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THE FORT MILL TIMES
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W. R. Bradford. Editor and PuMlphar.
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objects, but does not acre* to publish
more than JCV words on any subject.
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No. 112.
Entered at the poatoftlce at Kort Mill.
8. C., as mall matter of the second class.
~TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922. J
Those Idaho robbers who got
\ only 11 cents found that the safe
wasn't what it was cracked up
to be.
Another chap that you haven't
Been in a long time is the one who
used to blm*k his shoes on the
front porch on Sunday mornings.
It is claimed that there are 2
million unemployed- persons in
* this country hot counting those
tu the government payroll.
You have noticed, of course,
that the man who brags about his
honesty has to put up collateral
a> the bank when he borrows
money just as the rest of us do.
A Boston inventor is marketing
a machine that strips the skin
from fish and removes all the
bones. It is about the size of a
washing machine, handles 25.000
pounds of fish a day and will take
the place of 22 workers. These i
workers will lie released l'or other
productive occupations. Each machine
like this saves labor and in
the long run raises the standard
^ oi living oy permitting uu everincreasing
variety of commodities
for general use.
Roger Habsoti, eminent economist
uml business adviser, spent
a few days recently with- Henry
Ford at the letter's home in Detroit.
He says that one day during
his visit he heard Mr. Ford
>, ?o his wife, "Do you remember
how 17 years ago we tramped
e s reels of Detroit trving to
find some one who would credit
tee for a chicken for our Christmas
dinnerT" And then he added,
tin uphtfully, "Ami last year 1
paid the United States government
more than 76 million dollars
in taxes." Aladdin's lamp <fid
wonders when rubbed, but Ford's
cur has the lamp badly beaten.
A few weeks ago he stated in an
interview that he had about 140million
in hank, nrobablv the lure
. est. sum of cash that any individual
ever commanded. It used to
be said that no man could honestly
make a million dollars, but
no thoughtful man would say this
now. Mr. Fori! says his business
could now be capitalized and sold
lot a billion dollars. If that is
true, he is the world's first billionaire
and the richest man that
ever lived. And yet he has stolen
nothing from anybody. If he
Iihs created a billion for himself
he'has created many more billions
for persons living in every conn,
try of the world. Thanks to his ,
inventive genius, the tenant farin9
er today rides with a swiftness
ar.d comfort far exceeding any- ,
thing kings and emperors could
command 50 years ago.
Every once in a while some
head bobs up to boast of its old ;
family connection. In every community
there are people who take
great pride in their ancestry. Old !
families are to be respected and 1
prute 01 ancestry is a virtue. Hut '
it sometimes is overdone. One '
family is about as old as another, 1
and necessarily so. All of us have '
ancestors to he proud of ami if !
the truth were known, all of us '
have other ancestors to be ashamed
of. some gf those in the latter (
category doubtless having found 1
themselves in the uncomfortable 1
position of dangling at the end of ^
a rope for pig stealing or Rhot in
jthe back for cattle rustling. In
any event, all of us can trace .
our ancestry in an unbroken line*
. to Noah and even further hack
if the theory of the evolutionists
is to believed, for they tell us we
all came from the original baboon
who lived in a tree and 1
spent his spare ^iine picking fleas
off himself. The f)oint is that it
is better to be a good and useful
citizen spnung from an obscure
family than it is to he a worthless {
descendant of a distinguished j
family. \ j
Tax Entenn.^n Measure Vetoed t
Governor Cooper Monday af- *
ternoon vetoed the bill passed by i
the Legislature a few days ago t
extending the time for the pay- t
ment of State and county taxes c
to September 1. In his message t
returning to the senate the raeas- 1
ure without his approval the gov. r
ernor stated that the comptroller i
*?eneral had extended the time h
for the payment of taxes to April a
,1 without penalty. It is thought
that an effort will be made in
. both the house and senate within a
the next day or two to override o
the veto. _ v
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LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Apparently there is little left
for the house of representati /es
to do at the present session further
than to pa^t a few relatively
unimportant Statewide meuaures.
give its assert to a' number of
county supply bills and' devote
the necessary attention to conference
reports on bills whfch have
been amended in the senate.
