Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 01, 1920, Image 6
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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FORT HILL, 8. C.
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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
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