Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-11-25
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS
PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN

Miss May Owens is spending the |
Thanksgiving holidays with Miss Lila
Dixon In York.
The Rev. w. r. Bauknight spent
Tuesday and Wednesday with his
mother in Newberry.
The honor roll Of the Fort Mill
graded school for the first quarter OF
ths current session will be printed In
The Timee next week.
Many Of the Fort Mill boys and
girls who have been away this fall
attending college are ut home for the
Thanksgiving holidays,
Miss Bulow Massey has returned
to Mitchell college. Statesville. N. c..
after a visit Of several days at the
homo OF her father. l.. ]. Massey.
A cut amounting to about 16 2-3
per cent was made several days ago
In the wages OF the employees OF the
Fort Mil Manufacturing company.
n The Rev ]. w. III. Dyches. TIL. D.,
pastor OF the Fort Mil Baptist
church returned home yesterday af-
Z ter weeks visit to relatives In
Barnwell county.
The business OF the Fort Mill
Wholesale Grocery company. William
tha building the company formerly
Ing on upper Main street.
An airplane Is said to have fallen
with the pilot one of the Boyles boys
OF Rock Hill. from a considerable
height, n short distance beyond Ca
tawba river from Fort Mil. Tuesday
afternoon and tho pilot considerably
injured.
Harvey Capps. 14-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Capps. met with
the misfortune a few days ago OF
breaking his left leg near the ankle
while playing football with a num-
Der OF his sohoolmates on the grounds
Of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church.
Hunters in this section recently
have had the good fortune to bag a
considerable number OF wild ducks
the number OF which to be found
along the water courses near Fort
MIL II said, to be larger this year
thnn For several years.
AFTER spending ten days at the
nome or his father Monroe Merritt
and other relatives In Fort Mill, II. +.
Merritt will leave Saturday for his
home at Bogaluso. La. Mr.. Merritt Is
locomotive engineer on the New Or
leans & Grand Northern railroad.
The fall session OF the Gold Hill
pubic school was resumed Monday
morning, after a suspension of sever
al weeks with Miss Ruth Lee Shu-
lor and Miss Ida Lee Parler, both of
Eiloree. Orangeburg county. In charge.
Tho school Ia to run for six months.
r. Il. Patterson and family have
moved into tho home Mr.. Paterson
recontly had erected on the corner
OF Forest and Hall streets. Mr.. and
Mrs Joe Minis and their children will
occupy tho cottage on Hall street out
OF which Mr.. Patterson and his fam
Hy have just moved.
Business generally Is supended in
Fort Mil today In observance of
Thanksgiving day. The stores, cotton
mills and banks are closed and at the
postonce Sunday hours are being OBJ
served. The cotton mills 1t is stated,
Will not resume operations until next
Monday morning
The Fort Mill friends Of Miss Liz
nie Cuip. who moved several years
ago from this community to Black
hountain. N. c.. with her niece. Miss
hhcs white. Will learn with pleasure
that she has been able to return to
DER nome after undergoing an opera
non at an Asheville hospital
Chevroiet automobile belonging
TO Hugh Wisher caught fire on the
pobhe road about one mile south of
Town last Thursday evening and 1u.s
Wisher was driving the car Mt the
ums and he says he thinks the blaze
was caused by imperfect electric wir.
{ ing.
numerous Fort Mill people are in
terested In the address which "Billv'.
sunday. noted evangelist, is to deliver
ID charlotte on the evening of De-
cemner FL and many from this place
expecting to hear the address,
"hich IL to be delivered under the
a.ssiees or the Good Fellows club
OF Charlotte.
Tho Pineville cotton mill. ono NJ
the Chadwick -Hoskins groun ~ n,;,,.
mde0piteiy suspended operations last
Wednesday afternoon. according to
Information reaching Fort Mill from
ih"9iiie Many OF the former EN-
P'oyees OF the mill are said to ba
moving to other mills in this section
70 ind employment.
report was current in Fort Mil
Yesterday that the Carhartt min In
Nook Hiil would resume operations
Aohday morning following the
or work at the mill sew
w the report. however, about 70,
sumption or operations at tho CO.
parH plant at Carhartt. three miles
soat or Fort Mil. which also has been
tdfs for some time. '"
considerable opposition Is said to
nsve dsvsIoned to the proposit,on aS-
vanced . few weeks ago thot the
,"Wn council OF Fort Mill pass an or
Snanee prohibiting pie pens in town.
moen OF council recently have re-
se'vea numerous requests that NO
M sn o.ainance be passed. Meanwhie
some OF those reaponsib,e for The 90
Nafion say thar if conditions ore e.