Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, October 18, 1917, Image 2
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THURSDAY. OCT. 18. 1917.
*fillman and the Sen&torship.
Senator Tillman is not only
' talking about again running for
the United States Senate, "but
his mind is already made up on
the subject?he'll run if he is
alive. The statement he gave
the press a few days ago in
which he said he would be a candidate
provided the people expressed
a desire to have bim was
so much bunc. If anything more
had been necessary, the suggesgestion
confirms the opinion we
have held for years - Tillman is
in his dotage?he is enfeebled in
the head as well as in the body.
If he were not, he would not be
so puffed up with self importance
as to think that the voters of
South Carolina are willing to forget
that he stated positively five
years ago that if he could get
one more term in the Senate he
would not ask for another. Now
? he puts that statement behind
him and is bidding?we almost
)irl trrrinnr ? fnp a form nn
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the plea that the war has come
* on since his last election and
that it will not do to elect any
man to the Senate whose loyalty
to the country has not been tested.
Which is one way?albeit a
foolish way?of saying that he
is the only man in the State to
be trusted. This paper is as loyal
as Ben Tillman or anybody
else. It won't do for Tillman to
swing to President Wilson's coattails
and it won't do for the unthinking
to suggest lack of loyally
nn the nart nf thosp who
oppose Tillman, as he himself is
apt to do. We are opposed to
giving Ben Tillman another term
in the Senate. He has served
his day, if indeed he ever had a
dfey. For a long time he had us
t fooled ?as he today has a lot of
other South Carolinians fooled.
A?good many years ago we
thought he was a great man. j
Now we are ready to concede;
that we were wrong. He never J
has done anything for the peo->
. pie. He claims credit for the
establishment of Clemson and
Winthrop; he established neither.
But he did establish, with
the assistance of a docile, submissive
Legislature, the most iniquitous
institution that ever
neia sway in souin Carolina - tne
State dispensary. We are done
with Ben Tillman; have been
done with him for a long time,
and there isn't an intelligent, respectable
white man in South
Carolina we would not sooner
vote for than to vote for him.
Duy a Liberty Bond.
Your duty as an American
citizen is plain, definite and
imperative.
Your opportunity to subscribe
to the second Liberty Loan comes
at the. time when you have
just oegun to realize mat your
country Is at war. You have
watched, with a swelling heart,
your boys and their comrades
march proudly away to do th? ir
bit in the war to save civilization
and preserve liberty. You will
realize before the war is over
that they are fighting forjuu,
and to save your country from
the domination of a base machine
governed by inhuman,
faithless, covetous rulers.
You who cannot go to thej
K. front have many duties to perform.
You have been called
* on to give money and will be
called on again hut it is more
than a duty?more than patriot-1
ism?it is a privilege to buy
Liberty Bonds,
la buying liberty Bonds you
are tatting money to your government
to be paid back to you
with 4 per cent interest
Your bank, any bank, will
take your subscription without
any fee or charge for service.
Subscribe promptly, freely and
generously.
"The time has come to conquer
or submit. For us there is
but one choice?we have made
it."--President Wilson.
The Liberty Loan, by its very
| nature, is a prior lien on everything
in the land and the very
> best investment that the citizen
oan have.
It is the patriotic duty of
everyone to put some money
into the new loan. Having embarked
in^his great enterprise.
! to falter, to temporize, or to
| count the cost, is equivalent to
cowardice on the firing line.
The Good of Bonds.
The farmers of the country
ought to buy largely of the second
issue of the Liberty Bonds.
It would be bad taste to "load
up" on the bonds, but there is
scarcely a farmer in this section
! who can not buy one or more
bonds without missing the money
: and they shopld buy just as
I heavily as they can afford. The
buying of Liberty Bonds is not
an act of charity; it is a matter
of duty and a matter of business.
On the score of duty, says an
exchange, there is not much to
be said; everybody knows the
arguments, or rather the facts,
and it is not to be argued. Our
country is at war. For a successful
termination of the conflict
much money is needed. The
government must depend upon
its own people for the money.
