Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, May 20, 1920, Image 6
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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