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' >**- J ' ' " *< w ' V . '. - v " V ?M' \ : ''v;r HEWS ABOUND TOW. Short Stories Picked Up by The . Times Reporter. . / W^R.Bradford of Fort Mill is to be one of the judges at the annual irter-society debate at Winthrop college Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Monroe Merritt has awarded 'to J. L. Howie the contract for remodeling his home in the Sprattville section of Fort Mill. The work represents an outlay of several hundred dollars. W. D. Wolfe returned to his home in Fort Mill last Wednesday after spending several days at a dinrlAttp Imsnitiil *lnrini? i&rhir?V) he successfully underwent an operation for appendicitis. N. L. Carothers is arranging for the reorganization Sunday of the Sunday school at the Massey school house whose meetings were suspended during the winter. Mr. Carothers asks that all the former scholars of the Sunday school and others who may wish to join be at the school house Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Congressman W. F. Stevenson a day or two ago notied Arthur C. Lytle that he. was forwarding .to Mr. Lytle 1.000 packages of garden seed to be distributed among the people of Fort Mill township. The seed are expected to arrive'by the latter part of the week and will be given out at the Lytle drug store. The Rev. W. E. Entzminger. for many years a missionary to Brazil under the direction of the foreign mission board of the Southern Baptist convention, will speak at Flint Ilill church next Sunday morning, at Pleasant Valley Baptist church at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon and at the Fort Mill Baptist church Sunday night. The churches extend a cordial invitation to the public to attend the services. .Tames W. Barber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Barber of Fort Mill, who became connected with the Army Y. M. C. A. at the outbreak of the World war, recently has been transferred from Camp Jackson, Columbia, to Birmingham, Ala., where be is stationed as officer of vocational and executive work under the army. Mr. Barber has a number of men under bis supervision in Birmingham. Dr. T. S. Kirkpatriek, well known Fort Mill citizen, was stricken with appendicitis last Friday and Sunday was removed from his home to a hospital in Rock Ilill, where be was operated upon Monday afternoon. Yesterday reports from Dr. Kirkpatrick's bedside were that his condition was satisfactory and that if no complications set in his recovery might be expected within a short time. Prior to the operation, Dr. Kirkpatrick's condition was considered critical by the at4 .1:. ..1 : ?j h.iL L! u'iiuiiij; |in_>MiriiiiiJi uuu uoill II in ila 11 ^liters, Mrs. E. G. Gaither of Stutesville, N. CM and Mrs. Allen Graham of Greenville, arrived in Fort Mill Sunday to be with him in his illness. LOCALS VlN FIRST. Fort Mill Takes Measure of Aragon in Opening Contest. Playing in good form for the opening contest of the season, the Fort Mill ball team Saturday afternoon on the borne lot bad little trouble in rounding up the Aragon mill boys from Rock Hill, 7 to 3. For five innings the game was closely contested, the score then standing 0-0, but in the sixth Douglass Nims, Wilbur Ferguson, Andral .Ferguson and Jim , Archer were bandy with the bat and cracked out enough hits to | produce three runs for the home team. After that Fort Mill a<L ded fpur more to make sure of the game. Meanwhile the Aragon boys also were busy and pushed over a trio of runs. The batteries were: Fort Mill, Stevenson and W. Ferguson; Arnfirnn. Thnmnn WnlUnp ?>*?