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f' tTimc? Reporter* ** ^ George Bell of Charlotte was a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Fish. Miss Margaret Spratt of Cor iumbia spent several days in Fort Mill during the last week as the guest of relatives and friands. Miss Polly Jeter of Santuc, Union county, returned to her home ' Friday, after spending several days with her sister, Mrs. O. T. Culp. E. L. Hughes and his daughter, Miss Ethel Hughes, were in Washington last Friday to witness the inauguration of President Harding. They returned to Fort Mill Simuliiv ?u..uu^. F. K. Ardrey has returned to his duties as ticket ugent for the Southern railway in Fort Mill, following a vacation of several days, during which his place was filled by B. F. Lee. Robert F. Grier, .Jr., left Fort Mill Friday morning for Camp Benning. Ga., to attend for three months the army training school for National Guard officers. Mr Grier is second lieutenant of the Tom Hall Guards. There are said to be few For: Mill owners of automobiles or other motor vehicles who have failed to secure their 1921 license plates. i no penalty tor tatluro to secure the license plate is front $10 to $25 or imprisonment not over 15 days. J. F. Oates of New Bedford Mass., arrived in Fort Mill several days a {jo to accept the place of boss dyer at mill No. 1 of the Fort Mill Manufacturing company as the successor of .J. E. Armstrong, who resigned some weeks ago after having been with the company as boss dyer continuously for the last 15 years. Clyde Kimbrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. .1, Ij. Kimbrell of Fort Mill township, who was severely gassed in action with the 510th division overseas, expects to have to enter a government hospital for treatment unless his condition improves rapidly within the next few weeks, lie is at present binding a position in Charlotte. On Sunday afternoon. February 27, at Pleasant Valley Baptist church, JI. 1). Patterson, A. L. Helms and J. A. Pressley were ordained as deacons of that church. The pastor. Dr. J. W. 11. Dyches, was assisted in the ordination service by the Rev. C. ,1. Thompson of Columbia and the Rev. .1. li. Smith, pastor of Flint Ilill church. In the evening of the same (lay, in a similar service, the pastor being assisted hv the Rev. C\ J. Thompson, 11. J. Patterson and S. A. Lee were ordained as deacons of the Fort Mill church. Josiah 11. Coltharp now has tin distinction of being Fort Mill township's oldest citizen, with 87 years of life behind him. Mr. Coltharp's health has not been good for several years and for the last ten days he has been confined th his room most of the time. He is still able to read the newspapers, however, and keeps closely in touch with what is going on in the world. Mr. Coltharp is a Confederate veteran and one of the 1 community's most substantial citizens whose many friends hope that his health will improve rapidly. The Fort Mill township board of equalization, composed of C. P. Blankenship, chairman. I). 6. Kimbrell and Ira (J. Smythe, has been in session since Tuesday morning. The duties of the board are to revise the tax returns made to the county auditor. In cases where the board raises $100 or more the returns on a piece of property the umlitor notifies the owner of the proposed 'increase and he is given the opportunity to appear ^Bl before the county bojird to show cause why the increase should not Considerable complaint has IB been indulged in recently by Fort Mill householders over the price HV they have been forced to pay for ^^B stove wood. In most towns in this section, it is claimed, the price of stove wood has pone down in the last few weeks alonp with the price of numerous other eominod^^^^Bities, but in Fort Mill the complaint that from $8 to $12 ^^^^Bper eord is still beinp charged for wood cut into stove lengths. As a consequence many families are doing their cooking with oil. which, however, at 25 cents per |H^n gallon is little cheaper than wood at $12 per cord. Walter S. Gray, escaped convict from the North Carolina peniten tiary at Raleigh, who was capturail in Fort Mill township, five mile* north of town, last Wednes day morning by Officer l>. V. B Potts and held in the local police I Station pending the arrival of a I guard to take him back to the North Carolina prison, left Fort Mill Friday morning in charge of H. T. Peoples. Gray was last fall Rent up for eight years from Concord for killing a transfer driver in that town. Officer Potts received a reward of $25 from the North Carolina authorities for capturing Gray, who had gone to> work in one of the Fort Mill cotton mills only to leave hurriedly I . when