The purchase of government
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nonas ib gooa Dusiness. in ordinary
business transaction, one
figures Interest at six, seven or
eight per cent, and the bonds
pay but four. But they are absolutely
safe. Moreover, that
interest will be paid ptomptly
each time it falls due and it will
be paid for a long term of years.
There will lie no lapses between
ihe lime the money is paid'in
and put out again, as there is in
ordinary investments.
Only last Saturday we saw a
farmer drive into town in a new
Ford, and doubtless many others
will put their surplus money into
autos, but this is poor business.
An auto that costs $400 in October
is worth about $200 in March
as a selling price. As security
at the bank it is worth about
$100 if Ihp nwnpr is n nroMu
straight fellow anyway. That
mule that you value at $150 is
security for $75," if you have it
insured and allow the other fellow
to hold the papers. But
five hundred dollars' worth of
United States bonds is the best
kind of security for five hundred
dollars in October. March or July,
and this ought to put you
thinking.
W. A. Wilkinson in Trouble.
Fort Mill people will read with
interest the following from Friday's
Chester News:
The result of a visit by Deputy
Howze and Policeman Grant to
tbo Knmn nf WT A U/ilbi??^.?
wmv iiviiiv vi If A* VV lixviliauil,
who has charge of the city's
pumping station near Sandy river,
is that Wilkinson is a fugitive
from justice. Ed Gibson is out on
a $200 bond and Sallie Justice is
in the county jail, so far being
unable to give the necessary
bond,
Last Monday night Deputy
Howze and Poliueman Grant
went to the home of Wilkinson
and found a man and woman,
whom they arrested and put in
jail. A warrant was sworn out
for Wilkinson, charging him with
running a disorderly house. He
was arrested by Constable H. C.
Wilks, who took him to see se\|
eral parties about going his bond.
Being unable to get anyone in
town they started to see a party
living a few miles out of the
city and when they reached the j
Wilkinson house Constable Wilks
let Wilkinson out of the buggy
for the ostensible purpose of
locking the house, which he
claimed he had not done before
leaving. Mr. Wilks waited some ;
time for his return and an investigation
proved that Wilkinson 1
had left for parts unknown.
The mau and woman caught in
the house will be given a prelim-|
inary hearing next Tuesday, according
to present plans.
This morning a party called!
Constable H. C. Wilks and informed
him of the whereabouts
of Mr. Wilkinson and he is now
in the county jail. J
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Shows start promptly
Postal Rates Indreased.
Orders hove been received at
the local postoffice reprardinp: the
increase in postal rates, which
is one of the means adopted by
the United States for raising
revenue with which to meet the
expenses of the war. The or
ders, of course, are of direct and
vital interest to every' class of
the public, and it is the desire
of the postoftice department to
disseminate as widely and as
quickly as possible knowledge of
the changed procedure which,
beginning on November 2, must
be followed by all who use the
mails.
Pursuant to the amended regulations,
postmasters shall, on
and after November 2, 1917, see
that postage is paid at the rate
of three cents an ounce, or
fraction thereof, on letters and
other first class matter except
drop letters. All drop letters,
that is, letters mailed lor delivery
from the office at which
posted, including those for delivery
by city, rural or other
carrier of such tffice, are required
to have postage paid on
them at the rate of two cents an
ounce, or fraction thereof. Post
cards are required to be prepaid
two cents; and, therefore, the
one-cent postal card must have a
one-cent stamp affixed to them
in addition to the stamp impressed
on such cards. Post
cards (private mailing cards)
bearing written messages must
have two cents postage prepaid
on them. Postmasters at offices
of address shall be careful to
rate up with the proper amount
of postage due all mail matter
reaching their office with the
postage insufficiently prepaid.
"The Truant Soul."
Following is a brief. synopsis
of "The Truant Soul," Henry
B. Walthall's great play, which
is being shown at the Majestic
Theatre today:
Dr. John Lancaster, famous
surgeon, is beset by a hidden
menace. It drags him to the
j A. i _ r j At
ueptns 01 uepravity. a Druve
little nurse, recognizing the
genius, shoulders the burden of
his battle. She has nursed him
back to health when a man seeking
the surgeon's ruin sets lire
to the hospital in whieh he
sleeps. As the huge building
burns, the fiend is shot to death
by a maniac. The sunreon escapes.
