Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-05

Hill city council the salary Of private
members of the Rock Hill police force
was increased from $50 to $10O a
month.
Makes Big Crop.
Coot Floyd, a colored farmer resid-
| ing near Yorkville will make thirty
bales Of cotton this year, according to
story coming to The Enquirer yes
terday.
Federal Prisoners in Jail.
There are three United States pris-
oners in the York county Jail serving
sentences at the present time. They
were convicted at recent terms or the
Federal court of violations of the pro-
hibition laws.
No Effort to Obtain Bond.
A. NJ. Giles, photographer Of Rock
Hill who shot his wife on a street OF
that city several days ago and who IS
now confined in the York county jail
has made no effort to obtain bond, aad
it Is hardly propable that any such
effort will be made.
Has Large Enrolment.
The Sharon school this year has the
largest enrolment in it's history. The
enrolment at present is about 135. In
aueuration Of the compulsory atten-
dance law has placed in the school sew
eral pupils who probably would other
wise not have attended. Four teach
ers are employed. They are: Miss
Myrtle Henry, principal and Misses
Margaret Boyd, Ethel Caldwell ant
Pauline Turner assistants.
York Typhoid Deaths Increase.
According to figures compiled by the
state board Of health there have been
nine deaths in York county from
typhoid fever this year as against only
| five deaths from the same malady last
lear. In 1918 the total number or
deaths from typhoid fever was 469 and
thus far this year the total number
has been only 294.
Darlington Makes Change.
r. Kenneth Babington, for the past
eight years superintendent OF the
Piedmont Telephone and Telegraph
Co., under the management or ms
father, Mr.. r. B. Darlington with head
quarters in Gastonia, has severed his
connection with the company in order
to take a position in the offices of the
superintendent of traffic of the South
ern Bell Telephone Company, division
headquarters, at Charlotte.
To Discourage Mule Auctions.
The city council of Rock Hill has
taken steps to discourage horS'
and mule auctions by residents
who come in with bunch of animals,
dispose Of them for whatever they will
bring and leave out. In the opinion of
the council a license tax Of $3.50 for
such auction sale by nonresident
will do the trick. The argument Is
that the resident auctioneer can
very we'll afford to take a profit OF 50
or $40 q head and get away with 1t,
without further responsibility, and that
the practice is unfair to the local
dealer who must not only bear the eX-
pense of keeping and taking care OF his
stock until he can dispose OF 1t; but
he remains in easy reach to stand by
all his sales.
Goes up for Fifteen Years.
Gastonia Gazette, December 4:
Special Policeman Adam Hord lett
this morning for Raleigh taking with
him Jack Bridges, who is to serve q
sentence Of Is years in the state pri-
son for committing secret assault or
the person of Deputy Sheriff j. w.
COle.. bGluSeS. dpp'dilcu " NHS p"-
prcme court and that tribunal, day
or so ago, affirmed the verdict of the
lower court. Bridges, it will he re-
called, made brutal secret assault or
Deputy Cole one night last snrin"
when the latter, with posse OF Of
ticcrs was after him for violation
the prohibition laws. Another man
named Stevens was convicted for the
same crime and was given sentenc'
of five years. which he accepted with
out appeal and is now serving.
Injured Are Improving.
Gastonia Gazette: The condition of
Misses Clara and Virginia Armstrong,
of Belmont, who were seriously hurt in
an automobile accident Sunday night, |
is reported as being very good. Miss
Clara Armstrong, whose leg was
broken in the accident was taken to
Charlotte hospital Yesterday where the
limb was reset. Friends of the young |
ladies have had occasion to comment
upon the usual nerve and Gam"neSs cX- |