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THURSDAY. MAY. 2. 1918.
We Must Win.
If we lose this war, my farm
* is ' not of the slightest consequence
to me/ says Governor
Lowden, of Illinois. I don't care
what becomes of it, for if I can't
hold it as an American citizen
f^ee from dictation of some superman,
some war lord, who
shall send me some lieutenant
or sergeant and tell me what to
do with it and tell me how much
of a crop I can put in my granary
and what I shall have to put into
the imperial coffers; if I must
hold it upon these terms, I don't
want it. I would rather have in
my heart merely the memory of
it in the good old. free happy
ninciiv.au uajro, wiicii cvci j man
who lived on his farm could
stand erect in the sight of God
and in the likeness of a man.
I would be happier with just
. the memory of it in my heart
than to hold it under the dominion,
of a firplitary despotism.
For this is a war not between
two nations jealous of one another's
territory perhaps, or jealous
of one another's prestige, but it
' is the final conflict between two
great principles that have been
engaged in conflict since the
dawn of time somewhere or another
on the face of the globe.
Now thfc forces on the one side
and the other are engaged all
the world round and when it is
over one# or the other of these
principles will be supreme everywhere.
Either the right of man
to govern himself, the right of
liberty to all the people will be
acknowledged everywhere, or
the cannon and sword will be
the only arbiters of events and
men.
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One of these fine davs the people
of Fort Mill will awaken to
the fact that the town is spending
enough money annuallv in
maintaining the present sanitary
arrangement to float a good, big
bond issue, and then ?we will
put in an up-to-date sewerage
system.
Indications are that within the
next few weeks York county
will have sent forward many additional
men to assist in putting
tne kibosh on the reign of the
Hohenzollerns. May they soon
plant the Stars and Stripes on
the Potsdam palace.
That Fort Mill is an tirderlv
town is proven by the fact that
not one cent of police fines were
collected during the first quarter
of this year. And this not
because the town was iniproper.
. ly policed, either.
Saturday is the last clay of th<>
Third Liberty loan campaign,
and if you haven'r. bouaht a
bond, or feel that you are able
'to buy more, go at once and
buy more. Your help is needed
in the present crisis.
A man must use his head if he
would get there with both feet.
Real Estate Transfers.
The following transfers ol
kFort Mill real estate have recently
been recorded in the office 01
the auditor of York county:
J. L. Spratt to John C. Spratt,
3 2-10 acres. Consideration $100.
W. E. Kimball to J. M. Mer
ritt, Mary B. Merritt and Jessie
Bell^ Merritt, 1 lot. Consideration,
$650.
C. W. McNealy to J. J. Bailes,
1 lot. Consideration $600.
Sue E. Spratt to ,Mattie E.
E Stevcne, 1 lot. Consideration,
W. P. Norman to E. R. Pati
tersorj, 2 lota. Consideration,
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York Coiaty News Natters.
I Xorkville Enquirer.)
There are quite a number of
people in Yorkville who refuse
to be convinced that that meteor
of Tuesday was not an airplane.
They insist that they heard the
noise of the propellers, and there
is one man in the courthouse
who says he saw a man and
woman in the airplane and heard
loud taking. There are others
who are convinced that a shrapnel
shell is the only solution to
the mysterv.
Mr. W. D. Wallace of No. 11
Yorkville, sold a hog Wednesday
for $97.60 and applied the pro- j
ceeds to a $100 Liberty bond, j
There is nothing remarkable of j
course, about a man like Mr. I
1 Wallace buying a Liberty bond
under existing conditions; but j
think of selling a single hog for i
$97.60! j
Messrs. W. H. Crook and j
J. H. Sutton, of Fort Mill, were
in Yorkville Wednesday trying
to secure an adjustment of the
damage to Philadelphia Methodist
church which was struck by
the heavy windstorm that passed
| through that section some
months ago and which was insured
in the Farmers' Mutual.
The following selected men
from Local Board No. 2 left for
I Camp Jackson on the Southern i
railway Friday morniner: Hucrh I
Carroll Robinson, Robert Ross!
i Brown, William Meek Faulkner,
Charlie Martin Dixon, Edgar
'Claude Hope, John Jackson
Thomasson, McElwee Monroe i
1 Stroup.
York county has roads and
i roads and some of them are very
rough and make very disagreeable
traveling, especially
in fast going automobiles, or
rather in automobiles that would
go fast if the roads would per-!
mit fast driving, but it might j
make us feel more comfortable i
10 know that all the bad roads j
, are not in York county. A trip j
, to Charlotte by way of Gastonia
and Belmont will prove to any i
one who takes such a trip that
Gaston and Mecklenburg counties
have roads that will contend
with York county for "had
road" honors. The best road,
however, between Yorkville and
Charlotte, is in North Carolina,
from the State line on through
; Gastonia, and east of that tow n
/? il ?--i _ to
lor nve or six nines. ine resi
of the way; well, it is just a
road.
