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I SHORT ITEMS OF NlilWS PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN Miss Nell Ldgon of Sb.elby, N. C.. Is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Alice Harris. Mrs. J. A. Hall of Tampa. Flu.. Is a guest In the home of Mr. and Mrs. G W. McKenzle. Mrs. P. A. Stough and children of Cornelius. N. C? are visiting Dr. anil Mrs. J. L.. Spratt. Parks O. Boyd of Newport News. Va., is spending his vacation in Fort Mill visiting his mother, Mrs. J. A. Boyd. Miss Annie Hall Byers and Miss Marie Aycock of Betliesda township were guests Sunday of Mrs. John M. Hutchinson. Mrs. D. M. Massey and little daughter ure visiting Mrs. Masse.v's father. Col. K. W. Hamilton, in Jonesville. Union county. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Ntms and fnnilly of Mount Holly, N. C.. were guests during the week of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nlms. . Miss Florence Boyd left Monday afternoon for Montevullo. Ala., ufter spending several weeks visiting relatives In Fort Mill. Mrs. J. K. Knight of Heath Springs spent several days during the past week In the home of her granddaughter. Mrs. J. K. Halle. Mrs. K. L>. Yurborougli has returned to her home In Gostonla, N. t\, after a visit of several days at the home of her father. W. H. Arinst rung Miss Alice Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. It. P. Harris, expects to leave Fort Mill Saturday evening for a visit of several weeks to her sister. Mrs. Klwin Case, in Westerley, It. 1. James Bailes, son of J. Bailes of the Pleasant Valley section of Lancaster county, left a few days ago for Kansas, where he will lie employed several weeks in the wheat llelds. The llrst cotton bloom reported hi Fort Mill township this season was found Monday in a Held worked by Nathan Steele, colored tenant on the farm of I~>r. J. L. Spratt, near Grnt tun. I Hubert Potts, recent graduate of Clenison college. expects to leave 1 early in September for Charlottesville. Va., where he will matriculate ( in the law department of the Universltv of Virginia. An important congregational meeting of the Baptist church will be held at the morning service next Sunday. , July -i. All the members of the church are earnestly requested to be present at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Kugene Armstrong, Mtss Theltnn Armstrong and little CJenette Armstrong were week-end guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs J II. Sutton. Mr. Armstrong was en route to his home at Harnesville. f!a The management of the Port Mill Manufacturing company will provide a pleasing celebration of the Fourth of July for the hundreds of employees of Its mills and their families in the form of a barbecue dinner to bo given Saturday in the grove near mill N'o. 2. Besides the dinner, games and other amusements are expected to feature the celebration of the national holiday. \V 11 Crook, one of the progressive farmers of the Clold Mill section of iFort Mill township, has iust har vested the wheat front u seven acre ' Held which promises a record yield "Tills has been a good year for wheat , in this section." yesterday remarked Mr. Frook. "and it is a pity that more of our farmers did not undertake to provide home grown flour fc.t the consumption of their families at least." J Cteorge Warren of Hampton, candidate for the United States senate to succeed R. D Smith, spent it few hours in Fort Mill Wednesday mornit. g. Mr. Warren stated while here that the mistaken impression had gone out over the State that lie was ' making his cantpaiKn as an advocate of liquor and that he was anxious to r correct the impression. A citizen who has attended a number of the campaign meetings is authority for the 1 statement that Mr. Warren is making a good impression on the fewvoters who are attending the meetings. I No opposition developed at the ' special election held in the Massey r ' otd district last Friday for an in- ' ? ised levy of four mills on all tax- I able property in the district for school ( purposes and the vote, while light. 1 \? as unanimously in favor of the proposition. There already is a spe- I cial six mill school levy in the ilis- 1 trict. R. M. Massey, one of the trns- 1 tecs of the Massey school, says that the hoard is experiencing considerable trouble in finding a teacher for the next session of the school, although a salary of $100 per month is offered. Miss Zoe White received a few days ago a letter written on May 20 from ll ??I* t ivtfil' M iao 1-1.. tlfUti ~ ' -- .