Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-06
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"Wednesday. aged about three months
The burial was in West Side cemetery
Thursday. .LanCaster's industrial
development goes merrily on. as II
should. Its large cotton mills, up-to-
date cotton seed oil mill, model ice fac
tory and other successful enterprises
are now to be followed by another
large manufacturing plant, fertilizer
factory. ON Thursday application was
forwarded to the secretary of state in
Columbia for the issuance of COM
mission of incorporation To the Cataw-
la Fertilizer company of Lancaster,
the corporators being Mr.. John 7. Ste
vens Of Kcrshaw, Col. Leroy Springs
and Mr.. l.. c. I.aZenby Of Lancaster.
vens will he made president of the
company. An eligible site for the plant
has already been secured. being what
is known as the Jasper Cunningham
on the l.. &. c. railroad. The plant
will manufacture acid phosphate and
all other kinds of fertilizer. The ca
pacity of the mill will be ten tons of
acid daily. or twenty tons of bag goods.
It is estimated that the business done
annually will he between 100000 and
$500 900 About 100 hands will he en-
ployed. Work will start at once, and
the company expects to he ready for
business by the first of December.
Rock Hill Herald, September 2: DR..
d. B. Johnson went down to Columbia
Wednesday morning. He is one of five
who have been appointed To rewrite the
school law of South Carolina. To-
morrow night Mr.. |. Blumberg will leave
with his family for New York, where
they will reside in the future. Much re-
gret is being expressed at the depart
best wishes of the community will
follow them to their new home. AS
was briefly stated in the last issue Of
the Herald, city council has placed
itself on record as favOring municipal
ownership. and ordered the commits
sioners of public works, acting for and
i'm favor of the city of Rock Hill, to
purchase from the Rock Hill Water
and Electric company, the water and
electric plants, at a price to he fixed
by arbitration. The resolution order
In
on the 3Oth of August, 1910. TO
fill the position in the Winthrop prac-
tice school, left vacant by the resigna-
ton of Miss Leila Russell, Miss Leila
NJ. Cobb of GOldsboro, n. c., has been
chosen. Miss Cobb comes highly rec
commended and will, no doubt, fill the
position most acceptably. She is a
graduate of the State Normal school
at Greensboro and has been success
full teacher for ten years in the schools
of Goldsboro, Wilmington and other
important position of supervising
teacher i'm n school used as a practic"
school by the department of education
of the University of North Carolina, at
Chapel Hill.
Chester Lantern, September 2: Miss
Martha Estes died at her home in the
Armenia community yesterday morn
ing aged about 65. The funeral SER
vices took place this morning at Ar
menia church conducted by Rev. ID.
Tiller and the remains were buried in
the cemetery there. .. Mrs. Sue Wy
lie Cain and daughter, Miss Rcha of
Yorkville, after a visit Of several days
with relatives here, have gone to Pleas
ant Grove to spend some time with
Mrs. Mary Wylie and family. A
joint meeting of the city council and
the citizens committee. favOring the
union depot, was held yesterday after
noon in the council chamber at 6
o'clock to consider the plans for the
union station for the Southern, c. &
NV. and the l.. & c.. which were
forwarded here yesterday morning by
the railroad commission with the re-
quest that they he examined and Il re-
port on same made to the commission
without delay. The plans were unsat-
iSfactory To the committee and council
and offer no advantage over present
depot, this being put through in the
form of n motion expressing the sense
of the meeting, and the railroad COM
mission will hn Gu moi flied The re-
suit of the primary election as far as
Chester county is concerned, emphat
iCally announced that the people Of
this county want good roads. When
people seemed to he against the pres
ent inCumhcntS of the office of repre-
sentative on account of the road law,
but as the campaign progressed and
the voters began to understand the
law and to see that it had real merit
the sentiment changed with tn" result,
as we all know, of returning the men
To the Legislature who had represent
ed the county VIII III the road law was
made. This in itself means that the
citizens. that is some of them. miSun-
dcrstood the situation when the cam
paign first started, and it also shows
that after due consideration the in
hahitants of Chester county, at least
good majority of them, want good
roads. And good roads they are going
To have. Whatever is lax i'm the new
law that is now being tried out will
he amended and the weak places
strengthened. but whatever else may
l." done, we can rest assured that good
roads are a thing that will hc sought
for i'm this county from now on and
not many years hcuC" tn" highways
of Chester will hc a credit To the dis
triCt. Good road building is a science.
And i'm order that the peoples money
may hr spent to the best advantage it
will he we'll for the county commissions
ors if they will carefully consider cv-
cry turn that they make i'm the con-
Structium of roads \ dollar rightly