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NEWS ABOUT TOWN,
Items Picked Up Here and There By
The Times' Reporter.
x Miss Martha Dyches to at home
from Anderson college for the Christmas
holidays.
Mrs. Clarence Link of Laurens is
the guest of Mr. und Mrs. C. S. l.ink
ivi iiic viiridiiiian iiuiiuuj a.
A B. .Withers of Jacksonville, Via.,
Is a Christmas guest at he home of
his nephew. Withers Mfcssey.
Mr. and Mrs. tV. L* Hall leave this
week for Florida to spend the winter
at several of the resorts in that Stale.
Mr. and Mrs. I J.' M. J.cc and their
daughter Mildred left Sunday morning
to spend the holidays with relatives
at Loughtuun, Flu.
Miss Thelniu Ott, teacher in the
Abbeville city schools. Is spending the
Christinas hollduys with her parents.
Dr. und Mrs. A. L#. Ott.
At a speciul service In the Fort
Mill Presbyteriun church, last Sunday
evening by the Christian Fndeuvor
society, contributions amounting to
96U.4K were secured for Near Fast
relief.
The Fort Mill graded school yesterday
closed for the Christmas holidays.
The session will he resumed on
Januury 3. Most of the teachers
.whose homes uro in other towns will
spend the liolitluys with their families.
The annual Christmas service wile
bo held at the Kort Mill Presbyterian
?" church next Sunday evening at 7
o'clock, at which' a special < uiisiiuo
program will l>e rendered and girts
from the Christinas tree distributed
to membcrH of the Sunday school".
According to the ordinance adopted
"by the town council ot Kort Mill, execution!!
will t?e issued after Juiiuui..
1, against all property on which the
muiitctpul tax lias not been paid, delated
taxpayers will save themselves1
the cost by paying up before the first
of the new year.
Af the recent meeting of the I'.ap
tint State convention in tlreeiivllle.
Dr. J. W. 11. Dychea of Kort .Mill was
j^ elected u trustee of the Itaptist iiosj'
pltal In Columbia to succeed tin liev.
J It. Smith, pastor of Klint Hill Hupllst
church, whose term expired with
the last session of the conventioiy.
In a game of basketball Kridity between
the teams of the Wlnnsboro
and Kort Mill schools on the Kort
. ^ Mill grounds, the home team was
*>, successful, 24 to 0. Kriday evening
before the Wlnnsboro girls returned
home they were entertained by Air.
and Mrs. M. *W. Klnitrfwtl.
I'nlon services to be par tieip;. ted
In by the congregations of the Ko:
Mill Methodist. Baptist and Presbyterian
churches will be held at the
Methodist church Sunday evening.
, January 1, at i o clock. The theme
of the service will he, "What'* the
matter with the worhl?" In the discussion
of the subject the pastor of
each of the churches will take pari
Patrons and pupils of the hlah
school department especially of th
,Fort Mill tcrnded school will learn
, with regret that Miss Cfiirolinc i ?
rothers, who has taught successfully
the history classes for several sessions,
will not resume her work after
the Christinas holidays. Miss Carolh
ers plans to stay with her mother at
their home In the Steel Creek section
of M^ckJenhiirg county.
\ 'Next4-week there will he no Issue
of the Fort Mill Times. For years it
has been the custom of the pi-(tor to
nppear during Christmas week a- it
has during all the other w?cks of enyear
and the decision to ask the In
dulaenee of the renders of the piper
that those responsible for lis appeal
once might have a day or t>\o oft
during the holidays was reacln i i?
luctantly.
An Important real estate transfer
Involving the change in ownership of
more thnn too acres of what Is considered
nmong the hest land In Fort
MM township took place n few day
^ I"** whf1 Karl Fai ls deeded to .1 M
.fin Vtiu fn rill ill flip ft.il.l I liM
community. Air. Oainhle In turn
transferred to Mr. Furls the home in
WhltevHIe park, Fort Mill, which he
, hough some months iiro front .1. Leo
r*l>ps. Mr. KitrIs sohl his farm to he
able to devote his entire time to the
Ourrlson-Farls Heed eompnnv. Bock
vHllr, of which he is one of the proprietors.
