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*\ ' j"? V' - ' Vu FORT jyMILL TIMES u. > .era tie- Pub hahed fhiwdtw. fi . > ilKADKORD - Editor tnd Proprietor omoRitTioN KATKB: One Your S1.26 i V Six Month" .BR I The Times uvites -ontrlbutioiiMon live tubjccts bat 4om not srree to publish more than 200 words an any subject. The right is rescrred to edit or* oommunicatioo ?ubmltted for oobilcmtWin. On triplication to the oablisher. advertising r M?s ere mn>'e known to those interested, fslenhmie. local >nd lone distance. No.112 THURSDAY. NOV. 20. 1919. Kill a Rat. From a disagreeable but compelling little book on "The Rat," published by the Public Health Service, the reader learns that t be rat population of the United States just about equals the human population. A big male rat for every man, a big female rat for every woman, a nest of little rats for every household of children. All ugly, nasty, destructive and disease-breeding. It costs nearly $2 a year to feed a rat. The food?good food, fit for human consumption ?eaten by these rats in a year is worth $180,000,000. The food they spoil in one way or another m?i \r I to wrrwi Y\ t ho n f hal I1IU.T ?? VI 111 IIIVM V l/IICAll lliuv. And this is no time to be lavish in the expenditure of food. Add to that the damage the rodents do in gnawing holes where no holes ought to be, in starting fires and in general devastation and defilement. Add the deadly diseases they carry and spread among other animals and among human beings, whose ultimate cost is impossible to estimate. The inevitable, unanimous conclusion is, "kill the rats!" If everybody kills one, they will be exterminated. ? Ex. Coal Situation is Serious. Closing down of numbers oi coal burning cotton mills and other manufacturing plants in the South within a few days was foreseen Tuesdav in an order of the regional coal committee of the railroad administration dis continuing the supplies of coal. The order, effective Tuesday, was announced as "imperatively necessary because of the failure of miners in the country's great coal producing: regions to return to work." although the soft coal strike has been cancelled. However, in order to supply the necessary needs of the country the coal committee has placed the live following industries on t}id preferrcd list: Class A - Railroads and inland and coastwise vessels. Class B?Army and navy, together with other departments of the federal government. This includes bituminous coal consumed by manufacturers or producers of supplies for depart meats of the federal government when such department officially approves the request. Class C ?State, municipal and county departments and institutions. Class D ?Public utilities, this includes the manuiaciure 01 newsprint paper lor daily newspaper use and the printing and publishing of same. Class E?Retailers (supplies for domestic consumers). Union Meeting a Failure. An abortive effort was made here Saturday night to organize a union among the operatives of tho two cotton mills, a meeting having been held in town hall at which addresses were made by Marvin L. Rich, of Charlotte, and George Fish, general manager of the mills. Near the conclusion of Mr. Fish's address a disturbance wa3 created by several men in the audience who appeared to he under the influence of whiskey, the lights were turned out, and matters looked squally for a time. However adjournment was made without further difficulty, but several personal encounters occurred on the streets later. There appears to be much opposition to the organization among the employees of the mills here which, so far. have' passed through all the past months without labor difficulties and which have been running on full time with every machine going for some time. The addresses of both Mr. Rich and Mr. Fish were very moderate in ; tone and there appears no warrant for the later troubleI except whiskey. Y?rk Has Textile Unlox. Speaking to a large number of textile woricera in the courthouse at York Friday night, Marvin L. Ritoh, attorney of Charlotte and textile union organiser, claimed that the good wages which the textile workers were receiving were the result of