Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-03-05
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. !,

Edgar Jones, who has been
seriously i'll at her home one
mile west Of town fer some days.
Carriers of man on the local
rural routes were unable to-
serve their routes Thursday on
account of the snow and extreme
cold, this being the first time in
several years that the weather
had made it impossible for them
to make their regular trips.
Announcement was made in
the York News of Thursday that
Mr.. j. T. Bigham, of Chester,
would assume the editorship of
that paper, succeeding Mr.. c. N.
Wrenshall. Mr.. Bigham is a
newspaper man of experience,
having successfully conducted
the Chester Lantern from it's
establishment until a short time
ago.
Parties having business with
the county officials will now find
the officials located in the old
Rose hotel building in Yorkville,
into which they moved the last
week, and which they will occupy
during the building of the
county's new $75, 600 court build
ing.
Confederate veterans of this
and other sections will be inter-
ested to know that the date of
the State reunion of the veterans
to be held at Anderson has been
changed to May q and %. The
change of dates was deemed
necessary because of the dates
previously determined upon con-
flicting with those of the veter-
ans reunion in Jacksonville, Fla.
Eight inches of snow, the
heaviest seen in this section
since the year 1902, fell here
Wednesday night and Thurs
day morning. The temperature
Thursday at 8 a. m. registered
10 degrees above zero, which
was the coldest morning of the
season in this section. The city
schools were closed Thursday on
account of the extreme cold and
snow, but resumed work on
Friday.
A slight change in the running
time of several of the Southern
railway passenger trains on the
Charlotte Columbia division was
made on last Sunday. Under
the change the trains now ar
rive at Fort Mill as follows:
Train No. 27. 5:27 p. m.; No. so,
9:02 p. m.; No. 113, 11:57 a. m.
No. Ia. 11:57 a. m. The public
would do well to make a note of
these changes.
Andrew Caldwell, a colored
man of the township, is suffer-
ing with deep cash in his left
cheek as the result of his having
Saturday walked bodily through
a plate glass door in the grocery
department of the Mills & Young
company. Caldwell started into
the store to make purchase and
failed to observe the plate glass
door. The shattered glass was
fully insured. but the negro went
his way without compensation
for his badly lacerated cheek.
The York county supply bill
as introduced in the Legislature
specifies that the levy for ordi-
nary county purposes shall be
six mills; two mills for road pur-
poses. one half mill for county
home fund and one-half mill to
provide sinking fund and pay
interest on court house bonds.
In addition provision is made
with regard to old bond issues
in Catawba, Ebenezer and York
Townships. The bill also speci-
fies how the money received shall
be spent.
T. A. Mills, a well known resi-
dent of the town and carrier of
mail on rural route 1, was the
victim. Of a misfortune Sunday
afternoon which came near prov
ing fatal. Mr.. Mills felt the
need of dose of quinine and in
measuring the doae, through
mistake, poured q quantity of
morphine from an unlabelled
hottie into O oiocc opl cxrolloyol