Vliar^Cd U1 nviv p< V4V4 against several of the other prisoners, but evidence to convict was lacking and they were released. Orphan Work Day. The last Saturday in September for ten years has been set apart in some of the Southern States as "Orphan Work Day." It is an Atlanta idea, born in the brain of Rev. Howard Crumley. Last year the Thornwell Orphanage received $1,000 over the regular contributions, while one institution in the State of Georgia is said to have received 30 times that amount. The editor of Our Monthly writes: "The method is the ledication by each lover of the orphan of his day's wages, be it much cr little, to the care of the fatherless. Those who live on i fixed income will easily know what the amount will be; those who li?e bv the job can give the result of that day's job to the orphars. All these gifts may be independently forwarded to the treasurer of the home selected to receive the bounty, or on the Sunday following, all offerirgs sealed in a small envelope and endorsed for the home may be handed to the Sunday school superintendent or dropped in the church collection." Who can help? All churches, Sabbath schools and societies; all colleges and graded schools, or high schools; all stores, factories, shops, mills and manufacturing establishments; all professional men or others." Drowned in the Catawba. Myron Sandifer, Jr., and John Sreighton, two 15-year-old Rock Hill boys, were drowned Thurslay afternoon about 4 o'clock ivhile bathing in Catawba river, rhe accident occurred at a point n the river opposite the Spfing - ! A. L (tein farm, aDout one mne souin )f the Southern Railway bridge. Sandifer and Creighton left heir homes for the river about ! o'clock Thursday afternoon ind on the way out were joined >y two other boys about their ige, John and Harris Thomas. The four proceeded to the river md went into the stream at the nouth of a branch, the junction >f which with the river had :aused a sand bank to accumuate. The boys were wading ilong the sand bank when Sanfer and Creighton, who were slightly in advance, suddenly disappeared from view in ten feet of water. The other boys ran to the home of a Mr. Ligon. about a mile away, and the news of the drowning was telephoned to the parents of the drowned boys in Rock Hill. A large crowd, including several physicians, hurried to the river and the search for the bodies was begun. Until a late hour Thursday night the river bed was dragged but without success. Early Friday morning the search was again taken up. but not until 11 o'clock were the bodies recovered. The body of Creighton was first brought to the surface and a short time afterward Sandifer's body was found a few ^io onf The hnHips vvprp y ai uo uwiaiu> i iiv taken to Rock Hill and prepared for burial the following day. Young Sandifer was a son of Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Sandifer and Creighton was the son of a widow lady, Mrs. W. J. Creighton The families of both the drowned lads are prominent and well known in this section. Thos. A. Edison's Latest. Thos. A. Edison sees no reason why an isolated country home should not be as completely equipped with electrical contrivances as as a modern apartment. To prove his point he has leased a house near his home iri Llewellyn Park and has installed a generating plant, with all the devices for lighting, heating and cooking designed to ease the burden of the housekeeper. Electric heaters and irons, motors to run the washing machine and glowing bulbs in every room receive their current from a battery stored by a gasoline engine generator. The inventor does not pretend to generate electricity more cheaply in such small units than can a public utility company, but he does insist that he has assembled a plant that would provide the current for an isolated house at a reasonable cost. ONE CENT A WORD MINIMUM CHARGE, 25C. FOR SALE?Goed, gentle Milch Cow and calf. V. B. CASEY. Official Count of York's Vote. The York County Executive Committee met Thursday in Yorkville to canvass the vote cast in the primary on Tuesday, August 27. The count was a long and tedious job, according to a member of the committee, the work not being completed until 4:30 o'clock Friday morning. The result of the count gave Blease a slight increase in majority, gave the State Senatorship to Beamguard, gave Sanders the fourth office of representative. Aycock, Jackson, Lumpkin and Smith will run a second race for county commissioner, while in Fort Mill township Blankenship and Kimbrell will run a second race for township supervisor, and in Bullock's Creek township Bankhead and J. S. Plexico will run again for township commissioner. The official vote for State and county officers, as announced by j the executive committee, was as follows: For U. S. Senate. |N. B. Dial 981 W. J. Talbert .1,331 B. R. Tillman .1,946 For Governor. Cole L. Blease .2,371 John T. Duncan;. 