That life which the
brave little nurse had brought
back to him, he gives into her
keeping.
Old newspapers for sale at The
Times office.
No "Slack*
Ninety-Six Bovs
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row enough mom
fers von as seonri
cent intersst. If
we will loan you
Capt. Parks teleg
have subscribed f
age of over $ 1 (H).(
$30.00 per month
Do we Fort Mill
sell 28-cent cottoi
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closes on the 28t
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happiest incident of my life."
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at 3 p. m., 5 p. m., 7 p. m.;
Predicts New Draft Act.
Representative Kahn. of California,
the Republican who led
the administration forces in the
House tthen the army draft law
was passed, says that a new
draft law will have to be passed
at the next session of congress
to reach the many young men
who have become 21 years of
age since May 18. last, and that
it probably would amend the existing
law so as to register young
men from 16 or 17 to become automatically
subject to call on
reaching the age of 21. Mr!
Kahn also said" he intended to .
make a fight for a universal
training law ?rd an act to deal
with alien slackers without violating
treaty obligations.
Old Bill Got the Birds.
"Speaking of good shots," said
Truthful, "the best shot 1 ever saw
was Bill Silvers, who used to hunt out
here in the early days. BUI learned
the gunmaker's trade when he was
young and I want to say that he was
some mechanic when It came to that.
"He invented a gun which he niRde
himself that heat any of these hers
modern guns for long distance and accuracy.
He might have made a fortune
out of It if he had put It on the
market, but BUI Just naturally didn't
care for money and Just made one gun
and quit at that.
"One day there was a flock of
pigeons flying across the country. In
those early days there was a terrible
lot of wild pigeons. There ain't any
more of them now. but people who are
able to recollect back 40 years remem-1;
her when there were millions and millions
of them. This flock was flying so
high that they weren't visible to the
naked eye, but Bill used long-distance
field glasses when he shot with that'
gun. The fellers In.the camp said they
would tike to have a mess of birds and
Bill said he would just -go out and
shcot a dozen or so.
"As I said, this flock was flying so
high that the birds weren't visible to
the naked eye and when BUI said he
would shoot a dozen or so the cook
gave a derisive laugh and said, 'You
doggoned fool, there ain't no pigeons
within a thousand miles of here.'
"Bill didn't say nothing In reply? I
Just took his gun and field glasses and
began shootin' in the air. The cook
looked at him a minute and then said
to the other fellers. 'Ol Bill has sure
been flllln' up on loco weed and gone
plumb crazy. Just look at the old fool
out there shootin' holes In the air.'
"Bill paid no attention to the remarks
of the cook?went right along
shootin' until he had fired 12 shots?
then he came In and put up his gun In
the corner of the shack. That was
Just about seven o'clock in the morn*
lng. At a quarter past eleven the
birds began to fall. There was 12 of
'em and every one of 'em shot through
the head. They was so high when they
was hit that It took 'em Just four hours
to hit the earth.
"All the cook said when he picked
up tho birds was. 'Ol' Bill wasn't so
durned crazy after all.'"?Farmers'
Mall and Breeze.
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3V to equip and feed tl
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you are unable to pay
the money at 4 per cei
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or #10,(XX).00 worth of
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people intend to sit at
11 and let these young rr
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TAX NOTICE-1 SIT.
Office of the County Treasurer
of York County.
York, S. C.. Sept. 17, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that the Tax
Books for.lfork Coyinty will be opened
on Monday, the 15tn day of October,
1917, and remain open until the 31st
day of December, 1917, for the collection
of State, County, School and Local
Taxes, for the fiscal year 1917, without
penalty; after which day One Per
Cent penalty will be added to all payments
rpade in the month of January,
1918, and Two Per Cent penalty for all
payments made in the month of February,
1918, and Seven Per Cent penalty
will be added to all payments made
from the 1st day of March, 1918, to the
15th day of March, 1918, and after this
date all unpaid taxes will go into executions
and all unpaid Single Polls will
be turned over to the several Magistrates
for prosecution in accordance
with law.
