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Short StoriM Picked Up by Th* Ttnm Boportor. N Mra Grady Lemmond of Char* lotte visited her parents; Mr. and Mrs. A-. L. Crane,# in Fort MM1 this vreek. * t Mrs. J. T. Young and her sons, Jaines T. Young, Jr., and Ken* v.. 1: u'-in i uuugt ai t- a|n;iiuui( iiiv i week at Chimney Rock, N. C. Fort Mill men drawn to serve aa second week jurors at the July term of court for York county are Osmond Barber, C. S. Link, and S. W. Merritt. Mrs. E. P. Gat ling of Charlotte is a guest this week of Mrs. Elisabeth M. Belk. Before her mar riage Mrs. Gatling was Miss Mary Belk of Fort Mill and was a sister of the late T. B. Belk. > Following a meeting of the board of trustees of the Fort Mill 1 i l! ^. fri? _ * m-iiuoi uisxrici ruesaay uiutnoon, two members of the board, J. T. Young and W. D. Wolfe, tendered their resignations. Miss Daisy Haile of Heath Springs, who is attending the summer school for teachers at Winthrop college, spent the week j end with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Haile at their home in Fort Mill. Wednesday morning work was resumed at both the plants of the ,Fort Mill Manufacturing company, following a two-day suspension of operations fof the employees to celebrate the Fourth. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence S. Link of Laurens, who were married at the home of the bride's parents at Williamston last Wednesday evening, have been spending a few days in Fort Mill at the home of Mr. Link's father and mother, Mr *1*1(1 r S I.inlr Col. T. B. Spratt and A. L. HarriR, president and director, 'respectively, of the First National bank of Fort Mill, left yesterday morning for Kanugn Lake, N. C., to attend this week the annual meeting of the South Caroline Bankers' association. The meeting at the Fort Mill Baptist church Tuesday evening addressed by J. T. Henderson of Knoxville, Tenn., on "Stewardship," was of a high order and the address was well received. The church was filled with men from the various local churches and from Flint Hill, Pleasant j Valley and Pineville Baptist churches and Pleusunt Hill Methodist church. W. B. Meacham, Sr., Col. T. B. Spratt and C. P. Blankenship have received from the governor's office notification of their appointment as members of the Fort Mill township highway commission. Their commissions will j be forwarded from Columbia as soon n?j tlit> Iwtmlki thuv ntnat ?vi'. 1 cute liuve been forwarded bo the clerk of court and receive the ap- j proval of the county authorities, j TOWN OF FOET MILL Eeceipta and Disbursements for the Three Months Ending June 30, 1921. % RECEIPTS. ' Dog tax $ 1.00 Fire Dept., State fund.. 139.20 , Office supplies, stationery sold 1.00 j Fiues 294.00 License tax 223.41 ! Property tax 1.20 j Sanitary tax 509.50 , Street tax 1.038.00 i i $2,207.40 DISBURSEMENTS. Board of health $ 15.75 f Care of prisoners .. .. 4 16.25 \ Cemetery Dept 3.00 Election expense 10.00 Fines returned. .. .\ ... 1.00 Fire Dept 69.50 interest . .. 718.33 Legal services 12.50 Lights 291.30 Office expense 84.96 ' Parks and wells ...... 3.00 i Police Dept 476.50 ! License tax refilttded .. 3.75 Public printing 37.25 Salaries: Mayor $3. Recorder $87.50*, Clerk $90.50. Aldermen $33. Public Wks. Coinn. $9 223.00 Sanitary Dept 401.34 Street work 222.70 t Town hall .. .... 38.00 j 1 * $2,628.22 Excess of disbursements over receipts $ 420.82 . Balance on hand April 1, 1921 761.78 Balance on hand July' 1. 1921 340.96 C. S. LINK, Clerk & Treas. Attest: \ A. O. .TONES. T. *F. LYTLE, ? A. L. PARKS, Committee-o? Finance. V The United States manufuetg ured enohgh rubber tires during the year ending June 20, 1920, to supply the millions of cars tbat are skimming over her splendid rnMlt Arts) aliA *r\ thin thnn* Al\ ? ..rw w. ??M|f ?WUV TV million dollars Worth of them to porf& of the world from bouny Scotland to volcano-torn Java. 4 * Crude rubber" comes to our | shores free of duty from places | equally as divergent in latitude," soys a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "Brazil contributed more than 58 million of the 275 million pounds which we received last year, the Dutch East Indies an equal or slightly larger amount, and the British Straits Settlements nearly five times as much as either of these, while sundry contributions of balta. guayule gum, gutta jelutong. gutta percha. and india rubber come from Japan, Belgian Congo. Freuch Africa. Venezuela. Mexico. Panama. Peru, the British possessions v and many other countries. "The discovery of rubber, or I caoutchouc, is attributed to Co- b lumbus who reported that he had found the natives of Haiti play- E* ing with halls that bounced. I Pries?lev. the e?