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i ' 1 Li I I ==as=ggBBHgggg5gg? T1IE FOKT MILL TIMES f Democratic ? Published ThurodOTO. [ ? B. W. BRADFORD - Editor and PwwWtM onoiiraoM k&tm: On* Y?h $1.26 :1 Ml* Months 66 Tho Times invites contributions on live subject" i bat does not agree to publish more than 200 words | ot any subject. The right is reserved to edit rerv communication submitted for oubliestion. In soplicstion to the publisher, advertising r ?tei. * re msde known to those interested. r?l?nhone.localsnd longdistance. No. 112. i; Rntercd at the noetofflce at Port Mill. S. C..se mail matter of the second class. THURSDAY. MAY. 23. 1918. / u ? i Congress has made a hundred million people get up an hour parlier. but it has uot affected a single rooster. ] The market basket is an old and valued member of the com-, 1 mvnity, but it has only recently 1 taken its place in high society. ? Alcoholic spirits have taken ' a back seat. Patriotic spirit is j the national stimulent these ( days. j It's an ill wind that blows j nobody good. The draft that j wafted Grover Alexander awav from the Cubs has probably , supplied Uncle Sam with an excellent bomb thrower. ] | Steel and copper have each:; given up a magnate to war! I industries. But silver and gold 11 are paying for the war. i ,1 Gautemala has now joined the allies. Gautemala has a large supply of "shock" troops that would prove effective if we could get them over there. ________ < . | , A trip to Washington now-adays is a pleasure only to the millionaire. He can afford a hall bedroom, but the ordinary citizen is lucky if he can get a bathtub or a barber chair to sleep in. Switzerland reports that her ( neutrality has been violated 586 times since the war began. Which is patience and then some, the good Book itself only enjoining the practice of that virtue "seventy times seven" times. The requests that we conserve both wool and leather are puzzling to the feminine half of the population. Should skirts I be shorter and shoes higher? Or should shoes be shorter and skirts longer? What would the people who are concerned with morals say if the shoes were lower and skirts shorter? Pineville Banker Penalized. A voluntary contribution of $200 to the Pineville chapter of i. the Red Cross society will save J. E. M. Davenport, a bankerof that prosperous town, from indictment and prosecution from boa ding, says the Charlotte News. Mr. Davenport has sent, the food administration receipt from the Red Cross society lor the $200. It was shown at a recent hearing before George H. Humber of the food administration staff, and County Food Administrator Plummer Stewart at Charlotte, that Mr. Davenport had purchased in December 2,000 pounds : jA. ' 'of sugar. At the time of the' j . J investigation and hearing Mr. r\ _a 11 i i ? ? * I uavenpon sum naa on nana several hundred pounds of flour whicn he had retained alter County Food Administrator Stewart had given everybody in the county notice to return to dealers any quantities of sugar on hand above the quantities | allowed under lood administra| t ton rulings. Mr. Davenport b had relumed some flour but had retained several times the It was also in evidence that ^ Mr. Davenport had on hand about 150 pounds of sugar wherei as the quantity allowed to conP* sumers in town is only Ave < In addition to contributing < $200 to the Red Cross, Mr. ; Davenport has of course re- 1 l turned to his dealers the excess ] pf: quantities of Hour and sugar. < 1. retaining only 24 pounds of flour ? " v tad five pounds of sugar. I TGFTQpg*-' ^ S ' '; ' *"': ;v' ' ... ~~TTT TZ ~ I itn Muiy newt natters. | IXorkville Enquirer.) 'Supervisor Boyd said Wedneethat ho expected to begin work on the concrete road between Rock Hill and the Catawba river bridge next week. Already quite a large quantity of rock has been crushed, and other materials have been collected. Most of the work is to be done by the chaingang which is now about the only labor available. The Southern Railway's new steel bridge across the Catawba river below Catawba Junction, is nearing completion, and it looks now as if the bridge will be ready for use about the middle of June. The new bridge is to take the place of the temporary structure that has been in use since the destruction of the old bridge by the July, 