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1 ; ^ ^ &abMihed 189l7~ ~ PLANS OO FORWARD. I I Federal Aid for Fort Mill Streets and Roads Assured. With $110,000 federal aid assured, Fort Mill town und township apparently are nearer a solution of at least a part of their respective street and roud troubles than at any' time in the past. At a special meeting lust Wednesday of the York board of county commissioners in the court house at York the Fort Mill tow nship road commission. Col. T. It. ypfratt' chairman, was allotted $26,000 of the county's federal ?road fund in addition to $10,000 . which .Mi'eud.t hud been secured from the same source. Added to the $75,000 voted by way of a bond issue by the township last April and the $30,000 bond issue approved about 18 months ago by the voters of the town for street improvements, the township and town commissions together will have a fund of $135.000 for the work they contemplate getting under way within the next four months. In addition to grading and resurfacing several miles of other township roads, it is understood that the township eommission plans to have a. bitulithie road IS feet wide built between the Catawba river bridge and the corporate limits of the town, a distance of a mile and a half. At the point where the hard surface road reaches the town, the paving will he continued by the Fort Mill street commission, of which L. A. Harris is chairman.'and extended to the town limits beyond mill No. 1 of the Fort Mill Manufacturing company. Other hard surface paving the street commission purposes to do includes all of Hall street to the town limits beyond the Presbyterian church, besides repairing Main street '.^ fcnd making as extensive improvements as the money in hand will permit to Confederate street from Main street to the graded school grounds, a distance of two blocks. The same material is to be used in hard surfacing the streets of the town and the township road. .In the interest of'economy, the township road commission and the street commission are under stood to have agreed to let their contracts jointly for the hitulithir work. It also is understood that $10,000 of the the $:U).()00 federal aid assured the township commission will be available for use in putting down the street pa vine from the river road out White stryet beyond the upper mill village, the State highway department having rendered the opinion. it was stated, that the paving is one continuous projeet. Sustains Serious Burns. Mrs. Ida May Grayson, wife of H. D. Grayson, bookkeeper for the Fort Mill Manufacturing compuny, was seriously burned about the faee early Sunday morning by falling in a faint in front of an open grate at her home neaf the graded school building. Mrs. Grayson was dressing near the fire. She had complained t?> Mr. Giayson of feeling unwell and he had gone into the kitchen on an errand for her. While out of tinroom he heard Mrs. Grayson fall and rushing to her assistance, found Mrs. Grayson lying on the floor with her face near the open -- x _ "% a i i graie. :vi<Miinii hhi was summoned at once and it is now thought that Mrs. Grayson's hums will not prove as serious as was at first feared.If Mr. and Mrs. Grayson mowed to Fort Mill about a year ago from New Knglaud and have ain6e' made, many friends here who will regret to learn of the accident that has befallen Mrs. Orayson. * A special meeting of Bethel presbytery was held in York last Thursday at which the Rev. II. II. , ?> Vfi|fr, pastor of the Fort Mill Preabv terian ^church, was received as* member from Kayetteville (N. 0.) presbytery. The ceremony of installing Mr. Viser as pastor of the local -church will be on January l&whcn the Rev. G. \Y. Nickell will preach the sermon, I the Rev. J. R., Swan will charge 1 the eongregutFjn. and .1. \V. k - Thompson, art elder of Oakland As?iu? Preabfrterian church in J* Bock Hill will charge the people. * ' r 4\S ? PtT|7 'fc L rtry'" 11 : t r CHRISTMAS MARRIAOEs! Several Couples United in Fort Mill During Holidays.. A marriage of much interest to their friends ami relatives was that of Miss Annie Belle Mi'Ma- ! ims, daughter of-Mr. and Mrs. N. j M. MeMunus of Fort Mill, to Brat, ten I). Kpps of tile Gold Hill community at the home of his grandfather. Hon. S. 11. Kpps, Thutuday evening, December 22. The ceremony was performed by the Kev. 1!rover Kpps ami was witnessed by a large number of relatives and friends of the young couple, to whom a wedding supper was served* following the marriage. Frank 11. Burgiu of Spartan- j ?