ho was recognized by a co-1 gorker. [ IB3L ,N?c u NEWS OF YORK COUNTY. Items of Interest' From the Yorkville Enquirer. Only six registration certificates were issued by the York county registration board at its regular monthly session Monday. The number, of prisoners confined in the York county jail grew to 20 last Sunday when a negro charged with an offense was committed. The first fertilizer to be shipped to (.'lover was received there last week, it is said, the shipment being consigned to John W. Pursley, well known farmer of the Fairview community. In the municipal election at Sharon held last week Mayor W. G. Hayes was defeated for reelection by I). A. Whisonant, 35 to 28. There were no legal sales before the court house door Monday, which was salesday for March. A total of 300 gallons of syrup was made from sugar cane grown on the Church Home orphanage farm in Yorkville last year. The supply is sufficient to provide for the inmates of the home well up into 1922, it is said. (Meaeham Thrower, former citizen of Fort Mill, is superintendent of the Home Orphanage farm.) Through the kindness of Mrs. 8. M. McNeel, who has "agreed to accept only a nominal rental, Meech Stewart post. No. 66, of the American Legion, proposes to In installed in commodious cluh rooms over the Maekorell drug store within the next 30 days. The campaign against dogs, valuable and worthless, that may have been bitten by a mad dog, which has been [roing on for more than a week, was extended to cuts Sunday, a cat and two dogs being killed that day. About the only cut in the general appropriation bill that was worth while was the dropping out of the two mill road tax for the use of the State highway commission. The understanding is that credit lor this belongs to Representative Bradford. There was little demand for stove wood in Yorkville Monday. A farmer brought three-quarters of a cord of pine wood cut into stove length to town Monday. lie had to hauld the load back to his homo 11 miles in the country, being unable to sell it for $4. Farmers from the surrounding country who were in Yorkville Monday said that plow hands were now being paid a daily wage of from HI) cents to $1. In most instances hands are to be had at the tirst figure. Fire which threatened the residence of Mr. Clem F. Cordon of Rethesda township Saturday afternoon was extinguished after a strenuous fight of a few minutes by a bucket brigade composed of Mr. (iordou and members of his family. The blaze started when a spark from the stove in the kitchen fell on the roof. The damage done was slight. Mrs. S. L. Garrison Dead. Mrs. Tjula Garrison, wife of S. I j. Garrison, died at her home in Fort Mill Friday evening at 7 :30 o'clock, following a stroke of paralysis. the second she had sustained, Thursday afternoon at f>:30 o'clock. Mrs. Garrison had been an invalid since .January 7. 1918. when she was tirst stricken with paralysis, from the effects of I which she had since been unable | to walk. Before her marriage to Mr. Garrison on December 19. 1883, she was Miss Lula Boyd, daughter of W. F. Boyd of Fort Mill township. Mrs. Qarrison was 53 years of age and had spent her entire life in the Fort Mill community. Two year* ago she and Mr. Garrison moved from the Flint Hill community to Fort Mill and had since lived in town. She was a member of St. John's Moth otiisi ciiurcn and was esteemed by her neighbors as a devoted Christian who lia<l borne her afflictions with great fortitude. Mrs. flarrison is survived by her husband, father, two brothers, .las. F. Boyd of Fort Mill township and Dennis H. Boyd of Oklahoma City, Okla.. and one sister. Mrs. Jackson Hamilton of Fort Mill township. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, the Rev. W. R. Bauknight. assisted by the Rev. J. R. Smith, and the interment was in Flint Hill churchyard Saturday afternoon. The Coat of Plowing. Seventy-five cents per hour is the price many Fort Mill people have paid during the last week : to have their vegetable gardens plowed. Some are asking why | this charge with labor plentiful I at $1 per day. the price of liveI stock down almost to the pre-war basis and corn on which to feed horses and mules at .