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THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic? Published Thursdays. B. W. BRADfORP - Editor and Prooristor. i <J b3cription RaTF.S: One Year...... ...........II.26 Six Month* .Of) i The Times invite*contribution* on llvssubjects bat Joe* not a^ree to publish more than 200 word* in any subject. The rbrht ia reserved to edit ivsrv camcnunication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising ?atos are mnde known to those interested. Telephone, local nnd lone distance. No. 112. Entered at the postofflre at Port Mill. S. C.. as mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1915. Storing Cotton. It is very important that all cotton that is not marketed when ginned should be stored or placed in a position where it will be protected from injury by moisture. When cotton is exposed to rain it is subject to serious injury; and where it is sheltered but left in contact with the damp ground it is likely to become seriously damaged. It is frequently the case that people do not realize the amount of damage that is is done. In many instances cotton appears from the outside of the bale to be in fairly good condition, when it really is badly in* 3 : J ~ i.- 4.U ^ t \? A jureu msiue, uut: u> tut? laci i.iiat moisture has been allowed to penetrate the bale, thus causing mildew. It is not unusual, according to data of the department of agriculture, for cotlon to suffer a loss of from $3 to $5 per bale as the result of unnecessary exposure. At all times it should be kept off the ground and properly sheltered. Where it is impossible to place it in a warehouse it should be protected by a dry shed, or it may be placed on polls or timbers which will keep it several inches from the ground, and covered from wet weather. Protected in this way it can be held for six months or even a year with very little damage, "Safe Farming" Always. A program of "safe farming" for the South is outlined in a circular which the United States' Department of Agriculture has sent to hankers, business men, and farmers in the cotton States. The history of agriculture in the South, it is said, has been one of lean years and fat years. Short crops and high prices have, it is pointed out, alinoft invariably been followed by bij crops and low prices and in consequence, the farmer has experienced much distress. The increased attention which has recently been given to supporting the people upon the land has slready resulted in much good, but there is sontedangei, it is pointed out. that with the price of cotton rising there will be a tendency for farmers to return to the old system of gambling on cotton. If the people of the South produced their own living, the circular points out, it would steady the whole system and keep the boat from rocking. It is to be hoped the farmers of the South will heed this advice in their farming operations df 1916. Note and Comment. Man has three creators, God, himself and his fellows. Few realize the extent to which we are made by the great mass of humanity of which v;e are a part. The people that we come in contact with during our every day lives influence our thoughts to a greater extent than most people are willing to admit. The biggest fool is the one who : thinks he can fool others with impunity without them knowing and resenting it. When people love you they ; cheat you; when they fear you, they let you cheat them. ============ The shortest road to happiness is to be content where you are I and with what you have. A performance today is cash in hand; a promise of tomorrow is only a note of hand. Virtue's violations scars a coni science, persistence burns it, npcWf pnnonmoa if i The man that is perfectly contented with the world is too good for it. Prisoners in York Jail. Twenty-seven persons are in the York county jail awaiting trial at the approaching term of the court of general sessions for York county, which convenes next Monday, Nov. 22. There are also a large number of dei fendants out on bond. Following ! are those in jail: Fred Thomson. Jake Love, Ed Robinson. John Hines, Jesse Dix; on, Robert Kelley, larceny; Chari ley Gill, Sam Hood, Boy Watson, j Allison Cloud, Sam Wright, Bob | Castles, Price Dunlap, S. Young, I housebreaking and larceny; Jim ! Stroud, using horse without consent of owner; John Barnes.abandonment of wife; Wilson Glenn, Loma Reid, Jum Hayes, Wallace Smith, Minnie Harris, assault and battery with intent to kill; Will Snooks, assault with intent to ravish; Lewis Tigler, disposing of property under mortgage; W. E. fiarHnpr issnirtor ftvmrliilont shecks; Pink Rice, Duke Clawson. murder.?The Enquirer. Death of Wm. Wright. William Wright, whose critical illness was mentioned in last Thursday's issue of The Record, died Friday morning about 1 o'clock. Mr. Wright had been seriously ill for several months. He , vas