Three members of the hoard of
trustees of Fort Mill school district,
v No. 2X, will he elected on January l'>
to succeed W. I). Wolfe. W J. Ktmbrell
and II. IV Ifnrkoy. The term of
office of the new trustees will he six
years. There is talk of one oi* more
women helnit voted for In the election,
which will he open to uuallfled
voters only?that Is. citizens v ho
bnye paid all State anf county taxes
duo by them on Oecemher J1 and
who have county rcKlstrntlon certificates,
which must he displayed to
the election managers before the applicant
will be permitted to vote.
K. Merritt of Hoyalusa 1,'n.. is
In Fort Mill spending the Christmas
holidays at the home of his father.
Monroe Merritt. Mr. Merritt has
mhny friends in the community who
are always pleased to welcome him
*on-,the vislsts ho ntnkek to his family
about once a year. He is a locomotive
engineer on the New Orleans
^ Great Northern railroad and his run
*w '^ ^between New Orleans and Hosra*
^ov Fort Atill sev^tiflrwral
yeprs agp and for some time
/' ,& .Worked In the shops of the New
^ Pjauthern with A B. Withers.
L--0W0 g'Fort Mill.man. who was masf'
tor ^mechanic of that rond at the
\ tfmtfc. Mr. M^rltt and Mr. Wltheis
r* ,p?t tb Font Mill a day or Mao ago
V in a muttbor of
r . / s/
"HE F
CliHlSTM AS!
In his remorseless sweep of tin*
ttfc'es old Father Tune has put behind
luni another milestone since Tito
nines lust wished Its trienus a merry
t'hrisiiuus, and the glad Yuletidc season
is again here?to set aglow the
marts aim luces of the little folk and,
lor a Uriel season at least, offer respite
from tlie toil uiul care Incident
to' the life of all who lend u hand In
making this old world a better place
in which to live. Saturday evening
and all day Sunday mi every land
and ellme where there is Christian
civilisation, homage will l>e paid the
Man of Galilee, who, nearly two thousand
years ago, forfeited his life on
Golgotha that' mankind might he
vouchsafed a better life in the mys?1
terious Itoyond. The precept and e.xample
of the lowly Xaxarene are
resounding down the corridors of
time today as they did so many hundreds
of years ago. and consciously or
unconsciously the sentiment taught
by him of "peace on earth, good will
to men,'" alike finds abiding pluee in
the mansion of the millionuH-e and
the heart of the homeless wanderer
tinrng the Christmas season.
Christmas! There seems to la
something and tindt finable something?in
the atmosphere which
Iraws us closer o|te to the other and
for the time being we forget our disi,
i.l,r,l,,t - -
ID mill rm rn ill IIM' spirit
if Kood fellowship. "t?ur feelings
sally forth ami dissipate thcmreix?s
over the sunny lundseupe, and we live
.iliruiui and everywhere."*
It is indeed a beautiful eustoiu
mankind so many eenturies axu adopted
of ohserviiiK Christinas, for. as
ome one lias said. It teaches a man
to set his own little watch, now ami
hen, by the great eloek of humanity,
which runs on sun tune, lint to oberve
Christmas as we should we
must think less of what we have ?iom
toi others and more of what they
have done for us. to realize alxvayi
that the prineipal reason for our existent
e is not what we tire going to
net out of life hut what we are going
to Kive life, that the world may hi
hotter for our having lived in it. If
.vo i'iiii add something to the sum of
the world's happiness, if we eau Iikii'oii
the hurdeiis hearing heavily on
some fellow traveler, then we wii.
a>t have lived in \uin.
