Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 04, 1918, Image 2
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THE FORT MILL TIMES i
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Telephone.local and longdistance. No. 112.
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Entered at the postofllce at Fort Mill. 8. C.. as
msll matter of the second class.
THURSDAY. APRIL. 4. 1918.
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Buy Them And
nelp Win The War
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE
Buy Bonds.
The local committee in charge
of the campaign for the sale of;
the third issue of Liberty bonds
consists of Dr. J. Lee Spratt,
Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrick, W. P. i
Meacham and George Fish, and
these gentlemen in co-operation |
with committees from the Red
Cross and Chamber of Commerce
and other organizations are preparing
for a thorough canvass in j
the interest of liberty and humanity.
Due thought and consideration
should be given to this important
matter by every citizen of Fort
Mill township and his mind made
up to subscribe liberally to this
issue by the time he is approached
by members of the
committee. The country calls to
its patriotic people who have j
been so especially blessed in'
material wealth during the past
year to lend a hand at this time i
and offers an excellent invest- j
ment for the surplus money now
in their hands. This appeal does
not apply only to the man who |
is considered able to buy bonds
but to almost every man and
woman in the community, any j
one of whom is able to buy a
A .U- lit 1 i
in'i u upun me nuerai Lern^
ofit red by the two local banks.
The buyer will have the satisfaction
of knowing that he has
made a gocd investment and that
he is "doing his bit" to win the
war.
To the thinking man it appears
much more advantageous to lend
the money to Uncle Sam at a
fair interest late than to withhold
it and possibly have the
Kaiser take it. It is hoped that
these committees will be well
received and that Fort Mill will,
as in the past, be found on the
list as having subscribed 100 per
cent of the allotment.
The Farmers' Mistake.
It is a very familiar sight at
this season of the year to see
blue smoke ascending from fields
along almost any road in this
section. Corn stalks, grass,
trash and weeds are being
burned. The same farmers
snatch enough time to come to
town and inquire about "that
sody I ordered from the government."
If they would only stop ,
and consider that the blue smoke
is carrying away just the plant
lood they are so anxious to get
4 4' -fA a. r i
111 me mi in ui nitrate 01 hooa,
cotton seed meal, etc., this
waste of millions of dollars
worth of plant food would stop.
Nitrogen is the stuff that makes
the crops get on a hump and
nitrogen is burned up when a
fire is started in a field. One
farmer's rule was to burn nothing
that could be turned with a
two-horse plow, and it was a
good one. Let the stalks and
weeds remain, and add to the
nitrogen in the soil.? Exchange.
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Head and Heed.
We are publishing the following
Washington despatch of
Tuesday in the hope that a few
men we know of may read it and
by its advice keep out of jail:
In favorably reporting a bill to |
mpoee drastic penalties on disoyal
acts, the senate judiciary
committee Tuesday adopted an
intendment by Senator Foindex;er,
of- Washington, prescribing
mprisonment for twenty years
md $10,000 fine for "whoever
shall by word or act support or
favor the cause of the German
empire or its allies in the present
war or by word or act oppose
the cause of the United States
therein."
The committee also approved
the same penalties for persons
obstructing government war
bond issues and for wilfully
"attempting" as well as actual
attempts, to obstruct recruiting
or enlistment in the army.
A War for Humanity.
The following was written a
half century and more ago, but
it might have been written yesterday
it applies so well to
today's conditions. The truth is
the same yesterday, today and
tomorrow:
War, in a good cause, is not
the greatest evil which a nation
can suffer. War is an ugly
thing, but not the ugliest of
things; the decayed and degraded
state of moral and
patriotic feeling which thinks
nothing worth a war is worse.
When a people are used as mere
instruments for firing cannon or
thrusting bayonets, in the service
for the selfish purposes of a
master, such war degrades a
people. A war to protect other
human beings againt tyrannical
injustice; a war to give victory
to their own ideas of right and
good, and which is their own
war, carried on for an honest
purpose by their free choice, is
often the means of their regeneration.