/! Tlmr. roll. Saturday aftornoon the same teams play their setoiul game of the season in Hook Hill, and on the following Saturday afternoon the Fort Mill boys expect to put on another game on the home grounds. team is composed of all home boys who, with the encouragement of good attendance at the games, promise high glass ball. LIQUOR OUTFIT TAKEN. Sheriff Quinn and Other Officers Find Still Near Fort Mill. Saturday morning Sheriff Fred F. Quinn, State Constable Horace Johnson, Magistrate John Ford of Bethel township and Magistrate's Constable Frank Allen found on the farm of Bert Nivens, in Fort Mill township near the dam of the Catawba Power company, a copper still of 30 gallons capacity of whiskey and 250 gallons of beer. There was said to be evidence that the still had beep in operation for some time. The beer was destroyed and the outfit taken to York by the offi-cers. Monday Bert Nivens was arested on the charge of violating the prohibition laws. He gave bond in the sum of $500 for appearance for trial. ti i_ i* i* /% * onerm t^uinn was quotea as saying that the still Was an upto-date affair, the best moonshining outfit he had seen in his experience with York county blockaders.. DR. N. F. WINTERS COMING. "Billy Sunday of. Agriculture" to Speak in Fort Mill Tuesday night, March 29, at 8 o'clock, farmers of this section will have the opportunity ol' hearing at the auditorium of the Fort Mill high school one of the best known agricultural speakers in the South when l)r. N. E. Winters of the extension service of Clemson college delivers an address .on soils and fertilizers, on which he is said to be a specialist, llis talk promises to be practical and timely. Speaking yesterday of the address Dr. Winters will deliver in Fort Mill, R. M. Smith, teacher of agriculture in the Fort Mill high school, said: "If the farmer has any problems he wants solved, SUch as llOW to cnrninl oni.lit,. ? ""'"'V in his soil, how to improve the drainage, how to terrace his land, \\ hat crops to plant, the kind and quantity of fertilizer to use on his soil for the different crops, I)r. Winters will furnish him the information." PRICE OF COTTON. Interesting Averages for Last Ninety-one Years. Walter Hanks Meacham, cashier of the Savings Hank of Fort Mill, furnishes The Times with the folowing information relative to the cotton crop of the South for the last 91 years: If all the cotton had been sold at the highest price reached in each year, the average for the 91 years wold have been 20 2-3 cents. If all the cotton had been sold at the lowest price quoted each year, the average for the 91 years would have been 11 2-3 cents. The average price per pound for the 91 years was 16 1-30. Leaving out 1lie abnormal prices paid during the Civil war and the World war, excluding 186166 and 1914-20. the average high- > est price for the 91 years was 145-79; the average lowest price 101-2; general average 13 11-39. Weather for Last Week. During the week ending last Sunday the mean temperature at Charlotte, N. C., whose weather ~v...i?iuiip me prauiicuuy lilt" same as those of Fort Mill, was exceeded only once during the last 42 years, according to the weather bureau records of that city. The mean temperature for the week was 05.6 degrees, which was exceeded by only half a ?degree when the thermometer reached G6.1 in the third week of March, 1894. Normal temperature for March's third week of this year was f>0.9. There *is an excess of temperature for the month of 231 degrees and 326 for the year, the weather bureau announces. to Whom It May Concern. On the assumption that the same is being violated because of ignorance of its existence, 1 beg to call attention to the Act of March 9. 1918, "To Regulate All Mercantile and Industrial Establishments, Other than Corporations, Having a Place of Business in This State, to Disclose the Names and Addresses of the Propi ietors Thereof, and to Provide ? I) ti- f ~ a imany ior failure to Do So," etc. Compliance with the Act requires the filing with me of a statement giving the name under which the business is being done, and the name or names of the owner or owners of such business. I have the necessary blanks which I will be pleased to forward upon application, and which when properly filled out I will record for the fee prescribed by law?One dollar. In addition to this registration with the Clerk of Court, the law requires the names of the owners of a place of business be conspicuously posted about such place of business in plain Roman letters, T. E. McMACKIN. 3t C. C. Pis., York County. I .. . i THE FORT MILL TDBB8, FORT 10 Cust For ev< PATHE PHOI Fact;! There are J ton nnnnlo r\t,t S?? vvu l\fl O " I ? ery Pathe Phono- # graph. That means just one thing?df : you want to be sure of your Pathe, act, and act now. A small deposit J : now will avoid a uisappoimment at \ll a later day. g The ' phonograph! \ Step in and list PAT# Costs no more ordinary phoi r YOUNG & THE FORT MILL FUR .... . . * > \ THE CITY (> Upper Main Street, Fort Mill, serving meals or short orders f 1 ... xtr 1? tt . 