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THE FORT MILL TIMES. Democratic? Published Thursdays. Subscription Rates: One Year ?1.21 Six Months .61 The Times invites contributions on livesubjecti hut does not urree to Dubliah more than 200 wordi ?n *ny subject. The rlxht ia reserved to edi very communication submitted for publication On application to the publisher, advertiaini rates are made known to thoae interested. Telephone. local and lonir dintance. No. 112. Entered at the pontofllce at Fort Mill. S. C.. ai mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. MARCH 12. 1914. First Year of Prrs. Wilson. The first year of the Wilsor government ended at noon last Wednesday and the newspapers throughout the country friendb to the President have had much to say in praise of what has beer accomplished by his administration since the 4th of March. 1913. For the preceding IS years both the legislative and executive departments of the government were controlled by tl.c Republi can party. Much \\;;s expectec of the new Democratic adminis tration and much has been accomplished by it. Beginning witl tariff revision a few weeks aftei the Democratic party came int( power, the revenue laws were almost entirely rewritten in th? course of a few months in the inforocl nf lliti niQucnc Movl the currency laws were revised in an incredibly short time, considering: the immensity of the undertaking:. No other national administration has accomplished so much in a twelvemonth as has President.I Wilson's administration. While it is true that the beneficial results which are sure to come from the new tariff and currency laws are not. yet being generally felt, the first is certain to materially reduce the high cost of living within the next year and with the government administering the banking laws instead of Wall street the fiscal affairs of the country doubtless will be more responsive to public need than has been the case in the past. Bnt with all this, the Wilson administration has had its troubles. The Mexican situ ation has been a source of continuous and increasing annoyance and more than ever it begins to look as if this country will be forced to teach both the so-called federals and constitutionalists a lesson which they will not soon forget. So far the President has displayed statesmahship of a rare order in dealing with Mexican affairs. He has not been swept off his feet by the clamor of a more or less irresponsible minority which would plunge the country into war with Mexico forthwith. The best and wisest administration America has had since the War Between the States is in control of the national government, but it may yet be forced to chastise the poor, blind Mexican fools who do not know what they are about. The Times desires to publicly thank the several young ladies who did such excellent work for the paper in the subscription contest which closed last Satm-Hav We congratulate the winners of the several valuable prizes, and regret that the contest was not of large enough scope to allow a prize for each of those who entered the contest. The Times is highly pleased with the contest from every viewpoint. During ten weeks in which the young ladies solicited new and renewal subscriptions, several hundred new names were added to the paper's already large number of subscribers and our subscription list has been placed on practically a paid-in-advance basis. These results are helpful to the publisher of The Times in a financial way, and are of great advantage to the paper's advertisers in that there are hundreds of more persons now reading the ads each week than did prior to the contest. We again thank the young ladies for the work they did for us and trust tfHlT the winners will find their presents a source of con The Country Editor. The duties of the country editor are nutnerous and varied. People who sometimes complain that their little home weekly does not contain as much news as the more pretentions dailies published in the cities overlook the fact that dozens,' and in many cases, scores of men contribute to the production of the I larger papers, while all the work j on a weekly is sometimes done by a single individual. Just how '1 numerous and varied are the 1 t tasks of the latter is disclosed by a paragraph in the latest isr ?e .1.? /"<i ?i /**_ \ sue UL tnc UICCI1WUUU Journal. In explaining that he had changed the size and form 8 of his paper so as to save time in . ; make-up, printing and handling, i the editor of The Journal says: "For one person to gather the news, set the type, make up the i the forms, print the paper, distribute the type, do the job 5 work, collect the hills, pay the r debts, listen to kickers, sweep , the office, kick the cat, carry in , coal, build the fires, and do a . thousand and one things in the course of a week is no little mati ter, hence we have changed the . paper to a size that we can issue t to better advantage." In the face of this explanation 1 anyone objecting to the change . j should be bored for the simples . and then taken out and shot at ^ sunrise. , Andrew Carnegie is now a > "poor man" from his point of > view. He has given away $35,? 