Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-05
GLOVER news. Notes
lIHEaeuAy,for Glover Graded School Is
','l'.Si.s ~ Announced
POLICEMEN ARE TO GET INCREASE

ScnooI "Opens Nc<t Wohoay -o' "
Number OF Young People Go Te
coIlege-'Great Scarcity Of Houses
Other, Matters.
Correspondence of The Yorkville Enquirer.
Glover, Sept. 4.-Superintendent w
r. Koon of the Glover Graded schools
said today that the schools would open
here next Monday. With one excep
ton, teachers for the ensuing yeal
have been elected and everything ha.
been put in readiness for the ap
preaching session, the enrolment o.
which will be the largest ever hat
here. An enrolment of considerably
over 400 is expected. Because of ini
adequate housing facilities the question
of accommodating all the pupils ID
one which is causing people generally
much concern but the branch schools
to be conducted at the Hawthorn and
Glover Mills with teachers employed
by the school district will solve the
problem to some extent The faculty
for the school.is as follows, w. r
Koon, superintendent; Miss Lottie
Belle Simrill, Yorkville, high school;
Miss Annie Lee Adams. Glover, seventh
grade; Miss Addie Nell, Glover, sixth
grade; Miss Edith Alexander, Mat
thews, N c., fifth grade; Miss Mildred
Parrott, Glover, fourth grade; Miss
Pearl williams, Glover, third grade;
Miss JAMIE Robinson, Glover. second
grade; Miss Lila Jackson, Glover, first
grade. Miss Annie Lpford Of Leeds,
s.. c., has been elected to teach at the
Harthorn mill. A teacher for the
Glover Mill school has not yet been Sc
cured. Each of the mill teachers will
have three grades-first, second and
third.
Superintendent Koon who has re-
Gently completed census Of Glover
school district under the provisions OF
the state compulsory attendance law
finds that there are 253 white children
between the ages of 8 and IA in the
Clover school district proper and n IN
the Miller school territory recently an
nexed to Glover district, There are
16S negro children of school age in
the district. Mr.. Koon found that
there were S5 children of school aes
in Clover, district proper who HAD
either never been to, school or whose
|siteaaance, had been SO irregular that
Fit had proved Of no benefit of them.
Salaries of Officers Increased.
At recent meeting Of the town.
council, it was decided to increase the
salary of Chief of Police John A,
Jackson to 500 month and the SAL
ary Of night Policeman j. r. Robin
son to $S5 q month. In addition to
the salary, the town is to furnish each
Of its officers with two uniforms an
nually. The winter uniforms for the
officers were ordered this week. In
crease In the salary of the officers here,
people say, is one that they well de-
serve. There are no &ore vigilant Of
fieers anywhere than the two Glover
policemen. Their duties consist not
only in policing the town but in taking
care of the Glover water plant, the
electric plant, street work and all other
work pertaining to the municipality.
Both officers have had positions Of
fered them at larger salaries than they
have been securing here and the town
considers itself fortunate in being able
to retain their services.
York County Church Census.
Mr.. Jas. A.. Barrett of Glover has is
sued a circular letter to leading minis
ters and laymen over the country call
ing for q meeting to be held in the
First Presbyterian church Of Yorkville
on September II, for the purpose of
effacting an organization looking for
ward to the taking Of a complete
church census in York county 1t Is
proposed to hold the meeting at 10
o'clock in the morning when the plan
for taking the census and discussion
of the benefits that will accrue through
the promotion of church work as a re-
suit thereof will be discussed.
Many Young People To College.
Like deserted village will Glover be
within couple Of weeks when the
young people of the town and vicinity
go back to college. People generally
will miss the social gaities to which
these young people have contributed
so much during the summer just COM
ing to a close. The number who will
attend college this fall from Glover
is the largest ever. James Sifford will
return to the University of South Caro-
lima to obtain his Master of Arts de-
gree; Macon Sifford, Ted Sifford and
William Knox also expect to enter the
university; Neil Siifford and Justin
Smith expect TO enter Trinity Park
Prep at Durham, n. c.; Odus Robinson
and Herbert Smith will enter Trinity
College at Durham. n. c.; James Page
goes to Erskine College; ;Connan Purs-
ley will also so to Erskine and Blanton
Stacy expects to enter the Atlanta
Medical College for the study of phar-
macy. Misses Margaret Parrott and
Martha Smith will enter G. w. c. a
Greenville: Misses Christine and Louise
Smith go to Coker College at Harts