For the convenience of taxpayers I
will attend the following places on the
days named:
At Smyrna, Thursday, October 2.r>.
At Hickory Grove, Friday and Saturday.
October 26 and 27.
At Sharon, Monday, October 29.
At McConnellsville, Tuesday, October
30.
At Tirzah, Wednesday, October 31.
At Clover, Thursday and Friday.
November 1 and 2.
At York from Saturday, November
3^ to Tuesday, November 6.
At Coates's Tavern, from 8 o'clock
a. rip Wednesday, November 7, to
5 o'clock p. m.
At York, Thursday, November 8.
At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday,
November 9 and 10.
At Rock Hill from Monday. November
12th, to Saturday, November 17th.
And at York from Monday, November
19th, until Monday, the 31st?day
of December 1917, after which date
the penalties will attach as stated
tiuove.
Note The Tax Hooks are made up
l>y Townships, and parties writing
about Taxes will always expedite matters
if they will mention the Township
or Townships in whieh their
property or properties are located.
HARRY E. NEIL,
Treasurer of York County.
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Our Business
is to furnish you with Lumber of
the best quality at the lowest
prices. If you are thinking of
building a new house or repairing
your old one
You Can Do Better
here than elsewhere, as many of
our pleased customers will testify.
We are as anxious that you
should get good stock as you
are to buy it, for we want our
reputation and your house to
wear equally well.
Fort Mill Lumber Company.
[ Our Boys
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it wishes to borlese
boys, and ofid
bearing 4 per
cash for the bond
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bonds, an avert
of their paltry
home in comfort,
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ADMISSION 20c AND lOc.
Please come in the afternoon, if possible
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Kimbrell's - - - Kimbrell's I j
At Kimbrell's ou will find the I j
Hat you need?Tailored, Dress and I 1
Sport Hats. We have a lot of hats, I
remarkable values, choice $1.50. | \
Shoes. y
.We are proud of our High-Tcp I I
Ladies' Boots at such low prices? f
$5, $5.^0, S6 and $6.50. 1
Fall Silks.
A choice line Corticelli Satins in I
stripes, solid shades, taupe, Navy, 3
old rose, black, white, garnet, gray 1
price per yard, $ 1.50. I
Snort Coats. I
I We have only a lew Ladies' Sport I 1
Coats that are remarkable values. I I
Don't fo get we have the goods to I i
make coats of?price $1.73 and S2. I I
pzwian I . I
E. W. Kimbrell Ctmpany I
nHBUHH BHCKSEfi'tilQBJLl r-acv7X'rA?
t Seeded Raisins. I
.liist. rppfivpfl nil)' Full chinninnt r\f ( 1iv.-?"C? ** --
w*.. . .... "..iKi.n-ui, wi v amui met own maid ^
brand fancy seeded raisins in packages at ir?c, ai d in tins
at 10c. Also lots of other fancy groceries such as
Cherries, in glass bottles.. . .10 *
Cooked Brains, per can - ? ? .25 $
Grape Juice, in bottles, _ . _ . io j
Veal loaf, pork, beef and veal, per can, .25 j
4 Salted peanuts in sealed glass jars, .10 4 I
^ Salmon, tall cans, .20 T 1
Strawberrv Preserves, per jar, 25c and .35 1
Large size Tomatoes, 3-lb can . .20 $ i
Large can Sausage 20
Full Cream Cheese, per pound, .10 #
4 Wesson Oil, per can... ... .35 ^
i Clean Easy Soap, per cake .05 ^
Nice yellow sweet potatoes, per peck. . .35
4 Lots of other things which we will be glad for you to in- % j
^ quire about. Only too glad to serve you. Phone us your 1
- needs, and get what you want when you want.
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| Our prices are always at the bottom .
and we are prepared to serve the
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