>urg and .miss .Malta' Mac i aldwell ot' Rocjc Hill drove to Fort .Mill from Hock Hill last Sunday ! afternoon ami were married at I the Presbyterian inaiise by the i dev. H. II. Viser. .Miss Mamie Pressley and Robt. Cordon, well known young Fort Mill people, were married Saturday evening; at 9 o'clock by Magistrate .1. R. Ilaile. Miss Oma Workman of Hoy kin. , Kersluiw county, and Ladsou A. Harncs of Hock Hill surprised their friends by coming to Fort ..Mill Sunday afternoon to be marj'ieil. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. K. A. Viser. Both Mr. Barnes and his bride are members of prominent families. Benjamin Moore of Fort Mill and Miss Lola Dixon of Charlotte were married Tuesday evening. December 27. by the Rev. R. A. Viser. pastor of the Fort- Mill I'reshyterian churcli. The license for the marriage of Mr. Moore and Miss Dixon was issued by tin ' .judge of probate on September 27. At (i:.'!() o'clock Wednesday levelling. December 21. in the i.. ..c <i. . i>.. iiu \ ui iiit* i d|m ni ui iiiiii. Miss (irace Hood and Floyd Bras' wi'll, both ol' tin* Pleasant Valley j eonimunity. in ljancHRter county, ! were married bv the pastor of the; bride. Dr. J. \V. II. Dvehes. M iss Mary Melaiuprblin. dau^hit r of Mr. and Mrs. ,). (}. McLaughlin of Fort Mill, was married to Dennis K. Parks of Pinejville. N. ('.. Sunday, December 25, at the pastorhun of the Fort Mill Dnptist ehureh. the eeremony bein ?r performed by the Kev. Dr. ,1. \V II 1K-, !...< .>'..aAK ,.f tlw, l.i-i.t.. I " " 1 " I i.Mrs. Parks lias majiy friends in Port Mill whose good wishes go | with her to her new home near Pineville. Miss Leila Patterson of Concord. N. and Karl Bailes of Porjl i Mill were married on the afternoti of Deeeinber 21, in York, re-' I turning immediately to the home i of his father, .1. 11. Hailes. in Port I Mill, where, with a number of1 truests. they partook of a wedding supper. W. D. Kimbrell Dead. Heart disease is believed to have caused the death Wednesday morning about 11 o'clock of W. Dallas Kimbrell, well known Port Mill township farmer, in a field near his home, two miles east of town. Mr. Kimbrell was in the field al work some distancefrom his brother, .J. H. Kimbrell. w ho saw him lie down, hut thought nothing of it. as lie had not been well for several days. An hour later the dead body of 'Mr. Kiiubrell was found where his brother had seen him lie down, lit* was about (>() years obi and had lived all .his life in Fort Mill township. Mr. Kimbrell was a good citizen and had many friends who will regret to learn of his death. The interment was to be in Flint 11 il1 churchyard ibis 11!"11 ronon. Liquor Floods Qaffney Street. Sheriff Wat kins of Cherokee county and his deputies Friday afternoon poured into the gutter of a (laffney street more than 200 gallons of contraband whiskey which had been seized during the past few months. Many old topers standing by condemned the law which provided for the waste of so much good "booze" when it is so hard to procure. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Link of 1.aureus returned home Monday, after spending several days during the Christmas holidays at the home of Mr. Link's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Link. j / it ' % ' if ort| FORT MILL, 8. C? T1ot| J3 THE KALIBAB FOREST. Wonderful Reserve in Arizona Covers Million Acres. Northward from the Arizona town of Fredonia rise the great gray buttresses and the reddened tops of Vermilion cliffs; southward a blue haze hangs over the purple sage, and the undulating hills stretch away toward the horizon until they are lost in the green crowned top of the Kalibab forest, which, in its turn, continues for 5U miles to the-very brink of the (Srand Canyon of the Colorado.. writes Wyntan Smith in the Dearborn Independent. Along the dusty road to the I desert the cacti grow, some of j them small spiny round balls, others, st a Ik like, resemble the stumps of the old deud trees, and occasionally may be found the sharp bristling yucca, or Spanish bayonet, which looks much like the common century plant, yet sends upward from its center a I few stalks hearing seed pods, or , peanut shaped shells. Eventually | a few cedars begin to appear. thriving as best they can in a soil that is h;i 1 f powder and half rock, and only when the slow, even rise of the plateau begins to make itself felt and the throbbing motor works harder do they increase in size and number, for in less than MO miles the elevation varies nearly 2.000 feet. From the east a storm sweeps down the hist dip. the rain falls in great sheets, the neighboring hills are smothered 'in a bank of cloud, lightning tlashes and cracks, yet although we are only