Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 25, 1915, Image 3
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ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
The best price offered for cot- !
ton on the local market today is
81-4 cents.
Dr. Porter, of the Pineville <
Phapmanu nroo O I linlnnnr I
A IA1MVJ 9 HttO a UUOI1ICDA |
visitor to Fort Mill Monday.
Miss Lola Lawrence, of Flor- 1
% ence, has been the guest for
several days of her sister. Miss
Blanche Lawrence, in this city.
Spring, according to the almanacs,
began last Sunday morning
at 11:50 o'clock. The
weather since that time has, 1
however, been anything but
springlike. !1
The advanced grades of the
local graded school will be given
a holiday today and tomorrow,
the teachers of the grades being ,
in attendance upon a meeting of
the State Teachers' association
in Florence.
In an accident at The Majestic
Theatre Saturday afternoon,
B. W. Bradford, manager of the
playhouse, received a severe
burn to his right hand while
extinguishing a small blaze in
the machine room. There was
no damage to the building or its
equipment.
S. L. Meacham, F. M. Mack
and R. F. Boyd are the Fort,
Mill men drawn as jurors for the
first week of the general sessions
court, for York county, which
convenes on April 12th. Halcott
P. Green, of Columbia, will pre- :
side over the court.
Announcement is made that
the two cotton mills in this city
will, beginning with next Saturday,
pay off their hands each
two weeks instead of every week.
The plan of paying off every
Saturday was taken up by the
mills about one year ago.
* The heaviest snowfall of the
winter in this place began earlv
Saturday morning and continued
without cessation until near
noon, but the flakes melted immediately
upon striking the
earth. It was believed had tin
* snow "stuck" the fall would
have amounted to three or more
inches.
Jesse Price, a young mill man
^ of Pineville, who was well known
in Fort Mili and community, died
at his home in Pineville the
afternoon of March 17th, and
was buried in the cemetery of
that place the following day.
Mr. Price had been ill for rpu
eral months and his death was
not unexpected.
Under a special act of the last
Legislature, taxes to the amount
of $6,301.53 had been refunded
by the county treasurer up to
Thursday to the victims of the i
hail storm of last July in Bethel, j
Bethesda, Ebenezer, Catawba,
- York and King's Mountain town-1
* ships, according to the York-'
ville Enquirer.
Local gardeners are very
anxious to see the weather
moderate. While some of the
early vegetables have peeped
above the ground, nothing, they
say, is growing to any appreciable
extent. It is believed,
however, that the cold winds of
the last few days have held the
fruit trees back until there is
now little danger to fruit from
frost.
^ Mr. J. E. Williamson, superintendent
of the two local cotton
mills, left Fort Mill Monday
morning for Fayetteville, N. C.,
where on last evening he was to
R have been married to Miss Kate
Sinclair. Mr. Williamson and
bride will return to Fort Mill in
H about ten days and will at once *
11 begin housekeeping in the resiR
dence on White street until '
R recently occupied by W. M. ]
R Carothers and family.
~"1 Few packages of whiskey con1
taining more than the regulation I
' single gallon have reached the
local express office since the new
liquor law went into effect on
the 12th inst. It is also a notice- ,
able fact, according to those who <
have watched arrivals of whis- j
key, that fewer of the one gallon
packages are being received here i
than hnfnrn tha naur lour hflnnmA
tuuil V/ VI1V IIV T? IU V* U^V/rt I I II
operative.
. |to| Saturday, April 3, will be obv^Berved
by all the schools of York
?%\-,;*>unty as held day, the exercises
^'SP^kking place principally on the
VB-ounds of the Yorkvillc graded
5 ; Bhool. The program has been ;
Hepared and is an attractive i
He. Governor Manning and !
Bite Superintendent SwearinBi
have accepted invitations to !
;* ; Biver addresses.
V. B. Blankenship is at his
place of business today after two
weeks' absence on account of
grippe.? Rock Hill Record.
J. G. Smith, of Upper Fort .
Mill, has been drawn as a errand J
juror for York court to serve j
during the present year.
Mrs. Rebecca H. Mills with
her daughter. Miss Loma Hughes,
left this week for Lancaster,
where she will make her future
home with her son, Mr. T.
Mclver Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Allison,
of Yorkville, have announced
the marriage of their
daughter. Miss Ola Marion
Allison, to James Hardin Glenn,
of Chester. The wedding will
be solemnized in November.
Gary Harris, a Pleasant Valley
young man who enlisted in the
navy several months ago and
who has since been in training
at Norfolk, is spending a tenday
furlough at the home of his
mother, Mrs. M. J. Harris.
The local board of equalization
which is composed of Messrs.
L. A. Harris, A. A. Bradford
and W. P. Crayton have been
busy for several days past with
the local tax returns, it is noted
that many of the returns have
been reduced when possible from
last year's returns.
At a meeting several days ago
of the board of trustees of tho
local graded schools, Prof. J. P.
Coates was reelected superin-1
tendent and Miss Bessie Brown
was named as teacher of the
11th grade for the next school
term. Teachers for the other
grades will he named at a meeting
to be held later.
York county's new court house
will soon be completed, so far
as the work of the builders is
concerned, and it is said to be
one of t he handsomest and most
con von tent ly arranged in the
State. The amount to be expended
tm the building proper is
$75,000, and it is reported that
the contractors will lose instead
< f making money.? Rock Hill
Record.
