Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, February 24, 1916, Image 2
THE FORT MILL TIMES
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Entered at the postoRlcc at Fort Mill. S. C.. as
mall matter of the second class.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1916. j
According to Dr. Evans, the
well known medical authority of
Chicago who writes for many
daily newspapers in various
sections of the country, there is
no more healthful exercise for
children than roller skating. The
exercise not only promotes health
but is a source of innocent pleasure
for those who indulge it. It
is therefore to be hoped that
there is no truth in the report
that members of the Fort Mill
town council are thinking of
trying to pass an ordinance prohibiting
the use of the paved
sidewalks to the children for
this pastime. In a town the size
of Fort Mill there are at best too
few pleasures for the children
and it is unthinkable that an
anti-skating ordinance depriving
them of skating privileges on the
pavements which their parents
have been taxed to build and are
being taxed to maintain should
be considered. Roller skating is
popular all over the country?so
popular in fact that manufacturers
find it impossible to
fill the orders for skates. Fort
Mill is the first town we havt
heard of in which such unreasonable
legislation is proposed.
It is not too much perhaps to
hope that as a result of the
action of the Legislature in passing
the bill designed to dissolve
the Southeaster!. Underwriters'
Association much good will result
to the people in the way oi
decreased fire insurance rates.
For years this association ha.1
fixed the rate of practically all
fire insurance risks in the State
without let or hindrance and it
is needless to say that the rateshave
been on the jump upward
For this remedial legislation
among those to be thanked are
Warehouse Commissioner John
I. M(<I .unrin unH Ronrocontofiifc
W. P. Odom, of Chesterfield
county, who successfully steered
the bill over the breakers in the
House. But whether there is
any appreciable decrease in the
cost of fire insurance or not,
The Times thinks the Legislature
did a good day's work in breaking
up the monopoly. We are
better off without monopolies of
any kind.
If you have not already done
so, now is the proper time for a
Spring cleaning in the yard.
Rake up leaves, clean off paths
and stake and prepare new
flower beds for the Spring. A
fratne for piling leaves, manure
and green material to be rotted
into fertilizer is a good thing for
garueners u> prepare during tne
winter months, but leaves and
such refuse should be burned at
this season as a pile of any moist j
decaying matter is an excellent:
place for flies to hatch their i
Public attention might well be
called to the amendment to the
liquor law, published in another
column. Some think that for the,
first violation a fine maybe paid,
hut not so. Offenders fa*.? a
chaingang term. 1
"Fatty" a Turk County Boy?
One of the best known comedians
of the movies is "Fatty" |
Arbuckle, known in the moving |
picture world as Roscoe Arbuckle.
He has appeared in the films
of various big picture makers
and is almost as well known as
Charles Chaplin, and considera- j
blv less obnoxious to the better
class of people than Chaplin. The
Herald is informed upon what
appears to be reliable authority
that "Fatty" Arbuckle is a native
of York county, having been
born in the Leslie neighborhood.
It is said that his real name is
Julian Giles. The story as it
comes to The Herald is that
f atty's" parents moved to Lancaster
some years ago, where
somebody connected with the
Keystone Comedy company saw
him and decided that he was
good material for a movie comedian.
In that way Julian broke
into the game and began to appear
in the pictures as Roscoe j
Arbuckle, or "Fatty." ? Rock
Hill Herald.
Things Spiritual.
Dear Ones: A friend of mine
once said to me, in speaking of
spiritual things, "Let's brush
away these cobwebs." I wish to :
try to get him and myself and
all the rest to look for a moment j
at one of the "wonders of the
world.'' There are electrical wonders,
and aeroplane wonders, but
tViio nno Avnnn/Jn f **11 T A. - ?
klllO UIIC CAVCCUO kllCIII Cill. It IS j
night. Here is a person turning
out of the road across which cobwebs
are hanging, and trying to
pull through and up and over
rocks and hills and mountains,
convinced that the cobwebs are
the mountains and rocks.