ten miles away the great rolling'mist toils westward, and we arrive within the rainy j lea to find only moist earth ami a freshened vegetation. It is a relief to us after the dusk of the desert and a delight undoubtedly to the jack rabbits that bolt hither and thither through the sage and cellars. The road then ascends more rapidly, the cedars grow thicker than ever, scru(? oaks interfere among them and , the piuon pines also grow along, side, all of them scenting the air mil, together with the fragrance of tiie inan/.unitu, making the atmosphere fresh and stimulating. In such a place and at an altitude ranging from 7,500 to 9.000 feet above sea level. Uncle Sam has reserved the greatest soft wood forest area in the union and has preserved in it trees that were already of good growth when t'olumbus discovered America. Today these trees tower upward of 100 and 200 feet, running to fine spindle points at the top, hut measuring two, three and four feet in diameter at the base a hast' sr1 in the needle mattress of the hills ami strewn with cones which have fallen year after year front the great branches of the pines and spruces. It is tite Kabbah forest that here covers a vast area of 1 million acres j and grows fast enough to permit I i the utilization of 50 million board j feet of lumber a year indefinitely, j or if cut at once would supply 'ZY2 billion hoard feet, enough to load a train of cars that would reach from lioston to Norfolk. On the fire tower at Jacob's ! Ilnke ojie gains slill another coilI coptiou of the great forest re-| I source. South, east and west. I every slope and hill top is set with the needle 4ops of the trees. Fair toward the eastward lies Horsel'oek vallev. now drv and carrv* * , t in<.' no watur, hut far back in geologieal time onee the basin for a tributary of the Colorado; and hack over the route we came may lie seen tile distant outlines of the Vermilion cliffs. Slightly to the , right is t|ie Nipple, a crater like , mountain rising out of the plat- I eau. and still farther northward ; appear the termination of the | great rock layers that came down j fiom the north, hut which lit (lis-J taut geological ages have been ' swept off the top of this great plateau to a depth of o.OOO feet; j while the great Kalibab itself whs raised until it reached the aiti- ! tilde where rains often occur at | intervals of a half hour, sum-' liter hailstorms are not uiu'om- > moil, and chilly nights follow cool ' days. I ? Miss Hattie Huntley spent several days last week with relatives j at Conway. ' . e i t % W ' ~ y- ? ftp*^, JANUARY ft, 1922. 'ra^DTION NEXT TUESDAY. ' Voterp Expected to Ratify Choice of ^Democratic Primary. A general election that promises to be. marked by a notable lack of interest will be held in Fort MityiTuesday, January 10, for a mayof, two aldermen-atlurge, four ward aldermen and three members of the public works commission. While there are more than 200 citizens of the town qualified to vote in the election, it is thought that less than half the number will trouble to gc to the polls to cast their ballets. since it seems certain that no | opposition will spring up to the candidates nominated in the Democratic primaries a few weeks ago. Apparently everybody was satisfied with the result of the uomi i'? ???? ? " ??;? ?!?" * ticipated in by practically every citizen qualified to vote in the general election, and some 250 mure, and there lias been no suggestion, so far as The Times can learn, of independent candidates. To guard against the possibility | of opposition candidate's, however, voters in the Democratic primaries were required to pledge themselves, under outh, to support the successful primary candidates. There was no hesitancy, the primary managers said, on the part of anyone to subscribing to the outh. although the obligu- j tiou voters take in Democratic primaries in South Carolina to "support" the Jiominess is more often honored in the breuch than I in the observance, the average primary voter uparently taking it | for granted that there will be no opposition to the purty nominees and that it would he like carrying couls to Newcastle to go to the polls on general election day to vote for candidates running without opposition. Tiqketq for the general election have been ordered printed by the town authorities. On the tickets, of which there will be five, only the names of the candidates nominated in the Democratic primaries held on December l.'J and De j ceuiDer "JU will appear, as follows: Mayor?A. C. Lytle. Alderman - at - Large ?J. W. ( una and W. L. Ferguson. Alderman. Ward 1?W. C. Slroud. Alderman. Ward 