51 Ira B. Jones _. - 1,^4 For Lieut. Governor. Chas. A. Smith 4,373 For Secy, of State. R. M. McCown 4,379 'For Comp. General. A. W. Jones .. 4,382 For State Treasurer. S. T. Carter -2,936 D. W. McLaurin 1,424 For Adjt. General. W. W. Moore 4,341 For Supt. of Education. J. E. Swearingen 4,354 For Atty. General. J. R. Earle... 368 B. B. Evans 291 J. Fraser Lyon ...1,752 Thos. H. Peeples .... l,94iS For R. R. Commissioner. James Cansler 2,385 J. G. Richards 1.692 J. H. Wharton ? 300 For Com. Agriculture. E. J. Watson -4,349 For Congress. D. E. Finley 3,714 W. P. Pollock 419 G. W. Ragsdale . 276 For Solicitor. J. Harry Foster... 2,154 J. K. Henry 2,251 \ For State Senator. J. E. Beamguard 2,177 Thos. F. ' McDow 2,161 For House of Reps. A. E. Hutchison 3,018 J. R. Haiie. 2,517 S. N. Johnson.. 2,283 W. B. Riddle... 2,838 J. H. Saye ..2,127' 0. L. Sanders 2,294 C. W.Wallace 2,067 For Sheriff. Hugh G. Brown 2,378 S. S. Plexico ..1,380 JohnS. Sandifer. .-... 535 i For Clerk. John R. Logan 1,982 J. A. Tate 2,290 i For County Sapervisor. A. S. Barron .1,947 Thos. W. Boyd .2,425 For Coroner. L. W. Louthian 3,336 Robt. Westmoreland. 971 For Co. Supt. Education. John E. Carroll 2,473 J. C. Wilborn 1,907 j For Treasurer. Harry E. Neil... 4,30fc For' Auditor. Broad us M. Love * 4,370 For Co. Commissioner. W. A. Aycock 1,7581 White W. Jackson 1,589 Marion B. Love.. 1.171 L. J. Lumpkin 1.940 Joe W. Smith.. 2,076 The News of Gold Hill. Fort Mill Times Correspondence. * ^ *-Lnf Uio IT V O 01 rt.HU we lectin llldl 1IIO UAV.Hlency, Cole Blease, is elected governor again. And, of course, we must bow to the inevitable will of the majoiity, but there is precious little grace in that bowing, for some of our people who claim to be posted say that Blease is the best governor we have had in twenty years, while that great luminary up at Washington says that he is the worst one we have had since Chamberlain, and it is now 36 years since he reigned. Now, when there is such a great diversity of opinion . between these great lights, how are the poor illiterates to know who to follow? But we notice that the sun continues to rise in the east and set in the west, and we need rain * ? . i . 1 badly and it is hot, hotter, nottest, and lots more hot lying around loose, and it seems that the election has got to be investigated to see if someone has not f POST ^ All trespassing on our 1 hunting, fishing, or otherv from management, is fcrbi ? become a nuisance, carryi pay $10 reward for eviden ; CHARLOT I We Insu! I Bailes < % been doing wrong, and then the ! " investigation will . have to be i investigated for some crooked-; ness or other. Messrs. Kimbrell and Warren 1 finished up threshing here the past week. The Daughters of the Confederacy of Fort Mill have the thanks of the veterans of this township for that most excellent dinner they gave us last week. One old vet was heard to remark that that ham and chicken-pie was just too good for poor folks, but from the way he stored it away showed that he practiced one thing and preached another. And we sat beside a preacher at dinner that day and we never knew before that preachers were such hearty feeders. Uncle Joe Parks was the oldest soldier present that day, he being in his 89th year. There were very; few present that were under TO. We learn that B. M. Faris has sold his plantation to Mr. Whit | Garrison, the consideration being $6,000, and he will leave for-, Alabama this morning. After ali is said about Blease that can be, there is a wee bit of consolation in his election, and that is we will not have to sweat blood. Splinter. Gold Hill, Sept. 3. Notice to School Patrons. Fort Mill School, District No. 28. \ RECEIPTS FOR 1911-T2 From Polls 1911 $343.87 | " 3 mill Constitutional tax. 803.60 " 2 mill Special levy 861.40 ' Dog tax "0.67 " State High school fund 500.00 i " fees from scholars 565.61 Total receipts $3,105.15 J DISBURSEMENTS. Seven teachers at $358.00 per month, 9-month term $3,222.00 One teacher, negro school .. 150.00 Janitor and assistant 110.00, Coal 100.00 j Incidental expenses 43.00 j Total disbursements $3,025.00 Deficit for 1912 $519.85 l In order to overcome the above de- l fioit the following fees will be charged j each scholar per month, payable month- ! ly in advance: 1st Grade 30c ! 2nd " r 40c 3rd " - ... 50c j 4th " . 