Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-04-08
SHORTTTEMS OF NEWS
PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN

bers of the Fort Mill post, American
Legion. are expecting TO attend the
smoker to be given Friday evening by
Meech Stewart post at York.
Lieut.. James G. Dozier, who has re-
Gently been urged by friends from
various sections of the Stare to make
the race in the Democratic primary
next summer for adjutant general,
says he has decided not to enter poll
tics this year.
In letter to Fort Mill friend Hon.
E. w. Pursley of Kings Mountain
township writes that the people of that
section are more than pleased with the
money they have recently spent for
good roads from the proceeds of the
township bond issue voted last year.
81 very greatly fear that some of
: the reckless automobile drivers are
coming to grief on the concrete road
between the river and Rock Hill, said
a Fort Mill man yesterday. "Most of
the reckless driving apparently is done
by boys and young men who seem not
to realize the danger to which they
subject themselves and others. Re
turning from Rock Hill in my car one
day last week had an experience in
passing another car which / hope not
to have again. The car was driven by
a young man about 20 years old who
was running fully 30 miles an hour
when he passed me. Instead of
swerving his car to the right reason
able distance before we met he tried
to run just as close as possible to my
car without striking it. 1 am certain
he did not miss my car six inches,
thereby greatly endangering his own
life and mine. as well as the lives of
the others in the two cars"
w. ii. Howie, well known farmer
and merchant of the Belair section of
Lancaster county, was in Fort Mill
day or two ago and was telling party
of friends of the succass he had last
year with a patch of Abruzzi rye which
he planted as a cover crop. 81 had
intended" Mr.. Howie said, "to turn
the rye under, but when the time came
could not get anyone to do the plow-
ing and was forced to let the rye ma
ture. gathered about rs bushels
from the patch, which 1 sold for So. rs
per bushel, after advertising it in
farmers paper. received orders for
many more bushels than had and this
year l have put about 25 acres to the
rye. If it does as well as it now
promises, / should gather several hun
dred bushels" Mr.. Howie added that
it was almost impossible to get farm
labor in the Belair neighborhood and
for that reason he was disseminating
most of his farming operations.
In the defamation and elocution con-
tests of students of the Fort Mill high
school held in the town hall last Friday
evening, the elocution contest was won
by Miss Annie Parks and Charlton Gar
rison was selected as the best debater.
their respective subjects being "The
Death of Uncle Tom" and "Retributive
Justice. F" The judges were Prof. w. ID.
Maginnis, Miss Ritch and Prof. Brown,
all OF Rock Hill. The winners of the
contests, besides being awarded a prize
OF SO each, will have the honor of rep
resenting the school in the Catawba
oratorical Association contests at Ches-
ter Friday evening, six other high
schools of the State also having sele cted
representatives to enter the Catawba
contests. Miss Anna Wolfe. Murray
Faris, James T. Garrison, Arthur
Young and Murphy Cook also spoke in
the Fort Mill contests.
ut is singular thing" said Prof. !
w. FL. Ward a day or two ago, dis |
cussing the compulsory attendance law,
that in this day of advanced enlighten- |
ment there are yet to be found every |
now and then parents who for one |
reason or another try to side step their
duty and evade the law by refusing to |
send their children between the ages OF |
eight and Ia years to school. Not long
ago" Mr.. Ward continued, 81 saw two
children playing in the street during
school hours and asked one of them |
how old he was. The little fellow re- |
piled that he was nine and said he was |
not attending school because his parents
had not decided to make Fort Mill
their permanent home. then visited |
the boys mother and she gave the
same reason for not sending the chill
dren to school. The following morning
both children came to school and both
have since been regular in their at
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