In the Circuit Court at York j
last week the case of Miss Olive j
Perry vs. Mrs. M.S. Miller re-1
suited in a verdict for Mrs.!
Miller. In the case of Daniel
McKenzie, administrator, vs. the
Southern Railway and Holler and
Hailey, the jury found for the
plaintiff against Holler and \
Hailey the sum of $4,200 and
was unable to agree as to the
! liability of the Southern railroad.
I So far as the Southern railroad
was concerned, a mistrial was
ordered.
The sum of $124.70 was stolen
i from the ticket case at the!
j Southern passenger station yes-1
1 terday between 11 and 12 o'clock
during the absence of the agent, j
On the return of the agent from i
dinner he found the ticket case
, prized open and the money gone.
There is no clue to the thief.
Mr. McCurry says that included
in the stolen money th^re was
one twenty dollar bill which he
believes he could identify by
reason of its peculiar margin.
Use Care in Sending None?.
Relatives and friends of several
soldiers in armv camps have
been victimized by swindlers
who wired or wrote for funds
under soldiers' names. In each
instance it was requested that
monev be sent, hv u ire vvuivintr I
identification, or by mail to!
general delivery, the customary j
' explanation being that the sol-!
dier had been discharged and \
would have no way of securing
identification, nor of getting
mail addressed to his company.
The lollowing is a typical telejgram,
sent to the father of a
??uldier in a southern camp:
! "Have been discharged. Coming
home. Going to Atlanta
through country tonight. Please
wire me $60 at Atlanta so I may
pay for uniform and come home
direct. Wave identification as I
am not known in Atlanta. Wire
cash quick so I can get it tomorrow
morning."
Before being complied with,
any request for money to be
sent under such conditions should
be verified by a letter or telegram
to the commanding officer
of the camp in which the man
whose name is signed to the
request is stationed.
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POTATOES CHEAPEST
FOOD TOU CAN BUY
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FOOD ADMINISTRATION APPEALS
TO PEOPLE TO CONSUME SURPLUS
AND AVOID WASTE.
Columbia, 8. C.?In a letter sent
out by WllUam Elliott. Food Admin
lsu-aior ror south Carolina, to the re- <
tail grocers throughout the State, atN!;
tentlon is called to the big surplus In-,
Irish potatoes, and the retailers are '
urged to push their sales. The appeal
is made by the Pood Adminls- ,
tration to the people of the State that !
they eat more potatoes and consume
the big surplus during the next few
weeks in order that a tremendous
waste may be avoided.
There are in South Carolina at the
present time 40,000 hags of potatoes
in hands of the wholesalers and 10.000 ,
bags in the hands of the retailers. It
is estimated by the Federal Food Administration
that the surplus this year
over normal times is 110,000,000 bushels.
The new crop will be coming in
in a few weeks to add to this surplus.
"It woul dbe a crying shame in this
time of food shortage for this surplus
in potatoes to go to waste," says Mr.
Elliott in his letter to the retailers.
Farmers were last year urged to
plant big potato crops in order to relieve
the food situation, and did so
patriotically, and at present prices, j
says Mr. Elliott, IriHh potatoes are not ,
only the most plentiful food, but they j
are the cheanest fond thnt nonaum?.? I
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can buy.
Wholesalers at different points in i
the State are selling potatoes at from
on* dollar to two dollars a bag less
than they cost them.
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WHOLE TEXAS COUNTY
QUITS EATING WHEAT
Will Usa No More Wheat Flour Until
After Next Harvest in Grimes
County, Texas.
Columbia*?The F>ood Administration
has received advices and assur
ance from the citizens of Grimes county.
Tey that no wheat Hour will be
used by aem until the next harvest.
In Grimes county every day will be
a wheatless day until the next crop
cones in.
In the name fine spirit of patriotism
with which the citizens of this Texas
county refrain from eating wheat
bread in order that the American soldiers
of the Allies and the people of
war-stricken Europe may be fed. they
have turned over to the government at
cost, one car of wheat flour* and will
deliver others now in transit. These j
cars are being diverted to an Atlantic
port for immediate shipment to the
Allies.
The food situation is still far from
being satisfactory. The most urgent
need now In Europe is for wheat.
News dispatches received from Italy, |
indicating that a powerful offensive
Is about to he begun by the Austrians
who have received great quantities of
supplies from Russia, says that the
Italians are in desperate need of food, j
and that only about one-third of the j
Italian army of 3,000.000 men is being
maintained on the battle lino, the of
flclal explanation being that there 1?
Insufficient food to provide for the
remainder.
HOW A RURAL SCHOOL 13
FIGHTING THE KAISEF? .