A man who has
nothing which he is willing to
fight for, nothing which he cares
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IllUIt* (tUUUl Lllctu lie UUCS Ituuui
his personal safety, is a miserable
creature, who has no chance
of being free unless made and
kept so by the exertions of
better men than himself. As
long as justice and injustice have
not terminated their ever-renewing
fight for ascendency in the
affairs of mankind, human beings
must be willing, when need is,
to do battle for the one against
the other. ?John Stuart Mill.
A Reminder.
Don't forget to make next
Saturday, April 6th, "Liberty
Loan Day." That's the day
Uncle Sam has chosen to start
putting the third nail in the
Kaiser's ccffin, and every true
American will be glad to help in
this task.
Boost the loan! Talk it on the
streets, in the workshop and in
the home; these are some of the
ways you can do your bit. All
together, everybody! "Over the
top and give 'em hell! Darn the
gas masks! Blast the Huns!
And remember, if the Kaiser
wins, you may have to make the
overture "Die Wacht am Rhein."
Incidentally, hpw many bonds
will you buy?
York County News Natters.
llorkville Enquirer.) .
Representing two of the Clover
cotton mills and others that will
join in, John R. Hart, Esq., of
Yorkville, is working on plan to
facilitate the transportation of
southern cotton mill products to
northern markets and to the
ports. The general plan he has
in mind is to concentrate cotton
shipments at Spencer, N. C., or
Charlotte, N. C., where it mav
be made up in solid trains to proceed
on regular schedules. The
success of the plan will depend
upon the co-operation of the railroads
and other cotton mills; but
it is possible that the whole idea
might he defeated by the congestion
at the ports.
The machinery, material and
fixtures of the York Publishing
company, used in the publication
of its late newspaper, the York
Njws, and in the conduct of its
iob orintinar establishment were
sold at oublic aution last Wednesday
by S. E. Jackson, receiver,
to satisfy the claims of certain
creditors. Among the purchasers
of the property were
Allison Lee of Laurens, Ed DeCamp
of Gaffnev, O. K. Williams
of Rock Hill, A. K. Loftin of
Gastonia, J. T. Perkins of Chester,
A. B. Jordan of Dillon and
several others. The whole outfit
inventoried on a basis of the
original cost around $10,000, and
the proceeds of the sale aggregated
approximately $3,000.
Graded School Honor Roll.
Following is thfe honor roll of
the Fort Mill graded school for 1
March: :
First Grade?Highly Distinguished:
Allie Bradford. Pansy
Gamble, Josephine . McCorkle,
Parks Bradford. Charles Cannup,
Kenyon Young. Distinguished:
Everod Armstrong, Clarence
Kloniger, John McGuirt. Hazel
McKibben, Helen Ferguson, Lula
Parks.
Advanced First Grade?Distinguished:
Henry Armstrong,
Brevard Crowder, Claude Culp,
Randolph Carothers, Harry Har'
key, Emma Bailes, Maggie Bell,
I Oscar Triplett, Garland Dyches,
Myra Belle Kimbrell, Maggie
Ligon, Cornelia Thompson.
Second Grade?Highly Distinguished:
Gregory Dyches,
1 Mary Garrison. Distinguished:
John Bennett, Melvin Carter, ,
Fay Johnston, Finley Lee, James '
Merritt, Ezell Wagstaff, Floyd <
I Cloniger.
Third Grade?Highly Distin- ,
guished: Omie Hood, Owen Pat- ,
terson, Faulkner Parks. Distinguished:
Frances Bradford, j
George Ross Garrison, Frances
Hoagiand, Lewis McKibben, ,
Lewis Merritt, Myrtle Reeves, '
Hasten Stephens.
Fourth Grade ?Highly Distin- |
guished; Willie Bradford, Gracie
Purdee, Inez Wolfe, Hattie
Parks, Cora Massey, Franklin ,
Armstrong, Harvey Capps, Hazel
Gross, John McLaughlin, Henry
Link, Elliott Bennett. Distinguished:
Susis Lee Patterson,
Mamie Robinson, Lewis Howard.
'Charlie Steele, Russell Phillips.
Pifth Grade ? Distinguished:
Lillie Bailes, Hampton Dyches,
Olin Hood, Edith Parks.