well known in this city and community as a contractor and builder, numbers of homes in the | city having been constructed un; ler his direction. He was liked I by his fellow-men and the public ! renerally. ? Rock Hill Record. Mr. Wright is well rememberd in Fort Mill and the country surrounding, having at one time [resided in this city. He was a ^brother of Mrs. Wm. Adkinsand Mrs. Eliza Johnson, now residents of Fort Mill. The News of Gold Hill. Times Corresjjondence. Mr. Sam Boyd is confined at his home with the second attack >f sickness he has had the present year. We also learn that the Hon. S. H Epps is seriously sick. We think the farmers are well uf> with their work. . There was a Rood old-fashioned corn shucking pulled off at Mr. W. H. Windle's the past week. It was accompanied with all the | good things usual on such ocj casions and we Ihink it is now near thirty years since we had a i like gathering 44 in this community. There has been some of the finest fields of corn grown in this section the present year we i have ever seen on hill land and the farmers have peas, potatoes, pinders and lots of good things to he thankful for and Fort Mill went and let that little suburb of Pleasant Valley have a fair before she had one. Well, there is one consolation about it, Pleasant Valley couldn't have her show without first coming: over to York county and borrow a babe to have at their fair. They certainly acted wisely in coming over here because there ! is a good stand of babies in these diggings, and I reckon they are fair to look upon because there was fifty-seven different persons went to visit one near us one day recently. We will close having no other points to make and not a single point to boost us on. > Splinter. -LI1 1 . - -J Pickpockets Plead Guilty. I John Miller. G. VV. Wilson and William Monahan, the white men arrested in Charlotte on October 20, Barnum & Bailey circus day, and afterward convicted in recorder's court, after an allday trial, on the charge .of being pickpockets and who appealed from thedecisionof the fecobder, * entered a plea of guilty in superior court before Judge AVebb t yesterday morning, through their attorney. Judge Webb sentenced each of them to serve six months on the county roads. The evidence was gone into fully, it proving of exactly the same nature as that i . i . .? - - - I presenteu to tne recorder. At the conclusion of the evidencetaking the defendants' attorneys made a statement to the court stating that while they yet protested their innocence of the crime charged against them they would enter a plea of guilty and throw themselves on the mercy of the court rather than fight the matter further and perhaps draw a heavier sentence. They placed in their attorneys' hands $500 to be given to Mr. A. H. Huneycutt, a well known merchant of Stanley county, who on circus day was robbed of this amount. NO Tll\NKS(iJVlN(i IHNNKR COMPI.I/IT. | mriioi t * box A. ^ y J | IE-very girl's wish is for I 25 Send her a box 1 hanksgiving?the most1 acceptable gift. Huylers Candies make an added reason for giving I thanks. You should have a box for 1 hanksgiving , I Day. A fresh assortment on our counters at all times awaiting your selection. Our advance showing is here, and if we haven't just what you desire, we'll order it for you. "It costs you nothing to look.'' , Parks Drug Company, ?i > ... 1 he Agt. ??; AN ORDINANCE. ? 1 . . . I " . 1 Prohibiting Theft, Buying, Receiving I or Concealing Stolen floods. I Re it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Fort Mill, 1 and by authority of the same, i Section 1. That from and after the 1 passage of this ordinance it shall be unlawful for anv person or persons within the corporate limits of the town < of Fort Mill to steal, take und carry away any goods or property of another, being within the corporate limits of the town with intent to con- j \i rt the same to his, her or their own use. 5 Sec. 2. In all cases whatever, where ^ any goods or chattels or other property, ( > of which larceny may be committed, J : shall have been feloniously taken or stolen by anv person or persons within* I the corporate limits of the town of I Fort Mill, any person who shall buy, 1 j receive or conceal any such goods or 1 i chattels, or other property, knowing ' the same to have been stolon, shall be } prosecuted therefor and upon con- | J viction shall be punished as hereinafter I * provided. f Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any 1 person or persons, firm, or corporation 1 within the corporate limits of the town J of Fort Mill to take or receive any * money or other valuable .consideration in settlement or compromise of any ^ [ of the offenses set forth in Section c One and Section Twool this ordinance. Sec. 4. Any person or persons, firm 1 or corporation violating the provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction shall 8 be punished by a fine of not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, or by imprison- 1 mont of not exceeding thirty days. c Sec. 5. All ordinances inconsistent * with the provisions of this ordinance 8 are hereby repealed. i . Done and ratified in Council as- ' semblcd this 2nd day of November, | 8 191 r,a i t B. E. PATTEBSON, Attest: Mayor. ! I C. S. Link, Clerk. ELECTRIC-I BITTE&S [New D , rriNnw is the Hmi feel sure we have shown in Fort Mi and Shadow Crep evening wear we blue and pink. ^ soft Taffeta Silk ir I Shirt Waists?1 beautiful Crepe de color and oink at Iyou to see our w Trimmings in all < riviner everv week ~ Don't forget tha less than cost, W I Hats which we an on all untrimmed dren's hat's greatly | KIMBRE FOR SALE. WANTED. LOST. FOUND. FOR RENT?Two Brick Stores and one Warehouse on Main street, Fort mm, lately occupied by Mills & Young Co. Occupancy Sept. 1, 1915. Apply to W. S. Stewart, Box 96, 807 North College St.. Charlotte. N. C. FOR SALE?80-Acre Farm at Catawba River bridge, near Fort Mill and Rock Hill. Fifteen acres of line bottoms, all necessary 1 'hidings. Easy terms. J. R. Haile, Fort Mill, S. C. AN ORDINANCE. Requiring Motor Vehicles to Stop At Certain Points Within the Town of Fort Mill Before Proceeding. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Fox't Mill in Council assembled and by authority of the same: Section 1. That from and after the tiassage of this ordinance all automohles, motorcycles, or other motor vehicles are required to come to a full stop before proceeding at ihe junction of Spratt and Depot streets, at the corner of the Fort Mill Lumber Company, and at the jifhction of Depot and Trade streets near the corner of the Southern Railway depot. Sec. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this ordinance shalll, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding Ten Dollars or be imprisoned not more than thirty days. Sec. 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Done and ratified in Council assembled this 2nd day of November, 1915. B. E. PATTERSON, Attest: Mayor. C. S. LINK, Clerk. TAX NOTICE -1915. Office of the Count? Treasurer of York County. York, S. C.f Sept. 15, 1915. Notice is hereby giveflkhat the Tax dooks for York County wiU be opened >n Friday, the 15th day of October, 1915, and remain open until the 31st lay o? December, 1915, for the collec.ion of S;ate, County, School and Local Paxes, for the fiscal year 1915, without>enalty; after which day one per cent, lenalty will be added to all payments nade in the month of .January, 1916, md two per cent, penalty for all paynents made in the month of February, 916, and seven per cent, penalty will >e added to all payments made from he 1st day of March, 1916, to the J5th lay of March, 1916, and after this date ill unpaid taxes will go into executions ind all unpaid Singh' Polls will be urned over to the several Magistrates :or prosecution in accordance with law. Kor the convenience of taxpayers, I vill attend the following places on the lays named: At Yorkville, Thursday, November 1. At Itock Hill, from Monday, Novem>cr lf>th, to Saturday, November 20th. At Yorkville from Monday Novem>er 22d, until Friday, the 31st day >f December, 1915, after which date he penalties will attach as stated ibove. Note.?The Tax Books are made up >y Townships, and parties writing ibout taxes will always expedite maters if they will mention the Townhip or Townships in which their iroperty or properties arc located. HARRY E. NEIL, Treasurer of York County. Old newspapers, for sale at The Times office. ress Goo; * to make your dresses the prettiest line of \N 11. Just the newest th >es, all colors, at $ 1.( are showing Crepe de We have just receive i plum color, green, b! Several days ago w< * Chine and silk waist $1.25, SI.98 and $2 indow of All-Over colors for waists. Ne so come in and look Millinery. t we are offering all T e have quite a number > selling for only $1.98 hats and feathers. Ah t reduced. :lusT "Where <s> 1 I Buv a whQle hi | Cheers | i i Set out a whole bo: 3 when your friends conic II ^ It's cheaper to buy th 4 ? We keep our cigars 2 this gives them a better I I I | Hutchinson's | $5.C I Worth ofClothi TKis .c:tr?rlr MI I IXmas, so if you w Shoes cheaper tha bought them, come EPPS, 2 ________ IP 1 3 for Xmas. We ^ ^ool Gcods ever ^ ing in Gabardine 30 a yard. For ) Chine in white d a shipment of % ue anr^ blacks received some | s in white, flesh I ** .25. We want Laces, Nets and * :w goods. are arat them. rimmed Hats for of S6, S5 and S4 Reduced prices >o, big lot of chib . II Quality Reigns" ^ dx of oui'Vpod | e Cash Man. <; * ,? * < of our Good Cigars ^ S in. < < lem by the box. * $ in kkgood condition;** J flavor. 5 > Pharmacy, 5 > >oo I ing and Shoes | ST be sold by |x ant Clothing and | n you have ever I 4 i to see us. I <