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THE FORT MILL TIKES Dweette?PBoMelwdTharadsve. E ?T. BRADFORD - - Rditor and ProorWtor DMcmrnoN Kates: ^ One Veer S1.2J silx Month* ei Thn riniM nrltM contribution* on livesubject' b 11 doe* not aarree to publish more than 200 wordi 01 any subject. The riirhi I* reserved to edil > try communication submitted for publication On application to the publisher, advertising rstei are made known to those interested. Telephone.local and Ions distance. No. 112. Bi'mwi at the postoRlce at Fort Mill. S. C..ai mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. JAN. 17. 1918. Get Your Fertilizers Early. On account of the congested condition of freight I want to urcre all farmers to buy their fertilizers early. Whether buying in carload lots or small amount, the orders should be placed as soon as possible, so as to get the fertilizers shipped, hauled home and mixed before needed, and also before the rush of spring work. The government is calling upor the South to again push pro duction to the utmost and continue the wave of prosperity during the past year, due to f better balanced husbandry a.< well as high prices. This tastt of prosperity should encourag* us to continue the great saf* .-farming program of food, feec and cotton. According to th< Bureau of Markets the Soutl this year has been almost i national asset and not a liability as to food. Another year w< should have no liabilities. Th< judicious use of fertilizers wil assist the South in performint this patriotic duty, and there fore let me urge our farmers t< buy early. This will not onlj benefit the farmer but will as sist the transportation facilities and thereby perform anothei pasriotic duty. The importance of home mix ing of fertilizers should not b< overlooked, and unless on ac count of inability to buv th< proper ingredients for makinj, what you consider the mos profitable fertilizer for your soils under the abnormal conditions the material should be bough' and the fertilizers home-mixed The following are the reasons for buying chemicals and doinj youf own mixing: hirst, when a farmer buys th< cln micals and mixes his owr fertilizers he will better stud> the needs of his soil and his soil and his crops. Second, only high grade ma tenuis will be bought and ? beUer grade of fertilizer can bi made. Third, special mixtures car be made to suit the needs oi each field and to suit the di f. Cerent crops planted on these * soils. , fourth, by clubbing together and buying for cash the chemicals in car lots direct from the manufacturers and large dealers at least -one-fourth of the fertilizer bill can be saved. Fifth, the farmer can do as good mixing as the average x factory. Sixth, when a farmer hnvs the chemicals for home mixing he will see that nitrogen is the most expensive fertilizing element and this will be an impetus for the growing of more summer and winter legumes to be turned under to supply this nitrogen. Your county demonstration agent will be glad to advise with you about the best fertilizer mixture for your soils and crop. Call on him. A. A. McKEOWN, County Agent. Whose Business? The wind of last Friday night overturned two of the town's public closets in the rear of the Harris stable lot and, although this happened nearly a week ago, ine nouses remain just as the wind left them. ' ?? D. S. Walton, of Anderson, has accepted the position as secretary and treasurer of the Fort Mill Manufacturing company, succeeding W. Frank Lewis, who has held the position for several years and is now an applicant for service in the aviation corps of the army. It is expected that Mr. Walton will move with hia fait to Fort Mill during the wee' V a '. / ' ? / * ' ' % v ' ? ' Yerk Ceasty Hews Natters. ' < X orkville Enquirer.) < Mr. J. B. Robinson, of Clover. 1 has found it necessary to itive < up his work on the York county f pension board becauseof failing 1 health. Mr. J. Ernest Lowry, j of Yorkville, has been elected in his place, and Mr. S. H. Epps, Sr., of Fcrt\Mill township, has been invited to become a member. As now constituted, the j | board is as follows: W. S. Wilkerson, chairman; J. E. Lowry, , secretary; J. J. Hagins, S. H. Epps and Dr. W. G. White. The Catawba river tfas frozen r across during the recent severe cold, not thick enough to bear the weight of a man, but still the river was frozen across. Su- i , pervisor Boyd has it from people , who hunted rabbits on the bank i of the river. The hunters say 1 that- fppnnpnllv t.hp rnhhitja nft-pr ! being jumped, would take acros9 ;' for the other side of the river, 1 and they would make it all right < ' in most cases, as the ice was not 1 . quite thick enough to beat the I weight of the dogs. I The following figures have ' s been reported to Rev. J. L. Oates, ' chairman of the York county division of the Red Cross, as the 1 , result of the recent drive: Yorkviile, 315; Bethany, 77; McCon- ' ( nellsville; 34; Point, 80; New ' Zi >n 5; Santiago, 24; Blairsville, 31; Bullock's Creek, 32; Tirzah, 31; Bowling Green 46; Newport, ' 10; Hopewell, 22; Bethel, 171: 1 SI aron. 83; Smyrna, 52. As yet ! no reports have been received j from the eastern part of the 1 county. n j Delegations from Bethel township and from Mecklenburg county, will meet the York county legislative delegation on * the subject of the proposed steel [ bridge over Catawba river at Wright's ferry. The bridge, it ; is understood, will cost some1 thing like $45,000 or $50,000. r Engineers have given an estimate i of $45,000. The Mecklenburg 1 authorities have proposed to pay f three-fourths of the cost of the " bridge, let the cost be what it ' may, if York county will pay r one-fourth. There is some division, of sentiment on the sub~ ject in Bethel; but the over' whelming majority is understood ~ to be in favor of the bridge. i Collector Hey ward requests I publication of the fact that an s income tax officer will be in this , county from January 21 to 26 t inclusive, for the purpose of . assisting people who are liable 3 in the making out' of their i schedules. The officer is to be at Rock Hill from January 21 to ? 23 inclusive, and at Yorkville i from January 24 to 26 inclusive. ' People who are not sure thai 5 they know how to make out ih'ir schedules are advised to - see the officer during his visit to i the county; but at the same time ? they are warned that if they fail to see the officer their schedi ules must be forthcoming all the F same. Property Damaged by Wind. Violent wind storms accompanied by heavy rains and elec trie disturbances prevailed in ' Fori Mill and vicinity early Fri1 day night, the rain and lightning ' censing about 8 o'clock, but the wind continued thru the night 1 and at times about midnight was 1 thought to have gained a velocity of 60 or 70 miles per hour. 1 At Philadelphia church, about tw<5 miles north of Fort Mill, one ' of th^ steeples was blown off and demolished and many trees in the vicinity were uprooted. From other sections of the township reports Saturday told of the wrecking of a number of outhouses and fences and some damage to the country telephone lines. During the height of the storm the electric power lines were put out of business, the streets and homes were in darkless, and the two local cotton ; mills were unable to start the machinery until about 8 o'clock Saturday morning. Other than the unroofing of a portion of the wareroom of the Fort Mill Lumber company and slight disrup- , < tion of telephone and light service. little damage was done in this city. Miss Esther McMurray has 1 been elecher teacher of the ; fourth grade in the local graded school to succeed Mrs. S. A. Alford, resigned. An important meeting of the i Parent-Teacher club will be held in the school auditorium Friday \ afternoon at 4 o'clock. All ( members are urged to be pres- i eni. 1 t n . i WIN BiiM Coicrete Road. The details for the construction >f a concrete roadway from Rock Bill to the new bridge across the Datawba are about completed, ind it is hoped to have tba roadway completed as soon as possible, says the Rock Hill Herald. The United States government is to pay half the cost of constructing the road, from the funds provided under the good roads act. At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Cham oer of Commerce last evening the matter was considered at length. The government has agreed to foot half the bill and the county had agreed to do as much work in building the road as it would take to sand clay the road. The remainder of the 2ost will have to be met by private subscription, either in sash or in hauling and furnishing material for the construction work. It is estimated that the amount af work promised by the county, that is the same work that would have been required had the road been sand-clayed, will lack about 54,000 of totaling half the cost [>f doing the work. This amount will have to be raised by private subscription. J. Cherry and Hamilton Carhartt have each Dffered to give $1,000 of the amount leaving $2,000 to be _ 1 A ? .... raisea. a part or tnis will have to be in cash, but part of it can be given in the way of furnishing teams for hauling sand and rock for making the concrete roadbed. The special committee which has been working on the proposition met with the directors last night and presented t*facts regarding the mntt This road has Deen designated by the State highway commission as a part of the main highway connecting Columbia and Charlotte and it is planned to make it one of the best stretches of road to be .found anywhere. The new bridge over the Catawba is uearing comoletion and when ready for traffic the new road will shorten the distance between here and Charlotte by about eight or ten miles. The matter of securing the needed subscriptions will at once be undertaken and when the funds have been secured every detail will be completed. The work will be done and the rovernment will foot half the construction cost. Ab long ago as 1860 John Phillips, the geologist, estimated that the time required for the deposition of the stra titled rocks lay between 38,000,000 and 96,000,000 years. This was probably the only estimate prior to Kelvin s epoch-making paper of 1862. Since tin t time many estimates have Deen