Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, January 08, 1920, Image 3
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' 1>|<B<W Spratt is at home from
father, James Spratt. .
kisses Thehna and Kathleen Ott'1
' spent several days of the past .week
visiting relativeSs in Ridge way. i
l^r. and Mrs. Haile Ferguson of Clir- 1
r. ton spent the Christmas holidays with
^ f. tiie former's parents in Fort Mill. 1
Private Bishop Helnev, from Camp
f Jackson, spent the week-end at the i
I home of S. W. Merritt in Fort Mill. . i
L There will be a meeting of the '
Parent-Teacher association at the I
m' graded school Friday afternoon at <
W. P. Crayton of Charlotte was a
visitor here during the last week, a
M *fU68^ *n ^?me brother, '
f D A L 01
I has enlisted in the navy and left a few ,
B days ago for the Great Lakes naval <
I training station. , i
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Ix nu outhcu ciass ui me napusi Min- |
' day school served supper Friday night <
to the members and a numberof guests, 1
the affair being one of unusual pleasure 1
and interest. i
William D. Rodgers, private in the
regular army, returned to Camp Jack- !
son Tuesday morning after spending ]
ten days at the home of his father,
C. F. Rodgers. in Fort Mill.
The Rev. R. F. Morris of Columbia ,
is expected to make an address this j
evening in the town hall in the interest |
of the Anti-Saloon League, to which ,
the public generally is invited.
Ben F. Patterson was hoBt last Fri- 1
day evening at a gathering of his <
friends at his Home at Crattnn. Dinner
was served the guests, composed of I
officers of the two Carliartt mills and :
several friends from Fort Mill. 1
A Lorenx Buddin, member of the '
office force of the Fort Mill Manu- '
facturing company, has been presented
with a "Victory button" by the navy 1
recruiting station in Rock Hill for hi ]
service in the navy during the World
war.
Friends of Capt. S. W. Parks have (
unavailingly urged him to become a ,
candidate for mayor of Fort Mill, ,
Captain Parks says he has no political
ambition and that he would ,
not serve as mayor if elected. ,
Much sympathy was expressed a day !
or two ago for a Fort Mill man who
told a party of friends of the hardship
to which he was subjected a few nights
ago hy having to hold a light to enable
his wife to see how to chop sufficient
atove wood to cook breakfast the following
morning.
A new member to take his seat nt
the meeting of the General Assembly
in Columbia Tuesday is Senator S. E.
Bailee of Pleasant Valley, Lancaster
I county, who succeeds the late Senator
Hough. Senator Bailes was nominates
at a special Democratic primary held i
I few months ago and will serve for tin
/ remaining three years of the term for
I which Senator Hough was elected.
| The manse for the pastor of the
Presbyterian church is nearing com'
pletion and it is thought that the
building will be ready for occupancy
in 16 days. Another new residence
recently completed in Fort Mill, into
which the owner moved a few days
ago, is that of S. L. Meacham. The
Presbyterian manse and the residence
of Mr. Meacham are among the (
prettiest and most conveniently ar-' '
ranged homes in town. '
Among the York county veterans of
the World war recently placed by the
Federal Board of Vocational Training ,
for disability received while in the ser- ,
vice were Claude O. Gamble, whohns ,
been sent to the Georgia School ol ,
Technology, Atlanta, and Charlie Ben- ,
nett, 'who is to receive a course at ,
Clemson college, Both of these young ,
veterans live in Fort Mill and both re- .
ceived wounds on the Western front in
action with the Fort Mill company, 30th
division.
With the temperaturp standing at
7 degrees above zero, Monday morning
was the coldest of the winter in this
section. There were light flurries of
snow at intervals during Sunday, but
the snow clouds were dissipated in the
afternoon, the wind rose and the thermometer
began to tumble early Sunday
night. With a shortage of coal and
fire wood at almost prohibitive prices,
there was a la,ck of warmth in many
homes to make the inmates comfortSable.
The Fort Mill graded school resumed
work Monday morning, following a
holiday recess of two weeks, with one
change in the teaching corps, duo to
the resignation of Miss Marie Elms,
teacher of the sixth grade for the first
half of the current session. The
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Miss films has been fil|ed by the election
of Miae Bertha Massey, who has
returned home from Keenansville, N.
C., where she taught last fall.
Prosperity for York.