There is the promise of two more
weeks of the session, which already
has run one week oyer the
constitutional 40-day limit. When
the session opened 011 January 11
many members of both houses expressed
the hope that its work
would be finished in fivq. weeks
at most, but instead we see the
seasion lasting longer than any
session of recent years, aud this,
too, in the face of the fact thai
this year, more than ever, there
was reasou for relieving the taxpayers
of every item of expense
not absolutely liecessury. rew
perhaps know thai the daily sessions
of the Legislature cost more
than $2,000, but it is a fact nevertheless,
ami with the session running
20 days overtime it is a simple
matter of multiplication to
ascertain that the people will be
required to put up more than
$40,000 extru this year to meet
the expense of the body for its*
sittings beyond the time the constitution-makers
thought necessary.
Legislation was hurried
along in tile house this year at a
clip that made for early adjournment,
but when the revenue hills
and other important measures
reached the senate so inueh time
was consumed there in considering
them that all thought of ending
the session on time went into
the discard. Another reason for
the prolonged session is found in
the tiihe devoted to hearings. The
general appropriation bill, for insiauce.
was passed by the house
Mild forwarded to the senate on
February 18. Since then the bill
has been in tbe finance committee
of the senate, which meanwhile
has devoted the principal part of
each legislative day to listening
to tbe heads of the departments
and institutions pleading lor up
propriations just us they alreadx
bad done before the ways and
cans committee of the house.
The budget commission law provides
thut the hearings of these
committers on tbe appropriation
bill shall be helil jointly; but the
budget commission law is a pie.-,
of legislation honored more in the
breach than in the observance.
ml if it is not repealed within
the next year or two a ntfmber of
members of both the house and
senate will have missed their
guess.
The resignation last' week of
Senator Fhristensen of lleaufort
county from the chairmanship of
the senate finance committee, on
the ground that in the upper
body business bad won over agri
culture when agriculture was in
desperate straits, seems to have
had the effect of gaining a new
lease on life for one or two ol' the
revenue hills which that body had
disposed of unfavorably. One of
these rheasures was the proposed
tax on hydro-electric plants, passed
by the house early in the session
and which was expected to
produce several hundred thousand
dollars annually for the State
treasury. Last week the hill was
reintroduced in the house and
this week the senate will he giv< u
another opportunity to put it to
sleep. Friends of the hill claim
that it is one of the fairest measures
proposed in* years t?? raise
revenue ami that its opponents
will have a hanl time convincing
their constituents to the contrary
The luxuries tax bill, another important
measure, from which its
supporters say that more than a
million dollars a year would How
into the treasury to lower to that
JXtent the levy on real estate, has
met with the disfavor of tin* senite
finance committee, but (it may
[ret intr? tli?? wtiitntou uftoi* ?ill
i result of the shaking up that
?ody experienced last week. None
>f the new revenue measures; it
night be said, was conceived hy
iny member of either house, but
dl were proposed by Governor
' 'ooper.
The public printing of the State
a not one of the major items of
xpense for the people, but it annually
calls for an expenditure
>f something like Under
he constitution, the only control
he Legislature has of the printng
is to let it out "on contract,"
ncidentally at whatever price the
deaRure of the bidders dictates.
The resolution recently offered in
he house by Mr. Bradford pronosing
to take out of the eonstiution
the words "on coitfruet"
vill cure this condition if it is
iproved by the people in the.general
election next November* and
s ratified at he 1923 session of
he Legislature. The Stale will
hen he in position to say to bidlers
for the public printing that
hey must ask reasonable prices
or the work or that other arangements
will be made to have
t done. The resolution passed
ioth the house and senate without
dissenting vote.
An exchange savs Missouriuns
re more profane than the people
1 any other State. Well, that's
rhere the mules come from.
AN ORDINANCE
Declaring the Result of an Election t<
Determine Whether the Town u
Fort Mill. Smith Carolina. Shoul<
Imuo Coupon Bonds In the Sun
of Four Thousand Dollars for th
Purpose of Hjrhf Outstanding In
/debtedneas eC the Bald Town. In
cur ted for* intensions and Addl
tlotn to the Waterworks System o!
Said Town. Authorising the lsau<
of Shld Bonds and Providing foi
the Payment of the Interest anc
Principal Thereof.
Whereas a petition was filed b)
more than a majority of the 'freehofdere
of the Town of Fort' Mill tc
'submit to the qualified voters thereof
| the question of issuing bonds of the
said Town in the sum of Four Thoustind
Dollars, for the purpose of paying
off outstanding Indebtedness ol
said town. Incurred toe extension!
and additions to the waterworki
system, and
Whereas said election was duly
called and was thereafter held on
the 8th day of June, 1921. and at said
election more than a majority of th4
quaitrted electors of aqld town, voting
at said election, upon the question of
Issuing of said bonds, voted In favor
thereof.
