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Yg ' :V *'y v*5 ' '< -%t * \H'-' pp.1?'/ ' ' D*moer*ti^? PaklhM Tfcondava. B. W. BRADFORD ? Idltor sad Pfoprtato* ' "** . OHOUmON K&Tn: On* Yw *1.28 Six Month* ............ .66 Th* Tim** tnrlt*eeontrIbation* on llv**ubj*eta bat doe* notagr** to pabliehmor* than200 word* o* any subject. Th* richt I* HMW*I to adit 4+tr communication ubtnItted for publication. On application to th* publisher, advertising r *t*? are mod* known to tho**intere*tcd. T*l*ohon*.local and long diatonc*. No. lit. THURSDAY. SEPT. 20. 1917. Good-Byes to Soldiers. It is an intensely dramatic scene at the army encampments when the boys say their final farewells previous to their departure for France. An air of mystery is present. Under the voluntary censorship, the boys will drop out of sight like ships that pass in the night, like faces in a fog. The next heard will be from the battle stained soil of a foreign shore. Yet under the modern spirit t>f concealing emotion, the parting scenes do not show sorrow on the surface. The bands play, pretty girls give color, people ioke and banter each other and give laughing commissions. Tears are furtively brushed away and voices struggle to keep straight. While some of these partings, if the war continues, will be final, yet that is the case of many family separations. When you see the crowd at any railroad terminal, some of the departing friends are going forever. Unless life is to be all mourning, we must look at the bright side. The death rate of soldiers, even in this war, is not as large as many people think. With the protections devised by modern science, the death rate of our soldiers will be comparatively low. Those who stay at home have by far the worst of it. The boys who go will have their minds ?11 - J I i-L - -*. l- - imeu uy me intensely interesting game of war, and the learning of its technique and skill. They won't have time to worry. There will be jolly and inspiring comradeship to buoy tham up. Those who stay have too much time to think, and will brood too much. It is one thing to philosophize about the thing in an abstract way. Quite another to send some one yourself. Only those who do this have any conception of the meaning of this hour. uoci neip such to be strong! When the boys come back as we trust they will, the crown of glory and honor will be one that is never acauired in the unheroic paths of peace. The New Pensions. The United States must adopt a pension system for soldiers of the European war. The suggestion is required with some favor that the government should assume a certain liability similarly to the principle of workmen's compensation, and pay over given amounts for death and disability. l lie way Civil war pensions have been handled is generally admitted to have been a disgrace. The majority of the, people favored liberal pension laws. It is not likely that the people would ever have sanctioned giving pensions to a lot of the deserters and bounty jumpers who ai e getting them. Also men who served but a few weeks and never saw the front, are in a wholly different class from those who had actual war experience, and should be ao treated. Another .extravagance is in the case of women WM) married veterans long after < v: (/ V the war was over. In a ^ great many cases this was done because the veterans looked good for but a few years. It 'was ah easy way of getting money out _m ? L - - oi an easy-mare government. The majority of our people have not begrudged the mohey that has gone to the old soldiers and they wish it was more. They do begrudge pensions slipped in by personal favoritism. It is all wrong that about 30,000 pensions have been secured through special acts of Congress. The law is liberal, and when special act pensions are pa&ed, it means that men who under the principles laid down by Congress are not entitled to them, have been able to get them through friendship or pull. In the new pension system, Congress should lay down cer tain principles tnat certain men are entitled to pensions for death or injuries or ill health due to service. These pensions should be liberal, but the thing: should end right with the limits established by Congress, and there should be no special favors. If the people of Fort Mill would support home enterprises like they fall for the traveling institutions we imagine there would be more prosperity all around. . York County News Natters. i x orkville Enquirer.) The railroad commission has ordered the Southern railway to begin the construction of a freight depot at Tirzah within sixty days. Mr. W. J. Cherry, of Rock Hill, has been appointed