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|(P*$9- f \ THE FORT MILL TIMES. Democratic? Publuhed Thursdays. B. W. BRADFORD Editor and Proprietor. Iomoriftion Rates: One Year I1.2S Six Months ... .......................... .65 Ths Times invites contributions on live subjects but does not urss to publish more than 200 words n any subject. The right is reserved to edit ftry communication submitted for publication. On application to th? publisher, advertising Vitas are mads known to those Interested. Telephone, local and long distance. No. 112. Entered at the pmtnAWc at Fort Mill. S. C.. as mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1913. The Auto Speed Idiot. Recently a young man, who had nearly killed himself and half a dozen other people while auto speeding, was brought before a Cincinnati police | judge to answer to the charge of violating the law. This is what the judge said to him: "Young man. stand up! You belong to a class of voung maniacs who act as if you didn^t have as much common sense in your head as an ordinary horse. Who gave you the right to go tearing along the streets at the speed of a railroad car? Who gave you the right co use our streets in such a manner as to constantly endanger people's live*? Who set you down in this community as a complete example of a man driving a dangerous machine without any brains, care or pYudence? You are a shame to the town, to the decent father and mother who begot you. We can have sympathy for a natural born idiot, but we fail utterly when we look upon a man who has deliberately made himself such with an automobile. I will put you where you will not endanger any more lives for the next three months and assess you the costs of this action." such an admonition and sentence would do good in many towns. There are men in every city and town who are just as culpable as the Cincinnati youth, and dozens of them need the same penalty every day. On some of the best paved streets and avenues it is critically dangerous for pedestrians to attempt to cross. The only remedy seems to be the kind handed out by the Ohio judge. The good hard fact is, something must be done with the speeders er many lives will be sacrificed to gratify the desires of a class of people who have no respect for law or the right of others. The time is near at har.d it seems when the people of Fort Mill will be called upon to decide by ballot whether the town is to have protection from fire by installing a waterwi rks system. The town has needed this protection for a number of years and with the increase in the number of business houses and residences erected during the last few years the need is greater today than ever before. Then, too. very large majority of our townspeople would be greatly pleaded to see new industries spring up in our midst and have the town of Fort Mill progress along with the other towns of the State. But we need not expect much money to be invested here as long as the town is liable to be wnped off the map by fire. The average man of wealth is not willing to invest in an enterprise where he is liable to awake in the morning to find his investment reduced to ashes. The cost of a waterworks system in Fort Mill would be so small to the average property owner that it is a shame to estimate the amount. Fort Mill has been very fortunate in the past in the way of fires, it is true, but this cannot be taken as a promise that the future will treat us as kindly. If the present agitation should come to a vote of the people we believe that the voters will realize the need of this improvement and will endorse the bond issue. The news item carried in this week's issue of The Tirr.es teUir.g of the big* cotton mill to be erected in Fort Mill by the Fort Mill Manufacturing company is the most pleasing announcement to the publisher of this newspaper that has been made in these columns in quite a tune. The erection of the new mill will, we believe, mark the beginning of an era of unprecedented prosperity for the town. Aside from the resultant increase of property vaU ues. the new mill will mean the bringing h^re of several hundred new residents, a much larger volume of business in all lines, and to the farmers roundabout a better market and more ready sale for their products. Col. Lert.y Spr.ngs. president of the com par.y wr.icn will buiid the mill, ?s a native of Fort Mill, and our idea that he has had an eye on the town of his birth and soon would increase his already extensive interests here is to become a reality, it seems. All roads will lead to Rock Hill next Thursday and Friday and all Rock Hill will lead to the county fair. The Underwood-Simmon^ tariff bill, which had been before the national Congress since early in April and w|iich became a law Friday night when President Wilson attached his signature to the bill, is one of the most important pieces of legislation enacted during the last half century. The passage of the law is in part the fulfillment of the Democratic