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F B. W. BRADFORD - . Editor and Proprietor omobjftiom Kates: On* Y*ar i 11.21 Six Month* ........ ,68 Th* Tim** n?iteaeontrIbution* on IWMnbjNt1 bat doea not nrree to publish more than 200 word* oi any subject. The right I* reserved to edit / re communication submitted for Dubllention, On application to th* oubliaher. advertising r it** are mad* known to those interested. Toleohone.local and lone distance. No.112. Bntered at tho postofllce at Port Mill. S. C.. oi mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. NOV. 8. 1917. Conserve the Food. Although all of us cannot go to the firing line and in that way help to win the war, there are many ways in which we can h ilp. We may help by being true to our country, taking every opportunity to impress upon others the righteousness of our cause, and holding up to them the awful consequences which would ensue were the Huns to win the fight. But greatest of all we can by conservation do more than in any other way. Every slice of bread saved is that much more for the soldiers who are at the battle front. We have not as yet seen the actual need of food, but the time is liable to come before this war is ended when many of us may gc hungry, and every bit saved now will enable us to carry on the struggle that much longer, and to a successful conclusion. Supruico t V"io iiovt nrnn nf bliv IIVAt VI vp VA A WU'l |>Uli should be a failure, with the European countries engaged in s death struggle, and the fieldi lying in waste, where would the food to feed our boys at the front be found. Not only musl we feed our own brave boys, bul we must furnish food to help feed our allies who bore the brunt of battle before we became engaged. We do not think thai our people are sufficiently alive to the importance of saving oui foodstuffs. Thev seem to think that all this talk of saving it nothing but idle talk, and wc can only hope that they will realize before it is too late that when we waste we are just as much slackers as he who refuses to go to the front when he is called. ? Selected. There is nothing wrong about sending the President the shell from which the firht American bullet was tired in the War. However, what would be much more highly prized by the American people is the shell from which the last bullet was tired. The picture shows of this Pfllintrv nrn "nr? anroinof" o proposition to survive. The tax on seats, tax on tickets, advanced reel rental and advanced express rate doubtless will work disaster to many of the shows in the smaller towns. An exchange remarks that the price of flour has gone so high that the money for one sack will very near pay for a quart ol liquor. The man who thinks he can handle liquor in Fort Mill or tli/iinifi, ...it -J- ? ^ 1 v iciuiij WKIlUUt UCICCI \%Jl\ lilts things to learn. The human being is yet unborn that the war tax does not touch. York News to Suspend? The York news of Monday carried this notice over the signature of the president of the News Publishing company: "As Mr. T. F. McDow has served notice that he will be un able to continue any longer to act as editor of this paper, and. iuasmuch as it is practically impossible to obtain an editor ami manager satisfactory to the owners of the paper, u meeting of the directors and stockholders of the York Publishing company will be held at the office of the company on Wednesday evening, the 7th instant, at 8 o'clock for the purpose of considering the liquidation of the nffairs of the company, and the discontinuation of the publication of the York news now, or at the close of the year. A full meeting of the stockholders of the plant is de? ? I Y?tk Cuaty News Natters. \ I \orkville Enquirer.) Up to Wednesday the total number of families in the State who had signed food conservation pledges was 45.838. York 1 county had reported 2,771. ( Mr. W. T. Beamguard said < yesterday that Sunday school j attendance at Clover Sunday was < 283 against an average attendance of from 150 to 175. < ! I j Joseph M. Taylor, special agent;' ' ftf thp poncno rlonartmont' V?aa 'advised The Enquirer that 8,236 > j bales of cotton were ginned in ; I York county up to October 18, 1917, as against 7,085 bales up to r the same date last year. | Though the farmers are doing |. 1 their best to get the cotton picked as rapidly as possiple, and I, there has been some complaint i to the effect that cotton is opening rather slowly, there are , quite a number of fields between Yorkville and Clover that are white with open bolls. The D. E. Finley land near Tirzah church, was sold yesterday in three tracts as follows: No. 1, of 45.9 acres, bought by , Fred E. Smith for $50; No. 2, i 40.9 acres, bought by A. M. ! Barnett for $55.50 an acre; No. j 3. 