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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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L S. PARKS, Manager.
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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.
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