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NEWS AROUND TOWN. Short Stories Picked Up Here and There by The Times Reporter. Miss Lavlnla Klnurd of Itocli HIU was the week-end guest of Miss Edna Tindal. Mrs. Jennie B. Spratt of Columbia visited friends and relatives in Fort Mill during the last week. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Courtney. Jr., of Charlotte, N. C., are visiting relatives in Fort Mill. Mrs. H. C. Culp and her two children of Clayton, N. C., are visiting relatives in Fort Mill. Mrs. J. T. Young spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Chester as the guest of her brother, D. F. Lee. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Murphy of Providence, It. I., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge Fish for a few days the past week, leaving on Friday for Jacksonville, Fla. Workmen have been busy for several days demolishing the* present church edifice of St. John's Methodist congregation preparatory to beginning the construction of the new church building, contract for which was awarded the Fort Mill Lumber company several weeks ago. J. T. Garrison. upper Fort Mill township citizen, who several clays ago was appointed a member of the Fort Mill township road commission, hus declined to serve on the commission. The York delegation in the General Assembly expects to recommend within the next week another citizen to take the place offered Mr. Garrison. The Tom Hall Guards Monday received from the army arsenal at Augusta, Ga., a shipment of 100 new rilles along with a lot of tield equipment for use of the company. The officers of the company expect to begin putting the men through the manual of arms at once and hope to pass n creditable inspection early next month. Arthur C. Lytic spent Tuesday in Columbia as the representative of Fort Mil post. No. 13, American Legion. at a conference between South Carolina legion leaders and tho na- i tlonal commander of the organization. Col. F. W. Galbrnith. Jr While In Columbia Mr.-I.ytle conferred with the adjutant general's department relative to the ritle range which it is planned to install near town for the Tom Hall Guards. There is nothing new under tho sun. Kort Mill citizen who recently Indulged in a discussion of the advisability of Kort Mil tbwnship Joining North Carolna and who may have thought that nothing of the kind had ever before been considered in the United States would have been been better informed had they seen a recent issue of the Ironwood (Mich.) Daily fJlobe telling of the serious effort then being made to induce the entire northern peninsular of Michigan to join the State of Wisconsin. WIIJilAM K. Gltll'ITN l)K.\l>. Well Known Fort Mill Merchant Victim of lllitCKS. William K. Grittin, well known and highly esteemed citizen, died at his home on Tom Hall street Monday night at 1:30 o'clock, following an illness of only a few days. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning at the home by the Uev. W. It. Kauknight, pastor of St. John's Methodist church, of which Mr. Griffin was a member, and interment followed in the city cemetery. Air. Grimn was burn In Union county. N. C., Juno 17. 1851. lie was married on August 27. 1877. to Miss Ida lloagland and moved to Fort Mill township shortly after his marriage. For a number of years he conducted a large and prolitahlc mercantile business about one mile north of town. Several years ago be moved to Fort Mill and bad since conducted in town a similar business. lie is survived by his widow and three sons, William Gritlin, Harvey Griffin nnd ltoy Griffin, and one daughter. Mrs. James M. Gamble, all of Fort Mill. Mr. Grillln was a good citizen and his many friends will regret to learn of his death. Judge G?w?rgc W. Gage llead. Associate Justice George W. Gage of the South Carolina supreme court died at his borne in Chester Sunday afternoon. following a long illness. Justice Gage was 65 years old. lie studied law at Vandarbilt university, after completing his regular college course at Wafford college. Before he was elected to the circuit bench. Judge Gage served in the lower house of