Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 30, 1922, Image 3
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Jwi. IOTP ABOUT TOW*.
J. H. Murphy yesterday sold hla
hosM in Wbitovllts posh. Port Mill,
to Hsnry Htmmond, Jr.
MA. Manly 8. Tount and her ltttls
son ?( Cdncord, N. C-. ara guests of
Mrs. Young's mother, Mrs. Alien
Harris. *
Misses Lucia and Ruth McLees ot
Greenwood and Miss Alice Smith of
Pendleton were week.end guests of
\ Mlssse Agnss and Sophie Link.
? A. W. Fra^or, who has been the
guest of his daughter. Mta. E. W.
Klmbreli, for several months, returnad
this week to his home In Baldwins
vill?, N. T.
Hi* Rev. J. B. Maieiy. D. D. prof
fee or of Bible at Hampden-Sydney
t I college, Virginia, recently spent several
days at the home of his mother,
Mrs. B. H. Maasey. In Fort Mill.
More than COU Fort Mill school
'.children, white and negro, have been
yaccinated since a case of smallpox
was reported in the upper section of
|he town two weeks ago. Many grown
people living In Fort Mill also havet
been vaccinated during the last fort;
night.
*. . ' A.^M. Giles, farmer, who moved
from Fort Mill to the Belair nelgh'
' borbood. In L-ancaster county, three
years ago, has been critically 111 at
his home for several days and little
bope la now held out ror his recovery.
Mr. Giles Is the father of Mrs. H. V.
Richardson of Fort Mill.
Capt. gpd Mrs. M. C. Willis of York
were visitors to Fort Mill Huturday,
and while here Capt. Willis stated
iiiul iis iiiuihluljr wuuiu us u cuiiuidatt
in the Democratic primary next
August to succeed County Treasurer
U. K. Neil, who announced a few days
ago thai he would not again seek tno
wn?ce.
Miss Jessie Merrltt. teacher of the
boys' Intermediate class of the Baptist
Sunday school, entertuined her
class and girl friends of the members
last Wednesday evening In the
_ Bersan room of the church. A number
of games were played and refreshments,
consisting of Ice cream,
cake apd confections, were served.
Showers Sunday night and Monday
Interfered with plana many farmers
of the fort Mill community had mude
to begin In earnest preparation of
t^ieir lands for thjj year's crops. Thus
far little spring plowing has been
done in this section, but a number of
{armers have taken advantage of the
wet weather to haul fertiliser from
town to their fields.
J. E. Smith la preparing to move
next week with his mother, Mrs. A.
K. Smith, and his sisters, MIhscs Sallie
Smith and Cammle Smith, to tho
Catawba Juncton neighborhood in the
agstern section of the county, where
Mr. Smith will take charge of the
family's farm, from which they
moved to Fort Mill several years ago.
The Smith home on Clebourne street
will be occupied by J. F. Oates and
his family. ,
Friends In this community of the
'Rev. J. ?. Black, former pastor of
the Fort Mill Presbyterian church,
who resigned -about a year ago on account
of III health, heard with interest,
a few days ago that he hud so far
recovered his health as to be able to
A) accept the pastorate pf the Presbyterian
church at Red Hprlng, N.
and that he and his faintly were pre*
1 paring to move from Morganton,
N. C., to that place
Tie ?4,000 worth of Fort Mill wu.teetMprJia
Uou^s recently sold to the
Jean and- Havings bank of York have
been received and signed by A. C.
Lytle, mayor, nmUC. H. Ldnk, town
treasurer, and delivered to the pur*
chaser. The Conds were sold several
weeks ago ~at 98 and and accrued Interest.
Among the number of bids received
for the bonds was that of the
First National bank of Fort Mill,
whose offer, the second highest, was
97 and accrued Interest.
A number of Fort- Mill citizens,
representing the town council, the
board of health and the board of
trustees of the public school, last
Thursday night listened to an Interesting
address by Dr. A. H. Hayden
of Columbia on local health conditions
Dr. Hayden Is connected with
the State- board of health. His visit
,10 Fort Mill was the (result primarily
of the report by the locul board of
health of a oaso of smallpox In town.