unionisn among the workers in Charlotte, Kannapolis and other towns in North Carolina, and said that the work would go on until every cotton mili community in the South was thoroughly organized, says a York dispatch of Friday. He denounced the farmers, who, he said, were inimical tc the best interests of the textile workers and in league with the mills' owners to fight the union organisation among mill workers, and charged that they had been "petted" too much and as a whole were a most selfish, grouchiest and dissatisfied class of people in the South. Declaring that he had lost his social standing among his brother lawyers because he had espoused the cause of textile unionism, and had also been ousted from his stewardship in the Methodist church in Charlotte, for the same reason, he said that it was novf being charged that he was a Bolshevik and an 1. W. VV., and he,said he did not know whether he was or not, because he knew nothing about those or gamzauons. Boll Weevil in Chester. The distressing news reached Chester Saturday afternoon thai the bo!! weevil had been found on the J. J. MeDaniel farm, about 12 miles from that city, 111 the Cornwell vicinity. One ol the nests was being shown or the streets Saturday afternoon. Earlier in the week the bol weevil was found in the Blackstock community below Cornwell. Made Airplane Flight. Friends in this section of Dr, R. E. Parks, of Lynchburg, Va., will be interested in the following item from Friday's Dail> Advance, of Lynchburg: "R. E. Parks accompanied Lieutenant N. C. Wright, win has been here making flights with passengers for several days, In 1 tu 11 I ? rn 1 ? jcotcruu} . 1II left Lynchburg at 12:45 o'clock and reached Danville at 1:20, s distance of about GO miles, ii 35 minutes. Before leaving b passenger with a camera took i number of "bird's eye views' of Lynchburg, and the plane flew so near the street on Wise, that a number of high schoo children started the report that it had actually landed there." AUCTIO William R.Ware, of L ear load of Good Hroke Kentucky Hon Mares a In Fort Saturday, D In the lot you will find som< Horses and mares, including a n ard bred and registered. No be Fort Mill, and we mean to sell e chance to buy one at your own i ders and everything put up will Don't miss it?S; I I MAJESTIC "Boys Will Be Boys," is an ! Come out TC JACK PI In Owen Johns* 'THE VJ You haven't forgotten when you licked half the scl the little girl over the way, night feed in the dor mi ton knocked on the door. Live again those days 1 "Varmint," and the "Tenn< | Coming 1 "The Sh ' Featuring the noi '' Eclipse of Sub bu 27. |fl On November 2Ti ear!, thelfl morning, there will be an eclipse ? of the sun. 6 It will be visible as a partial ( eclipse in every part of the coun- ( try except the Pacific coast. . ( Partial eclipse begins before ( sunrise east of ^the Rockies and ( reaching its maximum at sun- j rise "and ending at 8:50. Going t eastward over the United States, ] from Dallas, Texas, to St. Paul, -j Minn., the beginning of the j eclipse, its maximum. ancKend-. j ing, gets later every minute, un- C til at. Washington, D. C.. it fl , starts 7.35 a. m., reaches its { > maximum at 8:52, and ends at t i 10:21 a. m. ^ i All over this territory the f . eclipse is first seen as a dark 7 I notch in the sun's rim, which * ( grows larger as the eclipse comes to the maximum, when it covers " i nearly half of the sun. i Another Gift for Winthrop. d President D. B. Johnson of Winthrop college has announced the receipt of $5;000 from John p ID. Rockefeller, Jr., to be applied t to the building fund of the stu- ? dents' building, 'conditioned on f ' the securing of a similar sum'9 ' from other sources. Mr. Rocke- 1 feller some time ago gave $50,000 for this building, conditioned ! on a similar sum being added c thereto. The other $50,000 was < raised by the legislature provjd- * ing $15,000. The cost of build- c ing materials has advanced and 1 | the building cannot now be com- { pleted for the initial sum that > i was sontrht 1 ?=> I TAX NOTICE? 101 9-102O ! 