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THE TOM MILL TUCKS j" B. #. BKADVOfcD . MttwudPrwrirtot ?? ? uoaimon Katm: t On# Year ILK , Hlx Month* W J Tha Tirana i nyttaaaontrfbattona on liraaobjoeta ' batdoaanotacroo to pabUah mare than SOOwarda , . ai any aubjaet. Tha rifht la raaarrad to adit J oommunlcatlon anbmlttod far pablleation. { On application to tha pabliahar. advartialns j r ?taa aro made known to thoaalntoraatad. roteDhtfne.localand loar distance. No.Ill Cntarad at tha ooatoAaa at Fort Mill. S. C.. aa mall matter of tha aacond claaa. ? -- " , ^ THURSDAY. DEC. 18. 1919. t No Paper Next Week. t In order that "the force" may I have opportunity to Hean up c shop and take a short vacation, i there will be no issue of The I Times sent out on December 25. The next issue of the paper will! y go out ko subscribers on Thurs- , day, January 1, 192i. | * No Restaictions on Coal. j j ?cders have been received by r local fu^l administrators rt&m * the Southern regional coal com- I mittee announcing the complete f restoration of hours of'opcration and business of industries, stores, office buildings imposed c by fuel corservation Regulations r . >;,jvj announced November 24. These j * . i regulations ik|*e been suspended until further notice permitting ' ^ the supplying of coal freely to ' the first five groups of the coal \ administrations preference list , and except under light restrictions to classes six and seven. The telegram announces the prompt delivery in accord- ] ance with the original billings 1 of all coal on wheels which may J be loaded at the mines consigned to consumers in the first five ' classes and the early movement ( and delivery of coal to con- 1 8umer9 in the sixth and seventh ' classes of the preference list to 1 as large an extent as each line ' can make the delivery without jeopardizing the supply for the more preferred groups. Opportunity has been given for the movement from the mines, the order says, and prompt placement for unloading is asked. Consumers in classes six and seven are to be given preference over the first five !?- $? groups when the preferred classes have fuel in amounts greatly in excess of their im? 4 mediate demands or when coal originally intended for consumers in classes six and seven mav have been diverted.^. Johnson a Presidetial Candidate. Qonafni> Hifow W uvuubvi Aiiiaiu If . Ul/IJUdUll? til California, has made formal an- ! noiincement of his candidacy for the Republican nomination for j the presidency. ^ The senator said ha would t make a personal campaign in ? every State, explaining that he ? did not intend to have his can- L didaey determined by "poli- s ticians in convention." p The plan of Senator Johnson. 0 who formerly was governor ol p ^ California, and ran as the vice v presidential candidate with, *~Theo3ore Roosevelt on the progressive ticket in 1912, and is a ???? -* *- - yji uiiiniciii. icciuer ui me pro* P gressive group of republicans in y the senate, is unique in that he t proposes, he said, to make a is direct appeal to the electorate in c each State, whether their choice 'I of a candidate is made by con- e vention or primary. e The State Soldiers' Memorial. tl # Announcement was made the b last week by the South Carolina *( memorial commission, created by | the legislature for the purpose of J erecting a memorial to the men of the State who made the supreme sacrifice in the late world war, that the memorial that is to be erected in Columbia is to be in the form of an auditorium. It will be used for State gatherings of all kinds. In addition to the auditorium itself, there will be also places for relics and records of the world war. Announce. ment is also made that the drive for funds for the erection of the ^HHj^^memorial will continue through ^^^^ttfune 1, 1920. the time having extended at a meeting ot I fte memorial commission in CoH^^^^Hmbia. j^^Hj^BPostmaaters of South Carolina Jhjwi b#pa*i th e I postoffiee department is provided with ample funds for the pav ment of claims for indemnity for the loss of registered mail, inHH|^surod and C. O. D. parcels, despite statement to the contrary ft0*** some cities in the State. ? I mw :ra Ytrk Couty News Natters. (koncville Enquirer.) Tom Roach, colored farmer^ ias purchased from Pexry Fe?