*cnt English ehem- I ist. found, while experimenting r with the substance, that it would erase lead pencil marks. For r want* of a better name, he dubbed 1g it ruoDer. ami the name has stuck and is used, almost exclusively in English-speaking countries. "The large balls or leuvcs of raw rubber imported to America are made not from the sap, as is ordinarily supposed, but from the milk of the rubber trees. The hydrocurbonous substance when it first comes from the trees reminds one of the juice that comes from the everyday milkweed. "The Para rubber, one of the best of the grades of raw rubber, which got its name from the port of Bra/.il from which so much of it is shipped, is obtained from trees that thrive in the hot damp forests of the Amazon. Many of the trees measure from 8 to 10 feet,in girth and 60 feet in height. The leaves ore three-lobed and the flowers small and inconspicuous. "Rubber inspectors go through the forests and pick out the trees to be tapped, cut several notches in each and fix below the notch a cup to catch the milk which immediately begins to flow. After a few hours the flow cenfces and V flin mi no a**o "???rvti.wl ?*' - ? " in* vupn nir rinpiini ill i U n UUL" | y er Teeeptaele. A fire is lighted G and the nuts from various kinds G of palm trees are thrown on it G in order to make a dense smoke. G Then the natives dip paddles in * the rubber latex and hold them G in the smoke until the fluid eoag C ulutes and forms a thin layer 011 G the paddle. The paddle is dip- G prd into the latex again and G again and smoked until a sufli- G ciently large quantity of rubber * is collected. It is then removed V and rolled into leaves for export. G It comes to the manufacturer in C this form, brown or black 011 the G outside, gray on the inside, and G vi'h a peculiar smoked-fish odor. G Inferior grades of rubber usually V have a very disagreeable smell. V "Though its properties have G long been known, rubber has .just G within the last century come into <Q everyday practical use. Mack in G tosh, a canny Scotchman, in 1823 G dissolved some rubber in naptlui G and spread the solution 011 a mar- ^ hie slab to dry. Hj then fasten- G ed his rubber sheet between two * pieces of fabric and introduced pthe world to the raincoat. > :? ..... ? i fi f n? 1 ? II inn ii i *11 iur ? norms Ooodvear. an ardent enthusiast orer the possibilities of rubber, who plunged his fortune into the game and died discredited, to nuike possible the overshoes nyd the automobile tire. He had mixed, some rubber and sulphur and while dissertating on the wonderful qualities of the substance. he let sorhe of the ovxt lire fall upon the iloor of the redhot Rtove near which l\e was standing. Casually looking down on what he had spilled, he noted with amazement that it had hardened without melting. "Frantically grabbing a k.dfe he scraped the residue from the stove. His friends thought that the.i^htAl seen him suddenly become insane, since they already repirded him more or less unbalancWTn <he subject, hu* h?? had discovered that it war, possible to vulcanize rubber - a process which makes it no 'ongcr sensitive to the change? of the seasons and increases its etlength and elasticity.'' L i > iBKv .* ? ** * I Rl^v) BHIBftg<E<^Efcffi Iff I yg^? ,vf - * | i . ** jjpgK ? ?.? ? >000000000000 r ( CO ? Let us put in at 01 r supply at SUMMF CULP BR . ? PHONE <xxxx>ooooooo< To Delinquent Ti It is tlie policy of the Fort I iness as far as possible tli roug through its advertising eolu scribers are behind with thei essar.v for the paper to remii cannot "pay our bills and inee their good wishes, however Tillies needs the iriniiPv dim are behind one or more year burden the paper is carrying This is meant quite as much subscribers to whom the paj from Fort Mill as it is for t Look at the yellow label on t the paper itself?it tells just p>ed. For instance, if it sa; are in arrears for yopr subst It is expensive and troubles* subscribers and The Times h necessary to do this in your of The Timet is $1.50 per ye , . ! * * FOR YC T - + . ' - ' FURNFI WAN % SEE i t YOUNGI THE FURN OOOOOOOOOOOOCX n= m. u I AL 8 ice your Winter's 0 RTIME PRICES. ? OTHERS | NO. IB. 0 ?oooooooo<xxxx mes Subscribers ill Times to transact its busrh its business office mul not inns, but so many of its sub- ! r subscriptions that it is necul them in this way that we !t our other obligations on extensive they may be. The p it on subscriptions and if you 's you can help lighten the ; by paying up promptly, for out-of-town subscribers. >er goes through the mails hose at home or near home, he wrapper of your paper or when your subscription exys "2June20" that means you Us ;ription since June 2, 1920. ?me to send out statements to lopes you will not make it case. The subscription price I THE PUBLISHER* ; A' ( = - (Uw? s' . ' JC> *$ x. rr*j itfji nil or ?? ^ / * )UR 1TRF 1 TS i| JS I WOLFE '1 fld IITURE MEN 31 II ZZZ3 EEE ti 1 * in its natural co See this shingle at Fort Mill I FORT Mil =? ii ?11= OB PR / . * . . . \ ' r THE TIMES OFFIC . 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