the General Assembly. lie was elected an associate Justice of the supreme court seven years ago. Judge Gage is survived by fmy sons and one daughter. The funeral was held in Chester Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. I>iul Interested in Catawbas. Senator N. 11. Dial is desirous of having the Federal government give educational opportunities to the Catawba Indians and is making an effort to have an item for this purpose ^ Incorporated in the Indian approprla^ tlon bill now before Congress. Senator IDal a few days ago asked ovtoi Dial a few days ago asked Governor Coopor for data concerning the Catawbas and says if lie is unable to no anything ror them in the appropriation bill this year ho is confident ho will bo nblo to ?lo something for them noxt year. Couldn't ('so Itrnius. Ileelarlng that his newspaper, the Fountain Inn Tribune, published at Fountain Inn, Greenville county, was "without revenue." Albert Quillen. well known pnrngrnpher and editorial writer. announeed in last week's issue the suspension of his paper. Mr. Qulllen, says the Itoek Hill fteeord. is undoubtedly one of the brainiest men in South Carolina, but it looks as if the people in his seeton hnvo nighty little use for a ntan of brains. Giles Out of Asylum. A. M. Giles. Itoek Hill photographer who shot and killed his wife on the streets of that city on November 10. 1010, and was found not guilty by n York jury "by reason of insanity." was released from the State hospital for the insane in Columbia last Friday morning on the ground that he is now sane. When he wns taken to the asylum a day or two nfter being tried in York Inst April Giles weighed less than 100 pounds. He now weighs 160. DR. A. L. OTT , DENTIST Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. (Dr. Spratt's office) Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. C. ?PPmm- ' URGES GOOD ROADS. Correspondent Writes off Handicap to Fort Mill's Prosperity. Editor Fort Mill Times: This is an appropriate time to dls-. cuss the roud situation In Fort Mill township. For half a century the people of Fort Mill and surrounding country have cussed the roads leading into town and the very streets they walk over, yet nothing permanent has been done to lift Fort Mill out of the mud. The most common fool in the country knows that this township is just one big mud-hole bounded on the west I) y Catawba river and on the cast and north by Sugar creek and North Carolina. Mud hens and cooters can live nicely in 100 yards of the postollicc and bunks of the town. Thousand of years ago mankind were tadpoles and lived in the water. They had nothing on the present day folks of this vicinity who are content to puddle our streets and roads day after day and generation after generation. Probably in a hundred thousand years we will all be buck in our original tadpole state. Perhaps our people plan to grow webs between their toes so they can swim better. All geese have these webs. Even nibbits and sheep have roads or oaths. -iiul a rabbit cuts down briars and tall weeds by his path to make a better road?so that It may dry out. lor Instance. Our people talk of the cost of good roads. Do they not know that the ost comes back instantly In the value of evey home In the town or country? Huild a first class road by any farm home and the instant it is completed the value of that farm is automatically doubled and trebled, the same as good streets in town increase town values. It is a shame to have to haul our dead loved ones 'o the graveyard over our roans ind streets in their present condition. (rood roads save lives often, for they enable the doctor to get where needed (pricker. Good roads make a people more religious, for more will So to church, and not lose their religion while'being pried out of some ill-smelling hole on the way. The Hible tells of good roads and says the .streets of heaven are paved?get that word paved, and let us remember It. If the Kates of heaven were opened o fort Mill and our getting there de:>( nded on our roads, we'd be Rood "or?well. We have no right to be nulled civilized in the fullest sense when content to live