by Governor Manning as a delegate to the Twelfth International Farm congress to be held in Peoria, 111., September 25-28. Friends and acquaintances of Paul R. Bratton, son of Mrs. P. R. Bratton of Yorkville, will be interested to learn that he is now "somewhere in France," with the 19th Regiment of Engineers, U. S. A. Mr. Bratton volunteered with the 19th Enginppr? wkinAfi >*o ara in Philadelphia, Pa., several months ago. York county people, especially those living in the vicinity of Clover and Fort Mill, will be interested to learn that Evangelist Baxter F. McLendon, known to hundreds of York county people as "Cyclone Mack," is conducting an evangelistic meeting in his home town of Bennettsville. The meeting there began Sunday afternoon and will be continued for several weeks. John Hagans, a negro, was committed to jail here Saturday night by Magistrate of Bullock's Creek township on the charge of murder. It is alleged that Hagans shot and killed George Jamison, a negro in a difficulty in Bullock's Creek township last March. After the killing, Hagans left the county and went to Chester where he was arrest ed last week. r? 1 i ? ? ** reaerai court lor the Western district of South Carolina, in session at Rock Hill last week, adjourned late Friday afternoon after disposing of numerous cases. Newberry Carter of Greenville, was convicted Friday morning of selling > liquor to soldiers and sentenced to pay a fine of $200 or serve four months on the chair gang. Paul Traynham was convicted of a similar offense and fined $50. Grover Fowler, a Spartanburg policeman was convicted of violation of the white slave act and sentenced to pay a fine of $200 or serve six months in the Atlanta Federal penitentiary. R. J. Reid of Greenwood, was convicted of violating the Mann white slave act and was sentenced to two years' imprison ment. Four women were convicted of immoral conduct at army training camps and seni tenced to six months imprison| ment each. The Campobeilo ! Oil mill pleaded guilty to shipping cotton seed meal containing less than the advertised amount of ammonia. The mill paid a fine of $G0l M1 * l !. II 11 11 llll, I 1.1 II II ! HM New Goods We are now rei our New Fall Goo< SHO Our Light Top Boot are as reasonable in as any you can find Children's Shoes, too co? We have these in years. Also Coat Go dies' and Children's C WOOL I We have the Seoge shade. MILLII Miss Wessells is wii show vou iust the Ha need. Watch Our Ad E. W. Kimbi The Cotton Situation. It seems to the Press and Standard the present decline of cotton is not at all necessary, and that if the farmers do not rush their cotton to the market, that they will receive more money for it. We would strongly urge our farmers to make arrangements where possible to hold their cotton, and not to rush it on the market. If this country had a good warehouse system where cottop could be stored and warehouse receipts issued tbersfor, farmers could borrow enough on their receipts to pay their debts and furnish them with what necessary money they need, and hold their cotton till they cared to sell. We believe that this country ' would realize many thousands I of dollars more for its cotton if ; held in this manner than if forced upon the market at this time. It would be good business 1 for the business men and bankers of the county to organize a holding company for this pur- , pose. Cotton would be a safe asset, and the farmer would be i secure in holding it off the market. ? Walterboro Press and Standard. Looks for 30-Cent Cotton. Col. W. G. Smith, state ware- ; house commissioner, has issued , a letter to the farmers of the State in which he advises them 1 j not to rush their cotton to the \ market but to take advantage of i the State warehouse system and ' hold it for a better price. The commissioner is convinced that the staple will bring not less than thirty cents. In his letter, Colonel Smith declares that there is plenty of i money in the banks and that the j bankers will readily loan on State warehouse receipts, and at reasonable rates of interest. He says the year's cotton crop should be marketed very slowly as to rush cotton on the market as rapidly as it is gathered and ginned will lower the price. "Farmers should see to it that I the price of cotton is kept on a parity with the price of other agricultural products," says the letter. "Measured by this standard, the market price today ! should be thirty cents and above; u^oiuco me iiiai'iiiathuici tan pay thirty cents a pound for cotton and stilt make a fair and reasonable profit on the manufactured Koods." FOR SALE?At m bugain, two I Grain DriHo. Fort Mill ImMiir Go. i are Here. I idy to show you Js. >ES. s in black and grey price and as pretty anywhere. See our , before you buy. ITS. sizes from 2 to 14 ods suitable for La. ^oats. ni. oiiHrun, monnay, ucioter Z'J. ' At McConnellsville, Tuesday, Octo- . ber 30, At Tirzah. Wednesday, October 31. X At Clover, Thursday and Friday. . November 1 and 2. ^ At York from Saturday, November 1 3, to Tuesday, November 6. At Coates'B Tavern, from 8 o'clock a. m. Wednesday, November 7, to 1 5 o'clock p. m. At York, Thursday, November 8. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, X November 9 and 10. At Rock Hill from Monday, Novem ber 12th, to Saturday, November 17th. ^ And at York from Monday, Novem- .. ber 19th, until Monday, the 31st day of December 1917. after which date ^ the penalties will attach as stated <y> above. Note-The Tax Books aro made up ^ by Townships, and parties writing ^ Libout Taxes will always expedite mat- $< ters if they will mention the Township or Townships in which their property or properties are located. HARRY E. NEIL, *. Treasurer of York County. ^ SALESMAN WANTED. I Lubricating oil, grease, specialties, t paint. Part or whole time. Commis- * sion basis until ability is established. ' Man with rig preferred. * RIVERSIDE REFINING CO. ' * rii ?- -i Cleveland, unio. ^ We Sell I Sugar at COST! Every Saturday \ o r n i Z ror lash. |;; < > I < Culp's Grocery. 15 SOODS. I and Poplins in every MERY. th us again and can 1 t you will want and * I. Next Week. ] ell Company j TAX NOTICE- 1917. Office of the County Treasurer f of York County. I York, S. C.. Sept. 17, 1917. 1 Notice is hereby ffiverr that the Tax T Books for Kork County to ill be opened f on Monday, tHe 15th day? of October, 1 1917, and remain open until the 31st . day of December, 1917, for the collec tion of State, County, School and Local ^ Taxes, for the fiscal year 1917, without t> penalty; after which day One Per Cent penalty will be added to all payments made in the month of January, ? 1918, and Two Per Cent penalty for all payments made in the month of Febru- ^ arv, 1918, and Seven Per Cent penalty will be added to all payments made 4 from the 1st day of March, 1918, to the 16th day of March, 1918, and after this . date all unpaid taxes will go into exe- f cutions and all unpaid Single Polls will be turned over to the several Magis- 7 trates for prosecution in accordance 4 with law. ? For the convenience of taxpayers I 7 will attend the following places on the 4 days named: ? At York, Monday, October 15. to | 7 Wednesday, October 24. At Smyrna, Thursday, October 25. ? At Hickory Grove, Friday and Sat- 7 urday, October 26 and 27. 4 A 4 Ol ** J " ' . rK ' School I 1 Supplies We have on hand a full assort- * ment of everything (books excepted) that is needed for the school room, at right prices. Come in and look over our stock before buying. HUTCHINSON'S PHARMACY | | "Root Hog, Or Die," { * Is the only consolation the world gives you. If You Haven't a Bank Account | With money in the bank you can't | combat with adversity and | Be Victorious ; Place your earnings on interest at this t ; Bank where they are safe until you * want them. Small savings * grow surprisingly and * : . If Left in This Bank | ; Will be a help in old age. Open an account 1 with us. We welcome you here. f "Make Money While the Sun Shines." * j THE SAVINGS BANK, f 1 A/* FAnT **11 * 1 u: ruRi ivilLL. | ft*.**?**** To Help Our Customers f ? Every week, we try to give a list of a few of the nice ? eatables we carry in stock, to eaable our customers to get ? what they want, when they want it. 'Phone orders de- ? livered promptly. When in need of any thing in our line ^ call 'phone No. 8. v?> Special Saturday. * 10-lbs Sugar $1.00 10 rolls Toilet Paper . .50 7 pkgs. "Rub-No-More" Washing Powut-r 25 1 10-lb. Snowdrift Lard, in bucket 1.95 ? Pure Apple Vinegar, per gallon, . .30 Wesson Oil, per can, Lard cans, wooden tubs, buckets, brooms, lamps, axes, 4 handles, cutlery, etc., in our hardware line, besides many % other tempting delicacies in our fancy grocery line. 4 Give us a trial order and be convinced. Satisfaction 4 guaranteed. 4 Samuel A. Lee. I Everything Good in Groceries f ??????? < > < If the market affords it you will find it here. We !! take special delight in serving our friends. We are |! serving more satisfied customers than usual, and our *' delivery wagon is ready to serve you. It will be to o your interest to let us supply you with your Ta- {! ble Groceries. Our stock is fresh and clean. <; I Phone your grocery wants to No. 116. o < < ____________________ 4 4 Parks Grocery Co., Phone 1 IB !! 4 4 >