Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-05-04
NEWS ABOUT TowN.


ing the past week.
The Fort Mill high school base
bell team Tuesday afternoon was
defeated by the Lancaster school
team In Lancaster, 6 to 4.
Mrs. l.. ii. Robinson Of ,he
Providence section of Mecklen-
burg county is guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. Mamie Boyd,
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. j. Moffatt of
Chester were recent guests of
Mrs. Moffatt's sister, Mrs. w. l..
Boyd, at her home on Hall street.
Mrs. j. p. Kinard of Rock Eiif,
will this Afternoon address 4 rleet-.
ing of the Parent-Teacher club TO
be held at the Fort Mill graded
school. - i
Miss Alice Smith of. Pendle,on
and Misses lucia, and Ruth Nc
lees of Greenwood were guests Of
Misses Agnes and Sophie Link
during the past week.
The first game of baseball of
the Fort Mill team this season
was to- have been played OH the
local grounds with Lancaster yes
terday afternoon, but was pre-,
vented by; rain,
Memorial exercises for the 90
odd Confederate veterans buried
at Flint Hill church wil be held
Saturday afternoon. A number.
OF short addresses are to be made
and the graves of the soldiers
decorated. 81
Most Main street merchants
have begun closing their places
of business for the day at Z 80
p. M, except OH Fridays, and Sat-
urdays. The early closing hour
will be observed throughout the
summer months. .e.. =
= Joe NJ. Belk OF Fort Mill, World
War veteran, who was severely
wounded i'll action in France, L.
now III :Sparianburg taking one
OF the courses i'll vocational train
ing offered disabled veterans BY
the government.
Word received yesterday by j.
I. Young, Jr., from the hospital
In Rochester, Mimi, at which his
mother, is patient was to the ef,
fet that some impropem mt was
noticeable in her condition. Mrs.
Youlfg s husband, j. II. Young.
Sr., IS at her bedside.
Fort Mill citizens who were IN
York Monday in attendance upon
the Democratic convention report
that complaint was heard from
all sections of the county of the
inability Of farmers to prepare
their lands for the years crops
on account of the recent excess
i've rainfall.
Mecklenburg county prohibitions
officers, operating last Frida.
night near the South Carolina
. line, between Pineville and the,
home Of the late, w. o. Bales,
captured on creek bank GO gal
lens OF cheap whiskey which was.
thought to have been intended
Tor sale in Fort Mill and Rock
Hill. No arrests were made III
connection with the seizure.
& j. III. MeMurray has announced
the, engagement of his yonnges,
daughter, Miss Esther McMurray,
to Edward j. Ahern of Greens
boro, N. G., the wedding to take
place ut the McMurray home in
Fort Mill in June. Miss McMur-
ray has many friends not only in
Fort Mill but throughout the
State who will learn with much
interest of her approaching mar:
riage. She is a graduate of Win.
tkrop college and has been active
IN church work for several years.
Mr.. Ahern is q young business
man of Greensboro.
was just wondering, y said
yesterday an observant citizen to
The Times, why there never
has been installed in the business
section Of Fort Mill receptacles
Tor waste paper and other refuse
matter that is now thrown into
the streets to litter them up. The
business section of Fort Mill cer-
tainiy could be made more at
tractive il council would install
number of such receptacles and
pass an ordinance making the use
of them obligatory. But it would
DC waste OF money and energy
to buy the receptacles and place.
them on the streets nnless there