forever by the dde of an old rod road or street. People who do that just think they ire civilized. The process hasn't yet been completed. The lirst thing our great army did in Prance was to build roads?they tad to. ltad roads have often chang d the course of history and sent nations down to defeat, because some treat supporting general arrived too late. It is till right for our people | tnd churches to send missionaries to Mexico, but we ought to get Mexico to send a few missionaries to South Carolina, and we want tit least one for Port Mill, to show us how Mexico builds roads. For a century or so Mexico City has been entwined with too miles of roads like silver ribbons, smooth, solid, and it is a wonderful thing to ride over them in the moonlight?makes you love each other more. California has grown by < ? a wonder State of the t'nion. and nothing has so contributed to its wealth and happiness as a system of hard surface roads from one end of the State to the other. You can get in your enr at I.os Angeles and you hardly need to take your foot off the ucclerator until you arrive at San Francisco. 170 miles north. Out there they build roads to where a <\vn will be; out here we try to start i town and get it choked to death in mud. ou can -always judge a country bv the roads they travel over. Don't forget that Port "XI i 11 Ing for good streets and roads whether or not wo ever have them?yon pay In the eost of new livestock, new autos, new tires, new wagons, buggies, new l?ahy carriages, broken eggs, and you also lose your temper, yc ur religion, sometimes your life, and often your chance of heaven, and never know the joy of living out of the mud and the thrill in your soul as you glide down paved highways with blossoming trees and singing I lords on eveiy hand. loot's try it. folks?It's worth all 'he money the town has to just one ime raise it out of the mud and si'me of generations, and 1 think even God would smile and make us happier. Remember it costs as much to handle mud as to handle cement, and if we only have enough or.nnv to tix 100 yards a year right let's do that and in 20 years we'll have some good roads and it would make the town of Fort Mill happy and prosperous Instead of injuring it. It couldn't be much worse off financially than it already Is. anyway. lOvery place we llnd good roads, California, Florida or any other State we llnd the people happier and better and with more mcney while living, and when they die they are not jostled to their last resting place over holes tlvi* almost turn them over in their coffins before they get there. Cuss about it all you like, folks, but when you get through it will still be facts, as stated course folks that don't like it can have Fort Mill, but that's hard to do with the roads as they are, and the longer one stays the harder it is to get away. our town and poor old rfi lintrv It into its own" until there's some rca! roads lending to it. Ilcnj. M l?eo. Kort Mill, Kelt. LET US HALF-SOLE YOUR SHOES WITH PANCO Guaranteed to outwear the best oak tanned leather, two to one! Not to break away at stitches! Not to deteriorate! Not to rip away at the shank! Heat proof! Cold proof! Will not sweat the feet! THE ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP NEXT I)OOK TO TELEPHONE EXCHANGE F01 ROSS WILL CASE TO OPEN. Court at Monroe to Hear Contest for Big Estate Claimed by Negroes. Muny Fort Mill people will watch with Interest the proffress and outcome of the lions will ciise which will be called for trial In the civil court nt Monroe. N. C., Wednesday, Februury 22. The case Involves the ownership of an estate said to be worth more than a hundred thousand dollars which was willed to two negroes, Robert Ross and his daughter, Mlttle Hello Houston, by Misses Maggie and Sallie Ross. maiden sisters, whose property was in the Marvin section of Union county, 12 miles east of Fort Mill. A Fort Mill man. C. C. Mcllwuinc, was one of the witnesses to the will bequeathing a thousand or more acres of valuable land and many thousands of dollars in cash to the negroes. Relatives of the women, scattered over a number of North