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* ivE v73 ABOUND TOWN. 8hort Stories Picked Up by The Times Reporter. The Rev. Edward Mack, D. D., of Richmond. Va., paid a short visit to his sister. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Belle, a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. .Joe McMurray of Blacksbnrg were guests for the lust week-end of Mr. McMurray's father. .J. II. McMurray, at his home in Fort Mill. Work was begun a few days ago on a cottage oil Academy street into which Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Creighton will inove as soon as it is completed. Mr. and Mrs. 11. II. Boyd of Charlotte. Mrs. A. T. Land of Beaufort. X. t'.. and Miss Janie Primrose of Wilmington. Del., wort' guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Boyd at their home on Hall street. Among tin* young people who lot Fori Mill last week for the various colleges in this section were Miss Martha Dyches, to Anderson college; .1. T. Harrison, Furinan university, and Murphy Cook and Hudson Mills. Cleiuson college. Carpenters several days ago began work on a building on Hall stieet to replace the store room of It. M. Bradford which was destroy* d by fire several weeks ago. Mr. Bradford plans t?? reenter the grocery business as soon as the building is completed. Mi---f.es Anna Wolfe. Kli/.obcth Mills and Virginia Barber of Fori Mill are first year students a* Winlhrop college. #Miss Fltna Bradford is also a student at W in. hrop. having returned Tuesday afternoon for her second year's work at the institution. The Rev. .1. R. Smith, pastor of Flint Hill Baptist church, became seriously ill several days ago and ?> . Hiivni 10 il t IIHriOIlC Hospital. 11?' wns removed to the'Raptist hospital in Columbia Monday morning and it is reported that In* stood tlt?* trip well and is resting more comfortably at this time \Y. li. Wilson, Esq.. of Rock IIill is of llit* opinion that there should In- a change in the time of lidding tin September term of court for York county. "Tin time of holding the court now causes a conflict with the f 11 to in of federal court in Reck H 11." saitl Mr. Wilson to The Times a few days ago. "and I th nU the York legislative delcgati? n would rentier the people a so -vice by providing for the et untv court to he held a week o? t \\ t? la It r. " Tweleve Fort Mill men have tl is far enlisted in the Third battalion headquarters company. First regiment, N. (\ N. (L. which Arthur <'. Lytic, first lieutenant is organizing ami which he will command. Eight more enlitments will complete the half of the company to bo located in Fort Mill, tlio other half to bo in Rook Hill. Vest onlay Mr. Lytic said the building out of wbioh The Times has just moved probably would he secured as company headquarters. The manufacturers of a job press in The Times office doubtless would be proud of their handiwork could they see how it withstood a 12-foot tumble downstairs a few days ago when an effort was bcinp made to move the press from the first to the second floor in the huildinp. The rope by which the press was bcinp drawn upstairs broke when the press was within three feet of the second floor landinp and the machine tumbled back to the first floor, turning a complete somersault in the descent. The press was uninjured except for tin breaking of the "throw-off" handle, which can be easily repaired. Among the visitors to Fort Mill during the week was .1. L. drier of West Faint Beach. Fla. Mr. drier is a former Fort Mill township citizen who was reared in the Flint Hill section and is a kinsman of R. F. drier of Fort Mill, lie moved to Florida many ccars apo. but has since returned for a number of visits to his friends and relatives in York county. Monday Mr. Grier was i Miii" a party of his Fort Mill friends how. as a hoy 1(5 years old. he voted for General Hampton for governor in 1876. "When the hour for closing the polls ar rived." said Mr. Greire. "one of the negro election managers, an old man. said that 4dis is de fair??st Meet ion ever held in Fort Mill.' " an opinion with which Mr. Grior said he did not take issue because the Democrats had skinned the Radicals to a fareyou-well in the voting. e> x ALL-COTTON RUINOUS. Mr. Lee Again Writes of Boll Weevil Invasion. Editor Fort Mill Times: If you won't get Worried with me, 1 would like to add a little to what 1 said last week about the boll weevil. While 1 am not farming now, if 1 can say a word which will cause our farmers to think about the distress all-cotton has caused in this Southland of ours. I will feel good over it*. 