Now. therefore, BE IT ORQAINED
by the Mayor und Aldermen of the
Town oT Fort Mill. In Council assembled
and by authority of the same:
Section 1. That the ttforesatd election
Is hereby declared to have resulted
in favor of the Issuance o|
bonds of the said town of Fort Mill,
In the sum of Four Thousand Dollars,
for the purpose of paying off outstanding
indebtedness. Incurred for
extensions und additions to the waterworks
system of paid town.
Sec. 2. That there shall, be Issued
negotiable coupon bonds of the Town
of Fort Mill in the amount of Four
Thousand Dollars consisting of four
bonds of One Thousand Dollars Each,
and numbered one to four Inclusive.
Said bonds shall 'be dgted July 1, 1921,
and shall bear interest at the rate of
six per cent per annum, payable
semi-annually on the first days of
January and July of each year; said
bonds and Interest shall be payable in
any legal currency of the United
States and shall mature 20 years after
the date thereof. The form of
aid bond* and coupons shall he substantially
as follows:
I'NITKI? STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
' COUNTY OK YORK
TOWN OF FORT MILL
WATERWORKS BOND
Know All Men by These I'ntaMitu,
That the Town of Fort Mill, In the
County of York and State of South
Carolina, Is Justly Indebted to and
promises to pay to bearer on the 1st
day of July, 1941, the principal sum
of
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
with Interest thereon, at the rate ot
six per cent per annum, payable
semi-annually until fully paid on the
1st days of Junuary and July of each
year, upon the presentation and surrender
of the attached Interest coupons
as they severally becojne due,
Both- principal and interest of thlf
bond are payuble. at the Hanovet
National Bank, of New York City,
State of New York. For the prompt
payment hereof, both principal and
interest# as the eauie shall become
due, the full faith, credit and resources
of t lie Mill ~ ?
hereby Irrevocably pledged. Thli
:?<>nd Is one of un issue of four bond;
of like date, aggregating Kour Thousund
Dollars, numbered one to four
which bonds are issued for the purpose
of paying off outstanding indebtedness
of said Town of Fort Mill,
incurred for extensions and addition;
to the waterworks system, under th?
authority of and In full compliance
with the provisions of Sections 305C
and 3061, Code of I^aws of South
Carolna, 1912, Vol. 1, and pursuanl
to a vote of a majority of the puallfted
electors of said Town, voting upon
STANDARD TYPES OF
PrestBATT
.3eventy-three of the standi
now equipped at the factory wit)
have the local agency. If you v
best moderate priced Battery to
Lite for you.
We recharge and repair all
prices.
MASSEY J
Phone 78
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THE POET MILL 0L OQ TOP
the tame of etld bonfa at en election
? duly celled end held upon petition of
t a majority?of the freeholders of aalti
1 Town, es shown by its fee books, held
* on the 8th day of June. .1881. end en
' ordinence duly edepted bythe Mayor
- end Aldermen thereof. It la hereby
s certified end nplted thet ell acta.
? conditions end thlnga required to ext
1st or be done precedent to or In the
> int^nc? of these bonds here duty
f happened end been performed; thet
I provision has been made for the levy
of e direct annuel tax upon ell t^xe'
ble property within said Town sufll
dent to pay the Interest end princl>
pel thereof as the same shall become
r due; and that the total Indebtedness
> of aald Town, Including this bond.
- does not exceed any constitutional or
' statutory limitation.
In Witness Whereof said Town has
1 caused this bond to be signed by Its
1 Mayor and attested by Its Clerk and
Treasurer, under its corporate seal,
and the interest coupons hereto attached
to lie signed by the facsimile
signatures of its Mayor and Clerk and
Treasurer. ,a* of the 1st day of July.
1921. N
Mayor.
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Clerk and Treasurer.
COUPON
No. $50.00
On
the Town of Fort Mill, South Caroll
iu, v?iii pet> iu wearer at me rtanover
National Bank, New York City,
State of New York, the sum of Thirty
Dollars, being the semi-annual Interest
due that day on its waterworks
bond numbered ? and dated July
1st, 1921.
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Mayor.
Clerk and Treasurer.
Sec. 3. That In euoh year while any
of said bonds are outstanding there
shull be levied' und collected upon
' all taxable property within the Town
t of Fort Mill a direct, annual tax suf'
ficlent to meet the puynient of the
[ t Interest thereof; and also sufltcent to
i re i^* a sum equal to l-20th part of
I ' the principal of said bonds, which
' shall constitute a sinking fund, which
shall be invested and held for the
payment of the said bonds at maturity.
