Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-08-26

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS
PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN
Wade Spratt of Mt. Holly, N. c.,
is the guest OF Douglass Minis near
Fort MIL.
Mrs. A. A. Young of Rock Hill
visited relatives and friends In Fort
Mill this week.
Mrs. j. p. Jeter of Santuc is q
guest In the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Oscar T. Culp.
Miss Juantia Erwin returned home
Friday, after a two weeks visit 70
relatives in Hartsville.
c. 8. Link returned to Fort Mil
Saturday from ten day visit to his
mother in Hickory. N. c.
Mrs ]. j. Stewart and children of
Mt. Holly. N. c., are guests Of Mrs.
Stewarts mother. Mrs. ]. A. Boyd.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Young spent
several days of last week in Charles
ton.
Miss Sophie Link left Tuesday for
Chattanooga, Tenn. where she has
accepted position in real estate
Office. .
Col. II. Il. Spratt and ]. j. Bales
spent yesterday in Columbia attend
ing tho American Cotton assoc!at don
meeting.
Special services are being conduct
ed each evening this week at Massey
school house by the Rev. w. X.
Bauknight at 8 o'clock.
w. T. Barron, teller sof the First
National Bank of Fort Mill. has re-
turned to his duties after a weeks
visit to his home In York.
The Rev. j. b. Black. pastor OF
the Fort Mill Presbyterian church.
returned to Fort Mill Tuesday morn
ing after n visit Of several days to
relatives near Pittsburgh, Pa.
Cliff McElhaney says he knows
some people who are so peculiarly
religious that they Twill not perso-
nally patronize the postoffice on
Sunday, but that they send their
children for the mail on that day.
Guests of Mrs. W. +. Harris at the
Palmetto hotel during the past week
were Mrs. Lacey Whiting and chill.
dren of Lumberton. N. c.. Miss Mary
Harris, Miss Elizabeth Buchanan
and Mrs. Agnes Harris of Charlotte,
n. c..
John s. Potts has returned from
weeks outing ut Wrightsville Beach
and Sanford, n. G. Mr.. Potts fam
lily accompanied him on the trip,
but remained for another week in
Sanford as guests of Mr. and Mrs
w. III. Coy. Mrs. Potts parents.
The Times is requested to an.
nounce that tho annual picnic of tho
Gold Hilf Demonstration club will bc
held at the home OF Mrs. Fred VIII
son In that community next Tues
day. AN invitation to attend thi
picnic is exteDded the public.
Unless their differences are settled
meanwhile outside OF court, mex
Monday morning recorder OFT will
hear the case OF ID. ID. Orr agains
w. L. Ware, whose children ar
charged with having entered tn,
home of Orr and abused his chill
dren. The Ware and Orr familic"
are ncxt-door neighbors in the
Sprattville section of town.
George Routesong arrested in For
Mill by Officer V. ID. Potts. Friday
August 13, for lettering in the pas
scngor station OF the Southern rail
way, who Is said to have voluntaril,
confessed that he deserted from tn.
army ut Camp Meade. Maryland, n,
row weeks ago. was taken to Cam
Meade last Thursday by Sergt. Chas
+. Scarrem. Company A. 3O3d bat
talon. Tank corps. to be courtmar
tailed for. desertion.
"A tarantula that probably had nC
idea OF tho fate that awaited II wher
II left Central America i'm n bunch
of bananas received Saturday morn
ing mt the confectionery OF j. II
Halle In Fort Mill was killed by Mrs.
!aile when 1t jumped from the ba-
mas and ran across the floor. The
tarantula liz large spider whose
bite IL said to produce tarantism or
paralysis. The insect liz found in
Florida and countries south OF, the
United States.
Vernon Walden. young white man,