ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST
Miss Nell Ligon. of Shelby. \
N. C.? is visiting relatives in r
Fort Mill. i
Miss Margaret Fewell, of Rock (
Hill, was a guest this week of (
Miss Bernice Mills in this city. f
Miss Robbie Snratt who has t
been teaching in the public r
schools of Batesburg, is at home t
for the summer.
Miss Isabel Grier is at home *
for the holidays after teaching
during the past term in Albe- *
N. C. v. ' I1
Mrs. Marian McKenzie, of r
Rock Hill, was a guest during fc
the past week of Mr. and Mrs. t
G. W. McKenzie. f
Alfred Jones is at home for *
the holidays after attendance s
during the past term at the *
Presbyterian college at Clinton, a
The Rev. and Mrs. B. D. *
Green of Kershaw, were guests j,
during the past week of Mr. j
and Mrs. J. M. Hutchinson in ^
this city. s
In a game of baseball Satur- t
day afternoon between the local a
team and a team from the High- c
land Park mills of Rock Hill, <
the former won by a score of j
13 to 4. t
Fort Mill people generally will j.
be interested to know that Capt. f
James D. Fuln has cabled from
Oxford, England, his acceptance r
of the position of superintend- v
ent of the Abbeville schools for t
the next term. y
Thomas Harris, 11-year-old son c
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Har- ci
ris, suffered a double fracture (J
to his right arm Tuesday eve- c
nlng while attempting to r
"crank" an automobile. t
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Quite a number of Fort Mill f
people attended commencement
exercises at Winthrop college t
during Sunday, Monday and t
Tuesday of this week. s
Miss Violet Culp, for a num- 1
ber of years employed in the s
"central office of the local tele- k
phone company, has accepted a k
similar place with the Rock Hill r
Telephone company. 1
At 4 o'clock next Sunday ^
afternoon memorial services will
be held in the Baptist church in
honor of Sergeant Eli Bailes who t
was killed in action on the battle
fields of France October 8, 11)18. j
B. M. Bradford, who has for 1
some time been employed in the 1
. grocery and market of B. C, k
Ferguson in this city, has ac- "a
cepted a position in the general k
merchandise store of W. L. i
Yandle at Pineville. I
According to the schedule of [
thu Pfltu UltlO RaaaKnll 1 anmm
waaw vmwm ?r n/u uunv^ucil I JU\ ?^ ^
the Fort Mill team will meet the
team from Great Falls on the j
local diamond next Saturday.
The game will be called at t
8:30 o'clock and the public is
invited to witness the contest. ^
Mrs. Mary Jones, of this city, i
on Tuesday received a telegram \
announcing the safe arrival in s
New York of her husband,
Privutc John E. Jones. Mr. i
Jones left the States more than 1
a year ago with the Eighty-first c
division. National army, for t
overseas duty. He expects to 1
receive his discharge within a i
few days and return to his home t
here. i
Mrs. Delia Norman, wife of |
W. P. Norman, of the Pleasant
Valley section, died at her home
Monday night after an illness of
several months. The funeral ^
service was held yesterday after- s
noon at Pleasant Hill Methodist t
church. Mrs. Norman was 57 i
years of age and had resided ^
with her family in Pleasant J
Valley for about 30 years. Be- i
sides her husband she is survived 1
by several sons and daughters. J
John T. Spratt Dead.
Mrs. Jennie B. Spratt re- j
turned the latter part of last '
week from Cordele, Ga., where i
she was hastily called on account s
of the serious illness of her son, J
John Thornwell Spratt, who died >
Friday May 20th.
Mr. Spratt was the only son
of Mrs. Spratt and was in the
29th year of his age. He was
born in Fort Mill and lived here
until about 12 years ago. On
October 5, 1914, he was married
to Miss Annie Belle Rutland of
Cordele, Ga., who with two
small children survive him. He
is survived also by four sisters.
Misses Robbie, Bess, Margaret
and Mary Spratt. The family
have the deepest sympathy of
the entire community in this
unusually sad ending of a young
w> offor fit* term of oar yiaJ
Train Strikes Auto, Killing Two.