Dr. Hayden In his address called ats.
tentton to the provision or law which
mokes vaccination against the 'dlseusc
compulsory and urged that the law be
enforced In Fort Mill.
Capt. Ell Hott W. Hprlngs of Luncue
?? ! *r vA|<rwi<i iu uccuuie u run
Mill cltlsen as noon us the work of
remodeling the old White mansion In
the ?n?r woii.in of the town la complated,
was a visitor here Monday.
Oapt. Springs Is said to have spent
something like >(>0,000 In the lmprovemcnta
which have recently been
under way to the old mansion, built
by his paternal greut-grandfather, the
lata Capt Wm. E. White, in 1832.
and when he moves Into the mansion
a law weeks hence It will he one of
tha most modern homes In this sec|K'.
tlon, with electrical equipment and
other conveniences new to this community.
HNinety-odd pupils are now enrolled
In tha night school which wns established
at tha Fort Mill graded school
a law weeks ago for adult Illiterates
and other grown people who had received
only the rudiments of an education.
Seven teachers are employed
to Instruct the various classes from
the flrat to the fifth grades. In which
the egea of the pupils range from 15
to 15-odd years. The seeatons of the
. school are held on Monday apd Thursday
nights snd marked progress Is
being made by most of the pupils,
aooordlng to the statement of one of
the teachers. Among the plans for
f \ the success of the school Is s public
aatertalnment to be given by the puwhen
the session closes a few
uw. i. u. spruit and U A. Harris.
Chairmen, respectively, of the iFort
W HIU township road commission and
the street commission of Fort Mill.
With W. B. Meacham, member of the
former commission, are In Columbia
today to consult with the 8tate htghelf
department relative to a mlsun-l
demanding which has arisen over the
employment of engineers to do the
Surveying for the roads and streets
Of the community which the commie.
Hons are planning to Improve. When
Ulf highway department some tlron
ago recommended federal aid (or the
V % read from the county bridge across
- Catawba river to the town limits and
through the. town toward the
worth CaroMna line, the understandcommissions
was that thsy
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Penn's spells quality.
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Because Perm's is pocked airtight
in the patented new
container?the quality is
sealed in. %
So Pinn'i la always fraah. Hay* yon
. r raally chewad frmmh tobacco?
> Buy Pann'a tba nrat tlma.Try It Node*
thafin* condition?fraah?Panola
PENN'S
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A. M. COHKX SHOT UY OFFICERS
A. M. Cohen. Fort Mill and Onsto
nlu. N. C., merchant, was ahot In tin
right leg in the reir of the kucecni
and painfully wounded Sunday morn
tng at 2 o'clock near Phltudo'.phis
Methodist church, three miles nortl
of tows, by ?? parly of nfflrprtt. tad hi
Sheriff Fred E. Qulnn, In scurch ol
Iittuor runners who were reported U
be on the "way from Charlotta to Fori
Mill and Rock llill with u load ot
in mi uuiuiiiui)iit\ .>11? > oner
wan returnliiK to lil? home In Foil
Mill front Gaxtonia to spend Hundu)
with his family. The purty wuh corn,
potted of Sheriff Qulnn, State Constable
Horace Johnson, Magistrate
Fred C. Black of York. V. I). Pot's
Fort Mill police officer, and J. H
Patterson. Fort Mill magistrate's constable.
A short distance from the home 01
W. H. Crook one of the officers stand.
Ing In the road ordered Mr. Cohen tc
stop his car. Disregarding the order
Mr. Cohen continued toward Fori
Mill until his car ran into Sheriff
Quinn's car, which had been parked
across the road to prevent the pussage
of ofher cars coming toward 1'orl
Mill. While he was alighting from
his onr Mr. Cohen received the wound
In his leg. He then made his v.ny tc
the home of Walter McKinney, a row
hundred yards sway, und was brought
to town In Mr. McKtnney'x car. Th<
wound was dressed at his home at 4
o'clock Hunduy morning by a Fori
Mill physician, but the bullet wai
not located and removed from hit
leg until Monday morning at a hospital
In Rock Hill, where he hai
I since been receiving treatment toi
the wound. The fear was said tc
have been expressed at the hoepita
yesterday that Mr. Cohen's leg would
be stiff for life.