179.4 acres, bought by Hope ' 1 Varnonfila nAmnont? <5/1*1 ,101* , 4*ivi vuntii^ wiii^auj iui q'x x , I acre. Sugar is becoming a very i scarce article in Yorkville. There i isn't exactly a sugar famine yet, . i but there is a scarcity. Just I anybody can't go to a local ; grocery store and buy, say a ; j hundred pounds. You might ask > for a sack of twenty-five pounds, - but vou are more than likely to be ; I told that you can only have a 11 dollar's worth. "j If the number of quart-amonth liquor permits that have ? been issued by the probate judge 1 of York county, is any indication ' of the healthfulness of the peo1 _l_ - -T 11 ... .1 i 1 I i l.l pie 01 me county, tnen me neaitn of the couuty is remarkably good. Up to Weenesday afternoon, October 31, only 513 per* mits had been issued since the ! | quart-a-month law became efJ i fective. t I ; 1 The price of corn meal is hold ing up to $2.50 a bushel. Many : i people have thought that as soon j as the new crop began to come ? in there would be a break in the | price. There is no question of . the fact that in the face of a ! ,. corn crop like this, a few years ; back, it would have been difficult 11 to sell corn about here at this season at 50 cents a bushel. The price of corn, however, continues up around $2.50. "Liberty" Theatres. S xteen "liberty theaters" now being built by the government in the various National army <>unlninfnonlo am tn )>n oolf VM tlVVIIItiVIIVO HI V tV L/V CVIi " I sustaining, and with one ex-1 ception will be a part of a regularly organized dramatic and vaudeville circuit. Camp Lewis, on the Pacific coast, can not be included in the circuit for geographical reasons, so special performances by Pacific coast companies are being organized by well known theatrical men lor the circuit. Each theater | will have its own complete | tquiptment. Every cantonment | is being searched for men of i ; theatrical experience to aid in : setting up the circuit and numer ous stage hands, electricians, actors and musicians have been ) , found among the soldiers. So-called "smileage" books, containing $1 and $5 worth of i admission coupons, will be offered the public through the i i_? * f mi i MttKt nanus war reuei. inese books can be sent to the men in camp to pay their 15, 20 and 27- j cent admission charges. Packages for Soldiers. Postoffice patrons throughout this section who have relatives I or friends among the soldier j boys in France and desire to sena tnem Christmas packages I should heed the notice of the j posioltice department as to the necessity of the early mailing of packages intended to reach our j troops in France by Christmas, I ana to the fact that such pack- j l ages must not exceed seven (7) j j pounds in weight.* 1 j * The department, also advises that unless packages intended ) as Christmas presents for ine c troops in France are deposited in 1 postofflces on or before November s 15th. it will not be possible for < 1 them to reach destination before r Christmas day. % The department further ad-1 vises that on account of the ' postal regulations in France " packages aaifcim more thaa i leven (7) pounds cannot be forwarded by mail. Killed en His EafUe. Robert Smyer, (Uncle Boh), the veteran en&rineer who. has been running a passenger train n -p. xt \tr ?:i 1 *? ?/ ** viiv w* 11. ??. i aiiivau lur the past twenty-six years, is dead as the result of a distressing accident that occurred in Chester last Friday night. When Mr. Smyre was passing the cross-over switch, a Southern engine struck his engine and turned it over. He was caught in such a manner that he could not help himself and was held there until his fireman bravely went into the cloud of steam and brought him out. He was terribly scalded and. suffered agonies until death came to his relief at about 6:30 o'clock Sunday night.?Yorkville Enquirer. Four Negroes Drowned. Jim Perry, Will Garther, Will Lumpking and a fourth negro were drowned in Catawba river at Great Falls, Chester county, Thursday evening, when they, u c _.1 aiuii^ wiiii IUUI inner lU'glWS, endeavored to escape from a gasoline boat which suddenly burst into flames. They had come up the river from near the Rocky Creek station of the Southern Power company, where they were working, and were filling the tank of the boat with gasoline for the return trip, when it is thought one of the negroes struck a match to liirht a cigarette. The negroes were drowned while fighting wildly to reach the bank, only ten feet away. Efforts were made to rescue the men. The river is only 12 feet deep where the men perished. AN ORDINANCE. Be it Ordained by the Mayor ami Aldermrn, the Town Council of the Town of Fort Mill, S.C., by Authority ok Same; Section I That a levy of ten mills on each and every dollar of real ami personal property not exempt frorr taxation, held, owned, or liable foi taxation within the town of Fori Mill, S. C., on the first day of January 1918 be, and the same is h< reb\ made for the following purposes: Ordinary Purposes 3 mills Int. Waterworks Bonds-2? " Sinking Fund li " Street Improvements. 