Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-05-11
NEWS ABOUT TOWN.

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of the graded school by pupils of
the school.
Miss Anna Wolfe came home
from Winthrop college Saturday
and spent Sunday with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Wolfe.
Mothers day exercises are to
be held Sunday morning at ST.
John S Methodist church, to
which the public is cordially in
vited by the church officials.
A thunder shower which came
up late Wednesday afternoon put
out of commission the accuracy
OF statement in another column
OF The Times today that no rain
had fallen in this community
since last Friday. ..
The usual service preceding
the regular spring communion
service at the Fort Mill Presby-
terian church, to be celebrated
next Sunday. morning, will be
held i'll the church Friday evening
at 7 :45 o'clock. At both the,
morning. and evening services
sunday contributions not 'desig-
mated for other causes will be
sent as special gift to Thorn
well orphanage, Clinton.
Work OH the modern sewage
disposal plant which has been
under waysfor some time at the
Fort Mill graded school will be
completed when number of mi
nor alterations and repairs are
made by carpenters Il day or two
hence. The plant has been con:
structed according to plans of
the State board of health and has
cost the school several hundred
dollars. The school authorities
will issue strict rules governing
the use of the lavatories, etc.
H. V. Richardson few days
ago was showing some of his
friends an old Spanish coin he
picked up Oh his farm III the Bel
air section of Lancaster county.
The coin is about the size of all
American silver dollar and ap
parentiy is made OF, silver and
nickel. 1t is we'll preserved, but
the figures indicating the year i'll
which it was issued are indistinct,
leaving one to guess whether the
third figure is 2 OF a 8, making
the year either 'l723 or 1898.
Delegates TO the York, County
Baptist Sunday School conven-
ton from the Fort Mill Baptis,
Sunday school in Glover for the
mt citing Tuesday and Wednesday
were IS. A. Lee. A. l.. Parks, Mira
A. l.. Parks, Miss Marian Parks
Mrs. Alex Barber, Miss Willie X.
Barber, DR.. j. W. II. Dyches, H.
ID. Harkey, Mrs. IL. ID. Harkey
Mrs. II. j. Patterson, Mrs. b. l..
Merritt, ID. A. Leazer, w. NJ.
Epps, Miss Jessie Merritt, ID. +.
Lowry, Mrs. w. l.. Ferguson,
"A. B Sheppard, Mrs. A. B. Shep.
pard and Miss Fairy Lee. =
The passing track on the ives,
side of the main line Of the South
ern railway in Fort Mill is to b,
heightened by several hundred
yards within The next month or
two, according to the statemen,
OF u railroad man, made a day or
two ago. 1t is said to be the pur-
pose OF the company to make the
track long enough to accommo-
date 100 freight cars, SO that when
the powerful locomotives the
company contemplates putting
into service on the Columbia di-
vision are pulling their maxi
mum load there will be no delay
in the passing of the long trains.
Five Charlotte negroes came, to
grief as result of speeding Sun
day afternoon in an automobile
on the concrete road between
Rock Hill and the Catawba river.
The negroes were overtaken by
Rock Hill officer after their car
had come into Fort Mill town
ship and all were arrested near
the home OF Edgar Jones. They
were taken back to Rock Hill and
Monday stiff fines were imposed
upon two of the number by Judge
Wilson of the city police court
ard Magistrate Poag Of Ebenezer
township. The ear the negroes
were driving turned over and