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P*,j; j t V.*y. 4- -.v': <V*V? s POST HILL TIMES f nentle?PabUthtdThondtTt. |_ LDFOKD - - Editor mod Proprietor Kuption Kates: T?tr Itit Months .68 B rhs riinvi inTitei:?"tTlbutionion llTticbrnt' bat do?a not urw to publish mors than zuu wonw a any subject. The risht is reset-red to edit /err communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, adrertlsins rstss 'ire made known to tno*eint?r?sted. ' relaohone. local and lona distance. No. 112. Bntnred at the ooatoffice at Fort Mill. 8. C.. as I nail matter of the second class. : I . THURSDAY. APRIL. 25. 1918. I . i Small Towns Set Pace. It will not be the big cities, that will get the credit for ] "putting over" the third Liberty * ] Loan. The big cities are doing < their part, to be sure, but it is ( the smaller cities and towns and j ] the country districts that are setting the pace in this cam- < paign. The agricultural State \ of Iowa was the first to fill its | minimum quota. From other ] States have continued to come hundreds of reports of towns n a-* /I 4 #\ a s\ n la a sao 4 la ?-a 4- la ?a ? > m m m M 4 l_ ? ci11u luwiismps mai nave won uie right to flv the honor flag awarded by the treasury department to the communities that have reached their quotas. The great publicity campaign j that has been carried on by the j country press is without question i chiefly responsible for the show- j ing that has been made by the smaller cities and towns and the country districts. It is not that the people outside the large cities are any more patriotic now than they were when the first two Liberty bond campaigns were on. but that the appeal fori subscriptions is being placed before them now in a way that was impossible in the earlier campaigns. The country press did all that it could do. also, in the earlier drives, but the lack of an organized publicity cam paign such as was provided in i; the big cities prevented the efforts of the newspapers from < getting the results that are be- i ing obtained in this drive. < Profiteering in Peanuts. ! Scarce anything seems to have 5 advanced so much in price as J the once humble but now ex-1' a I ted "goober." Twentv-five vears airoa "bair" 1 of peanuts ordinarily held a pint. ' Since then it has had a tendency ' to shrink. But of late the shrinkage has been processing { so rapidly as to excite alarm. j ] Buy a bag tomorrow; count , them, and you will find that you | have, in return for a perfectly j good nickel, ahout twenty-five < peanuts. There may be no more ( than twenty. t Kive peanuts for a cent are i not enough. A cent for four is I ( a swindle. The only thing to do ( is to quit buying peanuts until ( the price comes down. The acreage planted with pea-, nuts in this country is increasing enormously year by year. There J is no reason or excuse for such i an advance in price. Manifestly i me wnoiesalers are profiteering c and the retailers are getting i their "bite." t Peanuts in the shell, at the I present retail price, cost about t five times as much as bread, J > weight for weight. And at that' > they are usually of an inferior * grade. . . " Marriage Sunday Evening. a A happy marriage was solemn- v ized Sunday evening at 7 o'clock , at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ,c J. T. Young, when the brother|C of Mrs. Young, Mr. Samuel A. N Lee was married to Miss Joyce Moser. The ceremony was per- fc formed by Rev. W. S. Goodwin, ,N of the Methodist church, and * was witnessed by members of * e :i~ ? - " - - ' * 1 " me luiiuiy aiiu a iew inencis o? the bridal couple. Immediately ' * after the marriage Mr. Lee and f his bride left for an auto trip of * several days to different points * in North Carolina, after which J they will be at home in this ' city. 3 Mrs. Lee is a daughter of Mrs. 3 T. G. Moser, of this city, and is a young woman w ho is admired ^ by a host of friends. Mr. Lee is ' a young business man of the d town and is also popular through- ^ out this section. ? Miss Mary Spratt came up n from Winthrop to spend the past a week-end at bar Jmwo bem U ?nwttHii i i Ytrk Ctnty News Mattens. | llorkville Enquirer. 