Christinas, we ar< told, is tne season
for regenerated feeling the season
for kindling not merely the fire
of ho'spltulity in tjie In.11. hni the g? n
iu.1 flame ?if charily to din bc.iri
(hiring the Christmas season, as ai
no other season of the year, seem?
of early love rise green to memory
beyond the sterile waste of years, ami
the thought of home and childhood,
fraught with the fragrance of home
unrlllUK JDVS, I'fll 11111IHI I'S till- ill nopiiik
spirit. as the Arabian will
ometimis waft the freshness of the
listant fields to the weary pllttrim of
the desert.
And amid all the happiness and
good elieer of the Christmas holidays
our hearts Instinctively turn to the
inanjrer cradled Italic of Itethlehein,
for to Him alone is the world indebted
for th?> charm of a merry Christmas.
A pretty old Itosnian folk talc
tells us that when this Italic of ItethIcl.cm
was horn the sun leaped in the
heavens and the stars around it
danced. A peace came oyer th ?
mountain and forest. Kven the rotten
stump stood straight and healthon
th?' hillside. The (trass was be
flowered with open ttlossoms, incense
sweet as myrrh pervaded upland and
forest, birds sang on the mountain
top. and all Kin c thanks to the grcei
CJod.
"<t little town of llethlelient,
I low still w?*-see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars k<> by;
vet in jny dark street shinct.h
The everlasting liKht;
The hopes and fear* of ml the v..-it
Aj'e met lit thee tonight."
Ira A. Patterson Head.
Ira Alexander Patterson iIum! u
.lis home In the Karherx ille se.-'ion oi
.-micuster ruiinh' on the aitcrnom to
i?eeeuther 15, uKed Nf? years, I inoiilos
stnil 1.: days. Mr. Patterson had ne-m
.n feeble health, due to the ii unties
of age, for the last |w< oi Hue*
years, being confined to his hod lathe
greater part of the last year IPwas
iitarrled to Miss Harriett ;4<>pni<
Knnhrell in Novrmher, 1S"?N. and is
survived hy his widow, flyt'suns, three
daughters. ;iti grandchildren untl tint
great-grandchild. The surviving stilts
and daughters are: II. I >. Patteison
\V. I., Patterson. J. H. Patterson. J.
\V. Patterson. I!. A. Patteison, Airs.
\V. \\*. Warren of Port Mill township
ami Mrs. W. P. Johnson situl Mrs. \V.
II. Johnson tit ltoek Hill.
Mr. Patterson was a consistent
member of the Pleasant Vnllev Hap
I
tist church, with whleh he united a
! numhor of years ago. lie will he
greatly missed hy his neighbors and
friends, by whom he mas held In very
I high esteem.
Intelment took place in the cemetery
of Harrison Methodist church
Friday afternoon, after funeral service's
conducted hy I ?r. J. \V. II. Dyehgs
of Fort Mill, assisted hy the Kov. Mr
Houek, pastor of . the Harrison nnd
Plnevllle Methodist churches.
Finest S. Armstrong, former Fort
Mill man. who has been making his
home at flrent Falls. Chester county,
fot several years, has been ?erini?s!y
ill recently of bronchial pneumonia
and pleurisy. Mr4 Armstrong was able
to sit up curly In the week for the
first time In several days and It Is
now hoped that he will soon be able
to bejout again.
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FORT MILL. S. C., THURSP
' M-:ws or YOltK COl'STl*.
Ili'iiiv of (irnoral Interest Found In
tin* Yorkvillo I'.nqulrvr.
According to the books of the coun- |
ty auditor, there are only 2S? gold |
and silver watches in York county.
'I heir (I vn^ie is $6,420.
The total of Stkte and county tnxes
paid into the oltlce of the county
treasurer up to December 15 was
$25,596.02. This takes 110 acmurt cf
the taxes paid into the different
bunks throughout the county. The
total tax hook calls for $632,750.3?.
I'p to Monday the doit tax tags taken
out numbered 1.050.