1 said in last week's Times that it had caused some to commit suicide and women and'children to go without clothing ami food. 1 can add that it has caused our children to go without an educa.ion, homes to be lost, woods cut down, land to wash into gullies, and our mules and horses to go half fed, because when a man planted all cotton lie would try to make his feed go as far as he could. So tin* mule went hungry plowing cotton. 1 know whereof 1 speak--1 have been all along there since the Civil war. Cotton is all right to grow it in I. 111* rignt way. but when any man joes in for all cotton anil slights his feci I at home, you can watch hat man?it will get him in the nil. So. my brother farmers, all cotton will get you any way you go at it. ami that is why 1 think 'tie boll weevil a blessing. If you an't make as much you will get (list as much for it as you would for a full crop. The boll weevil will force all to reduce the crop hen nothing else would. Twice in my life I have induced farmers to sign a cotton reduciou pledge, and it seemed that hev p.mi ed more each time. I veal I i he first time 1 went around - i111 the pledge 1 came upon a <ood old man. now dead, who .vas a Methodist minister. He aid that was the best way in the vorhl to get the farmers to plant urn- cotton, and he was right, bat is why the boll weevil will lo good. It is a wonder to me hat (iod has not already sent .i damitv on cotton, because when iv people begin to worship aiivliiug like we have worshiped nttmi. it is a wonder that He as not swept it off the earth. ? Hod bless the boll weevil il will cause us to get more for Ii it we tiiaki Mini cause us to lake our living- at homo. I). A. Leo. PLEASANT VALLEY NEWS. .detesting Items From Progres sive Community. A. K. Harris of Gastonia, X. (\. .pent the week-end with his sister. Mrs. C. 11. Blackwehler. Miss Mary liailos left Thursday ;oi? Koek Hill to enter Winthrop college. The Ladies' elub of Pleasant Valley was entertained by the La dies' elub of the Harrison section last Friday. The demonstration agents from Mecklenburg and Lancaster counties were present and both gave interesting and instructive talks. Refreshments ..ere served. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Smith of i'harlotte were guests of Mrs. Smith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Harris, the past week-end, en route to Columbia, where Mr. Smith will attend the University of South Carolina. Miss Ethel Loft is. teacher in the Fort Mill graded school, spent i ?lw. .. ....i? i ? u rriv-rini Willi IIIT NISI CI", .Mrs. L. K. Therrell. T. W. Culp, .Miss Anna ('nip and W. B. Patterson attended the meeting of the York Baptist assoeiation in Hock llill last Week. Mr. and Mrs. Krnest Heath of Monroe. N. ('., visited relatives in this section last week. A number of citizens of this community attended the Made-in Carolinas exposition in Charlotte ! last week. O. W. Potts attended the meet- i ing of Mecklenburg presbytery \ at Sharon ehnrch as a delegate from Banks ehnrch last Wednes- ! day. "Spinner." What many citizens considered the longest, hottest summer , through which this section has passed in many years was bro- | ken, temporarily at least, by rain ; Tuesday night. The temperature has been considerably lower since I the rainfall, which was followed by a second shower Wednesday night, and the hope is now gen- ; eral that the backbone of the summer is broken and that there will ere long be a smaller army | of mosquitoes for the people of this community to try to annihilate. THI TORT MILL TIMES, I ICEBERGS. Coastguard cutters have beeu scouting the North Atlautic all summer so passengers and crews oi snips sailing in northern seas may sleep without fear that an lceuerg \>iil creep up 011 them 111 he night. "these