1 A supplementary call for 5.610 nen for the signal and engineerng campa has been issued to reK>rt between May 1 and 9. South Carolina is to furnish 150 of these nen and York county is to furlish two from each of the local wards. The men are wanted >nly as laborers. The report of the referee in ;he Turkey Creek drainage case s in favor of the defendants on almost every point raised by the plaintiffs. The report will be submitted to the court of common pleas next week, and, if confirmed, it will be up to the plaintiffs to take their medicine [>r appeal to the supreme court. Unless the circuit court reverses the referee, there will be nothing to prevent the defendants foom going on with their proposition to ditch the creek. In its final presentment to the :ourt last Tuesday, the grand jury announced its committees as follows: County offices?R. M. Bratton, Brooks Inman. C. H. Sandifer. Chaingang?J.J. Hoke, | J. K. Scoggins, J. T. Walker. Jail?J. E. Thomus, J. E. McAlilly, J. M. Taylor. Public j schools? M. L. Smith, J. R. Duncan, C. L. Kennedy. County home?J. D. Hope, R. E. Love, R. M. Lindsay. During the week ending April 13, York county bought $2,058.75 worth of thrift stamps, raising the total of the county up to that time to $21,987.50. John Currence, colored, who lbout five vears ago was sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary for killing Jim Lindsay, also colored, has been paroled by Governor Manning. Lindsay, the negro killed by Currence, had been paroled by Governor Blease. Wash Harlowe, who was tried last week in his absence and convicted of violation of the prohibition law, was arrested Friday and turned over to the sheriff. Upon opening the sealed sentence that had been placed in his hands by the court, the clerk found that Harlowe had been scheduled for two years on the chaingang. Reports from different sect ions [>f the county, north, south, east I and west during- the nast. few i jays, are to the effect that the rains of Friday, Saturday and Sunday have done a tremendous amount of damage in washing up the freshly plowed lands. The water courses generally have been full, but up to this Lime there have been no reports af serious damage to any of the bridges. An act of the general assembly approved February 12, L918, requires a license of $25 a jay from all carnival aggregaLions or tented shows, other ;han circuses, for each day they jxhibit in any county, regardless >f such license as may be paid ; o corporate towns, the said icense to be collected by the :lerk of the court for each day j >r part of a day that the show jxhibits. Many from York to Attend. The State Sunday School As sociation will hold its annual; neeting in Greenwood, begin-! ling Wednesday, May 1st, and continuing through Friday, May ! Jrd. This promises to be one of he greatest conventions ever leld. All delegates will pay for heir entertainment in Greenvood. The homes of Greenwood vill be thrown open to the delegates at most reasonable rates. Many Sunday schools are paying he expenses of their delegates md it is hoped that many others vill do the same thing. Last year at Spartanburg York :ounty had the largest delegation xcept Spartanburg and Greenille. Among the prominent speakers from outside of the State vill be Marion Lawrence, of Chicago, general secretary of the nternational Sunday school as- j ociation; Dr. W. E. Chalmers, | Philadelphia, educational secreary of the American Baptist Publication Society; Dr. Geo. R. Stewart, pastor of the First Aethodist rhnrrh V* Aill lam, Ala.; Leon C. Palmer, ecretary of the Alahama Asociation. Letters have beer sent to all fork county Sunday school workers by R. C. Burts, presilent, and J. A. Barrett, secreary, urging that large delegaions be sent All those who xpect to go are requested to otify Kenneth Baker, Greenrood. though this is not Jtbsortaly aecesray, . 11 - t. NO REASON FOR HIGH PRICE OHMS Information For Dealers.Who Will Apply To The Food Administration. Columbia.?It there la in South Carolina any community whore prices of Irish potatoes have not decreased to a level which places this food within the reach of all. by reason of the fact that food dealers have not been able to secure potatoes at a wholesale price which will permit of selling them at lower retail prices, the Food Administration is In position to inform such dealers where potatoes can be secured at prices comparable with the surplus stock In South Carolina at the present time. A letter or postal addressed to the Food Administration at uoiumDia win bring this information to anyone inquiring. Potatoes are the most plentiful and economical food that consumers can buy at the present time. SOUTH CAROLINA BOYS ARE HELPING FEED