Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-09-08
NEWS AROUND TOWN.
Short Stories Picked Up by The
Times Reporter.

Mrs. j. w. II. Dyches.
Miss Maud Roberts. of Balti:
more, Nd, is this week a guest of
her sister, Mrs. Crawford Heath.
A. r. McElhaney of Kershaw
spent Sunday and Monday as a
guest Of his mother, Mrs. Addie
McElhaney, at her home in Fort
Mill.
Mrs. Lucy Whiting and her
children of Lumberton, N. c., are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Harris.
Miss Annie Mae Broadnax re-
turned to her home in Fort Mill
few days ago, after visit of
several weeks to relatives in
Greenville.
Old Fort Mill friends of BENZ.
+. Powell, who is now making
his home in the Steel Creek sec
tion of Mecklenburg county, are
pleased to see him in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Me
kenzie and Mr.. and Mrs. j. b.
Broadnax Saturday motored to
Hickory, N. c., for a weekend
visit to relatives in that city.
Il. H. Phillips, r. l.. Bennett,
Stanhope Ligon and Alfred Jones
took advantage of the low rates
offered by the Southern railway
to spend the last weekend in
Washington city.
Miss Annie Belle McManus has
given up the place she has held
Tor some time as one of the opc-
rators at the Fort Mill Telephone
exchange and has been succeeded
by Miss Edith Parks.
William H. Grier and Robert
Erwin returned yesterday morn
ing to Clemson college, following
the summer vacation. Both will
be members of the junior class
during the 1922 session.
The Rev. j. w. III. Dyches, pas
tor of the Fort Mill Baptist
church, is in Dillon county this
week assisting the Rev. A. Finch
i'll special meeting at the church
of which Mr.. Finch is pastor.
A called meeting of Bethel
presbytery is to be held next
Monday at Beth Shiloh church at
which the resignation of the Rev.
j. b.. Black as pastor of the Fort
Mil presbyterian church will be
acted upon.
Tuesday excning at the regu-
lar weekly meeting Of the Tom
Hall Guards, Capt. F. M. Mack
was elected first lieutenant to
succeed Arthur c. Lytle, recently
transferred to Third battalion
headquarters, First regiment, S.
{. n. g., Rock Hill.
The growing crop of cotton in
the Fort Mill community is said
to have deteriorated rapidly un-
der the blistering rays of the sun
during the last two weeks and
the consensus of opinion now
seems to- be that less than two
thirds a normal crop will be
gathered locally this year.
In the hope of regaining his
health, which has been failing
rapidly for the last few months,
Bratton kimbrell, young Fort
Mill man, left his home Tuesday
for the mountains of western
North Carolina, where he expects
to become patient at an outdoor
sanatorium in the vicinity of
Asheville.
The water tank of the South.
ern railway which had been in
use in Fort Mill for the last 30
years or more was abandoned
few days ago. Locomotives of
the company on the Charlotte
Columbia division will hereafter
replenish their water supply from
the standpipe in Rock Hill. 1t
was said to be the purpose of the
company. to fill the tank with
water and leave it standing to
prevent the tank from falling
apart, but member of the Fort
Mill board of health stated Sun
day that unless fresh water was
pumped into the tank frequently
to prevent the breeding of mos
quitoes therein, the company
would have to remove the tank.
Health conditions i'm Fort Mill
are very much better than they
We're some years ago, according