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Short Stories Picked Up by The
Times Reporter.
*? J. Mi Brmckett and his family are
again living in Fort Mill, after having
made their home in Huntersville, N.?.,
for the hut two yesrst
Mrs. George Hall of Charlotte, N. C.,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Crane
of Fort Mill, is a patient* at a Charlotte
hospital, where she was operated upoq
for appendicitis a few days ago.
An address which pleased about 100
farmers of the community was delivered
in the Fort Mill town hall Saturday afternoon
bv Dr. N. E. Winters of Clem
son college, who in an expert on soils
and fertiliser.
The Fort Mill ball team Saturday afternoon
connected with the minor end
of a 6 to 1 score in a game with Great
Falls on the latter team's grounds. To
poor fielding was attributed the loss ot
the game. The next game of the locals
is scheduled for Saturday afternoon
with the Pinevllle team of the Mecklenburg
County league in Fort Mill.
J. Lee Capps has given up the place
he has held for several years with the
Fort Mill Lumber company and left yesterday
morning for Jacksonville, Flu.,
where he will spend several days with
his two brothers who live in that citv.
Mr. Capps said it was not improbable
that he would later move with his family
to J acksonville.
Sacrament of the Lord's supper will
be observed at the Fort Mill Presbyterian
church next Sunday morning. In
the absence of the pastor, the Kev. J.
B. Black, who is ill at a Charlotte hospital,
the officers expect to have a memx
ber of the faculty of the theological
seminary in Columbia preach the communion
sermon.
MisB Nora ourke and S. G. BassinIfPl*.
VUiinirpniinU frnm ( 'horlnffo M f '
were married by Magistrate J. R. Haile
Saturday afternoon. Mr. Bassinger is
said to have Rtated in a low tone of
voice that he and his bride came to
South Carolina to he married to escape
a possible display of mother-in-law objection
to him.
The Christian Endeavor society of the 1
Fort Mill Presbyterian church plans
to till Sunday evening the hour usually
given over to the evening service with
a special program to which the congregation
and the public generally are invited.
It iB expected that the principul
address will be made by a member of
the faculty of the Columbia Theological j
seminary.
Announcement of an engagement of
local interest which has just been made
is that of Clarence S. Link, Jr., of Laurens,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Link of
Fort Mill, to Miss Ruby Lucile Anderson
of WiHiamston, who are to be married
in June. Miss Anderson is the
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. J. F.
Anderson and at present is teaching in
the Abbeville public school.
The linotype is both a labor-saving
and time-saving machine for newspaper
composition, but it sometimes breaks as
do other machines and causes things to
go awry in the office. Such has been
the experience of The Times this week.
Monday the burner on its machine gave
out and a new one was not to be had this
side of New Orleans, forcing the paper
to return to hand-set type for its local
news this week.
The military bureau of the war department
has approved the report made
on the condition of the Tom Hall Guards
by Maj. B. F. Ristine, following his inspection
of the company on March 22.
Among other complimentary references
to the comuany, which received a good
rating, is the statement that Fort Mill
is a community of only 2,000 people and
that "the company has for many years
been a matter of general interest and
pride. This has been increased by the
service of the company in the World
war."
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?- ai liters ui rori mm township are
planning to plant several hundred acres
of their landB this year to velvet beans.
One shipmentof t?0 bushels of the beans
was received /by farmers of the lower
section of the township a few days ago
independent of many smaller shipments
which have recently been received for
local planting. Velvet beans are highly
recommended as a forage crop and are
usually grown with corn or cflne, but
"they ain't specially good for folks to
eat" in the opinion of a negro inmate
of an insane asylum who was seen
masticating a mouthful of green ones.
Three hours and thirty minutes were
consumed Tuesday evening in the hearing
in Magistrate J. R. Hade's court of
a case against White Baker. Oscar
Parks, Allen Knight end Zeb Gordon,
all of Fort Mill, on the charge of disorly
conduct before the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty. The warrant was
sworn out by W. H. McKinney. Another
warrant, sworn out by Eld McKinney,
charges Allen Knight with assault
and battery with intent to kill.
