Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-03-04
HE'S Of LocAl INYEREsr.

A3ty N8Veney OF HOCk Hill were
recent guests of Mrs. w. L.
Boyd.
Mrs. Eleanor Culp Of Column
bia, was q visitor q few DAYS
ago in the homeof 0. T. Culp. :
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Fravor Of
Baldwinsville. N. Y. are guests
Of their daughter, Mrs. E. w.
Kimbrell. AZ
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Nkms
haye returped to their home Here
from a visit to relatives in Jones'
vile.
J. M. Bracket and family are
moving this week from Fort Mill
to Mooresville, N. c., where Mr.
Bracket will open a mercantile
business.
Sergt. Robert B. White from
Fort MCPHERSON, Georgia, is
spending a months furlough
from the army with his brothers
and sisters near Fort Mill.
The Rev. w. A. Hafner, former
paster of the Fort Mill Presby-
terian church, was visitor in
town Tuesday. Mr.. Hafner is
now pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Gaffney.
Sunday night at IL O'Clock the
government returned control of
the railroads to the companies.
Since that time practically every
passenger train passing through
Fort Mill has failed to arrive on
time.
Z The spring term of the United
States court for the Western
district of South Carolina will
convene in Rock Hill. Tuesday
March 9. 1t is said that there
are many cases on the docket to
be disposed of during the ses-
sion of the court.
The members of Rock Hills
drum and bugle corps, organized
by Secretary Nell of the Y. M.
C. c., came to Fort$ Mill Friday
night and an ENJOYABLE concert
in the interest of the State
Y. M. C. A. work. The MEM
bers now have their uniforms
and under.the training of Mr..
Nell, have developed into a
Z splendid corps.
The Rev. w. R. Bouknight
left yesterday morning to at
tend the Statewide inter-church
movement meeting in Columbia.
While in the capital city Mr..
Bouknight plans to confer with
the railroad commission relative
to the effort which is being
made to induce the commission
to order the Southern railway
to stop passenger train No. 32
in Fort Mill on flag.
Twenty-Five or more leading
farmers of the township and
business men of the town met
Saturday afternoon in Fort Mill
to discuss bond issue to i'm
prove the public roads of the
township. No definite steps
were taken toward the circula-
ton of petitions requesting the
board of county commissioners
to call an election for the pro-
posed bond issue, but it was the
consensus of opinion of those at
the meeting that good roads for
the community are a pressing
necessity and it is thought that
tangible results will soon follow
the preliminary meeting.
Confiscatien a few days ago by
the Southern railway of car of
coal consigned to a Fort Mill
dealer resulted in serious dis
comfort in considerable num-
ber of homes in the town during
the early part of the week.
Sunday afternoon there was
q sudden drop in the tempera-
ture and Monday morning the
; thermometer registered several
points below freezing, with many
coal bins in the community
empty. Saturday car of in
ferior coal was received in town
and this was distributed among
a number of the many clamoring
for fuel, but the general short
age is yet to be overcome and it
Is feared that unless another
car or two of coal is received
soon the graded school may be
forced to suspend it's sessions.
Lieut.. j. C. Dozier of Rock
Hill, was a visitor in Fort Mill
Tuesday and was asked by The
Times whether he had given
serious consideration to the sug-
gestion that he become candi-
date in the Democratic primary
next summer for adjutant gen
eral. Lieut.. Dozier replied that
ho had haan urppd nv friends