> ruson a tract of land in the JS :inity of Nanny;B Mountaiiyftoalisting of about 125 acres/ The >urchase price was $2,200^ Trustees of the Sutton Springs tchool district have recently sold ;he old Sutton Spring school louse to the colored Baptist church of that section. The purchase price was $1,200. It is proposed to build a new school louse in the district in the near 'uture in another location. An organized effort to secure idditional memberships in the fork county cotton association hrough a newspaper advertising :ampaign and personal solicitaion during January or February ias been decided upon by offi:ial8 of the association, accordng to chairman J. B. Johnson of look Hill R. T. Beamguard slaughtered lis big hog Thursday. It came ully up to expectations, weighng 823 pounds gross and 750 let. It was a l)uroe-Jersey and Ifteen months old. About two *}ontfcs ago the fat began to covirTC^fcves, and since then it has >een ircessary to guide it to its ?eed tro?h. That the . eighteen Baptist shurches of York county will lot be able to raise their apportionment of $107,917 to the Baptist $75,000,000 campaign; put will raise approximately 595,000 by the time all the figires are in was the statement of Rev. O. L. Jones of Clover, fork county campaign organizer, vhen asked about the matter. The merging of the First National bank of York, founded if 1903 and one of the strongest inancial institutions of western fork, with the recently estabishment Peoples Bank and Trust company has been advised by :he former institution and will ,ake place as soon as the recomnendation has been approved pv its stockholders. Real Estate High in Rock Hill. The auction sale of the Barber property, corner Main and Hamp ton streets, Thursday morning wag attended by a large crowd ?nd the bidding was evidence of h.he fact that Main street property is in demand. The price 'anged from $503 a front foot for the corner lot to $39G a front foot for the third lot. The sale totalled $53,903.40, including the louse. The corner lot was bid n by B. J. Whit e, attorney, rho hid $503 per foot. Befoie ,he remainder of the lots had >een sold Mr. White was offered t neat profit for his holding, it is tnderstood. Lot No. 4 was sold lecond. this carrying a half nterest, in the wall on the sastern side. This went to the )ieh!-Moore Shoe company for 1455 a foot. Lot two was soid to he Rock Hill Supply company or $396 a foot, while the lot etween this and that bought by he Diehl-Moore company, was ?ld to the Calhoun Drug company for $411 a foot. The home i tiic was DOUpMl L>y t. T. Fewell for $525 and the ^ood house went to J. F. VViliams-far $26. Increase in the total taxable roperty of the State this year ear amounted to more than wenty-six million dollars. This i due largely to the Slate tax ommission in placing merchanise on the tax books on the qualization basis. The inrease in the taxable values of lerehandise amounted to more han twenty million dollars, Flic axable values in York county or 1919 are $106,244 07. MAJESTIC TO-DAY - TOJACK Pi And LOUIS "The Gh< From the book by Remember the night j house? Scared weren't you' Anyway, let's go back to th< and I were "kids." See thi: the Majestic TO-DAY, and 1 4. Plenty of Goo Christmas I At The Majestic ,4*. D. Cimum. the newly ap- C p?nted Yepresentative of the % regional coal committee for C South f?