Column: Do you remember?
1995
▪ A 9-year-old Fort Mill boy, Matthew Chapman, critically burned earlier in the year, was at his home recovering from multiple operations.
▪ A Fort Mill man charged with several sex crimes was extradited to the York County detention center.
▪ Tom Slate of Peachtree Lane, Fort Mill, was elected worshipful master of Catawba Lodge No. 56, Fort Mill.
▪ The Tega Cay Volunteer Fire Department gave candy to children as a Christmas treat.
1975
▪ The Fort Mill Yellow Jackets basketball team was 2-1 and the Jackettes were 3-0 at the Christmas break.
▪ Robert C. Hill of Fort Mill carded a hole-in-one on the No. 7 hole at the Litchfield Country Club.
▪ Mrs. R.C. Page of Fort Mill was among the winners at the 1975 Fall North American Bridge Championships in New Orleans.
▪ Springs Mills announced the sale of its former carpet plant in York to Cannon Mills.
1955
▪ Jerry Kissiah was named captain of the Fort Mill Rescue Squad succeeding Tillman Irvin.
▪ Playing at the Center Theatre for Christmas was Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” filmed in VistaVision.
1935
▪ The Times was not published this week.
1915
▪ A young Fort Mill man, M.M. Coltharp, died of suffocation as the result of a boarding house fire in Monroe, N.C.
▪ Mr. W.M. Carothers, Scoutmaster of the local Boy Scout troop and registrar of Vital Statistics, announced that he was moving out of town.
Compiled by Chip Heemsoth, a life-long resident of Fort Mill.
This story was originally published December 18, 2015 at 3:16 PM with the headline "Column: Do you remember?."