-ma it line, n no in now mnkiiiK her home in Juneau. >'aski< In the letter Miss White stated Unit her principal objection to Alaska was the lack of sunshine. When the letter was written the ground was still covered by several ft et of snow and the cold was more Intense than that felt in South Carolina in the most severe winter. Miss White left Seattle. Wash., a few months ago for Juneau, where she is engaged In reportorial work for a nev j pnper. Congressman W. P. Stevenson was la Fort Mill for a few hours yesterday morning and while here had n conference with Postmaster it. if. Massey at which he requested Mr. Massey to hold the Fort Mill postmastership until his successor was selected hv the civil service commission. Mr. Massey having some weeks ago tendered his resignation to take effect July 1 and Joe M. Belk, who had been recommended for temporary appointment as postmaster, having declined to accept the appointment. It is understood that Mr. Massey agreed to continue to act as postmaster until a permanent postmaster Is selected, provided his health does not meanwhile necessitate his retirement. HRES HELP UNCLE SAM. i Every Blaze and Shipwreck Means j Currency Never Redeemed. i If a person Is going: to lose a dollar j bill or a ten dollar bill or a bill of 2 larger denomination he should lose it J so thoroughly that no one else will Z ever find it, and then he will be do- I ing a patriotic act, even at the loss 2 to his own pocketbook. For every J piece of currency that is lost, the t government profits. Every ship- J wreck and every tire mean profit to * the government. During and immediately following s the Civil war, the government issued P $:;70,000.000 in fractional currency f culled "shinplusters." Now, 60 years P later, there are still $15,000,000 worth la of them unredeemed. There are t 1,*00,000 dollar blllx, issued between S If62 and If87. still unredeemed, and ? it is estimated that nearly one per J cent, of the dollar bills put out never t return to the treasury. More than 6 $8,000,000 worth of paper money, aside from the shlnplasters, went out W from the government and never came back, so the national treasury is P ahead Just that much. X In addition to this, there are the fe bills put out by the national banks. * The Federal government guarantees & this money and to it and not to the bank of issue comes the profit from ? a bill that is never offered for redemption. It is probable that the goveminent has made $3,000,000 or $4,000.000 out of lost national bank * notes. I jj Certain occurences have added ma- m teriallv to the government's profit on 13 money that never comes buck for re- * d< mption. There is an item on the hooks of the treasury deliberately charging off $1,000,000 as destroyed in the Chicago fire. The treasury admits that it profited to that extent. It undoubtedly saved itself the neces- j sity of redeeming much more than a million. Wherever there is a fire in' any considerable size there is sure lo be a direct profit to the government on burned money. The San Francisco and Haltimore fires were lirectly profitable to the government. When the Titanic went to the bot om of the Atlantic unknown imounts of currency went down with It There was American paper money in the strong boxes of the '.usitania when the (lorman submarine sunk her and there was Amerlrnn paper money in the pockets of lie people on hoard. CHOPS OF I P COUNTRY. '.cxiimtoii Pali tor Writes of Olwrvalions on Htsviit Trip. IV. T. \V.. in I.exinRton DlspatchN'cws, llavint; occasion to take a trip Satnday afternoon up the Charlotte oa<l as far as Port Mill, the writer vas astonished to see how far behind h< crops. especially cotton, appeared <> be. Cotton Is smaller than ever eon for the time of year and corn is mch behind. In many places it ap ears that cotton had only recently < i n chopped out. It has been fear*1111 y dry in this country, but Sato-day and Sunday wood rains fell ml everything looks refreshed. Grain ias all been cut and from the looks f the stubble llelds a trood crop was cade. thoiiRh the proportion planted toesn't seem to have been so ?reut as c I.exinyton. Atmintc other things, ve saw a line field of alfalfa from vhich some hay had alreaily been ut. but driving right along by this Ield was a farmer with a bale of Vestcrn hay. Kverybody along this JJ oad seems to have planted the great- ft* r part of their tields in cotton. One thing to be seen that was Q| toticeable along the line was the flne S3 oad that Chester county has built. iS PI,., ....O .1 v . ... .-.<> < iiiioiikii niiTP is red clay, S3 iracticnllv the same as the Kork seci??n of Lexington county. The coun- 0 y lias huilt a top soil road that (fives ?