&rmina, states that while ^ the coal situation continues to ? improve, practically all re- 7 atrietions having been removed, 7 be desires to urge the continued 7 economy in the use of coal. !j Kit is a known fact throughout ; the State that coal dealers have J only a limited supply on hand, V if any, and there is no guarantee V that there will not be a repe- C tition of what was experienced ( in the winter of 1917. He esti- t mates that conditions will not ( reach near normal until all coal ^ equipment now in the Southeast f is released, sent to the mines, * and returned under load. On * account of the approaching holidays and the congested con- * I : unions ot the railroads, he tig- ures thi* will take iron: 15 to 20 days. Wheat Acreage Reduced. Winter wheat acreage this fall shows a heavy decrease, compared with that planted a year ago, the department of agri- 1 culture's first estimate of the area, issued Monday, placing it at 38,770.000 acres, which is 11,719.000 acres, or 23.2 per 'v cent less than 1918 sowings, o Last year's acreage was a record ? one in response to government n requests and because of the d guaranteed price for wheat. n This year's acreage, however, ( is the fourth largest ever plant- ? .1 r R ed. p No estimate of winter wheat production is made by the gov- n , eminent until spring, but the a condition of the crop on Decern- f her 1 was four points lower than t( the ten-year average and 13 t points below last year's Decen.- f | ber 1 condition, being 35.2 per j i cent of 11 normal. , ? ^ Popular Couple in Photoplay. The Majestic Theatre today of: fees Jack l'ickford and Louise i I Hull, the most popular boy and \ Igirl combination appearing on the screen, in the delightful fivepart picture, "The Ghost ftouse" from tin? story by Beulah Rlarie c l)ix. The story takes one back to the old days, when, as a hoy or girl. the old colored "mammy" recited the hair-raising stories of I the ha'nted cabin on the place where the spooks came out at night and oaraded up and down the road and not a soul would venture out after 10 o'clock. It is a play brim full of mystery and fun and a ill he enjoved by bot h old and young. - Adv. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Annui.l Meeting to be Held on Thur*? day, January 8, 1920. Pursuant to Statute, notice is hereby tfiven to uhi.ni it may concern, that the Annua 1 M eeling of the County | j Board of (.? mmissionera of York Coun- * ty, will he held in the nffice of the \ County Supervisor in the courthouse on j 'lhursday, January 8th, 1920, commenc- ; ing ut 10 o'clock a. m. i Under Section 993 of the Civil Code, aii claTli.a apamst the county not pre- * vjou.sly prt st nted. must be filed with j the ( it rk of the Board on or before t January 1, 1920. and holder* of rinio.o ^ will tak?- notice that if the same arc < not j.resented and filed during the year in which they are contracted, or the * year following, such claims will be for- < ever barred. All claims against York county must be itemized, and they must be uccom- < I anied by affidavits of the claimants setting forth that the several amounts claimed are just, true, due and owing, and that no part thereof has been paid by discount or otherwise. All persons authorized \y law to administer oaths, are required to probate claims against the county free of charge. By < rder of the Board. THOMAS W. BOYD, Supervisor. Annie I,. Wallace, Clerk. Dec. 2, 1918. PILLClVS"FKJIS ] Mail iw S10 fur V pound Foatlior Bed a: cf roc-ivo 1 I i-(.<rn il i.a.r jn.' */r?te. Freight pr> : 1. K >w ) I fcatlp is. Is-. t ticUinir. satisfaction nuarantoal. j !,AGENTS WANTED TURNER & CORNWLLL ( J FeMhcr Dulto. Dept. A. Charlotte, N. C. Kefuroncr: Commercial National Bank. theatre"]! DA V - TO-DAY g ckford j: ui i i in i \cl a ' A tV/VtOW) I ' ? Beulah Marie Dix. | ?> ou slept in the "ha'nted" ? Or perhaps you weren't. I ^ ? good, old days when you jj * s wonderful hoy and girl at ive the old days over ajrain^ I. ? I; d, Wholesome I ^ Entertainem Ail Next Week. m vmamammmmm " ! v " V r< 1 Vf . ' *' >, 1 I8^0O8OS0?SO0 WHY A nice piec YOUNG 6 gl? 06000? ?0?0 00 DR. A. L_. OTT , DENTIST Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. (Dr. Spratt'n office) I Belk Budding, Fort Mill, S. C. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice is hereby given that an eleeion will be held at the usual polling lace in the town of Fort Mill, S. C.. ixuoeri r. v Telephone 1 TP M, W I A BBBMBM ; We have had mac ( pense an exact cop^ ; Treasurer's tax book \ Fort Mill township. ; the township are inv ; use of this book and ; to forward your tax< : Treasurer and furni: , receipt. The First Nat Resources One-Hall VstiriAC* n, UVliVO JL/1 Up front in our store we pure, fresh candy, station) other items which really ma hood department store. These departments prove t most expensive. Prove it to yourself by ms the JONES DRUG STORE tl Jones Dr Phone No n luewmv, January 13, 1920, for the j urpose of electing the following to erve two years: .Mayor, Two Alder-1 ien at Large, Alderman Ward 1, Al-1 erman Ward 2, Alderman Ward 3, nd alderman Ward 4. Also at the same time and place, a Commissioner of Waterworks will be lected for two years to succeed S. I?. leacham, whose term ia about to ex- j ire. Qualified electors of the said town lust have new registration certificate. Herbert Harris, Joe M. Belk and A. j l. Rn?dford are appointed managers [ ... ?.. . IV.II. 'L'he hooks of registration for the own of Port Mill will be opened at ' ho otTice rf C. S. Link, supervisor of epistration, on Monday, December lf?, ! 919, and remain open until Saturday, anuary 3. 1920. It. E. PATTERSON, Dtest: Mayor. C. S. LINK. Clerk __ Grier's Wee New goods received every day at .onsistent with quality. Recleaned Currants, per lb.. Seed Iiaisins (new crop) . 1-lh cans White House Cotfee. l-lb pkg. Caraja Coifee Elizabeth Flour (96 lb bag)... Oranges by the box, Apples by tl it a special price. It will be decide n and ins peel our stock before buy Prompt delivery service. D.l T7 ' tS _ Vcc*' E3 K3 !e at our own ex- ; r of the County f; s, as applying to ; The taxpayers of ited to make free ; we shall be glad ss to the County ; sh you with his tj IMH - - lonai bank, ; F Million Dollars -ug Co. !j I have complete lines of ^ i ery, rubber goods and ? ke this your neighbor hat the best is not the ^ 4 < . iking it a point to try ' le very next time. ? ug Co., I: .43. ; ^ 1 ? I ? ' NOT ;e of Furnitu CASH or fc WOLFE, The C Is Sa For Fancy A nannas, Raisi Boxed Candic bacco, Cigars at Specially I We w HARRY Specials Saturday. kly Prices. Crier's. Prices the lowest . _ 35c 25c title ... 50 o ... $6.00 le peck, Bananas by the bunch, dly to your advantage to come ing your Xmas goods. arier, Jr., Mo. 11. E222H j?C*\ i *??-V " ' Make Your Xmas Gift 11 a Substantial One? | I re makes ara sclea! gift. | credit. | 1 . F -* iv/&:n c a * kji l ivj.ua, xj : o0c:>v:D0OvSQ??(2?? :*vj aiidy Kitchen i _ / nta Claus' Hcaccunlcis for pples, Oranges, Tangerines, Cans, Nuts, Home-IVJade and Fancy ;s, Delicious Fountain Drinks, To>, Etc. The largcci: sicck in town nvwnc .vl? 1 ^ * 1 %W(UWV4 JJi IV/C'd iCi Lilti nCildd S? ish you a. Merry Christmas. == ? CARROS; oprietor. Qualiiy :inci Quantity for Less. |lThe Oldest Bar];' Iv 3 In York Comity I is proof of our ability for | jj Strength, Safety and a Sat- I V isfying Service complete in | | every detail. I 11'he Savings Bank J Of Fort Mill. I "*'Lt" v ? Tr-ji.- soaa?J Your I y Servant I 1-. - m That is what we arc and what we strive to be. \ Your table isVne shrine upon which we offer ourselvss. We are dealers in "bettor than ordinary" groceries. Our shelves are slocked with the best in the market of standard j?oods. Let us take the responsibility of what you put on -s the table to tempt the appetites of your family. , Groceries are the life of any individual. | Let us supply your nourishment in a way that will | he cheancst tn vnn.- ---i * , v.... im?ov ci11u iiiuisl sausiactory to d your pallette. Jj FRESH MEATS, FISH and ICE. I | B. C. FERGUSON. ,r |j Highest Prices Paid for Pork. . _ 1 DOES VOUii I 1 AiifnmnkilA Wmrl t. nuiumuuilo mm rdlliuilgr ! ^ i Dees ii Need a New Top, Seat 1 I I Covers, Cushions, Etc.? If so, \ 1 j Have it ,une the "Pyramid Way" 1 I Pyramid Paint Shop, | I I ROCK HILL, S. C. I I JAS. A. JO! ' SON, Mgr. "Ask the Man Who Know.." |