Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-11-22
ROCK HILL news budget
Mayer and COunClImen are TO be
Elected In January.
WOMEN WILL VOTE FOR OFFICES

Cross Drive Goes Over the Top
Farmers Have Sown Three Times as
Much Wheat as Last Year-other
News and Notes of the Metropolis Of
York County.
| (By a Staff Correspondent
Rock Hill, November 19.-Rock Hills
municipal political pot is beginning to
boil. Report has it that DIR. David
Lyle is going to be a candidate for
mayor to succeed Ralph Armstrong,
ehe present mayor. There may be
other candidates but the understanding
is that it is pretty certain that DR.. Lyle
| is going to make the race and Rock
Hill people are expecting Mayor Arm
/ strong TO be a candidate to succeed
himself. Dr. Lyle is one Of the; best
known men in Rock. HK. Mayor Arm
strong's friends say that his admins
tration bas been a most progressive
one and they want to see him con-
tinued in office.
The election comes in January and
there will be a number of changes in
| the city's method of government. The
number of councilmen is to be in
creased from three to five and the
mayor is to be elected by direct vote
of the people. Under the present COM
mission form, the mayor is elected
from the trio of councilmen who COM
pose the board of city fathers. Begin
ming with this approaching election the
mayor is going to have a majority OF
the votes of the city or rather a ma
jority cast in the election to get the
plum instead of getting the vote Of one
councilman besides himself.
The women are going to have their
first opportunity at the approaching
election to cast their ballots for city
governors. Right now it is the newly
qualified women voters who are shsw-
! ing most interest in the approaching
ELECTION. They are doing bit Of talk
| ing and some calculating and figuring,
it is said. There 'are a number OF
mighty Shrewd women politicians in
Rock Hill Most of them it is said
haverlong since cut their political eye
teeth through association and affilia-
ton with women's clubs and other or
CARNATIONS here Every male voter is
agreed that the women are going to cut
quit" 4 figUr" in the approaching cleo
ton. Many are Already registered and
many others hre going to register when
the municipal registration books are
thrown open. 1t is said that several
of the shrewd lady politicians of the
city are after their sisters now to
qualify at the first opportunity. Grape
vine gives it that there are going to
be some mighty interesting develop
ments in municipal politics in the next
several weeks.
Car of Seed Wheat Sold.
One car of seed wheat, total of 500
bushels has been sold to farmers OF
Rock Hill and vicinity for sowing this
| fall and another car is en- route to
Rock Hill, it was learned today. Not
in many years past have farmers
shown such great eagerness to SOW
wheat and oats as they have this fall.
A Rock Hill farmer said today that the
farmers of this section were going to
put three times as much wheat in the
ground this fall as they did last ycf
and possibly more than that.
Checking up the Fair.
Secretary Fewell of the York County
, Fair Association was busy today
checking up receipts and disburse-
ments for the recent York county fair
with 4 view to learning just where the
Fair association is on its latest
enterprise The secretary's figures
were not available this afternoon; but
it was stated that if the ledger showed
a balance on the right side it would be
a small balance. Because, to tell the
truth about it, the attendance on the
| fair this year was a distinct disap-
pOintmcnt There was only one big
crowd and that was on ArmiStice Day
| when cX-Service men and several
| thousand school children were admit
ted free Of charge. People didn't at
tend, say the fair authorities, simply
for the reason that they didn't have
the money. The fair was up TO stand
ard and those directing the enterprise
left no stone unturned to make it at
/ tr'active and worth while.
1t will be Of interest TO many to
learn that in all probability the last
carnival, has played at Il York County
Fair. The carnival which was fea-
ture of the recent fair raised a storm
Of protest because of alleged gambling
games and devices which were Il fea
ture of it. 1t is said that numbers OF
people were neeced out of their hard
earned money by sharks and sharpers
connected with the Midway and a
J gusher of diSapproval went up. The
( local afternoon paper carried an edi-
torial the day after the fair protesting
against the gambling houses and car
nival. Numbers of religious workers
of the city, it is said, have voiced a
protest against allowing carnivalS to
come To the fair in Rock Hill again