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1 rBrtabHihad 1891. SOAD CONTRACT LET. Fort Mill Township Highways to So Improved. The Fort Mill township bond commission, composed of Messrs. T. 15. Sprat t, W. 15. Meacham and W,"H. crook, meeting Monday afternoon, awarded the contract tor grading and top-soiling the Sti-ci Creek road from the northern limits of Fort Mill to the North Carolina line, a distance of approximately four miles, and for the two miles of road leading 4 from the southern section of town ir to ttailes' bridge which is also ttfk ha <vXiiiLiil 4 ? % T vv vl giuui u <11111 mjJ-SUill'U, IU O. ; W llouseal of Wmusboro, the contract price being $21,600. : 'Ihere were a umber of biddem foi the work and Mr. llouseal secured the contract by* bidding only $40 less for the entire job than another bidder. Following the announcement that he had been awarded the contract, Mr. llouseal stated that it wus his purpose to begin wovtc on the roads within ten duys or T\?<A U'Anlro uml Oiul I... J ?... ploy two construction forces, one oil the "Steel Creek roud uml the other on the Bailes' bridge road. The Jaudon Engineering cotup.ii:y of Elborton, tia., is the engineering firm euployed by the commission to see that the work is done according to contract. The announcement that these important roads are to be improved will be gratifying news, especially to the eastern section of the county, and wheii The work is completed many people living just across the hue in Mecklenburg county who now go e're where to buy their farm a??d household supplies are expected to coine to Fort Mill for that purpose. The improved road to Bailes' bridge connecting York m and Lancaster counties also is expected to prove of considerable value, heretofore -unknown, in a business w?v. -- ? In connection with the award ot the contract for the improvement of the Steel Creek road, Col. T. B. Sprat t, chairman of 1## coiuaOfSSthn, stated that while there would perhaps be disappointment that the commission did not &*&o usk for bids for improving the road through the Gold Hill section, the understanding was that the Gold Hill road was a part of the north und south highway to be taken care , oi by the county authorities tinker the provisions of the Stewart road law. ^Candidates Two Yfears Hence. 44 Although the 1922 State Democratic primary for State officers is less than two weeks bel ind'us and the next primary will not be held until August, 1924, politi' cians in Columbia have already befrun to tullr of nniiBiltlo nmwli- I dates in the next race for the governorship and for the seat in the United States senate now held by Senator Dial, whose successor will be chosen two years hence,'* a day or two ago said a State senator from the central part of the State. "One of the leaders of the Blease forces said :lo?me within the last week."continued the senator, "that Bleaso htmaelf would not again be a candidate for governor, but that he and his friends were sure to in\ sist upon Congressman Fred Domiuick making the race against McLeod two years hence. "Another thing these Columbia politicians are saying is that Congressman Jim Byrnes of the Aiken district will enter the race againat Senator Dial ;and that I Congressman W. F. Stevenson of th? Fifth district also is expected ^ to become a candidate to succeed' Bene tor Dial." da Two Hon Tax Days. After today only two days re^ have^ no^ rHE f WEEVIL RUINS OROP. J. T. aFin, former editor and publisher of the Rock Hill Evening Herald, has just returned to Rock Hill from an automobile trip to points^tn Georgia, where he gathered considerable information concerning the growing of cbttou under boll weevil conditions. Speaking of his trip, Mr. Fain said: ,1'The best cotton I saw in this State or in Georgia was in Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson counties. The crops around tHartwell,.Ga., were the best that I saw anywhere in Georgia. The crops around Rock Hill look better than the crops ill middle Geor : 1 i .it i i giu, wnere me uou weevil uamage appears to have reached the maximum. "Coweta county, Ga., situated southwest of Atlanta, is a fair index to conditions in middle Georgia. Their record crop was about 45,000 bales. In 1920 the crop was about 00,000 bales, last year it was 88.000 bales and this year it will not be more "than 4.000 or 5,000 bales. 