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~ j FORT MILL COTTON MARKET. Cotton, per lb lljc Seed, per bu. 45c . ITEBS OF LOCAL INTEREST. Rev. and Mrs. J. R. McKit trick and children, of Dyson, are visiting relatives in Fort Mill, k and the vicinity. Miss Cammie Smith returned ^ to her home in Fort Mill Saturday afternoon after spending a few days in the city with rela-1 tives. ?Rock HilL Record. Misses Lana Parks, Kathleen Armstrong, Olive Harris, Mary Lewis and Alice Bradford, stu} dents of Winthrop college, spent the last week-end at their homes in this city. The published report recently t to the effect that Mrs. Elizabeth M. Ardrey would remove shortly from Fort Mill to Pineville was erroneous, as it is learned that Mrs. Ardrey has no present intention of leaving Fort Mill. B. F. Massey, Jr., a former Fort Mill druggist, left Tuesdayevening for Tampa, Fla., where he is to again engage in the j drug business. Mrs. Massey and little daughter will join Mr. Massey in the Florida city within a short time. In quoting the price paid for cotton and seed on several markets Monday, the Charlotte News was in error in stating that seed were selling on the Fort Mill market at 40 cents per bushel. Local seed buyers paid 45 cents ^ for seed Monday. The Times is requested to announce that a meeting of the local Parent Teachers' club will be held in the school auditorium t tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at ^ 4 o'clock. All interested in the work of the association are invited to be present. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Jaton, a sister of Mrs. Rebecca Carothers of Fort Mill, died at her home at Jefferson, Chesterfield county, on ^ morning of Sept. 11th, aged 7fi years. She had been a paralytic for eight years and for more than three years a helpless invalid. The handsome Woodman monument erected during the last; # week at the grave in New Unity cemetery, this city, of the late James W. Erwin will be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies by by the local camp of W. O. W. next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The public is invited to witness the unveiling. Miss Olive Brock, of Honea Path, who was detained at her home on account of illness, arrived in Fort Mill Saturday and on Monday assumed her duties | as teacher of the third grade in public school. Awaiting the ar rival of Miss Brock, the class lias been taught by Miss Mae Morris of the India Hook section of the county. Report has reached Fort Mill from the Harrison neighborhood, six miles east of this city, to the effect that several cases of smallpox have appeared among the colored people of that section during the last ten days. Following this outbreak of the disease nearly all of the people of that section have been vaccinated and it is believed that the disease will be stamped out within a short time. V The Fort Mill Lumber company has been given the contract for the erection of a five-room cottage for C. S. Kimbrell, carrier *" of mail on local rural route No. 2. The house is to occupy a site at the intersection of the Barberville and Lancaster roads, one mile east of town. Another building contract awarded recently was that to A. A. Bradford for a neat cottage for Dallas Stevens, the house to occupy a site just across the railway from the Millfort mill. - ' % Mr. H. C. White of Columbia, representing the Southeastern Tariff association, has just completed a survey of the town and new insurance rates will be issued in a short while whereby a considerable reduction will be i made in the cost of insurance in Fort Mill, especially on mercantile buildings. Since the; installation of the waterworks system, the town is rated as third class instead of fourth class as heretofore. An Approaching Marriage. Invitations .were received in i Fort Mill the past week to the approaching marriage of Miss Blanche Winnifred Lawrence and Mr. Frank Everard Ardrey, the marriage to take place the evening of October 5 in the Central Methodist church at Florence, the home city of the bride-to-bc. Miss Lawrence is a highly