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I THE FOBT MILL TIMES I Democratic? Published Thursdays. B. W. BRADFORD - - Editor and Proprietor omcription Kates: One Tear SI.26 91* Months .66 The Times invites contributions on live subject" hut does not agree to publish more than 200 words ni any subject. The right is reserved to edit ? ? ? ? ?*mmitn!aaf{?n aiitimittfwl fnp nilKIirn ' .a. T??rj wwiMiiim.?vw?n??. ?? - ? - ? On application to the publish'r. advertising r itaa are made knov r> to those tereated. roleohone. local and iwut distance. No. 112. Entered at the postoffice at Fort Mill. S. C.. an mall matter of the second class. THURSDAY. AUGUST 24. 191f>. The Candidates. Here they are, gentlemen, take your choice: For Congress?D. E. Finley, W. F. Stevenson. For Solicitor. Sixth Circuit? J. Harry Foster, J. H. Henry. For State Senator-J. E. Beamguard, Max. G. Bryant. For House of Representatives? W. R. Bradford. Oran S. Crawford, E. Gettvs Nunn, R. M. Mitchell, E. W. Pursley, W. B. Riddle. For County Supervisor?C. P. Blankenship, Thos. W. Boyd. For Clerk of Court?John R. Logan. T. E. McMackin, Geo. W. Williams. Dan T. Woods. For County Commissioner?J. D. Gwin, White W. Jackson. J. C. Kirkpatrick, R. F. Lee, Ladd J. Lumpkin, Henry R. Merritt. J. E. Latham. Joe Wr. Smith. For Sheriff?Archie S. Barron, x J. Cal. Steele, F. E. Quinn, R. L. Scoggins. For Coroner-J. W. Dobson, J. H. Dozier. S. H. White, J. H." McManus. ror Magistrate, rort Mill ?K. P. Harris, E. S. Parks. For Township Supervisor. Fort Mill?VV. H. Crook. Fred Nims, Fred H. Wilson. The School Faculty. Teachers for the Fort Mill public school for the term of 1916-17, as announced several days ago by the school board, will be as follows: Miss Minnie Garrison, I'ort Mill, first grade; Miss Susie White, Fort NJill, second grade; Miss Frances Smith. Fort Mill, third grade; Miss Nell E. Roper, Columbia, fourth grade; Miss Ola Scoggins, Due West, fifth grade; Miss Helen Turner, Bennettsville, sixth and seventh grades; Supt. J. D. Fulp and Prof. J. R. Harris, Pleasant Valley. high school, and Miss Ruth Meacham. Fort Mill, music class. The opening date of the school cannot be definitely stated at present, this depending upon the action of tflTe city board of health with regard to the existing quarantine order prohibiting children under lfi years from assembling in the schools and other public places. The present quarantine order expires September 18th and it is hoped that the board will not find it necessary to extend the order and that the schools will open on that date. Local Interest in County Fair. Secretary \V. R. Timmons of the York County Fair was in in Fort Mill the last week in the interest of the Queen of the Carnival contest which committees in the fair association are planning to run. The plan as outlined is for the young lady receiving the highest number of votes to be crowned queen on Wednesday. Oct. 18. and Manufacturers' day at the the fair. The 15 young ladies receiving the next highest number of votes will he maids of nonor to the queen, and all will ride in a beautiful flower bedecked float that probably will lead the parade on the day mentioned. The value of the votes will be 1 cent each and by special arrangement with ttye papers in the county a vote will be given in each issue of the paper by the association. These votes will be good if cut from the papers, the name of a j contestant written thereon and the vote placed in boxes either at York, Fort Mill or Rock Hill. Votes will be on sale at practically all the stores in the above named cities. In addition to this, merchants will give one vote for every dollar's worth purchased 1 for cash. So far the following Fort Mill merchants have agreed to give the votes for cash purchases: Mills & Young, Kimbrell Company, L. J. Masse>, Patterson's Dry Goods Store, Hutchinson Lytie Drug Co., Ferguson & Phillips, and Ardrey's Drugstore. In Fort Mill the voting boxes will be placed at HutchinsonLytle Drug Co.'s and at Mills & Young Co.'s. When properly | filled out citizens are requested jpUce the votes in one of these boxes