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I THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic? Published Thursdays. II. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor I Description Rates: One Year . ....11.26 Six Months ................................ .65 The Timet Invites contributions on live subject* i at does not scree to publish more thsn 200 words in snv subject. The risrht is reserved to edit tvarv communicstlon submitted for publicstlon. On application to the publisher, advertising atea are made known to those interested Telephone, local and lomr distance. No. 112. Entered ai the D5itsif.es at Port Mill. S. C.. as | mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. MARCH. 2, 1916. Warning! With a shortage of ships to move our cotton to foreign j shores; with no indication of the;, end of the war; with the Nation stirred over preparedness for i i eventualities; with the buying power of the entire world grad- J ually lessening day by day, it becomes our duty to issue this , formal warning as the time of i planting cotton is at hand. Let i everyone encourage the farmer 1 to be on the safe side by raising plenty of feed and food for the community as well as for himself, his family and his live stock. (A calf, a pig. chickens and a garden often mean the difference between want and monev ahead.) Economical and safe living for all as well as "safe farming" must be the rule : if prosperity is to abide with us. ; Six-cent cotton this fall would j, spell disaster in the cotton states, j Low price follows over-suppl.\ j, as certainly as the night the day. ; High prices and prosperity ovei the South this year prove what voluntary reduction of cotton acreage does. Any marked in- j crease in acreage over last yeai is going to result in a great loss to Southern cotton producers, merchants and bankers, and will I similarly affect all allied business i and professions. Cannup is Released. Daniel Cannup, a white man from Rock Hill, brought here to jail several days ago charged | with murder, was released Fri- \ day on his own recognizance, < bail being fixed in the sum of | $f>00. Thos. F. McMow of the ] York bar appeared before his ; honor. George W. Gage, as- i sociate justice, in Chester Friday | and secured the order for Cannup's release. Readers of this paper will re- , member that Cannup is charged j with having killed his brother- j in-law. Thomas Tayloi, about ; last September. Cannup was arrested after the finding of a < skeleton near Rock Hill, which skeleton is thought to have been the remains of the missing Taylor. According to the evidence furnished at the coroner's inquest, Cannup had made ? threats against Taylor.? York News. Negro KillVwhite Nan. , Brittain Price, a young white man, died Saturday morning in a Charlotte Hospital from injuries sustained Friday morning when he was murderously assaulted by a negro, John Blanton. Price was superintendent of a lumber yard and when he reprimanded Blanton, the negro grabbed a heavy piece of wood and struck Price a terriffic blow on the head. He was removed to the hospital, but never regained consciousness. The negro was arrested later and is confined in the Charlotte jail. Mr. Price was at one time a resident of Fort Mill, being employed in one of the local mills, and was well known to many persons in this city. [4 I T" i < The Legend of the Robin. When the white men first came far across the sea to this country they found many birds such as they had never seen | before. But they found one which they liked best of all. It had a pretty red breast, and they called it robin, for its red breast made them think of a; bird back in the old home which they loved most of all. The Indians had a story about how the robin got his red breast. They said it happened a long time ago, when there was onlv one fire in all the cold far north. ; A hunter and his son kept the fire burning day and night until the father fell ill, and the son had to watch the fire all alone. The great white bear was waiting for a chance to put the fire full fin hp rr.silH hnvp oil frVio t vvv,,v* "* "v v**w I ; north to himself. He saw the i boy fall asleep; then he jumped 3 on the fire with his wet feet and i put it out. ' But a gray robbin saw him !, and when he was gone she! [ pecked about in the ashes till t she found a tiny live coal. She ? fanned it with her wings until ( it blazed out and turned her c breast red. Then she flew away to every hut in the cold north. ' Wherever she touched the crrminrl a firo cnronir nn on/1 1 vvtxv* M ? ? V upiUllg Up( ailU | soon there were plenty of fires to keep the people warm. After * that the robin's breast was j always red instead of gray. < Winners of "Movie" Tickets. < The offer of the Majestic The- \ atre, this city, to Rive free tick- t ets to the "movies" to pupils < who make the best showing each ? month in the local graded school ' has met witn mucu favor among |? the pupils, and the contest for the month just closed was quite spirited. The Majestic manager is highly pleased with the result of the last month's contest and Uopes that the pupils will take even greater interest in the congest for the present month. Following are the winners for February: Highest Grade Attendance? vVon by 10th grade. 