Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-04-07

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and the fear is expressed that
unless an outlet is provided for
the water it will prove breeding
place for typhoid fever mosqui-
tees.
A. B. Withers of Jacksonville,
Fla, is visitor in town.
c. L. Morgan, Clemson college
hog specialist, will make a talk
Friday evening at 8 o'clock at
the home of Lee Armstrong, in the
lower section of Fort Mfll town
ship, on the care and breeding of
hogs.
Failure marked the efforts Mon
day of the Fort Mill township
road commission to secure from
the county one of the road trucks
recently loaned the county by the
federal government. Supervisor
Hugh Brown informed the COM
mission that the work of the
county road forces would be seri-
ously handicapped should he
comply with their request.
Friday night pupils of the Fort
Mill high school will give an in
teresting and amusing variety
program in the school auditori-
um. Among the features will be
songs by the glee club, drills, tab
leaux, midget girls chorus, hu-
man piano, "Jiggs and Maggie,
and midget wedding. The en-
tcrtainment is put on for the ben
eft of the 11th grade and with
the proceeds it is expected to pur-
chase some furniture and fittings
for the auditorium and present it
as parting gift from the grade
to the school.
Miss Cammie Smith of Fort
Mill is the owner of an interest
lLg old newspaper, the Ulster
(Va.) Gazette, printed in Janu-
ary, 1900. The paper contains
All announcement of the death of
George Washington and has al
or Its column rules turned rs a
tribute of r'Spect to the m.mtry
or the first president. The paper
hos been in the family of Miss
Smith since it was printed and IS
preserved in suitable frame II
Is quaint looking compared with
the newspapers of the present
day, but was doubtless rep"n-
sentative country weekly of th,
early part of the 10Th century.
Yesterday the condition of 10.
slah ii. Coltharp, Fort Mill town
ships oldest citizen, who has been
seriously i'll for some time at his
Tome few miles north of town,
showed little improvement. Mr..
! !'oltharp is suffering from a weak
heart and the infirmities of age.
lie is unable to lie dawn and is
therefore forced to sleep in n
chair. Mr.. Coltharp is a Confed-
crate veteran and is one of the
community's best citizens. His |
illness is matter of much con-
eern to his friends.
There is nothing doing in
flnevllle this week in the way of
news, sensational or otherwise. ."
Yesterday said the chief operator
of the Pineville telephone system
TO The Times. ",Nobody carved
up with razor, no citizen in Jail
Tor taking unto himself an extra
wife and nobody planning to raid
his neighbor's hen roost, so far
as is known. This is real nice
community, and healthy. Why
don t you Fort Mill people vote
yourselves into North Carolina
II for no other reason, to be able
to live in the same county and
State with Pineville?"
Persons who were Interested
in having the county assume con-
troll OF the road recently opened |
by Senator S. f. Bales between |
Bales bridge and the Doby's
bridge road, which it intersects
at a point near the home of |
ID. q. kimbrell, one and onc-nalf |
miles south of town, were told !
Monday by Hugh Brown, super
visor of York county, that the
board of county commissioners
would take official action upon
their proposition when the law
relative to the county taking over
new roads had been complied
with. The old road to Bales
bridge from the Doby's bridge
road is an r. f. ID route apd :,