Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-03-10
sNEws AROUND TOWN.
short Stories Picked Up by The
Times Reporter.

weekend guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Fish.
Miss Margaret Spratt of Co.
lumbia spent several days in Fort
Mill during the last week as the
guest of relatives and friends.
Miss Polly Jeter of Santuc, I'm
ion county, returned to her home
Friday, after spending several
days with her sister, Mrs. o. Il.
Culp.
Z. l.. Hughes and his daughter,
Miss Ethel Hughes, were in Wash
ington last Friday to witness the
inauguration of President Hard
ing. They returned to Fort Mill
Sunday.
+. +. Ardrey has returned to
his duties as ticket agent for the
Southern railway in Fort Mill,
following a vacation of several
days, during which his place was
filled by B. +. Lee.
Robert +. Grier, Jr., left Fort
Mill Friday morning for Camp
Benning, Ga, to attend for three
months the army training school
for National Guard officers. Mr..
Grier is second lieutenant of the
Tom Hall Guards.
There are said to be few For:
Mill owners of automobiles or 9th
er motor vehicles who have failed
to secure their 1921 license plates.
The penalty for failure to secure
the license plate is from $40 to
$25 or Imprisonment not over Is
days.
j. +. Oates of New Bedford
Mass, arrived in Fort Mill sew.
eral days ago to accept the place
of boss dyer at mill No. ! of the
Fort Mill Manufacturing compa
ny as the successor of j. f. Arm
strong, who resigned some weeks
ago after having been with the
company as boss dyer continuous
ly for the last Is years.
Clyde kimbrell, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Il. kimbrell of Fort Mill
township, who was severely gassed
in action with the Both division
overseas, expects to have to enter
a government hospital for treat
ment unless his condition i'm
proves rapidly within the next
few weeks. He is at present hlOd-
ing position III Charlotte.
On Sunday afternoon, February
q, at Pleasant Valley Baptist
church, III. ID. Patterson, A. l..
Helms and j. A. PRESLEY were
ordained as deacons of that
church. The pastor, DR.. j. w. III.
Dyches, was assisted III the ordi-
nation service by the Rev. G. j.
Thompson of Columbia and the
Rev. j. r.. Smith, pastor of Flint
Hill church. In the evening of the
same day, in a similar service, the
pastor being assisted by the Rev.
c. j. Thompson, Ii. j. Patterson
and ). A. Lee were ordained as
deacons of the Fort Mill church.
Josiah ii. Coltharp now has tn,
distinction of being Fort Mill
townships oldest citizen, with 81
years of life behind him. Mr..
Coltharp's health has not been
good for several years and for the
last ten days he has been confined
to his room most of the time. He
is still able to read the newspa-
pers, however, and keeps closely
III touch with what is going on in
the world. Mr.. Coltharp is IA Con-
federate veteran and one of the
community's most substantial citi-
zens whose many friends hope
that his health will improve rap
idly.
The Fort Mill township board
OF equalization, composed of G. p.
Blankenship, chairman, ID. G. Kim
brell and Ira G. Smythe, has been
in session since Tuesday morning
The duties of the board are to re
wise the tax returns made to the
county auditor. In cases where
the board raises 800 or more the
returns on piece of property
the auditor notifies the owner of
the proposed increase and he is
given the opportunity to appear
before the county board to show
cause why the increase should not
stand.
Considerable complaint has
been indulged in recently by Fort
Mill houscholders over the price
they have been forced to pay for
stove wood. In most towns in
this section, it is claimed, the price
of stove wood has gone down in
the last few weeks along with the
price of numerous other commod-
! tiles, but in Fort Mill the com.
plaint is that from IS to $12
per cord is still being charged for
stove wood cut into stove lengths.