1 x Office of the County Treasurer of York ' ' County. ( York, S. C. Vov. 7, 1919. I Notice is hereby given that the Tax i Hooks for York county will be opened on Saturday, the 15th day of Novem her 1918, and remain open unt il the 81st ' day of December, 1919. for the collec- ? tion of State, county, school and local taxis, for the fiscal year 1919, without . penalty; after which day a One per cent penalty will be added to all payi ments made in the month of January, . I 1920, and Two per cent penalty for ail | payments made in the month of Kebrur ary, 1920, and Seven per cent penalty will be added to all payments made from the 1st day of March, 1920, to I the 15th day of March, 1920, and after ) | this date all unpaid taxes will go into | executions and all unpaid Single Polls > will be turned over to the several Mag, istrates for prosecution in accordance \ \ with law. j All of the Hanks of the county will I | offer their accommodations and facil> I ities to Taxpayers who may desire to make use of the same, and 1 shall take 1 ! pleasure in giving prompt attention to I all correspondence on the subject. | All Taxpayers appearing at my office , | will receive prompt attention. Note?The Tax Hooks will be made ? up by Townships, and parties writing about Taxes will always expedite matters if they will piention the Township 1 or Townships in which their property . or properties are located. 'I HARRY E. NEIL, .Treasurer ot York Countv. N_SALE! ..i it ? ?? ? va.inii, ivy., win sell a 1 >es, Mules and t Auction Mill on ecember 22.: e extra crortd Knr.tuoky Driving < uinbv r of very fast horses, stand- < tter lot of livestock has come to : very one of them. This is your irice, as we will have no bv-bid- ) be sold REGARDLESS of PRICE. < lie starts 11a. m. _ZZ? THEATRE \ '< old and all too true saying. jjj * 1-DAY and see 1 IGKFORD | jn's Great Story, i URMINT' j your "sweetheart days," ^ 100I for laughing at you, and 4 or when you staged a midi and suddenly the teacker * with "Doc McNooder." the jsseShad." z MONDAY t e Wolfe," | ted Texas Guinon. * k. 9 See us. We * I Lee Tires, J. & | Firestone Tires, 1 I C Us B I YOUNG I AN ORDINANCE Be it ordained by the Mayor and Allermen of the town of Fort Mill, S. C, n council assembled and by authority if the same: Section 1. That a levy of ten mills in each and every dollar of real and tersonal property, not exempt from axation, held, owned or liable for taxition, within the corporate limits of he town of Fort Mill, S. C., on the irst day of January. 1919, be and the lame is hereby made for dhe following mrposes: For interest on bonds . 3J mills For sinking fund . . . 1J mills For ordinary ourooses Bi milla Sec. 2. That said taxes shall become lue and payable at the office of he Town Treasurer on the first day >f November, 1919. Said taxes maybe iaid up to and including the fifteenth lay of November, 1919. Thereafter ind up to the first day of January, 1920, a penalty of 15 per centum will ittach to said taxes not paid by November 15, 1919. Sec. 3. After the first day of Januiry, 1920, executions will issue against ill delinquents for the amount of the '.axes, penalty and costs, in accordance vith the laws of the State of South Carolina and the municipal ordinances. Done and ratified in council this 7th lay of October, 1919. B. E. PATTERSON. \ttest: Mayor. C. S. LINK. City Clerk. Electric the best t?ni(*' DfOiiPrmQ Mild * Laxative, OtirbAO Family Medicir-" SER_\ Our stock has been enlar are in position to supply your your entire satisfaction. We appreciate your busin appreciation bv carrying only Highest Class of Drugs. Our Prncprii>(ir\n O/mr , WV.. ? .VUVWHUWII GRADUATE LICENSED D who your doctor is, we can fit We are in business ? FOR YOUR SATISF FOR YOUR GOODW Lytlq Drui "The Rexall Store." f DOES Y i Automobile Ne | Dees it Need a I I ~ Covers, Cushions, I Have it done the | Pyramid P ROCK HI! JAS. A. JOHNSON, Mgr. + v< \ Tk. I D c nr ?i. u, [ > > Heavy and > > Fancy Groc< Hardware a General Fari Come to See The J. 6. Auto Til ure distributors in thi D. Tires, Diamond Racine [Horse Shoe 4 U buy Our fe WOLFE, rnRT Ml M> u II I IV11 "H< We want < have Fresli Made in our own in an HARRY | Specials Saturday. 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