God is all through our lives as
gently as he can be, shaking our
shoulders, trying to show us the
real cobwebs. Manassas and the
Wilderness won't do, Charleston
and Chicago fires are sent, Johnstown
and Galveston floods, the
boll weevil and drouths, the Titanic
horror and at length the
world war. But more nearly
still. His kind hand has tried to
wake up the loved one by taking
away some of the cobwebs closet
to him. One who had been his
stay and staff of life, upon whose
strong arms he had leaned for
home and bread and board. His
father is brushed away and seen
to be as a flower of the field. A
mother, such a reality that life
itself seems dependent upon, is
shown to him to be but a shadow.
Now the light of day opens
and oh, how he is shocked to find
he has been running all night
from cobwebs. Eternity! Eternity!
Eternity! Oh, who can beforehand
conceive at all the apnallintr
snmrisf* of ? Hoar bahI I
vvakecf up by thy solemn waves
of unending years and centuries
and ages of life and death beyond
the grave. Oh, Calvary is
the only stand from which the
real things can be seen as they
are. Materialism, how awful
thou art. James Spratt.
Fort Mill, Feb. 21.
The last statement made by
Mr. W. F. Stevenson as to what
Congress should do for a farmng
district like this was that it
uad spent $475,000,000.00 on
rivers and nothing on roads. It
lias also spent $100,000,000.00 on
n igation projects, to water lands
for less than 1,000,000 in the
West. Why not do something
to take water out of the roads in
the South?
In South Carolina, the state
and counties and towns and
townships spent in 1914 about
$1,000,000.00 on roads, and still
of the 45,549 miles of roads in
the State only 4,888 miles are
surfaced and really improved
? and that is the work of years.
40,061 miles are yet to be fixed,
and all must hp mninfninprl Thn
Government carries mail over
most of them; why is it not right
for it to help fix them. ?Adv.
Paid Big Price for Ram.
The price of mutton has gone up
in Australia. When the Red Cross
fund was being raised one wealthy
sheepowner presented a ram to be
sold by auction and the proceeds de- ;
voted to the fund. The ram was soid
in Sydney. The auctioneer who wielded
the hammer made an eloquent appeal
to the pastoralists and others
present to see to it that the ram
brought a sum worthy of the object, ;
and one that would live for ever In
the history of these sales. The ram.
which was appropriately named "Australia
Day." was sold aud resold 22
times, mostly in straightout bids, and
when 2,000 guineas had been realised
he was put up for final sale and
knocked down at 200 guineas ($1,020).
I
Time
About Up for Returns.
Corporations and individuals
who have not yet filed their
annual net income return with
the internal revenue department
in Columbia had better attend to
this matter by March 1, or they
will be penalized and their tax
increased 50 per cent.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Notii*P is h(*rphu crivon f-Viot on nlon
tion will be held in &ort Mill on Thursday,
March 2, 1916, to fill a vacancy on |
i the board of alderman from Ward No. 3.
Polls will open at 8 a. m. and close at
| 4 p. m.
Herbert Harris, J. Y. Starnes and
i C. A. Jones are hereby appointed managers
of said election.
B. E. PATTERSON,
Mayor.
ANNUAL ASSESSMENT FOR 1916
Notice of Opening Book* of Auditor
for Listing Returns for Taxation.
State of South Carolina?County of
York.
Auditor's Office, November 30, 1915.
i Pursuant to the requirement of the
Statute on the subject, Notice is heregiven
that mv books will be opened in
office in York Court House on Saturday,
January 1, 1916, for the purpose of
listing for taxation all Personal and
Real Property held in York County, on
January 1, 1916, and will be kept open
Until the 20th day of February, 1916,
and for the convenience of the Taxpayers
of the County I will be at the
places enumerated below on the dates
named:
At York, from Saturday, February
5, to February 20, 1916.
All males between the ages of twenty-one
and sixty years, except Confederate
soldiers over the age of fifty
years, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00,
and all persons so liable are especially
requested to give the numbers of their
respective school districts in making
their returns.
BROADUS M. LOVE,
Auditor York County.
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we bought early and have
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for a great deal less.
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early, for we are selling s<
today's wholesale prices.
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