1 gathered this information from the best farmers and cotton men in the county. The general conditions brought about by this slump in I iu cotton production are, in an ' agricultural sense, disastrous. A number of fertilizer plunts, oil mills, cotton buyers and cotton warehouses have gone out of business and the effect is being felt iu all lines of business. This section of Georgia is now feeling the full force of the weevil." In some sections of Georgia where the weevil first put in its - * X I < oj'l'cai unuc Kume ox uic iarmers told Mr. Fain they find that they can grow cotton under weevil conditiouH by duating with calcium arsenate according to the directions of the United States department of agriculture expert. -He aw-ill otre fleTd where the calcium arsenate was not used not so Auch as a 10 per cent crop l^ill be made while the fields treated with the poison show a normal growth. , , . Town Hall Dilapidated. "1'ossibly it is uot one of .the really serioua matters of the day. but 1 should like to have The Times call attention to the dilapidated appearance of the Main street side of the town hall," yesterday said a Fort Mill citizen. "A number-of lights have been broken out of the windows and for the sake of the uppearance ol the haH if for no other reason they ought to be replaced. 1 do not know whether the military company, which uses the hall as an armory, is responsible for the missing lights or not, but 1 suspect that it is, and if this suspicion is well founded, the military company should see that new lights are put in at once." Chicken Thief Dropped $000. William Schrock, a farmer o! Listie, Pa., entered hi* chicken house one morning recently and discovered that 30 of his best fowls had disappeared. lie found a large leather pocketbook under a window where the thief evidently had entered. Opening the pocketbook Hchrock was amaaed to find it packed full of bills. The man who took the chickens >iad left behind $91)0. A few d^ys later a claimant for the money communicated with Shrock. The owner was a ...A|t I -!a m 1? ? wc? Knowii citizen 01 ine neigoborhood. He asked. Schrqck to U>ke out a reasonable suui for the chickens and send the'balance to him. Shrock wants a, different kj.djof settlement, however, and the matter may get into the cotfrts.. Hem Tested Strong Drink. While he was in. Fort Mill Tuesday, Governor Harvey stated to a citizen of Jfce* town that he htd never tasted either whiskey or wine. "I hope I am noffanatioal in my opposition to. strong drink," said* the governor, "but 1 am at least -consistent uwmy. attitude toward it, 1 have yet to ee the. man who wvto benefited socially, morally, financially or ?th?nrt? bjr drnktoa wWrtay." Ify B LiHBf RP 'ORT 1 POET ?Lt, 8. 0., ttd in MEWS OP YOEK COUNTY. Items of General Interest Pound in Ihe Yorkville Enquirer. i If you live in Clover and own i a dog you must keep the dog 'tied i up iii ihe yard somewhere* or else take chances of having your dog ; shot by Hie police, for me town' council has passed an ordinance, . already eftective, that all dogs must be tied up for a period of 1*0 i days aud the policemen have or. ders to shoot and kill all dogs . that are running at large. [. Thus far few citizens of Clover lave registered to vote irn the . election to be held next month on . the question of issuiug bonds to build a sewer system for ^ "the ? town. Less than 25 people have , registered, it is stated. There is nothing surprising about it, however, tor the reason that the great majority of the citizens of , Clover are already qualified to , vote in the coining election. Mrs._W. AC Steele, the oldest white resident ot \erkvilie, ceiei orated her SHlih birthday last Friday. Despite her advanced year* Mrs. St.eeie enjoys good health and has use 01 ner mental 'and physical iaculties to a degree i o jtial to that which might be ex ,reeled of a much jounger person, airs. Steele was enrolled to vote .11 the recent primary election and is able to attend church services quite regularly. Mr. S. E. Atkins of York No. b brought to the Yorkville Enquirer office Wednesday two . stalks of tall corn, the tallest measuring lb feet 4 inches from roots to tassel. Each stalk carritd two ears, fully developed in , the cuse of one, and but ouiy partially developed in the case or th ? other. Mr. Atkius explained that the corn was grown oil first year new ground, but he could not account for the unusual height of it, which, he says, exceeds ??.tythiitg he has ever seen. Of sniM'iul intoroat 1a tho >>... 