+1 per bushel. William Ardrey left Tuesday morning for a stay of several days near Blvthewood. For Sale or Exchange ? One Ilolstein male calf two weeks old ; beautifully marked, mostly white, from, registered sire and mother nearly full Ilolstein; price $20 when calf one month old or will exchange for peas or corn at market price. Osmond Barber. p r' 7QI Mr*. Mollie Blackwelder Dead. ' Following an illness of several days of pneumonia, Mrs. Mollie Blackwelder of Ckarlotte died at St. Peter's hospital in tl\at city Sunday morning. Before her marriage to W. L. Blackwelder, who died about four years ago, Mrs. Blackwelder was Miss Mollie Duffle and spent the greater part of her girlhood in Fojjt Mill. She was the last survivor of a family of three sisters, the others being Mrs. Z. V. Bradford and Mrs. George Seawell, and one brother, Jas. Duffie, who died many years ago. Mrs. Blackwelder was a member of the Second Presbyterian church of Charlotte. Inter-1 ment was in Elmwood cemetery, Charlotte. A special service was conducted at the grave by Mizpah chapter. Order of the Eastern Star, of which Mrs. Blackwelder had been a member several years. Cyrus Downs Dies Suddenly. Cyrus Downs, well known citi-J zen of Pineville. N. C.. died snd denly at his home Saturday afternoon. Mr. Downs had been plowing in his garden a short time before he died and it is supposed that he overexerted himself. He had not been in pood health for several years. After eating his dinner Mr. Downs sat down at his home and expired without a moment's warning. He was 64 years old and is survived by his widow and eight ehildren. He was an uncle by marriage of Mrs. J. |W. Owens of Fort Mill. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the home and interment was in the Pineville cemetery. Card of Thanks. Words are inadequate to express my deep and abiding appreciation of the universal kindness of the people of Fort Mill and the surrounding community during the last illness and after the death of my wife. This kindness on the part of all the people was shown in these last days of suffering and sorrow ; also during all the years ot her affliction the sympathy ami kindness of the people have helped her to hear her suffering with greater patience and fortitude. For all their thoughtfulness. kindness and helpfulness. 1 shall ever hold the people of this community in grateful remembrance. S. Ij. Garrison. "Rat-Snap Kills 48 Rats" Write* Inrin Nerbood. Ptonarlruia TIo Bays: "After UBing one Urge ptckatn. we counted 48 dead rata." RAT-SNAP killa 'em. dries up the carcaaa. and- leaves no smell. Cats and doss won't touch It. Cornea in convenien sixecakes ; 110 mixing with other food. Get a package today. Three sires: 85c for kitchen or cellar: 66c for chicken house or corn crib: 81.25 for bams and outbuildings. Your money back if RAT-SNAP doesn't do the work. |{lU?RAT^jAvtyj^j2^ 3323ZEE riiiTsnteed I.YTI.R DltlTO CO. THK CASH STOItE. I I | HIDDEN | I ~~ p 4 Persons who depend upor t homes for the safe-keepii 4 sual risk at this time, wh< T throughout the country. 4 a place is not only apt t t money, but actually enda Ier. Aside from this, ther loss by fire, and the fact lutely idle, producing not By depositing your reser i National Bank, under stri *< * i . . y and protection, you insur < fire, you eliminate the po Iand you receive an incor that steadily swells the oi f First Nati * Capital and Surplui It T. R. SPRAT ? J. I?. SPIJATT. Vice President * <>SM< >NI> RAURKR. Vice President I .v S -.'C IT MILL MB, FORT ILL, I Miss Estelle Massey has opened a Millinery Parlor at her home on Hall street to make and retrim hats, which means a great saving to you. Miss Massey has had much experience in this line in Fort Mill and elsewhere and will be pleased to serve you. Tou think you have heard some GOOD phonograph music, but it you haven't heard Brunswick records on Brunswick phonographs, "You Alnt Heard Nothln' Yet." PLOWING?Let me plow your garden or patch. I have bought a good mule and am prepared to plow for the public. M. M. McManus. See the New Spring Hats at Tlussey's. New York and Charlotte styles fct Fort 'Mill prices, which means tHALF at Massey's. "Do Rata Talk to Each Other?" Asks Mr. M. Batty, R. I. "I cot five cakes of Rat-Snap and threw pieces around feed store. Got about hall a dozen dead rats s day for two solid weeks. Suddenly, they cot (ewer. Now we haven't any. Who told them about RatSnap." Rats dry up and leave no smell. Three ices: JSc, 65c. 91.25. Sold and guaranteed by LYTLE DRUG CO. T1IK CASH STORE. Pyramid Paint Shop HOCK HILL., S. O. PAINTING If your car needs painting we will paint It for you and do It in such a way that you will be surprised at the difference It makes In the looks of your old car. Our corps of painters are the best that can be obtained and #nly those, who are experienced in car painting are on our force. The looks of your car is Just like the looks of your person. It goes a lang way. JAMES A. JOHNSON. Proprietor. 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 "It'? the Chapest Thing I Ever Bought," Writea Mra. J. Mason, Va. "I paid $1.25 for five cake* of Rat-Snap anil judging by the large number of dead rata we've picked up. I reckon we've saved hundreds of dollars in chicka. eggs and feed." Your pets won't touch it. KaU dry up and leava do smell. 