Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-05-27
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS
PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN

and Monday with friends in Cheraw,
returning to Fort Mill Tuesday MORN
ing.
Miss Louise Parks was i'll for several
days last week at her home on Hall
street, but was able yesterday to re-
turn to her duties in The Times office.
George Fish, manager of the Fort
Mill cotton mills. is in Richmond, Va,
this week attending the annual meet
ing of the American Manufacturers
association.
A report industriously circulated in
Fort Mill Monday to the effect that a
considerable part of the Lancaster
cotton mills were destroyed by fire
Sunday seems to have been without
foundation.
An oddly formed chicken was brought
to The Times Office Saturday afternoon
by G. Il. Crook of the Gold Hill section.
The chicken had two bills and three
eyes. 1t lived only short time after
being Matched out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmet w. Pursley
and sons of Kings Mountain town.
ship were visitors in Fort Mill for a
short time Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Pursley is serving his second term as
member of the General Assembly.
AS yet he is undecided whether he will
enter the campaign this year for re-
election.
Announcement is made by N l.. Ca
rothers, superintendent of the Metho-
dist Sunday school at the Massey school
house, four miles south of town, that
Immediately following the Sunday school
exercises next Sunday afternoon. the
Rev. j. b. Black, pastor of the Fort
Mill Presbyterian church, will preach in
the school house.
At the regular communication this
evening of Catawba lodge, No. Sc,
A. +. M, the committee appointed
some weeks ago to secure estimates of
the cost of certain repairs to the lodge
rooms is expected to report and it is
thought that the work of improving
the appearance of the rooms will be
authorized. Catawba lodge is one of
the oldest and most substantial Masonic
bodies in the upper section of the State
and within the last year has initiated
members into the mysteries of the
order.
Eugene Hutchinson, secretary to
Congressman Stevenson, was visitor
to Fort Mill yesterday and while here
stated that Mr.. Stevenson has few
copies of the 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919
agricultural yearbook and books on
diseases of horses and cattle, all issued
by the government, which he will be
pleased to send to his Fort Mill friends
who will make use of them. These
publications. are valuable and some of
them are out of print. While here Mr.
Hutchinson also stated that he thought
the Democrats had an excellent chance
to elect the president and congress next
November.
The Fort Mill friends of Fred E.
Long, who was severeG wounded in
the attack of the Both division on the
Hlndenburg line in France on Octo-
ber 8. 1918, and who has since been
practically incapacitated from work.
will be pleased to learn that the
government has granted the compen-
sation claim of Mr.. Long for total
disability arising from the injuries he
received while in action. Mr.. Long
was private in Company G Fort
Mill Light Infantry, ll8th regiment,
and has an excellent war record. His
home is in the village of mill No. 9,
Fort Mill Manufacturing company.
AT an interesting meeting of Fort
Mill post, No. 4S, American Legion,
held Tuesday evening in the Red Cross
rooms, plans were perfected for semi
monthly meetings of the post here
after and for moonlight picnic on the
banks of the Catawba river on the
evening of June 8. French memorial
pamphlets were gwen the two score
members of the post present at the
meeting Tuesday evening and the ad-
Jutant, Arthur &. Lytle, explained the
features OF the new form of insurance
offered former service men by the
government. At each meeting of the
post the names of new members arr.
being added and the officers express
the hope that the membership soon
will include every former soldier or
sailor III the bounds of the post.
'"fhe receipts of the Fort Mill freight
office have trebled in the last two
years" yesterday said E. T. White
sell. local agent of the Southern rail-
way. ''One would not think that the