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SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Davis of Chester were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lynn. S. H. Epps of Lumberton, N. C., spent a day or two last week visiting friends and relatives in Fort Mill. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Boyd of Charlotte and Mrs. A. T. Land of Newbern, N. C.t spent Sunday with Mrs. W. L. Boyd. Floyd Adcock, 12 year-old-son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Adcock, is critically ill of ptomaine poisoning at the home of his parents in the upper section of town. Mrs. E. W. Kimbrell and children were guests of relatives in Mooresville, N. C., for a few days last week, making the trip through the country by motor. Harry Garros, proprietor of the Candy Kitchen, announces that he will donate the gross receipts of his business tomorrow to the building fund of St. John's Methodist church. R. D. Nunn, proprietorof the electric driven shoe shop on (Confederate street in Fort Mill, announces his intention of establishing a similar shop in York, where he spent Monday of this week looking into the prospects of such an enterprise. D. A. I.ee became suddenly ill at his store on Main street Saturday morning and has since been confined to his home, ^ his illness being such as to necessitate severul visits to his bedside by his physician. Yesterday Mr. Lee's conrdition was said to be somewhat improved. The Fort Mill friendB of J. M. Oldham of Charlotte, who is a frequent visitor here, will be pleased to learn that he has been honored by election to the office of grand high priest, Royal Arch MasonB of North Carolina. Mr. Oldham is a brother-in-law of W. B. Ardrey and F. E. Ardrey of Fort Mill. David G. Culp, assistant postmaster of the Fort Mill office, stated yesterday that he did not contemplate taking the civil service examination in an effort to succeed to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Postmaster Massey. Mr. Culp has been connected with the office for several years and has among its patrons many friends who would be pleased to see him appointed postmaster. The Presbyterian congregation is hopeful of having installed in the church within the next two or three weeks the pipe organ for which an order was placed several months ago. The organ has been shipped, according to information received by the church ^ m ? * oinciais a aay or two ago, but congested freight conditions on the railroads may delay its arrival. L. A. Harris stated a day or two ago j thut if his plans did not miscarry he | soon would begin tearing away from j the head of Main street the old livery j stable building which has fallen into disuse. Mr. Harris hopes to salvage | several hundred dollars worth of lum- J bet from the building and it is said to be not improbable that he will erect a business building on the site. A number of Fort Mill people are expected to attend more or less regularly the sessions of the general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church which met in Charlotte yesterduy. Among the commissioners to the assembly is W. M. Ross, R. F. D. 2, Fort Mill, who goes as one of the representatives of Mecklenburg presbytery. Mr. Ross* home is just across the State line in North Carolina and he |8 a member of the Providence church. The statement was made in Rock Hill Monday afternoon that Clem Gordon, former county supervisor; Lad Lumpkin, member of the board of county commissioners, and John S. Williams, well known farmer of the Ebenezer community, were thinking of entering the race for county super- I visor in the Democratic primary this tyear. Hugh S. Brown, former sheriff, also is said to be a prospective candidate for the ottice, and it is understood that Thomas W. Boyd, incumbent supervisor, will ask to be reelected. C. P. Blankenship of Fort Mill township, who made the race for supervisor a few years ago,- may also ask for the office, it is stated. Farmers in this section have made rapid progress during the last two weeks putting in the seed for the i,,. year's cotton crop. On a number of farms the cotton already is up to a good stand, but there are yet a few farms on which planting has not been ^ completed. The acreage put to cotton in Fort Mill township this year is expected to be smaller than it has been B for several years, due to the excessive B rainfall of the spring. The rain which fell Tuesday, however, is expected to prove beneficial for the farmers, as in | places their land had become very dry, I \ making plowing difficult. This year lor the first time in this community one or two farmers will use mechanical | choppers in thinning out their cotton, J. M. Gamble being one of the number |. who will use such a chopper. * School to Close May 28. The closing exercises of the 1919-20 session of the Fort Mill graded school L will be held on Friday, May 28. LIQUOR PLANK UNLIKELY FOR EITHER BIG PARTY "Wet" hopes to obtain a plank in the Democratic and Republican national platforms favoring light wines and beer have gone glimmering, according to inJ formation percolating from the Washington headquarters of both parties. There has been a checking up of the prospective "wet" strength in the conventions by the Republican and Democratic leaders within the last week, it transpires, with the result that the foes of prohibition have been advised of the hopelessness of their cause, so