Poisoned moonshine liquor killed
iiinn it ^JUIIIIK lll'uru Wll<> |
li\ ?m1 several miles south of York\iMe. |
Friday afternoon. While no analysis
of the lli|iior had lieett made up to
Monday, the theory of physicians is
that the stuff the negro drank was
made of wood alcohol instead of
grain. Hardin lived only a short
w hilo after drinking the stuff.
Some of the merchants of Itock lllll
are agitating a movement to try to
get the Seaboard Air i.ine railroad to
come to Itock Hilt. The railroad taps
the extreme eastern edge of York
county some nine miles away from
Itock Hill and It Is argued that while
the eost of coming into Itock Hill
would he grout business that would
he obtained there would In a short
period of time offset that eost.
The management of the Hawthorne
m.ill at Clover is laying material
on the ground preparatory to
the erection of a community house
for the benefit of operatives of the
mill. The community center will be
located near the baseball park which
was erected by the mill management
last summer and will fill a long felt
want in the village. The community
house, which will he a large building,
will l?e of brick construction and the
work will he pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible.
\V. A. Ilarrett is now rounding out
he '.Mith consecutive year of his res
I record considered further remarkable
by reason of the fact that be has
been living in tbe same house during
all those years. The 29th year of his
residence in the mill village expires
on January It. While Mr. Barrett
holds the record for consecutive rest.
d? nee at the mill, there are others
there who have been Identified with
It longer than lie has. Among them
-;-e .1 It. l'srrtsb and W K. Bitch. a'
though 'both haye moved away at
times and returned later.
Jus. \V. Cannon, owner of the ?'annon
mills ot ) orkvilte and one of the
leading eotion manufacturers ot tin
world, died at bis liome at i'uncord.
N i'., Monday evening at ti o'clock,
aged about 70 years. lie hail been III
for several weeks with complications
k* owing out ot heart trouble. The
funeral services were to be held at
Concord Wednesday. Mr. Cannon was
one of tin- pioneers of the Souther:)
cotton nui n ufnelit line liwlnstrv mid
was. the owner of quite a string of
nulls in North Carolina, South Carolina,
tieorgia aiul Alabama, aggregating
in value many millions of dollars.
11 is survived by his widow and nine
('lildnu.
lioek llll members of tiie I'nited
linughtirs ot Hit- I'liiifeJeiucy have
had no trouble in raising by putnie
silbseriplioii i ne sum of tl.SOU, tiie.
hit hi nee tine on in - new Confederate
iiioniliiieui, wnie.i is reatly to be set
up. Ciinuii; eis were busy two days
uist \vt ek siilteiiiiig subscriptions to a
fund to make up tiie deficit and they
met with a generous response from
the Itoek Will pub.te. I'p to Friday
afternoon tiie sum of $l.fiii<i had lieei,
raised and tiie canyassers expressed
themselves as being confident the
entire $l,Xna would lie raised without
t rouble.
Prohibition -otlieers operating in
Itethesda township Sunday afternoon
destroyed a lug moonshine funnier
and Iiiiout J,200 gallons of hee^pvhieh |
they found on the lands of Peter
ilurdin, a nt'Sro who lives about five
miles south of Yorkvllle. to the west
o' the t'hester roail. While the distillery
proper hail been moved recently.
Sheriff (Jitinn gave it as his
opinion Monday morning that there
had been no less than 500 Kalians of
liquor made there recently. When
' < odieeis arrived they found/I 1 biK
i'.ixi s. each filled with corn mash or
beer. Ii was estimated that the boxes
would hold at least 200 gallons of
mash each and all of them were full,
while the stuff was about ready to
i<i distilled into liquor.
Program for Christmas KxerrlsOs.
As has been the custom fAr several
years, the Port Mill Baptist Sunday
school will render special exercises in
connection with the Christmas tree
which will he displayed in the church 1
Monday afternoon, officers of the j
Sunday school extend the pubic a cor- |
d.al Invitation to be present. The !
program of (he exercises, to hog in j
promptly at 8:20 o'clock, ftollnws: j
1. Song, "It Came I'pon a Midnight j
Clear." Iiy the school.
