Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 10, 1921, Image 5
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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
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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. [
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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.
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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.
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4 a place is not only apt t
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Ier. Aside from this, ther
loss by fire, and the fact
lutely idle, producing not
By depositing your reser
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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.
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"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.
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irtment and will be pie
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styles.
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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<
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND FUNERAL
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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 - -
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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.
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