00c 5th " .. 70c Gth " 80c 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Grades 90c By order of the Board. W. B. MEACHAM, Clerk. NOTICE OF ELECTION. 1 There having been no candidate for the offices of County Commissioner, Township Supervisor of Bullock's Creek Township and Tow-ship Supervisor of Fort Mill Township who received a majority of the votes cast in the last Democratic primary, notice is hereby given that a primary election for the nomination of two County Commissioners, and a recommendation of a Township Su pervisor for the Townships of Bullock's Creek and Fort Mill respectively will be held at the various Democratic Club polling precincts throughout the county on Tuesday, September 10th, J912. The polls will be opened at eight o'clock in the forenoon ar,d be closed at four o'clock in the afternoon, and will be conducted under the same rules and regulations as the Iflrst Primary election. The same club rolls will bellsed. but NO NAMES NOT ON THE CLUB j ROLLS FIVE DAYS PRIOR TO THE ? FIRST PRIMARY CAN BE PLACED _ THEREON. ~ Following are the candidates entitled to be voted for in this election: For County Commissioners: W. A. Aycock, White W. Jackson, L. J. Lumpkin and Joe W. Smith. For Township Supervisor, Bullock's Creek Township: fl James E. Bankhead and J. S. Plex- , ico. D For Township Supervisor, Fort Mill c< Township: C. P. Blankenship and D. G. Kim- ' brell. The County Democratic Executive Committee will meet in the Court Housi _ at Yorkville, S. C., on Thursday, September 12th, 1912, at 10:30 a. m. to canvass the vote, declare the result, and hear and derermine contests and protests. Rv order the Executive Committee. W. W. LEWIS, County Chairman. 888^^6522^^23 Fort Mill Pressing Club, GUY A. ROSS, Prop. Telephone No. 146. WANTED?To make an estimate on your building and repair work. Best ! of work and prices reasonable. H. J. PATTERSON. _ ands for the purpose of ^ /ise, except by permission i dden. Depredators have ng off boats, etc. Will ce to convict trespassers, ? TE BRICK COMPANY. ; Everything || K*p Against * ^ Anything i & Link. I y ' ^ ^ ^ ^ Wherever there are v will find Griffon C Winning the patronage of the critical dr< good points that have made Griffon Clothes t herent dignity. It is difficult to describe this. It is a cert richness of style and fabric that literally com Griffon Clothes are so perfect in fit and drap the wearer, and to such an extent become a j the clothes to the man himself. $15.00 to Mills & Yoi Clothing, Dry Good r I HAVE MOVED I My barber shop and clothes cleaning business^ om the Postoffice building to the new Belk 1 uilding on Main street and invite the public to j all and see me in my new place. HARRY D. HARKEY. 1 Turnip Seeds. We have just received a fresh shipment of the fol- ! lowing well known varieties of Turnip Seeds: Improved Yellow Ruta Baga, ;j Red or Purple Top, Yellow i ADeraeen, cariy vvmic uai Dutch, Southern Seven Top, Mammoth Red Top Globe and Amber Globe?7 varieties. Parks lJrug tomp y, Agency for Nyal's Family Remedies. SAVINGS BANK, j THE OLD RELIABLE. I I Our purpose is to make our bank a material benefit to the community in general and our patrons in particular. It would be a pleasure to have your name on our books. We invite you to start a checking account with us. The advantages we offer will be a convenience and benefit to you, as it has been to others. LEROY SPRINGS, President W. B. MEACHAM, Cashier. | _ MB4HDHBOHBKBHHBnB&aBBHHBHflHHHBBHBBiflHHBBHBr A W%- /111 the new I ~3 ** models and \ -J materials in M*M Ladies' yC^i Coat ftp* Suits I |lj are here ^ ready for your inspection. i Fifty suits to select from at prices ranging from $10.00 to I || t "? $25.00 fell dressed men you lothes in evidence. esser is not an easy problem. One of the 10 popular among this class of men is an ini :ain intangible something, a certain superb imands the respect of all. And because e that they mould into the personality of >art of him, this respect is transferred from i $35.00 mg Comp'y I | as and Shoe Store. ' : i |oiooioeoaonflO!io?waiioaoHa(auauai| | Blease or Jones? j .mil irAt/i rlnn'f ^ g iiuwcvci y uu vuiu uvu i. g 8 fail to elect JONES your \ | grocer. No graft in our I 8 goods or prices. ( 8 - . | JONES, E GROCER. { B Phones 14 and 8. : In Season f OBnBaBMBnnHHHHHiHn I Ice Cream Freezers, Oil Stoves, | | Refrigerators, Hammocks, | Porch Rockers. 4 ; Remember, we keep everything | t that goes in the home. I Our prices are right and terms i to suit you. I ; Harris Furniture Company, | "First on the Square." | - U3 The Times wants to do your JOB PRINTING /Phone 112.