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SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS
. PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN
Miss M. E. Skipper of Lancaster la
a guest In the home of Mr. and Mrs.
E W. Kimbrell.
Mrs. James Bonner of Due West,
who is attending the summer school
at Wtnthrop college, was the guest
Tuesday of Mrs. W. F. Harris.
Miss Helen Heath of Midland, X.
C., is spending several days in Fort
Mill visiting her brother. Crawford
Heath, and other relatives here.
W. D. Crist, editor of the Yorkvllle
Enquirer, and his son. James l>.
Crist, chief reporter for The Enquirer.
were visitors to Fort Mill Friday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Starnes of Huntersville,
N. C., and Misses Allie Mae
Miscally and Mary Griffith of Flock
Hill were week-end guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. I.. Lyles.
The second cotton bloom of the
season reported for Fort Mill township
was brought to The Times office
several days ago by Eb Buyne, a
farmer in the upper section of the
township.
C. S. Hutchinson, who is connected
with the otflce of the county superintendent
of education in Sumter, is
it Furl Mill u,11 in* ........i.... i
lion ut tin' home of his brother. Or.
John M. Hutchinson.
Miss Ksflter Meachntn returned
Tuesday morning from Oreenvllle,
after attending the annual State
meeting of the Haptist Young People's
union in tliat city during the
lust few days as a delegate from the
Kurt Mill union.
An enjoyable picnic in honor of the
Fort Mill teachers attending the aunt
mer school at Winthrop college waKlveil
at Indiatthook school house, a
few miles front town. Friday evening
I y Miss Carrie Spencer of Itock Hill,
teacher of the fifth grade in the local
school.
Ha lies' bridge across Steele creek,
two miles from town, is now closed to
traffic owing to repairs which arc being
made on the structure by a
force of carpenters. For some tinte
the bridge has been considered dangerous,
the floor being in especially
had condition.
Herbert <Ht son of l>r. and Mrs.
A. I.. <Mt. and Russell Phillips. two
Fort Mill hoys, recently enlisted in
the navy for n short training course
hi Hampton Poods, Va. The course
they will take Is that provided hy the
government for hoys under IS year/
old.
I hi rink; the last week a change has
occurred in the management of the |
store of the Fort Mill t'ooperative av
s elation. \V 10. Critlin having re
tigned and the idacc tilled hy the
eieetlon of (i. W. Startles, who has
keen connected with the huslness for
some time.
The sale of a splendid farm o' ICO
acres in lower Fort Mill township
was effected a lew days ago when .1
H. Mills truiu'ft rred to Monroe White
a part of the idil l>. A. l.ee plnr*
The enivh'erntIon is aid to have
heen $00 per acre. Mr. White Is >.
progressiva younc farmer and plans
to hring tm> plane up to a high state
of cultivation.
Revival services which will continue
through the week and perhaps
longer were begun Monday
night at the Fort Mill Baptist church
with the Rev. T. V. Mct'aul of Bennettsvllle
conducting the services.
Two services will he held each day.
ai 10 o'clock in the morning and X:lf?
in the evening. An interesting feature
of the meetings Is the singing of
Mr. Met'aill, who possesses :i spleniliil
baritone voice.
J. P. Collins of the Itelair section
of Lancaster county has boon appointed
magistrate of Indianlanri
township to succeed MaKistratc I>. K.
Hall, who resigned recently on ac* J
c(>unt of illness. No candidates have |
yet announced for the place in the j
August Heinocratic primary and there
is very little interest in politics in I
the upper section of Uaneaster conn- i
ty. yesterday said A. M. Itlakency I
of Helalr.
There is considerable interest in
Fort Mill in the auction sale today
/ ot the small farms Into which the
cherry plantation, between Winthrop
college and the Catawba river, has
been cut and i? is expected that a ]
nuinhei of I teal men will he on hand j
to submit bids on some of the farms.
land which has been subdivided
? ends aloiiK the concrete and nut- !
c .dam road for a distance of about '
ft nr miles and has been worked up
to. a limb state of cultivation. It is
understood that the entire tract was
i rcntly sold by J. M. Cherry and ;
that lite snl.t In I.?... '
t' new owners.
The lirsi picnic and hnrhecne ever
lit Id in Kort Mill township occurred
J", 7 years ago. on the 41li of July. '
1 s4i*. according to J. H. Coltharp. j
one of the eonununity's oldest citl- !
H steps, who has a hoy I I years old at
the time. "The picnic was held near 1
the site of the Sprinxs bridge, over ,
the Southern railway, a few miles |
U' rth of town," said Mr Coltharp a |
day or two ago. "ami was planned (
to work tip sentiment for the proposed
railroad between Charlotte and |
Columbia. A speech In behalf of the .
uedertokinK was made by Col. .lack
Springs, grandfather of Col. I.erov
SprlUKs. There was a string band on
hand to furnish music for the oeea- I
sit.n and it was led by the late Burk ;
Sutton."
An incident on Main street Satur- |
lay nlKht illustrated the measure of |
respect entertained by some for the |
recent trurtlc ordinance adopted hy j
the town eouneil of Ktirt Mill There !
was some confusion on the street j
due to an automobile hemming loin- I
pi rnrily disabled and the town police]
.? officer was assisting Hie driver in
getting the car in motion. Very little
space was left between this cur
ar.d a car parked against the curbing
or the opposite side of 1 lie street
Tlie police officei saw a motor truck
tlilven l>y a boy approaching with,
the view of running between the two
putomohiles and twice signalled flm
boy to stop. The hoy paid no utten
tlcn to the signals ami drove on past
the officer and between the automobiles.