made, varying all the way from 17,000,000 years to 400,000,000 years. Kelvin was the first to discuss the age of the earth considered as a cooling body, in 1893 Clarence King Introduced the important criterion of tidal stability and reached the conclusion that 24,000.000 represented the conditions. This result was adopted by Kelvin in 1897, and then he placed the limits as 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 years. Only Sir George Darwin has discussed the age of the earth from a purely astronomical point of view. From his theory or the earth-moon system he derived an estimate of more than 66,000,000 years, which for a long time stood between groups of higher and lower figures. J. Joly was the first to base estimates of the age of the earth, in 1809, on the sodium contained in the ocean. Adopting the hypothesis that the sodium content of the ocean is derived at a constant rate from that of the rocks, he arrived at an age of 80,000,000 or 90,000,000 years, and increased this by 10,000,000 in 1900. In 1909 Mr. Sollas made a searching inquiry Into this subject and placed the age of the ocean at between 80,000,000 and 150,000,000 years. Wanted Market Price for Vote*. A corpulent negro woman came into the office of Judge George I. Griffith of Kansas City, Kan., one morning and inquired for the "Jedge." 'What can I do for you?" asked the judge. "Is yoh runnln' fob jedge again?" she asked "Yes. I'm trying to get the nomination," the judge replied. "What's the 'sideration fob votes dls yeah?" "What!" almost yelled the junge, Beginning to understand ine drift of the conversation. "Ah means," explained the negrers, "is votes wuth one dollah or two dollahsdis 'lection?" "Are you aware that it is a serious offense for a person to sell his vote?" sternly demanded the judge. "All dou' 'zactly undahstan' yoh, Jedge. but ef yoh means yob ain't buyin' 'em, dat's all right. Ah believe yoh's no politlshun nohow." And with this contemptuous parting shot she left the office. New Use for Submarines. It is reported that the Germans are laying mines from submarines. The mines are carried one above another In a vertical air-tight chamber within the submarine. When they are to be laid, water Is admitted to the chamber and a door In the outer shell of the hull closing the chamber la opened. The mines are then released, one by one, through proper appliances. The mine anchor sinks to the bottom and, by suitable mechanism, the anchorage cable is unwound to permit the mine to float at the desired depth betow the iurfa.ee. This method of mine laying Is absolutely secret, and theroToro is proportionately dangerous to the en% ' ' \ ^ / , = I NOT OPEN FOR GENERAL ME Belk Building, No. % 1 UllB OUppi jno. s. pon Is Lookii MAJESTIC T THE G Wm. S Foremost Western j "The Square Five Big parts and a Comec <Jlerk~s Sale. 1 State of South Carolina. < i County of York. Court of Common Pleas. Lillie Hoagland, individually and a? administrator of the estate of W. T. Hoagland, deceased. Plaintiff, against T. Clarence Hoagland, et al, Defendants. Under and by virtue of Decree of ! Court made in the above entitled caes, ! I I will expose to public sale on Satur. > I day, January 19th, 1918, between the , hours of II a. m., and 1 p. m., before the First Natibnal Bank, in the town of Fort Mill. S. C., the following de scribed real estate, to wit: (1) All that lot and parcel of land lying and situated in the town of Fort Mill, county of York, State of South Carolina, fronting on Booth street and ' known as the "Home Lot"; beginning at a stake on Booth street and running ( thence N. 24 E. 5.4.1 to a stone, corner of Mrs. Alice Bradford's lot; thence N. 66 W. 1.54 to a stone; thence S. 24 W. 5.43 to a stake, corner of Fullwood lot, thence S.66 E. 1.54 to the begini ning corner; containing eighty-three i one hundredths (83-100) of an acre. (2) All that lot or parcel of land , situated on the western side of College street in the town of Fort Mill, said COUntv ar.rl Stnto hminHurl Kir ooU C?l 1 lege street and by lots of Ben Ardrey, I J. B. Mills, Walter Winn and others, i known as the Hoagland "Livery Stable j Lot." A plat of said Livery Stable lot is on ; file in my office in the record of said j case. Terms of Sale: One-third (1-3) cash, | remainder on a credit of one and two : years, with interest from day of sale; 1 the credit portion to be secured by [ bond or bonds of the purchaser or pur-' chasers and mortgage of the premises j sold. Purchaser to have the privilege of paying the entire bid in cash. tJOHN R. LOGAN, Clerk of Court of Common Pleas. LONG TERM FARM MORTGAGE , I.OANS. Interest: SI>EC1AL RATE 6 per cent, depending on conditions as to amount and credit period snd annual 1 installments offered, and as to borrower's urgency in having loan closed. ORDINARY RATE 7 per cent on a quick 5 to 10-year loan not under $300. i For particulars apply to , 6. E. SPENCER, Attorney. Old newspapers for sale at The Times office. A Good Recommendation The business man hi employe with a bank ac who can save for himsel the money saved stands It does not mean how fact that you have show tain