11 _ oers oi the Presbyterian denwidiu-uou throughout the couu'y is ihe announcement that the fciynou ol' the Presbyterian church ot south Carolina la to couveue 111 t'urity Presbyterian church, Chester, on 'iussday, October 3, and wilt remain in session through October b. Approximately 2<?u nmisters and eiucrs are expected o attend the meeting. The open.11 g sermon is to be delivered b> tie v. .Jus, H. Green L*. L>., of tlte chair of: theology ot i olumbia seminary, Columbia. ' The Clover section oi the couu try is perfectly safe, 111 the opinion oi M. Lt. h'ord, venerable 'foage of Clover." According to Mr. rortl, "about the oniy inuig wrong ia that a lot of people who are not working ought to go to work. The cotton crop is going to be a little short, but still it is going to be a pretty good crop. i'in selling my crop as fast as 1. pick it, as 1 usually do. 1 notice that a lot of farmers are coming to town, selling their cotton, Mopping at a hot dog stand and gciung a hot dog or two and a *ott drmk and whistling as they return home. Things could be a , tot worse and I've seen 'em a lot worse." c Charged with the abandonment of his wife;-Mrs. Essie Boone, C. A. Boone, a textile machinist Of Rock Hill, was arrested in that I town Monday and later released on bond of $1,000 after he he'd been brought to Yorkville to be committed to jail. The -abandoned wife, Mrs. Essie Boone, a rather attractive looking young woman, was in Yorkville Tuesday to eenanlt an attorney in connection with the warrant against her hus[ -band. She is said to have stated ttyttlltibe expected to prosecute h4r husband to- the full extent of the law# It- is charged that Boone has been living in Iloek Hill with a n ... . ? m ?_!- 'M - a frvuiiui^n^M^OI QUI W1W. Anderson Production Increased. Continued prosperity in the automobile industry is forecast by an announcement just issued , by [ Anderson, president of ihe< Anderson .Motor eonpny. Rock liill, to the effect that,the pro duetion schedule on the new An{ derson ear will be.increased to 10,000 cars during the next IS \ ' * Mill - CUTIOTBES FABMBBS. B.-M. In ' Thinks Tbay Show l*oor Business Judgment. Editor Fort Mill Times: For all the good it will do, the 1 writer- may as well sign his name io .three blau* pages. Nevertheless, 1 shall state a tact or two lor the ^people to think over, especially the farmers. On every hand 1 hear it being discussed as to whether the farmers are blind, meah or just plain fools. They j certainly have little business abil lty or they would change the or- i del of world affairs promptly. The writer does not mean anything personal, and the world fcilows and acknowledges that the great ineu of the ages have, as a rule, come from the farms, and even today a few of the best and braihinest men of the country were born and country bred. 1 am speaking of the agricultural population as a class. Tfcfe men of money never cease to wonder why, with the world for his field, that the farmer does not take better care of himself. Why, for instance, will he persist in raising too much of one thing and not euough of another, anu then permit New York robbers to icll him what he shall have for his products? Tlje Southern cotton farmer in particular is the laughing stock of the nation. When he swears, day after day, that his cotton has a ?a ft J . 4 a oven ournea up or eaten up oy weeyils, or some other calamity overtakes it, New York ami the cotton mills give him the horse augh ami call him a liar and sell the market. They have the cotton planter's record before them for the last 40 yeurs, and i that record is not sincere and honorable. They know the cotton farmer's brain works back* | ward. They know that when he swear* Lb a-acreage will be re- { dnced it will be increased. They' ki.ow that a cotton farmsr's signature to certain reduction pledges is not worth the paper it is written 011. ' Wall street never can understand why that if and when a farmer breaks his word to one pledge he will keep it on another. Kvery year at harvest time the "fool farmer" brings -his cotton to town and fusses und cusses if ihe market is 25 cents, but he will sell it just the same at 15 cents. He made up hi6 mind (.what little he has) before he left noine that the cotton was to be sold?and he knows as his old ir.ule gets in sight 6f town that the cotton is same as sojd. And eotton mefi know it, and