2. Prayer, "oy tin* llcv. I?r. J W. U.
Oychcs, *
2. Song. "Silent Night. Holy Night."
hy the Kehool.
4. Il< citation. "Christ masi Pay." byj
Mary Klixaheth Mcachatn. f?.
Christmas song, hy children.
6. Story. "Tiny und Tint Play Sunt ft
Clans." by Clement Potts.
7. Heeitation. "Bethlehem." hy Maria
Culp.
8. Song. "O I.lttle Town of Bethlehem."
by group of glrla.
9. Distribution of gifts.
10. Dt?mU?lon.
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AY, DECEMBER 22, 1921.
\TOIU,l>*K TIXIKST II\1I.IU>AD.
Little Line In lviigluiul Doing ltml '
1'ubllc Strvitt'.
The liksdule railway, in I'usulierla
mi. Knglund, seven miles long, with
a 1& Inch (uuki'. has features of novelty
and interest. At first sight, says
the London Conquest, it is uiiticuil to
regard it seriou'sly. Nevertheless, it
is not a toy or model, hut Is of real
commercial utility, ami as un engineering
feat on a sniull scale is um?|ue.
It is the result ot a reinarKahie uevelo|>ment
of the model locomotive
beloved of most boys and by many
more udults than one might suppose.
Constructed in lhTO. the line was
originally 2 feet S inches gauge and
was used to convey iron ore from
mines in the neighborhood of I tool, a
village in Kksdule. to Kaveugia.-s, on
the coast of Cumberland, where it
joined the Furness railway. After
serving a useful purpose, both as reirnrilu
inlimnil ;in?l "
for many years, the mines at I loot
were closed down, and alter valiant
efforts to 'uiuintuin It, the railway itself
fell into disuse In 11'I 3. In i : I
however, a company known tis the
Narrow Gauge Uailwuys, Ltd., obtained
a lease on the line, which they
converted to IS Inches gauge, the |
original rails, weighing in pounds a
yard, being reluid. The line was
then equipped with the biggest model
locomotives and rolling stock in existence.
The line is seven miles long and
passes through eharming scenery.
There is un excellent service of trains
each way. A maximum speed of ?i
miles an hour is attained l>y the loeomotives,
which are also capable of
drawing a load of 17 tons on the
lev* I at a speed of 14 miles an hour.
The Journey occupies about ;;u minutes
and about 75 passengers constitute
a full load for a passenger train. I
Kacli open coach accommodates
eight persons, two abreast, the weight
of an empty coach being about 800
pounds. Wind screens and awnings
are provided for protection in wet or
in hot weather. l-'or winter tru It lift
osed coaches arc run that wolgh
2.4UU poll nits imply una mi-ui I- pe. sons
Inside and four on end platforms.
An ordinary summer train comprises
nine open coaches.
The most fascinating feature of the
Kksdale railway is its onc-quurtci
scale locomotives. The most up-todate
models are of tin- I'aeifie type.
Their weight is three tons each in
working order, their over-all length
IS feet 2 Inches and height from rail
level to top of chimney :i feet S
I Aches. There are in all five locomotives.
23 freight cars and 2 7 passenger
eoaehes.
Port .Mill's Kllit-ifiii Clerk.
While a number of mutters of public
interest were disi-ussed In the recent
primaries for town otticials over
which there were varying opinions,
such for instance us the proposed repeal
of the unti-hogpen ordinance
passed by council some months ago
anii the salary to he paid the chief
police officer of the town by the incoming
council, there wus heard no
difference of opinion expressed over
the quality of the service rendered
by the town clerk, t'. S. I.ink, who
has held the office several years and
who is considered by many the most
painstaking and efficient clerk tlie
town has ever had. "I do not know
how we would have got along without
Mr. I,ink's services," yesterday I
suid a former member of council.
"None of^ us ever provejl star inetii>i...,.f
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>vm ui tumu li iii iipmi, ne com 111 ued.
