Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-01
NEWS FROM CHEROKEE.
Sunday School convention-How the
Mill Men Help the OPeratives-Oth-
OF the Yorkville Enquirer.

or Notes.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
ETA JANE, June 2O.-The North
Pacolet Interdenominational Sunday
School convention met at Corinth
church yesterday. Although the morn
ing was gloomy quite number Of peo-
pie gathered at the church by 10
o'clock, and the exercises were carried
on with a great deal Of interest mani
tested in the cause. The convention
will hold it's next quarterly meeting
with Mesopotamia church on the 9th
Of September.
Rev. w. H. White will preach at Sa-
lem next Sabbath, July 5th.
Quite number of people have gone
from the Pacolet and Clifton mills to
Gaffney, Cherokee Falls, Union and
Kings Mountain, where thev can find
employment and make a living until
the destroyed mills have been rebuilt
I have been told that the mill men
are making all arrangements to take
care Of the flood suffering operatives
In order to do this I understand that
Mr.: H. D. Wheat Of Gaffney, says he
will run his mills on double time in
order to give them employment, pro-
vided he can get the cotton to do So
This Is very kind in him and will be
appreciated by the operatives and
their friends. Its seems that for the
present, house-room is an item with
them. The mills haven't the house
room to accommodate many more than
they have without doubling up and
putting two or more families in the
same house. I learn from a man who
works in one of the Gaffney mills that
many Of the mill people there object to
this way Of doing and Mr.. Wheat has
announced that If they cannot help
him to care for their unfortunate CO.
laborers in dividing room with them
they can leave and he will look after
those who are not so Independent.
That Is true spirit and we think Mr..
Wheat ought to be commended for it.
1t is true we wouldn't like to live as
neighbors to any and all kinds Of peo-
pie. But there are times and circum-
stances which make all the world Of
mankind akin, and this Is one of them.
No great uprising will be caused by
those people not wishing to share
their house-room with their unfortu-
nate neighbors.
The mill men generally have shown
by their actions since the great catas-
trophe that they are better men than
some people try to make them. They
have made it possible for all who will
90 SO 10 get employment, and those
who needed actual help got it. They
have to put up with some of the con-
trariest people in the world among the
operatives, who do nothing but find
fault with their employers. Mr.. Vic
tor Montgomery, Of Pacolet mills, who
has been himself one Of the greatest
losers by the Pacolet river and Gaines
vile, Ga, disasters, has done and is
still doing all he can to help the ope-
ratives TO bridge over the chasm and
get settled down to work. There is a
time, says the Scriptures, when "every
mans work shall be made manifest"
and to the mill men this is a time to
test them and their work, and we find
more than one Of them equal to the
emergency.
DR.. L. r. Black Of Blacksburg, is
boarding at Mr.. c. F. Inman's and
practicing medicine in this community
Farmers are getting on with their
crops now very well, though they have
had many serious drawbacks this
year. Cotton Is unusually small for
the time Of year and corn in many
places is late on account of it's being
planted over after the high waters.
|. While in Columbia during the United
Confederate Veterans reunion your
correspondent was shown through the
new A. r. p. church, recently built in