Carolina and South Carolina counties, .;re attempting to break the will, alleging that the negroes ingratiated u.oiin'iH'9 upon inp out women and by misrepresenting certain conditions obtained the bequests by means of undue pressure. A number of years ago Dennis Ross and his sisters, Maggie and Sallte Ross, severed relations with other members of their family and moved to the Marvin section from another point in North Carolina. Rv hard work and close living they accumulated a big estate. Dennis died, leaving t.o will, and his sisters became sole owners of the estate. They employed a young negro, Robert Ross, to help about the barnyard and house and in tiaie became attached to him. When he married they deeded h'ut a farm cud stocked it as a wedding gift. The negro continued to "'ook after outside work for tho women and they -ontinncd to help him financially. Finally when his daughter manic d. she too was given a valuable wedding present by the Itrss sisters. The women, now growing old, lived much to themselves. Hut additional acres bad been added to the estate until it became one of tho largest and most valuable in the Marvin section. About 1 r? years ago the women made two wills, identical in nil save minor details, whereby each bequeathed to the other the entire estate for her use during her lifetime and at her death to be disposed of according to the terms of the will. < >no of the sisters died In 190'.t and the other lived alone at the home place until last summer, when death also claimed her. Then the wills were tiled for probate and it became known time nil ? i " """ o?YV tii'Ulll fl'.UUU or tho estate. given to churches anil charity, haii Itocn loft to tho negroes. Within a few weeks action was startoil to break tho will by a few relatives. Now there are 101* persons making themselves parties to the action to recover the estate from the negroes anil it is said that some 25 others will join in ?he suit before It is disposed of. 1><> NOT MISS IIEAItlXE THE THE (ilil'lAT VIOIjIMST, ARTHUR Sl'.MTdHXt;. FRIDAY NIGHT AT H O'CLOCK IN TIIE WINTHROP AUDITORIUM. RESERVED SEATS $1.1)0. NOTICE i?K l.oST STOCK CERTIFICATE. Notice is hereby given that Certltlcate No. 10S> for two (2) shares of Stock of the Fort Mill Cooperative Association issued to the undersigned on October 27. 1919, has been lost or destroyed, and the undersigned, owner of said stock, will apply to said corporation on the 20th day of March. 1921, for the issue of a new eertitlcate to him to take the place of that which has been so lost or destroyed. M. J. ADCOCK. February 9, 1921. 6tM24 I j ON THE V \ I I | This Bank has no i It is checked up ofi t It is supervised try | public officials are I any time, and we \ | all right all the tin | regularly eone ov< | tee of directors. I We are always on I x I We are vigilant foi I $ cause they are tiec 1 j T lj First Nati i I r- 1 1 o vnpuai ana ourp ! A T. n. SPRAT" J. I-. SPI!ATT, Vice President OSMOND l'.A ItHKU, ^ Vice Pr<sitlent { I t t *( *? li ^ f nraHMHHBBW , J J5? gMNffWMBg " ' IT MILL TIMS8, FOET MILL, ? 1 ; 1 Half Price Shoe Sale still going on at Mussey's. Better hurry while we have your sise. We order Butterlck Patterns for you and save postage and trouble. Terms to everybody cash with order Massey's. * 666 will Weak a cold, Fever aid Grippe qaicker than anything we know, preventing pneumonia. Don't waste your money and health using tobacco when worried: Uet n Brunswick Phonograph. It has the same soothing effect nnd makes pleasure for all. 666 is a prescription for Coids, Fever and LaGrippe. It's the most speedy remedy we know. 30 cent domestic now 15 cents, and 40 cent quality now 20 cents at Massey's. RUB - MY -TISM Is a powerful Antiseptic and Pain killer, cures infected cuts, old sores, tetter, etc. Relieves Sprains, Neuralgia. Rheumatism FROST PUOOK CARI5AOK PLANTS: Wakef tclds. Succession, FUitduteh, prepaid parcels post, 100 3'>c- 3<m> 7."