Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 07, 1921, Image 4
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
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$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
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* $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.
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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. >
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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
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