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THE FORT MILL TIMES Domocratic? Published Thursdays. II. ">V. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor. dOituciurnoN Ratkh: ? V ci or. 3ix Months .. ........ .66 The Times invites contributions on liveeubjncts but does not mrrce to publish more than 200 words en my subject. The Hsht ' t-eserved to edit svary communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising ' atos nro made known to tbore interested. Ts'sshcnc. Iocs! -nd lonir distance. No. 112. Bntered at the postoffice at Fort Mill. S. C.. as mall matter of the second cIbhs. THURSDAY. OCTOBER21, 1015. Pay-Up Time. The harvest season is on. and while cotton, the main money crop, is somewhat short the splendid price being received makes up in a large measure for the short crop. Last year, when the bottom I dropped out of everything, we had numbers of subscribers to toll us or write us that they were not able to pay up their subscription accounts, but that they did not want to stop the paper and would pay later. By making a strenuous effort we carried several hundred accounts ranging in amounts from one to two dollars. Another year has now passed and we find that our books contain nearly six hundred accounts in amounts from one to three dollars. The accounts individually do not amount to much, but when taken collectively they mean that we are carrying more than twelve hundred dollars in subscription accounts. We are not financially able to carry this account, nor are we disposed to have the accounts grow and accumulate. Wc want every subscriber to look at the date on the label of his paper right now and then send us a check for a sufficient amount to pay up to the present date, at least. If that is noi possible send at least enough to pay for the paper up to July 1st, this year. Odd months may be figured at 10cents per month. We wish it understood that we are not begging for this money. We have worked for and earned the money we are entitled to it, and expect to got it. If you appreciate the effort we have made and are making to give you a good paper, send us your remittance by next mail. Don't put it off, do it now! The Speed Devil. You may talk about- escaped lunatics, and lunatics in captivity, but there is one kind of lunatic, the worst of them all. still running at large. The lunatic we refer to above is that "thing" neither human nor beast and he j is seen here among you every day. Some call him a "road , hog," while others call him a1 "speeder," and then you hear some fellow call him a "speed fiend." For us, we have no name to call him. He is just a "thing:" devoid of reason or conscience, i You see him coming a long trail of dust behind him. An i awful moment of suspense and he is by, unless he happens to j sideswipe you while you are trying: to gret into the ditch out of his way. You feel relieved when he has passed and thank your stars he has passed you without mishap.?Selected. Why is a newspaper like a pretty woman? To be perfect it must be the embodiment of many types. Its form is made up. It is always chased, though inclined to be giddy. It enjoys a good press: the more rapid the better. It has a weakness for gossip. Talks a good deal. Can stand some praise and is awfully fond of a new dress. U. 111 ? No Fund for Ex-Slaves. The treasury department at Washington has issued a statement denying that it holds a fund of $68,000,000 or any other sum, for ex-slaves or their heirs or for other persons who worked in the cotton fields in Civil war times. The statement calls attention to a suit brought in the Disliiet ?- -?:??. ? wi wiuiuuia cuun tt^ciiuat ovlictary McAdoo to have this sum paid to claimants who helped to pick cotton on which the $8,000,000 was assessed as an internal ; revenue tax. The treasury statement says the government's right to collect this tax was determined years ago by i he courts and says that even if the ex-slaves had ai y claim it wou'd be against their masters. It points out also that the suit began is against the secretary of the treasury and is treated as an action against the government itself and that the usual fate of such suits is to he thrown out for lack of jurisdiction. The News of Gold Hill. Times Correspondence. The Gold Hill school with both its teachers, Miss Mary Garrison and Foy Dickson, and almost the entire student body were repreOOrtf Oil O f t Kn P r\imf ir TPnitt lnnf ovutvu at tut/ \jwu\itj i an iaoi Friday. Its beautiful float;' wrapped in white and old gold and drawn by four pretty mules decorated in like manner made a commendatory showing. ! Guy ^lankenship and Charlie 1 VVindle spent the past week at ' home. While here they attend- i ed the fair. These two young ' men left for University, N. C., ' to take up their duties. l Mrs. S. P. Wilson has been 1 very sick for some time. ] Now "Splinter," suppose you and I accept "Jaygold's" propo- J sition: "To take week about in < our correspondence to this col- J umn." It is a little hard on one fellow to find enough news for j each week and assistance will i be gladly accepted. Hyperion. Gold Hill. Oct. 18. Additional Fort Mill History. (Continued from I.ast Week) The next enterprise for Fort Mill was a marble vard, established by a man named McCoy, a son-in-law of Duke Russell, llfltA / t MM ? * ! /?