2?C. D.Hope. Alderman, Ward 3?B. D. Culp. Alderman. Ward 4? (J. W. McKenzie. Public Works Commissioner? W B. Ardrey, W. S. Belk, .1. L. I.yles. PLEASANT VALLEY NEWS Miss Helen Heath of Midland. \\ CM is visiting relatives in this community. Miss Mary Bailes of Winthrop college ami .James Bailes, Brevard Bailes' and Olin Harris of Clemson college and Robert Potts of Washington and Lee university spent the holidays with their parents. The young folk enjoyed an evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. .1. Alexander on Friday DuI ? I rtn /? cniiiNT ?.a. uumes aim progressive conversation were enjoyed. Refreshments were served. Those present were: Misses Nancy Graham. Sadie Wheeler Lilian Pressley. Verda Wolfe, .lanie Wolfe. Mary Bailps, Kathleen Hall, Ollic Hall, Rebecca Hall ami V. A. Neil, .las. Railes, Brevard BailfS, Rlinore Alexander Olin Harris, John Wolfe. Olin Wolfe. Murray j Bailcs. Clarence Patterson. Walter Peterson, Tom Culp, Htrond Kims and Paul Potts, Miss Mae White, who is teaching at Camden, spent the holidays with her parents, ' Miss N. A. Neil of Rock Hill spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Alexander. Misses Kthel and Mabel Patterson spent Christmas with relatives in Rock Hill and Gold Hill. A. K. Harris of (iastonia. N. C.. spent the Christmas holidays with his sister. Mrs. C. M. Blackwelder. Miss .lanie Wolfe, who is teach- I ing at Westville, spent the holi-M days with her parcntR. > I Miss Mary Bailes entertained a number of her friends at a par^v Saturday evening, December 31. Musjc and numerous games wore enjoyed. "Spinner," I ^B I ^B ^B W1 0HRJ8TMA8 ISLAND. Where the Sun May Yield Import 1 tent Secrets. Christmas island, in the Indian ocean, one of the several bits of land that lonely voyagers have come upon in the holiday season and have named accordingly, may play an important part in revealing to mankind facta about the sun heretofore unknown, according to press reports from London. The royal observatory of Greenwich is planning to send to the tiny island early in the year an expedition equipped with a good sized telescope to observe next September's total eclipse of the sun. A Dutch astronomical party may also install its instruments In ere. The island is the subject of the following bulletin from the National Geoirranhie. sn<?intv "Christmas island has been de- 1 scribed by travelers as at once 1 one of the loneliest and loveliest i spots in the world. And its pos- i session of tree-climbing crabs and a superscented tree gives it a 1 rffeht to be classed as one of the j queerest. j "Java, its nearest neighbor to \ tiie north, is 250 miles away, the 1 little Cocos islands lie more than i 000 miles to the west, Australia is i 1.000 miles to the southeastward, , while to the south the waters of | the Indian ocean are unbroken by l even the smallest islands until the ' lands around the South pole are * reached at a distance of nearly i 4 000 miles. The island 12 miles i long by 9 broad, is in reality the slopes and top of a huge nioun i tain peak. Soundings show that < if the waters of the ocean %were 1 drained away a rouerh nvramid 11 15,000 feet high would stand alone in a plain, the present island forming the last 1,000 feet of its slopes. "The island is believed to be unique in that it is propably the only tropieal island eapable of sustaining a considerable population which had never been peopled until after its discovery by Europeans. Except where sheer reck walls occur it is heavily wooded from the water's edge to the summit. Coconuts and sago palms as well as many other trop. 10ul trees grow in profusion. Beneath them is a tangle of tropical undergrowth, but in this jungle are uo wilil beasts ami only u few harmless reptiles, "But one pestiferous creature is omnipresent?u wicked looking ' red crab. Some of these creatures attain a size of 9 inches across the back. They do not ' confine themselves to the shore sands, but range all over the island,and always in groups. They ^ even climb the trees and feast on the succulent nipa palms. "For one of its features Christ- j inas island may be said to be in- | f::mous rather than famous. It is . ? A L-l! J * - - k ' v irut*, ueneveu noi to exist else- v where, which is described by one , disgusted visitor as emitting the most disgusting odor in the , world. With a trunk as sturdy , as an oak and leaves as graceful as those of an aspen, it give* to , the eye po indication of it* true j character. But its scent permeates the air for hundreds of feet t in every direction; and if one v is unfortunate enou gh to touch I its bark or leaves, nothing short j of repeated scrubbings with carbolic soap will make him again fit for human society, "Christmas island has been r chosen as the chief observation point for the 1922 eolips??of the J sun because it is not only-rin the belt of totality, bnl the sun will 1 be obscured thet^?