So far as The Times Is informed
no case was made out against
the boy.
T. Heyward Merrltt of Hock Hill #|
was a visitor here Tuesday. y
W. P. Crayton of Charlotte, N C.P ?
was a visitor In Fort Mill this week. a
Mrs. C. S. Link is absent this week | J
on a visit to relatives in Hickory, fi
X. C. J
Mr. and Mrs. B. Franklin Massey ?
of Hustings, Fla., are vlsitnlg Mr. g
and Mrs. L. M. Massey.
J. W. Brown of Winston-Salem, X. j|
C'.. spent several days of the past j *
week visiting friends In'Fort Mill. K.
K. Smith, u former Fort Mill |g
citizen who is now making his home jS
in ?'hattuhoogu. Tenn., is here for J ?
several days visiting relatives and @
friends. ?
Town council has employed Hiram Jg
II. White of Rock Hill to survey and '44
make a map of New Unity cemetery tt
which will show the location of each jn
lot and its owner. It Is the purpose i@
of town council to issue a regular
form of deed to the owner of the J fi
lots. S3
S. B. Howie met with an accident 13
in which two of the fingers of his j
left hand were severely lacerated by
-i ^?i? win if iii worn ai tne plant or Vq
the Italics Kuntber company a few
lays ago. Several years ago Mr. ei
Howie had the misfortune to lose TS
two nf the tinners of the same ha ml 0
j i; a similar accident in Monroe, N. l\ W
I There was no general observance 9
In fort Mill Monday of the Fourth of J9
July, but most of the stores were ?3
rinsed for the greater |>art of the day JQ
ind tlie hanks did not open their
il? ors for business. Sunday hours yfl
wi re observed at the pout office and J3
tie rural letter carriers did not make
the usual round of their , routes I
Work went on as usual at both the '
cotton mills, which were closed Sat- I
unlay in celebration of the holiday. 1
Mgrrin Klver lnk> Itlack.
In Algeria there is a stream inky j
black, and not only isit inky in color !
lint 'lie two principal ingredients of;
ink are contained in its waters. One I
of Its tributaries is strongly impregnated
with iron which it imbibes from j
lii soil through which It passes, and
1 < other meanders through a peat
marsh rich in gallic acid. Australia j
has a ?-alt river, and there is another, ;
he Itio Salado, in Argentina, South '
America. The Athabasca river of j
I'nnada has two important salt |
n arches one of which rises in a mil- j
oral salt soring and the other has
ts source in the t'ariboo mountains,
which contain vast deposits of salt '
oi k The Itio de Vinagre?the Vin- !
car river- f New t>ranada, in Cen
'ral America, is sour front the sul- i
of.uric acid in the water, while the j |
range river in South Africa contains |
uutti i which renders it poisonous to ,
ish in part of its course.
Wludc Town on Spree.
The town of l?etlanoe, la.. Is rei.ieriug
from a two-day spree which I
suited from the wrecking, in the j
heart of the town, of two oil tank ;
cars tilled with California wine.'
Knch car was marked tilled to capn- j
iiv, ' ami each was tilled to capacity.
was part of tin government stock I
? port wine being moved front San '
"mnciseo to New York. Both cnrt |
i t.1 smashed so badly that they het;n
leaking and the wine poured
front half :t dozen spread seams und
broken rivet holes. The bucket hrig.
d< gathered and tin cups, disltpans
ami Witslt tults were pressed into
et v ice. When tlte home supply of
wine-holding utensils gave out, peoph
rushed to (lie store to buy more,
hut the stores were closed. The clerks
were at the wreck. ?
Tack* in Rock Hill Street*. ?&
Uoek Kill Herald.
Complaints are being heard on all j S
ides in this city to the effect that 0
somebody has been scattering tacks
over the city streets and even tn the .
roads in the country nearby, and |M
these tacks are doing and have done ; gB
already great damage to automobile
tiles. The number of tacks found in GC
tires during the past week or two ,
clearly indicates that the tacks have SH
ucd been scattered by accident and K2
most of those removed from tires
T11 v e been new, indicating that they | #2
I.ad been on the ground but a short j fju
Save the surface |
and you save all. And to ^
do this economically use ?
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it's pure. It contains
no worthless adulterants
but is made of pure Lead
and Zinc, pure Turpentine
Dryer, pure Linseed
Oil?and nothing else.
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Come in and see the
"work like gas."
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Tirzah P
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WEDNESDAY, AUG1
Hear Hon. J. Skottowe W am aiuaker.
can Cotton Association.
Hoar Mrs*. CJ. H. Matthls of Cudsden.
farnirr and orator In the Sout h.
Ml'KIC RV THK TIKXAII ('(IIIM
Barheoued heef prepared hy "I'ncle Ji
most lainous barbecue chef In the South.
Candidate* for county offices will he I
Candidate* for State offices \?iil he titer
Everybody will he there.
Are you coming?
Picnic I* to he held unde r the auspl<*<
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