floating tvhite castles of the North with their fantastic dealing portent sometimes wander down to latitude 38 degrees, us far south us such sunny climes t.8 Insbon jii i'oriugul or the shores oi Delaware buy," says a uuut'iiii oi me National iieogruphic society, from its Wash.ugion headquarters. "The icebergs winch are to'be s? en during the early spring mouths in me Atlantic are greai frozen tresit water glacier-etuis \Mueh have broken loose from the ice fehls of Greenland and floated with the current into warmer seas. They 'herd' quite Oiten oil the caost of Newfoundland. The warm waters off the northwestern coast of Kurope keep them back on that side .as it?r norm as m degrees. There are few of them also in the North I'aeiiic except near northeastern Asia. "Gorgeously tricked out in white that gleams and sparkles in the sunlight, these monster palaces push out lroni the great sheet ot ice that covers Greenlund. No architectural feat of tlu- ancient i'jgyptiaus or of the liy/untitles, or 01 a Sir t liristopher Wren, can compare with the Karnaks and hundreds of oilier temples which are carved in their Sides by the agents of ei osiolt? No Mlal'Me possesses I he rainbow-tints of their columns, ami no mini-made edifice lias so tairylike, capricious ami bizarre a character. 'I In- w hole gamut of hluos ami greens plays hide ami seek over their surtacc ami some* limes in summer little cascades tumble over the sides to hide themselves in the waves. But their ghostlike emptiness and the chill of their breath make mariners shiver with dread. Most of tin* icebergs id' the North Atlantic are pushed out from the west coast of (jSreeiilaml between Disco bay ami Smith sotiml or lrom the east coast south ot 4>S degrees latitude. Some of them are as much as 44."> feet above the surface of the water, this being about one-sixth or one seventh 01 their volatile. "As they sail away they necessarily start with some of the i debris which was originally at the bottom of the glacier. Much of this immediately falls to the bottom ot the ocean, having melted its way out. Often they capsize or flop over on one side when the breaking or inciting shifts their centers of gravity. The debris, when it is on the top. quickly plows its way through the iceberg, having absorbed more of ! i... i.....? 1 ???r ii< ui 111 iiit* nun i 11 <111 iiii- lur does. When it is oil tlio sul?' it soon slides into the oeenn. At any rate the debris seldom stays with the berg far on its journey. Nothing seems to mar the purity of the icebergs' exterior. They support little life, a minute worm and the simple microscopic algae, which give a red color to snow, being their only inhabitants. "The icebergs id' the Antarctic regions are larger than those of the Arctic, but not so tall perhaps. They are portions of the normous ice sheet around the South pole \\ hich breaks off in tablelike blocks and float away as ?g? i | For Men t Boys School Bants | Boys' Shirts and B1 | Men's Khaki Work t Men's Dress Bants % Men's Dress and W Work (iloves it Special prices 011 ' Shoes* ;; Come in and see \vl i i !r THE CAS ? o s. A. LEE and T. < . . 1 OBT MILL, SOUTH OAEOLDffA grim sentinels of the southern ( waters. One explorer reports that at one time he counted as many as 60 from the deck of his steamer, while more than that could be seen iroin his masthead. "Like mighty derelicts, dwarfing our largest battleships into J utter insignificance, their sides ( sometimes measuring from 30 to 40 miles in length when they first j break off from the lioss barrier. I i ihey float out into the depths. \ where the warmer winds ami seas ! eat out their "very cores, under-! mine them, make them turn tnr- I , l!?*. ami finally break them tip | into smaller bergs and hard small \ chips called 'growlers.' The ^ 'growlers* are as dangerous as the mother iceberg." ^ COLD KILITNOTES. t News Items From the Upper Sec-" J tion of Fort Mill Township. Miss doh 11 Crook, who has been ^ I visiting in the lower part of the 1 State during the summer, has re- t I t lii'iit il to her home. I ( Shirley Parlor id' Chester spent 1 h st \ eekend with his sister. Miss j 1 <la l.ee Parlor. at the home of j \V. 11. Crook. .