. Sixth Grade ? Distinguished:
! Elizabeth Ardrey, Lawrence
Armstrong, Katharine Massey,
' Bertha Moore, Stephen Paarks,
Ernest Wagner.
sevenin tirade ? Highly L)ift'.nguished:
Virginia Barber,
Martha Dyches, Grace Goodwin,
Elizabeth Mills, Anna Wolfe.
Frank Jones.
High School.
Highly Distinguished: Annie
Parks. Distinguished: Marian
Parks, Hattie Belk, Fair Lee,
Blanche Moser, Rebecca Blanklenship,
Bleeker Lee, William
Grier, Stough Blankenship.
Some Service Flag.
There's a service flag with five
stars at the home of Paul A.
Jones, in Pittsfield, Mass. But
that's not enough, he thinks.
He is planning to add three more
stars.
Walter, the youngest, who
will be eighteen soon, plans to
enlist and two more sons are in
Class A1 of the draft. Five are
'already in variouscampsthroughout
the country.
Five of the boys have "war
brides."
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KING'S NEW LIFE PILLS
The Pills That Do Cure.
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Little MAD<
"The World's Kiddie
M dom's Sweet
"The Little
In this photoplay littl
seen as a poor East s
then as the inmate ol
next as a bareback ri
as a "boy"in her E
palatial mansion, anc
duchess, heiress to v;
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The M
Hast A^ain Face Jnry. 1
W. A. (Os) Wilkinson, who '
has been in Chester jail for
several months on the charge of
running a disreputable house. ]
and whose case at the fall term j
of court resulted in a mistrial, is <
now confined in jail on a charge >
of murder, a warrant charging
him with the murder of his wife ,
having been sworn out a few j
clays ago by C. C. Clack, constable
at the Baldwin mill. Mrs.
Wilkinson was found beaten to <
death at her home at Sandy ,
river pumping station in De- ,
member, 1916, the crime evident- ,
ly having been committed with
3ome blunt instrument Two <
negroes, John and Cato Wright, 1
were arrested on suspicion, and
as feeling against thein began
to run high on the day following
the murder they were taken to
the penitentiary at Columbia for
safe keeping. Subsequently the
coroner's jury found that Mrs.
Wilkinson had come to her death
at the hands of parties unknown
to the jury, and the Wright
negroes were released.
Mrs. Wilkinson was struck down
in her kitchen as she was about
her household duties. Robbery
appeared to have been the
motive, as certain hiding places
nf money had been ransacked,
but some thought this might
have been merely a ruse. Several
months ago, after Wilkinson's
place had been for some
time the subject of unfavorable
comment, he was arrested and
tried at the fall term of court on
the charge of running an immoral
place. The case resulted
in a mistrial, and the defendant
was remanded to jail to await
trial at the spring term of court.
When he next goes to trial, however,
it will be on the charge of
murdering his wife.
America to The Rescue!
James D. Grist's letter from
Camp Sevier, has been badly
cut up by the censor this week.
It is the first time that the censor
has interferred further than to
fix his stamp of approval. But
this time the introductory paragraphs
have been cut from and
including the date line leaving
little else than the following:
Training and preparation for
war is worse than war itself,
they say. Besides as the men
here read the papers every
morning and every afternoon
and learn of the great strength
of the enemy; read of the heroic
sacrifices of the Allies, of the
daily deeds of bravery; read of
the need for men to fill the gaps,
there arises in every heart a desire
to get over and into it, a
desise to help whip them and to
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U" >|>B (jratc lU U SlI ICKeil worm.
'"Haig's Line Still Holds," was
the lead headline that blazed
across an extra of the Greenville
Piedmont Saturday afternoon.
A number of soldiers read that
headline and read the story telling
of the offensive of the Germans
and of Allied lines intact.
The soldier who was reading
: Friday
GE EVANS,
Star" in one of Filmest
Pictures.
Duchess."
le Miss Evans is first
ide tenement urchin:
: an orphan asylum:
der in a circus;-third
r.glish grandfather's
1 finally as the little
ast estates.
'ill Please
)ld and Young.
w Time) at 4:30 P. M.
10c and 20c.
its to Local D. A. R.
'UESDAY
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icts of Wes.
[venture
Prices 10c and 20c.
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ajestic.
to his comrades dropped the
paper to the ground.
