THE FOBT MILL TIMES.
Democratic ? Published Thursdays.
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Telephone, loeal and loner distance. No. 112.^
Entered at the postotnee at Fort Mill, 8. C.. as
mail matter of the second class.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1913.
BOOST THE TOWN.
If you live in Fort Mill you
should believe in it. If you don't
believe thi6 town is a little better
in most respects than any of its
neighbors you should move out.
Fort Mill ha^ advantages that
other towns have not and your
modesty should not prevent you
from making the fact known
whenever the opportunity presents
itself. To strangers with
whom you come in contact do
not fail to let them know that
you live in a live town populated
by enterprising, wide-awake, goahead
people, and one that is
advancing instead of retrograding.
If you can truthfully speak
in commendation of the ability
of your professional men, the
square dealing methods of your
merchants, the excellence of
your mechanics, the superiority
of your churches, schools and
public institutions and industry,
energy and sobriety of your citizens,
let nothing prevent you
from exercising that privilege.
You should learn to believe, if
you do not already, that we have
all these and in addition the best
located town, the finest country
surrounding it, with the most
intelligent class of farmers to be
found. If there are any drawbacks
it will not be necessary to
mention them. The people and
newspapers of competing towns
will relieve you of that task by
attending to that part of it
themselves. Strangers seeking
locations are always greatly influenced
in favor of any town
whose citizens are enthusiastic
in its praise. No city or town
V4?pvvvw W? UbVUill V/li'i 11^ IIV^ I
over its rivals unless its inhabitants
appreciate the excellence,
and virtues of each other and
will collectively spread abroad j
their faith in the present prosperity
and future greatness oi
their locality. Talk is a eheap
commodity, but when rightly
utilized it can be made effective
in many directions and this is
one of them.
Of pleasing interest to thi '
public generally is the announce-1
ment from Washington that tin
postoffice department will on and |
after March 16lh receive hooks
and printed matter for transportation
at the reduced, or
parcel post, rates. As.we see it,
there has never been any logical
reason why these commodities
were denied the benefit of the
reduced rates, and the announcement
that the mails will be open
to such in the near future
is another promise that the pareel
post system will during the
administration of Postmaster
General Burleson in all probability
witness its perfection.
If the old year has brought
sorrow and desolation, and hung
crape on our doors, the new year
will bring us the leaves of healing,
and we are glad to part with
the one ana welcome the other.
Exit Jerry Moore.
The most successful of the
young prize winning agriculturists
of the country for this
year is Walker Lee Dunson, of
Alexander City, Ala., who
raised on his acre 232 bushels of
corn. This breaks the record
held for the past three years byJerry
Moore, of South Carolina,
with 228 bushels.
Young Dunson, however, grew
his crop at a very low cost, having
spent only 20 cents per
bushel, against 42 cents a bushel
by Jerry Moore.
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Pleasant Valley News.
Mr. S. J. Patterson of this
place and Miss Carrie Guin, of
Pineville. tiring of a life of sin
gle blessedness, wended their
way to Charlotte on Tuesday
and were happily joined in wedlock.
Mr. Patterson brought his
bride home the next day and
that night the young people
serenaded them in ye old-time
way. Their many friends wish
them many years of wedded
happiness.
The Pleasant Hill Sunday
school will have a Christmas
tree on the afternoon of Christmas
day. Suitable exercises
have been prepared for the occasion,
and these will begin
-promptly at 3 o'clock.
Ordinarily your correspondent
would favor quadrennial elections
instead of biennial, but in
one respect this would prove a
greater hardship on the people
of Pleasant Valley. Our most
used and most nesessary road,
the one from the Lancaster anu
Charlotte road to the Bailes
bridge, is worked only in election
years. Our new road law was
passed in 1907 and since that
time this road has been worked
but twice, in 1910 and 1912.
This road is only ten or twelve
feet wide in places and full of
holes, yet is used more than any
other road in Indian Land township.
One of our county supervisor
told one of our citizens
a few years ago that the people
in the Pan Handle were unfortunately
situated. I presume
he meant that we didn't have
enough votes. Anyway, we are
looking forward with hope that
1914 will give us one more working
for this road.?Correspondence
Lancaster News.
Big Prize Contest Closed.
The big prize voting contest
which the Mills & Young company
of this city inaugurated
several months ago, came to a
close last Saturday, and the ten
prizes, ranging in value from
$25 to $ 100 wt-re awarded tl e
successful contestants. Tie
Mills & Young contest probably
created more excitement and
rivalry than any contest ever
conducted in this section of the
ountry. For several months
t he firm has issued coupons from
us cash register and for each
cent shown by the coupons one
vote in the contest was allowed
i he Mills & Young firm enjoys a
urge and widely distributed
patronage and amot g those who
took active interest in the contest
were people from the town,
he township, and points within
i radius'of 15 miles of Fort Mill.
It is estimated that during the
neriod of the contest the firm
is. ud not le:?8 than twelve milion
votss.
The counting of the millions
>f votes turned in was completed
Saturday morning, when the winters
were announced as follows:
First prize? $400 piano, won bv
J. H. Mc Murray. with 2,256,939
votes.
Second prize?$100 buggy, won
by C. P. Blankenship, with
1.422,245 votes.
Third prize?$75 organ, won
by Bert Nivens, with 962,228
votes.
