Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-27
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News From Within and Without
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Some Items Of Fact, Some of Comment
and All Helping to Give an Idea Of
What Our Neishbors Are Saying and
Doing.
! Rock Hill Record, June %: Miles
Wood, Of Lancaster, has been appoint
ed by Judge Ernest Moore az ste
nographer Of the Sixth Judicial circuit,
to succeed T. Hasell Thomas, who has
resigned, Mr.. Thomas's resignation
takes effect July 1.........J. Wilson Moore
manager Of the insurance department
of the First Trust and Savings bank,
who went into the insurance business
a little more than a year ago, has just
received official notice from w. ]. Rod
dey and Co., local managers for the
Equitable Life Insurance society, that
he has qualified for the Southern Cen
tury CLUB, having written in volume
$4,000 of life insurance during the
club year from July !, 1918 to June sc,
1919. On account Of this splendid re-
cord, Mr.. Moore receives a trip to the
agency club meeting which will be
held in New York this year the last
week in August........A. ]. Thompson, q
we'll known merchant Of this city, who
had conducted store near the High
land Park mill for a number Of years,
died very suddenly Friday morning.
Mr.. Thompson was 81 years Of age.
He is survived by his wife, who was
Miss Maggie Fanchen of Augusta, Ga,
and five children: E. w. Thompson OF
Chester, Pa, Mrs. Lillian Jones of
Darlington, s. c., B. F. Thompson Of
Des Noines, Iowa, Mrs. Rosalie Downs
Of Charlotte and Miss Sophie Thomp-
son Of this city; also one sister Mrs.
Rosa Brown Of Charlotte-.......The OPEN
ing of the Victoria Pool for ladies only
between the houys Of 9Sao and 8 p. m.
last Friday was such a success that
the Y. M. c. A. has decided to keep
this period open for the ladies every
Friday during July and throughout the
season II enough use it-.-.Among the
South Carolina soldiers on the trans
port Roanoke which docked at Char
lesion yesterday morning were Chac.
4. Strait, VIM. E. Gaskin and Guy
Hendricks Sturgis Of Rock Hill. Also,
Baynerd B. Wallace Of York, and Bax-
ter E. Wright of Fort Mill Miss An
ma Roddey Miller left Saturday fer
Charleston to attend the marriage Of,
her friend, Miss Annie Mitchell. Miss
Mitchell In the daughter of the rector
of st. Lukes Episcopal Church.
Charleston, and has q number 0
friends in this city.
Chester Reporter, June %: The trus-
tees Of Fort Lawn shool district
MesSrs. D.. Ferguson, M. w. Roddey,
and T. l.. McFadden-have resigned.
1t will be remembered that q proceed
ing was brought by certain citizens Of
Fort Lawn before the county board Of
education, asking that the trustees be
removed. The county board, however,
ruled that sufficient evidence had not
been produced to warrant such action.
and the hearing was, therefore, vic
tory for the trustees. They have pro-
badly decided, however, that the edu-
cational interests of their community
will not be advanced by a squabbIe,
and stepped down.--"...The first cotton
bloom to be brought to this office from
a Chester county farm came from the
plantation Of Mr.. ]. H. Mcconnell. Of
Cornwell, r. F. D. /, and was pulled
Misses Lillian Cornwell,
Janet Bigham, and Elizabeth Lindsay
left this morning for Charlottesville,
Va, to attend the University Of Vir-
ginia summer school,. .........Chester coun-
tvs honor flag for going over the top
in the Victory Loan drive arrived sew
eral days ago, and Is at the Chamber
of Commerce. and Mrs. w. ].
Leslie. of Catawba Junction, accom-
panied by their daughter, Miss Mary
Leslie, Of the A. r. P. mission In In
| dia, were weekend guests Of their
daughter, Mrs. Press McWatters. on
| Loomis street.-..-....A visitor In the
| Chamber of Commerce rooms the other
day stated that he has travelled all
| over the State, and he finds that the
Chamber of Commerce in Chester is
used by the people generally here more
than anywhere else. It is the desire
of the chamber to be Of service at
| all times, and everyone Is invited to
make use Of the facilities provided to
the fullest nt...........Contributions In
| Chester county for the Jewish War
Sufferers relief have amounted to ST.
| 794.S3. This amount has been for
warded to the central committee for
South Carolina at Columbia. Miss
Emelyn Craig left last week for New
York where she will take courses of
study at DR.. Whites Bible school and
| Columbia University.
Chester News, June "a: Reports
| coming into Chester would indicate
that the rains of Sunday, yesterday and
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county. Practically every section was
badly in need of the rain, especially
for corn and the gardens. Cotton does
not seem to have suffered any for the
lack of rain during the past few weeks.
........A meeting Of the various Ward
committees who were recently appoint
ed to secure signatures to the petitions
asking for an election in Chester to
decide whether or not bonds should be
issued for street and water works i'm
provements, was held in the Chamber
of Commerce this morning at which
time details in connection with the is
cue were gone into and explained and
the committeeman arranged days on
which they would handle the petition
for signatures. It 10 the general opin-
ion that very little trouble will be ex-
pericnced in securing the signatures