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; IfflE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic?Published. Thursdays. ' Wis Mwrtlwi, ?He* ?i PMfclhkw. The Times Invites contributions on live subjects but does not agree to publish more than 200 words on any subject. The tight Is reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those interested. Telephone, local and lonff distance, No. lit. Entered at the postofflce at Fort Mill, S. C., as mall matter of the second class. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1921. Governor Cooper makes some crackerjack appointments. Mayor Rlalock and Councilman Marshall are in an unenviable po^ sit ion as a result of the prosecution they will have to face on the charge of having had business transactions with the city in violation of a State statute, the mavor beini? accused of sellincr group insurance to the city for its employees and the councilman of selling hay to the city. The case against the men may fail, it is hoped that both will be able to provb their innocense; but whether the case fails or not it will serve to dirept attention to the violation of this law which is belieVed to be widespread throughout the State. We have heard of numerous instances of oflieials taking advantage of their connection with the public's business to salt down a few extra dollars for themselves and these instances were generally known to the peoV pie directly concerned, but nobody seemed to take the species of ollieial graft seriously enough to try . to stop it. Disregarding the business degression and the consequent inability of the people to pay an increased charge for anything, the South Carolina railroad commission grants the *!iell Telephone company the right to increase its rates in this State. The rates of this company already were higher than they should have been and if any revision was to be made for its service it should have been made downward. Pretty soon the people of Soulh Carolina as a whole are going to believe what some already believe?that the power vested in the railroad commission is seldom exercised in U.L..I* O .1 1 1 *1-1 *1 uenau 01 me people aim uuii mi' commission is too frequently responsive to the pleas of the corporations over which it has supervision. Mandatory legislation in this connection looking to the safeguarding of the interests of the people would not he amiss. For instance, a law should he passed reorganizing the railroad commission and taking from it authority to grant public service corporations the power to increase their charges without the consent of the railroad commit~ tees of both houses of the (leneral Assembly. It will be surprising if the people do not have to pay the $25,000 whieh a Richland county jury a few days ago awarded the pjaintiffs in the Sundel case against the State. The evidence seemed to be clear and unmistakable that the State, acting through its board of health, furnished impure typhoid serum whieh caused the j death of the Sandel child, and it . is a reasonable conclusion that the facts in the case will not be disregarded by the supreme court should that tribunal hear the case on appeal. Somebody, some indi\iduul, connected with the State board of health is morally if not legally responsible for the death of the child and that responsibility should be definitely fixed. South Carolina pays sufficient sal WF kj \* f ;.. '*W'?. S^L j aries to the employees of the board to insure the people against such negligence as was displayed in this case. The inexcusable sacrifice of the child's life was of course the most serious aspect of the case and the $25,000 will not repay the^parents for the loss they have sustained. But the $25,000 is money the people would not hjive been called 'upon for had there ,been exercised by the State board of health the caution it is due the public. In the opinion of The Tim&s the Sandel case emphasizes the correctness of the view expressed in these columns a few weeks ago?that the Slate board of health should be invesi! a. _ a i . iigaicci ov intelligent members of the General Assembly bent upon doing their duty. "POTATO BUG TIME." (Written for The Times.) At this time of the year the Colorado potato bug. or "tater bug" as he is often called, is appearing on our young potato plants. If we do not destroy these bugs at one'e they will lay eggs which will soon hatch into the reddish looking grub worms that also eat the potato vines. In a month or six weeks a new generation of beetles may he produced. Therefore for every hug we destroy now we are destroying the possibilities of future bugs. There are two old methods commonly in vogue for controllii g or fighting these hugs. One is the old time-worn, laborious . 4 1. 1 1 I . ... minim ?)i numi pic King, which is not only back breaking but disgusting 1o most people. Another method is the applying of paris green as a dust or as a liquid in the form of a spray. The modern method is to kill them with arsenate of lead in the dust or liquid form. Aresenate of lead,which is a white looking powder. may be obtained at drug stores or at other stores handling bug poison. It has three advantages over paris green: First, it hani't the tendency to burn the plant foliage like paris green, second, it is white and 0115 can STATEMENT Of the Ownership, Management, Etc., of The Fort Mill Times, Published Weekly at Fort Mill, S. C., Required by the Act of August 24, 1912. Editor?W. R. Bradford, Fort Mill, S. C. Managing Editor?W. R. Bradford, 'Fort Mill, S. C. Publisher ? W. R. Bradford, Fort Mill, S. C. Owner?W. R. Bradford, Fort Mill, S. C. Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders, holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: Mortgagees?Savings Bank, Fort Mill, S. C. W. R. BRADFORD. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of April, 1921. C. S. UNK, Notary Public S. C. Our second shipment of Millinery just arrived at Massey's. Save half your money. LET ME REPAIR YOUR | SHOES Bring your Shoes to R. M. Hood for good wark and reasonable prices. Terms, cash. Shoes and Hosiery for sale, as usual, at bargain prices. Come to see me. R. M. HOOD THE SHOE MAN I Cabbage Plants for immediate shipment. $1.75 1,000. postpaid* Medlin Plant Farm. Phone 125-B. Fort Mill. S. C. | 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, Sole* 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. I J. P. B I v? ' i ^ .... . >i'W' FORT MILL TOOB better see how to apply it thfin paris green, which does not show up conspicuously on the plant; i third, it sticks to the foliage better. " '* To apply it as a dust one should use a porous sack or bag. Place the powder in the bag or sack and in the morning when the dew is 011 the potato plants hold the bag above the plant to be dusteu and with a stick tap the bag lightly until sufficient powder covers the leaves. Be sure and do not let the bag touch the dew or the powder will clog up in the sack. Also be sure to see that each plant is covered thoroughly. If one has a good garden spray pump?say a five gallon compressed, air pump?he can use one-tenth of a pound of the powder to five gallons of water. Stir the powder into the water thorougly. The addition of a small piece of laundry soap, about the size of a hen's egg. will make the poison stick to the plant better. If you spray or dust, do it now and do it thoroughly. R. M. S. Yesterday Miss A una Wolfe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I). Wolfe, was successfully operated upon at a Charlotte hospital^ for appendicitis. "A Stitch in Tin: Does your c A new top? New back cu New isinglass Plate glass in Entire set of < Cushions recc Bad cushion s Doors recovei Windshield n Dents taken i Springs weld< Axles straigh Painting or r ' We are at y i. C. HARL Black Street ROCK HI ? v -A.. O. JO \ GOODTHI Grocrirkfi, Market, Country "I'rotlutv. I'linue Fourteen. * NOT IE 15 INTING HCE - - PHONE 112 1 1 V/ JL Effective Friday, prices for ICE are as 500 pounds or more per 100 pounds, one delivery 25 pounds, one delivery 12 pounds, one delivery No deliveries less than 12 poii Give us yc t,ULT 1SK PHOf JOB PR! AT THE TIMES OFI % I 3, FORT MILL, 8. 0. Arrest Men, Seise Cars. I Circulating in Fort Mill town- I ship yesterday afternoon in search j of liquor law violators. Sheriff I Fred Quinu and State Constable I Horace Johnson, arrested Hugh | wisner, isud Hunter and P. H. llinson, all of Fort Mill, on the charge of transporting and seized the Ford automobile of Wisher, after a shot was said to have been fired at it to induce the driver to J: stop the car near the Catawba river bridge . In connection with the arrest of, the men and the seizure of Wisher's car, another Ford automobile, driven by a ne- r = gro and bearing a North Carolina license plate, was seized by the officers. Wisher, Hunter and llinson were each placed under a $200 bond for appearance before I" Magistrate ?T. R. Ilaile Friday afternoon on the charge of transporting. . ? SANITARY TAX~ DUE. Notice is hereby given that the semi-annual Town Sanitary Tax is due and payable without pen- 1. altv during the month of April. C. S. LINK. Clerk. j The subscription price of the m: 1 1 a j l uu nun limes utu ueeu reuucea j= ie Saves Nine." ar need / rtains? curtains? back? curtains? >vered? spings replaced? red? epaired? >ut of body? 1 ed? 1! evarnishing? our service. UN & CO. ILL. S. C. Phone 279 iNEIS [NGS TO EAT \ . f ICE! , April 1, 1921, ?Ur follows: week . . 50 cts. cwt . . . 60 cts. cwt 18 cts. . . . . 10 cts. inds. >ur orders. ? HTHFPC II , . .... SWi-'' .. - ' v ' v ' 't- -' * r " . |ES Build Th; NC GO AHEAD AND i^UILD IT down the line by expert? in c business. The reason?you < qr hen house with less drain < time in the last five years an any time in the next iive yea You remember how the cwnei # when it was selling- at 40 cen cents were stung. Prospects longer for a further decline iti rial are apt to have i".e sam? With the cost of labor way 1 several years, you can put up s planning at a much smaller think. As proof of this.take ing for exampie. L?.*.t year i Now we are selling the same per hundred. Take advantage < in the price of ma BUILD THAT Cnrf Mill I iuii miu i =11 31 l(= This Week Offered at Sugar Good Syrup Peach Large can Sliced P Grated Pineapple B. M. BR. PHONF. See Shoi For The Grocery Offered Th B. C. 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