981-3 per ent. present. Free admission to oday's matinee. Highest General Average?Tie, vitli 98 per cent, between Misses Marjorie Mills and Edith Parks. Pi ize, week's free ticket to each. NcNeely's Body Recovered. The body of Robert Ney McNeely, the young consul who lost his life when the Persia was torpedoed in the Mediterranean several weeks ago will not, at least any time soon, be brought home for burial. This was the announcement conveyed in a telegram from the State Department to his father, VV. R. McNeely at his home 12 miles from Monroe Saturday. The message [jnoted extracts from a cablegram and it was so far as could be determined over the 'phone as follows: "Body found and buried on desert coast in war zone. Remote from Alexandria. Owing to activities of war unable to get body. Matter has careful at tention and any further de- J veiopments will be wired at once." The News of Gold Hill. Times Correspondence. The writer andSam'l Boyd are the only ones on the sick list around here that we know of, and Sam's "pill toter" has been dieting him on oranges for ten days at a stretch and he is much improved. Mr. Carl Faris is building a new tenant house on his place. The turtle dove and bluebirds are getting in some of their spring notes, and the farmers have done some plowing, but have hauled in none of that Charleston dirt yet. We picked up a back number of the Fort Mill Times the other) day and we noticed that the town lost money on that imported "she-talker" they took on last fall. That happens to be the case very often with these new getups. Now, Gold Hill just raises her own she-talkers and they are just good, smart, pretty, "all .vool and a yard wide, so to speak. Prof. Dickson and his corps of ;eachers at Gold Hill school are ioing some fine work. We hear ;hat of late they have installed a complete cooking outfit and it is very likely that his she:alkers, of whom he hap quite a lumber, will keep the pot boiling, ro see the children start off to school these days with their pack if books reminds us very much if so many foot peddlers. In L846, seventy years ago now, we tvere going to school to Mr. Mereiith Shurley. He taught in a little log cabin which stood about me hundred yards north of Mr. Fred Wilson's home. Our books consisted of a blueback speller and Pike's arithmetic. At the ipening of that school Mr. Shirey made us a short speech, or rather a lecture, but we rememler just a few words of it. He enuired as strict ohpdipncp from :he grown-ups as he did from i ;he little fellows, and said to the J hildren, "Don't eat breakfast] n the morning until you wash rour face and hands." To the parents and children of Philadelphia congregation: Mr. (V. H. Crook and Shellie Sutton ire striving to build up the Sunlay school of that church and hey wish and pray for the help ind cooperation of every one. Pome out, they will endeavor to lo you good. Splinter. Gold Hill, Feb. 28. Rock Hill Federal Court. Federal court for the western listrict of South Carolina, will convene in Rock Hill on Tuesday, darch 14, with Judge Joseph L\ Johnson or Spartanburg presiding. The fallowing York :ounty citizens have been drawn tor service as grand and petit lurorsat the court: Fetit jurorsJohn S. Rainey, Sharon; W. B. Stroup, Clover: grand jurors? J. Buice, Hickory Grove, R. L. Sturgis, Rock Hill; F. M. Mack. Port Mill. No. we are not e of England, whi? July 27, 1694, h safe and depen< toric financial ir through the yea ?L We also offer to community ever which the banK to the people c English nation g C.The opening of with us means tl that will grow ii for later years a many worries th ?. Get the saving 1 Start a banK acc Savings Ban] _________???? Just A More New S Although prices have ad we bought early and have Stock at old prices, and sc tor a great deal less. You will save money if early, for we are selling s today's wholesale prices. Come, see the New Goo< L. J. P a / . . . E.W. 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