Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-05-22
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Union. is visiting at the home of
j. R. Halle.
Make it a rule to have the
back yard, at all times, as clean
as the front one.
Good schools, good churches
and good roads never fail to
make good town.
Mrs. A. J. Graham and chill
dren, of Greenville, are guests
at the home of DR.. and Mrs. T.
S. Kirkpatrick, in this city.
The prosperity of a town de-
pends chiefly upon the confidence
the people have in it. No town
can prosper whose citizens are
untrue to it.
Mrs. VIM. R. Belk returned
Friday to Parksville Tenn, after
visit of several weeks to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. p.
Sutton, of the township.
The Times would be pleased to
have a news letter each week
from the prosperous Pleasant
Valley section of Lancaster.
Won't some one of our Pleasant
Valley friends give us the news
of that section occasionally?
Sergt. j. w. Hobbs, of COM
pany X, Fifth Infantry. u. s.
A, is in Fort Mill for few days
lnstructing the members of the
local military organization. The
instruction includes rifle prac-
tice, patrol and outpost duty and
non-cOmmiSSioned officers school.
The Times has received an
invitation to attend the COM
mencement exercises of Clemson
college, to be held June 9Th. 9th,
and 10th. The baccalaureate
sermon will be preached by Rev.
Howard Lee Jones, of Charles
ton.
The second annual conference
of the State and county organ
izers of the Girls Canning clubs
of South Carolina is in progress
this week at Winthrop college.
There are present delegates from
sixteen counties and interesting
programs are being carried out
each day.
A very good and much needed
rain fell throughout the town.
ship pretty generally Saturday
morning. In the Immediate vi
cinity of Fort Mill the fall was
slight but in both the upper and
lower parts of the township the
rain was heavy and WASH very
helpful to he crops and truck.
Individual members of the To-
cal military company are taking
a great deal of interest in the
rifle practice at the range and
some GOOD scores are being made.
In the STATE shoot at Charleston
last year the Fort Mill company
won the State championship and
members Of the company are
confident of doing as we'll this
year.
The services at the Fort Mill
Methodist church next Sunday
evening will be especially inter
esting. A number of ladies' who
have been buSilV engaged in
turning over" their dollar for
the benefit of the church repairs
will make their report. Special
music will be rendered and a
profitable hour is being anntici-
pated. The public is cordially
invited to be present at 8:15
o'clock.
Invitations have been issued
by Mrs. w. G. Neville, of Clin-
ton, to the marriage of her
daughter, Miss Talulah Neville,
to John Spratt, of Laurens. the
ceremony to take place in June.
Mr.. Spratt is son of Mr.. and
Mrs. b. M. Spratt, of Chester,
and hasa number of relatives in
Fort Mill. and vicinity. With
his brother, Frank X. Spratt, he
is now engaged in the wholesale
grocery business in J.aurens.
Late Wednesday afternoon a
foreigner employed at the plant
of the Charlotte Brick company,
at Grattan, lost a leg as a result
of an accident on the railroad.
The man, with several others,
was engaged in "pinching" n
car along the sidetrack when a