The unprecedented prosperity now
prevailing throughout York county is
in no small measure due to the fact that
the 1919 cotton crop far surpassed in
value that of any other year's production
in the history of the county
and exceeded the huge sum of $7,000,000.
Not only was the price realized
the highest since the Confederate wur,
but the production was one of the
largest on record.
Latest ginning statistics show that
bout 42,000 bales were ginned up to
January 1, which was approximately
8,000 bales more than were ginned during,
the same period one year ago. Assuming
that the bales weighed 500
pounds each and that the average price
was 35 cents, the total value was considerably
in excess of $7,000,000.
Passes Century Milestone.
York county has at least one white '
person who has passed the century 1
wark, Miss Susan Pursley of the Clover l
community having celebrated her 101st j
few days ago. She is still
alert mentally and fairly active physiThe
observation of her centenary
jsar ago was marked by a picnic
t which all of her relatives and many ;
<rf her Neighbors gathered.
Following an opinion of4ln attorney
fenefAl'a office, witteo bj ^Voj^ w 1
Lumpkin. assistant attorney general, |
lu response to an inquiry of B. E. Pat- j
tefson, mayor, questioning the legality
of the registration for the municipal 4
election erdered by the town council of t
Port Mill to be held on January 18, to 4
elect a mayor, 3ix aldermen and a mem- \
ber of the public works commission to J
serve for the next two years, town t
council met in special session yesterday J
morning and adopt, d a resolution post[>oning
the election until Thursday, t
April 8. The resolution will appear j
in The Times next week. In the opin- j
ion of the attorney general's office it is ,
liehl that "in-order /or your election to <
i)e legal trie registration books must be <
closed 30 days before the holding TfP 1
juch election" and "that I am sure that 1
jnless provision is made for holding f
pour municipal election at a later date, <
io person registering within the 30 day f
period will be allowed to vote." In t
support of its opinion, the attorney 1
general's office quotes from a decision 1
>f the supreme court in the case of i
3unter vs. Gayden, 84 S. C. i
Accepting the opinion of the attorney t
general's office a majority of the coun- i
cil agreed, assuming that the opinion t
was meant to include municipal regis- c
tration as well as county and State reg- 1
i3tration, that it would be impossible to
hold the election on January 13, as
every municipal registration certificate
issued for the election ante-dated the 1
time set for the election by less than30 f
days, and there would therefore be no r
one qualified to vote should the polls be r,
opened. Heretofore the municipal reg- r
stration books in Fort Mill have been t
kept open to within ten days of the c
elections. The opinion of the attorney r
general th? refore suggests the inquiry c
whether there have been any legal town c
elections held in Fort Mill in the past, t
When the ouestion of the legality of c
the action of the council prolonging its j
jtay in office three months beyond the f
term for which it was elected was sug- c
fest al at the nm eting yesterday, May- J
>r Patterson read lro.n^ article 2, Civil I
7-ode of South Carolina, 1912, setting a
forth the mode of procedure for the I
ncorporation of towns of less than C
>,000 and more than 1,000 inhabitants, i
the proviso, in section 2007, that the 1
mayor and aldermen "shall hold their s
>iiicea for the torm of two years and t
jntil successors have been elected and 1
pialified." ' C
The resolution of council orderingthe t
?lection to he held on April 8 provides t
that the municipal registration books 1
shall be opened toduy by C. S. Link, 1
supervisor of registration, and remain t
>pen until 4 p. m. Monday, March 8, a
period of 00 days. Council also decided
it its meeting yesterday that the municipal
certificates issued during the t
ast three weeks for the election set t
for January 13 were worthless and that g
t will be necessary for every cit^en ^
tvho wishes to vote in, the election on
\pril 8 to obtain a registration certifi- J
:ate from the supervisor prior to the t
late set for the closing of the books. c
\ county registration certificate ob- s
.ainod during 1918, 1919 or during the ^
present year up to within 30 days of the e
late of the municipal election will ena- ^
>le the registrant to secure a munici- 8
>al registration certificate. t
The following members were present ?
ii me meeting of town council yeater- *
lay: Mayor Patterson and Aldermen -j,
Klliott, Lytle, Hutchinson, Steele and r
Ferguson.
F~dertl Enumeration Begins.
