Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-28
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
Winthrop Opens Tomorrow-Mr. Car.
hartt Establishes Model School
The. Light and Power Controversy
Electric Street Car System May Ma.
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Tho Light and Power Controversy
Electric Street Car System May Ma
terialize Some Day.
Correspondence The Yorkville Enquirer
Rock Hill, September 2S.-For the
past week, teachers and pupils Of Win
throp college have been arriving daily,
and everything Is now In readiness
for the opening Of the fifteenth session
Of this institution on tomorrow. The
services incident to the opening, as
usual, will be very interesting and will
be largely attended.
Mr.. Hamilton Carhartt, who has
made such wonderful improvement In
his mill property in this city, and Is
still making further improvements, Is
now having plans drawn for a mod
ern school building, which he will have
erected for the benefit Of the children
Of the operatives Of his mill. The
property near the Rock Hill Buggy
company, which Mr.. Carhartt purchas-
ed last spring.
The local Water, Light and Power
company's contract for furnishing
street lights for the city, expired a
year or more ago, and at the time OF
the expiration Of the contract, the city
council notified the company to cut out
the lights as they did not care to re-
new the contract. The company con-
tinued to light the city, however, and
came back to the council with prop
osition to make new contract, but
the two bodies have never been able to
get together on the matter, even to
this date, the main reason being, be-
cause the council did not care to make
a contract with the company for lights
until the water question was settled.
The latter have been lighting the city
all this time and have presented a
bill for payment several times. Coun-
Gil refuses to pay the bill on the
ground that they did not authorize the
company to furnish the lights, but on
the contrary, ordered them cut out.
And 1t Is understood that the company
is now considering the matter Of cut
ting out the lights and leaving the city
in darkness, unless the bills are paid,
which, IL done, will bring the matter
to a crisis.
The second annual convention Of the
Catawba Township Sunday school
association will be held at st. Johns
M. e. church in this city on Thursday
of this week. Two sessions will be
held, one in the morning and one In
the afternoon. Quite an attractive
programme has been arranged for the
occasion.
Luther Deas, a 12-year-old white
boy, Of this city, was seriously injured
last Saturday afternoon by jumping
from the merry-go-round while 1t was
in motion, and falling under the ma
chine.
The training department Of Win
throp college will open this morning,
one day in advance Of the regular open
ing. On account of the crowded con-
dition Of the city schools, president
Johnson has announced that he VIII
admit boys to the training school this
year.
A 3-year-old child Of Mrs. Laura
Moore. residing at the Highland Park
mill, died Sunday of what the attend
ing physician pronounced pellagra.
AS the result Of the explosion Of
some kind Of a gasoline heating appar-
atus in Kirk & Hands barber shop on
Railroad avenue last Saturday after
noon, Mr.. J. L. Clark and another man,
whose name we could not learn, were
right painfully burned. The clothing
of both the men caught on fire and
Mr.. Clark extinguished the flames by
wallowing in the mud and water in
the gutter in front Of the shop.
There has been considerable talk
OI Ill elcClIlC
for Rock Hill and extending out to Ca
tawba river, with Mr.. ]. M. Cherry as
the chief promoter, and it Is hoped that
the scheme will materialiZe, and 1t
probably will-some day.
News was received here late yester-
day afternoon Of the death Of Mr..
Howard Westbrook. son Of Squire
Westbrook Of the Mt. Holly section.
who has been confined to bed for about
three months with typhoid fever. Flu
neral arrangements have not been
made at this writing. but will prob
ably be held today at Mt. Holly church,
Of which the deceased was a member.
Mr.. ]. L. Williamson, life long res
ident of Bethesda township, will move
his family to this city next year. He
has rented out part Of his large plan
tation and will continue to look after
part of the place himself, going back
and forth from the city.
Mr.. E. w. Conner, carrier on r. F.
D. No. 5, from this city, is in Roches-
ter, N. Y, attending a meeting Of the
National Association Of Letter Carriers.
Mr.. Conner was elected a delegate to
this meeting last July, when the State
association met in this city.