Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-10-20
NEWS OF YORK COUNTY.
Current Items of Interest From
the Yorkville Enquirer.

III orkvllie many weeks. cOntln-
ucs 10 improve slowly but stead
lily. MIR. Brice. though still very
weak and unable to consider
business matters of any kind. is
spending much of his time in his
front piazza.
Three cases of scarlet fever
have been discovered among pri-
mary grade pupils in the York
vile graded scrool. Children of
DR.. }. ID. Mcdowell. Rev. II. Tracy
Walsh and j. s. Brice. Esq. have
the disease. The school trustees
have dismissed the first, second
and third grades for the balance
OF the week. The three little pa
ilcnts are doing nicely.
Several hundred Winthrop stu
dents are either sick now with
bad colds and coughs or else have
been during the past two weeks.
according To reliable sources. Re
ports are out that the girls are
suffering from ii mild form of in
f!ncnza. but is was learned Sat
urday that such was not the ease.
but that the sickness is in the
form of bad colds. Most of those
who have been sick. il is said. are
freshmen.
\ meeting of the York county
legislative delegation, called D..
Senator Hart to be held IN York
vile Saturday, failed 10 materi-
aliZc since no member of the dele
gatlon showed up at the appoint
cd hour. The meeting was called
to consider providing for an APP
pi opriatlon 10 meet the deficit in
me appropriations for the opera
tion OF the court of, general Ses-
SlonS and common pleas and 70:
the Jail. which has run short of
Sutliclcnt funds 10 run the msti.
tuition until the meeting of the
mex, General Assembly.
Merritt. five year old dauugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. {. Nicely ,
who live near Rock Hill. lost her
lie Friday as the result of severe
burns. While an older sister was
lighting a fire i'll an open fire
place with Kerosene. little Merritt
was standing nearby. When the
Kerosene blaZcd up her clothing
was ignitcd, and before the fire
could be cXNngliShcd her body
was terribly burned The child
was taken 10 the hospital at once,
but ihc burns were too extensive
and nC,h;ng could be done.
Death followed few hours later
Approximately 100 Masons of
Chester. Armenia. lorkville, Clo-
yer. Sharon and other places at
tended Il meeting of llOOdtown
Masonic lodge. Il. l.. Vms0n, wOr-
Shipful master, Monday evening
Ia participate in ii bag supper and
10 witness the comforting of the
thil'd degree upon four cand!-
dates. o. Frank Hart of Colu.n-
bla, grand secretary of the grand
lodge OF South Carolina. was
present Tor the occasion and ad-
dressed the fraternity after the
work had been conferred.
Rock Hill is in the mids; of the
greatest religious revival in the
Gypsy Smith meeting now III
progress that ii has known in
years. perhaps the greatest it has
ever known. Everybody is talk
ing about the powerful sermons
tIal are being preached by the
noted evangelist and almost ev-
cay body is hearing him preach at
some time or other. Services are
held every night and the meeting
is 80 continue through next Sun
day. Attendance on the services is
not confined To Rock Hill alone.
People from all sections of York
county are present for the ser
mon AT night. Many people come
from Lancaster. Scores come
nightly from Chester.