^a time when ' it is high in 'he ' pencil of shad Imbaonneet ion : with which scientistsbasing high hopes will be touched to the 1 earth iu AbyKNinia, will he drawn 1 over narrow Italian Somalilund. ' and from there on will trace its ( way almost entirely over landless y portions of the Indian ocean several hundred miles south of the f Asiatic mainland. It will cross * Australia mainly in the unsettled ' northern regions and will he lift- 1 ed in the neighborhood of Nor- 1 folk island, northwest of New Zealand." I ? t C. S. Hutchinson of Sumter'was 1 a Christmas guest at the home of t his brother, Dr, J. M. Hutchinson, f <1 .in ' " >'v..'" ? # ' : >. ^ 'M .? . hjwftyST" THE NEW YEAR. Event Brings Serious Thought to ' Older People. The year that has just closed means something different to most every body, observes an ex change. To some it has brought great joy; to others great sorrow ; to many, both grief and gladness in full measure. Many [>f us have gone along the regular, uneventful path, filled with Ihe happiness of love and work Mid the joy of everyday things, which, after all, is the best happiness. T o youth the new year means n long, pleasure filjed evening mid the writing of a new date on their letters. They look neither Eorward nor backward. They make resolutions because it seen.* the correct thing to them to ill., rhey keep them sometimes ami it helps make them better men ami women, but it is not a serious matter with them, just as it natural for youth. Older folks involuntarily look hack a bit on the eve of a new fear?not systematically but with a general sweeping glance that isually makes them a bit uncomfortable at things left undone or failures to make good sls they had intended. Maybe there has been just one thing accomplish^! that jives them a little warm feeling found their hearts?maybe not. The great sorrow or great ,jo\ stands out with more meaning to Item than to youth. "Tis another milestone passed. The new year may not present ."cry bright prospects to some, hut these same older folks know'that ihere is something better in store than what the immediate future teems to offer?know that uunappy things can't last ?that they are pretty sure to lead to something greater and better Know that even if they can't uu lierstaud the rcusou for sorrow ami trouble that tlierf* is a reason?know it deep down within themselves, though outwardly hey resent and rebel against fate. I; is not blind faith or optimism 'hat teaches this, hut reason and Knowledge of life. Older folks know that the year is bound to bring happiness and relief to those who >iri? n.?w ilig sorrow and trouble. New Council to Meet. The new town eonneil of Kurt Mill, with A. (Lytic at its head is mayor, probably will be sworn into office next Tues?ln\ evening, i few hours after the result of he town election to be held Tueslay is announeed. One of the natters which likely will conic up for consideration at the first meeting of the new council will [>e the election of a police officer for the town. There are said to :e a number of applicants for the dace, which has paid a salary of |sl50 per month for the last two fears. It is understood, however, hat an effort will be made to idure the salary for the present 'ear, A town clerk and treasurer dso likely will be elected at the first meeting of tlo- now council. \pparently lliw is no opposition o tltc reelection of S. Link, vho has hold the office for a mint >er of years to the general satis' Vet ion of the public. Gold Hill Notes. The Gold Hill school opened Tuesday- morning, after tin- holilays, with a good attendance. I lie teachers were given a cardial eeeption by the people at' the immunity. At 12 o'clock on the lay of the opening ears and l?ujr;ies began to arrive at the school iousc. Many wondered what was ip. It developed that the people ,vere giving the teachers a surprise Christmas dinner. A delidons dinner was served which ivas enjoyed by everyone. Following the dinner the sellout ?lee clnb sang several favorite elections for the visitors. The teacher* and pupils greatly appreciated the thoughtfulm ss of he patrons of the schhol. The Christmas holidays passed deasantly in this community. All he boys ami girls were at home bom college and all united in celebrating the event as one big .. . larnUy. "Boagua." nRt? * Mir irt.