TH E FORT M ILL TIMES
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No. 112. ,
Entered at the postotllce at Fort:
Mill, S. C., ns ihnil matter of the
second class.THlTltSDAX
AUGUST 0, 1920.
The. Times hopes . thut .there is
more than the mere suggestion in
the, report that Governor. Cooper is
thinking of. naming Jnnves H.
Thornwell n member of the State
board of education. Mr. Thornwell
is an old Fort Mill boy whose
friends have been grutltled to observe
the success he has met with as a
teacher and school executive. For a
number of years he was superintendent
of the Winnsboro schools,
where his services were highly es
t< fined. Arterward lie was chief
clerk in the ofllee of the secretary
of State in Columbia. hut a year
ago an attractive offer from Hartsville
induced him to return to school
work and lie has since been the head
o;* tlio sclion)# there. Mr. Thornwell
knows the needs of t.ie puMic school
system of South Carolina and is n
ma n of excellent judgment Ay hose
appointment as a member of the
hoard of education would add materially
to the strength of the
hoard.
Whether conditions were such
that the interstate commerca commission
should have granted the application
of the railroads for the
big increase in freight and pnssengcr
rates which are to become effective
this month is a proposition
to discuss which would now lead to
nothing, since the order of the commission
has gone forth allowing the
companies to charge about 33 per
cent more on their freight business
and an increase of 20 per cent over
their present passenger rates, addInn
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!** .? IIIIIIUIIJ U|lll mill*
oflmc of the ronds something like a
billion unci u half dollars. In the
main (his vast sum will go into the
pockets of the employees of the
companies, anil it will he paid by the
public. No one could reasonably expect
the railroads to do business on
a pro-war basis and it may be that
the position of the interstate commerce
commission is Justified r by
conditions which the roads are facing,
but there are many who will wonder
if the increase could not have
been less and still afforded the companies
sufficient revenue to do business
on a safe basis if they could
have found a way to get rid of the
army of incllicient employees they
are now carrying on their pay rolls
ai salaries considerably in excess of
those paid the workers in most other
lines of endeavor.
York county farmers doubtless will
be heartened by the statement of
Prof. A. P. Ponradi. in CJafJfney a
few dpys ago. that in his opinion the
boll weevil will not do much damage
in Cherokee county, whose- climatic
conditions and character of
soil arc about the same as those of
this county. Prof. Ponradi is entomologist
at Plcmson college and Is said
to lnjve given much study to the liab.
it? and habitat of'the weevil. If he is
r t in the conclusion that the pest
v have reached itfc northern out port
before it Invades Pherokee in
gr? at numbers, then the cotton grower"
of this section have much to be
thankful for. other boll weevil au
thorltles have boon <inotod as saying,
however, that the post may bo dep<
tided upon tit do great damage tn
any community whoro cotton will
grow ?o maturity. It would seem
tboroforo that time only will toll
what is iu storo for York - county
from the activity locally of this littlo
insect, which already has cost the
Si ut'> hundreds of millions and has
h ft a trail of ruined farms and deserted
homes in its advance from the
l!lo Grande to the Watoroo. Meanwhile
there would bo littlo lost If
the farmers planned other crops and
other methods of producing revenue
in connection with cotton growing.
No one believes that with the coming
* of the boll weevil the growing of cotton
will be a thing of the past here,
neither does any one whose word Is
worth quoting set up the claim that
the weevil will do no harm in York
county.
An illustration of the alleged Increased
cost of road construction
material and Inbor that .is of local
interest is given in the bid of a eonc<
rn which lias offered to put down
a mile of hard-surface paving, IS
feet wide and without guttering. In
Fort Mill for the $P.0,000 bond issue
authorised some months ago at a
speelifl election anil the $10,000 the
federal government has agreed to expend
on road work In ^cooperation
with the town. T*ess than six months
ago. during the month of February
to t>e exaet. when the, bill was passed
l?y the General Assembly creating
the street commission of Fort Mill,
the State highway engineer assured
the author of the bill that with th?
bpt* -
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$30,000 bond Issue U contemplated,
and 110,000 promised from the federal
treasury, at least a mile and a
half of hard-surface streets could be
Inid in the town. Now it Is seriously
proposed that all this money be ex.
pended and the town receive little
more than half the paving tho cltlx<
n** were under the impression they
would get by approving the bond lame.
Information coming to The
Times is that tho estlmate-idd was
submitted after a corps of engineers
surveyed the streets. One of these
(ngineer-. after making the survey,
mated thnt little grading would be
i ecep?ary to put down permanent
puving on the principal streets of
,1'ort M'll. If one wonders therefore
why the discrepancy In the figures
of the State highway engineer
and the contracting concern, it is
I orhnps worth while to conclude that
the highway engineer probably did
not expect more than a reasonable
profit would have to be paid on the
work. But however- thnt may be.
the street commission is said to have
rbout made lip its mind to reject the
hid Involving the expenditure of the
entire $40,000 for less than a mile
of paving, which position, we are
sure, will be generally Indorsed by
tb" i>'f - n? of the t.wvn. If the
town Is to have praCt'e-'I'y no voice
In the amount of paving to be put
down from the proceeds of the iiond
true, the wise thing fvr the commission
to do. In the opinion of The
Times, is to leave olT the paving for
the time being. Any proposition involving
approximately jess than a
mile and a half of hard-surface
paving would not be approved by
the citizens of the town, because
it would mean the expenditure of
funds in one section of the town to
vhioh other sections are entitled. It
i* thought, however, that at the next
session of the General Assembly adA
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dltlonal legislation can be passed
which will meet the general expectations
both as to the amount and
character of the pa\lng It was stated
the town would get when the bond
Issue was approved. The people of
Fort Mill have lived through the dust
of summer and and the mud of win-,
ter since the town was Incorporated
nearly a half a century ago and it
would be better to stand these conditions
a few months lunger than to
have the town enter an unwise paving
contract that would be objectionable
to many citizens.
The Miracle Man la coming to Hio
Mnjcsttle next Thursday.
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business, and If lamest price? and
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feel tlu?t I merit your patronage.
1 am sure that you eannot buy the
same Shoe elsewhere at anything like
the price I ask.
Call in to see me when you need
Shoes.
R. M. HOOD
The Right Price Shoe Man.
FORT MILL. - South Carolina
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SCHOLARSHIP AND FNTKANCE
EXAMINATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
' The examination for the award of
vacant scholarships in the University
of South Carolina and for admission of
new students will be held at the County
Courthouse on Friday, Julv 9, at 9a m.
Applicants must ik i U less than sixteen
years of ag?. When scholarships
are vacant after July 9, they will be
swarded to those making the highest
ftVprftffF lit. PYuminufi?m iKou
I meet . the conditions governing the
award.
Applicants for scholarships should
write to President Cui rell for scholarship
examination blanks. These blanks,
properly tilled out by the applicant,
should be tiled with I'resident Currell
by July 2.
Scholarships are worth $100, free
tuition and fees, total $158. The next
session will open September 15, 1920.
For further information and catalogue,
address
President W. S. CURRELL,
Columbia, S. C.
DR. A. L.. OTT ,
DENTIST
Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
(Dr. Spratt's office)
Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C. v
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