Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-11-01
ROCK HILL news BUDGET
Kerr Receives Parole From Federal
Prison In Atlanta. -.
DANIELS is COMING TO WINTHROP
Signs Indicate Large Crowd 'of SOL
diers in for Armistice Day ceIebra-
tion-Night Schools for Textile
Workers-other News and Notes Of
the Metropolis of York County.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)

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the Metropolis of York County.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
! Rock Hill, Oct. 29-R. Lee Kerr,
former Rock Hill banker and business
man convicted il United States dis
! t'ict court here more than year ago
of appropriating 10 his own use bonus
checks of eX-soldiers and sentenced to
serve five years ~ the Federal peni-
! tentiary in Atlanta has>been paroled,
and is back in Rock Hill. Kerr was
released several weeks ago and the
understanding is that he will be at
| liberty to go and come at will during
/ his good behavior. Kerr was fo- years
orc, of the leading citizens Of Rock
Hill and York county and he is well
known not only in Rock Hill but
| throughout the county.
Expecting Many Soldiers.
/ Perry Gill, commander of Frank
Roach Post of the American Legion
under whose auspices an Armistice
| Day celebration is to be staged at the
York County Fair Grounds and in
Rock Hill on November II, said yes
terday that he had assurance that
scores of soldiers from all sections of
York county were comirg for the oc-
casion. 4 most attractive Armistice
! Day programme is being arranged by
| Secretary Fewell of the York county
| Fair Association with the CO. operation
of officers of the several American
| Legion posts in the county. One of
| tEe principal features of the day will
be sham battle between the Rock
Hill and Fort Mill military companies
which attraction it is believed will
prove of interest not only to eX-sol-
| diers but TO people Of the county gen.
orally. The big Armistice Day parade
is to include not only ex-soldicrs but
members of several patriotic organi-
zstions, Confederate veterans and
others The mayors of all York coun-
ty towns will be invited to be present
and ride in the parade. 1t is pro-
posed to run special train from
Blacksburg to Rock Hill on the morn
! ing Of November IL on account Of the
! celebration.
Josephus Daniels Coming.
Josephps Daniels, secretary Of the
navy during the Wilson administration
and now editor of the Raleigh News
and Observer, the most influential
North Carolina daily newspaper, has
accepted an invitation to deliver an
! address before the student body of
Winthrop College on November II,
Armistice Day. The college is ar
ranging an Armistice Day celebration
with Former Secretary Daniels as the
principal attraction that will take up
practically II entire day.
Delivery Truck for Postoffice.
The Rock Hill postoffice which en-
tered the first class postoffices Of the
country last July proposes to put into
service beginning Tuesday motor
truck for the delivery of parcels post
packages in Rock Hill. The motor
/ cycle service and horse drawn vehicle
now being. used will be done away
with. The motor truck will also be
used in hauling the mail to ard from
Winthrop College.
w. S. Leslie III.
! The many friends of Mr.. w. S.
Leslie, prominent citizen of Lesslie
will regret to learn that he is quite,
sick at his home and that he has been
! ir bad health for some time past. Mr..
! Leslie is able to get about only in
wheel chair.
Rack Hill Night Schools.
Night schools are to begin work at
several of the Rock Hill cotton mills
next week. arrangements having been
made for teachers by Superintendent
! r. G. Burts of the Rock Hill city
| schools and Miss Mary Eva Hite, su-
perintendent of night schools for
| South Carolina. Teachers have been
assigned for the schools at several
rAills as follows: Highland Park
/ Walter Jenkins, assisted by Miss Lois
! HentZ and Miss Orlena Milford; Car
/ hartt-Mr Grier. assisted by Mrs. Jno.
| G.. Barron and Miss Virginia Barron;
! WymOjo-Earl Barron, assisted by
( Miss Virginia Miller; Areade-Nictoria
MIR Westbrook, assictcd by Miss
Era Li.tlcjohn, and another teacher TO
/ be selected Victoria No. Mrs. J. X.
Roach Aragon- Blue Buckle-Casper
Holroyd, assisted by Miss Callie
/ Thomas and Miss GOldie Sanders.
Road Deep in Dust.
Automobile travellers over the York
ville-Rock Hill road coming into Rock
Hill are complaining because of the
dusty condition Of the road which is
the result of the drought of the past
several weeks. They say that in some
sections the dust has reached depth
of five CT six inches and that when Il
big car passes u little car the dust
raised is so great that there is nothing
for the driver of the little car to do
except come to n stop and wait until
the cloud has settled. While the
streams in the surrounding country
are getting pretty low as a result of