accomplished and charm iiiK woman anu nas a iiosl of friends in Fort Mill and vicinity. ^ For two terms she was music instructor in the Fort Mill school. Mr. Ardrey is the youngest son of Capt. and Mrs. J. W. Ardrey. of this city, and is one of the town'tmost popular young men. It is understood that after the marriage the bridal couple will tour the West, taking in the San Francisco exposition, and will return to Fort Mill about the first of November. Board Here Saturday. In reply to an inquiry sent by The Times, Mr. L. G. Nunn, of Rock Hill, member of the county board of registration, states that the board will visit Fort Mill on next Saturday for the purpose of issuing registration certificates to the voters of the town. The U 1 : ft*- XT 9 uuuiu, ucuuruiug to ivir. iNunn s letter, will leave Rock Hill by auto at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and will spend the remainder of the day, if necessary, in Fort Mill. It has been announced that the board will hold its meetiner while here at the store of the Parks Drug Co. Death of a Child. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. VV. Wylie deeply sympathize with them in the loss of their little son, James Wylie, Jr., whose death occurred at Greensboro, N. C., Tuesday night. The child was about two years of age and had been ill but a few days. The remains, accompanied by the parents, were brought to Fort Mill Wednesday afternoon and taken to the home of the grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McMurray, from which the funeral ssrvice will be conducted this morning. The burial will be made in New Unity cemetery, this city. Not a Boll Weevil. What was believed by several to be a genuine boll weevil was shown on the streets of Fort \1 1 I I 'I'll V tllO Kiw, limrin/v 4u a itui uv4nj , ciiv uu^ nav iii^ been found in a load of seed brought in by John M. Harris of the Pleasant Valley section. The bug was not the boll weevil, however, as is evidenced by the following letter from the agricultural department to which the bug was sent by a Fort Mill man; "Insect submitted for determination is not the boll weevil, but belongs to the family known as grain weevils, probably the rice weevil, Calandra Granaria." Cordial Welcome for Dr. Mack. The Fort Mill friends of Rev. Dr. Edward Mack will be interested to learn 'of the most cordial welcome extended him last week when he assumed his duties as professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. Doctor Mack is a graduate of Davidson college and was formerly pastor of the j First Presbyterian church of' Charlotte. Election Managers Resign. According to reports from Yorkville, the entire York county election commission hoard, consisting of Dr. I. J, Campbell, VV. B. Kellar and J. B. Neil, have forwarded their resigna-! tions to Governor Manning. Just why the commissioners saw fit to give up their duties is not made clear in the dispatches. The resignations are said to have been forwarded to Columbia last week, and is is probable that the appointment of their successors will be made public from the executive office of the State this week. ? FOR SALE. WANTED, LOST. FOUND. NOTICE?A Flour Mill of 25 barrel capacity per day has just been completed in Kock Hill. This enterprise tills a long felt need in that section. J. C. Hardin is the owner and anybody desiring their wheat ground can Send it to him or write him for particulars. FOR SALE?Two-foot Oak and Hickorv Wood at $3.00 per cord. Stove Wood, ready for stove, 12 to 18 inches lone, $2.50 per load of 1-2 cord. I. O. C. rigs, 7 lo 8 weeks old. $4.00 delivered. Osrpond Barber, Wateroak Farm. FOR SALE ?Whole Wheat Flour? cures constipation, aids digestion ? put up in 6-lb, 12-lb and 25-lb bags. Five me your orders. Osmond Barber, Wateroak farm. FOR RENT ?Two Brick Stores and one Warehouse on Main street. Fort Mill, lately occupied by Mills & Young Co. Occupancy Sept. 1, 1915. Apply to W. S. StewarJ, Box 96, 807 North College St.. Charlotte. N. C. Regular convocation ., > ' .LB. Mack Chapter, ?' >>.. U. D., Thusday night. \v _ '"7 All members requested to be present. W. B. Mcacham. Jr., S?. ~ NOTICE OF KI.ECTION. Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in the town of Fort Mill on Thursday, the I4th day of October, 1915, at the usual polling place, for the purpose of electing a Mayor of the said town of Fort Mill; and that D. A. Lee, T. D. Faulkner and A. A. Young are appointed managers of said election. ,1. L. SPU ATT Attest: Mavor Pro Tem. C. S. LINK. Clerk. ' Specials fo 16 pounds of Sugar for $1J Groceries and get 17 pounds LARD ?All Lard is adv should buy now. Cotton see and all compound must be hi; We will still sell you Swift ,or' Swift's Pure Leaf Lard at WAGONS-Several Or and Buckeye Wagons that m COTTON.SEED - We price for your seed. Mr. W. we invite you to see him befc EPPS, ^ ?????? i+i+t Let US Serve i Good Gi YOUR TABLE will be well ? market affords if you order y from us. YOUR BANK ACCOUNT w ? prices are down as low as poss and Provisions of First quality YOUR HEALTH will be am f only goods 0f known purity an ; YOUR APPETITE will be v groceries of the quality that p t nutriment, and are good to th< ; WE PAY YOU the highest eggs and other country produc Parks Grc ; Phom \t r" i new rai SHOES MILLl Prices are lower than the We sold nearly half our were opened. When yoi $3.00 Hat selling for $1.5C I for $2.50, it is hard to pasi We have a habit of cutti Come let us show you. I L. J. R ? * 1 Loans on Cotton JI at 6 per cent j; Last year the First National (< Bank loaned money to EVERY farmer who offered warphouse ! receipts for cotton as security, ! and by means of these loans ; hundreds of bales of cotton were stored and sold later at higher 1 prices which put thousands of dollars in the pockets of our farmer customers. We do not advise the? farmers to store their cotton this year nor do we advise them to sell at the present prices. This is a matter which should be decided bv each individual farmer according to his needs and circumstances. We are prepared however to iu?nr>, secureu oy warehouse receipts for cotton, to those farmers who may wish to hold their cotton at Six PerT'ent Interest. First National Bank, FORT MILL, S. C. See "The Dollar Mark" at the Majestic Theatre Monday. ir Saturday [)0, or buy $5 worth of our of Sugar for $1.00. ancing very fast, and you d is bringing 10 to 45 cents, gher. 's Jewel at 10 pounds for $1, 10 pounds for $1.25. IP- nnrl Ta'A-Hnren WnUlin? . _ V..V. M. ft v a t v/l i)V- TV uuun ust be sold. Let us show you. will pay the highest market J. Steele is our buyer and >re you seil. ie Cash Man. <8> i YOU With } ^oceries. \ supplied with the best the < our Groceries and Provisions ? ill be safeguarded because our ible to put them for Groceries ? < 4 ply protected, because we sell d excellence. t fell satisfied, because we sell ^ < lossess an unususl amount of ( i taste. T market price for chickens. ^ < :e. Bring us what you have. < ( t ( >cery Co., \ e 116 I 11 1 Goods. J DRY GOODS NERY :y have been in many years. Ladies' Hats first day they i see a pretty up-to-date or a $5.00 Hat selling (it by. ng the price in half. lassey. t 11 New lot of Neckw and so on, just in. I If it's the correct st; I Pattersons Dry TELEPHONE NO. 85. 9 I Have Your Pr ; Filled : Hutchinson's I "The Licensed E f Headquarters tionery and Suppli* / is With a I 'I Ahead of you on y you would save eno supplies to surely ta With Old Ahead of you, bring and loss of employm going to spend all you go along ? Star! ' a Savings account v welcome small dep< as large ones. Oc regular interest qua , , Savings Bank oi Dthing i " For Men I and Boysi|. < 100 suits for | * Men, just arrived | & great values at $ $10 to $16 M I 200 Suits for | Boys, sizes 4 to 18 years, at _ 98c to $8. ear, Shirts, Caps ;; yle, we have it. Goods Store \ "SELLS IT FOR LESS." | > * ??? ? < ? < < < ; escriptions At I Pharmacy, i m * # rug Store." mmm ? for Sta< < > School < > i > < > SkC * ^O* A :: j: < < > *> )esert $ our journey l|j utfh of your ke you across j'J I Age | inK sickness lent, are you !JI you earn as I 1 /ith us. We 3sits as well tober 1st, a Fort Mill , pf!,