Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-15
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest From
the Yorkville Enquirer.

AsoSN AAih mas maui VI dtSu rat
killing contest. 1t has offered
$l5 III prizes to the persons in the
immediate vicinity of Rock Hill
who by II noon, December II,
bring to it the lst, 2nd, 3rd and
4th largest number of rat tails.
Secretary Fewell of the Rock
Hill chamber of commerce and.
assistants have been busy for the
past several days delivering the
several thousand fruit trees that
were sold to farmers of the city
and community during the fruit
tree campaign conducted by the
chamber and Miss Juanita Neely,
home demonstration agent. some
weeks ago. About $1,000 worth
of fruit trees were sold during
the campaign.
Arrangements are being made
to operate the Bowling Green cot
ton mill at night as well as day.
according to announcement by G.
\. Alexander, general manager
of the mill. The spindlcage of the
mill has recently been increased
from $500 to 800 and other ad.
ditional machinery has been IN
stalled. No trouble has been
found III securing operatives. ac-
cording to Mr.. Alexander. despite
the Tact that Bowling Green Is a
very small place.
Now that DR.. j. h. Johnson has
announced hlS candidacy for
mayor OF ROck Hill in the .Janu-
AIRY election against DR.. David
Lyle. III all probability the IS,s
tor that office will close. Ralph
Armstrong. the present mayor,
can offer for reelection withou,
rcSignng and gong into the lists
anew, for the reason that he was
elected mayor by the present
board OF three cOunciImcn. Arm
strong ism going to do it. The
race between johnson and Lyle
will likely be spirited one.
AS yet here is no clue to the
identity of the two white men
who, driving high powered
touring car toward Iorkville Fri.
day morning, knocked Mrs. Craw.
ford Dunlap, compulsory school
attendance officer for York coun-
ty, and her Ford touring car into
ditch on the Sharon road be-
tween Sharon and Turkey creek
bridge Friday morning. Although
Mrs. Dunlap was pinned under
the wreckage of her machine. she
was uninJured. The ear was badly
damaged.
AT u meeting of interested cdu-
Gators held in the chamber of
commerce hall in Rock Hill Fri
day morning the Eastern York
Citizens Education association
was organized with }. c. Cauthen
as president and o. X. Williams
as secretary. Five delegates to
the meeting of the State associa-
ton to be held in January were
elected as follows: Mr.. Sharpe of
Lesslic, DR.. ID. b. Johnson. Prof
John r. Thomasson, Prof. Il. G.
Burts, j. a. Barber. The princi.
pal talk of the organization meet
ing was that of Superintendent
Of Education John T.. Carroll.
a valuable horst, the property
of }. +. Carroll of Yorkvillc. was
killed Friday night when it was
struck by Buick touring car. the
property of }. :. Brice. Esq. of
lorkville and driven by his son,
Robert Brice. The buggy which
the horse was drawing was torn
to pieces by the impact, while
Sam Erwin. colored. who was
driving the horse, was badly
bruised and shocked Young
Hrlce had his arm cut by broken
glass of the windshield and the
ear he was driving was badly
damaged. The accident occurred
on the iorkvillc- Rock Hill road.
A special meeting of the board
OF trustees of the Fort Mill grad
ed school was held last night at
which a number of matters af-
fecting the interest of the school
were considered. The resignation
OF Miss ClarOline CarOthers. high