Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-05-20
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS
PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN

spent day or TWO last week visiting
friends and relatives in Fort Mill.
Mr. and Mrs. HI. HI. Boyd of Char
lotte and Mrs. A. T. Land of Newbern,
N. c., spent Sunday with Mrs. w. L.
Boyd.
Floyd Adcock, IL year-old-son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. M. Adcock, is critically i'll
of ptomaine poisoning at the home of
his parents in the upper section of town.
Mrs. E. w. Kimbrell and children
were guests of relatives in Moores-
vile, N. c., for few days last week,
making the trip through the country
by motor.
Harry Carros, proprietor of the
Candy Kitchen, announces that he will
donate the gross receipts Of his busi-
ness tomorrow to the building fund of
st. Johns Methodist church.
r. d. Num-, proprietor of the electric
driven shoe shop on Confederate street
in Fort Mill, announces his intention of
establishing similar shop in York,
where he spent Monday of this week
looking into the prospects of such an
enterprise.
ID. A. Lee became suddenly i'll at his
store on Main street Saturday morning
and has since been confined to his home,
his illness being such as to necessitate
several visits to his bedside by his
physician. Yesterday Mr.. Lees con-
dition was said to be somewhat i'm
proved.
The Fort Mill friends of ]. M. Old
ham of Charlotte. who is a frequent
visitor here, will be pleased to learn
that he has been honored by election to
the office of grand high priest, Royal
Arch Masons of North Carolina. Mr..
Oldham is brother-in-law of w. b.
Ardrey and F. E. Audrey of Fort Mill.
David G. Culp, assistant postmaster
of the Fort Mill Office, stated yesterday
that he did not contemplate taking the
civil service examination in an effort to
succeed to the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Postmaster Massey. Mr..
Culp has been connected with the Office
for several years and has among it's
patrons many friends who would be
pleased to see him appointed postmaster.
The Presbyterian congregation is
hopeful of having installed in the
church within the next two or three
weeks the pipe organ for which an
order was placed several months ago.
The organ has been shipped, according
to information received by the church
officials day or two ago. but con-
gested freight conditions on the rail-
roads may delay it's arrival.
l.. A. Harris stated day or two ago
that if his plans did not miscarry he
soon would begin tearing away from
the head of Main street the old livery
stable building which has fallen into
disuse. Mr.. Harris hopes to salvage
several hundred dollars worth of lum-
ber from the building and it is said to
be not improbable that he will erect
business building on the site.
A number of Fort Mill people are
expected to attend more or less regu-
larry the sessions of the general as
sembly of the Southern Presbyterian
church which met in Charlotte yester-
day. Among the commissioners to the
assembly is w. M. Ross, R. F. DE-,
Fort Mill, who goes as one of the
representatives of Mecklenburg pres
bytery. MIR. Ross home is just across
the State line in North Carolina and he
is member of the Providence church.
The statement was made in Rock
Hill Monday afternoon that Glenn Cor
don, former county supervisor; Lad
Lumpkin, member of the board of
county commissioners, and John S.
Williams, well known farmer of the
Ebenezer community, were thinking of
entering the race for county SUPER
visor in the Democratic primary this
year. Hugh S. Brown, former sheriff.
also IS said to be prospective candi-
, date Tor the office, and it is understood
that Thomas w. Boyd, incumbent
supervisor, will ask to be reelected.
y. +. Blankenship of Fort Mill town.
ship, who made the race for supervisor
a few years ago.. may also ask for the
office, it is stated.
Farmers in this section have made
rapid progress during the last two
weeks putting in the seed for the
years cotton crop. On a number of
farms the cotton already is up to a
good stand, but there are yet a few
farms on which planting has not been
completed. The acreage put to cotton