Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-04-22
CAN'T BE FOUND
Twelve Year Old Child Disap-
pears While On
HER WAY TO SCHOOL

Ciemmons Left Her Home op
Highland Avenue for the BouIe-
ward School and Has Strange,v
vanished, and She Can't be Found
In Atlanta, Ca, the strange and
unaccountable disappearance of IT.
tie Louise Clemmons, IL years old.
is cuasing great anxiety to her mar
eh's' Mr.. and Mrs. ]. f. Clemmons.
VINO lives as 354 Highland avenue.
since 8 o'clock Monday morning.
when the little girl, with the school
pooks under arm, left home for the
boulevard Street school, she has not
I returned home, and her anxiou.
mother and father have Learned
uotnihg OF her whereabouts.
All night Monday night her parents
spent troubled hours in notifying
| the police authorities. phoning IN
| relatives in different parts of tbe
| city and in visiting the homes of the
Wlghborhood in vain, restless ef-
lorts TO find some clue to the where
aDouts of the bright little daughter
VINO had so suddenly and so mys-
teriously disappeared.
Little Carrie is a favorite In tbo
nelghborhood. She is bright and
wlnsome and is admired by all who
know her. She is her mothers onIv
daughter and the mother is about
10 give away under the anxious
strain.
MIS-. CIemmons was at first quite
aVerse to notifying the police or the
newspapers OF her daughters dis
appearance. and it was far into the
night of Monday, after all possihIe
eHorts had been made, that she and
ner husband called upon the police
TO assist in the search.
FROM the Boulevard Street
schooi' where Carrie had regularly
attended and for which place she
left her home Monday morning In
her accustomed manner, comes the
information that she was not seen
at that school at all Monday. She
was urged by her mother upon Ie,v-
ing 10 return home Immediately after
schooi closed for the day and readily
consented. Her accustomed obedi-
ence In this respect makes her dis
appearance all the more of a myste-
ry TO her parents and the suspense
all the more terrible. At first her
failure to return did not excite anv
tears, but the coming of night with
out the child's appearance brought
with 1t fear and anxiety Mrs. Glenn
mons Immediately telephoned to the
homes of relatives over the city
where the child had often visited
only to learn that she had not been
seen. The father was notified at
his place of business. sc Ivy street.
and the search began.
The only trace of Carrie yet learn
ed since her disappearance is that
she was seen walking down Broad
street, near the intersection Of Broad
with Mitchell street, Monday about
2 o'clock. She was alone, and vet
her mother cannot believe her to
be- lost, because, although young, she
knew the streets of the city we'll and
often run errands to many points
in the city alone. This causes Mrs.
Clemmons to believe trat her daugh-
ter is being held and not lost, as she
cannot see why the child would not
return home If she could, because
she knows the way. Then, too,
Carrie had often expressed a fond
ness for going to Lakewood to gath
er the flowers there and Mrs. Glenn
mons is strongly tempered to belns.sauG
that she went to Lakewood and has
fallen into the lake and is drowned.
"Of course. that's looking at 1t
on the dark side" said Mrs. Glenn
mons to Journal representative,
but I am nevertheless trying to see
the bright side, If there is any bright
side"
When the little girl left home for
school Monday morning she wore a
dotted blue muslin dress, with a
darker blue border. On her head she
wore a small tan cap; on. her hair
was a rather large blue ribbon bow.
She wore button shoes and signet
ring on which were engraved the
letters G. L. G.
Her father is a plumber, working
at 90 Ivy street.