Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-29
of these mills have been doing a great
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deal Of night work.
Will Repair Bowling Green Church.
The congregation Of the Bowling
Green Presbyterian church have laid
down shingles and other material for
new covering for the building. The in
side of the church will also undergo re-
pairs. The work will be begun in Few
days.
York's Election Commissioners.
Governor Blease has appointed the
Federal and State election commission
ers for the forty-four counties or the
state for the general election to be held
in November. York's commissioners
are as follows: Federal. A. c. Love,
Glover: w. b. Byers and G. Pet Smith,
Rock Hill. State-I. ]. Campbell, Clo-
yer; w. Brown Neil. Filbert; Lewis
Grist. Yorkville.
Meeting at Chapel Closed.
The protracted meeting which was
in progress at Chapel church all OF last
week, closed Sunday night with the
largest attendance on any service OF
the series. Rev. J. L. Harley Of Spar
tanburg, who assisted the pastor, Rev
]. N. Isoin, preached twice each day.
Hardly NOR than half Of those pres
ent Sunda. night could obtain seats
Fifteen new members were received
into the church.
Mr.. j. C. Lilley Hurt.
Mr.. ]. C. Lilley Of Filbert, received
painful injuries about 9 o'clock this
morning. near the residence Of Mrs.
Kate McCarter when his mule walked
under a pipe suspended across the road,
the pipe striking Mr.. Lilley about the
chin and hurting him against slab
breaking three Of his ribs and bruising
him badly. Medical assistance was
hastily summoned, and although suf-
fering great pain, Mr.. Lilley is not con-
sidered in serious danger.
Ginned Cat.
OF course ginning machinery or any
other machinery for that matter, can't
run when some foreign obstacle gets
in the mechanism, but it's rarely ever
that such obstacle is in the shape OF
cat The gin at Mr.. R. B. Riddles mill
in the Bethel section, stopped rather
suddenly one day last week, and when
employees tried to locate the trouble
they found large cat In the machin-
cry, horribly mangled. 1t Is not known
how the cat happened to be there.
Many Sunday Visitors at Winthrop.
Sunday was almost regular recep-
ton day at Winthrop college, Rock
Hill, many parents and friends OF the
Winthrop girls from Chester, York
Vile, Lancaster, Fort Mill and other
surrounding towns going over in auto
mobiles or by other conveyances. The
front campus was alive all the even
ing with the college girls and their
relatives and Of course the usual Sun
day crowd Of strollers, mostly boys
were on the outside Of the fence look
ing over.
Will Buy 5000 Bales.
Hamilton Carhartt manufacturer Of
overalls and who owns the Carhartt
mill in Rock Hill, handsome bunga-
low on the Catawba river In York
county and other property in South
Carolina, has agreed to buy 5000 bales
of cotton at 10 cents per pound, the
condition of the offer being that the
merchants from whom Mr.. Carhartt
purchases cotton are to pay the farm
er ten cents per pound. The manufac-
turer will take but one bale from each
merchant. the amount Of the cotton to
be placed to the merchants account,
and the staple shipped to the Carhartt
mill in Rock Hill.
Fire IN hock f1III.
Fire in Rock Hill, Friday night, par
TALLY destroyed the residence occupied
by Mr. Sam H. White in that city. The
fire seems to have originated in the
kitchen of the residence. shortly after
S o'clock. None Of the family were at
home when it was discovered. Failure
Of the fire alarm to work properly,
gave the flames good headway, and 1t
required hard work on the part OF the
firemen to extinguish the blaze. Mr..
White lost nearly all Of his household
effects.
To Open Next Month.
Patrons Of Cotton Belt school, four
miles west Of Yorkville, in School Dis
trict No. "A, have about completed
their handsome new building which has
been under construction this summer.
The blackboards and other furnishings
are vet to be installed. This school
which has an enrolment Of nearly 100
pupils, will have three teachers this
year. Misses Sallie Atkinson and Leila
Stephenson will be associated with
Miss Kittie Blair who has taught there
several terms. Cotton Belt has one OF
the best school improvement associa-
tions in the county; the district carries
a special mill levy for school pur-
poses, ana the SCnOOl runs eishl
months in the year. The manual train
ing department at Cotton Belt is one Of
the schools best features and few in
stitutions in the county or state can
compare with it in this respect. The
trustees, patrons and pupils are plan
ming for big entertainment when the
school opens the latter part of Octo-
ber. State Superintendent Of Educa-
ton ]. E. Swearingen and other expert
school authorities will very likely be
invited to attend.