Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-09-08
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest Found
in the Yorkville ENQUIRER.


in the Yorkville Enquirer.
Methodists from many commu-
mites around gathered at Sharon
Sunday morning on account of
the first services held in the new
Sharon Methodist church build
ing. Pews for the new church
have not yet arrived, but benches
and chairs were borrowed for the
accommodation Of the audience,
which was so large that all could
not be accommodated, more than
Do people necessarily having to
remain outside.
Charged with abandonment of
his family, Thos. =. McGrady,
white, was arrested in Camden
Monday and the understanding is
that he will be brought back to
Iorkville for trial, the warrant
having been sworn out before
Magistrate Fred c. Black by his
wife, who, with her three chill
dren, has been making her home
ut the residence of Miss Sallie
Adickes OH East Liberty street,
lOrkville, for Il number of
months. McGrady worked for the
forkville Cotton Oil company
and it is alleged that he aban-
doned his family here in last July.
An enterprise that promises
much for the farmers of this sec
tion has just been launched at
Rock Hill by two York county
Clemson graduates under the
name OF the Garrison-F'aris Seed
company. The firm consists of
f. ii. Garrison, DR., and Karl G.
Faris, the former of Ebenezer and
the latter of Gold Hill, and both
young men of sterling character
and excellent repute. Both hav-
ing been raised on farms and both
having made special study of
seeds at Clemson, they believe
that one of the greatest needs of
York county farmers is a reliable
seed house conducted by men who
are i'll position to understand
local needs, and they propose to
devote themselves to the task of
making themselves especially use
ful and helpful along this line.
So sudden and marked has been
the deterioration in the condition
OF cotton throughout this section
during the past week that there
IS pretty general belief that an
other condition report this month
would show a decline of 10 or IL
per cent additional, as compared
with August. The deterioration
of the past week is commonly at.
tributed to the hot, dry weather
under which fresh, green cotton
leaves have wilted and shriveled
up as it scalded. The vigorous
growth has been suddely checked
and in addition to that there il
fear that with the migration of
the recently hatched boil weevils
late squares and small bolls will
be destroyed to a disastrous ex-
tent.
j. S. Brice, Esq, who has been
confined to his bed in his home
IN Yorkville for nearly a month,
is steadily improving. During
more than two weeks of his i'll
ness he seemed to hover between
life and death to an extent that
made his friends fearful to ask
about him after an interval of a
few hours but for the past week
he has been showing signs of
slow but steady improvement.
One evening last week he recall
eel that it was the night some of
the children were to 60 to the
picture show and instructed ac-
cOrdinly, and Monday he told
DIR. Mcdowell that he was going
to sit up in few days. The doc
tor, however, was not yet ready
to make any positive promise
along that line. There seems to
be every reason to hope that
within another week at least the
patient ought to be able to be up
and about his home.