"und hud ho not been on hand to
Kivo as Information about the town's
affairs and the benefit of his helpful
suggestions, we simply would have
made a mess of the town's business."
It is presumed that there will be no
opposition to Mr. Link when the mot or
of electing his successor is taken
up by the new council early In
Januury.
Jl ii Prosperous Business,
Fort Mill friends of J. Lee Capps,
who some months ago moved from
here to Jacksonville. Fla., to enter
businesss with his brother, C. L.
Capps, in operating a brass and iron
foundry in that city, will be pleased
to learn that his business is prospering.
In a letter received a day or two
ago from Mr. Capps l?y one of his
Fort Mill friends he sa.Vs that they
have Juts closed a $75,000 contract to
nantifacture a brass valve to tie used
n praying machines to romhat the
hnll weevil. other big Jobs which
.Mr. t'npps and his brother have on
'and Is the manufacture of a la I'M-'
number of brackets for atttomobl.c
mirrors and a casting for a i?oj?c?.rn
vending machine. ,
Fail to Freeze Weevil.
Three Williamstnn men plachd a
boll weevil between two blocks of Ice
at the ice factory In that town and let
It remain there 24 hAtirs to see If It
would freeze. When it was taken out
nnd placed In the sun it came to life
The men then drilled a hole In a
block of lee and put the weevil in the
hole. The block of lee was then coin,
pletely refrozen and the weevil stayed
In It 48 hours. When liberated and
again placed fn the sun the weevil
again revived and flew away. It is
believed to have lit on the farm of
the Fort Mill township man who doe*
not think the weevil a menaee and
who is making no preparation to
protect himself against Its Invasion
Mr. and Mrs. W.. B. Ardery entertained
a number of their friends nt
dinner Friday evening, the ocension
being in celebration of Mr. Ardrey's
50th birthday.
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A FAM.KX MFTTROIHILIS.
Ten years ago there were nearly 2
million people living in Petrograd.
says The Youth's Companion. Not
more than seven other cities in the
world exceeded tt in size. Today
there arc perhaps 600.VUV left; the
deaths far outnumber th'e births,
and everyone who can get out of the
dying city does get out. Week by
week the population dwindles. Along
the Nevu there Is mile after mile of
deserted docks. Crass grows between
the puvlng stones; only now and then
do you see a lonely schooner deliver
ing a cargo of firewood from Finland,
or a relief steamship discharging
supplies for the famine stricken people
of t(h?> city.
The streets are empty and fallen
irto disrepair. Most of the shyps are
deserted; those that pretend to l>e
open have little to sell. Four houses
out of five are abandoned. Many of
the doors swing idly on the hinges;
the glass in the windows is broken;
the metal that covers many of the
roofs lias rusted or corroded. It is a
I picture of desolation and discouragement,
rust and ruin. The city Is
well on the way toward the destruction
that has wasted many another
; rich and famous capital.
The decay of Petrograd is tin* Inevitable
result of he overthrow if the
Komanov dynasty. The city was created
by the czars and apart from its
position us tlie seat of their government
has little reason for existing.
Peter the (treat built it to he Ids
"window looking out on Kurope." and
his successors made it a great capital.
It Is far from the center of Kussia
.n a bleak and inhospitable region
Though it has some advantages as a
3eaport during the warmer patt ?<t
the year, it Is inferior even in that
respect to Klga and l.ibau. which
were Included in old Kussia. Koth
the revolution and the Bolshevist uprising
hegan In Petrograd, hut after
the csur was gone there was no possible
reason for keeping the seat of
government there. l'ower passed at
once to Moscow and with it the last
chance of prosperity for Petrograd.
An .. i-fll-1,.1.. I > - ? -* - ? ?
... if* hiviiv|iuikb irum imp rirsi,
It has suffered tin* unhappy fat?* of
the royal house that huilt It and
maintained It.
fltargial Willi Stealing Football.