Blanks have been sent out to
the teacners of all the York
county schools with the request
that tl.ey fill in the names of;
th ir pupils who expect to enter
the various contests to he held
on County Field Day in Yorkville,
on Saturday, April 3. All
have been requested to return
the blanks to the proper committees
by next Saturday. ?
Yorkvilie Enquirer.
The annual inspection of the ,
local military organization, Co. 1
K. 1st S. C. N. G., by officers of
the State and United States
governments, will take place j
tomorrow. The arms and ac- !
coutrements will be checked up
in the afternoon and the inspection
proper will take place
in the company's armory at
about 8 o'clock in the evening.
As heretofore, it is expected
that a number of citizens will
witness the inspection.
Mrs. "Stonewall" Jackson Dead.
Mrs. Mary Anna Jackson,
widow of Thomas Jonathan
("Stonewall") Jackson, the famous
Confederate general, died
at her home in Charlotte early
Wednesday. She had been ill
for many months. An attack
of pneumonia three days ago
hastened her death. Her granddaughter.
Mrs. Randolph Preston !
and other relatives were at Mrs.
Jackson's bedside when she died.
Public buildings, schools- and
business houses will be closed
tomorrow, the day of the
funeral. The body will be buried
fit Lexington, Virginia, beside
that of "Stonewall" Jackson.
FOR SALE, WANTED, LOST, FOUND.
FOR SAI.K Hggs for hatching from
pure bred RulF Plymouth Hock chickens
Write to or call on Z.ack Spratt,
Fort Mill, S. ('.
MONKY TO ROAN-Applications received
for loans from $100.00 to $10,000
on improved and unimproved town
property and farm lands. Interest
s straight. Interest payable annually
or semi-annually. Time: one to
ten years. Applicants for loans will
please give description, location and
valuation of property offered as security
for loan. State improvements
and valuation of same. We want
County representatives to receive applications
for loans, appraise property,
and serve as our exclusive representative.
Attornev or r<>nl
r ' w?' v?vuv*. men i
preferred. Applicants for loans, and
applicants for agencies positively required
to furnish at least two character
references and forward postage, five
2c stamps, for application blanks, full
particulars, and prompt reply. Write
Southern Office, Southeastern Mortgage
Loan Assn., Fourth Nat'l Bank I
LWdg., Atlanta, Oa.
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we eau employ a mi
for a few weeks for ;
eost of employing 01
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I about half the usual
coming iu every da
first ehoiee.
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and the savi
If you contemplate the erect
barn, or outhousp nr llm wm
present buildings, DO IT NO\
if you act at once, for you car
now than you can possibly do
30 or GO days, we verily believ
have passed. Labor will bee
Building Material market is all
know say that prices will be b;
We will supply you at close fig
nish you estimates on what yoi
Take advantage of condition
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25 CENTS r-z:< BOTTLE AT ALL DRUGGISTS . !
KING'S NEW LIFE PILLS
The Pills That Do Cure.
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ion of a new home, tenement, *
odeling or repairing of your
V. You will be the winner *
1 do the work cheaper right :
it a little later. If you wait :
o the golden opportunity will *
ome higher, the Lumber and ^
ready firmer, and people who ^
ick to normal in a short while,
ures and will cheerfully furar
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Jumber Co. j
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To the Citizen* of Fort Mill and 4
Vicinity.
For fully thirty-five Pi.'d years th?* ;
I,. A M. Semi Mixed Ileal Paints have 4
lieen extensively used throughout, tin- *
United States and also in South
America. They have therefore been 4
subjected to the tests of every sort of .
climatic conditions most successfully
thereby proving their extreme dura- 4
bility ana superior value. 2
See our advertisement on other page,
telling property owners how to make 4
their own paint, and thereby save sixty 1
cents a gallon on every gallon used.
l.O NG MAN & MARTINEZ, *
Paint Maker*, - New York.
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BITTERS Family Mediciua. '
Are You Looking I
For the Best? j
If so, visit Patterson s where |
you get Quality Merchandise, t
new and snappy, at living 1
prices. We sell nothing but |
fir^t-class Dry Goods, No- I
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> tions, Clothing, Hats, Shoes, I
etc. We give these lines our |
whole attention; no side-line t
or outside business to look f
after. We watch for the best |
at lowest possible prices. |
Come to see us often. I
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Acknowledged by all our f
successful^ gardeners as the |
most productive seed on
the market. Fresh supply
just received.
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Parks Drug Company,
The Dike Store. |
Subscriptions taken for all the Magazine*. *
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A Safe Investment I
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( Perhaps you have saved up a few hundred dollars which ^
you wish to invest where the principal will be absolutely se- +
cure, always available, and at the same time pay you a fair %
* rate of interest.
Deposit your money with us, taking an interest-bearing Z
Certificate of Deposit.
Your principal will he well secured and subject to your %
demand when you need it. *
The interest is more than you would receive on a Govern
ment Bond and the money is just as safe. j|
WE PAY FOUR PER CENT. |
The First National Bank, I
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rori mill, - - - 3. L. I
( Under strict supervision of U. S. Government.
iee The Majestic "Movies" Saturday 230 p.m.