In 1 u."*" M:M township as in every i
>ther ?w -u i) in the country enumera- ]
?rs began tne work last Friday of i
making the 14th decennial census for i
.he Federal government. They will <
:all at every dwelling in the com- >
munity to secure the information sought j
sy the government. The enumerators t
for Fort Mill township are Joe M. 1
Bolk, B. C. Blunl^enship and J. J. i
Howie. Mr. Uelk will take the census ]
within the town of Fort Mill and the 1
work of Messrs. Blankenship and Howie <
will be in the township outside the1 (
town. j 1
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Trade Street, Hutchison Builc
Desires the patronage of t
year and will strive to deservi
before that ever since we hav
Call and let us know your \
good will and continued patro
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Upram\
>f general legislation aad legislation |
specially for the county which should |
mi passed at the session of tbeGeheral
Assembly which meets in Columbia*
text Tuesday. A similar meeting will
ie- held at the court house in
fork tomorrow. 1
For years it has been the .custom of j
he York delegation to hold at the court (
louse during the <Arst or second week
n Jnnttftry a meeting* for this purpose '
tnd usually a considerable number of '
:itizens of the county avail themselves 1
>f the opportunity to give their views j,
if public matters. One of the ques- ,
tions which it is anticipated will be i
riven consideration at the meeting' {
today, and which may also be con-11
sidered at the meeting * in York i
tomorrow, is the good roads legislation !'
which Governor Cooper will urge upon 1
the General Assembly at the impending ^
session. The Stewart road law, under j j
which the county is building i*s high- t
ways and keeping them in repair, also t
s expected to receive consideration, i
there being a more or leBS general <
iemand throughout the county that the .
aw be changed in certain particulars. ^
Junior Order Installs Officers.
Fort Mill council No. 237, Jr. Order 1
Jnited American Mechanics, held its
irst meeting in the New Year on Wedu*rday
evening, Jan. 7, beginning at
f:30 o'clock. A goodly number of the ^
nembers were present and much interest
was manifest in the work of the
irder. particularly along the line of \
'estricted immigration for which the
irder stands unreservedly. A feature *
if the meeting was the installation of r
he officers-elect for the ensuing term 1
if six nlonths. A. L. Parks, junior |
>ast councilor, was the installing of- j
leer, who, according to the ceremoniesif
the order, installed the following: I
f. W. H. Dyches, oouncilor; A. C. c
jytie, vice-councilor; O. S. Parks,
issistant recording secretary; T. F.
jytle, treasurer; Henry Ritch, warden:
D. Hope, conductnrr Ira Wilson,
nside sentinel; H. D. Harkey, chap- .
ain. T. A. Mills, recording secretary,
ind J. C. Robertson, financial secre- *
ary, whose terms arc for one year,
lad already been installed. The Junior
)rder is strictly an American institu- j
ion and, standing as it does for every t
rue principle of Americanism, the 1
ocal council bids fair to be one of the c
ivest and most useful organizations in *
he community. I
Bank Increases Capital. r
At a recent meeting of the board of 1
lirectors of the First National bank 1
He capital stock was increased from 1
126,000 to $40,000 and with a surplus of ]
110,000 the institution begins the new t
rear with the brightest prospect in its (
line years' history. The usual semi- <
innual dividend of 4 per cent was i
irdered paid on January 1 and the i
itutement shows resources of $503,000. ^
Valter L. Barron of York has been (
lee ted assistant cashier to succeed j
V. Speight McLean, who recently re- ,
igned to accept a position with one of j
he banks in Rock Hill. Owing tt^the i
growing business of the bank, the
ifficers are finding the present quarters y
nadequate and contemplate enlargenents
to the banking house. J
Goes to New York. <
Edward Finley, son of the late Con- <
pressman D. E. Finley, has gone to
New York, after speriing the holidays
vith relatives in York. Mr. Finley
recently returned from California,
Dregon and Washington, where he
vent, after being discharged from the
irmy in the spring, as the representaive
of Col. Arthur Woods, assistant to
;he secretary of war, in the interest of
soldier employment. Mr. Finley is in
New York as assistant to Colonel
Woods, who has been appointed as
rhairman of the Natio: al American
rommittee of the American, Region,
with headquarters in New York.
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famous photoplays.
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led heiress who dropped
eal life and adventure.
rty Laughs
25c to All.
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ling, - ROCK HILL '
he people of Fort Mill this
e it as we tried last year and
e been in business,
vishes and we will win your
nage.
ras performed by Magistrate Wfagata.
Ir. Barrage tea of the World
var. having geoe through tfafruouttet
isa sergeant in the Fort Hill eon*
any, lwth regiment* KKh dfcrisioo.