THE WORLD I Splendid Work of Corn and Pig Club Beys Forms Big Contribution to Food Supply. Columbia.?The report of L. L. Baker, Supervising Agent of Boys' Club Work in South Carolina, recently made to Dr. W. W. Long, Director of Extension Work in this State, a copy of which has been received by the Food Administration, illustrates in a most forcible and convincing manner how farmer boys can, on their own responsibility, aid materially in the production and conservation of food at this critical time In the world's history when the crying demand of a hungry, fighting world is for more and more food. At the same time, the [ boys are earning money with which to buy Liberty Bonds, thus helping in ! a double-barreled manner to help win the war. Members of the Corn Club in South Carolina produced last year 26.813.21 bushels of corn at an average cost of forty cents a bushel, the average yield being flfty-three bushels to the acre. Figuring corn at $2.00 per bushel, whtch is conservative, the total net profit was $42,689.47. The total net profit resulting from the Boys' Pig Club in the State was $13,998.01. The total net profits of South Carolina farmer boys in these two projects for the year was $56,687.48. There Is an effort being made to more than double the membership of the Corn and Pig Clubs during present year. Last year there were 1056 boys enrolled in Corn Club Work, of whom, however, only 501 reported; and 1,250 boys enrolled in Pig Clubs, of whom only 856 reported. To assure the success of the Corn and Pig Club work in South Carolina, the co-operation, encouragement and support of the public-spirited citizens is necessary. For instance, last year a number of bankers in different parts n/ (h> Ql Vw 1 and In thin way thousands of dollara' worth of pure brad pigs were brought Into the State, very materially adding to the breeding stock of hogs. One of the greatest difficulties has been encountered in supplying the boys with pigs. This splendid work of the farmer boys of South Carolina has formed a big contribution to the food supply of the country, and it is a work which offers opportunity tor many public-spirited people to lend their aid. There will be more Pig Club boys this year if the pigs to supply them are offered?or the money with which to buy pigs?and L. L. Baker. Supervising Agent of Boys* Club Work. Bishopvllle, S. C.. who Is in charge of the work in this State, will be glad to hear from any <Me who will aid the farmer boys in their effort In greater production of food. Offers addressed to the Chairman Of Conservation of the Food Administration for South Carolina. Columbia, will be forwarded to Mr..Baker. WOULD BICOME CLAY CATER TO LICK THE KAISER Secretary McAdoo Says It Doeent M>?Ur U/hat People Eat Nowaday*. Columbia.?In the course of h*s address, launching the third Liberty Loan In South Carolina. William MrAdoo. Secretary of the Treasury. called attention In his Columbia speech to the great shortage of food, and said: "The greatest thing needed Is wheat. We are all eating strange breads composed of elements which a short time ago no American ever dreamed of. But what does It matter? For my part. I'd become a clay-eater to lick the kaiser. Save food. Save for our Allies. You won't save unless you'economise. Economize and you not only save food, but you also save money which you r.au put into the Liberty Loans and thus help win the war In two ways." PLANT SWEET POTATOES. Colnmhia.?As one way to assure a food supplv for next winter, the United States Food Administration Is urging tTia farmers of South Carolina to ptant generously and unsparingly o< sweet potatoes \ fElectric Bitters Made A New Wan Cf Hir;: "IwiiwlTerinfffrom pain la u>; stomach, bead aud back," writer i! i T. Alston, Raleigh, In'. f\, "nr. i n>? liver and kidneys did not work light, bat four bottles of Electric Hitter, made m feel like a new man. ' j fan Mere. at mix moq nones.' < < * > ? < > i * <> <; To keep the young m ] [ the fight at once. T1 < > * * ] > It Would ? that evert, ?????? < > And why not? It is up capital for the fut 2 case of need, it can b IThe best in the worlc K ^ End the War. I j FIR $> ATTENTION, DEMOCRATS. The Fort Mill Democratic Club is hereby called to meet at the town hall next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock for the- purpose of electing officers and a member of the County Executive Committee for the next two