3$ " Sec. 2. That said taxes shall becc mc due and payable at the office of th? City Treasurer on the first day ol November 1917. Taxes may be p: ii up to and including the" 15th day ol November 1917. Thereafter and up tt the 1st day of January 1918, a penult} of 15 per cent, will attach to st.ic taxes not paid by November 45th 1917, Sec. 3. A-fter the first day of January 1917, executions will issue againsl all delinquents for the amount ol taxes, penalty, and costs in accordancf with the laws of the State of Soutl Carolina and the municipal ordinances, Done and ratified in council in regulai session assembled in Fort Mill, S. C., this 16th day of October, 1917. 11. K. PATTRRSON. Attest: . A'avor. W. A. ROACH, Clerk. When a Man Dies The most worthless asset U be found in his estate is his good intentions. You INTEND to take life insurance, or MORE life insurance some day. Take a policy TODAY in the Union Central Life, Of Cincinnati, and create at once a valuable estate by the payment of only two or three per cent on its value. If yon are under 30 years of age, five cents a day will pay for $1,000 of life insurance?the price of a cigar or cold drink. Think of it! * C. S. Link, FORT MIT J. S r. Our Business s to furnish you with Lumberof ,he best quality at the lowest arices. If you are thinking of building a new house or repairng your old one You Can Do Better lere than elsewhere, as many of >ur pleased customers will testify. We are as anxious that you ihould get good stock as you ire to buy it. for we want our eputation and your house to rear equally well. Tort Mill Lumber Company. Old newspapers for sale at Tba U , >. . OWB iincvB* v ? THE MAJESTI SPECIAL HENRY B. V America's Forer LITTLE A Heart-Interest Drama i Here is a photoplay that will t you any "little shoes'* in your h brothers or little sisters? You lov appreciate them as fully as you s I I In this nhoto-rlr?ima f purity of children; their whole-he; I , ness of nature. When you see I catch up the first kiddie you mee i & your own child or other children I Bring the Chil I One Day Only - Open1 I (We pay the \\% ; COMING THURSDAY "Cinderella and the A Fairy Play For err The Grand Bail err Cindered in king's castle dlX transfer ; Gorgeous Costumes >: Open at 4 p. 111. - (We Pay the v 'I t1 r 11 H What .Will You Have M t j|| Whefi You Are Fifty? j|| ? eg* Every young man ought to promise himself inde- fill pendence at fifty, and live up to that resolve. + The will to begin saving while young, backed by * the perseverance to continue will show assets when you ? are fifty years old that arc valuable. ^ Remember we pay the same rate of interest to those ft fc* whobring a dollar here to deposit or whether they ?JK jjro| bring a hundred. | ^ ? 4 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings. |||| The Savings Bank, j | . t ! ^ & i 11 t tt * t II i I t The ? t II 4 t First National Bank i f if ! * of Fort Mill, S. C., i I I I i ; Solicits - Your - Business. | a ? T< \ \ !!' . If ill I 5 i | IlL ?? * IC THEATRE. TODAY. If ALTH ALL. most Actor, in SHOES" in Five Exquisite Acts. ouch your heart strings. Have ome? Any children, or little e them, of course, but do you hould? all lays bare all the unalloyed arted love; their supreme goodthis fpatlirp vnn xxn 11 .'WMVVO'W. J W4 TT 111 VT Ulll IU t and kiss him. You will love more than you ever did. 1 Idren To-day Ip. m. 10c and 20c. ir tax today.) ! , NOVEMBER 15TH, 1 orir f AVJki^gJlV K/lippV/1 Old and Young. a's magic err The Rabbit Ponies niation and Pumpkin coach Magnificent Settings, var tax) - Prices, 10c and 20c. Thanksgiving Cake, j Phone us for fruits for your cake for Thanksgiving. ? Although our stock is not complete as yet, we will he glad to help you get what you want. We have on hand at the T present time, Citron, Raisins, Mixed Nuts, Brazil Nuts, ? Extracts, etc., and will later have a complete stock for you. Fresh lot Snowdrift Lard just received in 4-lb. and 10-lb. $ buckets. Fresh shipment Macaroni and Cheese, Cream of Wheat, ? Corn Flakes, etc. \jrvrTr,ir,_-rru~ coo n . me o. i.. o. coupons win not oe given after + January 1st., so buy all you can so as to get your premium. T They are good any time. Samuel A. Lee. t I ' % 1 We Take a Delight I i ====== t | In pleasing the particular house- | keeper. For a general stock of 1 groceries of tested merit we believe | that our store cannot be out-classed. $ Our prices are always at the bottom 1 and we are prepared to serve the ? public with the best of everything in 5 our line. ? a Phone us your wants. We are al- | I ways "on the job." < I ?????? ? o H Parks Grocery Co., | I Phone 1 IB I n