This case is yet to be disposed of by
the magistrate. Both cases grew out
of a disturbance Sunday afternoon two
mile* north of town.
Petitions addressed to the board of 1
? commissioners of York county asking
that the road recently opened by Sena- :
, tor S. E. Bailes in Fort Mill tbwnship
be accepted as a public road are being i
, circulated among the freehold voters of |
the township. The road begins in
Fort Mill township at Bailes' bridge
and intersects the Do bey's bridge road
a mile and a half south of town. If
the county takes over the road, it is
' said efforts will then be made to have
the government declare it a poet road.
The public roads through the Pleas- (
" ant Valley section are now being im-;
proved by the Lancaster county chaingang.
It is said to be the pnrpoee of
the Lancaster authorities to sand-day
the road from the North Carolina line
1 jBj * to the town of Lancaster, a distance of
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Matting, Art
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THE FORT MILL FURf
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pAILURE to save ha
hopes of many rr
wide trail of despair a
its wake. The folly <
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men unwittingly elect
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j some of your earning
5 an account in our ii
ment. One dollar wi
that first dollar the firs
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ORT MILL, SOUTH OAEOUHi
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$20, $25,a
This showing if
event. We hove |
assortment of suits
figures as further
fact that elothing
store are "right."
I considerably mor
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prices.
We liave all sty]
in fine all wool Gra
Blues; fast eoloriugi
sut.isfv or monov lui
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SHIRTS
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Main St.
HOME OF HA III
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wwwu v i vivinvii
indigestion;
TbeJforJ't Bfock-Draofkt Highly
ReeoiueiM by * Tumimi
Gckit for Triable* IU ahiif
from Torpid
Lhror.
East Nashville, Tenn.? The efficiency
ef Thedford's Black-Draught, the
genuine, herb, liver medicine, la
vouched for by Mr. W. N. Parsons, a
grocer of this city. "It is without
doubt'the best llvsr medicine, and. I
don't believe I could get along without
It. I take It for sour stomach, headache,
bad liver. Indigestion, and all
'.her troubles thaV are the result of
a torpid liver.
"1 have known and used It for years,
and can and do highly recommend ltp
to every one. I won't go to bed with* j
out It in the house. It will do all It
claims to do. I can't say enough for.
It."
Many other men and women throughout
the country have found BlackDraught
Just as Mr Parsons describes
?valuable In regulating the liver to
Its normal functions, and in eloansing
the bowels of Impurities.
The*ford's Black-Draught llrer medicine
1* the original and only genuine.
Accept no Imitations or substitutes.
, Always ask for Thcdford's. gg
Beautiful new Voile Waists 90
cents to $1.00, and Silk and
Georgette Waists at. $2.50 to $3.25
just arrived at Mnssey's. N
LISTEN!
Baker's is the Barber Shop that
baked the prices, but it didn't do
it at the expense of service.
Hair Cut 25c
Shampooing, plain.. ...*... 25c
Singeing .. 25c
Tonic A 25c
Shave J. 15c
Massage, plain \ .. .. 25c
Come and see us. Wlr'will save
yon money and Mm^iway
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priced this tine
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evidence of the
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screen stories and lie
rip-roaring comedy ^
different-full of actior
. it -
with love - ncn with si
a tremendous wallop
delightful - extraordin<
Majestic Th
Next Monday at
Open 4 p. m.? i
t THE CITY
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l> Upper Main Street, Fort Mill,
[ serving meals or short orders
> hurry. We make every effort
> If you are in town for a short
J care to trouble to go home at it
I glad to have you try our servic<
JOHN S. BAYNI
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tegular Prices.
CAFE t
makes a specialty of f
to those who are in a ^
to please our patrons. ?
time only or do not # .
teal time, we would be J
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