\ii>;^ Winnie Crook left last 1 Wedn >sday for Winthrop college, i Mi" . Sar.-li Harrison has re- I, Jturiu I toller home in York, after t I spending several weeks with her I i sister. Mrs. .1. 11. Nivens. j Miss Mary Wilson is visiting y Iter si .er. Sirs. Arthur (Jardiier. j near ('harlotte. ' | The C. h\ t'. Literary society < of (Sold Hill school had its first , public program last Friday af- ( teriioon. Several visitors were ! present and the progr; in was well rendered. j I lie iiolil llillseliool will close ; its summer session Friday. S.'p teinher lilt, ami tin' teachers. Miss j Kutli Shwlri* ami Miss lila Fee 1 i Parlor. will li-avi* tin* following | Saturday for their homo at Fd! lovee. "Bongus." 'riio Uev. F. \V. (Jrcjfjj. 1). 1).. ' of llork I lill Sumlay afternoon l>r -.iclied for the eon?;rejration < of the Fort Mill Presbyterian , church. which is now without a ' past or. Serious ineonvenienee resulted to numerous Fort Mill families ' last ui?r!it hy the euttin?r off of < !lie ei;y water. It was stated i ih.it in the upper seetioii of the , town the water supply was uiuli i ininislied. ^ NOTICE. I < Having ' made my return as < \ j^ua i'i I ilia n for Harvey SpinUs. i this is to no iiy any one eoneerneil that 1 will make applieatioti to ^ the l'i'ohate .lud^e for a dischar?r.? Ion October 1st. ji A. li. SPKATT. |< Wanted The neonlo of Fort 1 - I 1 Mill t?> try Cook's Cream Peanut ^ Cjilidv. manufactured hv K. B. Cook & Son in Uock llill and supplied fresh every week to the ^ stores here. I * ^ Don't be satisfied with an or- < dinary phonopraph >hi I * you can ? pet a Brunswick at same price that is superior in quality and tone at Massey's. Wanted?The people to know you do not have to eat stale candy. Call for Cook's Peanut Cream Candy. Your proccr linn dies it. . Wanted?Milch ('ow ; must pive 11 more than three pillions and have voinip I'aIf. L. A. Harris. Port Mill. S. C. ..5..;..;. .>.;..;..;. .j. *!" and Boys \ OI1SCS A j J Pants ||< -<r ork Shirts f Men's Heavy Work | I 7 Kit we have. * H STORE ! F. LYTLE, M*<rs. 5 / ...t wfii' friii"i-r <. * 5 WE ARE SELLIN* VELVET IC R MADE !N C | BEST TO BE HAD 8 Hutchinson': 5 PRESCRIPT IO] ,r\ rv. r. rx.f'V. r, i%..^ r, n. , ? M imPi ii ii/h i K" | pj ^ Your farm iriipli 1 yoi^ allowing (linn I lapidated because < 1 stock is wort h a lot 1 properly housed? I feetly dry all the y f Altogether it is a your buildings in g? * means a saving. J they are you can't your implements or We carry every prices are always fi us to give you au t have to do. Stop ii or phone and tell us ! fart Mill I I U1 I If nil I lour MI Seed for th WE HANDLE ONLY THE ON THE MARKET For tin' I'nrin nvi' offer (Yin Veteli. Al?ru/.y.i Kye. ('urolinn jrliuin (>.its. Appier <>;its, Tin Hurley, ! >. K. Kape, Pasture iiplamlH. Twenty-live inns ut' Ajrrieul ' * Ftlll-O-Pep" < Tiielteii FSeeil your orders lor ?rood eeil Garrison-Far is ! ROCK HI 'Our Seed Will Grow.' 1 r KOOK HILL FURN Funeral I C. K. Chreitzberg, L New York Stall- License No. 4(>! ! JESSE HARF Pay Phono Nighi ROCK HILL. MOTOR EC, Did newspapers for sal J ' > * Ij i -111 xxxxxxxxxxxxx S EXCLUSIVELY O IE CREAM 1 ilARLOTTE X *V IN THIS SECTION | s Pharmacy 8 N DRUGGISTS ft 8 'j OOOCOOOCKXXXX ggf ia*H?11 I tter Farm | J: r?? juiiumgs ir ay $ menta are expensive. Are to become rusty and d?- \ J ?f a leaky roof? Your live- J ' of money to you. Are they J I Is your hay anil grain per- J ' ear 'round ? J I mighty good plan to have ; ' >od condition. It generally J * Vnd with prices as high as I very well afford to abuse x waste a lot of grain. | x thing in lumber and our nirly priced. Why not ask estimate on the work you'll $ i next time you are iu town what you want. | i Lumber Co.! LL, S. V. I I le Farmers EEST SEED TO BE FOUND PRICES RIGHT. V isoii Clover. Winter Hairy i . Fall Growing Kve, Ful f Oats. Beardless Winter Grasses for lowlands and tnral Lime rolling. Place Wheat, makes liens lav. ) Seed Company, ILL, S. C. t irr*f t r? n n rv ? ?? i t unCi L?UWlf ANY | Directors | .icensed Lmbalmer ^ ; South Carolina Lice tine No. 141 ? X 'IS, Assistant L Phones 212 and 126 f SOUTH CAROLINA f lUll'MENT | le?The Times offic?* 2' ' S'M