Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-12-20
ROCK HILL AND VICINITY.

More Convenient Express Faoilities-I
The Ogden r. =. D. Route-Antiei.
pated Visit From Or. InsoId-ssns.
tor TiIIman Stops In the city-The
Cotton Burning BIuff-other Notes.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rock HILL, Dec. 20.-The officials OF
the Southern Express company have
been considering the matter of remov-
ing the office at this place from the
passenger depot to some point In the
business portion Of the city for some
time. Several petitions have been
sent in to the officials from time to
time this year from the business men
Of the city, requesting them to move
the Office uptown, as its present loca-
ton is very inconvenient to its pa
irons. The matter, however, was new
er considered seriously by the express
people until Rock Hill was made head
quarters for all freight trains on the
Charleston division, which change will
necessitate the removal Of Train Mas
ter W. r. Murray's office from Blacks
burg to this city. When this Is done
there will not be room In the depot
building for the express company's Of
flee, and 1t is very likely that 1t will
be moved in January to the building
on Railroad avenue now occupied by
Plyler & Gordon. The express people
have had considerable difficulty in Sc
curing a suitable room and the one
referred to is the only one available
at this time.
There is a great deal Of dissatis-
faction among quite a number OF the
patrons to be supplied by the new ru-
raj mail route recently granted from
Ogden, S. c., over the appointment OF
a carrier. The route was worked up
by Mr.. w. H. Dunlap, who proposed
to build a new postoffice building at
his own expense, provided he was ap-
pointed carrier. The present building
is entirely too small and is otherwise
very unsuitable for the purpose for
which 1t is being used, and the route
was granted on condition that a new
building be erected.
At that time it was not expected
that any one except Mr.. Dunlap would
apply for the position Of carrier; but
there were three applicants besides
Mr.. Dunlap and while the latter made
quite a creditable showing In the ex-
animation, one Of the other three. Mr..
]. Boyd Roach, made a little higher
mark, being q points ahead Of Mr..
Dunlap. This knocks Mr.. Dunlap out,
as according to the rules and regula-
tions governing the appointment Of
carriers, the applicant making the
highest mark receives the appoint
ment regardless Of recommendations
DR.. Mary Ingold, who was sent by
the First Presbyterian church Of this
city to Kores some six or seven years
ago to do missionary work as physi-
clan, will visit Rock Hill during Christ
mas and will be the guest Of Miss
Mary White. She has been at the
home Of her parents in Hickory, N. c.,
since last June, and will return to
Korea about the first of next June.
Miss Ingold was at one time a teach
er in the Rock Hill graded school.
Senator B. r. Tillman spent Sun
day night in the city, having stopped
over mere on his way home from
Washington to see President D. B.
Johnson Of Winthrop college. The
senator seemed to be in a jolly good
humor yesterday morning and while
waiting at the depot for the train, he
talked freely on various topics with
bunch of citizens who surrounded
him. When asked for his opinion as
to the final result of the Russo-Ja-
panese war, he expressed belief that
the Japanese army would eventually
take Port Arthur and that would end
the bloody conflict. He did not men,
ton his pet baby, the South Carolina
dispensary, that is raising such dis
turbance in the state at this time, and
everybody present seemed to have too
much consideration for the senator's
feelings to ask him any questions in
regard to this institute.
A number Of the leading farmers
of this section favor the rather sem
sational suggestion that has been
made in reference to the farmers
burning 100000 bales of cotton in
order to relieve the south Of the sur
plus cotton raised this year and force
the price up again, each farmer who
is still holding some cotton to contrib
ute his prorata Of bales to the bon
fire. A number have expressed their
willingness to enter into such an