Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-06-25

Alex. 1OunS, OF CnarlOCCe,
spent Sunday at the home of his
parents in this city.
Mrs. M. M. Watson. for num-
ber of years a resident of Fort
Mill but now living in New York.
is visiting friends and relatives
here.
Generally fair weather with
high temperatures throughout
the Southern States was the
forecast for the week issued
Sunday night by the national
weather bureau at Washington.
Sam Johnston, 13-year-old
brother of Mr.. r. S. Johnston,
suffered a fracture of his right
arm Friday afternoon when he
fell from a swing near the Fort
Mill Mfg. company's mill No. l.
Mrs. w. l.. Ainsley, who has
been visiting her son, Mr.. Geo.
Ainsley. in this city, has gone to
Seattle, Wash. to spend some
time with relatives before re-
turning to her home at st.
Petersburg. Florida.
An excursion from Charlotte
and intermediate points to Char
lesion will be operated tomorrow,
the 26th. by the Southern Rail-
way. The train will pass Fort
Mill at 11.15 D. M, and the
round trip fare from this point
will be 1925.
Floyd Therrell, son of Mr.. w.
ID. Therrell. of Upper Fort Mill.
left Monday morning for a pleas
ure trip of several weeks in
Western North Carolina. Upon
his return Mr.. TherrelI will take
a position with a wholesale gro
Gerry at Salisbury, N. c.
DR.. and Mrs. A. Theo. Nicely,
whose marriage took place in
Charleston June is, arrived in
Fort Mill Sunday afternoon, af-
ter an automobile trip to Ashe-
vile, N. G. DR.. and Mrs. Nicely
have taken a suite of rooms in
the Central Hotel building on
Faulkner street.
Mrs. J. A. Lewis, who has
been visiting relatives in Tryon,
N. c.. and Tazewell, Va, for a
month past. has returned to her
home here accompanied by Misses
Olive Kate Britain and Martha
Thompson, her niece and grand
daughter. who will spend the
summer in Fort Mill.
The local board of health has
had printed and distributed
among the citizens of the town
copies of the rules and regula-
tions which have lately been
revised and amended. These
rules have been ratified by city
council and are now laws of the
town.
So far as The Times is able to
learn. only on York county man
has thus far announced his can
didacy for office in the August
primaries. This is Mr.. E. w.
Pursley. of Kings Mountain
township. who wants to go to
the Legislature as a member of
the lower house.
The Majestic Theatre, which,
has been showing daily during
the spring and early summer,
has changed to three shows a
week Tuesdays. Thursdays and
Saturdays. This change was
made, it was stated, on account
of the extremely hot weather
and general dullness of the
season.
Fort Mill people who thought
Monday that they were expert
riencing some real summer heat
with thermometers showing 96
degrees, had little cause for COM
plant. Over in Greensboro, N.
| c., the mercury in the official
thermometer mounted to 102 de-
grees, which was the highest
temperature recorded at any
point in this section of the coun-
try.
A tenant house on the planta-
ton of Mr.. Andrew Hill, two
miles west Of Fort Mill, was
destroyed by fire early Thursday
morning. The house was occu-
pied by julius White. colored.
who succeeded in getting most
of his household goods from the
burning building. The fire was
thought to have been of incen.
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