Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-22

among his neighbors followed the
great Confederate captains who have
filled history with their deeds and
the earth with their renown. The
Times. therefore, finds pleasure in
complying with the request that ii
publish the names of the members of
the Fort Mill camp of Confederate
Alexander. ]. w. Ardrey. ]. NJ. Arm
strong. w. II. Armstrong, r. 7. Bailey,
u. r. Bales. s. p. Blankenship, w. +.
Boyd, Robt. Burns. Jas. Burns, J. H.
Cultharp, Jas. =. Epps, S. Fl. Epps,
w. A. Fisher, J. p. Garrison, J. 4.
Kimbrel, j. S. Kimbrell, ]. II. Kim
brell, J. b. Mack, b. H. Massey, 5.
F. Massey, A. II. Merritt, Bowman
Merritt. r. a. p. Merritt, :. M. Mills,
Jas. Miller, NJ. j. Mendenhall, w. F.
Patterson, l. \. Patterson, r. q.
Pearson, Joseph Parks, W. C. Perry,
X. Shannon. 1. G. Smythe, w. II.
Stewart, Crockett Saville, j. w.
Spratt j. w. Thompson, \. S. White.
$. f.. White ..... .Pedestrianism and
boating seem 10 have the call with
a number of Fort Mill young men.
Friday morning Murray Mack, Honus
Wagner and Kenneth Minis set out
afoot for Mt. Holly, \. c., thirty
miles away, by the public roads.
They negotiated the distance in nine
hours and spent the night with
friends in the little North Carolina
city on the Catawba river. Saturday
morning the party decided to return
via the Catawba and ought boat
i'm which to make t..e return trip.
The river route between Mt Holly
and Fort Mill is thirty-tive miles. but
the young men consumed less time
returning than they did outgoing
reaching Fort Mill in eight hours
The trip was greatly enjoyed and the
only obstacle to smooth sailing was
the necessity of carrying the boat
around the dam Of the Southern Pow
er company. .... The latest under
taking by which the local chapter Of
the Daughters of the Confederacy are
striving to perpetuate the memory OF
the departed soldiers of the south
whose graves are in this community
is the placing of an iron marker at
each. The marker is made of iron,
with an outer coating of aluminium,
and is both appropriate and orna-
mental. 1t is a maltese cross in de-
sign, as is the cross of honor worn
by many Confederate veterans, and
is one foot square with a spear
eighteen inches in length to be driven
into the ground to hold the marker
appear the Latin words "Deo Vim
dice" (God Vindicates), surrounded
by a laurel wreath. Below the
wreath is a star. in the points of
which are the years of the war, 1861
1865. On the reverse side of the
marker, i'm large letters, is the c. ).
A., also surrounded by laurel
wreath. The markers are not ex-
penSive, but they are not furnished
free to the chapter by the manufac-
turers, and as it will require a consid-
cradle sum TO place one at each OF
the fifty-One graves of veterans in
the Fort Mill cemetery and the num-
erous other soldier graves at Flint
Hill church and elsewhere in the
community, any contributions which
the public is pleased to make to
further the laudable undertaking will
be gratefully received by the Daugh-
ters. Mrs. j. NJ. Spratt and Mrs. r.
F. Grier are the committee to whom
contributions should be sent. ......
The most important boost we have
yet seen for the cause of compulsory
education in the south was the recent
unanimous endorsement given the
proposal by the Weekly Press asso-
citation of Georgia. Such an endorse
ment is worth more than all the reso-
lutions that could be passed by the
various teachers associations of the
south in a year. The weekly Press
of Georgia, as of the other states OF
the south. is a power and when its
editors work cOncertedly for any un-
dertaking results are sure to follow.
Compulsory education for South
Carolina has never appealed with
much force to this paper There are
objections to the proposed law the
operation of which we have feared
would not be overcome by the bene-
fits to be derived from the wholesome
features. No sane man can deny,
however, that every white child is
entitled to an education and that the
state should provide for his educa-
tional wants, regardless of the cost
One has but to frequent the places
where the youth of both sexes are to
be found and listen to their conver-
Sation to reach the conclusion that
there is q screw loose in our educa-
tional system. In Fort Mill, for in
stance, such ike remarks as "the
hands are apt to starve to death If
the mill loses much more time" is a
comparatively mild reminder that
something should be done to force
a little learning into heads that are
now devoid of anything approaching
knowledge of the correct use of sim
pie English words.