125.000 and has only a measly little $25,000,000 left on which I to support himself and family. . At his advanced ape, it is proba. ble, however, that he will be able | to pull through on the "leavI ings." Fort Mill is, we believe, one of , the cleanest towns in the State, , but we want it to beat the record I and there is still room for im. provement. Get busy, people, | and clean up any little rubbish ) that may be around you home. If conditions in South Carolina were as bad as is pictured in alI most every issue of the Lancaster News, outsiders who don't know better would think this State little better than a seething inferno. Would it not be well for parents who have children attending the Fort Mill school to take interest enough in the school and their children to visit the school at least one time during the term. A curfew restriction may be derided as old-fashioned and Puritanical, but the fact remains that there is vastly less night prowling in towns that have a curlew ordinance and enforce it. A Missouri merchant set a trap pun for burglars and then foigot about it. His funeral, two days later, was one of the largest in the history of the county. If you want to ruin your boy just take his side on every question and dispute he has with his teacher or your neighbor's children. There should be less kicking now that the football season is ended. 'Pears as if some people i don't know when toquit.. Orders Bond Election. At its regular monthly meeting held the last week city council ordered an election to be held on Friday, April 3, when the ; voters of Fort Mill will be given I an opportunity to express their ! !1C In VI/ hitt hilt, nil inniin ?..W.V^ ! ?' WW ? IIUCIK I (411 IOOUC 1/1 bonds to the amount of $15,000 shall be made for the purpose of installing a waterworks system. At the same time a board of commissioners will be elected and the ' names of several citizens have I been mentioned as candidates for commissioner, three of whom will constitute the board. At the the meeting last week | Mayor McElhaney appointed a . fire committe whose duty will be to make effort to reduce the fire i hazard as much as possible. Council also decided to meet semi-monthly in the future, instead of once a month as in the past. J. H. McMurray, who has been quite ill for the past week, has ! recovered sufficiently to be out TBI FOflT MD 11 iwn ?? ?? SPECIAL THURSDAY AT THE Majestic, I ! _ MM "The Shadow Nazareth." A wonderful Biblical story in three parts, together with three other reels of good pic, tures. If you miss these you have missed the best show of the season. No. 9041. Report of the Condition of : FIRST NATIONAL BANK At Fort Mill, in the State of South Carolina, at the dote of business March I 4, 1914. , Resources: I Loans nnd Discounts ... - $80 409 06 l Overdraft*, secured and unsecured 7GO (d | U. S. bonds to secure circulation 25 (**t Oil j Premiums on U. S. bond* 232 49 i | Hanking house, Furniture and Fixture;* 2 GOO 00 , Due from National Rank* (not reserve agents) 8 427 41 | Due from approve*! Reserve Agents 2 134 91 1 Checks and other Dash Items 13 71 ' | Notes of other National Banks 60000 , Fractional 1'aper Currency. Nickels and Cents 74 73 Lawful Money Reserve in Iwnk. vim: | Specie ...... $180000 I Legal-tender note*.. . ... 1 7t*> no 3 500 00 KcHlemption fund with U. S. Treasurer ? ; !?er rent, of circulation) .... ... 126000 j ; | Total $124 *92 36 Liabilities: Capital Stock paid in $25 000 00 Surplus fund 140000 Undivided Profits, less Expenses and Taxes pa hi 1 212 86 Nat ional Hank Notes outslnndinK 25 <NX) no , Individual deposits subject to chock . 86472766 Demand certificates of deposit 7 207 K2 Cashier's checks outslnndinK 'M4 12 72 273 49 Total . $124 *92 86 State of South Carolina. I County of York. h.s. I. T. B. Spratt. Ca-shicr of the altove-nanusl hank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my know led Re and lielief. T. It. SPRATT. Cashier. , Subscribed and sworn to In-fore me this 11th day of March. 191.7. W. B. M EACH AM. Notary Public. Correct?Attest: W. II. ARDREY I A.R.McEI.HANY .