I M* Cohen Is said to have struct
while his wound wus being dressei
that he did not stop his cur when h>
was ordered to do so because lie wai
positive he was being held up to br
robbed. After he reached Fort Mil
and before he went to his own home
ho said he went to the home jf 1). V
Potts, police officer, and to that ol
J. H. Patterson, magistrate's constable,
to report what hud happened
but at neither home did he succevt
In seeing either officer. At the forme!
he said he was told that Mr. Poiti
wan not at home and at the lattei
that Mr. Patterson was sick In bee
uuu vuuiu not sec mm. Air. cotter
stated positively that he did not huvt
a pistol and that he had not fired m
anyone. He said eight or tea slioti
were fired at hint, one of whlcl
truck the windshield of his ear iiiv
mediately In front of the steerlne
wheel, which he had left only thi
moment before. The other allot h<
was able to account for definitely w n
the one which struck him in the leg
While the physician was at Mr
Cohen's home dressing his woupi
Sheriff Qulnn and Officer Potts alai
visited the home. Neither seeincl ti
have known positively until they re
turned to Fort Mill about an no-ji
after the shooting that Mr. Cohen wu
the man at whom' the shots hud heui
fired, although they had found In hi
car a bunch of keys to the ring o
which was attuched a metal tag bear
ing his name. Sheriff Qulnn is sub
to have expressod regret to Mr. C>
hen that he had been mistaken fn
and shot a. the liquor runner tlr
party was, trying to upprehond. H
also Is said to have expressed rcspon
stbilty for the shooting.
Between the statement of Mr. Co
hen and Sheriff Qulnn relative to ih
hots that were fired there la- wid
variance. Mr. Cohen states posit I vol
that he was unarmed aad did not fir
upon Ihe ofPcem. Sheriff vjuliu: 01
the other hand. Is said to be cquall;
positive that the officers did not fir
at Mr. Cohen until he had first flic
, at them. The sheriff's statement I
support's! by other officers, it u mi It!
The shoot In* of Mr. Cohen ha
caused muon Uilk In Port Mill. Yes
tefday It was ^tat^d by a Fort Mil
cltlsen who visited Mr. Cohen at th
hospital In Hock Hill that he had en
raced Judge Mendel U Smith o
Camden and Messrs. Herbert Dunla
{and Walter Dunlap of Hock Hill t
take charge of the case he teetn h
has against the county and tne offl
cere and that developments may h
expected as soon as he la able i
leave the hospital.
lower Wool Crook News.
Mr. and Mrs. it. A. Torrence lei
Sunday for Oastonla, N. C., to visl
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Davis
Frank Lee Brown spent the week
epd with his parents.
v Albert Torrence, Kobert Torrent
....... _.n w.?i> luittnrc wire rei-er
IUmM of lira, C. U Torrance at tl
Idem Of the Southern Power compaa:
| . Ml? Freddie Oryrter, teacher in tl
'~MM#"%Mh her pcnati in Rook Mill.
j ^et'irday even^^ool
" | hie, Fh^ns ftrtonde . orere poeosi^ fi
r{ by ail. Refresh n? en t? were eeryed.
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3 iton aro visiting Mrs, ltaifisey's p%i
rents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ogburn.
I. Sir. and Mrs. John Oyercush wer*
'guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
i- Ogburn.
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THE IjATKST DKSIGXK
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~ to he procured, we will put on yogg
car when your old one Is shabby.
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Nothing gives your auto the classy
appearance thut a New Top matt ,
from waterproof and llrst quality materlal
will and made with Plate Olaaa
Windows.
We will put a Top on your car that
;? will lust for years.