arid they will be forward-1 ed to the office of the secretary each Saturday night. A fund has already been provided for the purchase of 1,200 or 1.500 votes to be cast for about twelve Fort Mill young ladies who have been selected by their friends. SERGEANT MACK WRITES OF TRIP TO THE BORDER. The following highly interesting account of the trip of the! Fort Mill Light Infantry from Styx, this State, to El Paso, Texas, was written the morning of August 12 by Sergeant F. Murray Mack to his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Mack, of this city, who has kindlv consented to its reproduction in The Times: Well, we are on the border at last. We got in here about 1 : o'clock yesterday, pitched our ~~..v. , vui J5U1 clI^CILi ened out before supper, ate a hearty supper and got a good 1 night's rest. Like the place better than I thought I would. It is very little hotter than at Styx. It is extremely dusty, which is natural on account of the dry soil ?no rain here for months, j and the fact that there are 52,000 l troops here. This is a big army. Tents in every direction as far 1 as you can see. When this army hits Mexico it sure ought to make some impression. The troops here are mostly from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas and the regulars. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, etc., all complete. The camp is in a level plain at the foot of a high range of mountains, six or eight miles north of I El Paso, at Fort Bliss. They tell me that the rainy season will I start soon and this whole plain j will be under water. I am glad the hills are near. The water here is warm, has an alkaline taste, but we have to drink. The bars and cold drink stands do a rushing business. Shall I tell you about our trip down here, or will it tire you? Well, I will tell part of it any j ii uj . me iivujjic in uiuuii cam^ ( out to let us go through, as did the people of every town we : passed through all along from Styx to El Paso. We got to Greenville Monday night. Got colFee there. It was too strong1 I and kept us awake all night. I was wide awake when we rolled into Atlanta at 2:30 a. m. We got to Chattanooga the next morning and got out for a hike through the city streets for exercise. We enjoyed the scenery of North Georgia and around Chat tanooga. We took the Southern Railroad from Chattanooga through Northern Alabama and Mississippi, finally arriving at Memphis ahout 11 o'clock Tuesday night. We had a dandy time, comfortable beds, plenty to eat, everybody in a good humor, fine scenery to look at and we sure looked. Every town we ; passed through the boys got off the train and talked to the girls, gave the girls their names, and already bushels of letters are coining in from the girls. Mar| shall Boyce especially was highly excited over the girls. He says he has a home in every town now. The ladies at Memphis gave us I coffee, lemonade and sandwiches ; at 11 o'clock at night. We caught ; up with the first section there. We crossad the Mississippi at about 2 o'clock at night. It was not half as big as 1 thought it would be. I was disappointed, but they say that all the rivers out this way are almost dried up, , the lowest they have been in i years. We reached Little Rock Wednesday morning. That is a j fine, pretty city. We traveled all day through Arkansas. Saw some fine crops in the rich river j valleys, but a great deal of the j country was poor and sorry looking, not as good crops as we have in Carolina. We got into Texas late Wednesday and traveled the rest of the trip in t he Lone Star State. Passed Texarkana Wednesday afternoon. Another good town. Passed Dallas and Fort Worth at 4 i TURNIP {SEED I Best Varieties. + Seeds now gro Ask Old Man I Ardrey's I THE FORT Bfl night. Thursday morning we stopped at another town in Texas, I forget the name. The boys took a hike for exercise. Everybody along the route said that our train was the best behaved and best looking set of men that had passed through to the border. Major Spratt was very strict and would not allow the boys to straggle off. When we struck the Texas plains I