- Directors. J. B. MILLS ? NOTICE OF ELECTION. Whereas, a petition has been submitted to the town council of the town of Fort Mill, duly signed by a majority of the freeholders of the said town, asking that an election be ordered for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of the said town of Fort Mill whether for the purpose of conslructing a water works system and plant, the said town of Fort Mill shall issue coupon'bondg, as provided by law, in i the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars, or so much as may be legally issued by said town, and Whereas, under and hv virtno nf th? laws of the State of South Carolina in such cases made and provided, the town council of the said town of Fort Mill has ordered an election to he held on the 3rd day of April, 1914, upon said question, and Whereas, under and by virtue of the laws of the State of South Carolina, in such cases made and provided, the electors voting at said election shall vote for three citizens of the town of Fort Mill who shall he vested with the several powers and subject to the several liabilities of the Commissioners of Public Works of the town of Fort Mill, as provided by law, Now, therefore, the qualified electors of the town of Fort Mill are hereby notified that the said election upon the j said question and for the said Commissioners of Public Works will be held according to law on the 3rd day of April, 1914, at the town hall in the town of Fort Mill, and that the managers of the said election shall be W. M. Carothers, D. A. Lee and J. H. Patterson. The polls will open at eight o'clock in the forenoon and close at four o'clock in the afternoon. A. R. McELHANKY, C. S. LINK. Mayor. Clerk and Treasurer. NOTICE TO VOTERS OFTHETOWN OF FORT MILL. The books of registration for the ' town of Fort Mill will be opened at the ; office of Bailes & Link, in said town, , on the 14th day of March, 1914, and will remain open for a period of ten days for the purpose of allowing voters to qualify themselves for the purpose of voting in the special election to be neiu on me ?ini uay oi April, 191-1, as | hereinabove set forth. 1 C. S. LINK, | Supervisor of Registration. Do You Know j . That your breath and your re, sponsibility do not end at the same time? >; "But if any provide not for ! | his own, and specially not for ' his own house, he hath denied I the faith and is worse than an infidel." ?1 Tim. 1:8. A life insurance policy in the Union Central will supply the cheapest and , easiest means of providing for YOUR household. j Five cents a day will carry $1,000 insurance at ; age 30. As us what YOUR rate i will be. i BAILES & LINK,\ IS. TIMES, POST MILL, SOtJTl A REAL NERVE AND BODY BUILDING MEDICINE We believe Rexall Olive Oil Emulsion is the best remedy made for the nerves, enriching the blood, building up wasted tissues, renewing health, strength and energy ? the best medicine ypu can use if you are run-down, tired-out^ nervous and debilitated, no matter what thecause. It doesn't depefid for its gocd effect upon alcohol or habit-forming drugs, because it contains none. It may not make you feel better in a few I hours, but it will make you feel better, we are sure, just as soon as the toni? aud food properties it contains have a chance to get into the blood, and | through the blood, into the rest of the system. Pure Olive Oil and the Hopophosphites have long been endorsed by successful physicians, but here, for the first time, they are combined into one preparation which, as a nerve food and a builder of strength and health, we ' hpUoV'O V*r?? ?~ 1 1 -v..vfv, ?i?o iiu t-quai. If you don't feel well, begin taking Rexall Olive Emulsion today, and build your health and strengthen your system agaiust more serious' illness. To convalescents, old people, puny children and all others who are weak, rnndown or ailing, we offer Rexall Olive Oil Emulsion with our personal promise that, if it doesn't make you well and strong again, it will cost you nothing. If we didn't have the utmost faith in it, we wouldn't offer it with this guarantee, nor even recommend it to you. We are sure that once you have used it, you will recommend it to your friends, and thank us for having recommended it to you. Sold only at the more than 7.000 Rexall Stores ami in this town by us. $1.00 Ardrey's Drug Store, Fort Mill, S. C. AN ORDINANCE Providing An Annual Street Tax and Collection of Same. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Fort Mill, in council assembled and by authority of the same: Section 1. All men resident in the town of Fort Mill between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-five years, and not | exempt by statute, shall pay unto the town treasurer annually on or before I ? ?. mvcciiui un.y ui may, me sum 01 Three Dollars ($9.00) in payment of street taxes. Sec. 2. Any person refusing after legal notice pay this tax shall be fined in the sum of not less than Five Dollars or be imprisoned not less than ten days. Sec. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Done and ratified in council assembled this third day of March, 1914. A. R. McELHANEY, Attest: Mayor. C. S. LINK. Clerk. FOR SALE. Eggs for hatching from the following standard bred strains at prices named per setting: Partridge Wyandot tea, $1.50; R. I. Reds, $1.50; BufT Orpingtons, $1.50; White Wyandottes, $1.50; Single Comb Brown Leghorns, $1.25; White Rocks, $1.50. Fort Mill Poultry Association, Fort Mill, S. C. LICENSE TAX DUE. Notice is hereby given that the Annual Ligrnse Tax of the town of Fort Mill, S. C., is due and payable, without penalty, before March 1, 1914. By order of Council this 16th day of January, 1914. C. S. LINK, Clerk. M E A C H A n. 1 YV VJt Ne Coming in If it came from I M EACH A [N It's better at the same pri< . The Pure F Just received, a Ferry's Famous G varieties. Mrs. Housekeepc undecided as to A dinner, call us, w hundred pounds Fr bage just in. JONES, Phones 14 and 8. ..j *%. B CAROLINA j W^^v/^V w more you wear thei and give foot comf< longer wear than ai ing some exclusive i this season that are people and conserv; any leather your fa Metal, Vici, White 1 the chance to prov< WEAR SHOES! Patterson S "Sells I DOG TAX DUE Notice is hereby given to owners of dogs or those having dogs in their possession that a tax of one dollar on males and two dollars on females is now due. Failure to comply with the ordinance made and provided covering the above tax will subject the person so doing to a fine of not less than ten dollars. By order of the Mayor. C. S. LINK, Clerk. FOR SALE, on reasonable terms, and at a fair price, the Mary Stephenson place, in Indian Land township. Lancaster county. One hundred acres, and a part^of the Sixer lands. Address, J. Harry Foster, Attorney, Rock Hill, S. C. Office, Railroad Avenue. M & E P P S oods jw Goods | Every Day Epps', It's right. A Sc EPPS :e, if it came from Epps'. a AA/1 Cf-AHA UUU LilUiU fresh supply of iarden Seeds, all sr, when you are vhat to have for e have it. Five esh Florida CabE GROCER. i ?????????????<$ . - - n v -T n_i.u_i.iL. i CALL/or ETTEICshoes \ W&^ I It in human nature to fr* anrl <tm| the biggest value a dollar will buy mmjS&S$r ?we are human?and take just aa much pride in buying goods to offer \ you as ; ou take in satisfying your f I Vyv own nce^s% J rBS|E HAVE answered the jfll call for better shoes by ^ putting in a complete line ( of LONGWEAR SHOES?the n, the better you like them! They are built to fit >rt from the firgt time you wear them, and will give ly other shoes for the same money. We are showpatterns in Men's, Women's and Children's shoes the latent word in style?nobby lests for the young ative lasts for the more sedate. We can fit you up in ncy dictates? Patent, Tan. Gun : Buck or White Canvas ? give us I = the superior worth of LONG- f * / <S$yy' I I Dike's, Dike's, Dike's. You can now buy the original Dike Household Remedies in Fort Mill. We have secured the exclusive selling rights of the Dike Remedies in this city, having been appointed the special representative of the Dike Company, New York, sole distributer of Dike Household Remedies. You now have the opportunity to bring the great Dike Remedies into your home. To tell you the seeming miracles wrought by these remedies and their history would fill several large volumes No other store in Fort Mill can sell you the original Dike Remedies. The prices are moderate?no more than you would have to pay for good quality drugs. The securing of the exclusive right to sell Dike's Household remedies is but another indication of the progressive policy of this store to give the unusual at all times. Look for the name "Dike" on every package of I medicine you buy?it is your protection. FREE! FREE! FREE! A 25 cent bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide to the first fifty persons wo buy $1.00 worth of Dike's Household Remedies or Toilet Articles. You will find here a complete line for all diseases. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Parks Drug Company, "The Dike Store." ??1 \ > ? | Everybody Has a Warm j Place for the Cold Cash. ' . We go the above sentence just "one better." We have f J the most goods for the Cold Cash. * / : I -? i ii you uon t heiieve this, ask for our prices on Seed $ * Irish Potatoes, Flour. Shorts. CofTee, Sugar, any anything ? in the way of Farm Supplies and Tools. X We have a warm place for the Cold Cash, and extend to you the warmest welcome in town to trade with us. Save your CASH COUPONS and make the whole fami- % ly happy. | M'ELHANEY & CO. I