years; also, for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention, and for the transaction of any other business which may properly come before it. By order of the County Executive I Commiftee. .1. R. HAILE, President. Teachers' Examination. The regular Spring Examination of ; applicants for Teachers' Certificates will be held in the courthouse at York on Friday, May 3rd, beginning [ at 9 a. m. Applicants must be at least eighteen | years of age, must purpose to teach and should come provided with pencils, examination paper and lunch. Applicants coming in after the examination has begun will stand practically no chance to obtian a certificate. JOHN E. CARROLL, Supt. of Education. s <* <? * ? | Clifford De | OF NEW "! i At Winthrop C + Matinee and nigl Afternoon Mati i Two Perl "The Bishop's A Drama in One Act Ad , "Lee Misei "Doctor by 1 ;\ Famous come Evening a ? "The Roi | By R< Tor each performanci | General Admission, 50c. ! SAFl j SERVICE! 1 Safety and Strength are I have built up the Savings E our everyday business, in v ourselves, and which, we b< i.t. .* x De taicen to mean anything, ! SAFETY! SERVK f These are three elements Z consideration in the selectio . banking. You will find all | 4- Per Cent Pai The Savii i > * " V. k**' '' i ???1 1 *+-$+- * < **** *? ?*? +* <? THE .en of 19 or 20 out of the trenc bis requires money, of course be a proud boast for an I man and woman in it not a gift?it is an investment ure use of the bond buyer. T e sold quickly. These are r I. eep the young mer Buy a Bond Q Space do 1ST NATH Report of Public Works Commission for Quarter Ending Mch. 31. 1918 RECEIPTS. Balance on hand Jany. 1st $ 52.61 Bills Payable? Advances by the First National Bank 600.00 Sinking fund deposited by City of Fort Mill 375.00 Meter Rents 122.13 Total $1149.74 DISBURSEMENTS. Gen'l Fire Ex. Co., supplies $4911.45 Pittsburg Meter Co., meters 70.50 Mrs. Sue E. Spratt, rent . 50.00 Sou. Ry. Co., freight, supplies 46.61 Discount on advances 24.00 Sinking fund, First Nat'l Bank 187.50 Dray age 2.45 F. M Mfg, Co., pumping 25.04 S. L. Meacham, commission 6.89 Sinking fund, Savings Bank,... 187.50 Cash on hand 55.80 Total $1149.74 J. J. BA1LES, Attest: Treasurer W. A. ROACH, Clerk. Old newspapers for sale at The Times Office. | vereaux Co. f STORK CI.Y * College Auditorium ! it?APRIL 26TH. * inee, 3 o'clock? | formances: * r? ii ' ^aiiuicsiiciis, aptcd from Victor Hugo's | rabies," and ^ Compulsion," * dy by Moliere. ? t 8 o'clock: % 1) 4 mancers, $ jstand. | e?Matinee and Night: - - Reserved Seats, 75c. T I 4.4 .4 .4. 4 .4. 4 . 4.4. 4; 4 ;4 ; 4% V 5TY! ; STRENGTH! \ * 4 the prime factors which kink. Service is a part of ? vhich we especially pride elieve, if our growth may : is appreciated. :E! STRENGTH! * which should enter into i n of a place to do YOUR t three here. ? w id on Savings igs Bank. i * ^ ?????^^??????????^??g WAY :hes is to throw all the might of America into <? -MONEY. I y city or town to be able to say I 1 had subscribed to a Liberty bond t | I ;. It is putting money into a bank. It is storing he bond can be used for a loan at anv hnnV nr i? * , ? ? ? egular bonds of the United States Government. I i out of the trenches. I I uick. - - Any bank will help you. J I nated by J < > 3NAL BANK. j s t <s> The Best of Everything At the lowest possible price, is what we are trying to give our many customers, regardless of the soaring prices elsewhere. Everything guaranteed to give satisfaction. Everything in Eatables, such as Canned Vegetables, Canned Meats, Ketchup, Sauce, Coffees, Cereals, Pro- * duce. Syrup. Dessert Peaches, Dried Fruits, Etc.. besides a big line of 10c and 25c goods in our notion department, and a full line of Hardware, Tinware, etc. Phone us for quick service. Your patronage is aDnre Iciated. 1 Buy a Liberty Bond or work to pay interest to ? those who do buy. Bonds increase in value while you ' sleep. Greenbacks Don't. | j^^Carolin^Bargaii^louse^^l | :Good Groceries. I ^ * - ror a general stock of groceries i | of tested merit we believe that i 4 our store cannot be out-classed. | Our prices are always at the bottom ? and we are prepared to serve the $ | public with the best of everything in | our line. * $ t Phone us your wants. We are al- | | ways "on tne job." | I Parks Grocery Co., f 1 Phone 11? i Donkey's Laying Tonic Produces More Eggs. A Trial Will Convince You. Large Size Package, 25c. HUTCHINSON'S PHARMACY Agents for Norris' Candy.