Citizens of Fort Mill and vicinity
were shocked Thursday af
?rnoon to learn of the tragic
leath at Catawba Junction oi
ourtun H. Jamwey, lii? year-old
laughter, and the serious injury
>f his wife and six-year-old stepson,
when the automobile in
vhich they were traveling was
un down and demolished by
i northbound Seaboard Air Line
reight train.
The Rock Hill Herald of Friday
>ad this to say of the accident:
Mr. Massey was returning to
lock Hill from Marion county
vhen the accident occurred. The
toad leading from Cureton's fer
y to this city crosses the Seaward
railway a few yards from
he point where the Seaboard
>asses under the Southern Railvay
tracks. The high concrete
lupports and a deep cut shuts off
he view of the Seaboard tracks
ilmost entirely. Mr. Massey evdently
realized that the train
vas approaching a few seconds
>efore he reached the crossing,
lowover, and attempted to stop
lis car, as an examination of the
eene of the tragedy revealed
he fact that the autombile had
kidded 50 feet before the train
rashed into it. The cow-catcher
>f the freight caught the car
ust as it crossed the track,
hrowing Mrs. Massey down a
teep embankment and hurling
he older child several hundred
eet away. The automobile was
[ragged down the track anproxinately
500 yards before the train
vas brought to a stop and was a
angled mass of iron. . Mr. Masey
was not thrown from the
ar until it had been carried
[own the track over two hunIred
yards. The infant was
aught in the wrecked car and
emained there until rescued by
rainmen. Mrs. Massey suffered
i broken leg and arm and interntl
iniurit'S.
Catawba is nine miles from
his city, and physicians rushed
o the scene of the accident as
:oon as the news was received
lere. Mr. Massey was still eoncious
when medical aid reached
dm, hut died before he could
>e removed to the hospital. He
ealized that death had called
dm and asked the physicians to
:ease their efforts in his behalf
ind give their attention to his
vife and children.
Mrs. Massey when hurled from
he car struck an iron stake,
vhich cut an ugly gash in her
imb. A Rash was also cut in
ler forehead and her spine was
>adly injured, as an examination
>y the physicians revealed. She
ind the two children were
irought to Fennell's Infirmary
n this city. An operation was
lerfonm-d last night in an atempt
to save Mrs.* Massey's
ife, and today her recovery is
rery doubtful. The infant
>assed away at the hospital durng
the early part of the nixht.
. The freight train which struck
he automobile was going north
>n the Seaboard. it was a long
reight, carrying 41 cars, making
a. a:i\i ? i*? -
l uimuuit iur me engineer,
iV. D. Ferguson, of Abbeville, l?>
itop the train quickly.
Mr. Massey was one of the
nost prominent citizens of Kock
dill. He was a contractor,
loing road construction and
grading, and was also a farmer,
ie was returning yesterday
ifternoon from inspecting a road
construction job in Marion county
vhen he met his death. The
grading at Camp Jackson, Colimbia,
was done by his firm.
Will Teach Agriculture.
At a recent meeting of the
)oard of trustees of Fort Mill
tchool district, it was decided to
tdd an agricultural course which
will be in charge of an expert
vho will give his entire time to
die work at a salary of $1,5(KJ
3er year. The meeting was atended
by John R. Carroll,
county superintendent of education,
and Prof. J. R. Peterson,
)f Clemson College, the latter
Dresenting the proposition for
che consideration of the board.
The school board is considering
ilso the adoption of a domestic
science course and has already
;he betfinninp: of a manual trainnt?
school.
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Crop Coalition Report
The agricultural department's
- first cotton condition Be port of
: the season, issued Monday mornf
ing, was awaited with keen inl
terest by the cotton industry as
' an authoritativeendication of the
prospects of this year's crop.
i rnvate estimates or the concti\
tioii have ranged from 72.3 to
77.6 per cent of a normal, with
' the majority from 75 5 per cent
upward. The government's report
placed the condition of the
crop on May 25 at 7&.6 per cent.
> The condition of the crop last
year on May 25 was 82.3 per
i per cent of a normal, while in
1917 it was 69.5 and in 1916 it
was 77.5. The ten-year May 25
average condition is 79.2.
