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E ?T. BRADFORD - - Rditor and ProorWtor
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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.
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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'
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' Yerk Ceasty Hews Natters.
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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.
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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
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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
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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%
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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.
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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
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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. ,
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Paid on'Savings.
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Smiling George Walsh in 0
that funny picture called
"Melting
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help you to pull that long I
face of yours ilito a reg- jj
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* At the beginning of this new year we take this oppor
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* the nnfit vpflr withstnnrlirur the f:?et thnt three ef enr *
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; 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.
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