Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-09-25
Price of Cotton.


The Lancaster News learns that
Hon. d. E. Finley is i'll at his home in
Yorkville, and joins with his other
numerous friends in the wish that he
may have speedy recovery.
Will Move Family Here.
Mr.. Bratton Fennell, the new super
intendent of the Millfort mill, will
within few days move his family
from Columbia to Fort Mill and will
probably occupy a cottage on Clebourn
| street.
First Frost of the Season
From outlying districts came reports
of light frost Monday and Tuesday
mornings. Residents with thermome-
ters in exposed places report the
temperature each of these mornings as
being about 40 degrees.
Cotton Ginned in York.
In the government report of more
than seven thousand bales of cotton
ginned in South Carolina up to Septem-
Der l of the crop of 1913 the number
reported from York county is 10. This
against bale from the crop of 1912.
Good Roads Delegates.
Governor Blease has appointed A.
Eugene Hutchinson of Rock Hill; O. l..
Sanders of McConnellsville; J. r. Halle
of Fort Mill, and w. B. Riddle of
Glover, as delegates to the meeting at
Asheville on October %, of the Southern
Appalachian Good Roads association.
Iorkville Enquirer.
More Gamblers Arrested.
Constable Frank Windle was again
on the alert Saturday afternoon and as
a result four young men were before
Magistrate X. Il. Harris to answer to
the charge of gambling. The men
submitted to the charge and each was
| fined So.
Farmers Are Delayed.
The bad weather of the last week
caused much delay among the farmers
of this section who had just fairly be-
gun the harvesting of cotton and the
fodder and hay crops. Many farmers
of the township lost considerably bv
reason of having fodder and hay in the
field during the wet spell.
Metho odist Meeting Next Week.
AS announced in The Times several
weeks ago, protracted meeting in
which the Rev. L. e.. O'Dell. pre-
siding elder of the Rock Hill district.
will do the preaching, will begin at the
local Methodist church next Sunday
morning and continue through the
week. The public generally is invited
to attend the services
Fined for Resisting Arrest
John Caldwell, colorcd suspec ted of
selling cocaine, was arrested Sunday
afternoon at Carhartt by Constable
Frank Windie. The negro's objections
to being arrested and searched were
such as to cause charge of resisting
an officer TO be brought against him.
Upon being arraigned before Magistrate
K. L. Harris he was fined $40, which
was paid
School Hack Arrives.
The big hack which is 10 be used
daily III conveying the pupils of the
Gold Hill school from Flint Hill church
to the school house, arrived in town
Saturday afternoon from Rock Hill,
where 1T was manufactured by the
Rock Hill Buggy company. The hack
lengthwise of the covered body, and
has capacity of thirty pupils. The
contract for driving the hack has not
been let.
Lytle-Brackeit.
Sunday afternoon at o'clock at the
Methodist parsonage, Joseph Bracket
and Miss Jessie Lytle We're quietly
married, Rev. f. l.. Glennan offiiciat-
ing. Only few very intimate friends
of the couple witnessed the event.
Mrs. Bracket is the daughter of Mr..
j. +. Lytle, OF the Milfort mill settle
ment, and possesses charming per-
sonality. Mr.. Bracket is formerly
from Cliffside, N. c., but is now en-
ployed at the Millfort mill.
Was Cotton Injured?
Farmers hold different opinions on
the effect of the weather of the last
week. Some hold that it has very
seriously hurt cotton, especially late
cotton. Others say the rain did good
and that the cool weather was not
sufficient to do any harm. All agree
that the man who had pea vines cut
down and fodder on the stalk in this
weather had nothing good coming to
him from the weather side.
Home From Mexico.
The Rev. William w. Boyce, of
Rock Hill, has returned from Tancau-
huitz, where he has for year or more
been stationed as missionary of the
A. X. Presbyterian church. Mr..
Boyce's station was in the interior
mountains, far from the cities and
conditions there became intolerable.
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