nearly went wild. The scenery was so new and strange and beautiful. Our train climbed up and up to over 4,000 feet! above sea level, and we rode for over 24 hours on the high table plains. Tne scenery is indescribable. Sometime during Thursday night we crossed an alkali desert. I woke up and looked out and could see nothing but white sand and sage and mesquite bushes. But it was pretty in the moonlight. Friday morning we began the descent into the Rio Grande valley. The train spiraled and i twisted down through great bare mountains of rock, blue, gray, purple and red, until we finally came in sight of the Rio Grande, with the Mexican mountains on the other side. All along here we saw American patrols and pickets, with their little forts, and trenches dug in the sand. Every now and then a place ii'\\nrn ~ ^?ki. >i nvi v mtic nau uccn u llgllt. We passed Finlay, where Ben Lee lives. He was out to see us, with his wife and daughter, and they gave us a bushel of apples and pears. I forgot to tell you about the prairie dogs and jackrabbits. We saw thousands of them Thursday ' on the table plains. The prairie dogs sat up and looked at us, while the rabbits wouid turn and run and hide. They are queer looking creatures. I must close now. Will write of other things next time. Maybe I will tell you about the hills around us and how pretty they look soon in the morning. Beats the story books. The York county campaign will close at York on Saturday. The State candidates are at York to-1 day, and no meeting is being held today by the county candidates. For Sale Nice, large corner Building Lot in Sprattville. C. W. McNealy. , ANNOUNCEMENTS. For County Commissioner. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of County Commissioner of York county, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. My past record is before you. J. E. LATHAM. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for ihe office of county commissioner, subject to the wishes of the voters in the Democratic primary. If elected, I pledge myself to give an efficient administration of the countv's otFai.. ?? 171 "" .......... iv. r. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Com- j missioner, subject to the will of the ! voters in the primary election. 1 ex- j tend my thanks for your favors in the election two years ago. HENRY R. MERRITT. For Township Supervisor. 1 hereby announce myself a candi-1 date for Supervisor of Fort Mill township, subject to the choice of the I voters in the approaching Democratic primary. F. NIMS. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate for Supervisor of Fort Mill Township, subject to the will of the voters in the approaching Democratic primary election. F. H. WILSON. The 1 imes is authorized to announce Mr. W. H. CROOK, of Gold Hill, as a candidate for Supervisor of Fort Mill Township, subject to the choice of the voters in the Democratic primary election. For Magistrate. FriemD nf P <2 i?ai>o-o i ... ... .-iivrvcj urreuy nominate him for Magistrate of Fort Mill, su! ject to "the action of the Democratic voters in the August primary election. The Times is authorized to announce Mr. R. I'. HARRIS as a candidate for re-election as Magistrate, subject to, will of the voters in the Democratic] primary. Old Newsprpers for sale at The Timcj Office. PURPLE TOP ; . I GLOBE * P 1 PURPLE TOP ; \ STRAP LEAF | 1 WHITE FTAT DUTCH YELLOW ABER- + I DEEN. | I SEVEN TOP | W HITE NORFOLK * \ RUTA BAGA I wing. I Thrower. ? L drugstore. ii - [LL TIMES, FORT MILL, SOU' Groceries, Meats, Ice. Even at the old advanced prices of Groceries. Foodstuff, etc., you will find that you can save more by buying goods from us. We solicit your patronage and guarantee you lowest possible prices. If you don't trade with us we both lose money. Phillips & Ferguson. 'Phone No. 29. Phone 15. Groceries We carry nothing that we cannot guarantee to be absolutely first-class, and we keep the prices down. Prompt deliveries. Culp's Grocery. Schedule of Services Fort Mill Circuit of M. E. Church, South, for the Year 1916. Fort Mill Church?1st and 3rd Sundays at 11 a. m., and 4th Sunday at night. Sunday school every Sunday morning. Womans' Missionary society J every 1st Sunday afternoon. Pleasant Hill Church ?1st and 3rd Sundays at 3:80 p. m. Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. r?i 1- o-J " . ..huui vuun-n ?^nn nunuay at 1 a. m.; 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school every Sunday morning, (4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m.) India Hook Church?4th Sunday at 11 a. m.; 2nd Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school every Sunday afternoon, (4th Sunday 10:00 a. ni.) E. Z. JAMES. Pastor. ^ John M. Hutchinson, Ph. G. ; EVERYBO jj OUR Ice Father likes it just as well because it has that different tells that it is made from pui + the finest fresh fruit flavors. ^ luxury?it is a daily food, an than most of the food we no^ T night as a dessert? We are chines for the manufacture c and will appreciate your ordt OUR FOUNT ^ Is the best in the city. We i our own cows; also the pur syrups to be had. Glasses t ? reputation guarantees the Qi f i unTfimionu o. i I nuiunmoun a l + Coolest Plac ?> ^ Penjam'mTrankUn J the son of a poor Boston the printing business for I worked hard, lived frugally had plenty to live on whe Take your cue frorr legion of people whose & bank. Enjoy the satisfactioi become dollars and the do See your fortress rise attacks of sickness or misfc with a part of this week's Multiply your money Savings Bant rH CAROLINA I Get ] l For the co I soon leave for I our Fall Good: | ready to show High top Be Shoes, Wool I Silks, in plaid: Kimono goods sary things. ' Don't forget Goods at a grt __________________ KIMBRE I Phone A. C. Lytle ^ DY LIKES ; 5 Cream. f as mother and the kiddies, T pleasing taste?the taste that f e. rich, wholest.me cream and Ice Cream is no longer a d has more real food value ^ v eat. Why not have it every equipped with the best ma>f this great summer delicacy ? >rs, whether large or small. WIN SERVICE ise only the purest milk from * est fruits, fruit juices and horoughly sterilized and our lality. ? A jYTLE DRUG CO., i :e In Town. 4 <$ < < ) This great Amer^ < f ican statesman, who < stood with George Washington in the Revolutionary war, was soapmaker. He started in < himself in early manhood, i ' and saved his money. He < n old age came. < i Franklin. Join the ] avings are growing in our J l of watching the pennies liars hundreds. : against the possible rtune. Lay the foundation earnings. * in our care. t of Fort Mill. Ready For O nvenience of thos< the different schoo l . i ' s shipped early an you. Dots, in kid and j: )ress goods, Crepe s, stripes and plai >, Raincoats and c : we are selling c sat reduction. LL'S, "Where Qi Your Wants to Numbe I GET THE IT'S CHEAPER IN We have been selling: New Home Sewing Machines 32 Waltham Watches 32 years. Seth Thomas Clocks 32 years. American Optical Co. Spectacles Edison Phonographs 30 years. Harrisburg Shoes 1!) years, and rience that there is no better goods We also have some newer lines t More than 100 Autopiano Player oiaies Dauiesnips. .No other kind cannon and weather changes as w< Francis Bacon Pianos have been President Washington to Preside) surprised to know the very low pi these goods. L. J Me I i There's Solid ? I In knowing that you t pendable, and that 1 but dependable merch; you leave your orders may rest assured tha filled with every care; ; be delivered promptly quality of everything c : the best. Phone No. Parks Groc< Phone 1 1 Send Your Next < JOB P R 11 To the Fort Mi I I allege # * s who will Is, we had id are now >at. leather, ; de Chene, n, Outings, ither neces- I ill Summer I jality Reigns" ^ 7 l ?mrM Mnwit'w.Ai.''' : BEST. I r THE END. 82 years. I we know by actual expe<011 the market than these. I bat can't be beat. I Pianos are used on United seem to stand the bi^ sold from the time of I nt Wilson. Vou will be rices we are quoting on J I Comfort I I r grocer is de- | g le sells nothing it || andise. When jfl m at this store, you | t they will be it that they will J| I r and that the t| B >rdered will be t I ery Co., ^ Order For 9 NTING I ill Times. B