The Iriul Monday' afternoon in
Magistrate J. U. Halle's court of Hosier
While, negro hoy, charged with
stealing a football from the athletic]
association of the Kurt Mill graded
school, attracted the attention of a
considerable number of hoys and
men. The prosecuting witness was
OouglusH Nints. The football was
found in the possession of White, after
being out of hand for several
days. White said he puid unotlier negro
boy, George Potts, for the ball,
adding that he had expected to reimburse
himself by charging other negro
hoys I a cents each for kicking
the ball. Potts was put on the
stand and admitted that he sold the
ball to White, after procuring It. he
said, from a white boy named Price,
who has moved away from Port Mill.
Potts' family paid $7 to compromise
the case.
Promoter- 'of Town Funerals.
The town that never has anything
to do in a public way is on the way
to the cemetery, says a Kentucky
newspapers. The citizen who will tin |
nothing for his town is helping to
dig its grave. The man that "usscs
the town furnishes the cottln. Thu
man who is so selfish as to have no 1
time from his business to give public
affairs is making the shroud. The
man who will not advertise i?< drivitiK
the hearse. The man who is always
pulling back from any public enterprise
throws houuuets on the grave.
The man who is so stingy as to lahowling
hard times preaches the funeral
and sings the doxology. And
thus the town lies hurled from all
the -sorrow of the world.
Women l>o tlie Work.
While the men of the savage, warlike
tribes of Morocco are busy fight- '
Ing off the Spaniards in the bloody
struggle now going on in Morocco,
Africa, the women lead miserable
livVs. They do all the work. They i
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??wn ill U'l llll' lillllf, Knilll II1C grUIII,
make the lirrad, churn the luitter.
hew the wooil, draw the water, do all
the plowing ami xowImk and are
treated by their lordly husbands even
worae than the anlinuls to* which
they are yoked to do the field work.
Ahlcrmeii-nt-laircc Nominated.
In the Democratic primary Tuesday
foi the nomination of two candidates
for alderman-at-large, John \V. Ounn
and Wllburn L. Ferguson were sue- j
eessful, the former receiving 206
1 votea and the latter lf>t>, out of a total
vote of 310. J. T. Young. Jr.. and
15 W. I trad ford received, respectively,
133 und 112 votes. The election passod
quietly, with a decrease of 12."? |
votes compared with the vote east in
the election on January 13.
Form Ministerial 1'itlon.
The Rev. J. VV. II. l>yohes. the Itev.
W. It. Ilouknight and the Itev. It. II
Viaer. pastors of the ltnptlst. Methodist
ami Presbyterian churches of
Fort Mill, respectively, have organised
a ministerlan union, with 1 >r.
Dye^es as chairman ami the Itev. Mr.
V'iser as secretary. The union held
Its first meeting in the study of the
Itev. Mr. Itoukntght Tuesday evening
Many Fort Mill people were Interested
In the announcement of the
marriage a few days ago of Dr. J. B.
Massey and Miss t'anle Friedhelm
of Hock Hill.
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I'iiiikmh Old .Military School to Oih-ul?y
Hotter Quarters.
| In Charleston is located one of the
most famous military schools in the
I'nited States. It is a State Institution.
estahlislted In 184! and is Known /
us the Citadel. Cadets and gradual.-s
of this West Point*of the South, as it j
has long bean termed, have won com- a
HplcuouH honors in four of tin- coun- At
try's wars. Many thrilling cxcn.s.
too, are connegted with tlie name of
the old institution. The first snot of
the Civil war. that directed at the
Star of the West when site nttiniped
to relieve Fort ^uinter. was said to
have been from a buttery manned hy,
eadets from the Citadel.
The standard of education at lite
Citadel Is high, and the military .iritl
and discipline are of the finest. In
the reports of t'nited States instructing
officers it is classed in the fust
rank of millthry schools. Col. ilnrton,
I*. S. A., pays this high tribute
to the Citadel: "It is so superior
that it must lie classed alone, and
can only lie compared to our national
academy."