Whole Community Awakened to a
War Consciousness by the Bethea
Rural School.
Columbia.?How effectively a rural
school can fight the Kaiser and make
its Influence felt throughout a community.
awakening the people to a war
consciousness and to a sense of their
responsibility in the present crisis,
has been strikingly demonstrated by
the Bethea schoolh In Aiken county,
reports of which haTe been received
by the Food Administration.
Food production and conservation
have been so Impressed upon the peopie
of the Bethea community, through
the medium of the school?the children
carrying the gospel home to their ,
parents?and the night school, which
lsv attended by many adults, that in
response to the crying need of the
allied world for food, sixty-one acres
have been sown in wheat this spring
as against only tan acres last year.
This is only one of the several
achievement of Bathea school In war
work. Bethea Is a two-teacher school
five miles west of Wagener. The |
young women who preside over the
school are Misses Mary Eva Hite and
Myrtle Burke; and they have,.in addi
tlon to their regular duties, devoted
time, effort and careful thought to
helping the people of the community
to do their utmost in helping win the
war.
A plot of land adjoining the aehoo!
ground has been secured for a War
Service Garden, which is given a? j
much attention as any other part of
lha school work. A Junior Red Cros.-- 1
organization has been perfected with
a membership of thirty-three?ol!
school children. All community work
was directed to Red Cross work last
Tail at the beginning of the school
eras, and practically every home In
'he community has turned In some o'
the two hundred and sixty-eight articles
that have been finished
If there Is In the State another rur>'
school that can give a more practice'
"temple 'ef the fighting spirit, the
" ood Administration would be glad to
hwr of Its achievement.
"Electric
Bitters ;
Made A Now Mart Of H i
"I waa suffering itoia paui iu
ntomach, bead aud back," unites It
T. Alston, Rulel-h, N. rn ?.-r n
liver andkldncyc did not wort? ;;i<;
but four bottlaa of Electric i": Alert
made me feel like a new loan." .
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End the War.
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School Trutter*. <
The District School Trustees of the
county are hereby summoned to attend
a conference to be held in the court
houeh at York on Saturday, May 4th,
at 10:80 a. m.
The situation now confronting the .
public schools as a result of the war is 1
one that requires prompt and energetic .
action. A full attendance is necessary '
to a satisfactory solution of the prob- 1
lems involved. (
JOHN E. CARROLL,
Supt. of Education. <
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Teachers' Examination. '
The regular Spring Examination of <
applicants for Tetchers' Certificates
will be held in the courthonso ?t
York on Friday, May 3id, beginning
at !> 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 I
chance to obtian a certificate. I
JOHN E. CARROLL,
Supt. of Education.
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SAFETY! SERV1C
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T consideration in the selectior
banking. You will find all t
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n of 19 or 20 out of the trencb
is requires money, of course?
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man and woman in it
ot a gift?it is an investment,
ire use of the bond buyer. Tl
sold quickly. These arc re
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Buy a Bond Qi
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Wheat
Our Flour Mill in Rock Hill is!
n operation six days in a week
ind we will be jrlad to do prindi
lll>" for f"ho fni-mprc oml nt liuvc
if Fort Mill township. First- i
dass equipment and experienced j
millers guarantees you satisfac-.
Lory results.
Highest cash prices for Corn,
shelled or on cob.
Catawba Milling Company,
Hock Hill. S. C. j
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DR. A. l_. OTT , |
Df: NTIST
Office hours, S a. m. to f> p. m.
(Dr. Spratt's office)
Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C.
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the prime factors which
ink. Service is a part of ?
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is appreciated. ?
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which should enter into
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MONEY. |
/ city or town to be able to say *
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had subscribed to a Liberty bond \
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It is putting money into a bank. It is storing
ic bond can be used for n loan at any bank, or* in *
gular bonds of the United States Government.
out of the trenches. f
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I At the lowest possible price, is what we are trying1 to I
give our many customers, regardless of the soaring prices t
elsewhere. Everything guaranteed to give satisfaction.' |
Everything in Eatables, seol^ as Canned Vegetables, ^
Canned Meats. Ketchup, Sauce, Coffees, Cereals, Pro- ?
duce. Syrup, Dessert Peaches, Dried Fruits. Etc , be- ^
sides a big line of 10c and 25c goods in our notion depart- H
ment. and a full line of Hardware, Tinware, etc. ^
Phone us for quick service. Your patronage is appre- fl
Buy a Liberty Bond or work to pay interest to |
those who do buy. Bonds increase in value while you |
sleep. Greenbacks Don't. ?
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Our prices are always at the bottom
and we are prepared to serve the
f public with the best of everything in
our line. *
Phone us your wants. We are al- wavs
"on the job." t
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A Trial Will Convince You. I
Large Size Package, 25c.
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Agents for Norris' Candy.
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