platform as expressed in the Baltimore convention and it will go a long way in reducing me cost of the necessities of life which of late years have become such a burden to the millions of working men and women of the country. The Times is this week publishing on page 3 a synopsis of the law and every reader of the paper should read the article. The Orangeburg Times and Democrat wishes to know what kind of consoling word we handed the man who sold his cotton at 11 cents in order that it may impart such consolation to some people in its vicinity. Told 'em we'd wait till they dug 'taters for our year's subscription, brother. Joe Jackson says the "Athletics'' will win the world's championship and Ty Cobb says he doesn't know who'll win. Cobb evidently has more regard for the truth than the Greenville boy. fl Regular communication of Catawba Lodge No. 56. Thursn'tfht. All visiting brothers are welcome. OLD NEWSPAPERS for sale at The Times office. CARELE In filling orders is oft uivsnusiicu wuBiuuier: When your orders ar< The Grocer," they r attention and ar#? del 'Phone or send us yoi JONES, Th Phones 14 and 8. Pay by C When a farmer sells business man he recei m UUSIIJCSS mail Knows 1.1 him and be a receipt, to his advantage to y should not the farmer bills by check? A c chances of error and i large number of farim and there are others vs of them? Savings Bank Leroy Springs, Prest. TavmuK wmmmmam?mmm I Beautiful Kit F R 1 and Other Valua test Noa Full Particul Week's MASSEY'S D A New Force in Farming. Inoculate your Clover, Vetch, Alfalfa and other Legumes with Nitra Germ ' for $2.00 per acre. See me or mail your orders to Nitra Germ and Fertilizer Co., Savannah, Ga. JAS. P. CUI.P, Agent. Rock Hill. S. C. REPAIRING I am prepared to repair your Guns, Pistols, Bicycles, Clocks, etc., in a satisfactory manner and at reasonable prices. Call at my shop one door north of L. A. Harris & Co.'s store. A. R. STARNES. Every member of every family in the world can make use of a box of Rexall Ordealies. the simple remedy for constipation and liver troubles that eats like candy. Practically every person who buys a 10c box comes back for another or larger. But It should be easy enough for ycu to call in and get a free sample or a full package on a money-back guarantee. Ardrey's Drug Store. I K I :ssness | en the cause of many e left with "JONES, I eceive most careful I ivered promptly. I Lir orders. I IE GROCER. I lr heck VfTllTT?I?11 his produce of any kind to a ves his pay by check. The his check will come back to If the business man finds it jay all bills by check, why be equally wise and pay his heck account eliminates all-N s an undisputal respect. A ?rs are now banking with us. I ho should be. Are you one g of Fort Mill, I W. B. Meacham, Cashr. I =a=aaissstal I chen Cabinet EE 1 ble PrizM. CYm- I ^ ? , v Open. ars in Next ri H Big Ad. n ei RUG STORE S /' -'"rV I Here's E\>11 cu i an ?*jii We hav Ladies' from tw brand, th out at ju These sh price be' wrong w good as going to M'ELHAl "The COME Our New F Have some Special Bargain: from auction sale at way belov 1 Also a lot of sample Coat Sui ery. Dress Goods, etc. Come, see our goods and cor L. J. M Door*, Sashes and Blinds ?quire good judgment in their ?lection, or else you must purhase them at a Reliable Lumber Yard ke ours. Contractors and buildrs know that prood work cannot e done with poor material, and iat is why so many of them are ur customers. Fort Mill Lumber Company, 'Phone 72. { / ; Your ( to buy your oesat 1 SSSSSSSSSS5 e many pairs c and Children's o so six pairs lat we are going st exactly HALI ioss are not rec cause there is so rith them?they any. We are concentrate o NY & CO! Store of Style and Qua HDHBBBBD !ZU]?*<2fc2tEr : r QBE j am ^SS' Hhijh Km | all Goods. I 5 in Art Squares and Rugs n / regular prices. ts at 25 per cent off. Millinnpare our prices. ??_ ^assey* g F Who's Yoi ^This is a question that shou housekeepers. Not only be food is necessary and desired hooves one to fret the creates lar. We sell on time only to Q it is not necessary to add prol |jj poods to offset book-keepinp &{ of loss on bad accounts, (ffi Here Quality is supreme an iDn dutv. i""" = | PARKS GR( |j E. S. PARh tasasasHSSESgHgagasasEsast 1 \ Chance 2 Price >f Men's, I ? Shoes, I in each I f to close I PRICE. I luced in I mething I are as I i simply I ur lines. I MPANY, lity." I i Fill your bins with our CO AL The best Coal mined. We are now making summer deliveries at summer prices. Buy now, prices will advance later. We guarantee the quality of our Coal? We never overcharge, and offer you only the best grade of Tennessee Coal. Stewart & Culp Phone 15. .. ?=* ? ir Grocer? 1 = 1 a ild be of vital import to all { cause the most wholesome g ? but in these days it be- rj t efficiency out of each dol- " reliable people. Therefore, Jfl Fit to the sellinar nriep of ?E expense and a per centa^e fij d your Dollar does double ujl | >ci:hy co. | t 'S, Manager. m I gsBssasasHsasssasasHsasa 1