?c; 500 $1; 1,000 $1.00. Full count ? nmL delivery Kti rutccd. Kxpress K. <). ft. here 1,000 $1.60; 5.000 at $1.50; 10.000 up at $1.25. I?. F. JAMISON. Sumniervlllo, S C. New Goods at New Prices. Apron Ginghams 10 cents, Press Ginghams 12 1-2 to 20 cents, Fhevlot 19 cents, Percal 17 cents, Itoinper Cloth 25 cents at Massey's. 6 6 6 will break a cold, Fever and Grippe quicker than anything we know, preventing pneumonia. Shoe Repairing Men's Shoes Half-soled . . $1.00 Women's Shoes Half soled . .75 Men's Shoes,~Soles Sewed . 1.25 Women's Shoes, Soles Sewed 1.00 My business is run on a Cash Basis and all work must be paid for when delivered. Jobs left 30 days will be sold for charges. J. P. Billue i. k. If it's minus whiskers you want to be Take the matter up with me. A haircut, shave and ^hine? All these things make one feel fine. BAKER'S BARBER SHOP Good service, prices right. On the Porch next to Savings Bank. % WATCH j i t i loose ends. f ten and regularly. ? r flip rinvpfnmenh " I liable to drop in t 1 lave to keep things f I rr * | le. Its arrairs are t > er by the commit- Z I ! % i the watch. f your interests, be- | 1 up with ours. F I < i j * i I 1 < II onal Bank I ilus ... $ 50,1)00.00 1 r, President W. T. BAR HON. Cashier 4 STAXHOPK MODS', ? Assli.tant Cashier ^ I I ? HH ?' <? ? <?*? <# ? *> . ^ * 4 V "< "JJ N h ? .-Vv P ''?c * t {fc ^i B> CL Specia We have a bi; And Baj 66 2-3 P $30 Trunks 25 Trunks 20 Trunks 15 Trunks 12 Trunks 10 Trunks Suit Genuine C $30 values 18 travelii 12 traveli] on down Suit Cases < These prices are mu< day's market prices, see a return of busii Case or Traveling B; PA1 \ You Can By Tradini We wish to call the attentii thing in GROCERIES on wl where in this section. "W ourselves, and we help ours Because of quick turn-overs to consider. And we guara number is 159. Fort Mill i MBYT Tl IbA I B % IS THE THE MA IS THE 1 MIC] IS THE PICT MABEL IS THE ? "MICKEY," is a Comedy-Dra conceded by the critics to be M tt also bears the distinction ( greater number of people than cepting, perhaps, "The Birth ol reputation on this picture pleai BETTER Open 3 p. m. JOB PRI AT THE TIMES OFFIC1 K' j ' it" ' * 'II il Trunk g stock of Trunl js That Go On er Cent Regu > now . ; now . > now . ; now . now . now . Cases and B ow Hide Cases now ig bags . ip" HA PS KEY URE, AND 3RMAND >TAR ma in Seven Parts, and is iss Normand's best vehicle. )f having been seen by a any picture yet shown, exf a Nation." We stake our sing you. COME! Prices, 15c and 30c INTING E - - PHONE 112i ? -O to . down to :h less than we can replace t but we have forgotten high riess at lower prices. If you ag come in today TERSt Save Man g at the Coopera\ Dn of the public to the fact liich a better price can not b re are in business to help t icives Detter when we help tl i our stock is always fresh ntee quick deliveries and effi Cooperative L S. PARKS, Manager. JESDAY DAY JESTIC 5LACE I Sale I] ks, Suit Cases I] Sale At I I ilarVaiiie 1 $20.00 16.65 13.35 10.00 7.95 6.65 ags and Bags $19.95 1192 7.95 98 98 he goods for at toprices and want to need a Trunk, Suit Ht'S y Dollars M.S uve oiore that there is hardly anye secured here than elsehe consumer as well as le consumer best. , which is something else cient service. Our phone e Store J H ATonic jj h For Women t M *f was hardly able to drag, I I y waaeo weakened," prrites Mrs. J D W. P. Ray, ?| Eaaley, S. C. X fj "The dodortreated me for about rj M two moata, mm I didn't get W |M tay better. 1 had a large fam- ft \U By and fait I surely must do m QD aometMng to enable me to take 2 LJ care of my UBle ones. t had J M heard of J CARDUI 5fl Tbo Woman's Tonic K i jQ **t decided to try V con- fifl fj tfaues Mrs. Ray ... "1 took M M eight bottles la all... I re- M M gained mj strength and have |M j:| VI had ao more trouble wtth wo# U IE A| manly weakneaa. I have t? [21. I kl diBdrea and am aide to do Ail H XI my taamodt and a lot cut- jjf Hj doora .. .1 can tore recomn TaJm Oardui today. It nay W M te hat what yofioeed. M h AtaDdfugiMB. M A. X*. PARKS, A FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND FUNERAMB EQUIPMENT MOTOR HEARSEll FORT MILL, S. C. / ] NOTICE! T Fort Mill ftubacrlber* to tho Yfrkvlllo Kn?|Utrer for 1920 who wUi to renew their aubacrlptlone to thnt paper for 1921 nro requested to f,?o mo at once. W. H. CROOK. ' J - JBfl