Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-02-03

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Miss Louise slmmons OF Brnnson.
Miss Louise GsddinEs OF coiumbia
and Miss Fsorencs Lawrente OF Flor
ence. ali winthrop students. were
weekend guests of Mrs F. 3. Ardrey.s
A change OF interest TO the public
last Sunday went into effect In the
schedule OF northbound Southern rail-
way passenger train No. 36. Under
the old schedule No. 36 was due i'm
Fort Mill at s:3s a. m. 1t is now due
here at S:23 a. M, 1S minutes earlier
than formerly
]. II. Halle yesterday went to York
to take the oath Of office before the
clerk of court for York county as
magistrate of Fort Mill district as the
successor OF b. s. Parks, who had
held the office for the last four years.
Before leavingi for York Mr. Halle
announced that he would appoint ].
III. Patterson as his constable Mr..
Paterson will succeed J. F. Lee. rts
Roller Gordon, proprietor of a lunch
stand near the Southern railway.
depot. was fined SIS by Recorder OFT
In police court Tuesday morning after
he had been convicted by a jury OF.
disorderiy conduct drunkenness and
disturbing the peace. Following the:
Z announcements of the fine. Gordon
said to the recorder that he intended
TO appeal the cases against. him ON
the ground that he didinot get Justice.
B. ". Patterson is this week moving
from Grattan to Carhartt to take
charge OF the large farming interests
OF Hamilton Carhartt at the latter
PLACE. The farm is considered one of
the best as 1t is one of the largest in
York county. For some time Mr.
PATTERSON had been superintendent of
the Carhartt farm at Grattan. on the
Fort Mill side Of the Catawba river.
This farm is smaller than the one at
Cnrhartt and the transfer Is therefore
In the nature of a promotion for Mr.
Patterson.
BY the appointment of ]. J. Bales
as one of the commissioners of Fort
MIL township under the new York
county road law a vacancy is created
on the board OF trustees of the Fort
Mill graded school. II is presumed
that an election soon will be ordered
to elect successor to Mr.. Bales on
the school board I'm compliance with
the law. although the opinion is held
by many that the school board, COM
posed of nine members. is too large
and that more efficient work could be
done If the number were cut down.
Contrary to the impression gained
by many In Fort Mill. operation of
the Carhartt mill at Carhartt has not
Vet been resumed following the set
tlement recently OF the differences be-
tween the owner. Hamilton Carhartt,
and the textile union. Tho mill has
peen closed for several months. due
TO the strike of the operatives last
April, and the statement is now made
that because OF the necessity of n
general overhauling of the machinery
and other preliminary work in the
dNe house. several DAYS will yet elapse
before the spinning and weave rooms
are again in operation. .s...,
A contract involving an expendi-
ture of $4,000 was awarded Friday
evening by the building committee of
st. Johns Methodist church to the
Fort Mill Lumber company for re-
modelling and enlarging the church
edifice according to plans adopted
by the committee some time ago.
The work on the building is to he
begun as soon as the weather will
permit and 1t is hoped to have 1t
completed by August /, next The
ioWest Ola received Tor the work q
few months ago was $4,000. An
additional expenditure of $4,000 is to
be made on the steam heating plant
to be Installed In the church.
IF the people of Fort Mill want 70
nut this town on the map of the
United States good and strong they
arc in position to do so by reviving
seriously the proposition advanced
some years ago for the township to
secede from South Carolina and join
North Carolina" Tuesday said a Fort
Mill citizen to The Times ''If the
proposition were advanced in earnest
Fort Mill would soon find herself oc-
cupying first page space in all the
daily papers of the country, as it
would be necessary, to determine the
issue. to hold Statewide elections in
both South Carolina and North Caro-
lima and IL the result were favorable
for the Congress of the United States
to finally pass an act agreeing to the
secession. For my part" continued
the citizen, I'm not saying whether
I think the proposition a wise one.
but IL it should come to an election
during my lifetime I'll dig up my
registration certificate and be at the
.poils when the voting time comes"