1916, flood. Mr. J. S. Mackorell has received acknowledgment of the relief fund that was contributed by the people of Yorkville not long ago for the relief fund of destitute Armenians and Syrians. The fund amounted to $120. Mr. W. N. Jackson, of Clover, has about decided to build a potato house that will be capable of taking care of several thousand bushels of potatoes. Several of his neighbors have agreed to raise more potatoes than usual this year, and although Mr. Jackson does not consider that he has quite enough potatoes under promise to fill the proposed house he probably will go ahead with the undertaking. About a hundred No. 1 men will be called out by local board No. 2, to supply the call for some thirty-three or more to leave iuring the week beginning May 25. It is the purpose of the board to take all who may volunteer up to the required number, if there are so many volunteers. Should it happen that there are not sufficient volunteers to fill I he quota, the board will take th?* men according to order numbers with the exception of such as may be entitled to deterrence on account of agricultural activity. The distance between Detroit, Michigan, and Yorkville, South Carolina, is a little over thirteen hundred miles. This is according to Mr. S. L. Courteney, of the York Motor Car Co., who, with a party of friends, last week brought through a dozen c u s from Detroit and Cincincinnati. They went after the cars by rail and brought them back over the highway. The entire trip took just ten days, not quite four days going and a little over f >ur days coming back. The new election law calls for M ~ 1 i ! I 1 L 1* 1 1 AA an election uooui tor eacn iuu voters in incorporated towns. That will mean that there will have "to be ten or more booths at Rock Hill, six or more at Yorkville, five or more at Fort Mill, five or mote at Clover, one or more at McConnellsville,, two or three or more at Hickory Grove, two or more at Filbert, o ie or more at Smyrna. The Australian ballot law is to be used and every voter is to have the opportunity of casting his ballot absolutely without interference. Our Boys "Over There." Governor Manning has received a card from Col. P. K. McCully, commander of the 118th I infantry, formerly the First South Carolina infantry before thp National Armv war alized, notifying him that Col. McCully had arrived safely overseas. This indicates that the that the First regiment has now joined the expeditiony forces under General Pershing. The First South Carolina regiment was mobilized after the war and placed on duty guarding ralway bridges throughout the State. During last summer the regiment was transferred to Camp Sevier, Greenville, becoming a part of the Thirtieth division, federalized National Guard. Since that time the j men have been trained at the, Greenville camp for overseas duty. The old regiment was idled out to the new regulation by those who were inducted into the national army at Camp Jackson from the first draft. All forms and instructions are ! in the hands of district board No. 1, in connection with the registration of men who have become 21 since June 5, 1917. The registrars are to be appointed Saturday. There will be two places of registration in this district. Fort Mill and Rock Hill. It is estimated that about 10 per cent as many as registered on June 5. 1917, will qualify under the new law. % gMge' ^; ' , * '' '? 111 A V tfAII fllll I Wltti 11IU WH GO TO HELP: _I I 'How the Stay-at-Homes Can "Do Thoir Bit."?Hot j Asking Too Much. t Columbia.?From time to time ! the Food Administration has giv- . en the people of this State var- ' ious rules and regulations issued 1 by the authorities in Washington. 