Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-06-03
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS
PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN

Knights of + shias in Greenville.
Miss Idelia Hayes of High Point,
N. c., is the guest of Miss Elma
Bradford at her on Hall street
special meeting of the Fort Mill
post. American Legion, has been called
for Sunday afternoon in the Red Cross
room.
Mrs. }. +. Zimmerman and little
sons of Trenton are guests in the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. k. l..
Bennett
Mrs. O. L. Culp and little daughter
have returned home after visit of
several days to relatives at Santuc,
Union county.
Th" Rev. w. K. Bouknight will
preach at the Massey school house,
four miles from town, Sunday after
noon at 3:30 clock.
Th" woman's missionary conference
of the Rock Hill district, Methodist
church, closed three-day session at
st. Johns church Wednesday evening.
Miss Mary Spratt. daughter of Mrs.
J"nnl" Spratt, was the only Fort Mill
Young lady to graduate from Winthrop
colI"E" ut the commencement exercises
which closed Tuesday evening.
The explosion of Kerosene lamp
caused the destruction by fire Sunday
night of Il tenant house on the farm of
w. Is. Audrey, four miles south of
town. The house was occupied by a
negro family who lost all their house
hold goods.
Miss Hattie Huntley, bookkeeper
Tor tn" Bales Lumber company. was
called To her home in Cheraw Monday
by Il message announcing that her
lath"r had suffered stroke of
paralysis and was in critical con-
dition. Miss Huntley returned to Fort
Mill yesterday. but expects to again
go to Cheraw Friday.
tisticutf Saturday afternoon be-
tween two white men over a Gran
game near Main street netted the
town $50 in fines Monday morning
On" of the men, dissatisfied with the
to his home and secured "A rifle with
which to shoot the other man, but was
dlsarmcd by an officer before he had a
chance to use the rifle.
The report of the financial activities
since the first of last September of the
iar"nt-Iracher association of the Fort
Mill graded school has lust been COM
piled by the treasurer, Miss Minnie
Garrison. The report shows that
SILL has been expended by the as
soclatIun III the last nine months i'm
behalf of the school, leaving a balance
of only $50 in the treasury.
As will be seen by notice publisb.d
in Th" Times this week the books for
Tn" "nrolImS. of voters who wish to
participate III the Democratic primary
next August have been opened at the
various precincts in the county. I'm
Fort Mill the books are at the I.ytle
"fnE store. Two years ago there was
light vote pollrd in the Democratic
primary iii York county, due largely to
tn" absorption of public interest i'm the
World war.
The unsightIy condition of Main
street Tuesday and Wednesday prob
ably dld not give the many visitors in
town th"S" days favorable impression
OF TN" place. The practice seems to be
I" sweep Main street once week
every Saturday night. What would b.
Thought of the home that was swept
only once Il week? 4 l5-year-old bov
observing the condition of Main street
yesterday remarked that he hoped to
liN" L" see the day when Fort Mill
""''H 90 lhlngS IN more grEteel way.
thIldr"n's day exercises that drew
AN audience which filled st. Johns
Methodist church were held last Sum
day morning. There were songs and
r"rltatl"nS by little boys and girls of
'h" Sunday school and All address by
III" R"N. w. K. liauknight, who took
Tn" pIar" ON the program assigned to
MIS-. Mattlr Stewart of Charlotte Mrs
Stewart being detained at her home. hv
Illness. I'm the course of his address
Mr.. Bnukmght stated that it was the
purp"S" of the Sunday school officials
|" S"pplant tn" present method of in
Structlon in the Sunday school by de-
Pnrtam"nlal classes. If the plans of
tn" Sunday school officials are. carried
"ut aS contemplated st. Johns will be.
III" hrSt SUNDAY school i'm the. Rock
I'M district to begin departmental