Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-07-20
NEWS ABOUT TOWN.

Santuc, Union county.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Broadnax
spent Saturday and Sunday with
relatives in Hickory, N. C.
Jas. T. Young, Jr., is expected
to return today or tomorrow from
Aheville, N. c., where has been
spending ten day outing.
Although home grown toma-
toes are now plentiful in Fort
Mill, not until day or two ago
was the price reduced from Is
cents to 10 cents per pound.
j. T. Young returned few days
ago from the bedside of his moth.
er, Mrs. Elizabeth Young, who is
seriously ill at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. j. II. Bruce, in
Winnsboro. ..s... -
Only four days remain after
John w. Pettus of the .Belair
section of Lancaster county was
able to. be in Fort Mill one day
lest week for the first time in
more than two months owing to
a severe spell of sickness which
he had undergone during the
spring and summer.
today in which citizens who have
thus far failed to put their names
on the Democratic club roll to be
able to vote in the August, pri-
mary will be allowed to do so.
The enrolment books close Tues
day. Thus far the enrolment in
Fort Mill is less than 300.
~ Bill Gaddy, negro farmer of
Fort Mill township, who former
ly ran a blacksmith shop in town,
brought to The Times office a day
OF two ago an Irish potato about
the size of goose egg through
which a stem of joint grass had
grown from end to end. Bill said
he got the potato out of his gar
den.
The first sweet potatoes grown
in this section this season were
brought to town Saturday by
Fred w. Patterson from his farm
III the Barberville neighborhood
OF Lancaster county. Some of the
potatoes were as large as a base
ball. Mr.. Patterson, like many
other farmers in this section, has
put out several acres of sweet po-
tatoes for commercial purposes.
An erroneous report which
aroused considerable interest in
Fort Mill for the time being was
in circulation Tuesday to the ef-
feet that the Fort Mill military
company, now with the 11Sth
regiment in its annual encamp-
ment near Columbia, had been or
dered to Florence by Governor
Harvey to suppress disorders in
connection with the strike of the
railroad shopmen in that city.
Labor forces of the Southern
railway are now at work length
ening one OF the sidetracks in
Fort Mill SO that it will accom-
modate freight trains OF 100 cars
OF more and to be used exclusive
ly as passing track. The track
is to be extended TO a point sew
eral hundred yards south of Mir
No. 2 of the Fort Mill Manufact-
~uring company and will pass
through cut about 25 feet deep,
nccessitating considerable grad
ing at that point. .-..
George haley, about 80 years
old and married, was tried and
acquitted Monday afternoon b,
a jury III Magistrate j. r. Halle 5
court OH the charge OF attacking
a white woman in the upper see,
ton of town Sunday evening at
3 30 O'Clock. A number of wit
nesses were put on the stand for
1he State, but Railey alone testi-
lied for himself. The jury re-,
turned verdict of not guilty in
less than five minutes after the
hearing of the7case had been con-,
ciuded. r.,
Few of the passenger trains of
the Southern railway, Columbia
division, have arrived in Fort
Mill on time during the last week
or ten days. The delays are at
tributed to the strike Of the ma
chinlsts at the Southern shops,
and in, the opinion of railroad
nan who was discussing the sit
uation yesterday, if the strike is
not soon settled conditions will
grow worse instead of better.