New York knows it, and England knows it. To' fay mind it is one of the myterles of the ages. Why fight the boll weevil! Had it not beeu for the weevif last year, and this, from the Rio Grande river to the Atlantic ocean cotton today could hardly have been sold for 5 cents per pound. Think over that fact aud see if you can figure out where the far mors have any brains as a class. He knows what he ought to do, but each farmer mistrusts the other?eaeh tries to "put something ovef" on the other, with the result that they all wind up euming Wall street and every, thing in general when they themselves have palled down their own heu&e. But ^what's the use! It is to ltngh. The "fool, cotton farmer" wet shall hate with us always. What's, the use of the world beinn . urru " ww*? j avi ovsuc uuc n uu haan'iisenoe enough to help himself ?nd who won't stand by his written of spoken word f . How long would a merchant or a cotton -buyer or a mill man stay in business if he forgot his written pledges, or notes, or spoken woodsT So don't ask him to hold hk'jottoit or to reduce his sereage?4ie thinks there'a a trick in it. -Bother let hw| stand in the dgasaMgra and on the corners and ?gfs%*kis pipe and get kia eottPn] aayshsap 0 yen ean. That'a what he'dde to you if he eonld. Ho la easy to outwit, and he is never happy ?aleas he ia having a' hard thy JF 'M Time? I Willkun H. Armstrong Dead. I Another of the few Confederate veterans of the Fort Mill community passed to his reward {shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday ! morning when William II. Armstrong died at the home of his 'son/J. E. Armstrong, with whom he had made his home for the last 20. years. Mr. Armstrong had been ill for only a few days. His death was caused by an attack of influenza. As late as Saturday morning he was about the house and ate breakfast apparently in his usual health. Mr. Armstrong was in his 87th year and had spent all his long life in the Fort M>U community except the years he was in the Confederate army as a member of the Sixth South Carolina regiment. He had been a member of the Methodist church for more than half a century and the funeral services were conducted from St. John's church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by his pastor, the Rev. W. R. Bouknight, interment following in the city cemetery. Mr. Armstrong is survived by three sons, W. C. Armstrong, J. 11 Armatrntior on/1 .1 V. A rill strong. He was a brother of the late J. M. Armstrong, who died a few months ago. - Mr. Armstrong had many friends who will regret to learn of his death. Fort Mill Boys Defeat C. U. 8. The football team of the Fort Mill high school went to Charlotte Tuesday .afternoon for its" iirst game ot the season with the charlotte University school and o.v superior playing defeated the city boys, 18 to 0. The Charlotte Observer of Wednesday morning printed the following account oi ilie game: i "doe Median's C. S. U. eleven took its second licking of the season yesterday at the hands of the Fort Mill iirglm, 18" to (1, though .lit* I ncil I nrMn iiDhnnI Imlu nnt iin - ?- f - v I' MVMWK auvta j/ui ?ij? a .far better exhibition of footoali ihun 011 their first appearance. A large crowd saw the game at Independence park. '" l lie visiting lads played u better brand of ball, having more experienced material and thereoy better team work, and managed to stave off a touchdown on ihe one-yard line. "With the ball in their possession and four downs to go, the. locals met a stiff opposition 011 the part of the visitors and lost the ball 011 downs under _ the goal' posts. While there were other op* pot unities to score, this was the oest that presented itself." Age of St. John's Church. Doubt has arisen in the minds of a number of the older citizens of Fort Mill as to the accuracy of (he date 011 the cornerstone of St. John's Methodist churcn which bears the figures "1882" as the year in which the church was organized. Asked yesterday about the matter, an officer of the church said the records of the church" in possession of the congregation did not go farther back thaif 1882 and that it was from these records the date of the organization of the church was taken. A citizen of the town who has lived here many years said he remembered distinctly attending a3 a little boy - the Sunday school of St. John's church as far back as 1879 and that he was confident the original church building of the congregation in which the Sunday school was then held, and which occupied the site of the home on Clebourne street in which T. F. Lytle and his family now live, was erected not later than 1875 of 1876. Fourth Mill for Clover? With Clover's third cotton mill, the Hampshire, now under construction, there is talk of still an.iL iii a ai a rpu ~ aaII. uuicr liuii lor me tuwit. inc iai? is that the fdurth. mill will be built by the same company that is bulding the Hampshire and that it will occupy a site where the Hawthorn mill baseball park now' is. pray God bleas him, for "all-cotton farmers" are.in a. fix. B. M. Lee. ?