Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 21, 1915, Image 2
THE FORT MILL TIMES
Domocratic? Published Thursdays.
II. ">V. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor.
dOituciurnoN Ratkh:
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
"
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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*
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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.
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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
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\ Hutchinson's
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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.
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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.
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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
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System Purifier.
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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
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"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
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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.