thin)?; that a savin; recommendation. You can have thi3 kin ing to the Savings Bank dollar will do to start an you have it. 4 Per Cent Interest The Savin The bank that sayf - ", > ^ : . x 4 'S f v ICE! | BUSINESS RCHANDISE. i Ql M mn Ctcnnt U i I uij mam oiiccij u y Company I rS, Manager^ | ig for You. I 'OMORROW V REAT >. Hart, ictor of the day, in Deal Man.77 ly. - Regular Prices NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. Specific Instruction* a* to Return for Property for Taxation. Under date of December 29, 1917, I have been officially advised by Hon. A. W. Jones. Chairman of the State Tax Commission, that all taxable property in South Carolina must be returned to the County Auditors at 10U per cent of its true market value. Mr. Jones calls especial attention to the oath at the bottom of the return blank, in which the taxpayer is required to say that the property returned by him is listed ut "What he honestly believes to be its trne market value. After returns have been made as indicated above, they are to be turned jjVer to boards of overseers, who will verify the value as stated by the taxpaydr, and then. Chairman Jones goes on to explain: After ascertaining what is market value of the nronertv in Question the township or other local boards of assessors shall assess f>0 per cent, or one-half thereof as the value of the property for purposes of taxation, and write same in the column value by the township board. The column for v due by the county boards will be left blank to be used by the county boards in 1 equalizing, or changing the assess- [ ments made by the towr^iip boards, where they find it necesWry in ord* r to remove inequalities that may occur in passing on the separate pieces i f property. Further the htate Tax Commission goes on to insist that the taxpayer is not to assess the value of real estate but is to leave that to the township or other local boards of assessors; but with regard to other property, the Commission says: The same standard is to be pursued in taxing all classes of property, such as bank shares, textile industries, oil mills, cotton mills, railroads, horses and mules and other property throughout the State, to the end that each taxpayer shall pay taxes upon the same proportionate part of the real value of the property ow.ned by him as is paid by every other taxpayer in the State This is required by the constitution. For this reason it is necessary that the taxpayers ri use tiui* n iur- s 01 me market values, that they be veril.ed by the township or other Iscal boards of assessors ana that the same pt rcentage namely, aO per cent of all such market values shall be taken as the basis for assessment of all classes of property. All of the above is respectfully submitted as the law. BROADIJS M. LOVE, Auditor of York County. , t ts confidence in the boy or other 4 count. He knows that anyone 4 If can save for him, and that 4 for character. * much you have saved, but the 4 n a determination to do a cer- 4 ?s bank book is in itself a good d of a recommendation by com-i* and opening an account. One , d you can add more whenever Paid on'Savings. igs Bank, ?: "Thank You." > Sneak Away ! Sueak away from the war news long enough to see Smiling George Walsh in 0 that funny picture called "Melting I Millions." I 1 A real good laugh will | help you to pull that long I face of yours ilito a reg- jj ular smile. | MAJESTIC TODAY I , v* f . I We Take a Delight \ N * ? 4 t I.. -I.. ?: ii. --- * # aii iuc pa in cilia r nouse- ^ ^ keeper. For a general stock of j ?; groceries of tested merit we believe + 4 that our store cannot be out-classed. ^ ^ Our prices are always at the bottom ^ ? and we are prepared to serve the ^ 4 public with the best of everything in ^ $ our line. * ^ ?; lJlione us your wants. We are al- i ^ ways "on the job." ^ ? .?< f t 1 1 ; Parks Grocery Co., \ t Phone 116 ? t f I A Little Bit cf Everything j t AT TIIE ? Carolina Baffin House I _ ^ t . ? We arc doing quite well, thank you, ^ ; owing to the fact that our friends are ^ ; standing by us, and from the further fact * * that we are selling everything in our line ^ ; lower than you'd think these high times. $ * Don't forget us for S1IOHS, Candies, No- ^ ? lions, Glasswaie, School Supplies, and 4 t most anything else in our 5, 10 and 25c ? t department. ^ f . Look us over whether you buy or not. : Carolina Bargain House, f *' , & ! 1918 i ' MB?mill I > * At the beginning of this new year we take this oppor * tunity to thank our many friends for their patronage during * the nnfit vpflr withstnnrlirur the f:?et thnt three ef enr * , ? ^ X ; directors, including the Cafhier, are now in Uncle Sam's Army, those left behind in charge of Uncle Sam's Bank ex pect to maintain the high standard of service already estab ! lished. You are cordially invited to call and talk over your ^ plans for 1918 and if we can be of any assistance to you in * ^ ! any way consistent with safe banking, we are at your service. X First National Bank ? I W. B. ARDREY. J. L. SPRATT. V-Pres. President. Acting Cashier. + i Send Your Next Order For JOB PRINTING To the Fort Mill Times.