1 jomsors PA,^OP
f. JAB.JL JOHNSON. Manager.
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"Old" or "New" K ;
TO matter how good ha motor? H i
I if its body it dingy and dull, your j
b considered a " has-been." H
ik: the old bus look younger than B
years. Give it coat of Devoa I t
tor Car^Finwh. H
till be proud of its dazzling brill* I 2
cc. its glossy smoothness.
d you can do a satisfactory Job H 4
irself. at a small coat if you make B J
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ros Froducts are time-tested and
vcn.backed by the 168 years'experi
of the oldest paint manufacturing
cern in the U. S. Founded 1754.
LYTUE DRUG CO.
Fort Mill, 8. 0%
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We are equipped
and any kind of 1
Iand cordially ifivit
We carry Framir
Lime, Plaster, Cei
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| The Modern Way j
of Canning I
I I have accepted the local agency for the best and simplest ?
CANNING OUTFIT to be obtained anywhere. %
It seals, opens, reflanges and reseals both pint and quart |
; cans without solder or acid, and is so simple that a child f
can operate it. ? 5
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STRONGER THAN EVER
At no time has the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance
Co. or the Mutual Live Stock Insurance
Association been in better shape than now. Each
year these companies have shown a substantial increase
over the previous. Their policies and manner
of doing business are on a sound basis ami
all just claims arc paid promptly and in full.
These institutions were recently complimented
very highly by the Auditor of the State Insurance
Department.
Are your buildings and mules insured with ust
If not, write to
D. E. BONEY, York, S. C.
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"Lucky Dog" Baseball Goods
We are carrying in stock a full line of the
\ jfK famous "Lucky Dog" (D.
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^MjliSr M tsranu ana Keacn
i Baseball Goods. Come to
Sf us for anything in base&
ball goods.
Jar At this store you also
W^: ^ will find a complete line
v gk^ Bicyles-& Fishing t ackle.
Rock Hill Cycle Shop
123 Hampton Sr. ROCK HILL, S. C. Phone 425J
Always The Best
You will always find in stock at this \
Store the freshest and best of every- 1
thing in GROCERIES. \
We are in business not expecting to ?
get rich in a day, a week or a month ;
and are satisfied with a modest :
profit. |
BRADFORD & CO. ]
HALL STREET ' . - PHONE 113 " j
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TRUNKS and SUIT CASES j
We have on hand a few good Trunks and Suit <j
Cases which we gan give you bargain pricds on. <
Come in to see them. , <
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S. A. LEE and T. F. LYTLE, Mgrs. j
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tilding Public of Fort Mill i
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to make quick deliveries of Lumber <
Building material right at your door
:e your incriries.
ig, Floori^^^fling, Siding, Shingles,
nenU^^^^Uathci, Doors, Sash,
Millwork.
pat Your
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| | loweat firat cost, the l! |
I loweat upkeep and the 1 |
III higheat resale value of * 1 1 ' |
! any motor car ever built ' J
j Expand your sales zone?reach ||J
I more customers. Figured from ||
| every conceivable standpoint a j j
I Ford Chassis, and a body to !|
I suit your needs will not only I
! speed up and substantially
III lower the cost of your light |]
J delivery and hauling, but it ill
j will establish for your busi- j
ness an invaluable reputation Jj
for promptness and efficiency. j j
Buy now. Terms if desired. I
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Heath Motor Co. I
FORT MILL, S. C.
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EAGLE "MIKADO"^^^g^^JPeiica No. 174
For Sala kt your Dealer Made in fin yradea
ASK FOR TH5. YELLOW PENCIL WITH THE RED BAND
EAGLE MIKADO
EAGLE PENCIL'COMPANY, NEW YORK
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REFRIGERATOR!
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[ We have on display a complete ;;
? line of the famous j;
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| ice"Boxes ip.
> Also we have, several slightly i:
I used Ice Boxes we are offering at i;
^ bargain pi ices?all repainted and in i
I first class condition, i; jk
| See N us for your Screen Doors i M
\ and Screen Wire. i: %fl|