< ?vcry appearance of having good e ivearing qualities. The top soil is ? node of crushed rock. We under- fi dnnd that the county has put in a J nek crushing plant for the purpose, fe The only objection to the road which Chester has huilt is that it is very ? inrrow. J; Mad I'iii11 in Whiskers. ( An Oklahoma man had a haunt- h ing dread that a sea serpent would ? lueak into his house and Idle hini. M It was for this reason that he kept 9 \ fat, round bottle of the old red goods in a little cupboard hy the el chimney. There were also other bot- S ties there, containing various things. Bj The other night this man felt shoot- *3 Ing pains in his whiskers, so he got M up in the dark ami went to the little ruphoard and reached for the fat ?3 bottle and took a richt gude willle- jg waugh for auld lang syne. A mo- W iient later lie jumped so high that, w his head went through the ceiling. ?* When the members of his family g came to his relief, they piled all the ^ hervy furniture and the cookstove on i a him to hold him down; he said his lr uUtoo ? > * - ' 1 ? "v.v uii nir ami ue waiiieu 10 drink the contents of a few hand grenades. lie had (crabbed the wrong bottle, and the stuff that he drank was spirits of turpentine, with a dash of carbolic acid and other ondi- n incuts, compounded to cure a spavin on a mule. He will recover, the doc- " tor says, but it will be a long time ' before he'll be able to drink any- " thing stronger than diluted rain water. The fat, round bottle has been * thrown away, and the man has determined to take the chances of sea Sl serpents hereafter. " (littntla Facing llankriiptcy. t The treasury of Georgia is vir- |i tuallv empty. An interest payment of (125,000 on the State's bonded indebtedness due July 1, leaves in the |i treasury the sum of (8,842. During f July the State will collect (350.000 ^ from insurance companies, but all of ^ this and more will be needed for the . current operating expenses of the departments and Institutions, so that t the end of July will tinil the treasury t empty again. Members of the Legislature confront the prospect of waiting mouths for their salaries. The 1 total expense of the legislature for' it* 50-day session is (125,000. f ' ipp <T, : FOET MLL TOttS, j I ? I ] N?1 D. Sommer is he ience of a rea H The "Red Sta burners that i made. ^ The "Red Sta finest baker i no a ICII1 Come in and "work like ga 1 Y ? F'ttruu-r lt?'|dlc<l lu Kind. A somewhat smart man. according i a story that is going the rounds, 'marked to a farmer friend: "Thursday we autoed to the coun r.v 01 iii> and golfed till (lurk, then obeyed hack to town and danced II morning." The farmer "got hack" in this lanuage: "I've heen havin' some time myclf. Wednesday I muled down to lie cornfield and geehawed till sunown. Then I slippered till dark and Iped till nine. Then I bedsteaded ill 5 o'clock, then breakfasted till was time to go mulin' again." Friends of The Times will be leased to learn that the circulation f the (taper has more than doubled uring the last three months and hat r.ew subscribers are constantly icing added to its mailing list, alhough no campaign has been made o boost the circulation of the paper. Wuter is the great need of animals u hot weather. The weather bureau promises rain or this section today. t FORT HILL, 8. C. 218 Rt stroit Vapoi rp nnrl u/ifk a t4Pn/l Qla?." ? -w? misv* tt mi u ivv.u uiui uiuvr il City gas stove. r" Stove has no wicks or asbestc will last a life time, uses 25 per c r" Detroit Vapor oil stove is ab n the world; will bake your biscv ion cracker. see these stoves arid we will tak< s." UNG& FORT MILL uut Price Shoe Sale, i HcfCimihiK Saturday. June II I Hill soil all my Shoos al fu! I'riecs. I always soil for ahoiit on. -1 liii.l i I Ions than others for I In- same i|ualit> ! Li Hi.oe. I may not have tin- kind 01 B the nilmher ymi want. Ian it will pay 'I you well to oomo in ami look thcm|E ovor before you buy. I may no out |H of the Shoo business, but if I ilo not H I expect to sell Sboos as cheap, or P cheaper, than ovor. All Shoes sohi for fash only. I cannot charge an> at the |>rioo 1 sell for. fall in to see n e. I It. M. IIOOll, llic Low Price Shoe Man. i A BSnfi in s* ? ?? + ' Oil Stcr in your kitchen you ha1 ds rings, 8 1-2 lb. spe< ent. less oil than any ol solutely safe, cooks qi tits in a jiffy, and as hi t pleasure in showing ] W O L n y HBMaaiaMMUBNi Save Buying .">00 I'oim 1.000 l'on Prices without books, 7 o. 1 IOB PF T THE TIMES OF] ? i "' w ' msgsmm 3!wV3!WV^Jw!M43!M*3Wv^f5wH^?? 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