DiiVf and ratified in Council assembled
this 14th day of February,1922.
AltTHUK C. LYTLE,
I Mayor.
Attest:?
C. S. LINK.
; Clerk and Treasurer.
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w.Viehwohks bonds.
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91,0410 Town of Fort Mill, S. C.
Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned until 12 o'cock noon,
Tnuiulnv 1 % 1 a ? > ? v. -
chase of one or more $4,000 waterworks
bonds of the Town of Fort
Mill, 8. C., maturing July 1, 1942. All
bonds dated July 1, 1921, denomination
$1,000, prlnclpul and semi-annual
Interest (C per 'cent July and
jJanuury) payable In New York city.
Honda are to be delivered as soon as
printed. All bonds are general obll- j
'gallons of the Town of Fort Mill, and
an unlimited tax for their payment
I has been provided by law and ordinance.
The right to reject any and
all bids Is reserved. Bids must he
accompanied by certified check on
'some hank or trust company In South
Carolina for $100 as evidence of good
faith, payable to C. S. I-lnk, Treasurer.
ARTHOK C. L.YTHE,
Mayor.
Rub-My-Tism antiseptic
and pain killer, for
, infected sores, tetter,
sprains, neuralgia rheu!
mat ism.
O-Lite
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k *A molrora /vf -- ? ?
w * v* wnnvo Ui AiUOliUCMl Ulkl S (U C
a these Batteries, for which we
/ant your car equipped with the
be had, let us put in a Prest-Omakes
of Batteries at reasonable
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MOTOR CO.,
FORT MILL, S. 0.
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ring Prices
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26.75 i:
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We are offerinj
days on a lot of 1
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the Suits are w<
the lot you will
(known manufactu
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prices less than hi
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The constant* endeavor o
possible for their money,
of depressed conditions.
Our customers are alwayi
be had and our service is
solicit your patronage on
Fort Mil
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TAX NOTICE 1931-22.
Office of the Couuty Treasurer of
York County.
Notice is hereby given that the Tux
Books for York County will be opened
on Tuesday, the 15th day of November,
1921, and will remainsopen
until the ?.lst day of December, 1921,
for the collection of State. County,
School and I^ocal Taxes, for the fiscal
year 1921 without penalty, after
which day one Percent Penalty will
be added to all puyments made ip
the month of Januury, 1922, and Two
Per Cent Penalty for all Payments
made In the month of February.
1922, and Seven Per Cent Penulty
will be added to alb payments made
from the 1st day of March, 1922, t<>
the 15th day of March. 1922, and after
this date all unpaid taxes will go
into execution and all unpaid Single
Polls will be turned over to the several
Magistrates for prosecution in
accordance with law.
All of the Banks of the County will
offer their' Accommodations and facilities
to Taxpayers who made desire
to make use of the same. on.I I shall
take pleasure In giving prompt attention
to all correspondence <-n the
subject.
All Taxpayers appearing nt my office
will receive prompt attention.
?<ote?The Tax Books will be made
up by Townships, and parties writing
about Taxes will "always expedite
matters if they will always mention
the Township or Townships in which
their property or properties aie located.
HA11KY K. Nfc.lL.
Treasurer of 1 ' ? < unty.
Pyramid Paint Shop
KINK K1I1X. s. c.
PAINTING
If your car needs painting we will
paint It for you and do It in such a
way that you will be surprised at the
inference it makes In the looks of
irour old car. Our corps of painters
ire the best that can he obtained and
?n!y those who are experienced In
?ar painting are on our force. The
looka of your oar Is just like the
ooks of your person. It goes a lang
say.
JAMES A. 1OHJI809. lTuwrtetor.
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of CI
len and Boys at
w Their Mar
g special inducements
50 Suits for Men anc
ill made and of goc
find many Suits ma
irers whose product i
le best to be had in A
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*if th i r?ncrir?s?l
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dollars Stretch Oi
if this store is to give our ci
That is why our business con
i sure of getting the best and
prompt. If you are not alreat
this basis.
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E. S. PARKS, Manager.
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Market,. (.'ounirj
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IHtonr Fourteen.
Garden
We have a complet
dreth's, Woods* and !
Iin package and hulk.
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MEN'S
We have a larpe assortment
HATS which we are offering
Couie in and look them over.
Also we have a nice line ot J
very reasonable.
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for the next few
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Garden Seeds
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HATS
of MEN'S and BOYS' ' ,
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.mlirK' Ready Trimmed Hats
HSTORE
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