South Carolina Is now building a
greater Citadel at a cost of L' million
dollars. The work already is well
advanced. Three of the si\ luiildiiop:
are nearly completed. They arc located
on a level tract of land along
the Ashley river, li>0 acres in all. altd
partly within the city limits of char
leson. The tract was the gift of lite
city to tlie State.
As evidence of tlie magnitude of
tl?e work under way at the old school
a recent issue of The Citadel News,
the student out.ii.m....... ..f !...
mtion. said: "In order to receive vvltli
greater futility the mass of inatorial
needed a special line of railway lias
been laid Into the grounds. Already
more than riint carloads of material
have been delivered over this track,
in addition to what has been brought
by trucks. Fully 2,1100 cubic \ards
of concrete have been laid into the
foundations and other parts of the
buildings, and more than 1 million
feet of lumber used in the wo.ah n
part of the construction. If the stucco
and cement plastering were laid
out on one surface, it would cover la
acres."
t'harlestonians especially, who ha\c
| been proud of the proportions of the
old Citadel, will have canst tin lai
greater pride In the new; for eomI
pared with the main building of l he
greater Citadel the huge harm. Us in
its majestic proportions, with its
massive walls and its many thousands
of feet of floor spate, the main
portion of tilt- oltl Citadel seems hut
a pigmy affair. Il will retpnrc fttllv
ton miles of electric wiring to light
tlio barracks building alone of thu
new buildings of the school.
Illgli Schools \cc?l More Money.
Muj. James I >. Fulp, sttpcriiteudcut
of tin. .V 1?I..... 111.. ..... .- t. ... .. ...
wuh u visitor in Kort Mill Tuesday,
is greatly interested in li:>x i11Hi"
tScncrul Assembly at its i'.i'J- scgsloit
i In* reuse tlie appropriation allowed
the high Mehmils of the State as tuition
for iiMn-reslilent |ui|>ils. -The
Abbeville blub school," said Ma,|.
Kulp, "is losing money everv month
hy having to take in |>u|?ils from
other districts at per month, the
amount allowed by the State tor their
tultion. We have "0-odd such pupils #
and flic sulaiies of the teachers wo
must employ for them is in excess by
about > 1 fi monthly of the amount the
State appropriates for the purpose.
We cannot charge these pupils tuition
and it is a losing proposition for
us. It seems unfair that the ta*
payers of our district should have to
provide for the education of hoys and
girls from other districts and I hope
the Legislature will come to our relief.
I have no douht the same condition
Is to l?e found In other high
schools In tile State.."
Vacancy on Itoinl ('ninmiiosiun.
The death a few days ago of f\ I'.
Ihankenship has created a \aucy hi
the Kort Mill township road commission
which will perhaps be filled
early In the new year by appointment
of the governor, upon recommendation
of t lie York county Icgis
Illtivo delegation. Tin* cominis* on
hu? i hiirci' of the road const rue! ion
work contemplated under ttie fTfi.mm
bond Isnuc approved l>y the voters of
the township lit si special election
held some months uko. In recommending
to the governor the personnel
of the com mission the legislative
delegation took Into aeeoinit geographical
lines, with Mr ISIankenship
representing more especially the
rSold Mill and Flint Mill sections of
tlie township. It Is presumed that
similar considerations will he taken
into account by the dclngatlon in selecting
his successor. I'etltions re. ommending
two citizens of the upper
section of tin- township for the \ iouncy
on the hoard are said to tic in
circulation.
Warrants Served on Clin*. |?. June-,
According to a t'harlcston dispatch
Charles I?. Jones of Lancaster w as at'
rested Tuesday on five warrants
charging him with "fraudulent appro,
pr'atlon and conservation" of funds
of the Lancaster Mercantile company
of which he was president and general
manager. In the aggregate sum
of IJO.OOO. With trn It. .Tones, Sr..
former chief Justice of the State ?iiprenie
court, as surety. Jones was released
on honds of $10. OOP. Leroy
Springs and John V. Stevens, respectively.
president and manager of the
concern at the time, made affidavits
In support of the wurrunts.