Fourth prize?$50 parlor suit,
won by J. F. Lee, with 856,300
votes.
Fifth prize?$50 range, won by
Mrs. W. P. Norman, with 569,
709 votes.
Sixth prize?$50 sewing machine,
won by S. P. Wilson, with
545,918 votes.
Seventh prize?$50 diamond
ring, won by W. E. Kimbrell,
with 173,559 votes.
Eighth prize?$25 ladies' coat
suit, won by II. N. Patterson,
with 268,485 votes.
Ninth prize-$25 man's suit,
won by T. L. Gulp, with 142,296
votes.
Tenth nri7.P ? $9-^ kitphen pahi
net, won by J. C. Kirkland, with
113,433 votes.
For State High License.
Albert W. Todd of Charleston,
recently elected to the General
Assembly to take the place made
vacant by the resignation of
Richard S. Whaley, has announced
that he will at the next
session introduce a constitutional
amendment which in effect provides
for high license in South
Carolina. It has been an open
secret that Charleston now has
open saloons, and much dissatisfaction
has been expressed
there in regard to the operation
of all the liquor laws from the
time of the late lamented State
dispensary to the present county
dispensary and semi-prohibition
policy of the State.
The proposal by Mr. Todd is
I he culmination of this dissatisfaction.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that an election
will be held in the town of Fort
Mill, S. C., between the legal hours for
elections, on Tuesday, January 1H, 1914,
for three Trustees for Sehool District
No. 28, to serve for six years.
Presentation of County Registration
Certificate will be necessary to vote in
said election.
J. M. Epps, D. A. Lee and J. H.
McMurray are appointed as managers
i of election.
, By order of Board of Trustees this,
15th of December, 1913
R. F. GR1ER, Chairman.
W. B. MEACHAM, Clerk.
TAX R?7URNS Fofc l?14.
wince or uie uounty- Auditor
of York County, S. C.
Yorkville, S. C., December 2, 1913.
As required by statute, my books
will be opened at my office in Yorkville
on THURSDAY, JANUARY 1. 1914,
and be kept open until FEBRUARY
20, 1914, for the purpose of listing for
taxation all PERSONAL and REAL
PROPERTY held in York County on
January 1, 1914.
Taxpayers will please remember this
is the year for re-assessment of REAL
ESTATE.
For the purpose of facilitating the
taking of returns and for the greater
convenience of Taxpayers, I will be at
the following piaCes on the dates
named.
At Ramah (A. M. McGill's Store),
Friday, January 2.
At Bethany (McGill Bros', store),
Saturday, January 3.
At Clover on Tuesday and Wednesday,
January 6 and 7.
AX Bethel (Ford, Parnett & Co.'s
store), Thursday, January 8.
At Point (at Harper's), on Friday,
January 9.
At B;indana (Perry Ferguson's stored
on Saturday, January 10.
At Smyrna on Monday, January 12.
At Hickory Grove on Tuesday and
Wednesday, January 13 and 14.
At Sharon on Thursday and Friday,
January 15 and 16.
At Bullock's Creek (Good's store) on
Saturday, January 17.
At Tirzah on Monday, January 19.
At Newport, on Tuesday, January
20.
At Fort Mill on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, Juiuarv 21, 22, and
23.
At Mc(,'onnellsville on Monday, January
26.
At ugden on Tuesday, January 27.
At Coates,' Tnv' rn," (Kcddey's), on
Wednesday. January 28.
At Kock Hill fr.,m 'Ihurariay, Januuary
29, to Wednesday, February 4
And at York vide from Thursday, February
5, until Friday, February 20.
All mah a between the H^es of twenty-one
and sixty years, except Confederate
soi in re ov? r the a^e of fifty
years, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00,
and all per so s so itabli are especially
requested to g ve the numbers of their
resp?ctive aeheol <5 stricts in making
their itturn .
bKOADUS M. I OVE.
County Auditor.
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Xmas
Morning
Delivery
All Packages houglit of us
will be delivered early Christmas
morning to the parties
to whom addressed.
Just leave j'our packages
with card and address and
you can rest assured that they
will be promptly delivered.
Make Our Store
Your Christmas
Headquarters
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Casseroles, Brass JardineresXmas
Cards, Booklets,
A useful Gift for
every lady?
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; LUCKY-CURV1
FOUNTAIN PEN.
A new lot just in for Xnu
gifts--$1.50 to$6 00. The Luck;
Curve doesn't leak.
25 - KITCHEN - $25
CABINET FREE
ilxtra Extra
Five chances on the Kitch
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eek for every 25c purchase,
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?a gift for everybody.
Post Cards, Decorations, etc.
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EXQUISITE CANDIES
^ 80c per lb.
Worth smacking your lips
is over. Numerous sizes.
f- WELCH'S GRAfE JUICE
Pints, 25c; Quarts, 50c.
SECOND PRI/.E-One pen (four
hens and rooster;, Partridge Wyandottes.
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NORRIS, NYLO, SPARROW
CHOCOLATES.
Big: assortment of 5 cent and
and 10 cont Packages.
GOLD FISH
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With each 50c purchase of
NYAL'S Toi'et Articles you
^et 2 Gold Fish and globe
free.
With each $1.(J0 purchase
of NYAL'S Toilet Articles
you get 2 Big Fish and larger
globe free.
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feasor.
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