far as the presidential contest is concerned. Officials of the Democratic national committee made an unusually careful canvass of the situation, for the reason pj ??' w>?v uvii.ii uvTciuur ciuwirua 01 ?ew Jersey and Governor Cox of Ohio have been figuring as presidential possibilities favorable to the resurrection of beer, and it was the Democratic convention which was looked to chiefly by the "wets" as likely to adopt a wine and beer plank. The Democratic check-up showed that only 16 of the 56 members of the resolutions committee at San Francisco would be in favor of a "wet" plank, if they represent the prevailing sentiment of the States electing the delegates who will name the members of the committee. The Democratic chieftains in Washington hope that by putting the snuffers on the "wets," William Jennings Bryan can be persuaded to abandon , his intention to fight for a plank strongly indorsing the eighteenth amendment and enforcement thereof. The canvass by Republican leaders showed that the "wets" would be even weaker at Chicago than at San Francisco. The prospect, therefore, is that the advocates of light wines and beer will transfer their endeavors to the congressional campaign, seeking to elect a Congress which will modify the 1 x WW WI Will I | High Class S 1 I Have you money t< 1 Did you know that yielding a muck I usual? I If you wish to sell I see us. We can I promptly on the I ceived. I Any of our officer} j! consult with you | The National t Rock H Cash Capital of $300,000.< f J. M. CHERRY. V-Pres. I IRA B. DUNLAP, Pres. THE ROY Trade Street. Hutchison Buili Desires the patronage of I year anil will strive to deserv before that ever since we hai Call and let us know your i good will and continued patrc FORT MILL TIME! definition of intoxicating liquor. It would take a "wet" landslide to win the house, and with only one-third of the senators to be elected, the "wets" could scarcely hope for a friendly senate in the next Congress. f ? Fori Mill Maa ia Traia Wreck. W. R. Bradford of Fort Mill was a passenger on Southern railway train No. 16, running between Columbia and Charleston, which was wrecked two miles north of Branchville Saturday morning at 5 o'clock. The railroad authorities say the wreck, in which no one was hurt, was due to a broken rail. The train was running about 35 miles an hour wi?>n tum .if p?ii~"> cars and the day coach left the track, which was torn up for about 100 feet. The trucks under these cars were smashed by the impact with the ties and when the cars stopped they were standing near the edge of an embankment apparently almost ready to topple off into a pool of water. The Pullman in which Mr. Bradford was a passenger was not so badly wrecked as the other Pullman. No Still Found in Mill Village. G. W. McKenzie, superintendent of mill No. 2 of the Fort Mill Manufacsuring company, says that the item in The Times of lust week stating that a liquor still had been seized in one of the operatives' houses in the mill village was incorrect, that the still was discovered on a branch some distance from the mill village. From other sources The Times is informed that the "still" was nothing more than an assemblage of tin cans and other paraphernalia resembling a liquor-making outfit which could not have been used for that purpose, but was the conception of some boys who were seeking to have fun at the expense of the town officials. ' J. A. Wagstaff, town marshall. was The Times' authority for the news item published last week. a londs and 1 ecurities j ^ J ^ jL m ) invest? 1 I Securities are now * 1 higher rate than * I I I or buy come in to I i handle your orders | i day they are re- I s will be glad to | i I HHHIH <s*' I Union Bank, f 11 n Illy ^ 00 "Absolutely Safe" f S. R SPENCER, V-Pres. $ GEO. A. BEACH, Cash'r % I AL CAFE ding, - ROCK HILL the people of Fort Mill this e it as we tried last year and fe been In business, wishes and we will win your mage. | f?&>:" ' 5 - I, FORT MILL, S. 0. M,S _ _ _ Thos. H. ! DOUGLAS MAC L In. Twenty-three And tyaramounr Her Sol HE had come to dine with her dad, th general. He was ready to charg and capture her heart. Of course, he hadn't been invited; ii fact, he was confined (?) in barracks am buried in disgrace. But what were trifle like that to Bill Gray when he had to wii a girl and a bet? Majestic Next Open at 4 1\ M. r a44ai% V/UllUil And any queen w< at the sight of the Pr< we are showing in v< Crepes, Suitings, Gii cales, Etc. Select your materia rial Review Patterns. You will also find hei 1 are necessary in maki Mid-Sumrr New shipments every v Trimmings, Etc. Place yo Saturday. Hats made to o Spring Coat Suits ; PATTE The Shopping Center t nee p resents EANw DORIS MAY . A Half Hours Leave Firlav/l Q>icturv dier Boy! e Nothing about war, but a lot about e youth and love and stirring adventure. And enough big, exciting laugh mix-ups for half a dozen pictures is found in this j production. s Two popular stars in a smashing pic11 turization of Mary Robert": Rinehart's famous Saturday Evening Post story. Come! : Monday, 26th. ^ Admission, 20c and 30c is King! ju\d rave with pleasure stty Cotton Fabrics that Diles, Organdies, Lawns, nghams, Madras, Perils here and use PictoYou can't go wrong. .1 i*..i 1 1 re me little tnings that ing up garments. ier Millinery ^eek of the Newest in Hats, ur order early in the week for rder. at About Half Price .RSON'S FORT MILL, S. C.