Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-15
THE News ABOUT ROCK HILL
Large Attendance Held Upon the
Annual Meeting Of the Chamber.
NOTED EDITOR PRINCIPAL SPEAKER

Arrangements Being Made For State
Sunday School OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
and Roads in Bad condition-Bank-
er Returns from Conference-Other
News and Notes Of Metropolis of
York County.
(By Staff Corrcspondent.}
Rock Hill Feb. 14-With DR.. Z. A.
Winship Of Boston Mass, editor Of
the Journal Of Education. as the prin-
cipal speaker, the annual get Together
meeting banquet Of the Rock Hill
chamber OF commerce was held Fri
day evening. Nearly 300 representa-
tive men of the community were in
attendance. DR.. Winship who was in
troduced by President D. B. Johnson
of Winthrop said that he brought
greetings to the Rock Hill chamber
from the Boston chamber of commerce.
Elc told Of the work that the Boston
chamber is doing for that city, men,
tioning the fact that the Boston cham
Der is now building S5.000,000 club
house in which to center its many
activities.
The speaker paid compliment to
President Johnson of Winthrop, said
that he wanted to tell the business
men that DR.. Johnson was at the head
of the National Education Association
alta the most critical time in history;
also that the convention presided over
by Dr.. johnson was considered the
greatest ever assembled. Your presi
| dent. he said is the senior college
president in point of service in single
institution in the United States. thus
making him dean Of college presi
dents in the United States.
Getting down to his subject the
Public Schools" DR.. Winship stress
cd the fact that we are living in new
age, we must have new conception,
a now inspiration; we must live in
this age. The people, he said must
fully appreciate the fact that the pub
lie school is really the public's school,
1t is impossible, he said to build for
the future by using the methods our
grandfathers used. Things are today
moving with tremendous energy and
we must he ready to grasp the oppor-
! tunitics Our boys and girls are our
only assets and their value lies largely
in their education. more-so than ever
before Practically every line Of In
dustry announces that workers Of n
high education are preferred. The
man who has not completed the high
school courses is ut q disadvantage.
Rev. j. =. Tucker, pastor Of the
First Baptist church of Rock Hill de-
livcrcd a. brief address on the sub
ject. Good Citizenship" in which he
outlined what he thought TO be the
ideals Of good citizenship.
Prof. j. W. Thomas paid tribute
TO the women members Of the organ
ization and j. c. Canthen presented
the matter of raising the funds for the
state Sunday school convention to be
held in Rock Hill. The chamber un-
|
inS the raising Of S1,45O to finance the
advertising campaign incident to the
holding OF the South Carolina Sunday
school convention in Rock Hill in
June.
~. 4. Moore was unanimously re-
elected president OF the chamber and
George \. Beach, vice president. Nine
directors TO serve during the year
were elected as follows: +. II. Moore.
:. f. Spencer, j. F.. Gettys, j. i. Tuck
or. r.. +. Cartwright. T.. G.. Cokcr, o. S.
Poe. w. j. Tioddcy, Jr., Alexander
! Martin.
\ feature Of the evenings banquet
was IL well rendered musical pro-
grrimmc including the Iastime or
clrstril, Mrs. Charles n. Fuller and
Mcssrs. j. Wilson Moore. f. Il. Trc-
vcrton, H. +. Nell and John Russell.
His Brother Dead.
Irnr. Il. G.. l'urtS, superintendent Of
the Rock Hill city schools on Friday
received intelligence Of the death @!
his brother. Mr. :. l.. l;urts which oc-
CURED in Atlanta, Ga, Of app0pleXy
The deceased who was about IS years
nf age. wnS division superintendent for
the Western Union Telegraph Com
rany.
Blue Buckle Operating Again
After a suspension of several months
the Blue Buckle Cotton Mills, the
largest mills i'm Rock Hill resumed
full time operations today and so far
us the management is aware just now
work will continue permanently. Scv-
cral departments in the big cotton mill
resumed operations last week. Ab"n
300 workers are employed ut the Blue
Buckle when the mill is running full
time.
Cotton on the Market.
Several lots of cotton were sold by
farmers nf the community TO Rock
Hill buyers last Saturday. the hest
price hcing slightly above II cents.
Few Fertilizer Inquiries.
Comparatively fcw farmers h7ve
made inquiry about fertilizers for thi:
year according To several mercha nts
who were asked about the matter SAT