0 nun;. tt c niaKc every errort 0 If you are in town for a short < | care to trouble to go home at nr (i glad to hav^ you try olir servic< !j J. H. PATTERSOP 1 BASEB :: We carry a large stc :: brated Reach Base : make selections from \\ l vti r hdi ir* i JU1 1 LiJU i/IVUU ' < * * > JOB PRII AT THE TIMES OFFICE *: ' V * MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA omers joGRAPH NMpt Y\ The Pathe plays all makes of records. i Hear the new records. Note kow faithfully the work of the artist is brought out in every one. jUII IV L UC IE than the nograph WOLFE :niture men. than the prices of city garagei We are the authorized agents I and Ford Parts?the genuine Do not forget that we carry i Hiichelin Tires, two of the bef HEATH Mi A Rat That Didn't Small Aftar Being Dead for Three Months "I swear It was dead three months." writes Mr. J. Sykes (N. J ). "I saw this rat every day: put **me Rat-Snap behind a barrel. Months afterwards, my wife looked behind the barrel. Tbere it was?dead." Rat-Snap sells in three sizes for 35c. 03c, $1.23. Sold and guaranteed by LYTLE RDUO CO. THE CASH 8TOHK. f -^4' % * ' x .4' * | HIDDEN 4 J! Persons who depend upon i homes for the safe-keepin | sual risk at this time, whe I throughout the country. | a place is not only apt tc | money, but actually endai | er. Aside from this, then | loss by fire, and the fact t <! lutely idle, producing notl < > < 1 - By depositing your resen < I National Bank, under stric '! and protection, you insure <? fire, you eliminate the poa < * and you receive an incom that steadily swells the or * * I First Nati t Capital and Surplus .4 T. n. SPRAT! Z J. L. SPRATT, Vice President f OSMOND RARBGlt, ! T Vice President | Low Fertili I We are in a position to offei on Fertilizers. We do not ins but if you see that it is bett? t amount we will do our best 1 I Made-to-Mea & There is a distinction and cli 1 to Order, but iust because of ithat they must be costly. , buy a fine Ail-Wool Made-to I ular prices between $27 and vince you. Robt. F. ( :; WILL NIMS I Prices Cul Repair ** "We have made a big reductior J; and truck repairing, along wi 4 * our complete stock of automol ' ' mminv nn vmir rensiiv ( CAFE | makes a specialty of * to those who are in a to please our patrons. ^ time only or do not <> leal time, we would be ? k 4, Manager <[ ALL! I md young men ;; * p I take advantage i delightful days $ * * spring to play ;; sat game. ;; ck of the cele- ;; ball Goods to * t * p 4 * 9 , , 4 * A COMPANY I MTING PHONE 112 \ .... gBB?BH?? MONEY i < > < ' 1 ! J! 1_ 1 - .1 niaing places aDOUK cneir i, * < g of savings run an unu- !! n crime is so prevalent ? A sum of money in such !! < > cause the loss of the ! I < * lgers the life of the own- ! I < s is the possibility of total <! < > hat such funds are abso- ! \ i > ling. j1 re funds with this strong ! :t government supervision ! s them against theft and > .sibility of personal injury < > le in the form of interest > iginal amount. < > <? < > * > ? !; 4 < > < > 4 > 4 i onal Bank i; 4 > ... $ 5o,ooo.oo 4 > 4 4 > \ President < ' \V. T. 1JARKON, Cashlor <> STANHOPE L.IQON. Assistant Cashlor '' 4 4 4 > 4 > S * s 4v*4^4444444444 4 izer Prices | VAli tlia irnmr Kaef ?noV? ?mhaa 5 ^ J??? '"V "v"3" v"iQli , , ist on your buying Fertilizer, ! I it for you to use a reasonable 1? ;o accommodate you. J J > < > isure Clothes <? iss to Clothes that are Made < > i > this many men have the idea J j Are you aware that you can !! Measure Suit at any of the pop- ?? $70? Come in and let us con- ] | < > < * i > i k i ? Srier, Jr. \, Manager. " J \ < > < > t on AutO :: Work < i <? < > i in prices on all automobile J J th a general cut in prices on \\ >ile parts. We can save you < I )ur prices are much lower J [ s. i ! for this section of Ford Cars J 1 Willi) * ' i r i full stock of Goodyear and < > it makes on the market. < > OTORCO. ( * 4 A. L. PARKS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND FUNERAL EQUIPMENT - MOTOR HEARSE FORT MILL, S. C. ' I