He clenched his fists as he
raised his arms over his head.
"Great God!" he exclaimed in
high pitched voice and his eyes
agleam with fire?"if I were
only there in that line holding
ft
em.
"Same here," cried another
&f the party; "me too," said
another and the voice of assent
went all around the little party.
"Oh why don't they send us
over and let us in it; we ain't no
experts in soldierin' maybe, but
damn it, we could shoot until we
died."
This is illustrative of the
sentiment of the Thirtieth now.
The Thirtieth wants to go over
and hold or die. It's got to be
done.?Yorkville Enquirer.
The total number of bales of
the 1916 cotton crop ginned in
York county up to March 20,
1017 UTQO OA Q71 Koloo onrninof I I
Xt/A. ? ? TTOO XCZ, %/ I X a^aiiiow |
31,358 bales of the 1917 crop, I
ginned up to March 20, 1918.
This Is Our Winter
of Test
SERVING food la a local
problst. for each
| community. Prices
and definite rules for <
every one cannot be ,
nenlthy and strong. Tills winter
of 1018 Is the period when Is to
be tested here In America whethi
er our people are capable of voluntary
Individual sacrifice to
save the world. That Is the purpose
of the organization of the
United States Food Administration?by
voluntary effort to provide
the food that the world
needs.
U. S. FOOD ADM! ISTRATION
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DR. A. l_. OTT ,
DENTIST ?
Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
(Dr. Spratt's office)
Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C.
Electric ;
Bitters ;
Made A Now Man Of H irr '
"I was Buffering from pain in nstomach,
head and back," writer J > <
T. Alston, ltaleigh, I*. <3., ' and r
liver and kidneys did not work rig!
but four bottle's of Electric
made me feel liko a uev7 mar.
PRPE 50CTS. AT ALL DRUG STORK
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That's what we mean to do
Then when we leave, you'll re
Come to the WHITF. FROM
Hardware, Shoes, Notions,
have been delayed out of Bait
Better wait till they come in i
We save you $1.00 per pair
Come to see us?if we can
ly. If any article in our store
right.
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Wheat
Our Flour Mill in Rock Hill is
in operation six days in a week
ind we will be glad to do grindins:
for the farmers and others
)f Fort Mill township. First:lass
equipment and experienced
nillers guarantees you satisfac:ory
results.
Highest cash prices for Corn,
shelled or on cob.
Catawba Milling Company,
Rock Hill, S. C.
le Have Mil
t]ie Banjul
Eople think a bank is a place <
who have to borrow to KniU
>le money to deposit. A ban]
vho wish to start to save, as v
;y for those who have already
>ne thinks he can get along w
ne.
If you arc one of them we i
to the bank and talk with <
We will show you in a v
that you ought to
Have a Bank
?and you can have a bi
here if you desire.
t't need much money to open
you can't spare more now?it
now while you have that imf
Fhe Saving
The
1RT MILL, Friendly ^
Bank
Cheaper, I
ir Folks Sav. I
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so long as we stay here,
member us.
T Stores for your Groceries.
Etc. Our Ladies' Slippers
imore since February 12th.
f you can.
for the nice ones.
help you we will do so glad>
isn't right, we'll make it
'gain House.
roceries. |
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L>ck of groceries *
we believe that
i out-classed. +
ays at the bottom
ired to serve the
it of everything in
jits. We are al- *
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Phone 15
Good Coffee, 15c
Fresh Country Eggs 40c
No. 1 Irish Potatoes, pk.._ 50c
Choice Pink Salmon,.. 20c
Canned Tomatoes, 20c
Full stock of Flour
' and Corn Meal.
Culp's Grocery,
SALESMEN WANTED to solicit
orders for lubricating oils, greases and
paints. Salary or Commission. Ad
nress int. HAUVfil Ull.l'u., Cleveland,
Ohio.
CattBHH
stamen Ideas
ng business.
only for those in business?
homes, or for people with
k is a place for everyone?
rell as a safe place to keep
r saved. It's a mistaken idea
ithout a bank as well as he.
invite you to come
our officers?
rery few minutes
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ink acccount
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an account here?One dollar
is the start that's the hard>ulse.
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