Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-09-15
NEWS AROUND FLOWN.
Short Stories Picked Up by The
Times Reporter.


III Fort Mill.
+. S. Parks a few days ago re-
turned from an outing of several
days in the mountains of western
North Carolina.
DR.. j. l.. Spratt and j. j. Bales
Tuesday morning returned to
Fort Mill after spending several
days in New York city.
Miss Alexander Link of Greer,
teacher in the Pineville graded
school, was guest for the week
end of Miss Sophie Link.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Il. Culp had
as their guests during the last
week Mrs. j. p. Jeter and her
son, James Jeter, of Santuc,
Union county.
w. II. Parks Wednesday morn
ing was showing a number Of his
friends a sunflower grown at his
home in Fort Mill which meas
ured l6 1-2 inches in diameter.
Miss Bulow Massey, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Massey, has re-
entered Mitchell college, States
vile, n. c., after spending the
summer holidays at her home in
Fort Mill.
The Rev. J. A. Hodgin of Char.
lotte filled the pulpit of the Fort
Mill Presbyterian church at the
morning service last Sunday and
conducted the exercises at the
meeting of the Christian Endeav-
or society in the evening.
Arthur Young and William
Mack. Jr.. left Fort Mill Tuesday
afternoon for Lexington. Va, to
enter Washington and Lee uni
versity, the former as student
in the medical department and
the latter as law student.
Miss Lana Parks last week re-
sumed her duties as teacher of
English in the high school depart
ment of the Rock Hill public
schools. Miss Helen Ardrey of
Pmeville, who formerly lived in
Fort Mill, also is teaching in the
public schools of Rock Hill dur
ing the present session.
Magistrate j. r. Hale few
days ago hung out cotton sam
pie in front of his place of bus
mess on Main street 10 inform
the farmers and others of the
community who may have cotton
Tor sac that he is III the market
as Il buyer Of the staple. Mr..
Halle is representing Sanders,
Orr Il Co. of Charlotte.
AT meeting of the officers of
the Fort Mill Presbyterian church
Sunday afternoon committee
composed of II. b. Spratt. c.
S. Link, j. b. Elliott, f. w.
kimbrell and +. NJ. Mack was
appointed to recommend to the
congregation the calling of Il
pastor to fill the vacancy caused
by the recent resignation of the
Rev. }. b. Black.
j. +. Harper. master mechanic
at mill No. of the Fort Mill
Manufacturing company, spent
several days last week in Greens
boro and Winston Salem. n. c..
inspecting number of boilers
which had been offered the com
pany for the new dye house and
for heating the mill. Mr.. Har-
per had not been in Greensboro
for % years prior to his visit of
last week and he says the only
part of the city he recognized
was the old Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley railroad depot.
IL do not expect the sales of
cotton on the Fort Mill market
this year to exceed 5000 bales, y
yesterday said j. B. Mills, who
for years has been a cotton buyer
here. "Ordinarily the sales in
Fort Mill run above 1000, but
the crop will be light this year
due prlnclpally to the reduced
acreage and the severe cut in the
amount OF commercial fertilizer
put under the crop last spring"
Mr.. Mills does not expect the ac-
tivity of the boil weevil in this
section to materially reduce the
cotton production this year.
Pastoral Relations Dissolved.