Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-03-16
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The Rev. J.. w. H. Dyches,
pastor Of the Fort Mill Baptist
church, announces that the sub
ject Of his sermon next Sunday
morning will be, 1.-The Best Thing
and the Worst. A cordial invi
tation- is extended the public to
hear the sermon.
News yesterday from the bed
side of Mrs. j. T. Young, who Is
patient at Charlotte hospital,
was that her condition was some
what improved. Mrs. Young has
been in i'll health for some time
and has heretofore found it nee
essary to go to hospital for
treatment.
At the last meeting Of the town
council Of Fort Mill announce.
ment was made that a purchaser
for the $4,000 worth Of town
bonds voted some time ago to pay
off indebtedness incurred in ex-
tending water mains had been
found in the Loan and Savings
bank Of York.
A a meeting of the town coun-
Gil Of Fort Mill on Tuesday eve-
ming, March Z, the local fire de-
partment was reorganized with
w. T. Barron as chief, James T.
Young, Jr., assistant chief, w. S.
Belk engineer, and the following
firemen: B. M. Bradford, Marion
Mills, William Ardery, Il. +. Ly-
tie, Earl Bales, Sam Stevenson,
T.. d. Burrage, Herbert Harris,
Barron Bennett, Jno. Bayne, Hen
ry McGuirt and r. Il. McKibben.
County Supervisor Hugh Brown
spent Monday in Fort Mill ar
ranging to repair the public
bridge over Steel creek, near the
site of the old White mill, two
miles east of town. The bridge
was partly washed away by the
heavy rains of few days ago
and is now impossible. The road
leading to the bridge is not one
of the principal highways in this
section and for this reason, said
the supervisor. a steel bridge will
not be put in TO take the place Of
the old wooden structure.
A night school for adult litter
ates and others who have received
only the rudithents of an educa-
tion was organized at the Fort
Mill graded school Friday even
ing with an enrolment now at 79
pupils, most of whom live in the
mill villages of the town. The
classes are i'm session two nights
q week and the expense of the
school, absorbed principally in
tho salary of the teachers, who
are paid 81 per hour for their SER
vices, is being borne by the State.
The teachers are Misses Susie
White, Minnie Garrison and En-
ma Anderson. !.
Mrs. Crawford Heath entertain
ed the kanawha chapter, d. Il.
H., Of Fort Mill at its regular
monthly meeting at her home in
Whiteville park on Tuesday, the
7th inst. Among the guests at the,
meeting was Mrs. B. d. Heath,
vice president general of the.
North Carolina d. A. R., who
made an interesting address that
was greatly appreciated by the
members of the chapter. AT the
conclusion of the program, Mrs.
Heath invited her guests into the
dining room, specially decorated
for the occasion, where q salad
course, coffee and mints were
served.
The congregation of the Fort
Mill Presbyterian church is look
ing forward with much interest
to an illustrated lecture on China
to be delivered in their church
next Sunday evening by the Rev.
Lacy l.. Little, ID. d., for the last
ten years a missionary of the
Southern Presbyterian church,
stationed at Kwanghu, China. DR..
Little is spending a years fur
lough at his old home in North
Carolina. He has been one of the
church's most prominent mission
aries in China and with the assist.
ance Of the moving pictures taken
Of the everyday life of the people
In his field his lecture promises
to be Of unusual interest.
Many Fort Mill people regret
ted to learn few days ago that
F. Z. Ardrey, popular and pro.
gressive young citizen, contem-
plated moving with his family
from Fort Mill to Aiken. For
several years Mr.. Ardrey has been
local passenger agent of the
Southern railway. He has accept
ed a similar position in Aiken and
already has begun his new duties.
Dlrino 192O-2l he was mayOr Of