Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-23
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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.
Fort Mill Times, Sept. 1s: S. E.
Bales, of the Pleasant Valley section
of Lancaster county. defeated Roy
Cunningham, of Lancaster, in the pri-
mary. election September second, for
state senator for Lancaster county to
fiji the unexpired term of W. G.
Hough, deceased. The vote was
Bales, CTS: Cunningham 477'".--
Robert Erwin left Tuesday, morning
for Clemson college. where he viii
take a, special course in textile manu-
featuring, having resigned his posi-
tion In Lumberton. N. C....r....-M Mrs.
Pope, an aged lady of one of the. mill
villages, died at her home Monday
evening after an illness of only q
short time. The burial was made In
New Unity cemetery Tuesday after,
noon......F Fire early Monday morning
destroyed the cottage on Aivdrey row
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Merritt. The cottage was too far from
the mains to obtain water and 1t was
consumed with practically all eof lts
contents, y s9lIGl
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Rock Hill Record, Sept. 18;The
Record understands that one of our
very wealthy men stated the other
day that he thought he would BUILD
an apartment house in Rock Hill. so
that the people here would have some
kind Of monument to remember HIM
by and when ne died not say that
he was an old 'tightwad' and3 neHer
did anything for the benefit of fhe
town where he had made all Of his
money" James Mum left Sunday
for Norfolk, Va. where he will re-
enlist in the navy. He Is now chief
petty officer........At a asHieeting Of the
board of directors of the York County
Fair Association yesterday afternoon,
Manager John F. Williams reported
that the grounds and buildings were
being put in readiness for the great
est gala week Rock Hill has ever had;
in fact, arrangements are being made
to make the York County Fair, octc-
ber %. 23, "a, the most successful, ever
held in the upper part Of South Caro-
lima Mrs. A. d. Holler of this
city Is critically III. i&;
Gaffney Ledger, Sept. 20: Every
nook and Granny of Limestone college
suitable for the purpose win be used
as dormitory room during the coming
session, which opens next Tuesday in
order to accommodate Rs many young
,iadies as possible. The college officials
however. are taking care not to over
crowd the institution. = Applications
from all parts OF South Carolina and
surrounding states have. been flowing
into the college all this summer. and
the full dormitory room was taken up
several weeks ago....-----eCyrus Brown.
the negro who killed Silas Broom at
Blacksburg last Sunday. was still living
at the City Hospital yesterday, accord
ing to report. John Thompson, neg
70 who was taken to the hospital three
or four weeks ago after being hit in
the head with shovel by Ralph Tote,
continues to be in a serious, condition,
......Amos P. Austell, father Of John
Austell and William AusteH Of this
county, and step-father of Mrs. T. c.
Petty, of Gaffney. died at the home
of his son in Shelby, N. G., Tuesday at
the age Of sc years. The, remains were
buried Wednesday at Zoar church.,
c. d. Meadows, who entered this week
upon his. duties as secretary of the
chamber Of commerce, yesterday went
to Asheville, where he will spend the
weekend. He will return to Gafney
tomorrow night-.Fa Farmers living in
the McKown's Mountain section Of
the county have about decided to build
a community cotton warehouse, ac-
.eording to S. c. Stribling, county farm
demonstration agent. Statements
of conditions Of the five banks In Cher
okee county, as published in Thurs
days issue Of The Ledger. show total
combined resources Of s3,324,2l1.O6,
an increase of s346,476.9S during the
period June 3Oth to September 18th.
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Chester Reporter, Sept. 10: Mr.. S.
T. Cassels. of Chester. r. F. D. 2, has
let the contract for q house. on the
tract of land he ownsS'on Ashford
street (the old Presbyterian rhanse
property, and will move to Chester
when his dwelling is completed............
Miss Margaret Clowney died at noon
today at the home of her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. S. B. Clowney, in the Halsell-
VILE section after few days Illness.
Mr.. II. b. Branch, secretary OF hs
Chamber of Commerce, had a CON-
ference at Hamlet. N. c., yesterday
with Mr.. w. L. Stanley. with REFER
ence to the new passenger station
that the Seaboard Air Line Raifway
promised to build in Chester this fall.
Mr.. Stanley says the railroad admin
istration at Washington has vetoed all
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