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Pwfcjhrim to Erect XWck
The Presbyterian* of Clover are prei$'
wring to erect a church building. Tw '
>ropoeed edifice will be cne cf the
landsoraest structures of the kind in ,
fork county and will coat approximate*
y $40,000. . ' j
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ANNUAL ASSESSMENT OF 192p.
Notice of Opening of Books of Auditor
for Listing Properly for Taxation.
Pursuant to tne requirements of
Statute on the subject, Notice is hereby
given that my books will be opened
n my office in York Courthouse on
Thursday, January 1st; 1920, for the
;>urpase of listing for taxation all pertonal
and real property held in York
bounty on January, 1, 1920, and will
>e kept open until the 20th day of Feb uary,
1920, and for the convenience of
he taxpayers of the county, I will be
it the places enumerated below on the
latea named:
At Clover?Tuesday and Wednesday,
January 6 and 7.
At Bandana (Perry Ferguson's store)
-Thursday, January 8. #
At Hickory Grove?Monday, January
12.
At Sharon?Tuesday. January 13
At Bullock's Creek (Good's Store),
?Wednesday, January 14.
At McConnell'sville?Thursday, Janlary
15.
* At Newport?Friday, January 16.
At Fort Mill Monday, Tuesday and.
Wednesday, January 19, 20 and 21st.
At Rock Hill?From Monday, Januiry
26, through Saturday. January 31
At York ?From Monday, February
) a?
i tu rerruary zu.
All males betyveen the ageB of twenty-one
and sixty years are liable to a
>oll tax of $1,00, and all persons so Hible
are especially requested to give
'he numbers of tneir respective school
listricts in making their returns.
. BROADUS M. LOVE,
Auditor York County.
Dec. 2, 1919.
TAX NOTICE? 1919-192Q
Office of the County Treasurer of York
County.
York, s. u. Vov. 7, 1919.
Notice is hereby given that the Tax
3ooks for York county will be opened
>n Saturday, the 16th day of Novem>er
1918, and remain open until the Slst
lay of December, 1919, for the collection
of State, county, school and local
axes, for the fiscal year 1919, without
jenalty; after which day a One per
tent penalty will be added to all paynents
made in the month of January,
.920, and Two per cent penalty lor ail
)ayments made in the month of February,
1920, and Seven per cent penalty
vill be added to all payments made
'rom the 1st day of March, 1920, to
the 15th day of March, 1920, and after
this date all unpaid taxes will go into
executions and all unpaid Single Polls
vill be turned over to the several Magstrates
for prosecution in accordance
vith law.
All of the Banks of the county will
>ffer their accommodations and facilties
to Taxpayers who may desire to
nake use of the same, and I shall take
sleasure in giving prompt attention .to
ill correspondence on the subject.
All Taxpayers appearing at my office
vill receive prompt attention.
Note?The Tax Books will be made
ID by Townshins. and n?rtio? iuriVlni?
ibout Taxes will always expedite matters
if they will mention the Township
jr Townships in which their property
>r properties are located.
HARRY E. NEIL,
Treasurer ot York County.
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chandise, we are expec
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our store at all times j
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For Mayor.
Friends of L. A. Harris hereby announce
him as a candidate for mayor
of Fort Mill, election to be held April
8, 1920.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION
4* A special communicaAvv
tion of Catawba Lodge,
No. 66, A. K M., of
South Carolina, will be
held this (Thursday)
/ \ evening, beginning at 7
o'clock. The first degree
will be conferred and regular business
transacted.
By order of the Worshipful Master.
u. s. LINK, Secretary.
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Groceries, Feedstuff, Dry ?
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"No Name/' $5 and $6 If
"Our Surprise," $3 and $4 9*
New shapes in brown, [ft
olive, seal, black and ft
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1 His Best Friend j
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; you and you'll believe us |
wheti we try always to em- I /
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taking the proper care of the |
feet. 'I |
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I ment of this store to scores of cus- :
tomers is the care we take in trying i:
? to give each foot a perfect fit. ?
We sell shoes for men, women, i:
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i call whether you buy or not. :
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Gulp's Specials |x
Best patent Flour, per hundred, $6.60 I
Cotton Seed Hulls. 100-lb. sack 1.15 I
Salt, 100-lb. sack I
Pan Cake Flour Golden Crown Flour 1
Sugar . Table Syrup . I
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