Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-03-12
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

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A box supper, for the benefit
of the school, will be given at
Gold Hill Academy the evening
of Friday, the 10th. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. j. R. Halle, who attended
the sessions of the General AS
sembly as a member of the York
delegation, returned to his home
III this city Friday evening.
A meeting of the local chapter
of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy has been called for this
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. R. F. Grier.
All members are urged to be
present.
The stockholders of the Per-
petual Building and Loan AS
sociation held a special meeting
Monday afternoon at which the
directors were authorized to in
crease the capital stock of the
association to 100000.
Hope for week of bracing,
seasonable weather, with gen.
orally fair skies was held out
Sunday night by the national
weather bureau forecasters to
virtually every part of the storm
battered, snow and ice covered
country.
Members of the local military
company enjoyed an oyster feast
in the armory Friday night. The
company then spent an hour or
more at drill, this being the first
of a number of drills which the
company will make preparatory
to inspection next month.
Fort Mill acquaintances of Mr..
Fred A. Hull, of Asheville, who
has paid many visits to this city
in the capacity of national bank
examiner, will be interested to
know that he has forwarded his
resignation to the comptroller of
the currency at Washington.
The awarding of prizes Satur-
day afternoon in the contest at
Massey's Drug store attracted
large crowd of people to this
popular establishment. The
first prize, handsome kitchen
cabinet was won by F. M. Mack,
while w. R. Bradford was the
winner of the second prize, a
pen of wyandotte chickens.
AS the 18th day of March falls
on Sunday, delinquent taxpayers
of the county have only three
more days in which to pay up.
There is at present a penalty
attached of seven per cent. and
all who do not settle their taxes
on or before Saturday next may
expect to pay the cost of an exc
cution.
At meeting of the officers of
the Fort Mill Presbyterian church
Monday it was decided to hold
open air meetings during the
coming summer months every
Sunday night in Confederate
park. An experiment along this
line was made last summer with
such gratifying results that the
officers have decided to make it a
permanent institution.
A petition was circulated in
Fort Mill Saturday asking the
county board of commissioners
to devote all their surplus energy
and funds to the improvement
of the upper" road leading
from Rock Hill to Yorkville. AS
the betterment of this road will
be of great benefit to the people
of Fort Mill and the township, a
large number signed the petition.
Postmaster B. H. Massey, in
common with the other post
masters of the country, is pre-
pairing to receive books for par
eel post shipments for the first
time since the system was in
aug urated January l, 1913. The
order allowing books for this
shipment goes into effect March
16 and will cause quite change
in the parcel post service.
Monday in YorkUlle a meeting
of the county board of equaliza-