1 Just at this moment the chief drive is to conserve wheat. The i authorities in Washington are trying to make a voluntary sav- ] ing, but if the American people < do not respond, more drastic measures may have to be taken. The Food Administration has worked out the best plan after careful study and closdly watch- ' in? results, and have notified the food administrators throughout the country that they are re- ] quired to enforce as best they 1 can the following rules: i "First, householders to use not j to exceed a total of one and one- ( half pounds per week of wheat ( products per person. This means j not more than one and three- , fourths pounds of Victory Bread, containing the required percent- ' age of substitutes, and about J one-half pound cooking flour, < macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, i cakes, wheat, breakfast cereals I all combined. "Second, public eating places < and clubs to observe two wheat- ! less days per week, Monday and j Wednesday, as at present. In , addition thereto not to serve to , any one guest at any one meal an aggregate of breadstuffs, . macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals containing a total of more than two ounces of wheat flour. No wheat products to be served un- ; less especially ordered. Public eating establishments not to buy more than six pounds of wheat , products for each ninety meals i served, thus conforming with ; limitations requested of the householders." (<rrL 1 i-?1 i - n a a j mm, retauers to sen nor more than one-eighth of a bar- ' Tel of flour to any town customer at any one time and not more than one quarter of a barrel to 1 any country customer at any one time, and in no case to sell wheat products without the same of an < equal weight of other cereals. "Fourth, we ask the bakers | and grocers to reduce the volume of Victory Bread sold, by delivery of the three-quarter pound loaf where one pound was sold before, and corresponding proportions in other weights. We also ask bakers not to increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond sevent per cent of the average monthly amount purchased in the four months prior to March first. "Fifth, manufacturers using wheat, nroducta for non-fnort purnoses should cease such use entirely. "Sixth, there is no limit upon the use of other cereals, flours, and meals, corn, barley, buckwheat, potato flour, etc." FOR A FULL FOOD ACREAGE Columbia. ? Mr. David R. Coker, chairman of the South Carolina Council of Denfense, in his appeal to this State, states the importance of raising more foodstuff. Mr. Coker himself is a most splendid farmer and is in close touch with the national situation. and what he has to say is of the most importance. In his apDeal he says: "The food situation is increasingly serious. High cotton must not prevent a full food acreage. Many farmers do not intend to plant sufficient foodstuffs. These must be reached in these few days remaining: before planting is completed." Corn Bread Brigade! Enroll?At this hou- Join! Our men are fighting. They need the wheat? Sign up?No red tape? Simply I eat no wheat? i Aa for me and ay household. I I eat no whet?No rolls. No biscuits. No white bread Corn bread. Wholesome! Good. Palatable. Nourishing, You will soon like It better! Stand firm? It is little we cam do. I eat no wheat nntll victory, however dear, is won! Stand behind yeur Commander-inChief. The President needs you- mar., woman, boy, girl, Atteatten! FOR SALE. Corn, Peas, Baled Hay. also Hay in stacks. One large fresh Cow, or I will trade corn and peas and hay for yearlings or dry cattle. C. B. KIMBRELL. Route 15, Kendricks X Roads, Pineville. N. Cy Registered Hereford bull service. gBBBMSBR] ^ * 38 mupsgnHBHflB News of Gold Ull. r Thp hpnlth flf fVlio oanfinn !a I V ? vva vx W1II9 lO ?ood, I think. Mrs. Maye Epps and children, )f Darlington, are visiting in the home of S. L. Coltharpe. And yet it rains and crab trass will soon reign too. Those Port Mill preach ere that offered their services some time ago, may now slip into their overalls, irm themselves with goose-neck hoes, a dodger of cornbread and some buttermilk and run along and show their faith by their work and remember that this is no fried chicken affair. The prospect for a wheat crop has been blighted by the presence of rust on it. While riding around the past week we called on our old friend, W. E. KimbrelL While there his wife showed us the finest! I flock of chickens we have seen I this season, a lot of them good ripe. But there is one bird in this flock that deserves special mention. It was hatched out some three years ago and laid eggs and hatched several broods of chickens. But the past year it has donned the garb of a rooster by growing out long neck and tail feathers. A lady who had seen this chicken before we did said to us, "Uncle I believe it is ashamed." Well, it didn't blush any in my presence, but just went strutting off like any other barnyard rooster would