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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. . |
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SHORT ITEMS of INTEREST
to TIMES READERS.
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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
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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
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(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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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- ,
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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.
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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 ||
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ftp* Suits
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^ ready for your inspection.
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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
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and Shoe Store.
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8 fail to elect JONES your \
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| 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
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"First on the Square." |
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