Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-12-02
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Curre0s Items Of General Interest
FROM the Yoekville Enqutrer.

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Curreas Items Of General Interest
FROM the Yorkville EnQutrer.
'I shipped 100 bales Of cotton to
Columbia. stock subscriptions to the
American Export corporation" said
Dr.. B. Johnson Of Rock Hill. FRI
day. DR.. johnson. who Is president
OF the York county branch Of the
American Cotton association, said
that he was well pleased with the
progress being made toward raising
stock subscriptions to the proposed
corporation. ~,
A valuable overcoat. the property
or Judge Edward McIver. presiding
over the court OF general sessions
and common pleas for York county.
was stolen Thanksgiving morning at
Rock Hill. The Judge was en- route
to his home, in Cheraw to spend
Thanksgiving. He stepped off the
train at Rock Hill. leaving his over
coat In the train. When he returned
It was gone.
York county timber will 20 into
wagons made by the Piedmont wag-
on company at Hickory N. c., B. L.
Laney. we'll known lumber and saw
MIL man who has been cutting and
Saving great quantities in Kings
Mountain township. has a large sup
ply of oak lumber lying beside the
tracks of the G. n. & NV railway
at Glover ready for shipment to the
wagon makers.
Prisoners confined or the York
county chaingang. near Roddeys.
were given an extra dinner last
Thursday on account OF Thanksgiv-
Ing. The extra menu consisted Of
SOUP and beef hash and was furnisht
ed by the county. In the afternoon
several people from the Arcade mill
In Rock Hill visited the stockade and
gave the prisoners fruits. nuts and
cigarettes. Inmates OF the county
nome were also given extra fare on
Thanksgiving.
1t Is not going to be an easy thing
for the South to hold its cotton crop,
Tor against the holding Of the crop
Is the organized financial power Of
the world outside the South The is
sue Is not SO much a question OF re-
duction of prices in order to secure
readJustment Of trade as II Is Of
financial supremacy II the South
can hofd this crop and compel the
world to pay a profit for 1t plus the
cost OF production. then II will only
Aoh WIG ooulH tO ne nTuuenC
and careful to maintain her financial
supremacy for. years to come. But if
the South is forced to give up this
crop without profit. or at cost, then
1t means that she will continue to
be a servant to those who have been
expioating her for so many geaera-
tons past.
1T might be Of some interest to
I'm knnxv oail
sician. that DR.. Edward Rhodes
Stitt. distinguished authority on trop-
ical diseases, recently appointed as
surgeon general OF the United States
navy, spent much OF his boyhood In
Rock Hill with an uncle. John r.
London" Appointment Of DR.. Stitt.
who Is one Of the best known medi-
cal men in the country, was made
by President Wilson after he had ap-
proved the application for retirement
OF Admiral w. c. Braistead. present
surgeon general. Dr. Stitt's father
and grandfather were natives Of
Mecklenburg county.
About 40 hunters. white and COL
ored. In the fields Thanksgiving day
were approached by Game Warden
Dan T. Woods Of Yarkville and Dep
uty Game Warden Jack McCarter Of
Fflbert with request to see their
hunting licenses and in all but three
Instances the licenses were produced.
These three parties. Will Woodward.
Noble Massey and Verrun aettys.
whom the officers met In the vicinity
| OF the Catawba river bridge between
Rock Hill and Fort Mil. had no Ii
censes and gave bond to appear be-
fore Magistrate Glenn of Ebenezer
township some time this week for
trial. The game warden and his dep
| uty went into Fort Mill township with
the view OF trying to, locate a num-
Der OF North Carolina hunters who.
according to information. have been
In the habit Of coming over from
Mecklenburg county to York county
to hunt on Thanksgiving day since
the North Carolina hunting season
docs not open until December l. The
officers came upon several other per-
sons who did not have licenses. hut
| who made II plain that they were
hunting on their own premises and
therefore under the law were not re-
| quircd to have hunting licenses.