do. Now if this chicken is not a monstrosity, a henosity, a rooster osity, or an itosity. why then is this not an oddosity. % Splinter. - i i _ Rupture Expert Here Seeley, World Famous in This Specialty; Called to Rock Hill F. H. Seeley of Chicago and Philadelphia, the noted truss exper twill personally be at the Carolina Hotel and will remain in Rock Hill Thursday. >nl.v, May. 80th. Mr. See'ey says: "The Sp rmatic Shield will not only retain any case of rupture perfectly, but contracts the opening in 10 days :>n the average case. This instrument receive!? the onlv award in England and in Spain, pnslucing results without surgery, injections, medical treatments i>r prescriptions. Mr. Seeley has documents from the United States Govern-! ment, Washington, D. C., for ins:niiptinn All I Mf/wv.w... ikil vuai IVJ taoco W III1UU L charge, or if any interested call, he will be gla" to show same without charge or fit them if desired. Business demands prevent stopping at any other place in this section. l\ S. ? Every statement in this notice has been verified before the Fedeial and State Courts. F. H. Seeley. | J|g|| AUDIT" Friday, M "HIGBEE, OF A Comedy-Drama in Thrt Benefit of Lt Doors open 8 p. m. Performance HH MAJESTIC The celebrated WILFRED "HAND A Red-blooded Play of Daring, in Fh Also a one 1 "SKIRT ST Beginning S. Our Big, N "The Woman i Featuring the noted star Hedda ] LThis is a Vitagraph Spec velous chapters. For g< daring feats, it is said Fighting Trailor the Woman." * J "I'm afraid You, a regular, i love your country, flag. Your heart t You're loyal? 100 You intend to?i M hurrv. "Sacrifice? Sure wait till they rea thought you meant But, look yourse down inside of your mean "sacrifice"? Listen: You feel prices, the income t you've given all yoi What? Then wh about loving your c "sacrifice" means? Surely you didn'1 can spare? What about our trenches? Are the How about those wrecked towns of sobbing, alone? G their fathers. While we, over hold up our heads ti what, some loose given all we can sp Come, Come! leam what "sacrifi< can spare?let us '* First National E. W.l I Wheat Our Flour Mill in Rock Hill is in operation six days in a week and we will be glad to do grinding for the farmers and others of Fort Mill township. Firstclass equipment and experienced millers guarantees you satisfactory results. Highest cash prices for Corn, shelled or on cob. Catawba Milling .Company, Rock Hill. S. C. drTLTM [ay 31st, HARVARD," ie Acts by Local Talent, cal School. 8:30, Admission, 10c and 15c. ( s UP," Adventure, Dash and /e bij? parts, reel Comedy, RATEGY." A.TURDAY, ew Serial, I in the Web," I s, Frank Glendon and I Nova. I lai aenai is imeeu marenuing andventure and |H to excel even "The -"Vengeance and Don't Miss It. [[ ) - that's all 1 can spare" ft * mm *ed-blooded, true-blue American. You I You love that flapping, snapping old / I humps hard when the troops tramp by. 1 per cent. ' | ^ou want to?-help win the war in a r," you've been thinking. "Just you lly need it." And you've honestly that, too. If in the eye, now, and search up and c ' heart, did you mean it? Did you really poor. This third Liberty Loan, the high ax, you've done your bit. You feel that 11 can spare. at did you mean? What's that you said iountry? What did you think the word t mean, did you, to give only what you boys who are giving their lives in the y giving only what they can "spare"? mothers and little "kiddies" in the shellthat war-swept hell:?hungry, ragged, riving up their homes, their husbands, here with our fun and our comforts, we ind feel patriotic because we have given bills off the top of our roll. "We've are!" Let s auit fooling ourselves. I ef ik 4 O " *WV ce" means. Let us give more than we give till the heart says stop." ^ [ Bank The Savings Bank Cimbrell & Company. t l iGood Groceries. | t i ! I I | For a general stoek of groceries | 1 of tested merit we believe that | our store cannot be out-classed. f | Our prices are always at the bottom and we are prepared to serve the public with the best of everything in t our line. f Phone us your wants. We are al- | - ways Mon the job." I ______ . | Cm m | Parks Grocery Co., | f Phone 116 t t t Meet Your Friends At Our Fountain. 1 Best Drinks, Best Service, and "coolest place in town" HUTCHINSON'S PHARMACY Agents for Norris' Candy.