/"! Uln " * ? miu >|uauicu HIS BV/<1|IMUIIU 111 the woods in front of where B. F. Patterson now lives. You will find some of his work now in old Unity cemetery. This was about 1853. He made his fortune shortly and left town. The next establishment* was. what do you think, a barroom, opened by R. H. Glenn, afterwards sherifF of York county. This was in 1854 and as there was a Sons of Temperance Society in town he was not allowed to sell to negroes, and there were but about a dozen men in town. His whiskey was sold at five cents a glass, and he soon made his fortune and left. He did business in a small log cabin back of the present Thompson Hotel. VV. E. White afterwards built a back roono to the cabin and put the widow Gillespie in it and supported her until she married Mr. Hugh Coffee, of Lancaster, along about the early '60s. T. D. Faulkner. n ? *1 n . ?? occupying new rosiomce. The postoffice was moved into its new quarters in the McNeel building Saturday, the mail from the west bound Southern passenger train Saturday afternoon, being the first to be worked up in the new quarters. There was some little confusion at first in regard to the selection of boxes and the fitting of keys, but everything connected with the office is working as smoothly as clock work now. Hundreds of people from the town and country visited the new postoffice on Saturday, many of them merely for the purpose of inspecting the' < - ? ; We are the "I Fort Mill | Agents for i More than 125 bott new quarters, which are larger and mofe commodious than heretofcr?. The r.evv postoffice is well lighted and ventilated, furnished with steam heat and all modern conveniences.?Yorkville Enquirer. STRONG TEMPTATION. "Then you won't have a community Christmas tree in Dogville?" "Naw, too many cowboys in town." "What of that ?" "The minute they see them glass balls some galoot will have to start target practice." HER U?i._ "*ULT. "Justice," remarked the boarder who was a victim of the proverb habit, "is blind." "Serves her right," rejoined the man with the auburn nose at the foot of the table. "She ought to brace up and indulge in an occasional eyeniinnnr " "I BIG CIRCUS P TUlo U/mr Qrtnn ruining 11110 if aj uuvn. The Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth will exhibit at Charlotte on Tuesday, October 2(5, and this food news is being heralded everywhere >y the many agents of this, the biggest ind foremost amusement institution in ;he world. The Barnum and Bailey Circus has always been the largest that ravels and this season the management las found it necessary to add many nore cars to its trains in order to provide for the great equipment. It reluires 85 doubie length railroad cars to transport the big show, 1280 people ire employed, there are 700 horses, 40 elephants and a menagerie of 110 cages, 180 world-famed artists take part in the greatest circus program this world ias ever known. A fitting introduction to the wonderful performance this year is the presentation of the new, magnificent spectacular pageant, "Lalla Rookh," in which nearly 1000 characters take part. In the circus proper, which is prein throi? riturc fnn* atorroo fVw* ? ?? ""* hippodrome, and in the dome of the largest tent ever erected, 480 performers from every nation in the world take part and present a vast array of foreign features entirely new to America. A wonderful trained animal exhibition is given by the Marvellous"War Elephants Wallenberg's Wonder Bears, Madam Bradna's Angel Horses, Thalero'sDogs Ponies and Moukeys, and Barnum and Bailey Statue Horses. Great interest is already being shown in this neighborhood and gteat crowds no doubt will go to Charlotte for the biggest and most enjoyable holiday of the year. Everyone is advised to get an early start in order to be there in time for the parade which starts promptly at 10 a. m., and whtch is said to echpse anything of its kind ever before attempted in the history of the circus business.- Adv. s> I Howdy!! I am the : "Little I Trained Nurs 1 am ?oin$tote you where tobuy ; all of your I Drug SforeThin You "will see me | every Weel V Read what I say in tl I will tell you how t < and wise. ? The medicines in ou 4 pure and fresh; our beau i ful ingredients; it is v j Drug Store on which yo I . = \ Hutchinson's f ? "N A Splendid Tonic and les sold here. Kimbre Don't wait un buy your winter now everything t we will sell it ch< Suits, Sweaters, J and Caps for the On Saturday v of New Shirt W< and ties to matcl Miss Warlick ] a shipment of th< She also has son ors, at only 50c < KIMBREL FOR SALE. WANTED. LOST. FOUND. + WANTED?To hear from party hav- * ing for sale nice Brown Leghorn cock j or cockerel, latter preferred. State A price. Box A, Fort Mill, S. ('. ^ NOTICE A vh'lour Mill of 26 barrel X capacity per day has just been com- X pleted in liock Hill. This enterprise fills a long felt need in that section. ^ J. C. Hardin is the owner and anybody desiring their wheat ground can Send ? n 10 mm or write him tor particulars. 4, FOR RENT ?Two Brick Stores and one Warehouse on Main street, Fort ^ V Mill, lately occupied by Mills & Young .. Co. Occupancy Sept. 1, 1915. Apply T a to W. S. Stewart, Box 9(>, 807 North ? College St., Charlotte, N. C. | | I Ek ^ | his paper every week. * o be healthy, beautiful ? A r drug store are always \ itifiers contain no harm- y wisdom to buy at this J u can RELY. J rPharmacy, I i - ?7 * ; - System Purifier. PARI 11>? A J Ik it 5 rtu-r til cold weather Clothing. We ha hat will keep you eap. See our L Hoods. Gloves,va : babies. ve will have a w aists, all colors, 1. Hillinery. tias received agaii e newest Hats, wi le Tarn o Shante each. L'S, "Where Qu \T AUC One Car Load of Brood IVI be offered to the highest t our stables on Saturday, Ocl Sale will begin promptly at 1 This is the finest car load r ffered on this market, having xperienced buyer. They are ? nd good workers. Don't Miss Th W. J. NEELY ROCK HILL, FALL Pi ARE RE; These Fall days offer a grar and Clean Up." We've prepa big demand?never had sue You'll find every good thing ir here at Right Prices. Paint NOW?Save W< It's cheaper to paint than not property last longer?looks newi know it?every owner does. We you need for your job and the bet NEW ERA PAINT?"A Parks Drug C Huyler'a Chocolates a 1 "V "The Master Medicine" st<; nniir. rr\ w VJ V^V/t lews I arrives to I ve in stock . warm and ong Coats, nd Bootees rindow full ta ri fli rnvrlo i i VV 1111 W1 uo 1 n this week th fur edge. I * :rs, all colality Reigns" I :flONl Well Broke * lares, jj bidder, FOR CASH, :ober 23. I | 1 o'clock, a. m. >f Brood Mares ever t been selected by an is sound as a dollar, lis Sale. STABLES, I - s. c. <MIV15 I ^DY- I id time to "Paint Up red for an early and :h complete stocks. 1 Paints and Finishes ;ather Wear. to paint?makes your er?brings more. You will tell you how much it paint for the purpose cme Quality." * Company nd Bon Hons.