**?> ?* ? 1 7*$? ' ":Z v'"' ' a ' * -Sav i . - "*> V, - - V* " *. s. > .. V* 1 . ?l.BOTw twr" I QOVXKNOK HARVBY-HMUS. IState's Executive Visits Fort Mill Tuesday Morning. Fort Mill had the honor of entertaining for about an hour Tuesday morning Governor Wilson G. Harvey and Mrs. Harvey, who were returning to Columbia from the Made-in-Carolinas exposition in Charlotte. During their stay in Fort Mill, Governor Harvey made a fehort address to the ' pupils of the graded school. He was introduced by Arthur C. Ly i~ ? -* - m-, mnvur 01 ine town ana also a member of the governor's staff. In his remarks to the school children Governor Harvey stressed the opportunities they have to secure an education and urged them to look to the future by . making their school days count for something material in the life before them as citizens of the State. Even the smaller school children seemed to appreciate the ' fact thut an unusual honor was being paid the school by the presence ami address of the governor and the closest attention was paid to what he said. Both at the outset and at the conclusion of his re* marks. Governor Harvey was libeially applauded. At the conclusion of Governor Harvey's address, Mrs. Harvey was introduced by Mrs. J. B. Elliott and in a few words she expressed her appreciation of the reception tendered the governor and herself. f ollowing tne visit of Uovernor and Mrs. Havey to t lie and Mrs. Harvey to the the school, they were entertained for a few minutes by Dr.. J. B. Elliott and Mrs. Elliott at their home. Governor Harvey there recalled to Mrs. Elliott that he and her father, the late Rev. J. H. Thoruwell, 1). L)., had been closely-associated some years ago as officers of the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias of South Carolina, and said that he and Mrs. Harvey frund peculiar pleasure in visiting. if only for a short time,, at tlie home of the daughter of his e. teemed friend of former days. Already known and admired in Tort Mill for the reputatiou he is making as one of the best goveirors the State has had in years, many citizens of the town welcomed the opportunity Goyeror Harvey's visit here gave them to become acquainted with him and Ik was kept busy during much of his stay here shaking hands. Governor and Mrs. Harvey left in their car for Columbia at 12 o'clock Tuesday, going by way of Camden. The Condition of Cotton. The report of J. W. Jay & Co., . New York cotton merchants, up to September 17 shows an average percentage condition for the Cnited States of 49.5. The condition for South Carolina is put at 140.3, which is next to the lowest (on the list, that of Georgia being 40.2. The average indicated yield per acre is 137.8 pounds. The yield in 1914 ran "as high as 209.2 per acre. The report carries the following additional information as to the crop in South Carolina: "One week early to one week late. Weather hot and dry, causing premature ppening. No top crop expected. Lint yield per sere light. Expect completion of picking November 1, while in many counties picking will be completed by October 15. Frost on average date will have no marked effect. Yield disappointing compared with original expectations. Weevil has been very destructive. General prospect bad." Corn Crop Also Short. York county farmers are much concerned over the shortness of the corn crop which is almost M M i a _ - _ ? iiar ufiow me average as'.M ine I cotton crop. The corn trpp of * the county this year will be only 60 per cent of normal, in the opinion of John B. Blair, county demonstration agent who is conversant with the outlook. The decreased corn yield man* that hundreds of Ysfk county farmers will be forced-to buy * corn next year. And buying corn * from boll weevil cotton is poor * business, say many farmers. 1*1 ' *