No estimate of the acreage
planted will be made by the department
of agriculture until the
July report, The acreage figures j
have been the source of much
speculation, in view of the ef-.
forts throughout the South for a ,
i reduction of the plantings. Un-,
official estimates of the planted
area have placed the reduction :
i around 10 and 12 per cent of last j
year's acreage, which in round |
numbers was 37,000,000 acres.
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Children Must Attend School.
Miss Belva Sanders, recently!
chosen by the county hoard of
education as one of the two attendance
officers prescribed for
York county under the provisions
of the educational act passed
at the last session of the general
assembly, went to work in the
office of the superintendent of
education Monday morning, says
The Enquirer.
The principal duty of the attendance
officer?the basic purpose
for which the office was es
tablished ?is to look after the
complete observance of the compulsory
attendance law. These
officers will collect, information
of all children of school age,
both while and colored; and see
to it that they attend school during
the period specified in the
jaw or know the reason why.
New Hotel for Rock Hill.
The citizens of Rock Ili;l have
subscribed $33,000 in stock of
the hotel company which is being
organized there. This sum
will be doubled by means of a
loan through the Mechanics
Building and Loan association,
making the total amount available
for investment iti a new
hotel building approximately
$65,000. Subsetiptions to the
stock of the proposed company
have been solicited voluntarily
by members of the Rotary club.
A meeting of the stock subscribers
and other interested
citizens was held at the Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday night
and a hoard of corporators.
composed of J. B. Creirrhton,
Majestic Tomorrow
Mary Pickford
"Hulda From Holland,"
A riinliuotiniT atnrv fi{ 11 aiuant
little Dutch lassie who. without
her consent, was used as a pawn
in the game of frenzied finance
and who, by the use of nimble
wit, became the queen of the
frenzied financier's.
ILE PAINTING
NEED PAINTING?
ith a Poor Job of Painting,
H
tson Do It >
Bridge. Rock Hill, S. C. 3
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M Who Want the Best. 5
JAS. A. JOHNSON, Mgr.
Dr. W. G. Stevens, R. E. Barron,
DeWitt Johnson and O. K. Williams
was appointed to apply
for commission as a corporation.
The board of corporators, having
been authorised to take such
action, met Wednesday morning
and decided that the corporation
shall be called the "City Investment
company" and that it shall 1
be capitalized at $65,000. An j
application for commission as a j
corporation was forwarded to
the secretary of state at CoJ,um- \
bia Wednesday afternoon. As (
soon as this commission has |
been granted a second meeting i
of the stock subscribers will be
called to select a suitable site
for the hotel.
FOR SALE?One young Jersey Milk j
30W with first calf. Kind and gentle
s- ith good qualities. Price reasonable.
Apply quick to Alexander Barber.
W1NTHR0P COLLEGE
SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE
EXAMINATION.
The examination for the award of
vacant scholarships in Winthrop College
and for the admission of new students
will be held at the County Court
House on Friday, July 4th, at 9 a. m.,
and also on Saturday, July Sth, at 9 a.
m., for those who wish to make up by
examinations additional units required
for full admission to the Freshmen
Class of this institution. The examination
on Saturday, July .r>th, will be
used only for making admission units.
The scholarships will be awarded upon
the examination held on Friday. July
ith. Applicants must not be less than
sixteen years of age. When scholar J
ships are vacant after July 4th. they
will be awarded to those making the
highest average at this examination,
provided they meet the conditions governing
the award. Applicants for
scholarships should write to President
Johnson for scholarship examination
blanks. These blanks, properly filled
out by the applicant, should be filed
with President Johnson by July 1st.
Scholarships are worth $100 and free
tuition. The next session will open on
September 17, 1919. For further information
and catalogue, address President
D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C.
_ Old newspapers for sale at The i
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DtNTIST
Oflice hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
(I)r. Sprutt's office)
Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C.
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- rest street, the J. A. Boyd property. Lot contains an &
t acre and is a bargain at the price asked. *
| Five-room cottape on Booth street, the property of f
Hon. J. R. Haile. This nronertv is verv near Main ^
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" I have a number of other bargains in Fort Mill real ?
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