35c, 65c. $1.23, Sold and guaranteed by I.YTI.K DHUG CO. TilK t*ASI 1 STOUK. If it's minus whiskers you want to be Take the matter up with me. A haircut, shave and shineAll these things make one feel fine. BAKER'S BARBER SHOP Good service, prices right. On the Porch next to Savings Bank. : | MUINfcY j | I: < < i < i; i hiding places about their 4 ig of savings run an unu- f < in crime is so prevalent '4 A sum of money in such' t o cause the loss of the 4 0 1 ngers the life of the own- ? e is the possibility of total 4 that such funds are abso- t hing. 4 ve funds with this strong 't ct government supervision ^ e them against theft and | ssibility of personal injury t ne in the form of interest ? riginal amount. | < I! 4 I ional Bank j j i ... $ 50.UOO.OO } T, President ^ W. T. IIARltON, Cashier * STANHOPE L.IGON. ? Assistant Cashier * 5 V - f$?VC ; P? .-J. -r>/ " :'"P^ ' 10. SPRIN u. I r jkf. Miss perie towr depc to he new PA1 ??????? You Can By Trad in We wish to call the attenti thing in GROCERIES on w where in this section. "V ourselves, and we help our Because of quick turn-over to consider. And we guar; number is 159. Fort Mill i Discretion is s< v^wiiico iu a in too old to bene older you get are likely to ea Use discretion Savings accoui SAVINGS BAI MILL. 5 THE CIT $ Upper Main Street, Fort !\ ? serving meals or short ord a hurry. We make every ef # If you are in town for a si J care to trouble to go home j a glad to have you try our se t J. H. PATTER "We only Bought Rat Poison Twice," write* Jesse Smith, N. J. "I threw the first kind away; couldn't he hntlirrcd oiling it with meat, cheese. Then I tried Rat.Snap. SAY. that's the stud! It comes in cakes, all ready to use. And it sure does kill rats." 35c. 65c. $1.25. Sokl and guAirolcrd by LYTLE RDUQ CO. THE CASH STOKE. G MILLI1 ~We beqr to announce * *v the /O first ^J/iowirtc / . ?f JS / t\ miiwr/'t* /l/s>Mf? * ' a i a f f crrr%/i : Loraine Woodal, ar meed milliner of Che 1, Md., has charge of irtment and will be pie ive you call and see styles. 'TERSfl \ _ ; Save Man 4 g at the Cooperai ion of the public to the fact hich a better price can net b< Ve are in business to help tl selves better when we help th s our stock is always fresh, antce quick deliveries and effi< i Cooperative E. S. PARKS, Manager. I I 1 omething that an when he is * sfit by it. The ? , the less you * < > irn. m 2 and start that r at with THE f MK OF FORT I I I {V Y CAFE $ /lill, makes a specialty of ^ lers to those who are in a ^ fort to please our patrons. ^ nort time only or do not f at meal time, we wou Id be $ rvice. ? SON, Manager # A. I.. PARKS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND FUNERAL EQUIPMENT - MOTOR HEARSE | FORT MILL, S. C. { ^ I 1 v> i exister this ased j the >N'S y Dollars live Store that there is hardly any3 secured here than elsele consumer as well as ie consumer best. which is something else jient service. Our phone e Store CARDUI HELPED REGAIN STRENGTH Alabama Lady Was Sick For Three Yaars, Safferiag Pain, Nervous aad Depressed?Read Her Owa Story of Recovery. iuai ivock, jua.?Mrs. c. m. Stcgau, of near bore, recently related the following Interesting account of her re cororyi "l was in a weakened con dltlon. I was sick three ycar3 In bed. offering a great deal of pain, weak, nerroos, depressed. I was so weak. I couldn't walk acros9 the floor; just had to lay and my little ones do the work. I was almost dead. I tried erery thing I beard of, and a number of doctors. Stilt I didn't get nny relief I couldn't oat, and slept poorly. I believe If I hadn't heard of and taken Cardnl I would bare died. 1 bought six bottles, after a neighbor told ine what It did for her. ?f ke*.. a - - * 10 eat ana BJerp, Deguu ty gain my strength and am now well and strong. I haven't had any trouble since ... I sure can testify to tho good that Cardui did me. I don't think there la a better tonic muda and I believe it saved my life." For over 40 years, thousands of women have used Cerdul successfully, Id the treatment of many womanly ailments. If you suffer as these women did, tako Cardui. It may help you, too. At all druggist*. E 85 NOTICE OF I.MST STUCK CERTIFICATE. Notice is hereby Riven that Certificate No. 109 for two CO shares of Stock of the Fort Mill Cooperative Association issued to tho undersigned on October 2", 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 certificate to him to take the place of thnt which has been so lost or destroyed. M. J. ADCOCK. I February ?, 1921. fit M 21 I '